I was going to ask you who your top 5 female fictional characters are and what do you like about them, but I hate having to stop at an arbitrary number, sacrificing one of my fav over another. Soooo what are a FEW of your favs and what do you like about them? :D
Hoooo man I made a FACE this is such a good question
- Myka Bering from Warehouse 13: like A+ character development from the pilot (ignoring the last season, we don’t talk about the last season) she was just a nice nerdy lady who stress ate sugar like a champ and remembered the weirdest history facts (relatable)
- Nyota Uhura from Star Trek: The Original Series: I feel like this doesn’t need an explanation but like total whiz with computers and languages, aside from what she meant culturally irl to so many people she was amazingly written with so many little character nuggets you can build on (like her speaking Swahili as her first language, her singing and teasing Spock)
- Sabine from Ann Patchett’s The Magician’s Assistant: dude she’s so gay and so confused and sad, I love her so much and she was fundamental in my realization that I wasn’t straight and that as a queer woman you have all these little nagging things in your head where you excuse attraction to other women as this feeling or that until you come to terms with it - whether it’ll work out or not
- Pearl Hohenberger (not sure on the last name) from Year of the Black Rainbow written by Claudio Sanchez and Peter David which is a novel based on the album of the same name by Coheed and Cambria: this one is newer so I don’t have as articulate an explanation but man she got in my head, I think about her story when I’m falling asleep sometimes and I’m still not over it. I’m not over anything she did or anything that happened to her and I’m so upset that the story wasn’t her point of view because it would’ve fucked me up six ways to Tuesday.
- Cordelia Chase, specifically Angel series (I never finished Buffy I can’t watch the way a certain character ends up and I’m also ignoring That One Angel story line because that never happened): I think that she is just really interesting and shows those kind of complicated emotions of a person who thought they knew what they were about and then grows and discovers new parts of themselves or tends pieces of themselves they had to prune in their previous place in life. She’s just really neat and she was done dirty by Whedon’s writing (common issue)
This took me like a half hour so I think I’m going to stick with five lol thank you!
