Tag game, 10 Favorite Female Characters
I was tagged by @nethyswain a couple of days ago, but have just got around to it. Here we go!
1. Brienne of Tarth (A Song of Ice and Fire)
She is just so lovely and someone needs to wrap her up in cotton wool and make her kiss Jaime Lannister. That is all.
2. Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
Unfortunately, I could not put all the Black sisters on here, because I think that dynamic is fascinating, but Bellatrix is evil, mad, and unashamedly so. She’s just such a fun read/watch!
3. Angélique Delange (Romantics Anonymous)
Okay, I go on about this minor French rom-com to anyone who will listen, but it honestly is my favourite thing ever. Angélique is a chocolatier with Generalised Anxiety Disorder. Jean-René is a chocolate factory owner with Social Anxiety. They fall in love and learn to be brave. It is so funny but makes me cry without fail every time that they both overcome their *ISSUES*.
4. Patsy Stone (Absolutely Fabulous)
A one hundred year old fashionista who lives entirely on alcohol and cigarettes who still things she is SEX ON LEGS, she is an homage to growing old disgracefully. And is hella good at one-liners.
5. Hannah Kahnwald (Dark)
You think to yourself “Can she get any worse?” and the answer is always yes. Even so, she is a great watch! You do have to admire the lengths she will go to in order to make Ulrich’s life a misery.
6. Scarlett O’Hara (Gone with the Wind)
I recently read the book, and she is everything Cersei Lannister wishes she was. Clever, charming, beautiful and at the same time a wholly unlikeable protagonist who you can’t help but admire... just slightly, a teeny amount. There’s a reason she was a big deal in the 1930s or whenever.
7. Queenie (Blackadder II)
What I would be if I had unlimited power; namely, acting like a child and making pretty boys run around and do my bidding. LIFE GOALS.
8. Geraldine Granger (The Vicar of Dibley)
What I wish I was actually like. Although me and my friend get called Geraldine and Alice because of the comparisons, she is funny, effervescent, and full of life in a way I will never be and I love her dearly.
9. Piper Halliwell (Charmed)
14 year old me would kill me if she did not make the list. I thought she was cool and complex with an emotional side, and slowly learnt to be a badass (it helps if you can explode things).
10. Aliena of Shiring (Pillars of the Earth)
I read this book accidentally when I was 12 and I loved it. Although as an adult I can appreciate it is an anachronistic, melodramatic mess, I still love it and I think that was due to Aliena. She was strong and committed where everyone else was flighty, and always immensely internal. (Oh, and she got her justice in the end).
I will tag anyone who is willing to do it, but also @dame-lazarus @pretty--thief @resthefuture and @miss-ute