SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE #10: FIVE BY FIVE

[queenslayerbee]

 

Five Things! The five things are totally up to you. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

In one of these challenges I asked people to send me questions about my top fives, whatever they'd wanted.

This time I want to ask one myself: what are your top 5 female characters?

They can be from anywhere: books, films, shows, an OC you've created and nurtured for years... go nuts.

To break the ice, I'm gonna go with five female characters from my own original stories, Just Because. Not necessarily a definite Top 5 (I love them all, your honour), but a Top 5 RIGHT NOW :P
 

1. Captain Latoya. She is and probably will always be number one in my heart. Space pirate, alien-human hybrid, daughter and grandaughter of tyrants. Arrogant, idealistic, ruthless, sharp, brave. A killer, a history savant, a natural performer and a hopeless romantic.
2. Lady Vela. Years ago Vela requested the fairies' aid to free herself from the monsters raising her at home. Now, the fairies want to collect the debt. Vela is a young woman of deep, hidden melancholy with a trickster streak of her own, with a very tragic past and little hope for the future.
3. Sadie Maxwell-Arriaga. A young, self-trained witch of immense natural talent, in love with magic above all things. Scrappy, greedy, kind, risk-prone, of easy-going manners broken occasionally by righteous anger. And murder suspect!
4. Fanny. Seductive, deciteful femme fatala playing opposite to Giulietta, a lovelorn private investigator, both human woman (with a few extrasensory talents, in Giulietta's case) navigating a noir city of supernatural creatures. More than meets the eye 😉
5. Imperatrix Lucretia. Visionary (or dictatorial, depending on who you ask) thrice elected leader of an underground society where vampires rule humans in exchange of protection from the outside world. Lucretia rose from the lowest depths of her society to the very top, fighting for her vision. She's calculating, paranoid, and pitiless, and would die before relinquishing power.

I added some images using this picrew, in order, from left to right:

Comments

[lumiosecity]

Oh, I love this idea! This is a list that I’m definitely going to struggle with; there are too many wonderful ladies, so I’ll just stick with one per media.

In no particular order, some of my favorite female characters:

1. Tara Markov - DC Comics. My best gal, my ultimate fave— I love her so much. She’s intended as a one-note traitor, but the picture her actions paint is one of fear, repression, and a desire to be loved that really resonates with me.

2. Elizabeth Midford - Black Butler. She deserves so much better than the treatment she got from the fandom back when I was more involved with it; I’ve always thought she was really fun and fascinating.

3. Ada Wong - Resident Evil. Have I ever actually played RE? No. But I’ve watched my sibling play, and I think Ada is such a wonderful character. Love a woman whose morals are greyer than… I dunno, something really grey, this turn of phrase fell apart. XD

4. Rogue - X-Men. Where would this list be without my first crush? She’s always really resonated with me (and the white streak is gorgeous).

5. Omera - The Mandalorian. For a character we see so little of compared to most, she really grabbed onto my heart and refused to let it go. I’m absolutely desperate to know more about her, but I doubt it’ll happen at this rate… ah, well, that’s what fanfic is for.

[queenslayerbee]

Of these I'm only familiar with Tara and Rogue, but good choices!

And yeah, trying to make her so one-note really backfires for me because it only drives me to try to make *sense* of her, iykwim.