So. About that annoying female character flowchart.

[laurus_nobilis]

(This one, in case you haven't seen it.)

Instead of ranting about it, I'm going to 1)link to a great fix (thanks to etrangere for the link!), and 2)follow allira_dream's idea and channel my RAAAAGE in a positive way:

GIVE ME A CHARACTER WHO IDENTIFIES AS FEMALE. Then I will write you the reasons why the lady is awesomer than awesome. It might be my squealing, it might be a drabble, it might be five reasons. The point is, I will gush about a female character, then YOU can gush about said female character and we will all be a little bit happier because 'FUCK YEAH, SHE'S AWESOME'.

I'll probably go for squealing/listing reasons instead of drabbles. But still. GO WILD.

Martha Jones (Doctor Who) - spoilers for the end of season 3
Sari and Arcee (Transformers: Animated) - spoilers for the end of the series
Donna Noble (Doctor Who) - implied spoilers up to End of Time
Trucy Wright (Apollo Justice)
Katara (Avatar: the Last Airbender)
Karrin Murphy (The Dresden Files)
Airazor (Beast Wars)
Nakuru (Card Captor Sakura) and Suki (Avatar: the Last Airbender)

Comments

[straya.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, that flowchat is terrible. First I've seen of it, but still...WTF. The "fixed one" is definitely better. WAY better.

And uh. Sari or Arcee. Take your pick between the two. :)

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

The "best" part is that many of the examples are actually well written, three-dimensional characters. So... I have no idea of what they were looking for.

And let's do both, why not. =D

Sari is awesome because even though she's a cute and adorable little kid, that's not all there is to her by far. She's got a child's stubborness (and later a teenager's stubborness!), but she grows a lot, and she tries so hard to help everyone. But what I like best about her is her sense of humour and how she always seems to be having fun with everything. It's like the world is a big shiny playground for her.

Besides, she's so caring with everyone. Sure, there's a lot of fascination with Cool Giant Robots there at first, but you can tell how much she genuinely loves her crazy family. ♥


And Arcee... well, I'm not going to let certain sectors of the fandom I shouldn't like her because she's pink and used to be teacher. Canon could have treated her a lot better, sure, no argument there. But the lady is still badass. She was an intel officer! She was willing to let Ratchet repair her while still conscious because she wouldn't risk losing the codes. She manages to think clearly enough, even when she's captured by Lockdown, to keep him from getting the information. Then she loses her memory and suddenly wakes up right in front of Megatron, and she still won't give up the codes. And when she gets properly reactivated at last, the first thing she does is go and help save the world. And that's awesome.