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[skygiants]

Am I ever going to pass up an opportunity to babble extensively about AWESOME LADIES? The answer is: no, I most certainly am not!

Therefore, stolen from in_the_blue and a few other people by now: name a canon you know I know, and I'll tell you (in no particular order) my three favorite females and why. And then I'll name a canon for you, because I'm just as curious as I am eager to share.

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[skygiants]

HAHAHAHAHA OKAY

Meg Giry: I have basically always seen Phantom of the Opera from a Meg's-eye view. (In fact, I think my very first posted fanfiction was a Very Secret Diary version of Meg's journal. *nostalgia*) She just seems so sane compared to the rest of the cast! "Christine, please stop talking about the voices in your head, you sound like a CRAZY PERSON" seems to be pretty much her attitude. And who can deny that it is, indeed, an eminently sane and sensible attitude?

Madame Giry: Oh my god, the woman is such an amazing drama queen. *_* I mean, presumably she is also a good ballet teacher! But you know she gets an incredible thrill out of swooping around wearing black and intoning ominous warnings. And the managers are just like "PLEASE, Madame Giry, you are NOT BEING HELPFUL."

Christine Daae: She's a total airhead who probably should not be let out alone, but I can't help it, I have a great fondness for her. She totally thinks the Phantom is her dead father! Which you have to admit makes it pretty awkward when he tries to hit on her. :( She spends most of her time off in la-la land, but you have to admit she's basically a sweetheart who just got unlucky with stalkers.

For you: Sailor Moon!

[gramarye1971]

Mizuno Ami/Sailor Mercury: The shy, sweet, smart girl who likes swimming and chess, enjoys sandwiches because she can hold a book in one hand and a sandwich in the other, and relies more on fast thinking than attacks to defeat an enemy? Yeah, she's been my favourite since she first showed up in the series. And in the live-action PGSM series, I wasn't entirely convinced that I'd like some of the dark places they took her character, but it gave her a great depth of personality that provided a nice facet to her character.

Meiou Setsuna/Sailor Pluto: Ageless, essentially immortal, stuck with an important but depressingly solitary duty that involves guarding the Door of Time, prone to cryptic statements about past and future, ridiculously powerful but unable to really use her most powerful attack, and possessed of a small secret inner woe? I am, as they say, predictable. ^_^ I also think she has the best regular attack, and doesn't get nearly enough screen time to show off her awesomeness.

Kino Makoto/Sailor Jupiter: I think I started liking her for the simple reason that she's tall and tends to be unintentionally intimidating because of it. I remember reading that Naoki Takeuchi originally wanted to write her character as being more of a juvenile deliquent and a brawler -- the sukeban or yankii type -- and only the physical aspects (such as curly hair and a longer skirt) ended up in the final version. She's tough but kind, very self-reliant (enough to live on her own after her parents die), and her featured episodes always reveal some interesting aspect of her character.

Interestingly enough, the first slash fanfic I ever read was Makoto/Ami -- the pairing had quite a following on alt.fan.sailor-moon. ^_^