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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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DALEMARK oh man okay! Oh this is going to be hard.

Hildrida Navisdaughter: I never stopped loving Hildy - cranky, pompous, stuck-up brat though she is, but I have a fondness for cranky, pompous, stuck-up brats. And I love her determination, and how even though in many things she's selfish she always puts her brother first, and that she somehow miraculously grew a kind of moral code even with the upbringing she had. And I spend a lot of book 4 fanwanking her behavior to make sense, because yes, she's acting awful to Mitt at that point, but . . . kids are allowed to go through phases of being awful, and I do believe she has reasons for it.

Maewen Singer: OH MAEWEN. How can anyone not love Maewen? Partly because she's a reader stand-in, totally - an Ordinary Girl dropped down into the middle of this crazy story - and partly because she knows how history goes, and she just has to hang in there until it comes out properly, and because she yells at Mitt and Moril to get their heads on straight and she's got such good sense at heart.

Brid Singer: I always want more Brid - well, I always want more wacky Singer siblings in general, but I am really fond of Brid especially. She has such chutzpah! I like that she thinks she's better than she is, because it's so human (and I suspect that since we're looking at things through Moril's viewpoint, he sees her talents slightly less charitably than a non-sibling would) and how she is Clennen's grandiose, larger-than-life daughter through-and-through.

Honorable mention goes to Tanaqui and Lenina! (But Tanaqui especially.)

And I ask for Dalemark right back at you! (Because I always want an excuse to make more people babble about Dalemark.)

Edited 2010-02-01 19:47 (UTC)

Hildy-- Oh, man, see, I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy Hildy at first! I can't remember why, now, but needless to say I got to the part where she draws Wind's Road and tears it in two, and writes Ynen on one piece and Hildy on the other, and then crosses her name out and writes Ynen again, and I loved her wholeheartedly from that point onwards. I love her because she's so stubborn and determined and kind of an idiot sometimes because of that, and I was really sad by her behaviour in Crown of Dalemark. I pretty much fanwanked it away too-- "She's caught up in being at boarding school! She'll sort it out eventually!"

Maewen-- OH MAEWEN♥ Maewen is sort of my favourite! She's so sensible, and she tries so hard to put everyone at ease when they're all busy hating and mistrusting each other! And I love her for inciting the miners (were they miners?) to strike, and for almost saying "I'm in love with--" when Al asks her for a truth, and for her "nervous, freckly look".

Tanaqui-- I love Tanaqui because of her arc, for how she grows to trust in herself and her own power, and how she saves the day with weaving! And I like how not-perfect she is, when she snaps at Robin, and her badly woven rhyme-skirt, how she's always Duck's older sister, and how she terrifies the Heathen boy she saves from drowning.

To conclude: &DALEMARK; &LADIES;

THAT IS PRETTY MUCH THE THING TO SAY, YES. *_*

And YES the boat scene is one of my favorites <333333 Hildy. (My personal fanwanking for Hildy is that she knows Mitt has a crush on her, and she kiiiiiiind of sort of has a crush on him too and HATES IT, and, because she's a ridiculous teenager, she decides to make it go away by being AWFUL to him so he will stop being soppy and things can go back to normal. Clearly that will help everything sort itself out! BEST PLAN.)

And also yes to everything else too. *_* How is everyone in Dalemark so awesome? LADIES ESPECIALLY.

♥♥♥

I like your Hildy theory, and I think that makes perfect sense for her character! And it explains the way she is with Maewen, too. Only then it makes me sad on everyone's part again :(

I love Dalemark so much because-- like Witch Week, and a handful of other Chrestomanci books-- EVERYONE IS SECRETLY AN UTTER FREAKING BADASS. It is like one long chain of Crowning Moments Of Awesome!

Mine too. :( Poor stubborn teenagers.

SO MUCH SO. And yet, at the same time, they're all so DWJ-real-people! It is CROWNING MOMENT OF AWESOME followed by hilariously adorable moment of petty followed by another CROWNING MOMENT OF AWESOME.

(That may be why Witch Week is my other favorite. :D)

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