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Feb. 1st, 2010 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsAm 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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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Date: 2010-02-01 05:18 pm (UTC)okay okay okay um
Rachel: I LOVE RACHEL OKAY. She is the Biggest Damn Hero ever to not appear in the opening credits. I love how she just kind of casually rescues everybody without even breaking a sweat, AND ALSO how she totally ends up having lunch and giving romantic advice to the most feared assassin in the world, ALSO without breaking a sweat. And also her inexplicable fashion choices. (Why army fatigues? WHY NOT.) Even the editor of the Daily Days thinks she is the most hardcore! If I end up requesting Baccano! for Yuletide next year I am totally requesting Rachel fic, because it needs to exist.
Nice Holystone: oh like you didn't know this was coming. NICE. She keeps a bomb in her eye socket! Do I even need to say anything more! And she totally does not even care about who sees her scars by this point; she is awesome and self-confident and totally in charge of a gang of amazing bootleggers. (Yes, Jacuzzi is technically in charge. But we all know who it is that everyone goes to for orders when Jacuzzi's teeth are chattering in terror.) It is not enough for her just to throw a knife; she throws a knife with a bomb on it. And yet, despite all this, she is one of the sanest characters on the show! Which says something either about her, or about Baccano! . . . (also she and Jacuzzi are so ridiculously adorable.)
Ennis: THIS THIRD SLOT WAS SO HARD, LET ME TELL YOU. But I think Ennis wins because she is just so amazingly earnest. She takes ISAAC AND MIRIA seriously. That tells you something! And she is still kind of learning how to be a person, and once she figures it out she's going to be an awesome one (she already kind of is.) And she wants a baby brother! Okay, she didn't ask for one, but Isaac and Miria gave her one anyway, and you know she is going to be the best and most badass big sister ever. Also, she looks super snazzy in her suit.
(Eve, Miria, and Chane were all runners-up for this third slot too - Eve a little more than the others just because I have an extra fondness for her after writing that Yuletide fic.)
I FORGOT TO GIVE YOU ONE. Princess Tutu!
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Date: 2010-02-01 05:26 pm (UTC)MY PRINCESS TUTU ANSWERS WOULD BE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AS THE ONES YOU ALREADY GAVE. D: Give me something else?
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Date: 2010-02-01 05:37 pm (UTC)Ummmmmm okay ANYTHING DIANA WYNNE JONES.
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Date: 2010-02-01 07:04 pm (UTC)MILLIE. I read The Lives of Christopher Chant before any of the others, and thus was introduced to her when she was a kid rather than when she was already grown-up and married, and I am pretty sure this is what formed my main opinion of her. Because she was a girl who wanted desperately to live a life like she read about in stories, and, well, back then that was me. And she actually got to do it! By forcing people to give her the chance! Seeing her later as a respectable witch with an (admittedly slightly off-kilter) family life was lovely, but it was the lonely girl who pushed herself into the world she wanted whom I loved so dearly.
--okay I do not remember this one's name, um. WIKIPEDIA WILL HELP ME ah, she is Claudia! From Year of the Griffin. I do not like that book as much as I did Dark Lord of Derkholm, mostly because of DWJ's decision to pair up everybody ever even with people they barely knew, but Claudia was one of the aspects I adored. For some reason the idea of a slightly greenish girl with muddy hair and a tendency to get sopping wet seemed absolutely beautiful to me. And she was cranky, but in a wonderful way, and again reminded me a bit of myself; as a kid, I didn't have very many friends, and knew all too well what it was like to be the weird one. So I was very fond of her, and, come to think of it, still am.
And, of course, there is SOPHIE. Seeing her in the movie did not impress me much, because, well, the movie in general did not impress me much, but seeing her in the book and in proper DWJ form was awesome. An eminently practical girl who takes bizarre situations in stride but will not take any crap from the equally-bizarre guy who is often the cause of them! And then she does not go all moony-eyed when she realizes she is in love with him, instead she goes and kills some plants and shouts at him for a bit. Basically, she is what I want out of a romantic heroine in every way. AND THEN SOME.
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Date: 2010-02-01 08:20 pm (UTC)(I forget, have you read Conrad's Fate yet? In which Millie mercilessly mocks Christopher who is HILARIOUSLY HEAD OVER HEELS for her? :D :D :D)
Claudia is amazing! I wish I felt like I'd gotten to know her better - that was one of the things about Year of the Griffin, aside from the sudden explosion of pairings at the end, yeah - but she was so fabulous. Travel jinx! <333
And what can I do but flail my hands around and go SOPHIE. :D :D :D :D She epitomizes my favorite kind of DWJ-lady - cranky and take-charge!
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Date: 2010-02-01 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 09:15 pm (UTC)omg those illustrations were SO AWESOME *_* also so accurate! Christopher: <3 <3 <3 <3 Millie let's run away together
Millie: >:| oh my god are you insane
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Date: 2010-02-01 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 09:42 pm (UTC)LIBRARIES ARE YOUR FRIENDS. I promise!