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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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From:

genarti

THREE GUESSES

(It's that or Inda. :D)

From:

skygiants

DUDE IT'S NOT LIKE YOU DON'T KNOW ALREADY *giggling* (Alternately: EVERYONE in the Awesome FMA Ladies Post I made a week or two ago.) But OKAY I guess I can bring myself to babble anyway

Lt. Riza Hawkeye: GOSH WHAT A SURPRISE do I have to rehash everything we have been saying in email all ~~day~~ ~~week~~ THIS PAST LONG TIME. *cracking up* But for the benefit of anyone else who might be interested: Riza is so awesome! She is a HARDCORE ACTUAL GROWNUP PERSON who TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR HER ACTIONS; it is not that her only choice is to revolutionize the world, she does have other choices, but it's the only way to live with herself. <3333333 Haaaaaaawkeye.

Izumi Curtis: Izumi is so incredibly badass! But besides that, as I have said before also and will say again: dude, where else in fiction have you ever seen a disabled woman with an incredibly strong and happy marriage be the single most hardcore person in the universe? Susannah probably qualifies, but I think that's it.

General Olivier Milla Armstrong: It breaks my heart not to have room for Ross or Paninya or Lan Fan, but when it comes down to it I have to go with General Armstrong: ruler of the north, savvy middle-aged career soldier, PERSONIFICATION OF AWESOME. I love how badass she is, but I also love how savvy she is. Who else could get away with baldly informing the Fuhrer that she killed one of his generals in cold blood because the general just WAS NOT HARD ENOUGH? Nobody else could!

Also, while I'm here, I may as well do Inda too. :D

Hadand: Hadand is going to be the best queen ever. True, her situation sort of sucks for her. :( But she deals with it with grace! I fell in love with her during that competition with Tanrid, when they for once let their awesome flag fly and bond over super sibling hardcore, and I have not stopped loving her since. <3

Jeje: Our trademark Sherwood Smith cheerful ordinary-looking girl who is constantly questioning the sanity of all the drama queens around her! Which is enough of a reason to love her, but she's also incredibly fierce and loyal. (And I love her deep barrel-voice. I say this like I've actually heard it, which of course I haven't. But I can imagine it!)

Tdor: Tall and scrawny and cleverer than you'd think her for being so honest. Tdor is just a good person, and you can tell that. Which is why Inda relies completely on her advice, as a kid! And, like Hadand, she copes with difficult situations with grace; she has her own hopes and dreams, but she also knows her priorities and her duty.

FOR YOU: Utena!

From:

genarti

Well I was curious which three you would pick! THERE ARE SO MANY AWESOME ONES TO CHOOSE FROM. Although I do admit that none of these choices surprise me at all. But some of them could've gone otherwise. :p

Utena: ummm. See, I am handicapped because

web_of did the same canon up there, and she picked awesome ones, and I am torn between agreeing with her entirely or picking different ones partly out of pure contrariness!

Anthy: She starts out such a cipher -- and she stays one, in some ways, but she's so complicated, and there's a young woman under all that weight of role and allegory. I love her for her spite and her stubbornness and her cruelty and the way she giggles at elephant flip books and adopts snails. I love that she starts out being the damsel, and turns out to be the witch who wouldn't be a princess, and turns out to just be Anthy.

Juri: She is so messed up. So messed up. And she knows that so is everyone else around her and so is the system, but she can't break out of it anyway. She's in love with a dead guy and a girl who toys with her for fun, she says she doesn't believe in miracles but she fights to find one, and she's the only person who ever loses a duel on her own terms.

Nanami: I very nearly did Utena, because I adore her, but Utena's the protagonist and I'm contrary. The thing about Nanami is that she's an irritating, emotionally incestuous laughingstock with no sense of proportion and no sense of reality, and her plotlines reflect that -- until suddenly she isn't, and they don't, and she's one of the most human characters on the screen and it's her eyes we're seeing through. It's Nanami's viewpoint we're agreeing with when she says no, that's fucked up, that's WRONG, NO, and suddenly you find yourself caring about her very real desperation. And that's a kind of table-turning I love.

(See how I'm being good and stopping the chain there?)