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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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[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. ^_^