resonant | December daily: Female characters (Reply)

gurrier prompts: female characters. Favourites, pet peeves, anything that comes to mind!

When the movie "Grease" came out, I remember crushing hard on Rizzo, for much the same reason that I crush on any of the guys I slash: here was this guardedness that looked like it would be a pleasure to break, and this underlying wound that it looked like it would be a pleasure to soothe.

Actually I could really enjoy some post-canon Rizzo/Sandy. At the reunion, after the canon romances have fizzled out. And, like, Rizzo is pals with nearly all her exes, because she would be, but you know Sandy & Danny's divorce was the ugliest thing ever.

Maybe they start a consciousness-raising group together and help each other look at their cervixes.

I also have fond romantic feelings for some of the spunky and dark-haired Disney maidens, especially Mulan and Jasmine and most especially Nani from "Lilo & Stitch." (Whereas if I'd had to spend any time in the company of Snow White, I would have had to fake my own death.)

My favorite female characters in books tend to be the calm and unimpressed observer slightly outside all the chaos -- Morwen the witch from The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (who has "None of this nonsense, please" painted over the door of her cottage) is a perfect example of the type. Teyla on SGA had a bit of this, too, a certain amount of eyerolling about your drama.

When I love a female character in a book, I generally feel that the TV or movie version makes her too pretty and too soft-spoken -- not surprising, huh?