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I got behind with the holiday. I think I can be forgiven.
( The prompts... )
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc: Tough call but I think I'm going to have to go with Nynaeve from The Wheel of Time if for no other reason because Robert Jordan introduces her as completely unbearable for both the reader and the other characters and quickly makes her over into something much more interesting than the the one-dimensional nagging shrew she starts out as. Her terrible temper becomes bother her greatest strength and greatest weakness and it's no longer just nails on a chalkboard for a reader every time she opens her mouth. She also gets super powers and it becomes a running gag in the series that she keeps accidentally imagining herself in low-cut dresses even though she finds them morally reprehensible.
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character Beating out Catlyn Stark by a nose is the Widow Blue from Cherie Priest's Boneshaker. Ms. Blue has become a social pariah ever since her late scientist husband unleashed a zombie apocalypse on Seattle. Now she lives in poverty working odd jobs to support her teenaged son. One day her son decides he wants to learn the truth about his father and runs off into zombie territory leaving mom no choice but to follow. It's one of the few novels I've read where motherhood is truly the core theme and it never becomes overwrought or melodramatic.
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character I don't have an icon of the Shield Maid of Rohan for nothing. Eowyn is badass and believable at the same time and I think she has inspired many female fantasy heroes in the years since her creation. Stupid Witch King. Clearly he has never read Macbeth or he would know that the letter of these prophecies can be very important.
( The prompts... )
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc: Tough call but I think I'm going to have to go with Nynaeve from The Wheel of Time if for no other reason because Robert Jordan introduces her as completely unbearable for both the reader and the other characters and quickly makes her over into something much more interesting than the the one-dimensional nagging shrew she starts out as. Her terrible temper becomes bother her greatest strength and greatest weakness and it's no longer just nails on a chalkboard for a reader every time she opens her mouth. She also gets super powers and it becomes a running gag in the series that she keeps accidentally imagining herself in low-cut dresses even though she finds them morally reprehensible.
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character Beating out Catlyn Stark by a nose is the Widow Blue from Cherie Priest's Boneshaker. Ms. Blue has become a social pariah ever since her late scientist husband unleashed a zombie apocalypse on Seattle. Now she lives in poverty working odd jobs to support her teenaged son. One day her son decides he wants to learn the truth about his father and runs off into zombie territory leaving mom no choice but to follow. It's one of the few novels I've read where motherhood is truly the core theme and it never becomes overwrought or melodramatic.
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character I don't have an icon of the Shield Maid of Rohan for nothing. Eowyn is badass and believable at the same time and I think she has inspired many female fantasy heroes in the years since her creation. Stupid Witch King. Clearly he has never read Macbeth or he would know that the letter of these prophecies can be very important.
