30 Day Female Character Challenge Day 2
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uberreiniger30 Day Female Characters Challenge
Day One: Favorite lead female character
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Day Four: A female character you relate to
Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show
Day Six: Favorite female-driven show
Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time
Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Thre: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character. I'm going to have to go to the realm of books for this one and choose Wynn Hyergeoht from Barb and J.C. Hendee's intriguinging Noble Dead series.
The blurb on the covers bills this series as "Buffy meets Lord of the Rings" but in terms of tone + setting it's more like Underworld meets medieval Poland. Here's the premise: a traveling con artist pretends to be a vampire hunter who kills fake vampires (her accomplice in heavy makeup,) for a fee. One day she discovers she is in fact a Dhampir with vampire-killing super powers and a destiny to fulfill. Hijinks ensue involving elven ninjas, tremor-causing dwarves, half-fae dogs, and even eldritch abominations. It's a pretty good series but it doesn't really hit its stride until our heroes encounter Wynn Hyergoeht.
Wynn is a professional scholar assigned by her superiors to follow Magiere the vampire hunter and learn what links the vampires hold to the cataclysm that erased most of the world's ancient history. She is an outsider in the group, useless in a fight, generally in the way whenever danger threatens. She is also incredibly strong-willed, resourceful, and inevitably the first one to figure out what's going on in any given situation while the rest of the heroes are blundering in circles. She is the only character among the heroes with no special powers or training. She does have a kind of second sight acquired from a magic ritual gone wrong, but it backfires more often than not and incapacitates her. It's hard to convey what makes Wynn so special if you haven't read the books, but her normality combined with her sheer reckless nerve make her the emotional heart of the story. Magiere even says as much to her at one point. Even certain of the remorseless vampires and sociopathic elven assassins encountered in the story have a hard time treating Wynn with the cruel disdain they'd like to. It's not so much that she's just written to be a good person: she sort of represents what is good and right in the world, the things the bad guys have a hard time letting go of.
The Hendees have recently begun the second series in the Noble Dead line wherein they elevate Wynn to central protagonist. They give her some power upgrades to better survive undead encounters, but so far they have done so without overpowering her or in any way sacrificing what made her great the first time around. It was a smart move to push her front and center because she really is the best thing about the story and makes an average work of gothic fantasy worth remembering.
Day One: Favorite lead female character
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Day Four: A female character you relate to
Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show
Day Six: Favorite female-driven show
Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time
Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Thre: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character. I'm going to have to go to the realm of books for this one and choose Wynn Hyergeoht from Barb and J.C. Hendee's intriguinging Noble Dead series.
The blurb on the covers bills this series as "Buffy meets Lord of the Rings" but in terms of tone + setting it's more like Underworld meets medieval Poland. Here's the premise: a traveling con artist pretends to be a vampire hunter who kills fake vampires (her accomplice in heavy makeup,) for a fee. One day she discovers she is in fact a Dhampir with vampire-killing super powers and a destiny to fulfill. Hijinks ensue involving elven ninjas, tremor-causing dwarves, half-fae dogs, and even eldritch abominations. It's a pretty good series but it doesn't really hit its stride until our heroes encounter Wynn Hyergoeht.
Wynn is a professional scholar assigned by her superiors to follow Magiere the vampire hunter and learn what links the vampires hold to the cataclysm that erased most of the world's ancient history. She is an outsider in the group, useless in a fight, generally in the way whenever danger threatens. She is also incredibly strong-willed, resourceful, and inevitably the first one to figure out what's going on in any given situation while the rest of the heroes are blundering in circles. She is the only character among the heroes with no special powers or training. She does have a kind of second sight acquired from a magic ritual gone wrong, but it backfires more often than not and incapacitates her. It's hard to convey what makes Wynn so special if you haven't read the books, but her normality combined with her sheer reckless nerve make her the emotional heart of the story. Magiere even says as much to her at one point. Even certain of the remorseless vampires and sociopathic elven assassins encountered in the story have a hard time treating Wynn with the cruel disdain they'd like to. It's not so much that she's just written to be a good person: she sort of represents what is good and right in the world, the things the bad guys have a hard time letting go of.
The Hendees have recently begun the second series in the Noble Dead line wherein they elevate Wynn to central protagonist. They give her some power upgrades to better survive undead encounters, but so far they have done so without overpowering her or in any way sacrificing what made her great the first time around. It was a smart move to push her front and center because she really is the best thing about the story and makes an average work of gothic fantasy worth remembering.
