ext_36705 ([identity profile] shark-hat.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rionaleonhart 2009-05-12 12:40 pm (UTC)

When I started thinking about this, apart from Zoe and Ace, who are both just insanely cool, all the characters who've sprung to mind have been women, rather than girls- which surprised me a bit, because I read a lot of YA and am quite happy with the Spunky Girl Herione. But the characters who I really *love* aren't the ones learning how to deal with the world, but the ones who have been a bit worn down already and are still competent and funny and clever and cool. Sabriel from the book Sabriel is brilliant, but I like her even more in the later book, Lirael, where she's an overworked professional.
Donna and her willingness to go "You're an idiot, shut up!"
Martha.
Leela (who will stab anyone right up, no bother).
Ista, oh, Ista, (Paladin of Souls, by Lois Bujold), who's nearly imprisoned by what's suitable to her rank but manages to sneak out on a "pilgrimage" and gets the better of demons and priests both.
Ofelia (Remnant Population, Elizabeth Moon) who decides that sod it, I'm not being evacuated from my colony planet with everyone else, I like it here, I'm just staying.
Diana from Waiting For God and Granny Weatherwax- I hope I can be a crabby old bat like them.
And, actually, Kochanski from S1 Red Dwarf- not that you see much of her, but she's a navigator, she's funny, she's happy to flirt with a cute soup-machine repairman and then get on with her own life. (The post-S3 version, eh.)

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