How about it. Oh, video game characters. I only really know the Final Fantasy VII world, so I'll limit my answers to that.
- Tifa Lockhart. OK, right off the bat, she's a MONK. She's kind to a fault, pretty much the emotional backbone of the compilation, the idea person, the go-to woman. In between doing all that she finds the time to run a bar, house a bunch of secret meetings for AVALANCHE, take in orphans, and put herself in danger to save her friends time and again. I know she gets dinged for being too soft, but come on. She's probably one of the more typically female females in the gaming world because of her soft and emotional nature, but she's supremely competent and can hold her own in a fight against anyone.
- Marlene Wallace. Yeah, she's just a kid, but the image of her little pixellated FFVII form tending bar is burned into my psyche and it won't leave. For a little guy she's pretty goddamn fearless, and her background should have left her a lot more fragile than it has. You can see where Tifa's kindness has rubbed off on her too, which is a pretty cool piece of continuity in a video game world.
- Jenova. I don't think it's cheating to pick her (yes, I know she's an alien life-form, but is most often referred to as female or "Mother") because without her, there would be no story. Inert by now, Jenova's still the driving force behind so much of what happens in the story that it would be a shame not to list her. She's such an unknown, such a mystery, and for a villain, she's only responsible (indirectly) for the DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD through Sephiroth. So yeah, she's pretty cool in her own way.
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Date: 2010-01-31 01:05 am (UTC)- Tifa Lockhart. OK, right off the bat, she's a MONK. She's kind to a fault, pretty much the emotional backbone of the compilation, the idea person, the go-to woman. In between doing all that she finds the time to run a bar, house a bunch of secret meetings for AVALANCHE, take in orphans, and put herself in danger to save her friends time and again. I know she gets dinged for being too soft, but come on. She's probably one of the more typically female females in the gaming world because of her soft and emotional nature, but she's supremely competent and can hold her own in a fight against anyone.
- Marlene Wallace. Yeah, she's just a kid, but the image of her little pixellated FFVII form tending bar is burned into my psyche and it won't leave. For a little guy she's pretty goddamn fearless, and her background should have left her a lot more fragile than it has. You can see where Tifa's kindness has rubbed off on her too, which is a pretty cool piece of continuity in a video game world.
- Jenova. I don't think it's cheating to pick her (yes, I know she's an alien life-form, but is most often referred to as female or "Mother") because without her, there would be no story. Inert by now, Jenova's still the driving force behind so much of what happens in the story that it would be a shame not to list her. She's such an unknown, such a mystery, and for a villain, she's only responsible (indirectly) for the DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD through Sephiroth. So yeah, she's pretty cool in her own way.
Runner-up: Yuffie Kisaragi.
Dishonorable mention: Lucrecia Crescent.
For you: Firefly.