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30 Day Book Challenge: Day 16
Mar. 2nd, 2012 03:53 pmDay 16 – Favourite female character
Another difficult question. I have three for this one: Nita Callahan from Young Wizards, Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter, and Tazendra from the Khaavren Romances. Nita because she is human! She's bookish and afraid to fight back, and then she finds a book that lets her fight back, and she does! And the victory is hollow, so she tries to befriend the bully, and it doesn't work, but she knows that she did the best she could. That really stuck out to me at the end of the first book, as something that I didn't fully appreciate until a few years after I'd read it. Nita is another character who, like Corny, strikes me as a very ordinary human being, with the same mundane afflictions as everyone else, even with all of the extraordinary things going on around her: she has a normal sibling relationship with Dairine, which is spectacularly exemplified in A Wizard Alone when she forcibly drags her sister out of bed for school - normal - by teleporting her bed to Pluto - magical. She has to figure out the real-life aspects of losing her mother, like learning how to shop for groceries, and making her dad coffee in the mornings. And then she does things that are completely awesome, which makes me very happy, like basically the end of every book she's in. I am always won over by a good combination of character-based awesomeness.
Luna! Everyone loves Luna, am I right? Probably. I don't need to talk about that. I'm tired. I have better things to do with my time, I need to write my own things, not talk about everyone else's things! I will leave off by saying that Ella of Frell is also up there.
Another difficult question. I have three for this one: Nita Callahan from Young Wizards, Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter, and Tazendra from the Khaavren Romances. Nita because she is human! She's bookish and afraid to fight back, and then she finds a book that lets her fight back, and she does! And the victory is hollow, so she tries to befriend the bully, and it doesn't work, but she knows that she did the best she could. That really stuck out to me at the end of the first book, as something that I didn't fully appreciate until a few years after I'd read it. Nita is another character who, like Corny, strikes me as a very ordinary human being, with the same mundane afflictions as everyone else, even with all of the extraordinary things going on around her: she has a normal sibling relationship with Dairine, which is spectacularly exemplified in A Wizard Alone when she forcibly drags her sister out of bed for school - normal - by teleporting her bed to Pluto - magical. She has to figure out the real-life aspects of losing her mother, like learning how to shop for groceries, and making her dad coffee in the mornings. And then she does things that are completely awesome, which makes me very happy, like basically the end of every book she's in. I am always won over by a good combination of character-based awesomeness.
Luna! Everyone loves Luna, am I right? Probably. I don't need to talk about that. I'm tired. I have better things to do with my time, I need to write my own things, not talk about everyone else's things! I will leave off by saying that Ella of Frell is also up there.
