Further Tales of Might and Valor

Day One Favourite 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-Three: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship

Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship

Ah, they weren't included in the platonic ones, after all.

Generally the mother/daughter relationships I've come across are somewhere between fraught and nonexistent. I'm with Ekaterin on the idea that the folktales where the heroine's mother dies young seems to be meant as some form of instruction, and surprisingly prevalent ones, too.

So, sisters. I note, of course, that it's the relationship one is supposed to favourite, not the individuals, and while there are possibilities galore in Austen, I would like to mention Maria Edgeworth's Patronage with Caroline and Rosamond Percy, who are a sort of Elinor and Marianne duo, but with rather more melodrama. I'm very fond of Patronage (it's the book name-checked in Cranford as having "banished wafers from polite society" and the sisters are particularly good.

But I've already discussed how much I love the sibling relationships in Ankaret Wells' Requite novels and in Firebrand. In particular, it allows for an equality in rescue scenarios which traditional damsel in distress models can't match; Kadia and Kassia rescue each other with considerable symmetry in Firebrand, and while things are sparkier and edgier in The Maker's Mask/The Hawkwood War they come over as very real sibling relationships in both cases.

So I'm going with Firebrand.







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