TRLR Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Dany, Sansa, Arya, the Mormont women, Wylla Manderly, Alys...Asha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiemal Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 I like Brienne's strong sense of morality and chivalry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunandspear Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Brienne is one of the most moral characters in the series, so I cheer for her, even though she's a little boring.For entertainment value I'd pick Arya. She's had so many crazy adventures and I like following her journey. I also love the Mormont ladies, from Maege to Lyanna. Her letter to Stannis cracked me up (though it was also due to Stannis' unique sense of humor :D). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thuckey Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 Yeah, I forgot about the Mormont women. Fuck there are just so many strong female characters in this series.. you don't see that in anything else unless it's a female super-god ninja main heroine on some cheesy action flick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiemal Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Oh yeah, the Mormont women are an arse-kicking crew and then some. We see so little of them, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thuckey Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 Oh yeah, the Mormont women are an arse-kicking crew and then some. We see so little of them, though.I can picture the younger Mormont girls ages 5-12 or so being aggressive hairy little munchkins beating up all the little boys on bear island Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiemal Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 I can picture the younger Mormont girls ages 5-12 or so being aggressive hairy little munchkins beating up all the little boys on bear islandThe boys probably have to be the Ironborn in their games and be driven back to the sea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BalerionTheCat Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 My preference is for Val. She is beautiful, smart, witty. Jon looks like a little boy beside her.I like Sansa more and more too.And Wylla Manderly. Too bad there is not more of her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsug Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Cersei fucking Lannister. I don't care what anyone says. That woman is a badass through and through. She's tough. People just act like Cersei's problems are all of her own making (and many of them are), but they conveniently forget she's basically been shit on by everyone her whole life. Joanna died. Tywin ignored her and treated her like a glorified prostitute. Tyrion routinely mocked her and embarrassed her. The only time her husband wasn't drunkenly cheating on her was when he was drunkenly raping her. The court hated her. The Tyrells belittled her. The commoners despised her. And yet she survived, fiercer than ever. And physically, she's also a tough cookie. I mean, it takes some fortitude to be drunk every second of the day LOL. When the Faith arrests her, she went down swinging, literally. She took her imprisonment like a boss. She was starved, beaten, and sleep deprived and she fucking took it. She was paraded through the streets of her own city, naked as her name day, getting screamed at and having shit thrown at her. And she fucking took it. The woman's hard. I hope in the next book we actually get to see Cersei fight someone so she can wreck their shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tijgy Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 While she might be named as general (Mormont women), nobody named her specific: Alysane Mormont who I totally adore. I love Asha too. The not-fighting though women: Sansa, Cat and Wylla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiemal Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 I like Alysane, as well. Maege seems like quite a character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceThatWasPromised Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Cat's inability to love a motherless child is more than enough to earn bitch status. As far as my favorite women, Ygritte was such a badass. Dany probably the top choice though. The idea she's even still alive is enough, but then add her accomplishments and the dragons.. Yeah she's badass.Wyla Manderly and Lyanna Mormont deserve mentions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lidsa Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Cat's inability to love a motherless child is more than enough to earn bitch status.You must hate Ned then, he didn't love a whole country full of motherless children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowCat Rivers Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Cat's inability to love a motherless child is more than enough to earn bitch status.Then I will happily and unapologetically declare my bitchiness to the world.I have adopted zero (0) motherless children nor do I intend to. I am under no obligation to love children that are not mine just because I am a woman. Deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiemal Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I don't consider Cat a particularly "tough" character; her inability to look past her own wounded ego to at least be kind to Jon shows this, to me at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khal drogon Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Cat, Dany and Cersei Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRANDON GREYSTARK Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Val and Margaery . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphalesion Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 There's of course Arya, who is by all accounts a tomboy and has killed people without hesitation, and will continue to do so. I still fail to understand how "killing people without hesitation" is a positive character trait. In today's world we'd call a person who does that a killer. However it is still good that GRRM let's his female characters have flaws, even fatal or unadmirable ones. It's too many authors (particularly male ones) who put female characters on a pedestral. Tolkien is a bit of an offender here, even Lobelia Sackville-Baggings got her redemption.My favourite (stereotypically) "though" character is probably Brienne. She has had a hard life, but still tries to do good in her own way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxxine Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I still fail to understand how "killing people without hesitation" is a positive character trait. In today's world we'd call a person who does that a killer. However it is still good that GRRM let's his female characters have flaws, even fatal or unadmirable ones. It's too many authors (particularly male ones) who put female characters on a pedestral. Tolkien is a bit of an offender here, even Lobelia Sackville-Baggings got her redemption.My favourite (stereotypically) "though" character is probably Brienne. She has had a hard life, but still tries to do good in her own way.I think the "kill without hesitation" is a positive in the sense of when killing someone is necessary she won't hesitate to do it. One thing that's annoying about some authors is that they make their protagonist (whether male or female) so perfect when it's beneath them to kill someone even if its necessary. They want to make their protagonist so perfect that they always have to "find a better way" even if the supposed better way is completely unrealistic or doesn't make sense. So I'm the context of telling a story I like Arya because because of the "kill without hesitation" trait. Now I'll admit idk how far she's going to go with this with FM. It may go overboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Selig Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I don't consider Cat a particularly "tough" character; her inability to look past her own wounded ego to at least be kind to Jon shows this, to me at least.How is that related to toughness in any way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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