I’m so sick of reading rubbish female characters. So I’m making a list of my favourite female characters. Please, try to make your women more like these ones.
- GlaDOS, Portal. She’s passive aggressive and made of metal. She loves tests. I wish there were more of her. I expect there will be when the world ends.
- Lottie, Princess and the Frog. She’s boy mad! She wants a husband so bad. But she loves her best friend more than anything else, and despite being a total airhead, would do anything for her.
- The 2nd Mrs De Winter, Rebecca. Young, easily led, trusting, naive and growing up fast.
- Laguerta, Dexter. She’s not a brilliant woman, but she’s gotten to the top by being an amazingly amoral human being. She’ll smile to your face while she fucks your husband behind your back.
- Mma Ramotswe, No 1 Ladies Detective Agency. Smart, caring woman who creates her own detective agency. The writing in these books is excruciatingly poor, but Mma Ramotswe makes them worthwhile.
- DI Munroe, The Jackson Brodie Books(?). Single mother, Detective Inspector, prone to making the wrong decisions for the right reasons. Love her to bits.
- Mildred Hubble, The Worst Witch. Crap at witching, ballses everything up, wins at life regardless. Has amusing sidekicks too.
You might want to check out Tim Pratt’s books. He writes pretty good female protagonists. Marla Mason is one of my favorites.