Female Character Challenge - The ladies need our love part 4

[nessaniel]

Day Sixteen: Favourite mother character
Caterina Sforza – Assassins’s Creed II, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood



As it is quite often the case with “Assassin’s Creed”, the historical accuracy in the portrayal of characters, politics and surroundings is stunning and can also be found in the character of Caterina Sforza.
She is elegant and sexy, flirtatious and very sure of what she wants and how to get it. Ezio meets her for the first time, when he needs a pass to enter Venezia. She demands he help her to her boat while cursing the whole journey and not letting get Ezio away with any shit. He is completely stunned by her behaviour and fascinated by how strong and capable she is.
During the mission in Forli, where Ezio has to help her recapture her city, he learns a lot more about her: Caterina is relentless in achieving her goals “(“I had my husband killed, he was a useless father, boring in bed and a pain in my ass!"), she uses her beauty and her body to get what she wants if necessary, she has no qualms about ordering Ezio around (an assassin!!). She fights like one of her soldiers, will not get pressured into giving up her city and fights like a lioness for her children. SHE IS SUPERCOOL, OKAY, AND I’D LOVE TO KNOW AS MANY CURSES AS SHE DOES!
If you want to, watch this and this: a walkthrough through the mission in Forli which encompasses all the amazing cut scenes (you can skip the gaming parts but if you want to see Caterina fight, watch them too xD). I love her because she does so much apart from being a mother only, but she still loves every single one of her daughters and sons.
Oh and did I mention that she punches Lucrezia Borgia in the face? Like with her fist on that stupid woman’s nose? God, I loved that scene. xD

Day Seventeen: Favourite warrior female character
Pass! All my darlings are warriors and seriously, Xena would be too cliché even for me. xDD

Day Eighteen: Favourite non-warrior female character
Rarity – My little Pony: Friendship is Magic



Rarity is my favourite pony. She is elegant, a diva, she has tremendously good taste in everything and loves to gift her friends with the coolest clothing. She wants to be admired for her work and sometimes goes over the top but she is still the best friend a pony can have.
And although she would never pick a fight she can defend herself by the means of a lady (“A Dog and Pony Show” is a perfect example of this!)

Day Nineteen: Favourite non-human female character
Captain Amelia – Disney’s Treasure Planet


She is a feline. She wears black leather overknees. She is the motherhugging captain of a beautiful starship (THAT HAS SAILS). She looks awesome in blue. She is fierce and has a wonderful relationship with her first mate but she also is as lonely as every captain ever.
I loved how they handled her relationship with Doppler because I adore the strong female/weaker male storyline and they had some perfect hurt/comfort-moments together. <33333 It was also very cool to see the juxtaposition of Jim's loving, caring mother and the more fierce, warrior-like Amelia: both are female and feminine in their own ways and both are great role models!

Day Twenty: Favourite female antagonist
Maleficent – Disney’s Sleeping Beauty



Hands down, I love her and this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Maleficent is one of the few Disney villains without any slapstick and almost the only female villain whose ambition doesn’t come from vanity (based on good looks xD).
She always reminded me of a great diva, who uses all her power to right the insult she has received – and as far as we know from the Disney version, the reluctance to invite her to the christening of the princess stemmed from nothing but superstition (the fairy tale at least tried to come up with a lame excuse but ...not enough golden plates??? You are a king for fuck’s sake, just make one!) and seriously if you fuck with the Mistress of all Evil you deserve what it’s coming to you. Malefiz is highly intelligent and powerful, even the curse she places on Aurora could have been averted (by telling the young Aurora that touching the spindle is a bad thing, for the love of God...) while the other fairies barely manage to weaken it.
She is proud and independent and I’m pretty sure she could have gifted Aurora with a bit more self-confidence and liberal thinking, had she been invited – which would have done wonders for that boring princess.
(Oh and she put my favourite prince into chains – thanks for giving me wonderful kinks at the age of six, Maleficent. *high five* ) So yeah, let’s hope the film is going to treat her decently without making her into another musical-Elphaba (aka: softened, toned down and waaaaay too romantic).

Comments

[asthenie-vd.livejournal.com]

I love Rarity. She may be a bit more vain and serious than the other ponies, but she is also super generous. And glamorous. *g*

Malefiz was my favourite Disney villain when I was little, simply because she turn into a dragon! XD


[Amelia] has a wonderful relationship with her first mate

YES! THEY ARE THE CUTEST! ♥ why did he have to die, though, I shipped them. T__T

Thank you for reminding me that this film exists.

[nessaniel.livejournal.com]

and serious than the other ponies
I think that might be the reason why I grew to love her so much. The first season had me fell in love with Pinkie Pie because of her eternal glee and superpositive outlook on life - but to down on the escapism (as far as possible in a show about talking ponies xD) and because she was soooooo great and loveable and a positive diva in "Sweet and Elite", she became my favorite instead. I want to be her, I think: creative, sophisticated, generous, a wonderful bigger sister, running a cool business that suits my talent and of course, being the biggest diva of all time. ;DDD

SPOILER
OH MY GOD YES Q___Q I cried so friggin' much and I watched it like... a bazillion times and everytime that scene slayed me.
But headcanon: they must have had sooooo many adventures with dangerous and life threatening situations and they grew to be this perfect pair of friends/lovers... BUHUUUUUU Q__Q All my feels.

And yes. The dragon-part helped too. XDDD Coolest woman everrrr!

[asthenie-vd.livejournal.com]

Indeed, Rarity is such a cool role model. She is a business woman, but still manages to take time to help out her friends, and she made her passion her job. How can you not want to be her on some level?

Yes!!!! I was like ... NO THAT DID NOT JUST HAPPEN. I mean, I thought I was watching a Disney movie, how dare they throw a cool character like him into a black hole? (But since space in that movie, doesn't work like real world space anyway, I am convinced he is still alive somewhere, having awesome adventure in a parallel universe *sniff*)

That's my head-canon too. Their past adventures must have been epic. cat-lady/rock-monster OTP 4ever!

[pardotje.livejournal.com]

Ich wollte erst Ursula nehmen, weil ich in meinem Skizzenblock Villain stehen hatte.
Als ich dann Antagonist sah, hab ich die Definition nochmal nachgehakt und vergessen, dass ich die nehmen wollte.
Fällt mir grad auf.
*schnipp schnipp*
Ursula ist nämlich viel cooler als Malefiz XD

[nessaniel.livejournal.com]

Ursula ist nämlich viel cooler als Malefiz XD
WAT.
Wohl kaum! XDDD

Ich mein, ja, Ursula ist auch cool (und auch Gott sei Dank nicht durch Eitelkeit sondern durch Macht motiviert) aber Malefiz ist ein Drache. EIN DRACHE. MUAHAH

[pardotje.livejournal.com]

Nen Oktopuss ist viel gruseliger als ein Drache.