So, we will have a Season 4, based on Queen of the Damned and... this could be a problem about Akasha.
Akasha was already miscast, she was from Sumer so from Middle East and not a black woman but I can accept like an hommage to Aaliyah. In the only episode in which she appeared she spoke a name: Amel.
Accord to Anne Rice's PLatRoA Amel was a ghost. When he was alive he was a man from North Pole who was kidnapped by the alien and genetically modified. He was sent back to the Earth to "collect human pain", he rebelled and found Atalntaya. Atlantaya was destroyd by the same aliens and Amel died, his body was destroyed and his spirit was so damaged that he forgot everything for millennials.
Amel the thought he was a spirit ( in this lore ghosts were human and spirit... were not human ) and "helped" the twins.
He drank the blood of Akasha and he "enetered" into her, enslaved her, controlling her mind, her body and her spirit, Akasha since minute 1 was his slave.
A black woman, enslaved totally by a white ghost... ghosh
Is Akasha a feminist icon?
She could be, she had the ingredients BUT she is not, quite the opposite, Akasha is a misogynist woman who hates other women and envyies man because she cannot be "strong" like a man.
She ordred that the twins were rape, and by her own husband! Enkil who was very in love with her refused and "pass" this assignement to Khayman, who did it. And she watched it, enjoying every seconds.
Then she ordred the mutilations, Maharet's eyes and Mekare's tongue, and their imprisonment.
After that she had one rule: the dark gift must be passed only to men, she is the only, the mother, the goodes, only her. When Nebaum, who was sent to Egypt as a sex slave for her, fell in love with Sevraine and broke the rules Akasha is so pissed that she caused the first great separation among the vampires. Because her lover didn't love her back and chose another women.
Akasha's big plan was never about women power. She destroyed mostly man 'cause she tought women were weaker than men, a man could fight her, a man could won over her, a women no.
So she was never "men are a menace, long live women" but "women are too weak and too stupid to oppose me, better destroying men". And she was killed by a woman, with a rock
For this reason she is a complex charcter she is not a "girl power" character or a "women are better than men" charcater, she is more like a "me power" and a " i am better than anyone" and I hope they treat her weel, never cancelling her faults and her defects