Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
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Day Twenty Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Sheherazade from the One Thousand and One Nights.
A young lady who tooked the risk of becoming the wife of a vengefull and murderous ruler, if it meant a chance to save the lifes of all the woman in the country.
Her only weapons are her extensive knowledge and her articulation of words, that allow to narrate the most beautifull and engaging stories that make the sultan curious every night, in the proccess delaying her own death and of the other who could become the sultan's wifes.
Sheherazade's cunning, witty and artistry are still inspirational role models for me.
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Lady Amalthea from The Last Unicorn.
A lonely creature in search of answers about what happened to the rest of her species, being an imortal ethereal being, Lady Amalthea can at first appear to look down at humans and sound a bit arrogant (considering that in one ocasion the human ilusionist Mami Fortuna trapped her in a cage, i don't blame the horned white mare) but in her journey, the more she lives along the humans, and specially as she lives in the skin of one for a while, she grows more vulnerable, humble, kind and compassionate. Conflicted between remaining a human or return to her original form, at the end she returns to become a unicorn, saving the life of the human Prince Lir, with whom she fell in love but couldn't remain with.
Lady Amalthea ends her story rejoining the band of fellow unicorns, glad to be the first of her kind to experience human emotions like love and regret.
She was a deity that experienced how to be a flesh and blood being.
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Saori Kido from Saint Seiya.
So in this shonen anime series inspired by greek mithology, its extablished that every 200 years the goddess Athena reincarnates in human form to lead a group of armoured knights to protect the Earth against the Forces of Evil, be they human or divine.
The human encarnation of Athena takes time to manifest and control her powers, so she frequently needs protection from her knights, known as Saints.
In the 20th century (the manga and anime were made in the 80s and are set at that time), the encarnation of Athena is Saori Kido, who was raised as the granddaughter of a japanese billionaire after one of the comanders of the Saints tried to murdered her as a baby. Originally spoiled and mean to the boys who were trained to protect her, after discovering that she is Athena, Saori slowly reevaluates her behaviour, and learns to be a more responsable, kind and benevolent leader, who frequently puts her own life at risk and acts as a Barrier Maiden to gain time for the Saints to defeat the villains.
Growing up with the first Saga (Santuary), where she was more passive and needed to be rescued lots of times, i didn't liked Saori, because i tought she was dumb and weak. After rewatching the series from the first to the last Saga (Santuary to Hades), i gained an apreciation for the nuances of her character, who learned to be a better person trough her friendship with the Saints, and always afirmed her love for Earth and Humanity.
