Torchwood-99

I will be seriously so pissed if the consequences of Emerie winning the Blood Rite gets overlooked.

I want all the different reactions to be explored.

I want their to be admiration, of course. I want her to be admired by other women, by girls and women who have been told all their lives they are lesser by virtue of being female, who know feel maybe they can be more than what's permitted to them, who see Emerie breaking all the rules and think "why not me". I also want her to be admired by the Illyrian warriors whose warrior mentality takes precedence over the misogyny of their society, so that they admire Emerie for her achievements, seeing her first and foremost as a Carynthian, but also I don't want that to be their sexism magically being cured, because Emerie's achievements in many of their eyes only cancel out of gender, instead of challenges their prejudices against other women, and I want Emerie to bear the brunt of the internalised misogyny of other women as well, because women do support and uphold patriarchal structures. I want there to be women who resent Emerie for breaking the rules they had to follow, and was rewarded where they would be punished. I want her to receive hostility from women who found comfort or familiarity or purpose in their assigned roles, and judge Emerie for rejecting them, for "failing" to be what they believe women should be, for (by simply existing) challenging the very basis of the roles they had internalised. And I want the very probable and very dangerous anger and fury she, as a woman who rejected gender roles and made a major accomplishment in the male sphere, is likely to face, to be explored. And I want Nesta and Gwyn fretting for Emerie, always worrying about her when she's in Windhaven, out of sight, always waiting to hear she's been jeered at in the streets, or had stones thrown through her shop windows, or worse.