#QuestionOfTheDay #FavCharacterAtoZ

[temporal_spider@masto.ai]

@ami_angelwings Edith Bunker

[pixel@urusai.social]

@ami_angelwings I replied to this the other day but I'm going through to stay caught up and I'm amending my #FavCharacterB to Beat from UNBEATABLE. There's something about a character that gets dropped in an unfamiliar circumstance and gets told "the things you love don't matter" and pushing back violently against that external pressure by making art and finding purpose that I find extremely compelling. She's just an extremely well realized character and I love the way she's portrayed a lot.

[pixel@urusai.social]

@ami_angelwings My #FavCharacterD is Deku from MHA. There's something about a vulnerable boy that grows through his fear and inability into someone deeply capable and strong that never forgets what it feels like to feel sad and alone, and reaches out to everyone that I find really compelling.

So many other characters like him are Good for little stated reason, but Deku really explores that archetype in a way I find it hard to not be moved by.

[ami_angelwings@urusai.social]

I was REALLY considering going off the board for my #FavCharacterE & saying Elizabeth Shelby from Star Trek: TNG's Best of Both Worlds even though she only showed up in 2 episodes (& technically never had a canonical first name until ST: Picard) & then Peter David turned her into his Gary Stu's waifu which sucked.

But I think I'll go with my planned pick even if it's chalk (the obvious/frontrunner choice, for those that don't know what "chalk" means).

Éowyn from The Lord of the Rings. She really only has that one big moment, but what a moment.

"But no living man am I! You are looking upon a woman. Eowyn am I, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him."

#FavCharacterAtoZ

[pixel@urusai.social]

@ami_angelwings my #FavCharacterE is Emil from the Nier series, he's just such a tragic character but I don't think that tragic-ness DEFINES him so much as it informs him? He's just a lost boy thrust into a world that never cared for him, and he finds so much purpose surrounding himself with people that see him for who he is and there's a sincerity to that that's really powerful. Not to mention that he's queer character that has to reckon with an unrequited attraction that adds onto the fact that it feels like the world was never on his side, but even with nothing going his way he still fights and pushes on because he has his little family.

I dunno, I think that's beautiful

[wehpudicabok@kind.social]

@ami_angelwings Delenn from Babylon 5, who I've found extremely relatable for a whole bunch of complicated and very personal reasons that are difficult to explain. But also, she kicks ass and that's easy to explain

Also I just saw on her Wikipedia page that they were originally considering making the character a trans woman?!

This both explains why she's so damn relatable and yet also feels like a missed opportunity #FavCharacterD

[bigshellevent@toot.cat]

@ami_angelwings I only watched one season and decided the show was perfect the way it is and leave it like that: Emma from Promised Neverland is a combination of believable conscientious hard-worker who earned her goal, but also she defies a lot of the stereotypes of how a "genius" presents themselves. And I love that.

[ami_angelwings@urusai.social]

@wehpudicabok i realized after picking Dinobot that Delenn was also a D, so thank you for choosing her

[otherdracula@mastodon.social]

@ami_angelwings Eowyn just saying "I am no man!" in the movie does a huge injustice to how stone cold badass she was in this moment.

"No living man may hinder me!"

"And your point is? That is my family you're fucking with and I WILL cut you."

[gcvsa@mstdn.plus]

@ami_angelwings Eilonwy, from "The Chronicles of Prydain", by Lloyd Alexander, because she is a princess, an enchantress, and she has the most lovely way of speaking. She is brave (she is the one who in fact rescues Taran of Caer Dallben, not the other way around) and adventurous.

Also, Elspeth, from "The Heralds of Valdemar" series by Mercedes Lackey, because she is a princess, a mage, and she is brave and adventurous (this might be a pattern).

#FavCharacterAtoZ #FavCharacterE

[perrin42@mastodon.social]

@ami_angelwings

Eithan Arelius from the Cradle series. Mysterious and infuriating, annoying but with unexpected depth. Doesn't seem to take anything seriously, but the times he lets his humanity show reveal what his surface character is hiding.

[thepi@urusai.social]

@ami_angelwings Detective Ema Skye (Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney) is a grumpy, sour, moody bitch. Unless! you ask her about her forensic gear. If you can give her a forensic test to do she'll light up like a supernova and tell you all about her new science device while she does the test – or maybe even teach you how to do it. Ema Skye lives for forensic science, and nothing brightens her day more than an unexplained splotch of smeared blood.

And I think that's hot.

#FavCharacterE

[thepi@urusai.social]

@ami_angelwings I've chosen Apollo Justice in particular because she's a fantastic contrast to the rest of the series in this game in particular. This is a series stacked with genius child prodigies and absolute buffoons. And Ema Skye is neither of those things. She's just in the middle. A normal woman trying to do the one thing she enjoys. While baby lawyer Apollo Justice is fumbling around being led through his cases by Prosecutor Gavin and an actual friggin' superpower, Ema's just doing her best with the one thing she's good at. And she's not even especially good at her job, you can really tell that the only reason she knows what she does is that she's put a lot of hard work into studying her special interest. She's a really well thought-out character. Maybe the best in the series.

[quasitemporal@wandering.shop]

@ami_angelwings Continuing with my #FavCharacterAtoZ time travel theme, I am NOT going with Emmett Brown, but in fact, Erica Strange.

The woman in her 30s who gains the power to revisit past regrets in life and learns that we are more than the sum of our parts. Intense therapy.

If you don't know it, you're missing out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PS22_-p5g8

#FavCharacterE

[ami_angelwings@urusai.social]

I also love this commentary on Reddit about Eowyn's speech.

"When your enemy misinterprets a prophecy to their own detriment, you have to dunk on them. It's a rule."

(www.reddit.com)

[bremner@mathstodon.xyz]

@ami_angelwings ooh, in that case ART from murderbot for A. It stands for Asshole Research Transport and it is a cantankerous AI that becomes almost as interested in media (hence.in art, geddit?) as murderbot.

[greenskyoverme@ohai.social]

@ami_angelwings Amarantha from Magefront comic https://www.magefrontcomic.com/comic/1 Look at this friendly necromancer battlemage wannabe! #FavCharacterAtoZ #FavCharacterA

[ami_angelwings@urusai.social]

@GreenSkyOverMe if you don't mind could you include the hashtags #FavCharacterAtoZ and #FavCharacterA so it's added there? :3

[greenskyoverme@ohai.social]

@ami_angelwings Oh right, will do!

[silvergm@dice.camp]

@ami_angelwings #FavCharacterAtoZ #FavCharacterE I have to go with Eder, from #PillarsOfEternity. The greatest bro to ever grace a CRPG (yes, even more of a bro than Garrus). He's loyal, has some of the funniest dialogue in the game, and a dry sense of humour. Loves animals, too. In the second game, he gets some of the most intense dialogue in the series, where he <SPOILER> tells off his own god. Its an incredibly emotional moment from a character I love.