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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Being a fictional character ain't easy

In the scores and scores of female characters found in the vast realm of fiction, it's surprisingly difficult to find a female character who, when it comes down to it, is not eventually made into a love interest, paired off with the hero, or killed in order to ensure that the hero has some form of character development. This is not by any means a bad thing, for those of you who chose characters which fall prey to those cliches, but in this case, I felt it would be best to choose a character who didn't fall prey to them, as I'm not interested in either being romanced or being dead. In this instance, I chose Jade Harley, from the webcomic Homestuck. I would like to be Jade for many reasons. For one, she lives by herself on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Well, not entirely by herself. She does have a radioactive omnipotent dog to guard her, along with a bunch of mummies in the basement. How cool is that? What's more, she's one of the four kids on Earth who get to play Sburb (and, due to this, is one of the only four kids on Earth who doesn't die from meteor-related complications). Despite all this, however, she remains cheerful and upbeat. I'd like to be like that and keep a happy face throughout all the bad times there are, even if they're never as bad as meteors destroying Earth. Furthermore, since she's the Hero of Space, she gets to run around collecting frogs, not just because finding frogs is fun (which it is), but because it's part of her job in creating a new universe. And later on, thanks to Space powers, she gets to ascend to a vastly higher level of power, which allows her to take multiple planets and make them all about the size of baseballs. Overall, I think that it would be pretty cool to be Jade Harley, thanks to the cool powers and the cool dog. And hey, even if there is romance eventually in the story, she isn't being set up solely as someone's romantic interest. She has thoughts, feelings, and narcolepsy, just like regular people would. Except for the narcolepsy part.

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