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author=Hain
Canada in 20-30 years will look very close to uh, some Muslim place where people are being chopped up, women are being beaten and so on.

This may concern the organizers Canada's biggest pride parade, and the rest of the LGBTTIQQ2SA(see what I mean about too much PC) community of Canada.

I don't know what else to say other than this sounds ridiculous.

author=StarlightShoals
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for the in-depth response, Ms. Suzy!! The funny thing is that Sansa, Yuna, and Garnet/Dagger are all characters I really like too. In the books (don't even get me started on how the show's handled her), Sansa's a much more complex character than people give her credit for and she has enormous amounts of character growth, she's prob'ly one of my top five favorites from the series (Daenerys is the one I relate to the most, though...in the books, not the show. Never the show). I haven't played through all of FFX/X-2 but I really like how Yuna evolves in the second game, it's one reason why I've always been tempted to finish it. And then there's Dagger, who I was actually thinking about while writing Step 4 of this article because she's a strong-willed, feminine, intelligent princess who does NOT immediately fall head over heels for Zidane, and I also like Zidane because even though he's a shameless flirt, he's also a gentleman, not to mention very clever and heroic...by far my favorite male lead in the FF franchise :D

And I was so worried that I had written too much XD

Show Daenerys is abominable, haha.

I think I was crying during the Arya/Theon scenes in the last season because of how irreconcilably they had butchered those characters and whatever they were meant to stand for (also the treatment of Sansa reached disturbing new lows XD... although I don't think anything can really top Theon's fight scene on the beach). They're my favourite characters along with Sansa, Sandor... and maybe Jaime... I mean, there are so many great, complex & disturbing characters in ASOIF.

Final Fantasy has a fair number of decent female characters overall, I think; I like Quistis & Lightning a lot too.

Zidane has interesting character development to me because he realizes his thoughtless flirting makes him look like a jackass (at least, that is how I remember it, haha).

author=Irog
Great read! I've always thought that giving manly traits to a female character was a poor way to build a strong female character. Hana from "The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki" is such a great character and has no manly traits forced onto her by the writer.

Well, it's not like there's anything at all inherently bad about giving a female character what are typical masculine traits.

Dragon Age has a number of well written women, like Aveline and Cassandra, who have more conventionally "masculine" heroic traits - they dislike/tolerate politics and prefer action, they're blunt and truthful, they're skilled warriors with leadership qualities; Aveline is very private and stoic, and Cassandra is hot-headed and romantic.

There's also Shepard, obviously, who I have read doesn't count as a good female character to some people because you can play as a dude, so the dialogue is neutral/set to "dude" anyway (in the same vein as Fang from Final Fantasy XIII not counting because she was originally written as a man), but to me "FemShep" came across as completely believable person... so long as I avoided all paragon/all renegade answers, as that made her sound either painfully corny or like too much of an asshole.

Whaaaa ? I think you should have no problem charging people for artwork. That girl's portrait is lovely.

Yeah this is great. I really like the shading on the two humans.