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Emma Swan
Even though I don't watch Once Upon a Time anymore, it'd be a crime not to add Emma in.
I love her. Despite all her flaws, despite me not agreeing with a lot of the things she says and does, I just love her. She has a lot of amazing qualities and has done pretty incredible things that I adore her for.
At first, she's a lonely, independent gal who enters a situation she didn't want to be a part of.
Then she becomes part of a town that she never expected she'd live in.
Then she forms a bond with a child she never thought she'd see again.
A negative part of her is that she's too much of a skeptic. It takes her a long time to get things and she's completely blind to the obvious, therefore has trouble believing even if the world needs her to.
She's too dependent on what she can see and attached to this negative aspect, she also has trouble believing in people. She has a lot of trust issues, that no doubt stem from when she was "abandoned" and it takes people a long time to gain at least a fraction of that trust.
Even with Henry, it took awhile for a bond to form.
She still felt she would never be a good mother and at first tries to push him away back to Regina, but she inevitably gets the message that he's not going anywhere.
Her relationship with Snow is what also pushes her out of her shell. From the time she entered the town and took one look at her, something within her awoken and it was as if that something just knew; that was her mother. Their progress of friendship within the first season was heart-warming and honestly beautifully done.
Growing closer to Henry and Snow eventually brought love, faith and trust back into her heart, albeit slowly.
To the point where, once Emma felt as if she were going to lose Henry once more, it snapped.
Everything became clear. From that point on, Emma could finally start to believe again.
What I love most about her is her sarcasm and her inner charm.
She also has good potential for a fighter, though she truly isn't a warrior.
She's tough. But she's not that tough.
Still, she's a strong, capable chick and can definitely hold her own if it came down to it.
She has tons of talents and a good heart in a lot of things.
Despite all of her cons, Emma Swan is a pretty fantastic character.
Rose Tyler
How could I not add the beautiful Rose Tyler?
With a charm, strength, loyalty and bravery as strong as her's, there's no question why she was my favorite companion.
Seriously, I don't understand why she gets so much hate from people.
She's funny, sweet and totally sassy when she needs to be. She's got one of the greatest and realest personalities I've seen from that type of character.
With everything that happened to her, you would think the writers just hated her.
Her father died, she was trapped inside a parallel universe, separated from the Doctor, etc, in one of the most horrible moments of Doctor Who to date, I mean geez.
And after all the junk that went down in their travels. Pft.
Seriously though, I love her character. She's amazing.
How can you possibly hate her? She's the Bad Wolf, for crying out loud.
And she did whatever she could to get back to the Doctor. Like blast up some nasty Daleks.
Chick got cool real fast.
What more can I say about her? She was my first companion, from my first Doctor, and she's just spectacular. So bruhaha to all you Rose Tyler haters. She be awesome and there's nothing you could do or say to change my mind. ;P
Lara Croft
Lara's been one of my favorites since I was real little. In fact, next to Mulan, she was one of my few inspirations as a tough girl. One of the first female characters I saw that really broke that damsel in distress trait that others always had. She's powerful and completely capable.
Not that there's anything wrong with having a guy, but she can do just as good without one as she does with one. She's a great mixture of wit, intelligence, agility, humor and cool demeanor, and also keeps a leveled head in tight or panicky situations.
One of her unfortunate downsides is that she's the type of character that they tend to inappropriate.
So yeah, she's not entirely the most modest thing in the world, but for the most part, she's tame.
I think more than anything she plays with it because she can and she just loves boys as much as I do.
But you don't necessarily see her chasing after them. She lets them come to her, which is a part of her I really like. (......I don't chase after boys, btw)
But that part of her personality I easily can overlook because she has such awesome qualities to her.
She's adventurous and skilled, independent and loyal. She doesn't fool around with people or play silly games, nor does she sit there and get emotional over dumb things.
Lara isn't the shining example of what you should be as a girl, but she's still someone you should respect.
That's why I have always admired her as a character. She is who she is, and you gotta love that about her.
More tomorrow. ♥
God bless,
