Day Twenty-Six: Female Character Meme

Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like): Athena




So I went way pre-20th century, but I can't help it: I was the biggest Athena fangirl as a kid. My sympathies with heroes in the various myths tended to be with whoever had Athena's favour.

There are actually a lot of interesting characters from Greek mythology I could have chosen (I don't know where to begin for my love for the Amazons), but Athena remains the original BAMF. I love that she was the goddess of wisdom but at the same time she was the person who Zeus would sic on Ares (the God of freakin WAR) whenever he got out of hand. Basically, she was a nerd who kicked ass. And yes, she's been shady, petty and randomly vengeful at times, but that was just how the Olympians rolled. I'm still in love with the story of her birth and how Zeus was terrified of her before she was born (back when he thought she would be a he. Also-CANON MPREG. Oh, Greek Myth, how you always bring the lulz). But my favourite Athena moment remains how she managed to claim the city of Athens from right under Poseidon's nose-Athena was the goddess who Got Shit Done, damn it!

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Day Twenty-Seven: Female Character Meme

Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for: Martha Jones




I don't write fic to have a personal canon in that sense, but if we're talking about the character I enjoy reading the most about outside of their canon timeline and have adopted some of the developed fanon about them as truth, then it's definitely Martha. I think a lot of it is feeling deeply unsatisfied with how her arc was handled and desperately need to read her from the POV who isn't writing her every scene with a Rose boner. Also, you just know there were a lot of interesting stories in that “stuck in the 60s” story that never made it on screen.

Clearly, Martha deserved so much better than the treatment she got (from the Doctor, the show, take your pick) and the appearances and cameos were not sufficient appeasement to me. I liked her working for UNIT, but clearly she wasn't very happy with them by the end, so there's the question of where she goes next. And for all the WTFness of the surprise!Martha/Mickey, I can actually deal (hey, they looked wicked hot in their combat gear), but I'd love to read how it came to be. In my mind, I'm imagining an epic story where Martha decides to go solo on the alien sleuthing, and somewhere along the road runs into Donna and starts looking for a way to help her and man, talk about a candidate for the “female characters screwed over by canon” slot.(as long as that solution doesn't involve Jack because, um, no).

( Days 1-30 )