she's the four-minute warning, she is hell to pay

[lostinapapercup]

For the last few years I've enjoyed halfamoon during the first two weeks of February. To help spread the love of fictional ladies, here's a meme:

Comment here with the name of a fictional female I know and I'll list three to five of my favorite canon moments for her.

Old favorites and unexpected challenges are equally welcome, and I'll let you know to pick another if I'm just not familiar enough with the canon in question. If you want, I'll hit you up for it, too. Just let me know to prompt you!

Comments

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I'm picking Tifa Lockhart.

And I'll take one in turn!

[lostinapapercup.livejournal.com]

She's an old favorite and a challenge all in one, considering I haven't had a refresher in while!

- Call this cheating if you must since it's really only a "potential" experience, but I can hardly even stand how much I love when Tifa has her final (I think it's her final) limit break versus a WEAPON. Tifa picks those huge mecha-monsters right up! And they wish she hadn't! Yeah, yeah, I know it's just crazy game mechanics, but it's hilarious and adorable at the same time.

- From the original game, when she tells Cloud his hair looks like a chocobo. Haha, I'm so glad she doesn't mind saying it. I'm shocked that more people don't.

- Also in the original game, she gets dolled up and goes to infiltrate Don Corneo's lair without a second thought. Brave and competent and devoted to her cause: that's our Tifa.

- In Advent Children, the whole group takes turn giving Cloud a boost upward to fight Bahamut, and Tifa gives him a firm "No giving up!" It's beautiful and always strikes me as so poignant after reading On The Way to a Smile because she has so much guilt of her own there to deal with and we know she's been struggling with not giving up on her own time.

- Also in Advent Children, as all the old friends are arriving: when Vincent shows up (dramatically, of course), Denzel asks who that is. Tifa, pleased, says, "They're our friends." And you just know it means everything to her.

For you! Tell me about your favorite Sharon Valerii moments.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Heh, those are such great Tifa moments. You have my personal favorite of her moments in there, I'm pleased to say.

Sucks to be Sharon, seeing as how most of her moments are so tragic. But this is a good challenge for me. Here goes.

☯ "I love you, Chief." It's a hell of a way to go but it's one of my favorite Boomer moments because I believe it's one of her most honest. It's also one of the most heartbreaking, but hey, this is Battlestar Galactica. Heartbreaking is the word of the day.

☯ The progression of the friendship between Caprica-Six and Sharon on Caprica is so beautifully done. From her anger at the beginning (evidenced by the loud music) to their fragile partnership to letting Sam go to becoming the hope for a Cylon resistance force of two, it makes me think there's hope for Boomer yet! (Then I remember you can't trust an Eight, but that's a different matter entirely.)

☯ Her own personal act of contrition in Daybreak is again really tragic, but it's well done. When she saves Hera and brings her to her parents, then sacrifices herself after that line about telling Adama she owed him one, my heart kind of breaks every single time. Does she redeem herself? In a way, yes. But I love that she did it because it was the right thing to do, another moment that shows how conflicted she always is, but how she does have the capacity to grow.

[lostinapapercup.livejournal.com]

What's your personal favorite? The last one I listed?

I like your choices there. I wasn't sure if you were going to list Boomer, Athena, or go with both; I was just glad to be along for the ride.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Yes, I love that "they're our friends!" line. It's beautiful.

And I figured Sharon Valerii was Sharon Valerii, not Sharon Agathon, so I kept it to Boomer. But if I'd had Athena in the mix too, I would have added her final scene with Helo and Hera on New Earth, because that's definitely my favorite moment for any of the Eights.

[elliotsmelliot.livejournal.com]

Did you have a favourite female on Lost? If so, do her.

[lostinapapercup.livejournal.com]

My favorite Lost ladies were always Kate and Sun, so I'll have to do both!

Kate:

- I loved how, even scared to death and desperate to try to save her own life while their plane was crashing, Kate got an oxygen mask on Edward before she got her own.

- In the same vein, I always loved that she tried to get Ray's unconscious body to safety after their truck went off the road, even with Edward right there on her tail.

- For how thoroughly disenchanted I was with season six, Kate was one of the few characters I thought had some great moments throughout the last season. One of my favorites was when she was the one angry enough to question Jacob about the deaths of Sun, Jin, and Sayid. People can say what they will about Kate; in the last two seasons, she was more a voice of the surprised skepticism the whole situation warranted than anybody else was.

- Again from season six, much to my surprise: I loved how she coaxed Claire onto the plane and off the island with her. It felt very Kate to me, but also felt like one of the most honest exchanges we'd ever heard her involved in.

- In season three, I love the scene where she climbs out of her cage and starts trying to break open the lock on Sawyer's. He thinks he has a pacemaker in him at that point in time and has already heard her shout at Pickett that she loves him, so he says that if you really love me, go line to her, and she looks positively stricken for a moment and then tells him she only said that so Pickett would stop hurting him. That was perfect classic Kate. So scared, so on-the-run, and followed up by her defiantly going back to her own cage and not leaving him trapped there alone.



Sun:

- All I can say is Do No Harm. From the help she offers to coming up with the sea urchin so Jack to do the blood transfusion to the stick she comes up with to put in Boone's mouth for the pain... smart, resourceful, and doing exactly what she needed to do: that's Sun.

- Her giving Jin that notebook with English words before he left on the raft. Ugh, what a beautiful thing.

- "Oceanic paid us our settlement for the crash. It was very significant. This morning, I bought a controlling interest in your company. So you will now respect me." Loved her getting the better of her father.

- In Confidence Man, while everyone else bickered, she was the one who eased Shannon's asthma.

- Bringing my two favorite Lost women together, I love the on-island plot in Born to Run and how Kate and Sun kind of bonded over being sneaky. I can't say I support the idea of trying to make Jin sick so he couldn't leave, but I certainly loved the bonding and loved the grays of their characters it put on display. I liked their friendship a lot.