Day 2 – Your favourite character.
Oh, this is a tricky one. Think I'm going to cheat and split it into comics and books.
So, comics is easy... Jenny Sparks from Stormwatch/The Authority, Warren Ellis era.
She's an ass-kicking 100 year old super-heroine who doesn't take nonsense from anyone, has spent a century romping around the world and hanging with notable historical peeps both real and fictional, and she sacrificed her life to save the world by electrocuting God.
Random quotes -
Sparks: "We are the Authority. Behave."
Known bad-ass Midnighter:
"Is it wrong for me to find that woman utterly terrifying."
As far as books go, oooh, choices...
Charles de Lint's Crow Girls? Neil Gaiman's Marquis de Carabis? Juliet E. McKenna's Halice? Kate Griffin's Matthew Swift?
Better be the classic: Terry Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax - the best witch in, on or under the Discworld.
Feared and respected by, oh, pretty much everyone, she's survived confrontations with Death, elves, vampires and wizards, usually by her skillful application of headology.
Also, she has an interesting approach to her place in the universe.
"Granny's implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and , on occasion, mountains."
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