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A Cast of Corbies - Chapter Three
May. 11th, 2025 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kalinaraSo last time, we had a pretty interesting set up, a dilemma that doesn't completely make sense but is at least challenging, and a female lead who is both racist and bizarrely possessive over a man she's just met.
And look, I always take my recollection of female characters with a grain of salt. As a teenager, I was, sadly, one of those girls (or girl-adjacent folk) who tended to not care for female characters for really stupid, internally misogynistic reasons. And if there's one thing this blog has helped me do is appreciate many of those female characters that I didn't care for back then.
I'm HOPING that'll be the case with Magpie, because the more I read, the more I'm starting to remember really disliking her. She's definitely not had a good start though.
( I like a good bickering courtship as much as anyone, but there's a line between bickering and 'do you two even actually LIKE each other' and this one seems like it might be the latter. But we'll see... )
And look, I always take my recollection of female characters with a grain of salt. As a teenager, I was, sadly, one of those girls (or girl-adjacent folk) who tended to not care for female characters for really stupid, internally misogynistic reasons. And if there's one thing this blog has helped me do is appreciate many of those female characters that I didn't care for back then.
I'm HOPING that'll be the case with Magpie, because the more I read, the more I'm starting to remember really disliking her. She's definitely not had a good start though.
( I like a good bickering courtship as much as anyone, but there's a line between bickering and 'do you two even actually LIKE each other' and this one seems like it might be the latter. But we'll see... )