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bookburners · 4 months

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Women in The Artful Dodger

If you want a crash course in how to write strong female characters in male-lead stories please go watch The Artful Dodger.

Belle Fox Belle who is the Female lead of the story is shown to be incredibly ambitious and intelligent from the start. Her ambition and intelligence isn't watered down or made to be "Less threatening" either. The show lets her know more than the male lead and lets her be outspoken about her intelligence. She is a smartass, and the show lets her be! and doesn't paint it as a wholly negative quality. She wants the best for people. To paraphrase "Surgery is also about life". She doesn't just want to become a doctor because it's interesting or because she wants to save herself, she also wants to help. Not to mention it's lightly implied that the reason she began getting into medicine and surgery is because she knew something was wrong when her doctors didn't.

She is also allowed to be snotty, arrogant, and selfish at times. She's the governor's daughter and the writing doesn't shy away from her privileged position, it shows her use that position of power multiple times throughout the series in manners that help other people and herself. Not to mention her growth, she learns that good and bad aren't black and white. While she still has a long way to go she is willingly learning more every day.

Hetty

Hetty very easily could have fallen into the jealous girlfriend category but instead, she is shown as competent and down to earth. While she doesn't get a lot of screen time her moments shine. She goes from being off put by Belle (which was fair) to forming what I believe to be the start of a friendship and a great partnership. When Red is giving birth she steps up. When Belle is actually helping she goes along with it. At every corner, she could have been petty but wasn't. I really hope that if there is a second season she gets more time, I want to know her story because her few moments in the sun were spent shining.

Fanny

Fanny could have so easily been Belle's foil. Fanny is silly, vain, feminine, a bit dense, with enough love to fill up all the oceans, and an obvious comedic relief. The writers could have pointed to her and said "Look at this dumb, silly little girl you don't want to be like her, let's make fun of her" but they didn't. She is so incredibly kind at every turn. I know there's so much more to her and she deserves to be delved into.

Lady Fox

Lady Fox is the villain, of course, but she is so much more than that. In the very first episode, it is made apparent that she is the one in charge. One of her first scenes is when she takes death warrants away from Captain Gaines. She says she'll give them to the governor but it is implied she doesn't. Up until the end of the series when she locks Belle in her room, they seem to have a good relationship. It's only really revealed she has malicious intent when she confronts Jack. After that more and of her character is revealed to us. She helps Captain Gaines, Screws over Jack, Marries Fanny off to a criminal man baby (there's no way she didn't know), and almost kills Belle (on accident). but that doesn't erase what we saw in the beginning. Don't get me wrong I hate her but I feel like she's more complex than power hungry, classist, vixen. There's one line in particular that sits with me "It's better than talking to them," talking about the portraits Belle was taking down. There is so much under her cold exterior. I can see were Belle gets it from. I don't like her but I want to understand her.

Red

I love her, I love her! She is the most wanted criminal in there town, She told Belle off when she was being snooty. She loves her child and wants her to protect her! I have do much to say about her. I’ll give her her own post!!

Sorry that was rant-y and not Beta’d. I just needed to say it

#the artful dodger #lady belle fox #belle fox #Hetty Bagget #lady fanny fox #Lady Fox #Frances 'Red' Scrubbs

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rthstewart · 3 years

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More Narnia Spare Oom AUs

So I’ve like actually written a lot of this. But.... based on this lovely post by @athoughtfox and then @edmundjustking made the serious mistake of asking for me to elaborate and so I did , a little bit here . But... I have opinions about this, OK? And A LOT OF WORDS. REALLY A LOT OF WORDS.

Digory – Professor at Oxford, professor of philosophy and theology, renowned expert on the Oxford Franciscans, the Blessed Duns Scotus, and Gerard Manly Hopkins. Professor Kirke is trying to construct an elaborate theory of environmental stewardship and haecceity based upon his Narnia experience. An excellent theologian and a very bad Christian – he’s not been to church in over 30 years. Ace.

Polly – Amateur zoologist and naturalist --- “maiden” aunt HA! Always accompanied by a dog, a cat, an umbrella and a carpet bag. Drove an ambulance in France for the Red Cross in WW1 in France. Drives an MG. World traveler. Bisexual. Works at the Whipsnade Zoo and has a bad habit of always trying to curtsy in front of Peter.

Peter: Private, youngest member of Ox & Bucks 2d Battalion, D Company, Glider Corps (whose insignia is Bellerophon aboard Pegasus) and sees the first action on D-Day when his Horsa Glider crashes into the Caen Canal bridge (Normandy) (which becomes known as Pegasus Bridge). He’s wounded in hedgerow battles on the march to Paris, sent home to recover and (probably) never sees more action. (Unless he joins Captain America’s Howling Commandos and cleans up Hydra nests in former occupied Europe). Maybe ends up with T-Force, Ox & Bucks 1st Battalion, who are rounding up German scientists and high value targets and “persuading” them to come to England or America.

After he’s demobbed, he enrolls at Oxford and starts an affair with a married woman. He then drops out of Oxford as a dismal failure at the classics curriculum. He comes into some money and finally gets Aslan’s message and begins rebuilding a country for a 3rd time -- he ends up working in construction and literally becomes a rock on which England is rebuilt, as a carpenter and bricklayer. Ultimately he’s elected to Commons as the rep for Oxford-Cowley where his battles with Margaret Thatcher become legendary. Bisexual, married, two children, 6 grandchildren. Knighted in 1992.

Susan: Lying about her age and armed with forged identify papers, Susan begins running a spy through the British Embassy in Washington DC in the summer of 1942 to build support in the American Congress for the British war effort. She leaves school in 1943 and enters SOE training. She is deployed to Bénouville at a woman’s hospital to spy on the Nazi fortification of the Caen Canal which Peter’s Horsa glider crashed into on D-Day. Sometime thereafter, she is eventually able to return to England (and maybe hangs out with/has sex with Peggy Carter for a while in France on the road to Paris). Eventually, she is recruited to MI6/SIS with her partner from Washington and they eventually marry where they built networks of spies throughout the Balkans that are blown and murdered by the Cambridge 5. Her husband may die in Berlin in or around 1950 and/or she remarries. One daughter; one grandchild. COE Deaconess, international election observer, advocate for women’s pentathlon in the Olympics, always keeps wolfhounds and a really large handbag that she keeps a Little Joe crossbow in that she got during the War. Becomes Dame Commander in or around 1980.

Edmund: With forged papers, Edmund passes off as a British army private in Washington DC in 1943, becomes fluent in German and Russian, and is involved in espionage efforts in Greece and the Balkans that preceded Allied operations in the Mediterranean in 1943. He narrowly avoids a honey trap and seduction by a man with the aim of compromising him into becoming a Soviet agent – the Soviets are seeking information on the Venona project. After flirting with the SIS, he decides to not join his sister in espionage. He reads law at Oxford and works the Judges’ Trial at Nuremberg. He becomes a successful barrister and renowned human rights activist, with a particular focus on war crimes (with Lucy) and tirelessly advocates for the Chagoss Islands. Edmund refuses a knighthood for years because he wants Peter to get his first. He finally relents and becomes the Right Honourable Sir Edmund Pevensie but hates being called Sir. Sits on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Bisexual, married, three children, five grandchildren, married to a Holocaust survivor. Always keeps cats.

Lucy: Leaves school in 1943 with forged identity papers to begin agitating for Greek famine relief and more aggressive action to stop the Holocaust and allow more Jews into England. Joins the Red Cross. Eventually becomes involved in smuggling food to the Channel Islands which are under Nazi occupation. After the war, Lucy advocates for families of Chinese men in the Liverpool area after the Chinese merchant sailors are secretly kidnapped and forcibly repatriated back to China. She eventually goes back to school and becomes a doctor. She and Edmund are involved war crimes investigations all over the world. Through NGOs, she operates clinics and advocates for security of the whole person (income, education, home, political stability, healthcare) as universal human rights. Short listed for a Nobel Peace prize twice. Has arrest records in 5 countries for civil disobedience. Bisexual. Marries an American, has three children and four grandchildren.

Eustace: Becomes a world-renowned paleontologist, with a focus on trying to find fossil records that can explain the worldwide mythology of dragons. Discovers a species of flying lizard, Draco Scrubb. Marries Jill, two children.

Jill: A respected artist and cook. She sells art to sporting magazines her mother and father run in the U.S. and Caribbean and also to paleontological and naturalist publications. Also active with her family, in the cause of Jamaican independence and politics thereafter. She purchases a cottage on the Isle of Wright that has portals to a magical place with pink water and blue sand.

#The Chronicles of Narnia #narnia headcanon #everybody lives #narnia au

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