> It gives me a much clearer mental image of her. 
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I suppose I know what you mean. Shrike has always been clear about her looking much like Fly from "Babe", but it's not always the image on the front of my brain when thinking about her.
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> > Hmmmm... Interesting. Now I want to go look at my movie collection and see how many can pass that test.
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> Personally, I think all aspiring fiction writers should have it tattooed on their foreheads. Even I wind up breaking The Rule on occasion, and while there have been valid reasons for doing so (tales of male bonding are kind of hard to reconcile with its conditions), there are a number of other instances in which I've simply been guilty of lazy storytelling, much like the writers who don't consciously seek to exclude characters of color from their casts, but never think to include them, either.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't think it need apply to *all* works, but it does show how much of a minority women are in the action/adventure entertainment that I enjoy... Even works like "The Princess Bride" feature one woman and a slew of males. (Okay, Carol Kane was great in that too, though she never came near to conversing with Robin Wright.)
As for your writing, I would expect it's harder to keep such a goal in focus as, quite often, the point of your stories is to discuss the characters within them... most of the dialog is about another person, often your lead. Were your cast more regularly involved in adventures requiring exposition, then they would be more likely to converse with each other about the alien monster (or whatever plot detail existed) as well.
> > And will they be fully clothed?
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> Actually, yes, even though I'm currently imagining that the scene involves Sydney trying to talk Bettie into adopting a superheroine identity, complete with costume (I'm not seeing her pleas succeeding at the moment, though).
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Probably for the best. Costumes require constant laundering, where as everyday clothes allow for laundry day to be once a week or less.
> > It's an interesting question... I never thought about doing anything like that. She might naturally be curious about it if Bettie's going through it, though.
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> For Bettie, it's about making as much of a clean break from her past as she can, since the England she grew up in is literally less real now than the land of Faerie is to her, and because she can't bear to go back there and try to find some vestiges of the familiar in a place that's changed so much since it was last her home, she's decided to simply make America her new home. Ironically enough, the fact that America is even less recognizable to her than modern-day England makes it easier for her to adjust to, in what I suppose might amount to a geographic equivalent of the Uncanny Valley.
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Makes some good sense, I think.
Miiri's viewpoint is likely not particularly focused on nations, I would think. She's declared herself "of Earth", and she knows which Earth (and Lemurian) "houses" she feels connected to... I doubt she particularly cares about any government enough to recognize how we divide up our world. To her it's about as important as declaring yourself a citizen of whichever local county your home resides in... helpful for geography, but not much else.
