[fandom] women rock

I need some awesome in my life right now, so have a list of female characters I love. (Inspired by "On female character and fandom" and "Fuck You, She's Awesome.) Started as just a list, a couple of places I couldn't stop the love from overflowing, and then back to the list. And now I'm quitting even though I could keep going because I have other work to do. So tell me, who female characters you love?

Fast and the Furious
Letty
Mia

Tamora Pierce's Tortall universe
Keladry - OMG, Kel. I have so much love for Kel. SO MUCH LOVE. The thing is, I read Alanna at a very young age and fell in love with this world. Alanna is awesome. However, Alanna has magic and was touched by the gods and pretended to be a boy while training to be a knight. Kel? Kel has no magic, no being touched by the gods (well, more or less), and is the first girl in over 100 years to openly train to be a knight. She's stubborn and determined and scared but doing it anyway and, okay, basically I over-identify with Kel a huge amount because she is just a regular girl who is absolutely determined to do this thing no matter how many people try to stop her. She has weakness and fears and she works so hard to overcome them. She fails and she keeps trying.
Alanna - As you just saw, I read Alanna's story at a very young age. Alanna and Tammy Pierce are huge parts of how I became a feminist. (Also, my mom, who is awesome.)
Thayet - She was a princess of a country where women couldn't inherit, where when Alanna's secret came out would have killed her in vicious ways, and the daughter of a cruel leader. She lives with the weight of the sacrifices her mother made to show the evil in the way her people were being treated. She fled her country with one female warrior to keep her safe and then the two of them risked their lives to protect children they picked up on the way in the middle of a war. She goes to Tortall wanting to be a commoner and start a school and when she ends up marrying the King, she not only DOES start her school anyway, she creates a military force which allows women to fight and then she trains them and rides with them when she can. I think she is a HUGE influence on Tortall becoming a better place for women.
Buri - The female warrior mentioned in Thayet's piece she is young when we first meet her and stubborn and scared and yet she still does everything she can to keep Thayet safe.

Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic universe
Daja Kisubo
Sandrline fa Toren
Trisana Chandler
Rosethorn
Lark

Blue Crush
Eden
Lena
Penny
Anne-Marie

Lord of the Rings
Eowyn
Galadriel

V for Vendetta
Evey Hammond

The Dresden Files
Karrin Murphy
Charity Carpenter
Molly Carpenter
Lara Raith - Lara scares the shit out of me. She's cruel and luscious and tricky and dangerous and sexual and inhuman and absolutely amazing. She gives me chills.

Firefly/Serenity
Zoe Alleyne Washburn
Kaylee Frye - She is an amazing mechanic who is sweet and cute and friendly and sexual and not afraid to be all those things openly.

The Lost Boys
Star
Lucy Emerson

The Baby-Sitters Club
Dawn Schafer
Abby
Stacey McGill

Supernatural
Missouri - Oh, Missouri, with your knowledge and competency and verbally smacking down Dean and being an awesome woman who isn't in her 20s and isn't white and isn't thin.
Mary Winchester
Ruby
Ellen Harvelle
Jo Harvelle
Ava

Buffy/Angel
Faith
Cordelia
early Willow
Veruca
Gwen
Drusilla
Tara
Darla
Dawn

Futurama
Leela
Amy

[meme] drabble request

From q_sama:

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal.

Except I am changing it! As I tend to do.

No limit to people commenting. However, requests are limited to the fandoms in which I've already written stories. (See Fic:[fandom] in the tag list or my user info for the fandoms.) I prefer to write female characters and gen or girl slash, but I won't refuse to write boy slash if requested. Crossovers or apocalypse requests more than welcome. Drabble may be more of a ficlet.