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[netgirl_y2k]

As a part of the homework I get from my counsellor-therapist type person, I'm sitting here making a list of my finer qualities. So far I have that I'm funny, reasonably well-read, and kind to children, the elderly, and people who work in service jobs. I mean, I'm kind to other people too, but outside of those groups it's on more of a case by case basis.

Anyway, I'm bored of that now, and there's a meme going around.

Give me a character and I will tell you...

* How I feel about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon

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[saturnofthemoon]

Asha Greyjoy

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* How I feel about this character

She's the best of the Greyjoys, and the finest queen the Iron Islands never had. Seriously, Ironborn, you missed at trick there, one I think you'll live to regret; those of you who survive Euron's rule, that is.

I think the word feminist gets thrown around a lot in discussions of the books; whether they're feminist at all, or feminist enough. And I don't know that they are, and I don't know that it matters. The female characters are as three dimensional and real as the male characters, and in this instance that's enough for me, but I think Asha's internal monologue about the word cunt - how men use it to insult women when it's the only part of a woman they value - was a genuinely feminist moment.

* All the people I ship romantically with this character

I like her pirate boyfriend - Qarl, is it? - well enough, but mostly I ship her with Alysane Mormont. I want the Kraken's Daughter and the She-Bear to have to huddle for warmth, and have long loaded conversations about what they think of Stannis, and being a woman warrior in Westeros, and the history between the Ironborn and Bear Island.

* My non-romantic OTP for this character

I love sibling relationships, so obviously it's Theon. I love that they didn't grow up together but still have such an obviously sibling relationship, with all the rivalry and jealousy and protectiveness that it entails. I loved Asha's line about how a little brother could live to be a hundred and still be a little brother.

I really want their story to end with Theon back on the Iron Islands, and Asha ruling in his name while, awkwardly and stiltedly, because she's not good at this, she tries to help him deal with his trauma.

* My unpopular opinion about this character

Much as I love her, I would sacrifice Asha's chapters in a heartbeat it it meant we could also be rid of the Greyjoy uncles; damn, but I hate those guys.

* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

QUEEN OF THE IRON ISLANDS!

* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon

I think a lot Asha's swagger is an act. I think she knows what a precarious position she's in as a female captain, so she puts on this act of being the Kraken's Daughter, and calling her weapons her husband and babe are part of that, because she knows that if her men ever start looking at her as "only" a woman then she's screwed.