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NORTHERN LADIES:

Catelyn Stark / Donella Hornwood / Jyana Reed / Barbrey Dustin / Bethany Bolton / Lyessa Flint / Sybelle Glover / Maege Mormont

You can’t win as a woman in fiction. Be too positive, you become a Mary Sue, have flaws and those flaws are why almost nobody likes you. Be moderate, you have wet-cabbage personality, be exuberant, you are an unrealistic example. Have strong morals, and you’re badly developed, be morally corrupt and you’re hated with such vigour fans will send hate mail to the actress who plays the character. Be kind and soft and in love, you’re a representation of sexism, be cruel, harsh and cold and you’re just a bitch. Be a complex, realistic, ambiguous character, and either your flaws or your positive traits will be ignored or blown out of proportion and into oblivion. There is no winning for female characters.

Melara Hetherspoon

Worms will have your maidenhead. Your death is here tonight, little one. Can you smell her breath? She is very close. (AFFC, Cersei VIII)

(She probably looks a few years older than Melara ever was but I wanted to play with an idea of what could she look like as an older teenager. I’ve always imagined her as someone pretty enough to hear that had she been of more noble birth, she would make a great match. Like yeah, Cersei’s opinions are far from objective but what’s so bad about pretty, ambitious girl? Fuck that feudal system, get that Casterly Rock, sis!)