Fuck Yeah, Awesome Ladies In Video Games

themarysue:

jedhenry:

I’m starting a series of Japanese woodblock designs - each one will show a classic game character in samurai form!

Please follow my Tumblr! –  I’ll be posting these regularly.

http://jedhenry.tumblr.com/

:)

Samusai!

Art by jdeberge.

I am no longer the selfish child I was five years ago. The time has come to serve my kingdom as a Burmecian dragon knight once again.

Freya Crescent
Final Fantasy IX
Squaresoft

Freya is a famed dragoon of Burmecia, the realm of eternal rain. She bears many of the traditional hallmarks of a knight - honour, nobility, a sense of duty - but is also a bit rough around the edges, enjoying taking part in monster hunting competitions and hanging out in dives.  She searches the globe for her lost love, a fellow dragoon named Fratley, and of course assists with saving the world in her free time.

Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?

Alice Liddell
American McGee’s Alice Series
Rogue Entertainment/Spicy Horse

American McGee’s Alice provides a darker twist on Alice of Wonderland fame.  Rather than a young girl on adventures that become curiouser and curiouser, she is a teenager navigating her own fractured mind and survivor’s guilt in attempt to overcome a traumatic fire that killed her entire family.  Sarcastic, sharp, and heroic nonetheless, Alice is not to be trifled with.

 I raised you, and loved you, I’ve given you weapons, taught you techniques, endowed you with knowledge. There’s nothing more for me to give you. All that’s left for you to take is my life. 

The Boss
Metal Gear Solid 3
Konami

The Boss was a woman of many roles. Soldier, mother, mentor, test subject in space travel and nuclear weapons development, apparent traitor to her home country, and finally self-sacrificing patriot, she lived a truly full life.

Alongside her legendary Cobra unit, she helped end World War II, where she also gave birth on the battlefield at Normandy through an impromptu knife-based cesearean. In service to the United States she faced radiation from both nuclear tests and early space travel, infiltrated the Soviet Union, even killing the Russian father of her child in order to complete a vital mission. She taught Naked Snake (the future Big Boss) everything she could about stealth and combat, creating a worthy successor, before betraying him and defecting to the Soviet Union to work alongside the dangerous Colonel Volgin.

Ever calm and wise even as her former student was ordered to kill her and her old unit, the Boss never revealed that her betrayal was in the name of the US until the very end- it was a suicide ruse in order to gain access to a massive cache of money set aside by the Allied leaders in World War II that had fallen into Volgin’s hands. It was also the CIA’s attempt to rid themselves of a dangerously charismatic and powerful individual- the Boss had always commanded far more respect than any government organization could. In order to complete this mission, she knew she would have to die a traitor’s death at the hands of her own student, and forced him to grow up and move on from his adoration of her in order to do so. In the end, amidst a field of flowers, with bombers rapidly approaching to wipe out any remaining signs of the operation, she fought to the death against the man she was once mentor to, dying labeled as a traitor to her home nation while remaining ultimately a true patriot.

saveroomminibar:

Mirrors Edge.

themarysue:

gaminginyourunderwear:

Fan Art of the Day: Samurai Peach!  Someone please cosplay this. 

There’s a sword in that umbrella. Approved. 

(Source: thedailyhotness)

ac-pipproject:

Which character is your favourite and why?

“Claudia Auditore. Not necessarily because she’s always a character I’d want to associate with, but because she undergoes a huge amount of growth, especially in Brotherhood. She’s a realistically whiny teenage girl in II, but with an inner strength that shows when she needs it to, and which comes entirely to the fore in Brotherhood, when she reconciles with Ezio and shows herself to be an Assassin, entirely against his expectations. There’s something marvellous about the way she confounds the expectations of the player when Ezio races into the brothel to “save” her from the attackers, only to find her standing over them with a knife, entirely unfussed.”

Assassin’s Creed doesn’t have the best track record with women characters, and Claudia’s involvement is pretty minor, but it deserves some mention if only to acknowledge a better direction to move towards than prostitutes and dead girlfriends.

Art by TwinklePowderySnow.

You dangerous, mute lunatic.

Chell
Portal Series
Valve

There is something strangely vindicating about a silent, first-person, female, non-white protagonist.  You may never see her or hear her, but it’s nice to know that somebody out there has put her in a wildly popular game series without explanation or apology.

Anyway, Chell is the ever-tenacious and wildly stubborn hero of the Portal series. Surrounded by mad or incompetent robots who spend the games implying that she is, alternatively, fat or adopted, it’s no wonder she opts not to engage.