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5. Claire Redfield, Resident Evil 2 (original)

I was an easily scared child, I hated horror, everything scared me, and I would be bullied mercilessly for it.

That all changed with Resident Evil 2 b/c everybody ELSE was scared of it, even older kids, & ppl were running out of bullets, not able to see cuz of the angles, etc.. & I was like "what? it's just math". I realized the exact number of bullets to kill anything, the equation of damage between weapons, & the musical & sound cues of when & where enemies were.

I beat it on my first try, then got the top rank on my 2nd. Claire was my avatar, a girl thrown into zombie horror who fought through it. To me she's the main character of RE (since she's also in CV) & I wish RE4 didn't pivot the series into being male led

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4. Farnese Vandimion, Berserk

When I started Berserk b/c of my bff @aesmael, I didn't really connect with it while I did appreciate the artistry even if it was really dark & triggery.

It wasn't until I got to Farnese & her redemption that I found a character I really connected with.

Farnese is screwed up, she's got sexual issues, a LOT of self-hate, a background where she oppressed & persecuted people for her religion. She is not a good person when we meet her, but she's also a scared kid who hates herself inside.

She becomes a heroine & the heart of the party, the one to heal Casca's mind when Guts can't. Despite herself, she steps up whenever she needs to. She thinks she can't do it, but she always does. She's proof you can change even if you hate who you were.

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3. Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury, Sailor Moon

The greatest Sailor Scout imo, the team would be lost without her smarts. Quiet, shy, intelligent, the brains of the team back when there weren't a lot of girls in that archetype in cartoons b/c most teams were made of guys where the smart one was a guy (Egon, Donatello, Lexington, Batman, etc). Ami was me growing up, I was smart and shy and into computers, and I wear glasses.

She's great and very formative. And we share the name. My favourite part of the series was when it was just her & Usagi.

I'm just sad she's like this meme online about sucking because she shoots bubbles. Water is a primordial element, I bet she could drown people alive if she wanted to. But then again, who cares who is most "powerful"? Ami wouldn't.

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2. Faith Connors, Mirror's Edge

Mirror's Edge is very formative for me, I played it a lot while listening to podcasts and that helped me get through all the dying. I got extremely good at it and have been trying for a No Death run for a while (I have done 1 death off stream and 2 deaths on stream)

Faith is great, a East Asian heroine in a non-Japanese/anime game where her being Asian is just... there, she's not a martial artist or anything. She's not sexualized, she's just the main character, and the game is just so straight forward in both plot and gameplay, it's like Mario: you want to get to the end, you want to rescue your sister, you run and you jump... that's it.

Faith is my height, she's my build, she has my hands & it's meaningful to me. And she's cool.

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1. Lt. Cmdr Elizabeth Shelby, Star Trek TNG

A lot of people don't like her because she's presented at first as an antagonist to Riker, but the whole point is she IS Riker. She's who Riker was: eager, brash, willing to take risks and break the rules, but also without the experience he since gained.

She came up with rotating frequencies against the Borg. She took the Borg out of warp. She was key to Riker's stratagem to kidnap Locutus. Despite all his initial problems with her, he recognized her strengths, and he put aside his personal issues and made her the thrust of the attack with himself as the distraction, which fooled Locutus and the Borg. She can also beat Riker at poker.

I love her as female!Riker & to me she will always be Riker's perfect 2nd-in-command.

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I decided to create a hashtag #10CharactersToKnowMe based on the 9 games to know me meme

These are 10 fictional characters that are meaningful or influential or important to you that people should know to know you.

For each one also include where they're from so people who don't know the work can know about them. You can do this all in one toot or you can do it in a series of posts if you want to go into a lot of detail.

The order doesn't have to be of importance, just 10.

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