{"id":10091,"date":"2016-09-28T18:24:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T22:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=10091"},"modified":"2016-09-28T18:24:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T22:24:04","slug":"three-fictional-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=10091","title":{"rendered":"Three Fictional Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Merani<\/a>
\nMer\u00e1ni taneg\u00edr Yeh\u00e1n by Heather D. Oliver<\/p>\n

I rarely respond to memes, but will make an exception for the Three Fictional Characters Who Best Describe You that made the rounds a week or so ago.\u00a0 For those who’ve read the Spider Silk<\/em> cycle, my closest shadow double is Mer\u00e1ni taneg\u00edr Yeh\u00e1n (marvelously rendered by Heather D. Oliver). For those who haven’t, the fusions of the trinities below are close approximations to yours truly.<\/p>\n

The choices are exclusively from SF\/F sources: the first set from science fiction — though The Matrix<\/em> barely qualifies as such — the second set from fantasy.\u00a0 I would have placed Signy Mallory (from Cherryh’s Downbelow Station)<\/em> or Anzha lyu Mitethe (from Friedman’s In Conquest Born<\/em>) in the former set if there were decent visuals of them…and probably Xena in the latter, if I could find a non-campy still.\u00a0 Choices from mainstream literature or another genre would be totally distinct yet again, but would take us too far afield.<\/p>\n

\"aa-three-personae-sf\"<\/a>
\nThe SF set: Captain Nemo (Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea<\/em>, James Mason), Ellen Ripley (Alien<\/em> tetralogy, Sigourney Weaver), The Oracle (The Matrix,<\/em> Gloria Foster)<\/p>\n

If you want to find out more about what made these characters feel like aspects of myself, the essays below contain lengthier explanations:<\/p>\n

Captain Nemo, The Multi-Chambered Nautilus<\/a>
\nEllen Ripley, Who Will Be Companions to Female Kings?<\/a>
\nThe Oracle, Where Are the Wise Crones in Science Fiction?<\/a>
\nThorin Oakenshield, Mediterranean Diasporans: D\u00farin\u2019s Folk<\/a>
\nYu Shu Lien, A Plague on Both Your Houses \u2013 Reprise<\/a>
\nFin Raziel, Le Plus \u00c7a Change\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Please feel free to share your own fictional affinities!<\/p>\n

\"aa-three-personae-f\"<\/a>
\nThe fantasy set: Thorin Oakenshield (The Hobbit<\/em>, Richard Armitage), Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/em>, Michelle Yeoh), Fin Raziel (Willow<\/em>, Patricia Hayes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mer\u00e1ni taneg\u00edr Yeh\u00e1n by Heather D. Oliver I rarely respond to memes, but will make an exception for the Three Fictional Characters Who Best Describe You that made the rounds a week or so ago.\u00a0 For those who’ve read the Spider Silk cycle, my closest shadow double is Mer\u00e1ni taneg\u00edr Yeh\u00e1n (marvelously rendered by Heather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[107,104,114,105,112,109,45,32,111,103,106,110,108],"class_list":["post-10091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-writing-and-literature","tag-alien","tag-captain-nemo","tag-crone","tag-ellen-ripley","tag-fantasy","tag-jules-verne","tag-science-fiction","tag-the-hobbit","tag-the-matrix","tag-the-oracle","tag-thorin","tag-willow","tag-wuxia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}