Award 48: Most Likely To Be Lightning
Way back when, sometime in the 1700s, Benjamin Franklin decided to get himself shocked by a thunderbolt. His contribution to science was that people figured out that lightning, formerly God's Wrath, was a form of electricity.
Sometime in the late 1900s, someone figured out that naming people after natural phenomena was a pretty cool idea. They named characters to be like phenomena, as is the realm of artistic leniency. So, we have a character named Cloud, another named Squall. How doom-and-gloomy! But then, we got Zidane, and people were all like "wtf?" Tidus is a well known case of "not so doom and gloomy" as an intentional inversion. We all know how that ended up, and people disliked him because he's just too damn interesting. FFXII had some random letters put together, so it doesn't really count.
Here is the case, that we have both a powerful natural phenomenon for a name, and a female character that has been compared to the first two protagonists, probably for appearing too masculine. Now, I would say something nice here, but if I were not totally convinced that FFXIII had no plot, I would actually care. Now this isn't a point where I refute claims to the contrary. This is the part where I say something about the nominees. Perhaps my statements will not be as
charged as the previous set of statements?
Ha, ha. So why these jokers?
Jessweeee♪ - from what I have heard, Lightning, as a protagonist is quite the firm, stoic character. I don't imagine that Jessweeee♪OTE isn't at least partially that, as she does have titles of two positions of authority. That is, if she gets into bed with you, she'll definitely be on top.
Levian - I think it's some sort of in-joke. Perhaps a read through the archives might reveal the truth. Maybe you shouldn't have made your arguments so coherent or else I wouldn't have gotten suspicious.
Lightening - I don't know, maybe someone decided to screw up the spelling on her driver's license, and here, we have it. I'm suspecting a clone.
Shiny - she's a black person, so therefore, she's automatically not a pushover. Hell, Shiny can even be the main character in anything she does, she's a director and movie
artiste! Extra, unnecessary "e" added to emphasize her creative talents. Yesh, addeing exxtra letthers ist, ein facte, ah skille.
ShlupQuack - she's mean, she's a queen, and she's someone who likes slapping Raistlin around. Who can say no to a lady who both married, and finds time to not just torture her own man, but even taking on the responsibility of making fun of a second man? Goddamn, that's an inspirational story if I have ever heard one.
EoFF, do you like your protagonists with an extra Avogadro's Number worth of ozone molecules?