Ashe. She's considerably young when the game starts but she's already had so much horrible ish happen to her, she's been through so much. It was really heartbreaking the second time I saw the flashback scene where she reminisces of when she first met her prince and how kind and innocent she was back then. She's completely consumed by her thirst for revenge and as such she's impulsive, naive, and it leads to people getting killed. After finding out about her own past, the truth behind everything, and the destiny the gods have picked out for her, she manages to rise above like the typical Matsuno protagonist and choose the path of right, in order to end the conflict and the mindset of moral ambiguity that lead to everything being so horrible. She learns to let go of her prince and do what's right for everyone. That's real character progression.
Tifa definitely has a big place, too, she was probably my favorite until my second playthrough of FFXII. BoB just about summed it up very nicely.
Chiming in again to agree with Boli and BoB. Tifa and Ashe are really great, too. Tifa's always been one of my favourites and Ashe... well, I don't remember a lot of specifics about Ashe but I did think she had good characterization and ended up using her as party leader for almost my entire playthrough of XII.
Amanda just gained hella respect in my eyes.
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Aeris is far and away my favorite gal, but there's plenty of room in my heart for Terra, Tifa, Rydia, Garnet, Celes, and Yuna as well (probably in that order). If I can count ladies outside of the main series, Agrias would certainly be on that list somewhere.
Probably that chick in the bar in Dollet.
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Tifa.
Because she punched and kicked people, and as a 11 year old girl, I thought that was awesome.
Yes, in an effort to fit in.
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I haven't even played the game but I know about Porom and Polom.