This picture is huge and one of the ones I'm really proud of. :D Mostly, it's because I actually managed to FINISH this humungous thing... usually when I undertake a giant project like this I flake out before I can finish it, but not this time! I was surprisingly diligent with it, working on it a little bit every day until it was complete! ^u^
I made this because I came to notice that in my story series called Dreaming Esmeralda, there are a lot of awesome lady-characters... the kind of lady characters that are diverse, believable, powerful, and NOT just there for show. In order to make it into this group, a lady-character in D.E. had to meet at least two of the following requirements: 1) She bears agency, moving the plot instead of being its victim; 2) She has massive talents that make her awesome (for good OR ill); 3) She possesses strength of character/overcomes adversity; 4) She carries profundity and is able to move the audience emotionally and/or make them think deeply; and 5) She does great things, heroic OR villainous. Pretty much all the ladies in this lot meet at least four out of five, and some meet ALL five. :D
From left to right they are: Sepia, Mask Face, Elfalda, Seddie, Calypso, Jerra, Mandolinne, Mysteria, Stockings, and Winifred. (And I know there is at least one more lady-character who qualifies for the group but isn't pictured, because I don't quite know what she looks like yet. ^^; )