Weird Fiction Girls as A Resistance to Society’s Ideal

Weird is a quality I appreciate the most from a girl character in fiction. The second reason is because I’m a weird girl too and number one, primary reason, is because I think it is a form of resistance of being society’s ideal, of being a person that society wants. Girls I want to talk about are Kit-Kat from “About Time” movie, Sasha Blouse and Hanji Zoe from a popular manga, Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) by Hajime Isayama, and Johanna Mason from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. All characters I mentioned before are great in their own way because they are simply being themselves. It is absolutely everything, I think, to accept you the way you are and don’t make your environment constructs who you are gonna be.

A million stories in different language, different country, and different genre present a lot of different characters of girl and I think most of them present a beautiful girl constructed by society, advertising, and even the story itself constructs an ideal form of a girl. Let me remember, it’s Shrek which gives you happily ever after without prince charming and beautiful princess who good at heart. “Shrek” gives you two big and green ogres who love to eat frog’s eyes as snack. Most stories present a tomboy, or soft, beautiful girl who kind-hearted and handsome guy who rich and also kind-hearted. It’s okay, actually, but I think fiction has power that affects its reader and reader’s perspective. What if somebody think that beauty is like those, or thought that happiness’s form is one? Or the worst, see different thing as a bad thing?

Don’t believe me if I said I don’t want to be anybody else, that I want to be myself. That is a lie. I always want to be someone else. That is me. But Kit-Kat, Sasha Blouse, Hanji Zoe, and Johanna Mason don’t. They are being themselves and that is what makes them beautiful and great. Kit-Kat’s brother, Tim, calls Kit-Kat “nature thing with her elfin eyes, her purple t-shirt, and her eternally bare feet.” Tim said that Kit-Kat was and still to him about the most wonderful thing in the world. Kit-Kat ran with her bare feet, enjoy the rain, laughed and smiled in her brother’s failed wedding party. When everybody was annoyed because it’s rain and a little storm in a wedding party ruin their appearances, Kit-Kat smiled widely. As a girl, Kit-Kat is different from girl as usual. She’s weird. It can be seen when Kit-Kat is wearing ball costume at underground. Kit-Kat kissed Mary and jumped at her sister-in-law. Does normal girl do that? I think no. This character, Kit-Kat, resists to be a normal girl, an ideal girl who is constructed by society. Oh, a girl mad when her appearance or make-up ruined, but she’s such a carefree girl who free and do anything that she likes, and the best thing she enjoy her life as herself.

The next girl is Sasha Blouse, a girl who loves to eat anytime and anywhere. Sasha is one of Eren’s friend in Scout Legion. A popular scene of this girl is when she ate potato in the first day of army training. The exact moment 104’s squad is “interrogated” by their trainer (former captain of scout legion). She’s bad, for she often steals food from kitchen, but that’s the most interesting side of Sasha Blouse. When it comes to food, she doesn’t know what’s right and wrong. When it comes to food, she is no longer herself anymore, or she is her true self? In a chapter, when Scout Legion was served to eat meat, she can’t resist to eat it all by herself. Connie and Jean tried to stop her and she bit Connie’s hand. It’s like her mind is away when it comes to food. Sasha is absolutely weird and it seems like she doesn’t let anyone try to change the way her appetite response to food, or change to be a proper girl who doesn’t kalap when she sees food.

Attack on Titan own a lot of cool girl. Hanji Zoe is one of them. She is as clever as Erwin Smith, and surprisedly, loving titan like titan is a cute little pet. In Attack on Titan, the titan is described as terrible creature because they eat mankind and destroy their homeland. Titan gives people inside the wall terror and misfortune. Yeah, Hanji loves that creature. In a mission outside the world, what she said is that she can’t wait to see them. She’s not as cute as Petra and Historia, but she’s absolutely special. She is looking for adventure, chasing trouble, fighting titans, and breaking the idea of how a girl should be.

Next girl is a strong girl from The Hunger Games trilogy, Johanna Mason. It’s so obvious that she opposes and hates Capitol. She hate being controlled by Capitol and join the movement to fight Capitol. My favorite scene is the night before the game begin. She shows her abhor to Capitol and the game that make people kill each other to entertain others. Besides that, she undressed herself in the lift. I think it is her way to resist fashion from Capitol, to stop herself from being a girl Capitol wants to see. It’s weird how she opposed Capitol. She present herself as a tough girl and sarcastic.

Kit-Kat, Sasha Blouse, Hanji Zoe, and Johanna Mason have their own way to resist themselves being an ideal girl. Kit-Kat who do anything she wants with joy in her heart, Sasha Blouse and her weird appetite, a fearless Hanji Zoe who craving for adventure and the truth about the world they live in, and Johanna Mason who tough. I think many quality of those girls are form of resistance of being society’s ideal, of being a person that society wants. They are just being themselves and nothing compare to that quality.