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Interview #997: The Rithmatist: A Chat with Brandon Sanderson, Entry #5
The Book Smugglers
In all of your other books, you write strong, layered female characters—what can we expect from The Rithmatist in the protagonist/heroine department?
Brandon Sanderson
I often worry about falling into the trap of making female characters strong by not making them feminine. In Mistborn, Vin is strong in part because of how good of a warrior she is, and that’s fine. There are plenty of women like that, who can hold their own in a fight. But in The Rithmatist , one of the things I wanted to do was write a female character who is more girly, so to speak. I wanted to make her a strong protagonist in a way that does not undermine her femininity. I hope that I’ve managed to approach that with Melody in The Rithmatist .
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