Fairy Tail-I never set out to right strong female characters. I just meant to write the female characters in character.

One of the things, I often get told about my fanfics is how strong I write the FT! Female Characters. I have gotten only god knows how many reviews and comments from people telling me how they love how strong I write the girls.

The thing is though I never set out with any sort of feminist message, when I write the female characters, my goal is simple write them in character. And to me the female characters of Fairy Tail are strong, so I write them that way.

Mashima wrote badass women, he wrote women that were awesome and could kick all kinds of ass, and were just as useful and powerful as the male characters. One thing that drew me to Fairy Tail was all the strong female characters actually.

So, when I go to write fanfiction, my goal is just to write a character as in character as possible, and as close to Mashima's vision as I can get, though I have had to make exceptions to this in the past (Like Juvia in POP) regardless of who they are or their gender. So, when I write a female character she is often capable and strong because that is how Mashima wrote her. It isn't me being a feminist in itself. It is just staying close to how they were intended.

So, yeah, it really is just staying in character. Mashima wrote badass women, so I write them like how he wrote them.

There is no way, I'm going to write any FT female character as a damsel in distress because that's not how they were meant to be portrayed. So, I stick to Mashima as my source always.