BNP Ladies Present: Our Favorite Female Video Game Characters [TWD’s Clementine]

Illustration by Yves-José Malgorn An idea was kicked around with the women of BNP about writing a bit on our favorite characters from video games. Usually, a male-dominated fandom and workplace, it’s still great to hear from other women about the women they loved to play as, play against and see. From the days of old school video games consoles like the Atari to the to all these next gen consoles there have been women within these worlds that we lived through and admired every time we picked up a controller, went to an arcade or even rocked with the PC version. NPC or main cast member. Teen or grown woman or tiny child. Summoner, Gunner, Hired Killer, Undead Baddie, Corporate Spy or even leader of a revolution: there are so many favorites. Here’s an entry in a series of us womenfolk writing about the womenfolk that ultimately have to be credited in making the experience of playing that particular game one to remember. Image Edit Credit: [divider type=”space_thin”] The Walking Dead’s Clementine Like many of you who have been playing over the years, I feel like I’ve been raising Clementine. From her first appearance as the 8-year-old clutching tight her walkie-talkie hiding out in her tree house when the zombie apocalypse hit to the more mature teenage survivor currently, Clem is family at this point. I remember eons ago playing through the first piece of the story Telltale The Walking Dead game fed to us introducing several characters but it was Lee Everett, a man who found h…