Chosen is a very important grammar construction here. Particularly in arguments about agency, female characters, and who exactly is doing the choosing for said female characters in their own story-lines.
I just found a mix of this story and Wonder Woman - it's called Devi and I picked it up for the cover art and the fact that she's a non-white, female, lead in full clothing. No, I didn't actually require more than that to pay money on these.
The kicker? The climax of the action-packed origin story. Our heroine has gone through a metamorphosis in which she is declared the "vessel" for the Devi, a divine warrior/weapon destined to lead the armies of light in an epic battle against evil. After much chaos, several big explosions, and one major internal argument (to kill the divine vessel, or not to kill the divine vessel?),and the bestowing of the actual divine powers, our heroine carries a wounded police man away uttering this line:
"And if you, or your fellow schemers, or your gods, wanted me to save the world for you... You should have asked me first."
So. Much. Love.
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You know what? I may have to give Devi a second chance. I was interested in it because it was part of Virgin's yay-for-Southeast-Asian-mythology line of comics, but a friend warned me that the series was really sexist. The presentation of Devi on Virgin's official website made it look really sexist, too. But I have yet to judge for myself, so... I may have to pick it up anyway.
And the other female characters look to be quite interesting as well.
Now, its going to be a big fad and I'll be at the tail end because of you. :(
If they hold to the end of the origin-story arc, and not the beginning, it will be kick-ass. The first two issues read the main character - Tara - as a cypher, she's not active except in one page of introduction. And the first Devi is running around in a all-flame version of the Witchblade "armor" - so, the end did more than even the scales, but they did need to be evened out.