Yeah but I liked Melody. Sure she was all insecurity from head to foot but she had amazing character growth over her story arc. Taylor wouldn't. And while a Taylor determined to follow in her mothers footsteps and teach, albeit through song, could be interesting I'm not super musically inclined. My family all kind of specialized? My Mom does sowing knitting and painting, my brother plays every instrument he can find but mostly guitar, I write. It's been an idle thought of mine that between the three of us we could produce a full musical backdrops, songs, costumes, and story XD
It's very close, Menolly, so much so that I keep morphing it to Melody in my head. And I agree, while it's an interesting thought to slot Taylor into her position, I really liked Menolly as a Protagonist. As a note, it is possible for someone bonded with a dragon to also impress upon fire lizards, as F'nor did, so you could absolutely have Taylor with both a dragon and a swarm of fire lizards for the smaller tasks, one of which being they can help preen and groom a dragon.
Canon already has the super-coordinator, except after her trauma from Lady Thella, Aramina *hides* from the dragons. That's a major reason she and her husband have their holding at Paradise River, on the Southern Continent.
Perhaps they could be called Steerswomen.
I'd read it too. But I am not equipped to write a story about it. Perns sexism is culturally ingrained. Education for the masses consists primarily of teaching songs followed by apprenticeships. Girls are limited to stereotypical "women's work" with a very few exceptions for nobility and Queen riders who's duties include running the domestic side of things and a degree of politics though much less than their husbands would be expected to handle. It's engrained in the culture and yeah Pern is undergoing a bit of a cultural revolution at that time but…. Gosh dang I don't know that I'm equipped to write a feminist uprising among a middle ages culture. I really don't think I have the understanding of the culture the mindsets of the people or early feminism. Yes I said early feminism. I am all for equality and I'm not saying it's universal but the fact the Dadvocate youtube channel exists and it's popularity, pretty strongly shows that we've hit a point where aspects of feminism have become toxic enough to prompt a counter culture response.
A lot of early or first-wave feminism (starting in the 19th Century) was doing things somewhat like what Menolly does in her trilogy of Pern books. It was about securing the right to vote (more broadly, the right to participate in politics), the right to participate in higher education, and the right to work. The early feminists in America were heavily involved in the abolitionist movement, and many were also involved in the temperance movement. If you want to know more, look up people like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott.
