Graceling Category B Prompt 1

https://www.instagram.com/graced_for_good/

I chose to set up an account for Katsa. Her handle is "graced_for_good" because she decides to direct her powers to a more positive mission. This is difficult because her grace is for killing, but she finds a way to stop using it for evil. Also, she's literally graced forever, or "for good."

Her first post (other than her profile picture which is a cat that has a blue eye and a green eye) is of a girl with very short red hair. Upon reaching an inn in the story, Katsa has a couple of girls help her cut her long, red hair because she has never wanted it or liked it. I chose the (very basic) hashtags because they seemed to fit the situation Katsa finds herself in. She wishes to use her grace to empower women, like the girls who cut her hair, who have to rely on the men in their lives to protect them.

The second photo is of the mountains because Katsa and Po spend a lot of time camping. The hashtag I chose because Katsa thinks about marriage often throughout the story. Early on she tells Giddon she won't marry him. At the end of the novel she and Po have decided not to marry, but to plan travels together in the future. These are, by her own admission, vague plans that break tradition.

Her final photo is of Bitterblue's coronation. I chose this picture because Katsa frequently recalls the need for female empowerment as she travels throughout the Middluns. At the end of the novel she decides to go out and fulfill this need she sees in her society. She leaves Bitterblue to reign and provide an example of an empowered woman in charge.