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Corrina Fawles, space horsewoman (essential version)

Corrina Fawles is a female fictional character starring a series of romantic novels with the same name. Originally published by the Khanid source Edhevar Issues, it has been translated to all major languages and has been adapted to several other formats such as holovids and interactables.

Publishing record

The first title in the series, "Corrina Fawles: Upon the heat wave", was originaly published on YC 18 and enjoyed a moderate succes in the underground market. The series would not lift off until the fifth installment, "Corrina Fawles: Behind a daydream" (YC 24), which sold over 75 million copies and reached the main market. The series currently consists of 84 novels, 37 short works and 9 original holovids, plus 30+ adaptations. Estimates are that the original work has been paid for by not less than 11 billion unique customers.

Characters

The main character is Corrina Fawles, which in the original Khanid version is called a "kunapadah", that is, a performer of the old ritual sport Kunapadah (horseback archery for ladies). The usual translation is that of a female horserider, as in most cultures a female shooting arrows from a horse would be misinterpreted as a warior, which Corrina Fawles is not.

Corrina Fawles is described as a young woman of mixed Khanid-Achuran ascent, tall, blonde and with blue eyes. As the works avoid sexual content, Corrina Fawles is never described in detail. In many popular media, she is associated to the figure of actress Yioka Gaun, who was deemed too exuberant by many fans of the series.

As the plot of the stories revolves around Corrina Fawles meeting either lone people in love distress or couples in a crisis, there are few recurring characters in the series. The main aside of Corrina herself is her fiancee Emerind Clotch, whose disappearence causes Corrina's tireless wandering in search of him. Emerind Clotch is always referred to in past tense and populates the stories as a series of plot-related flashbacks; his fate is unknown to this date.

Authorship

As usual in the media, the author is concealed under a series of pen names and many believe that the series is actually a collective work. Anyway, during the controversy around "The empty jar" (nº 69, YC 67), a series of messages were issued by a unidentified Khanid female who claimed to have written "most of the work, including all 22 of the "Love trials of Corrina Fawless" short works". Analists claim that all 37 short stories show a very high degree of coherence and are likely the work of a single individual, but that hasn't been proved about the bulk of the work. The 9 original holovids were written by hired scriptwritters, the most famous of whom was Tubanak Marrant, of "Cloister of winds" fame.

Themes

Romantic love: Corrina Fawles is purported to not engage in any romantic activity as she mets and helps secondary characters, whose stories are told to the reader by an anonymous omniscient narrator. Albeit the stories have had a variety of themes and at least in one occasion they depicted a homosexual relationship, the romantic content of the series is very virtuous and revolves around misunderstanding, fear of the unknown, shyness and other individual weaknesses which are overcome with help from Corrina Fawles.

Sexuality: sexuality is almost absent from the series, even implicitly. Corrina is assumed to be a maid who barely ever kissed her fiancee and intimate scenes end at the door of the bedroom. Anyway, part of the controversy around "The empty Jar" (nº 69, YC 67) revolved around a short paragraph which could be interpreted as Corrina having engaged in oral sex with one of the characters.

Space travel: Corrina Fawless is looking for her fiancee after he disappeared along with a flotilla of the Royal Khanid Navy, which presumedly was ambushed by pirates. Albeit Corrina is a comonner, she is a spaceship commander and owns a unidentified Cruiser-class ship; sometimes the stories imply passengers of the ship, which also is described as a merchant and sometimes engages in combat against pirates, and so many connoisseurs claim it's a purely fictional ship.

Controversy

The series, albeit belonging to a minority market such as romantic novel, has stirred much controversy because of the depicted gender roles and the lack of religious content, which has had the series banned intermitently from Amarr empire. Feminists usually deplore how, in words of activist Neyana Baulage, "Corrina (Fawles) can't apparently exist as any else than a scabbard in a futile search for a individual sword". Also many sources regret how, albeit set in a contemporary era, the values depicted belong to pre-contact age, which is incoherent with Corrina's own mixed ascent.

Also the 69th novel in the series, "Corrina Fawles: The empty jar" caused a strong controversy amid followers as the language used suggested that it was a Gallentean work translated into Khanid, and the story itself departed much from the series standard, including a violent space combat and an ambiguously written paragraph which could imply a sexual relation between Corrina Fawles and a male character.

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