Tomboy With A Girly Streak / Video Games

• Animal Crossing:
  • Bella is a punk-rock-themed mouse who wears a skull outfit but also has a makeup case, a bright pink bed, and tulips. The fact that she is a Peppy (who are very girly villagers) also helps.
  • Sisterly villagers who appear in New Leaf onward are very tomboyish; they love sports and are very rough-and-tumble but some of them have girly designs. Also, getting to know them more in New Horizons will reveal that they love gardening and flowers.
  • Mabel of the Able Sisters is a very perky hedgehog who loves footballs but also dolls.
• Ami from Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is a very athletic and competitive racer, with high-speed stats, who likes to flex her muscles whenever she wins, but also wears a dress and makeup. Her girly side is further highlighted in her Circus skin, which gives her a very feminine-looking outfit and has her elegantly strut around and twirl her umbrella in the winning podium animation.
• Cyberpunk 2077: Panam Palmer is a nomad and badass smuggler who drives and fixes cars, dodges corpsec drones, shoots bandits, and knocks back Broseph beers with the best of them, but also wears very high-maintenance make-up and long, immaculate nails, and styles her hair in an elaborate bun.
• Cassandra from Dragon Age: Inquisition. Blunt, uncompromising, uptight, Church Militant Magic Knight...who secretly loves romance novels, especially the ones written by party member and part-time author Varric (whom she openly loathes). If you pursue her as a love interest, it turns out she's a romantic at heart and requires proper courtship, and she'll let her softer side show once she warms up to you.
• The Drauk in Ever Oasis are an all-female Proud Warrior Race who collectively have a girly streak. Their culture puts emphasis both on personal strength and personal appearance, meaning that in between training and battle they enjoy wearing fancy fashions and jewelry. In the ending credits, you even get to see Miura, your prominent Drauk friend, twirling around in a pretty new dress.
• Veronica from Fallout: New Vegas. She's a Gadgeteer Genius whose follower perk lets you make certain things without the assistance of a workbench, as well as a proficient martial artist who favors a Power Fist as her weapon of choice. She also really wants to own a formal dress. If you give her one of the fanciest ones in the game, she'll teach you a secret martial arts technique to show her gratitude.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Understated with Final Fantasy III's Refia. She's the adoptive daughter of a blacksmith and has no problem with fighting, traveling, etc. But there is a bit of frill in her outfit and she sports a pair of earrings, plus she readily befriends girly-girl Salina and sympathizes with her boyfriend trouble.
  • All three girls in both the original Final Fantasy VII and the Remake, four girls if you count Jessie, in different ways.
    • Aeris (Aerith), the most feminine in terms of physical appearance, has a girly outfit, loves flowers and fights using the conventionally feminine setup (in Final Fantasy mythology) of a staff and White Magic, but she wears big boots, has a pushy and fearless personality, takes the lead when flirting and talks in tough-girl, tomboyish slang in the Japanese version; however, she also has a terrifying fear of being abandoned and left alone.
    • Tifa, who is relatively centrist on the Tomboy - Girly Girl spectrum in comparison to the other two girls in terms of both appearance and personality, is an ass-kicking martial artist in minimalist clothing, but her personality is defined by her loyalty, supportiveness, shyness, empathy, and general 'quiet inner strength', as well as her desire for Cloud to rescue her someday.
    • Yuffie, the most tomboyish, is a loudmouthed, fast-talking thief with a hugely inflated opinion of herself, but she talks in girly-girl-style Valley Girl slang and is less brave than the other girls, often looking to Cloud to comfort her when she gets panicked or upset.
    • And in the Remake, Jessie tends to be somewhat aggressively flirtatious with Cloud, but she's also very bubbly, sweet, and kind, and although she is an Action Girl, she sometimes still needs Cloud to rescue her every now and then.
  • Final Fantasy X-2 Paine is the most tomboyish of the three girls - with Boyish Short Hair and an aggressive personality. However, a few of her Dressphere outfits are quite feminine (Songstress, Black Mage, Lady Luck, White Mage) and she enjoys giggling about boys with Rikku once or twice. Also, when the party is wondering whether it's really right for them to take a relaxing dip in a hot spring on sacred Mt. Gagazet grounds, she's the one who comments "No one's looking."
• Fire Emblem has many female characters of all kinds, so more than one of these girly tomboys show up:
  • In the remake of Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, Princess Sheena is a badass General... and has a doll collection.
  • In Fire Emblem: Awakening, the tsundere mercenary girl Severa has a weakness for make-up and jewelry and wears her incredibly long hair in Girlish Pigtails. Similarly, Cynthia also has Girlish Pigtails and makes flower fortunes.
  • In Fire Emblem Fates, Hana is a tomboyish Action Girl with a straightforward attitude... and a longhaired Proud Beauty who takes care of her looks quite a bit and loves cute things to death. Also, Charlotte loves fist-fighting, but that doesn't stop her from enjoying feminine activities such as shopping, primping, or cooking.
  • Like Hana above, Hinoka is a tomboyish Action Girl, instead with shorter red hair, but she has her own pegasus, is very much a Princess Classic, and not afraid to cry every now and then. And surprisingly, according to her siblings and retainers, she is a Supreme Chef.
  • In Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, the mage Mae has pink hair and wears a predominantly pink and red dress, but is also very boisterous and likes to brag about her abilities on the battlefield. She discusses this with Celica, wondering if guys won't see her as a prospect girlfriend.
• Kira Woodville from Hidden City is a Hot-Blooded Action Girl who serves as the primary fighter among the Security Service members. Despite being a tough law enforcement officer, she is still very much concerned about beauty and fashion.
• Kyu Sugardust from HuniePop is a rather hilarious example as she looks like the classic fairy down pat... right up until she drinks or she opens her mouth.
  Kyu: [just eaten a slice of pizza] Mmmmmm, fuck, that's good! Yo, I'm about to bust a nut over here!
  Kyu: [asking her favourite colour] Seriously? You're seriously going to ask me that? It's fuckin' pink, bitch!
  Kyu: [reacts to Kyanna] Man! Will you get a load of these two? I'd KILL to have tits like that!
• Kairi from Kingdom Hearts is described as a tomboy by Word of God, particularly in the original game, but is also very giggly, wears pink, and has a penchant for making jewelry out of seashells.
• Life Is Strange: Max Caulfield insists on going by "Max" rather than Maxine, is only ever seen in unisex clothing, and spent her childhood pretending to be pirates and superheroes. Her one girly interest is going to tea rooms with her friend Kate.
• Aleksandra "Zarya" Zaryanova from Overwatch is a Gentle Giant bodybuilder war hero Tank who proudly rocks pink hair and fingernails.
• The Mass Effect trilogy gives us Ashley Williams. She wears heavy Powered Armor, is a Space Marine Gunnery Chief who can fire pretty much anything that shoots. She is also a huge fan of sensitive poetry and indicates a desire to go dancing at a local nightclub. And her favorite armor is pink! Between games she gets a Girliness Upgrade growing her hair out and wearing more catsuit-y battle outfits. In the Citadel DLC, she shows up to the casino infiltration mission in a cocktail dress and sandals.
  Ashley: ”Just because I can drill you between the eyes at two hundred meters, doesn’t mean I can’t like sensitive stuff!”
• Persona:
  • Persona 3 has the female Player Character. Her willingness to fight with the rest of SEES, combined with her being chosen as the field leader, gets her pegged as a tomboy by both Junpei and Shinjiro in passing, while the "girly" part comes from her more feminine style of casual clothes and the fact that she's a great cook, particularly of sweets.
  • Persona 4:
    • Chie Satonaka is a straightforward Tomboy who's also a Bruce Lee loving Kick Chick with Boyish Short Hair. Though in spite of her boyish ways Chie also is scared of bugs, is attracted to cute boys, looks beautiful when she dolls up and if the protagonist boosts her social link Chie will cook food for him... unfortunately she's a Lethal Chef. But it's the thought that counts.
    • Naoto Shirogane (a bifauxnen has a hidden Shrinking Violet side (and occasionally drops her bifauxnen look in favor of a girlish school uniform, but only if the protagonist romances her and directly asks her to).
• Alys Brangwin from Phantasy Star IV, although you have to talk to a few NPCs to find the girly streak. She's one of the most feared bounty hunters on Motavia, but an elderly neighbor mentions that Alys likes poetry and regularly cooks for her.
• Resident Evil:
  • Claire Redfield. On one hand, she is a motorcycle enthusiast, a skilled fighter and markswoman, and fond of denim. On the other, she is scared of bugs (particularly giant mutated ones) and Hunters, great with kids and fond of pink. Claire seems even more tomboyish in Resident Evil 2 (Remake) since she not only dresses practically in this version but she also swears like a sailor, rages out at those who cross her, and is generally sarcastic to most people she meets. On the flip-side, remake Claire always wears a necklace, dotes on Sherry, does a Girly Run towards Leon, and then proceeds to playfully flirt with him through a fence. Claire also is more audibly grossed out than Leon at discovering the cockroaches in the morgue.
  • Jill Valentine is mostly a practical Action Girl, but Resident Evil 3: Nemesis shows in her off-time she happily ditches the pouched combat gear for a tube top and short skirt.
• Scarlet Nexus: One of the two protagonists Kasane is cold and aloof with Brutal Honesty, with this contrasting to her sister Naomi in a Tomboy and Girly Girl dynamic… But the gifts Kasane loves in the Yuito route are flowers and love poetry. Ostensibly because those are things her sister likes.
• Shining Resonance: The people of Astoria think Sonia is masculine because she's a knight and because of her strength. However, Sonia explains that she's only carrying out her duties as Astoria's princess, and attributes her strength to Captain Burrough's regimen. Otherwise, she's actually quite feminine; including owning lavish ballroom gowns, she's had dancing lessons for formal occasions, and also enjoys reading romance novels in her spare time. The reason most don't get to see that side of her is that she's almost always on active duty.
• Skies of Arcadia: Legends: Aika was an orphan, who grew up to become an Air Pirate, along with her best friend, Vyse, who regards her as one of the guys.^note Though he still respects her privacy as a girl. But she's not entirely devoid of femininity. She wears jeweled earrings and blue hair ribbons at the ends of her pigtails, for one thing. And while she'll readily face the Valuan Armada, the mere thought of ghosts can paralyze her with fear.
• In Soulcalibur VI, Seong Mi-na wears a bright pink outfit with flowers and also has a complex and feminine braid. She also preferred playing with a weapon over dolls when she was younger.
• Most tomboys in Street Fighter fall under this rule. Characters who are supposed to be the tomboy half to girly girls such as Cammy and Sakura wear dresses or skirts in at least a willing capacity. The new-comer, Marisa, is primarily interested in fighting, sees herself as a descendant of ancient Greek warriors and is very muscular to boot and towers above even most male characters. But outside of fighting, she is also highly interested in fine arts, works as a jewelry designer and wears makeup and nail polish. The only pure "Tomboy" character is probably Makoto, who is the Tomboy to probably the second most Girly character in the series Ibuki. Makoto only wears one feminine outfit which is her schoolgirl outfit but it has some battle damage and her legs have some wraps and her face has a bandaid making it arguably less feminine than Ibuki and Sakura's. Makoto's other outfits can make her gender ambiguous.
• Princess Daisy from Super Mario Bros. While she's described as a Tomboy Princess in the series, she wears a dress that's nearly as pimped-out and girly as Princess Peach, she has a Flower Motif in all of her outfits, and she prides herself as being the "fairest of them all".
• Nanaly from Tales of Destiny 2 initially strikes everyone as a Tomboy, but she, much like Rutee in the first game, runs an orphanage and is very good at both sewing and cooking. She actually dislikes being called a tomboy and will get anyone calling her one (mostly Loni) in a bone-crushing hold.
• Tales of Symphonia:
  • While Sheena's very tomboyish, she actually likes cooking and wears pink accessories in her outfit, plus she's seen sniffing a vase of flowers when the party stays in Zelos' mansion.
  • Presea has elements of this too, being a young-looking girl who worked as a lumberjack, wielding a huge ax in battle and is the strongest member of the party, but also fights in a purple dress, has pink Girlish Pigtails and in one skit is seen playing with Corrine by poking his paw pads.
• The Tekken tomboys are in a similar boat to the SF girls. Tomboys such as Nina Williams and Asuka Kazama have some very girly-looking dresses or 1 piece suits that rival the outfits of their girly-girl counterparts Anna Williams and Lili respectively. Leo is the only "true" tomboy, that is if you want to consider Leo female since according to the developers, Leo's gender is up to the player to decide, since their default outfit makes them gender-ambiguous (even more than SF's Makoto) while Tekken Tag Tournament 2 gives them both male and female customization options.
• Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children: Jane is a straight-shooting no-nonsense cop, who frequently provides firepower and training for the protagonists, and usually wears fatigues and body armor. When she's not on duty, however, she loves to put on a minidress and high heels and go barhopping with her bestie Giselle.
• Marina Wulfstan from Valkyria Chronicles is a cold, aloof hunter with short hair and an athletic build who considers her most important interpersonal relationship to be with her rifle. She actually performs better when alone and worse when with the company - and she has such a soft spot for cuddly animals that in one of the DLC's she gets her entire squad into serious trouble chasing one. She ends up being the primary caretaker of Squad 7's mascot, a little piglet... but otherwise, remains completely the exact same person.
• The Walking Dead: Clementine is described as "preferring to play in her treehouse rather than with dolls" in season one. She wears a dress and a baseball cap as her outfit. She spends most of her time drawing, but will also happily lick a salt lick for cows she and her friend Duck found in a barn. In season four she can reminisce about how she used to imagine she's a warrior princess before the Zombie Apocalypse broke out, noting that she was a "cool" princess, who got to wear a fancy dress and fight bad guys with a sword. Future seasons force her to lean slightly more into her tomboyishness (mostly due to logistics of the setting), keeping her hair short, wearing practical clothes, and fighting zombies, but her favorite color is still purple, she immediately bonds with baby AJ and acts adorably awkward around people she has a crush on.
• WET features a whiskey-drinking, sword-wielding, tattooed Dark Action Girl who also has a dainty run.
• Katie from Yo-kai Watch as the protagonist (and to a lesser degree, as Nate's classmate). She is an adventurous girl with a Tomboyish Ponytail who likes Bug Catching, but she also has a Girly Run and most of her stuff is in pink.

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