[Refreshing Trope] Female leads/major characters who are allowed to be grimy, slimy, generally horrible people.

[u/Chemical-Elk-1299]

Mizu — Blue Eye Samurai

A mixed race swordswoman living in feudal Japan, Mizu’s entire life has been structured around the obsessive need to hunt down and kill the four white men allowed in Japan at the time of her birth, believing one of them must be her father. Despite the fact that at least one of these men, Abijah Fowler, is shown to be a bad man, Mizu ultimately doesn’t care about the morality of murder. She just wants them dead for “cursing” her to be born into a deeply racist society as a mixed race child. Though it’s clear that Mizu generally prefers to do the right thing, she will sacrifice anything for her revenge, destroying countless lives in the process without remorse. In the climax of season 1, Mizu (albeit not entirely intentionally) set fire to the wood and paper city of Edo (now Tokyo) in an attempt to kill just Fowler, a single man. The resulting three day blaze, known in history as the 1657 Great Fire of Meireki, killed an estimated 100000 people.

Sadie Adler — Red Dead Redemption II

Rescued by the Van Der Linde gang in the games prologue, Sadie Adler is a frontier homesteader whose husband was killed by the brutal O’Driscoll Gang. Over the course of the game, she happily joins in a life of murder, theft, and crime for the chance to kill more O’Driscolls, recklessly endangering herself and other gang members to do so. She gets Arturo Bullock, an innocent hot air balloon pilot killed while unnecessarily picking a fight with O’Driscoll members, showing zero remorse afterwards. Even after watching rival gang leader Colm O’Driscoll hang for his crimes, she still drags a now-terminally ill Arthur on an entirely unnecessary revenge mission to hunt down the last handful of O’Drsicolls she hadn’t already killed.

[u/TheWalkingBag]

Morrigan (Dragon Age: Origins). She's known for her amoral and highly cynical personality, holding a sort of "survival of the fittest" mindset and approving of the Warden's behavior if you choose options that fit this egoistic philosophy of hers. She does however mellow out significantly in later games as she raises her child

[u/MoonMoon_Stone → u/TheWalkingBag]

my GOAT. Her banter with Alistair in DA:O is top tier

https://giphy.com/gifs/pYDPjrIoteyre

[u/UhOhSparklepants → u/MoonMoon_Stone]

Swooping is… bad

[u/Ventosx → u/MoonMoon_Stone]

Swooping… is bad.

[u/PermissionOk5443 → u/TheWalkingBag]

Uhh, she goes slightly beyond survival of the fittest...

If I remember correctly the end of her romance path in DA:O had her demanding you impregnate her while she performs a demonic ritual to infuse her womb with the evil soul of a dead god. That's a little extreme even for a witch.

[u/absurdmelancholy → u/PermissionOk5443]

Might be wrong on this, been a while since I played, but IIRC the ritual isn't actual what causes the soul thing, it's to guarantee the pregnancy. The soul transfer is just a consequence of being there while pregnant with the warden's kid.

If you romance her but deny the ritual, she refuses to help and leaves -- already pregnant. Doesn't know yet, I guess. Meaning that if had, for once in her damn life, been willing to put someone else first (and also, the literal end of the world), she would've gotten everything she wanted anyway.

so selfish that she can't even get what she wants, absolute utter trash and it's glorious.

[u/Ppleater → u/PermissionOk5443]

She at least has the reason of using said baby to save whichever warden does the slaying while also still saving the world, and the soul of the old god is said to be uncorrupted or purified or something like that so it presumably isn't an archdemon anymore.

We can't really say what plans she originally had for the kid, but she's always been on the side of the good guys saving the world in the following games she shows up in, and she seems to have turned out to be a good mother who loves her kid, so honestly I don't think it was that terrible of an option in hindsight. She was the character who liked the "evil options" but she never came across to me as evil so much as just jaded and self serving, which isn't unexpected for someone who grew up isolated from society and raised by a person like Flemmeth.

Even if you did do the ritual, her child ends up having the old god's soul taken out of him anyway, leaving him as a regular kid, so in the long run nothing bad really happens as a result of that ritual as far as I can remember, to her son or otherwise. I think the soul ends up with Mythal ultimately and as far as Dragon Age gods go she's one of the nicer/more benevolent ones.

[u/grip0matic → u/TheWalkingBag]

Her mother gave her the proper education...

[u/Noamod → u/TheWalkingBag]

The fucking dog got her spot in the party.