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So writing question (it's fun to have one of those again): I'm at the end of First Sight where my female MC confronts my villain. She winds up having to be rescued by the male MC and I'm wondering if this will wind up being problematic. She's a physically weak character (the male MC has been giving her self-defense training but it's only gone on for a couple of weeks by this point) so she has no physical ways to take down another character who is twice her size. She still attempts to in an effort to save other people but it doesn't work out too well for her. She has plenty of other skills and is instrumental in solving the case they are investigating (she is a Seer and helped find the kids they are rescuing), but she just isn't a fighter. Knowing all that, do you guys think it's problematic to have the male MC (who is physically capable of taking on the villain) save her?
It's hard to judge without reading the full manuscript. I'm not worried about female characters occasionally having to be rescued by male characters as long as they take strong action to drive their own story, which may or may not require physical strength or combat skills. It would bother me if it was a consistent pattern of helplessness and rescuing.