Female Bards

Tegan and Sara, the campaign

I'm pro-life, so nope.

4e's monks and bards are pretty good, and there are themes that can represent you splashing into monk stuff and maybe some from bards.

... I assume you really want to the little to no armor look, right?

this is how i bard

youtube.com/watch?v=qNFSB4PnVPI

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbitch

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It's 5e, so I could be helpful at least, especially given the fact that half of my group can't play optimized single classes efficiently. That's what you get when you start games with friends instead of making friends with games, but neither way is perfect
Unarmored defense and the ability to throw out some Dex-based flurry damage every once in a while if I'm cornered, really. Pic related would be a slightly better reference for the fighting style, since a spear is better than a shortsword for monks, though I adore Olivia's dancer outfit.

I'd feel inclined to focus on bardic shenanigans. Probably half-elf since this build can certainly use a bit of min-maxing magic. That puts me at 16 Cha, 16 Dex, 14 Wis. Top notch Buy/Standard for my casting and attacking stat, and 15 unarmored defense.
Don't know how many levels I'd put into Monk. 1 gets unarmored defense and martial arts, 2 gets a tiny Ki reserve and bonus action options/Flurry, 3 gets basic subclass goodies, 4 gets an ASI, and 5 gets Extra Attack and Stunning Strike.
Could actually be a viable support character.

hot

Played one once. It was fun being what amounted to a stoned cultist.

Made one for a MMO RP group I was part of. It was essentialy freeform but I liked the ideas I had for her. Kind of a wandering quasi-hobo, putting on street shows and literally just managing to get by every day. Had the skill, practiced a lot, and had an ego bigger than a fucking minotaur. But she was just too young, not well known enough and didn't stay around too much in one place to make it big, and the guy that taught her to play the guitar had been kicked out of the official bard guild so it's not like she had friendly contacts with other bards. Also she grew up poor as fuck with a single dad so she didn't really have a good grasp on how to spend her money, if she could be extravagant with it, she would. Thing is, she basicaly never could, but did anyway.

In a fight, she was basically all cheap shots and tricks because she was weak and the only thing she could do properly was shoot a bow, but when you mostly play in taverns that's not the handiest weapon. Had an habit of chewing herbs to spit on other people's eyes, a cape to divert attention/choke a bitch, a couple throwing knives, basicaly mostly rogue shit that she picked up from scrawny ass little thief childhood

Her end goal was to live forever, be it literally or figuratively. Both, if given the choice

Maybe one day I'll try to remake her in an actual system instead of just writing the fluff

Bards have been pretty powerful for at least two editions now