Anyone here excited for NaNoWriMo?

So for my first planned novella for this, I'm writing a story called Tales of Formerly London. For the more interested, I've included a short blurb below:

London never saw another dawn-break.

Its last foggy eve was in June 1866, during the reign of the Traitorous Queen, when the Sun disappeared underneath the white cliffs of Dover for the last time.

The last kerosene lamp snuffed out two hours after midnight. By the third hour, London belonged to the bats.
In moonless night, men’s hearts hide darker secrets still, and it was only after the last light from the world had left the city did its true darkness emerge, a darkness much deeper than mere shadow.

For decades the tales of Formerly London have been kept hidden by the darkness -- most have been lost to the abyss, forgotten, others have ascended to legend. And then there are those secrets. Secrets so powerful that they break free, secrets that need to be told.

This is one of them.

This is the first tale that precedes the Schism, a tale that resonates with mice-mongers and eldritch kind and every walk of life. A tale of hope, bravery and one person who remembered who he was. Live in the darkness long enough and soon you'll forget how to walk in the light.

This is the tale of Formerly London that belongs to the boy known as Glenn Eyre, and it will hide in the darkness no longer. This is how he restored London.

The story depicts Christian morals and characters in a pagan pseudo-London setting, complete with a cameo by the detective of Baker Street himself, along with talking sewer rats, a calcified Lord Nelson and Cthulhu.

However, a very important theme in Tales of Formerly London: The Last Light is its depiction of women. There are several strong female characters in there that break the mould of what Victorian women were supposed to be (the Sewer Rat is a girl?!) , but the story does contain its fair share of helpless damsels in distress. A very important one is actually the love interest for the main character, a princess with daddy issues, who is portrayed as an extremely vulnerable and weak-minded doormat. Her fragility is the direct consequence of a family nucleus torn apart by her mother's political treachery and devil-deals, as well as her father's guilt-fuelled alcoholism, but that doesn't change the fact that she could be quite the unloved type of literary woman in this day and age, with heroines like Merilda and Katniss Everdeen. There are some scenes in the story where Glenn Eyre spends a lot of time fixing her mistakes, protecting her, and all round preparing her for the role of ruler. She does develop to become more confident, but at the end of the story she still is a character who doesn't feel right without someone bossing her around, and retains some submissive qualities.

My question is this: what are the Christians' perspective on the subject of damsels in distress? Is it wrong to include it in, especially when one of the characters who does the rescuing is supposedly a disciple of Jesus? Is it okay to portray women in a helpless position provided there are men who require intervention as well? Is Princess Elizabeth a character that should be scrapped and reworked?