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[themightyspazz]

Okay, so I almost forgot this time.

DOESN'T COUNT.

From the lovely camwyn:

What's the scariest thing your pup's ever done on purpose? Scary by their standards, that is.

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[kd7sov]

For Felix, I'm getting a toss-up of two things during canon: deliberately jumping off a very tall building during an earthquake, and continuing the quest to save the world even after he thought said quest had just killed his parents.

None of the others seems to be saying much on the subject at the moment; we'll see if I get more later.

[sdelmonte]

In about two years, Jim is going to skydive down to the Earth's surface from space. (This was supposed to be the opening scene to ST: Generations.)

Knox went flying with Rachel Grey. He also once waded into a pack of Joker goons with just a baseball bat, but that was out of civic necessity.

Cy ate Starfire's cooking.

Howard will eventually test a jet plane, but as of now, the jet engine is still not ready for that.

[camwyn]

Don't Starfire's people consider mustard a refreshing drink, or something like that?

[bjornwilde]

Ben Grimm: Asking Alicia out for the first time.

Hank McCoy: To date...coming clean to Mr. Black about his mutation. It was forced (by accident) but it was still scary.

Thalia Grace: Facing the horde of monsters to stall long enough for Luke, Annabeth and Grover to make it to safety. That or getting caught up a pole by demon bunnies. Acrophobia can be a bitch.

Jessica Drew: Facing New York and the Avengers after the invading shape-shifting aliens had been using her identity to infiltrate. She likely would have stayed in hiding if it weren't for Carol.

Val von Doom: Standing up to Abraxas and saving the multiverse with her brother by helping Franklin recreate Galactus. Long story. Her first visit to Ellen's world and the giant fire ants is a close second.

Andrea Nash: Taking down the pack of Loupes that ended up killing her partner. She's got worse to face in teh future but that's it for now.

[souffle_girlek]

Ace: Telling Spoon she loved him. She's an emotional wuss. *pats her head*

Katya: The first time she submitted to the boss for healing. It's hardly a... reassuring process, no. Even in movie-verse. ... Maybe especially in movie-verse. Boris Ivanovich reassures no one.

Bones: Injecting himself with the theoretical cure for the plague on Miri's planet. That move could have just as easily been suicide, but it had to be done.

Shaz: Going back upstairs, going back to the Guv and DI Drake and the job, despite knowing what had happened.

Haymitch: Surviving the Hunger Games, though one might argue that wasn't done so much as purpose, as out of necessity. After that, it'd be the first time he came back to District Twelve with two dead tributes, and took the time to give the bodies back to their families. As, basically, a teenager himself.

Balthazar: When he put himself and Horvath in that dang vase. Anyone could have gotten to Dave in the ten years he was stuck in the vase, and there wouldn't have been a single thing he could do about it.

Oswin: Lowering the forcefield and letting the Doctor go. He had just ripped away every single defense she had against what had been done to her (with all the grace and delicacy of a surgeon using a rusty hacksaw) and she still managed to do what was needed.

Glorfindel: Turning around and facing down the Balrog. Mandos was scarier, but he didn't have a whole lot of options around that, at that point.

[ceitfianna]

Will: Standing up to the sheriff while a prisoner and on the gallows. He's done other terrifying things in Milliways, facing a demon possessed Doc is high up there or ending his relationship with Kate Bishop.

Charles: Stepping into Cerebro, every time he's told someone about his telepathy, which is something he is glad he can do, but there's still that moment of how will they react?

William: Facing down Ben Wade at Contention, that time was far scarier than the earlier point in canon, telling his mother Dan was dead. Asking for help for himself or Mark from anyone in Milliways, best examples are Katya for help with Mark and Kate Barlow about learning more.

Sameth: Fighting Orannis, telling his family that he's Wallmaker, telling anyone about his fear of Death, letting Kait go.

Moist: He actually doesn't have a lot of these since most of them happened by accident like when Urquhart found out his name. I'd say the big one was leaving Uberwald.

Demeter: She doesn't scare easily, but confronting her family about Kore was complicated even in the midst of her rage.

Jane: Going to London to speak with Tom's uncle and all that happened there. Its hard to pick just one moment.

Tumnus: Letting Lucy go and facing the Queen and her wolves after.

The Pirate King: The first time he told any pirates what to do, he's confident but that was still hard.

[silveraspen]

Picking one for now, although I can elaborate on/for others if anyone's got particular interest:

Moiraine -- tackling the Forsaken Lanfear into and through the redstone arch ter'angreal, given that she already knew what would happen and what was waiting for her on the other side.

(When the price is high, that is how you know it is worth paying.)


Quick ETA: this happened 9 books ago and thus is not a spoiler for the most recent and final book, just FYI!

[camwyn]

Ray's got a couple of candidate events. I'm going to go with staging the fight between Gozer (in the form of Unicron) and Cthulhu, because that's one of those things where the slightest mistake means there is no possible way to win ever again.

Gordon... oh, God, that poor man's adrenal glands deserve their own vacation completely separate from the rest of the body. The trip to the Combine Overworld probably counts, though.

Shephard- finishing his battle with the first Gene Worm. Because that thing lunged through a portal in front of him, and started opening its own portals to bring in other Synths, and it took him what felt like forever to figure out how to hurt it, and the moment he realized how was also the moment in which he realized that if he didn't kill this thing there was nobody left to stop it. And that was worse than having to disarm the nuke, because nukes only go off once...

Mordin- his visit to Tuchanka with the second version of the genophage.

Medic- signing the paper with BLU that said he agreed to rely on the use of respawners in the event of a traditionally fatal battlefield incident.

Varric- sorry, the dwarf refuses to admit to whatever-it-was... I'll get an answer out of him eventually.

Hektor- Millicanonically, when Hektor was about eight, a delegation of Turkoman visitors came to Troy and brought a stallion who was probably an ancestor of the breed we know today as Akhal-Teke with them. The horse, unfortunately, was extremely dangerous if not approached correctly. Hektor spoke up on the horse's behalf when his father said it was going to have to be sacrificed, and was promptly given a very limited span of time in which to get the beast measurably tamed. Having to go in and deal with that stallion after that ultimatum currently qualifies.

Ellen- "I HAD TO GO OUT IN SPACE. IN A SPACESUIT. ACTUAL SPACE. NEVER AGAIN."

[aberration]

Well, Elle is bad at this, but manipulating two extremely powerful, malevolent killers at the same time is probably at the top of her list.

Leslie's has probably been the process of running for city council, which has usually involved some new scare every week (though among them, the point when she thought she was going to lose her job due to her relationship with another employee was probably the scariest).

Marceline's also someone who's weird about this, because "scary" doesn't really mean that much to her (she's a vampire and her dad's a monster who goes around stealing souls whenever he reaches her plane of existence - she's usually the one who does the scaring). But the scariest thing she's ever experienced probably involves an old friend and a magic crown.

For Asami,I'm editing because rereading this, I don't think my first answer really qualified, so instead I'd say it'd be something Slenderman-related, though that will change when she goes through canon. Manny will also have to wait until he goes through canon.

[adiva_calandia]

Nita's got a whole list of things she did while terrified; accepting the role of the Silent Lord in the Song of the Twelve, even after knowing what it would entail, probably tops the list in canon. In Milliways taking on the Forsaken Ishamael pretty much trumps that, though.

The scariest thing Tom ever did was definitely going back to his own world after finding Milliways.

In the not-too-distant future, Kate Percy will (GASP) get married. In the more distant future, having to say goodbye to Hotspur the night before the battle of Shrewsbury will be the scariest moment of her life.

Moth laughs in the face of bites the face of danger. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Kim has spent her whole life living in a constant low-level state of fear, but escaping the raid on Mother Tibb's takes the cake for scariest moment thus far. (Eventually to be trumped by the end of The Magician's Ward.)

I have NO IDEA about Epimetheus. Probably telling his father and brothers that he wouldn't be fighting in the Titanomachy? Likewise, Carmela won't tell me straight-up, but my guess is that, for all her bravado, actually blowing up the Yaldiv King (while It talks about how It's going to torture her to death and feed her to the grubs, jfc I had forgotten how dark this book is) in Wizards at War was probably one of the scariest actions she's ever taken. (Although it was nothing compared to the moment when it became clear that killing the Yaldiv King wasn't the end of the story.)

[ladysingsthe]

The scariest thing Ava's ever done was survive not the first round of Cold Oak, which was kind of a fluke, but the second.

(First icon to come on shuffle is accuraaaate.)

[herr_bookman]

Canon: Fighting off a man wielding an axe with a book and his bare hands.

Milli-Canon: Toss up between dealing with demon bunnies and talking to Oswin.

[thenewblack]

Artemis would like to point out that surrendering into a hostage situation, with only a single arrow, the rest of the team down and no way to call for back up is a bad thing and would very much like for it to never happen again.

Having Batman show up in her living room the night she saved the rest of the Team was not deliberate but was rather heart stopping.
Somewhere in the GCPD Major Crimes offices there is a coffee tin slowly filling with money. When it is full, it will be taken down and used to buy a large selection of BELLS to hang on a particular flying mammal themed vigilante. Or heart attack medicine for the Commish. Which ever comes first.

[jjprobert]

Max's was his first thesis defence, no question.

Jack's is some of the crazy stuff he's done under Judah's command.

Erik would have said the same (minus the 'first', he's only had one). But then canon happened. Now, it's going up to Coulson to ask for Thor to be released with a series of blatant and easily checkable lies. How the hell that worked, he has no idea, and isn't sure he wants to know.

Alfred's was not just chasing after Bruce, accepting that Bruce is no longer a child, and if he wants to vanish, Alfred just has to let him. Yes, that even trumps some of the heroics he did in various conflicts he took part in.

And finally, Bean. The scariest thing Bean's done was speaking to Poke, offering his idea about how to get change things on the street. Also any time he speaks to Achilles.

[mnt_raph]

Raph once attacked the very leech that drained him of his mutagen, even though he's decidedly ANTI-squidgy things like leeches. (canon)

Splinter has killed and eaten other rats. It was a necessity and he wouldn't have survived otherwise. (canon)

Aang fought the Fire Lord. Or...he will fight the Fire Lord. (canon)

Bumi's of the mind that If You Aren't Scared, It's Not Courage...so he kind of goes out of his way to do scary things all the time.

Mike remains Barman. One of the few things he's actively afraid of is responsibility. (millicanon)

[synchronicity2]

Interesting topic.

Skellig's sense of fear is a little skewed. Trying caviar, while disgusting, isn't really scary. Fighting things he shouldn't really isn't scary either. He has no problem with jumping from heights that are dizzying or etc. Likely, it was grabbing Katya during the Allpocalypse and taking the risk of a world/time slip to get them out of there before it all went to complete hell, but it wasn't scary at the time. It just was what needed to be done. Afterwards he might have contemplated the risks a little, but not much.

Dan got Ben Wade on the train.

Han stood up to Garris Shrike, and despite it ending poorly on several occasions, eventually it paid off, though the death of Dewlannamapia during his final escape attempt still bothers Han. Han found that scarier than being frozen in carbonite (though that he didn't do on purpose, though he didn't fight it either).

Probie's was running into his first real fire.

Jim Gordon's as of this point is likely getting behind the wheel of the Bat!Tumbler, it was awesome but terrifying. When he goes through canon a bit more, it'll change.

Carl's sense of fear is also a bit messed up. Very little actually frightens him, though there are situations he's been in where later he looks back and realizes just how close he came to biting it.

Doc stole three rifles and a horse and rode away from Tulane after deciding he didn't want to stay in medical school. That was scary. And then his first real job as part of a crew, in Liberty, Missouri - that was scary. He's gotten a little bit more used to the fear that comes with the outlaw life, but he's still got a hint of fear in his guy every time he rides out somewhere. And he's okay with that, because it keeps him in check with the reality.

[inlovewithwords]

For Lois, I'm not sure. Maybe opening herself to emotional trauma. (The rest is done fearlessly or reacting to already dangerous situations.)

Tavi, at his current age, maybe standing up to Fidelias and Aldrick at Second Calderon. Despite everything before or since, that's the first major fulcrum. By end of canon: unleashing a semi-sentient volcano and ice hurricane on a valley full of ZergVord and a few hundred thousand people, which might kill all of them--and then flying directly into said hurricane for a potentially fatal fight, leaving his pregnant girlfriend to stop the hurricane and volcano.

[cameoflage]

Well, Dr Thurlow's done a lot of things that are scary because they're dangerous and inadvisable (like... seriously a lot), but I'm torn between accidentally stumbling directly into the afterlife and being treated no differently than the people who had actually got there by dying, because that was unexpected and terrifying, and standing by their poorly-thought-through decision to join a society of duellists whose entire gimmick is that, unlike most everyone else in the Neath, they fight to permanent death. The first is one of the scariest experiences they've had, but they didn't know what they were getting into until it was too late.

Aradia got killed by her mind-controlled quadrantmate! That's not really something she did on purpose, but it was still terrifying. I'm not sure if I should count the Aradiabots from splinter timelines walking knowingly into their doom, but I figure they warrant a mention.