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Who - or what - would your character go to extremes for?

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[have_no_mercy]

A short list of many: Clark, the world, her other teammates, Connor, to confirm suspicions and to get information. She's the kind of girl who doesn't trust anyone else and will her own hands dirty to achieve what she wants. If that means blowing up your car or shooting you to see if you're immortal like she thinks you are, then so be it.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka: Anyone in need. More specifically, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Padmé, Asajj, Lux, and maybe even Barriss.

Asajj: She says herself. In reality it's any woman or girl in need.

Quinlan: His family, Obi-Wan, Ibani, and then innocents in need.

Hank: Raven.

Selina: Tempted to say no one, but then she does some out of character things for Bruce I think.

Rollo: I don't know that he even has a non-extreme filter, tbh. Ragnar, and Siggy, if I had to name people. Floki maybe. Lagertha definitely.

Briareus: Deunan (for now).

Sam: Any vet or person in need. (I'm noticing a theme here.)

Luidaeg: Toby and Quentin, though she would deny it. The selkies, as much as she hates them.

Izana: If we are talking protecting folks, anyone. If we are talking breaking laws, protocols, or other such things, Nagate and then eventually, Yuhata and Tsumugi.

[genarti]

Ha! Oh, Rollo.

[bjornwilde]

He is definitely my problematic favorite.

[salty_witch]

Seeing other answers has made me reconsider Luidaeg's answer.

Toby, Quentin, and the selkies as a whole are still correct, but ultimately, and above and beyond those she loves, is Faerie itself. She will burn and salt fields if it means Faerie will have a future. She will hate herself for doing it, but she will do it.

[genarti]

Ahahahaha.

Enjolras: The French Republic, and his friends. In that order, but in fairly close succession. Would go to extremes, already has, would do again in a heartbeat.

Cosette: Her extremes are, uh, significantly less extreme than Enjolras's. However: her loved ones (Valjean, Marius, her uncle when he was alive, her mother at Milliways even though they really only talked once so that's sort of languishing in Millitime-land), and innocent bystanders, especially children. She would do a lot for a child in danger.

Thor: Asgard, and the safety of the multiverse and the Nine Worlds in it. His mother and father. Loki. Sif and the Warriors Three. Other friends. Innocent bystanders. That's more or less in ranking order. But, hmm... Go to extremes implies to me crossing personal lines, and while Thor's hotheaded and has a certain self-sacrificial bent, his personal lines are pretty strongly drawn. Asgard, or preventing the destruction of another world, is the thing that would push him the farthest, I think. For family or dear friends, he'd go to the brink but probably catch himself before irrevocably crossing lines. (Probably.) Odin and to a lesser extent Loki could manipulate him into a lot, but that's different.

Kazul: Cimorene, other friends, dragons at large, her own temper, I suppose. She's another one with pretty strong lines of internal conduct, though. (Edit: actually, I'm not sure to what extent that's true, and to what extent she just has sort of... external genre constraints acting as brakes? But in a Watsonian sense, the fact that she interacts with people of all species the way she does speaks for her general morals and, at worst, clear sense of enlightened self-interest as regards a society in which nobody acts too awful. And there's a canonical instance where a dragon poisons their king and works with wizards to try to steal the throne and generally is a murderous traitor, and they apparently spontaneously turn (get turned?) into a snake for "undragonlike behavior," so.)

River: Simon. The rest of Serenity's crew. Roland Deschain, though that's less true than it once was. To a lesser extent: Duo Maxwell, LOTS of other friends Milliways and otherwise, her parents, innocent bystanders. (Please note: not Galadan. For reasons.) Honestly, though, River has enough healthy wariness of her own capabilities that if she was in a position of going to extremes, she'd probably (reluctantly, battling herself about it) make sure she was doing so in the presence of someone who could and would stop her one way or another if she went too far.

Trowa: Catherine and all four other Gundam pilots. The ringmaster, X, some other circus folk. But, like River, he'd probably do his best to keep at least one other Gundam pilot and/or Commander Une and/or X in the loop on the situation (if not necessarily every single one of his actions), as a sanity/morality check.

[onceaviking]

Eric puts himself first, so that answers that question.

(Also Godric. And Pam. And sometimes people - a little bit - briefly - shhh)

[maid_of_tarth]

Combeferre: Any other human being's life. Greater medical knowledge, and equal access thereto. Representative, egalitarian government. His friends. In roughly that order.

Jehan Prouvaire: Art, anyone weaker than him, freedom from social and economic repression, his friends, and the French Republic. All of these things are roughly equal.

Brienne of Tarth: Protecting those to whom she owes a duty under her codes of honor and chivalry. Keeping her oaths--first, those of protection, and then, those of vengeance. In roughly that order.

[yakalskovich]

Teja: his people
Ragnar: the people he loves -- his kids, his brother, Lagertha, and especially Athelstan
Father Harman: to stop vampires
Hannibal: Will Graham

[student_of_impossibility]

Alera.

(The people and their future, not the fury.)

Followed by Kitai and their child(ren?). Then the rest of his family and friends. And, if it hasn't already been covered by 'Alera,' doing the right thing or protecting people or proving a point. ...It's usually covered, though, under the 'they are people I am responsible for' clause. Or he'll find a reason it's covered. Or invent one.

[heatherandsteel]

The phrasing of this is interesting for me especially after reading Gen's response because if the extreme is 'would die for them', that's one list and 'would kill for them', for some there's a lot of overlap but others no. The idea of what's extreme too is interesting, so long answers.

Will: Has gone to extremes such as going through torture and facing execution for the people of Nottingham, Robin, the Merry Men, next comes all of his friends and adopted family and friends at Milliways, but he'll risk himself for those he feels are being hurt.

Charles: He avoids extremes but he will push his limits for Raven, Erik, mutants, his friends in Milliways and those in need. So far he's yet to realize how far he'll go and what he can do.

Quentin: In canon, he's often done dangerous and extreme things for the sake of Toby, Raj, the Luidaeg, people in trouble especially those being abused by the system that should work, he has a fairly strong sense of justice. The main examples I'm thinking of are going into the iron dungeons of the Queen to rescue Toby and following her to Blind Michael's land.

William: His family, always his family, he's like his father that way and his friends at Milliways, how far depends on the friend. Canon is really all about pushing the Evanses to see how far before they break.

Sameth: His family, the Old Kingdom, his friends, anyone being abused by magic, that's personal for him, but he's also afraid of extremes. His father is a berserker and I think he has some of it in how he fights and he's careful. Though the way he works for the Old Kingdom is a definite extreme that he doesn't even question.

Moist: Not even really for himself, an extreme for him would be violence and he doesn't go there. His morals are odd. He'll take great risks for knowledge, tricking someone and getting what he thinks is a good score but its a different way of thinking about extremes.

Jane: Her family especially her sister and father, Tom, her writing, these are all about equal.

Ivan: His family, Barrayar, but he'd really rather not go to extremes, he knows the cost of doing that.

Demeter: Kore, those of her family she cares about, people she considers hers and her extremes are terrifying. A problem with being a Greek goddess, she doesn't have a lot of brakes on her behavior.

Tumnus: Lucy, Aslan, Narnia, the Pevensies but it won't be easy for him.