Monday DE: It's a kind of magic

[bjornwilde]

I blame finishing She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (which was a lot of fun) this weekend for this one...

Your character's canon now depends on the power of friendship to win the thing. How screwed are your characters?

ETA: D'uh, I'd meant to mention the Secret Santa exchange again. I'm extending the sign up deadline to this Friday, as I've only had two people sign up. If that's all the interest there is, awesome, but I wanted to give people more of a chance if not. So please sign up if you were thinking about it. I will not be mean with deadlines, I promise. This is meant for fun.

Comments

[cottoncandypink]

Welp.

[shinyhappygoth]

Enzo: In good shape, actually! Though in ReBoot's case it's not just friendship, it's a nice blend of all types of love, which can only help matters.

Zecora: And...?

[holdingacat]

Night Vale for the win, every time. Well. Most times. Every time once they figure out no 'hero' is going to come save them, and isn't that one hell of a lesson.

Aka Cecil's disappointed voice is the wooooorst.

[wayward_sun]

Ehem....
Does demons beholden to you count?

Seriously though, he gets better at the friendship thing.

[varadia]

X does great!

Ysalwen does great!

Thrawn . . . does poorly and is completely screwed.

Sombra is hosed!

Galadan . . . in canon is screwed. In Milliways, back before I retired him, he was slightly less screwed, except that Mary and River had a MILLION FRIENDS, so by dint of them being his people he would . . . be okay. Ish.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato will cope, I'm sure.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka: I'd like to say she's good, but her closest friends either betrayed her directly, disappeared off the map, or caused the beginning of a fascist government. Still, she makes new friends...so only partially screwed?

Sabine: She's fine.

Danny: Arguably it's his desire for friendship that wins the day...at least in Ward's case. Things with Joy could've gone better.

Viv: Another who's fine. The Champions take care of each other and win the day.

Jessica: I think she's okay, though she'll be snarky or grumpy about it.

[cameoflage]

Bastion, Aradia, and Wilson can probably manage, though Wilson will grumble; I think Thurlow and Cirava will have difficulty.

[death_gone_mad]

Since Amascut has done so much work to spread discord already, she'd do fine.

Unless friendship is the only source of magic. She is bad at genuine friendship and she doesn't trust anyone to get as close as a real friend would get. She'd figure a way around it, eventually.

Fairy Fixit has great work friends; she'd do just fine.

[have_no_mercy]

Tess is okay! She has this friendship thing down.

Rose is... maybe okay. She knows some people but they're not ride or die.

Creed and Kylo are screwed. Royally.

[sticktothemission]

Gabriel does decently! Reaper does not.

Khadgar wins all the things. Everyone is a friend until proven otherwise! Unless they're a demon. +/- Void-touched.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: Would argue that in fact that played a role in saving the world in his canon.

Evelyn: Moooostly okay. Little screwed. FUCK YOU FEN'HAREL

Lois: Totes fine, there's thing her friends at school plus Perry plus sometimes her family plus Clark can't handle.

Anakin: ...Sorta fine. Mostly. Usually. Until he breaks everything.
Vader: Totally and galactically screwed.
Ghostkin: cynical about it but frankly, yeah, willing to stand behind it because Luke thinks he should.

R2-D2: Fine and dandy.

Tavi: Arguably The Power Of Friendship was pretty critical to solving canon. Like literally friending enemies is kind of how he averted the apocalypse. So he's fine. He screws up sometimes, but he's fine.

[genarti]

Enjolras is SO ON THIS. Oh my god. If the power of friendship were all it took, the Amis de l'ABC could have brought about a successful revolution years before their last and most personally fatal attempt to do so.

Cosette, however, is... it's unclear? She had friends in her school, but then she left school and lived a fairly isolated life, but Hugo never thinks to tell us whether she did or didn't keep up with her school friends so I like to think she did. I don't know to what extent they're the kind of friends who would or could drop everything to help save the day, though. But!
She has some friends at Milliways, and her husband Marius has a lot of good friends (see the Enjolras answer above) who would mobilize on his behalf much, much more than I think Marius realizes. So, uh, depends on if she has a bit of time to gather the extended network, probably, and also if people who are dead in her world are allowed to help out.

Thor is... uh... okay, it depends a bit on which point in which movie we're talking about. Sometimes he's recently exiled or all nearby friends have just been killed or whatever. But generally he's solid, because he is a firm believer in the power of friendship himself!

Kazul is from the kind of kids' book where that's a subtextual theme anyway. She'll be fine.

Doctor Dinosaur, however, is completely screwed.