Monday DE: You'll Fall For Anything If There's Nothing You'll Stand For

[splash_of_blue]

UGH WHAT A MONDAY.

Sorry for running late, everyone! This has been an extremely Monday Monday and I am only now getting to sit down for five minutes (and eat my first meal of the day) at... uh, 3:30. Le sigh.

ANYWAY.

It's been said that Captain America will always get back up because it's the right thing to do, while Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) will always get back up because 'f*ck you'.

So my question to you is: when your pup is knocked down (literally or metaphorically), what makes them get back up again?

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[configuration_birdwatcher]

Because they can, and they don't really know how not to as long as they still can.

[bjornwilde]

Jessica: Because she's too stubborn not to get up. She and Carol have that in common, which is likely a basis of their friendship.

Ahsoka: Because someone needs her.

Sabine: Mando'a pride or her family needs her.

Danny: Because he's the Immortal Iron Fist. ;P

Hank: Because someone likely needs his help.

Dog: Her love of Life.

Tybalt: Duty or his love of Toby. Or his pride/confidence.

Viv: Because she has the freedom to chose to do so.

[thebattycakes]

Cisco: Sometimes it's because he's needed, and sometimes it's because he doesn't have all the common sense necessary to know when to stay down. Also, mongoose.

Barry: Because there are people he cares about who need him, and there are people who care about him who are there to help him back up.

Matt: Because 'It's not how you hit the mat, it's how you get back up.'

Logan: Cussedness, tenacity, and the chance to keep up the fight. Also a lifetime member of the 'F*ck you' club.

K-2SO: Because Cassian needs him.

Red: Stubbornness and stupidity. And Liz. Mostly it's Liz.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato: Because someone needs protecting. Also, a hefty dose of pride.

Eden: Pragmatism, combined with an inability to really care about pain or the amount of damage done to him.

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee: delusional/irrational optimism

Cassidy: spite

Pam: because you messed up her hair/clothes/shoes and now you're going to die

Floki: Viking pride

[andinfluencepeople]

No one ever explained it was possible to not.

[childofrebellion]

Late but I love this question and I had a root canal Monday afternoon so late to seeing it.

Cassian: Because he can fight and its what he's good at doing.

Charles: He'd prefer not to fight but he'll make certain no mutant thinks they're alone and will protect them how he can.

Quentin: Protectiveness mixed with some fuck you

Sameth: Don't mess with his people and a little berserker tendency.

Demeter: Don't underestimate her and because people need to be protected to grow their best.

Moist: He's faster and smarter than you.

Will S.: Lots of fuck you to the world and taking care of his people.

William: Fuck you, don't hurt his family or underestimate him.

Ivan: Really rather not do this but you messed with the wrong family.

Tumnus: For Narnia

[splash_of_blue]

So Monday was such an intensely Monday Monday that only now, in the early hours of Thursday, am I finally getting to answer my own DE. Which is slightly annoying, as the idea for it originally came from wanting to babble to someone(s) about Moll...

ANYWAY.

Sam - a combination of stubbornness/contrariness and relentless optimism. Also, a distressing tendency to White Knight that he really wishes he could shake.

McGonagall - she's a Gryffindor. That's generally considered explanation enough. (But also - while her students need her, including ex-students, she'll never stay down.)

War - she's powered by the minds and wants of humanity. While humans dream of war, she'll never stay away.

Poe - sheer bloodymindedness, honestly. That and he genuinely believes in what he's doing, and as such the war is bigger than one person.

BB-8 - to fulfil his programming. (Also because Poe would never cope without him.)

Molly - because other people need her. Because she'll spend her whole life being everything her parents weren't. Because she found some videos her parents recorded once, of themselves toying with a victim, and - once she'd stopped throwing up - she knew that whatever she does, it will never be enough. There will always be one more person. Because other people need her. She's taken Captain Carrot's saying 'personal is not the same as important' and turned it into 'if it's important, then it's personal'. She wouldn't stop even if she lost all her powers tomorrow. Because that's the gig, and she knew that was the gig when she took it. Because she believes that if you can do what other people can't, it's your duty to do it. Because other people need her.

[a1enzo]

Because he has a function to execute and he's needed and it's the right thing to do and also frag you.