Out of all the ASOIAF POV charcaters, I think Davos would best be able to resist picking up the ring, particularly after he'd learned caution from Blackwater.
She was unable to become no-one - she may have learned from the house of black and white, but she always had her revenge list that was personal. I think Brienne had a better chance. Maybe Meera Reed - but unlikely.
Depends whether we're talking newly-adopted orphan and Professional Fantasist or older woman who has Experienced Suffering. The latter could make it to Mount Doom imo.
Perhaps that might be true in light of the rest of the series which I haven't read, but first book Anne Shirley seems like she would have been the dread queen Cordelia if given half a chance.
that's what I think a lot of these are missing, Hobbits are childlike and young Hobbots a bit childish but all of them are young *adults* well past puberty nut not fully developed, so you have to factor in that difference when you're thinking about humans.
(I mean, insofar as any adult is fully prepared for the consequences... fully willing to be responsible, I suppose, would be a better way to describe it)
yep. The difference between a sixteen year old and a twenty two year old is a vast gulf anx Hobbits live longer so tnat gulf is decades longer, buf it's the sand problem we're having in the What Abojt the March Disters subthread.
I'll accept it. Though they are gonna have to settle on not puffed sleeves for a little while and Anne is gonna have to chill slightly on the daydreaming before it becomes disassociation.
anne would be more tempted by imagining herself as the brave but tragic heroine who dramatically casts the ring into mount doom than she would be by anything the ring itself could offer
God, I hated that character. I'm thinking more in terms of a leading character. Buffy sacrificed herself more than once, proving she always puts others first. I don't recall her ever weakening to the point of being tempted to the dark side.
Angel would be in danger for two seconds, and Buffy would accept the power immediately, damn the consequences.
Then there would be an entire season arc of Dark Lord Buffy before Willow figures out a way to free her but at the cost of sacrificing [the cast member who is leaving for a movie deal].
I think that's what people miss about the Ring. You don't have to have any evil in your heart to be corrupted by it.
Using the ring at all corrupts you, no amount of goodness or willpower can save you. If you think "I can use it for good" you've already lost. Tara would think she could handle it.
THE ONE RING: I will grant your heart's deepest desire
ANNE SHIRLEY: I wish to stumble into mount doom, to say a final farewell to my bosom friend diana barry, and then to take my final swoon and die casting the ring into the fire. all will cherish me and weep
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Brienne of Tarth would be Hurin Thalion.
Nobody from ASOIAF is resisting the one ring except maybe the night king.
After what THAT woman went through??
A too-young Anne would've coveted the heck out of it.
It's a challenge.
They're young men, so they're slightly immature but they're fully prepared for the consequences of everything.
We need an Anne ready to set off to teach school for the first year.
Then there would be an entire season arc of Dark Lord Buffy before Willow figures out a way to free her but at the cost of sacrificing [the cast member who is leaving for a movie deal].
Using the ring at all corrupts you, no amount of goodness or willpower can save you. If you think "I can use it for good" you've already lost. Tara would think she could handle it.
ANNE SHIRLEY: I wish to stumble into mount doom, to say a final farewell to my bosom friend diana barry, and then to take my final swoon and die casting the ring into the fire. all will cherish me and weep
THE ONE RING: hang on
Anne, cheerfully: "Oh, well, you know my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes!"