I would not only resist the One Ring, I would be clever and virtuous enough to turn things around so that Sauron only thought he was using me while really I was using him in order to right the great wrongs of the world, redress injustices, confiscate power from the unworthy, and oh shit I'm a wraith
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(Unless the poster means "refuse outright, as Gandalf did")
If you could drop your fandom fave into a real Middle-Earth milieu governed by Tolkien's thinking, they would succumb
If you're telling the story, the ring follows your logic but is not really "the One" Ring anymore
I personally think it's more interesting to think about how the ring would work on a given character in particular than to declare it wouldn't...
By the principles of that setting, nobody is supposed to be able to just resist the Ring indefinitely through sheer willpower
even Frodo lost to it in the end, and the only reason it fell into mt doom was cause of Sam and Smeagol
Paragons are fun. I love several and don't begrudge others'. But the Ring isn't Thor's Hammer. One's worthiness is not proof against corruption but a risk of falling
Superman would be far more interesting, narratively
Otoh, thematically,
The very traits that make them protagonists make them susceptible in the extreme.
You know, like Mr. Blobby.
He's not particularly noted for his willpower but he's mostly tempted by things like gardening and marmalade
The Callahan girls have both faced the choice of seemingly ultimate power and turned away from it before, recognizing that kind of thing for the trap it is, is part of what wizards *do*.
There is no safe use case for the One Ring.
Dipper would fall to it the same way Frodo did except he'd speed-run it.
But nobody asked him to so the book could happen
The Seven Rings inflamed their wearers' greed and lust for power -- no mind control, so not super great for Sauron, but not healthy or safe either.
But she doesn't hold out indefinitely.
Regardless, yeah, resisting the Ring is not about just being "built different"
(Which sounds like a D&D wondrous item)
Power corrupts.
His heroes have many other strengths.
Though I was amusing myself thinking Daria would shrug and walk away because too much drama.
my favorite answer was morticia, who has the superpower of contentment.
nope, it is "already powerful beyond temptation," "entirely unintersecting with the ring's reality" or "has no desires" or nothing
I agree on Morticia. She'd enjoy the hike through Mordor.
or to know that it *could* and that that’s bad news, and not pick it up at all.
NOBBY NOBBS
"Wear the One Ring? Mr Vimes'd go spare!"
And tarnish itself into uselessness in the process.
Also Nanny might accidentally drop-kick him into a volcano at the end.