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Name	Lonnie Li
Gender	Female
Age	17
Canon	Descendants 2
PB	Dianne Doan

permissions

Backtagging	Y
Threadjacking	Ask
Fourthwalling	Ask
Mind-reading	Y
Injury	Y
Death	N

preferences

I'm good with canon and crosscanon. OTA friendship opportunities. For shipping, I'm a sucker for Jay/Lonnie. Contact me though if you want to try something and we can plot stuff!

about

Who cares if you disagree?
You are not me
Who made you king of anything?
So you dare tell me who to be
Who died and made you king of anything?
- Sara Bareilles, King of Anything

So anybody can be bad to you,
You need a good girl to blow your mind
- Jessie J, Bang Bang

personality

"Hey, guys! I'm Lonnie. My mom's Mulan? No? Anyways, I love what you've done with Jane's hair. And I know you hate us, and, well, you're evil. But do you think you could do mine?"

Lonnie is the youngest daughter of Fa Mulan, the hero of China. This is a fact that she's very proud of. Ever since she was a child, she eagerly trained side by side with her mother, wanting to be just like her when she grows up. Mulan is revered in Auradon as a legendary warrior, a barrier-breaker of sorts who went on to become the first female military officer during her time (who could blame little Lonnie wanting to be like dear ol' mom?) One can say how Lonnie acts and makes decisions is due to how much Mulan is a huge influence on the girl.

She strives to be a kind and honorable person. Lonnie is one of the AKs (Auradon Kids) who showed compassion and decency towards Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos when they first arrived at Auradon Prep. Unlike the other AKs (except Ben and Doug) who were either wary, prejudiced, and/or scared towards the VKs (Villan Kids), Lonnie had an open mind and a curiousity about the four, treating them like they were any other teenager. Heck, she even went out of her way to ask Mal to spell her hair after seeing what a good job Maleficent's daughter did making over Jane, daughter of the Fairy Godmother (who is also the headmistress of the school), making Evie and Mal feel welcomed. She marches to the beat of her own drum, never one to follow trends and popular opinion, choosing to see for herself what are these VKs really like.

"I just, you know, I thought... Even villains love their kids.



Oh... How awful."

Lonnie then got to know the Core 4 during a significant event in the first movie, the one where the Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos are making love potion-laced cookies for Ben. Lonnie cried when she found out that their parents don't even love them. She had only known them for a few weeks and they were basically strangers at this point, but she empathized with them, shedding a tear due to feelings of genuine sadness (which was, incidentally, the final ingredient needed for the cookies).

Coming from a military family and being trained to be able to fight (and defend herself) at a young age, Lonnie grows up to be tough as nails. Other people see her as a fearless and fierce individual. After all, she was brave enough to leave the safety of Auradon to help Carlos, Jay, and Evie rescue Ben from Uma's pirate crew in the Isle of the Lost. In one of Mal' Spellbooks, Jay mentions all Lonnie knew about the Isle is what she would see in the news. She had no idea how dangerous the Isle could be yet she went and decided to go anyway out of loyalty and friendship to Ben. How she convinced Jay and Carlos to let her go to the Isle in the first place displays a stubborn streak she has and a cunning hidden underneath all that Auradon niceness. She basically blackmails the boys, saying if she can't come along with them, she'll tell Fairy Godmother about what happened to Ben. Lonnie doesn't mess around. If there something she wants, she will find a way to get it.

As sweet and nice as she is, Lonnie is not without her flaws. She has a tendency of being judgemental and self-righteous, thinking she is above everyone else. During her time spying on everyone with a video camera she stuck on the ceiling of the cafeteria, Lonnie made snarky and judgy commentary about her fellow students in the footage, airing their dirty laundry in the process (and her own, ironically enough). It took her a while to realize that she felt "morally superior", that she was better than everyone else. Thankfully, her conscience kicked in and she gained the self-awareness to turn off the camera and never spy on anyone again.

Push the right buttons and Lonnie's fiery temper comes forth. It was only glimpsed upon in the second movie, yet one of the supplementary novels reveal that telling Lonnie what she can and can't do really sets her off. The reason for this even though the United States of Auradon is full of "Good Guys", some aspects of their society are not at all that progressive. The fact girls couldn't join R.O.A.R. because of an arcaic rule leaves Lonnie frustrated and disgruntled. She was raised to be independent and strong, to think for herself, but the system forces her to bite her tongue and smile out of politeness. She is however, learning now to know how to calmly pick her battles and when to humble herself (something that Mulan taught her a long time ago).

In the beginning, Lonnie was a naive, sheltered girl who only had one window of life to look out of. Compared to the kids who grew up in the Isle, she had a happier childhood, a family who supports and loves her and friends she could count on. Finding out how awful the Core 4's lives compared to hers was like cold, hard reality slapping her in the face. Lonnie makes strides to be a better friend, growing closer to the VKs, eventually becoming one of Evie's best customers for 4Hearts, her clothing business. She became the closest to Jay, the son of Jafar, whom she helped train in order for him to be accepted in R.O.A.R. (a sport in Auradon which basically combines fencing and Parkour), supporting him throughout the process.

Once Lonnie is your friend, she sticks by you no matter what.

history

School of Secrets

Descendants

Rise of the Isle of the Lost

Descendants 2

Escape from the Isle of the Lost

More info about Lonnie's role in canon in general

To add:

In School of Secrets, Lonnie's intent in placing a hidden camera in the cafeteria was to expose how the students in Auradon Prep are really like when people aren't watching, how the sons and daughters of royalty and heroes aren't what they really seem at first glance. She thought she was above the pettiness and hypocracy the students displayed in her videos until a prank she pulled on a fellow student goes horribly wrong. Eventually, Lonnie realizes she wasn't any better than the students of Auradon Prep (that she is probably worse) and decides to take the camera down.

In Rise of the Isle of the Lost, it was Lonnie who convinced Ben to help her settle the dispute between Northern Wei (her home country) and Agrabah. Ben even went there without any secruity, confident that Lonnie and her sword will be able to protect him. The girl had almost lashed out in anger due to the Grand Vizer's stubborness of not giving into the compromise proposed by Ben. Thankfully, Lonnie calmed herself down just in time and apologized to the Grand Vizer, which took him by surprise. Because of this display of humbleness, the Grand Vizer relents, agreeing to the compromise. The novel also hints at Lonnie's desire to join the R.O.A.R. team, but is hesistant to take that first step. One other plot-related Lonnie did was helping Jay train so that he could join R.O.A.R. by her older brother, Li'l Shang's instructions.

Note: I'm not including the Wicked World webseries because it's considered non-canon and Lonnie doesn't have much a role in that anyway.

LONNIE'S WARRIOR SWORD + ESCAPE TO THE ISLE OF THE LOST + AUDREY'S DIARY WILL FOLLOW