Lonnie

— Lonnie

* Lonnie
* Young

**Lonnie** is a supporting character in *She-Ra and the Princesses of Power*. She is a member of the Horde in Season One through to early in Season Five. In "Destiny Part 2," she defected from the Horde with Kyle and Rogelio.

## Appearance

Lonnie is always seen wearing the Horde uniform. She wears a white and red shirt, along with dark grey pants striped with white, and red and black shoes. She has shoulder-length brown dreadlocks tied back in a ponytail and hazel eyes.

## Personality

She is shown as a tough and fair Horde soldier. She didn't like it when Catra played dirty against Adora and decided to attack her during the battle simulation when they were teenagers. She used to be friendly toward Adora since she recognized how hard she worked, but became resentful after Adora defected.

Despite her tough exterior, Lonnie has a side in that she cares about her friends, even if she does not show it all that much, which is why she held a grudge against Adora for leaving. She grew to hold Catra in contempt for the way she treated Lonnie and the others to the point that they left The Horde entirely.

In many ways, Lonnie is meant to be the face of the average Horde soldier. She is loud, aggressive, commanding, but fair. In her first true appearance, she angrily threatens Catra, and saying that Adora is not there to protect her anymore. When she says this, two other unnamed recruits step up to her side. As Catra starts showing her skill and competence as a commander, Lonnie never quite befriends her but she shows less issue with her commanding nature and assists her with her operations. However, she begins to show irritation with Catra's and increasingly aggressive treatment towards her and the other Horde soldiers, ultimately prompting her to leave.

## Relationships

### Catra

Catra and Lonnie have never liked each other, even when they were children. Lonnie thinks Catra is unmotivated and useless in battle, often coming into the simulations at the last second. She is not happy when Catra is made Force Captain after Adora's defection from the Horde, but listens to her without argument when in battle. In Season Four, their relationship worsens when Catra continuously sends Lonnie and her team out on the field and refuses to let them rest. Lonnie verbalizes her frustration toward Catra during the spore storm and briefly considered leaving the Horde due to Catra’s attitude, but decided against it. She did show concern for Catra after witnessing one of her manic episodes and tried to offer advice to her former friend, but Catra only pushed Lonnie away. Ultimately, Catra’s obsession with winning the war drove Lonnie to the point where she decided to defect from the Horde with Kyle and Rogelio.

### Kyle

Lonnie often blames Kyle when he gets taken down by the enemy. She can be seen alongside him in battle many times, getting taken down at nearly the same time as him. During a spore storm, Lonnie, Kyle, and Rogelio began arguing over who should go out and fix their ship. She constantly berated Kyle, however it's clear she cares a bit about him. When Kyle goes out and gets hurt, Lonnie and Rogelio step up and save him, strengthening their friendship. In later episodes, she was continuously sent out on missions by Catra and constantly asked Catra to let her and the team rest. She ultimately leaves the Horde with Kyle and Rogelio after Catra drives them to the edge.

### Rogelio

The two of them are occasionally seen together, but typically not unless Kyle is around. Rogelio doesn't have any speaking lines in the show as of Season One, but they work well together and don't get in one an other's way. During a spore storm, she fights with Rogelio and Kyle about who would be the leader. After Kyle gets injured from the spores, Lonnie and Rogelio work together to save him and fix their transport, strengthening their friendship. Lonnie, Rogelio, and Kyle were repeatedly sent out on missions by Catra without any sleep, so Lonnie often pleaded with Catra to let them rest. She ultimately leaves the Horde with Rogelio and Kyle after she becomes fed up with Catra and the Horde.

### Scorpia

Lonnie may have a crush on Scorpia. In "Roll With It," she blushes after Scorpia thanks her. However, at the same time, Lonnie was frustrated that Catra put Scorpia in charge of the defense of the stronghold rather than having someone more competent, like herself, take charge. When she defected from the Horde, she let Scorpia pass saying that she was "one of them." This causes Scorpia to give them all a big hug and she then asks Glimmer to look after her.

### Adora

Lonnie is furious with Adora and attacked her on sight after Adora's defection. At one point during a battle, Lonnie yelled, "We used to be your friends. You left us!"

## Powers and abilities

She appears to be strong and well trained in hand to hand combat. Also, she has some tech expertise as she deploys the spy-bot in "Roll With Itt". She does not display any magical abilities or sorcery skills.

## Plot

### Past

Nothing is known about Lonnie’s life before the Horde, where she comes from or how she joined the Horde. When she was a young teenager, she appeared to have been rather close with Kyle and Rogelio even then.

### Season One

She made an appearance training in the Fright Zone with Adora and the other recruits. She joined the attack on Salineas along with Scorpia and Catra. Later, she helped kidnap Glimmer and Bow from Princess Prom and proceeded to defend the Fright Zone from the hero's attack and rescue. She also participated in the attack on Bright Moon.

### Season Two

Lonnie and several other Horde soldiers rescued Catra from Glimmer and Bow's custody after they accidentally captured her while trying to rescue Entrapta from the Fright Zone.

In a Horde controlled tower, while Catra was away on a mission with Scorpia in charge. During this time, general confusion and chaos were abundant. Lonnie and Rogelio were in utter disbelief that Catra put Scorpia in charge when Lonnie believed she was best choice for this leadership position. Scorpia then spent valuable preparation time opining about her friendship with Catra and failed to prepare for the Rebel attack.

Lonnie activated a spy-bot to go collect information on the princesses. The Spy Bot collected visual and audio from the Princess camp that distressed Scorpia but confirmed to Lonnie that the Princesses were struggling. Lonnie and Rogelio aptly prepared the tower and reassured Scorpia that things were under control. However, the Horde could not have prepared for an Perfuma's plant golem, Sea-Ra, Frost-bight: Winter's Bane, and the rest of the Rebellion which decisively overtook the tower.

### Season Three

When the heroes invaded the Fright Zone to free Adora they had a brief altercation with Lonnie and Rogelio.

In an alternate reality when Adora is freaking out and going through time-shifts, Lonnie and Rogelio arrive, expressing they have big news. Adora ends up at her destination without remembering traveling the distance to get there. They say they are being deployed to Salineas and that it has already been a week, and Adora doesn't remember this time passing.

### Season Four

Kyle, Lonnie, and Rogelio are en route back to the Fright Zone in a Horde transport, bringing a special armor plating for Catra. As they pass through the Whispering Woods an acidic spores eat through the metal of their transport and damages the wiring, bringing it to a halt.  Lonnie and company fail to decide who to send into the spore storm to fix the transport, and tensions rise to a boiling point. Lonnie yells at Kyle that Catra doesn't care about them that it's everyone for themselves. Despondent about not having the friendships he thought he had, Kyle goes out into the storm alone and soon succumbs to the corrosive spores. Lonnie and Rogelio use the armor plating as an umbrella to rescue Kyle, Lonnie carrying him to safety while Rogelio sees that Kyle has already fixed the transport. They then flee the forest.

After Catra tasks Scorpia with finding them Entrapta’s recordings for Hordak, Scorpia encounters Lonnie on the way, who tells her to wake up. She says Catra doesn't care about any of them, including Scorpia.

While in the Fright Zone, Catra scours the Horde's surveillance systems for any trace of Scorpia, coming up with nothing. Lonnie, Rogelio, and Kyle return after working multiple double shifts, Kyle badly injured, but Catra sends them back out on yet another mission despite their protestations. Catra continues searching in vain until she hears laughter. She initially mistakes it for Scorpia, but she soon realizes it was only horde soldiers. She then pulls Lonnie in to question as to why they're laughing. When Lonnie explains that they just need sleep to be "okay”, Catra breaks down over Scorpia's absence. She dismisses Lonnie angrily.

Later, Glimmer and Scorpia arrive in the Fright Zone to balance the planet. They are quickly found by Lonnie, Rogelio, and Kyle, but they are fed up with Catra's irrational orders. They let them in without challenge, as they are themselves leaving the Horde.

### Season Five

The trio is shown in "Heart Part 2", the series finale, residing in the Crimson Waste and taking care of Imp.

## Quotes

"Seriously, Kyle?"-Lonnie to Kyle in a training, "The Sword: Part 1"

"Uh, it's not turned on, and, umm, that's not how it works."-Roll With It

"They're obviously just coming up with ideas. Terrible ideas!"-Roll With It

"We've added more bots to the tower's weak points. Kyle is hiding somewhere. Rogelio is commanding the extra turrets."-Roll With It

"For the last time, none of that stuff was real. We reinforced our defenses. We got this!"-Roll With It

"You were fighting dirty. I was just leveling the field."-Young Lonnie in Catra's flashback, Promise

## Trivia

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