Before replying to the others wanted to check where you stand about Latooni, because Royal Heart Break may just be the most Idolish ability in the whole super robot wars series even taking in account Macross ones. If that's not Idol enough for you, then nothing is.
Royal Heart Breaker may be the most idol-ish ability in SRW, but Latooni is *not* an idol. She's a Real Robot Pilot through and through. her backstory, her characterization, and everything she does that isn't RHB is incredibly Real Robot. She's part of the Agressors, the most skilled piloting squadron in the earth sphere!
Lolwhut?
I don't recall a single time the gang gets all together and the Aggressors are picked up to lead the charge against the final big bad. That's usually the ATX or SRX teams. None of the Agressor's members were even a main character in my memory, in contrast to Kyosuke/Excellen, Ryusei, Khushua, Sanger motherfucking Zonvolt, etc. Which Aggressor exactly is more skilled than the Sword that Smites Evil? Or more skilled than the pilot who tames a mecha-sized god to use as her ride?
And Latooni in particular had the very shameful display of letting a cutting edge prototype get stolen while she was riding it at the start of OG2. By somebody piloting a basic lion. I'll repeat it for good measure, Latooni in a high grade prototype gets her ass handed to her by somebody in the second most mook model in the whole series, basic cannon fodder even back at the start of OG1. That's hardly a great show of skill, and I'm pretty sure any serious military wouldn't keep around somebody who just lets the enemy loot their brand new super expensive machine from under your nose, at least not without some punishment.
But Latooni's the original's mascot, up to the point she was wearing a super frilly dress at the time, so of course they talk to the high brass to forgive her and let her in a new machine.
She also adds "wa" at the end of lots of her sentences in japanese too to go along her frilly dress for max moe character. Even in the wiki she's dressed like an idol whereas full real pilots are actually in their military/pilot uniforms.
So Latooni indeed cannot do that move without Shine doing it with her. Is Shine the actual Idol? Are the crowd in your theory there for her or her bodyguard?
Latooni's not Shine's bodyguard, they're not sticking together everywhere. Shine's a peace princess (I used her pic for a reason), and as pointed above Latooni knows how to be pretty popular by herself to the point she evades punishment for letting brand new prototypes mugged because she can drive those around to adore her (did I mention how she dresses the most frilly of any original character during battle?)
Shine in the other hand started as a "higher than thou" arrogant brat and only started getting better after another Original heavily chastised her.
Royal Heart Break may just be the most Idolish ability in the whole super robot wars series
I'm not hearing her sing, nor playing music. Her mecha has no speakers or anything. She's dancing and bardic music doesn't care for dance while it is an important Idol thing.
Even though she's leading the attack, she feels like Shine's sidekick, helping make *her* look good, and outside of that move she's still just battledancing.
And it is only the one attack. So it probably is just one of those special attack SFX, not so different from when the sky suddenly goes dark, blood red, from a clear sky to a dark storm, bunch of random flower petals popin' up and similar and after the attack it's all gone.
Or I could actually make a class about fighting in stage while making the crowd go wild instead of dismissing it as "just SFX". Latooni's a big part of that inspiration.
Plus trivia, Latooni's clothing change in the middle of action is something Macross idols have been known to do.
And where do you think the background music is coming from?
(before you claim every pilot has music, also anybody in D&D can play an instrument, but a bard gets to it to provide bonus)
Changed Idol Music to Idol Show anyway.
Also remember me to make some feat or prc to make skies suddenly go dark and blood red and whatnot when you unleash your special attack.
Still piloting his ride with a guitar-shaped controller. That's really high in the nerd scale last time I checked.
And again he makes his enemies self-destruct.
In the musician-scale even more. If you were a guitarist and you were told you could control your ride with a guitar, you'd go nuts. Nerds would probably use a game controller instead, and even then I've seen a bunch of retards play games so it isn't very conclusive on the Intelligence scale and certainly not an indicator that you're fighting using Intelligence. Using Perform even to pilot the mecha is putting his charisma to work constantly.
Killing enemies with music nothing new. "Music is their weakpoint" happens often. Senki Zesshou Symphogear does it all the time. RahXephon has the mecha/dolems using sound to fight, Mars Attack... send an enemy that is weak to music and up comes a musician hero to defeat them. Killing enemies with music does not make you an Idol by default either. Just means that you can use music as a weapon and Basara has this spirita special music-based power that is particularly effective.
You can have high Int and still look like a retard if your Cha and Wis are low enough.
On the other hand right now we have the tech to make any mechanical ride controllable by a guitar, but how many musicians do you see doing it? None that I remember, and that's because piloting a vehicle with a guitar is a demonstration of nerd gaming skillz like Ryusei and... Crap, I just cornered myself.
Ok you win this one.
Well, for starters you claim that "rather than destroying them (his enemies), he wants to win them over." is a sign of super charisma, while Miu Kujou's...
Even the Peace Princess got a Cha-based ability to be able to perform mass-slaughter. Psycho-killing a lot of people is thus not indicative of low Charisma either. Nor is it indicative of high Intelligence.
Couple Key differences is that a)genocyde princess gets others to help her instead of they going "bitch be crazy, somebody restrain her!" and b)she's not actively enjoying it, rather taking it as serious dirty work that needs to be done. Miu is loving that shit, but doesn't get anybody else to follow her killing sprees.
On the other hand she was smart enough to find her machine by herself searching when virtually every other pilot in the series had their machines either gifted or the mecha go to them, after which Miu Kujou also figured out its special abilities pretty fast too.
She could find her class abilities. Nice. Robots are often found by fate or luck. Simon was smart enough to find the Lagann in the bowels of the earth too. Are those abilities she found Intelligence-based and are they Idol abilities or something anybody could have done?
Search is indeed Int based and she was smart enough to figure out "if I follow the main character, some new machine is bound to be nearby, then just gotta snatch it up first before somebody else does", which makes her one of the smartest characters in the series. Not randomly wandering and tripping in a cockpit. Miu knew what she was getting herself into.
Anyway I bring a new Int Idol example that I can't believe I forgot: Lulu V.Britannia!
-Loves to put up a great show.
-Gets about half the world dancing to his tune.
-Great at buffing his allies.
-Even has magic powers based on charming/dominating others!
-Definitely Int based. Chess master, tactical genius, plans multiple steps ahead.