Character: Anthony (scramasax)
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Indeed!
How difficult is she likely to find it? He'd push quite hard against any total defiance of integrity and there'd be resistance if she caught him in frame of mind to think that something's really not quite right - but on the whole, very doable!

Alas, 'twould have been a yes on Cinderella as well were she not a horse.