AND HEY WHILE WE’RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE BROKEN LOOKING AT YOU ADORA
She literally did nothing wrong here, NOTHING. She was promoted because she’s good at what she does and works hard. She didn’t rub it in Catra’s face, Catra came along and saw and then grilled her. Catra asked a question so Adora answered it, and not a shitty way!
It’s the lightest possible criticism WHICH IS NOT EVEN ACTUALLY CRITICISM IT’S JUST HAVING A BASIC OBSERVATIONAL AWARENESS and delivered in this light affectionate tone. Still, Catra flies off the fucking handle, turns it around as Adora being a bootlicker, and vaults off to the highest point to pout, leaving Adora standing there, feeling guilty, her well-earned achievement now bitter and tarnished.
FUCKING RAPPELS UP A HUNDRED STORIES TO TAKE ALL THE BLAME
She apologizes. She tries to explain. She expresses that Catra hurt her feelings. (She doesn’t say INTENTIONALLY, but no mistake, Catra absolutely intended to draw blood.) She does everything she can to smooth this over, and never once insists on anything from Catra, who can’t even bring herself to accept her own part in ANY OF THIS.
They’re both so broken, but in so many different ways that only feed and enable those broken parts in each other. Catra refuses to accept responsibility for anything in her life, and Adora’s compulsion to be responsible for LITERALLY EVERYTHING EVER is only too happy to shoulder every drop of blame as proof of how she’s not doing ENOUGH.
It’s such an FASCINATING way of building these characters, and exacerbating all of their issues by the world around them, and showing that they only way they can actually heal from everything in their lives is through themselves.
Adora feels she and she alone is responsible for fixing everything? Fine, you’re now a superhero who’s job it is to fix everything, feel better? No?
Catra feels she’s been done by everyone and everything her entire life and nothing is her fault? Awesome, here’s all the power you wanted and someone who believes in and supports you unconditionally, feel better? No?
There’s so much in She-Ra that’s difficult and complicated and challenging, and there is no part of me that could have predicted a cheaply animated Hasbro toy-selling vehicle from the brightly glitterfied cocaine-riddled 80s would be one of the tightest written and unflinchingly difficult stories of the 21st millennium, BUT HERE WE ARE.
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