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@cat-tras
i love how when the alliance is planning how to take down the horde adora always like dont forget how powerful catra is. catra is very smart. catra would not fall for that plan. do not underestimate catra. you guys are not taking catra into account! this is what catra would do:
5x05 || 5x13
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she in fact, has no idea
LAST POST I SWEAR I PROMISE hi I rewatched she ra season 1.... sorry.
“and part of this character’s arc is them learning how to be loved and cared for”
me every time: oh my god part of this character’s arc is them learning how to be loved and cared for
1.02 - The Sword Pt. 2 // 5.03 - Corridors & 5.05 - Save The Cat
glimmer and catra when they realize they both used adora’s life as a playing chip for their own gain only to have it massively backfire on them
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power ✾ Catra
Catra and Adora were taught to physically fight from the time they were young children, which I think is so interesting because we see the negative impact of that on their relationship. Obviously that's an unhealthy way to deal with things. They don't really know how to express their emotions or vulnerability very well. In Adora's words, she's used to punching her feelings out. In their horde days we see that one of the main ways they express affection for each other is roughhousing. Constantly. They mainly just tackle each other and playfight. It's a kind of physical touch that's more easily allowed within their framework than any kind of gentleness. While that's partially due to their dynamic in general, it quickly becomes sinister once they're actually on opposite sides of the war and are fighting with the intention to defeat. Another user posted about their fighting and the unspoken emotion behind it since they haven't been taught to express themselves in a heathy way (couldn't find the post so feel free to tag OP!). Because of their particular kinds of trauma, neither of them are able to be vulnerable and listen to the other while also explaining their feelings. For the first four seasons they're pretty much shouting at each other without any active listening going on. That lack of vulnerability and understanding is symbolized by their physical fights. What makes season 5 so good (at least in part) is The Shift™️ to gentleness.
Adora's been in an environment with people around her who have helped her start to recover from her trauma. Catra just starts to get that chance once she's rescued from horde prime. And it takes time. There's a lot to unpack there and it's not easy, but slowly Catra starts to heal as well away from the Horde. And their dynamic changes. We still see moments when they regress (their fight immediately after Save the Cat and the scene where Catra leaves again both moments when they aren't really listening to what the other person is saying - healing isn't linear), but there's something else there as well. They put their hands on each other's cheeks, Adora puts her hand on Catra's shoulder, they cradle each other, Catra holds Adora's shoulders as she helps her to the heart. And there's the moment in the spaceship where they've been fighting once again and Catra's exterior breaks and she's vulnerable. Catching Adora's wrist, her hand slides down to gently caress Adora's and she asks her to stay. This moment mirrors the moment in the first season where Adora catches Catra's wrist, asking her to come with her and Catra pulls away. Rather than the wrist (still a somewhat detached touch), Catra's hand slides down intentionally taking her hand. Ughhhhhh. My little heart. Before when they're holding hands, it's usually accidental or almost unavoidable during a fight. They're pulling each other off of cliffs or grabbing hands in a mind-bending reenactment of their memories. But this is something else: intentional gentleness which I think is such a crucial element of Catra's redemption, the development of their relationship, and the healing of their trauma.
Once Catra is out of the horde, she has the chance to start to feel safer and is able to be more emotionally vulnerable along with the fact that there are boundaries. Violence won't be tolerated and Catra has to change her behavior in order to be close to Adora, which I think is important. They start listening to each other and helping each other heal by validating the other's needs while putting themselves in each other's shoes. This peaks at the moment that Catra is finally able to express her love for Adora, which she's never had the ability to do before because of her insecurity, trauma, and fear of vulnerability. With that narrative resolution and progression, they finally kiss. Gentleness and vulnerability is what they were never allowed before and it's the thing that embodies their healing. Nothing that hasn't been said before by other posters but ughhhhhhhhhhhhh
!spoiler alert! catradora memes
I recently hit upon a realization when it comes to Bow.
I tend to see him as the one sane man in a castle full of drama disasters and the resident Best Friends Squad holder of the one (1) braincell.
But that's actually doing him disservice, because Bow has SO MANY bad decisions under his belt and SO MUCH potential for drama all in himself. But since he's almost paired with even more dramatic companions, he tend to be overshadowed.
When Glimmer YOLOs right into any conflict, Bow is right behind her.
When Adora has a stupid plan, Bow has her back.
When Entrapta invents murder bots, Bow reprograms them.
Bow is not the holder of the braincell - he's simply the second most stupid person in the room at all times.
characters who view themselves as tools/weapons first and people second... characters who martyr themselves for a cause because they think that's the only way they can be worth something... characters who push themselves past their breaking point again and again and again... characters for whom devotion and masochism are inseparable... characters whose self-sacrifice becomes self-annihilation...... what was my point again? i had a point. anyway.
she ra and the princesses of power season 1 episode 11 ‘promise’
no because it’s like. they grew up so horribly. but adora was a baby when she was taken by the horde and catra iirc was a few years old when she was taken so it’s like ‘this is all i’ve ever known so i don’t know (or care) to look at it critically until i’m forced to’ vs ‘even if it’s vague i remember what it was like to be cared for and loved and i know this is wrong but everything else was taken from me so i want to dominate it the same way it dominated me because it’s all i have.’ but then that also leads to adora not clocking the horde as bad even though she watched catra be mistreated and was mistreated herself and catra resenting her SO much for it because why did it take people you don’t know showing it to you for you to realize i’m being hurt and even then adora STILL doesn’t grasp it because she doesn’t know what shadow weaver did to catra after she left and she still doesn’t want to accept that she herself was so so badly hurt by everything that went on there. i never meant to make you feel like second best vs you leaving was the best thing that ever happened to me. i thought you didn’t care about any of that well i was lying obviously. and they just cannot truly confront or understand the feelings they have for each other which is why it makes it so difficult. and if we’re taking catra’s eventual “i love you i always have” fully and completely to heart, catra losing everything to the horde but gaining adora through it and then losing adora too, she literally LITERALLY cannot have love. the rebellion isn’t a better option for her even if it means being with adora because she’s not valuable or special like adora, shadow weaver could and would have taken her down, and the rebellion didn’t come to save her when she needed it, why would she help them. all she has is the horde, and these losses, and the only way she can fathom filling up the holes left in her from all the loss she’s faced is to become so powerful (and isolated) that she never has to lose anything again. i’m foaming at the mouth.
also i literally cannot get over the fact that the first ones ruin can’t be found unless it wants to be found and adora knows that, and light hope waits until adora yells out loud that she’s vulnerable and weak and then reveals it to her, and makes the ruin extremely obvious to catra so she can draw her in at the same time as adora and use all the holograms and memories to tear them apart. like.
I honestly can't help but to admire the combination of complex factors contributing to Catra's mental deterioration. This girl has everything, abandonment issues, straight up abuse and betrayal. Of course, her becoming increasingly isolated throughout S4 was almost entirely self-inflicted, but it didn't make watching it any less painful. She drove everyone away, while still blaming the others for it, and then she was hit by that most painful realization of all: maybe it's not them. Maybe it's me.
And the way her loneliness and isolation culminates at the start of s5, being stuck on Prime's ship, surrounded by nothing but brainwashed clones and vast coldness of space. It's such a heart wrenching moment when Catra realizes that her terrible decisions have ruined her life and there's really no way out for her.
