Panel question: When do you think Catra and Adora each first realized they had feelings for one another?
Noelle: I feel like I said last week that Adora had never thought of kissing anybody before, and I got some tweets from people who were like “how can she be in love with Catra if she has never thought about it?” And I feel like Adora is one of those people who is so repressed. It’s like, here’s my box of what I want… gonna bury that deep inside and think about my job, how to be the best leader, force captain, She-Ra, whatever. And with those kind of people–because I was that kind of person at a time in my life–As soon as you break that box open, they’re like “oh my god, of course!” She’d get so into it the second she realizes.
But Catra has always known. I feel like she didn’t wanna say it and then not have Adora say it back. So she has also been pressing it down and suppressing it and hiding it, which is probably where so many of her issues come from because she’s not being honest with anyone else, or with herself.
But I think it’s just two people who grew up in an environment where this was very much not a thing that people did. I think they realized it in different ways at different times. Adora knows that she loves Catra, but I don’t think she quite puts it all together–that this is what she wants to be for Catra, and with Catra. Like her “oh my god, you love me?” and it’s like duhhh! But she can’t let herself believe that, you know?
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