i normally don't like to share c//a fanart since i don't want the artist to get any hate, but JESUS CHRIST, this was something else.
wowww so romantic and not completely abusive and creepy at all /s
i seriously can't believe some people find this hot. i'm so done with this fandom.
okay. again, should go without saying, but do not harass the original artist // user, please. thank you.
with that out of the way, what the actual fuck.
like, i can totally believe Catra would canonically do this, because she's done way worse for basically nothing, but the way you know this artist isn't taking it seriously ( because, aside from SPOP's reputation, why would you put ">:3" as if this is cute? ) and that the audience would praise Catra for it makes me sick.
you can just sense the comments about how she's 'marking her territory', like Adora is something to be owed.
this is almost no different to if the Horde had physically branded their soldiers' skin. debatably, this is worse, because it's not even for a collective goal or cause, like further propaganda, brainwashing, and increasing chances of societal isolation.
we know Catra would do this just because she felt like it or to punish Adora for doing something she didn't like, that she would do this because it's so personal and permanent and scarring for Adora.
god, i cannot describe to you guys my hatred for this fandom. and it's been like this since the beginning, so why would it stop now?
people took Catra having a bit of her fur burnt off by Horde Prime's chip in a drawing more seriously than they ever had Adora's injuries // scars that she suffered at the hands of Catra.
there's only, like, one artist i'm aware of that even puts a little bit of realism into c//a's situation and actually gives Adora the traumas(!!!) she would've been suffering from. but even then, they still put so much focus on how Catra was feeling about it.
no, i don't want to fucking see Catra feel so utterly terrible about her actions three, four, five, however many goddamn years later that she knowingly, consistently, of enough sound and mind, continued to do and only stopped and gave a modicum of a damn about when she was all alone for being a war criminal and a little whiny bitch who did next to nothing but complain how hard she had it, while everyone, including complete and utter outcasts who didn't even have a roof over their head and had to survive in a wasteland, gave her what she wanted with little to no effort on her part.
i'm sorry i'm so bitter, but i just can't stand how normalized it is to pity Catra for every single damn thing, canon or otherwise, no matter if she did it or not, but not give other characters a single bit of grace or acknowledgement in comparison.
for god's sake, the same artist i was just talking about made a lighthearted comic on Catra apologizing to Mermista for *checks notes* DESTROYING HER KINGDOM AND KILLING HER PEOPLE.
with all of that considered, i shouldn't be surprised that comics of Adora being literally branded by Catra not being put in the dark, dehumanizing light it should be are out there, yet i still can't understand how so many people collectively think this is funny // cute // hot // etc.
istg, Catra could do the most inhumane, demoralizing, unbecoming shit you can possibly imagine, and the fans would still make any and all consequences on everybody else but her. i have completely lost hope that people like this will find any sense.
