#horde cadets

[yourhighness6]

Justice for the other cadets for real ;-;

They deserve the world.

[catra-come-out]

Lonnie: C'mon, take one for the team.

Catra: No, I don't want to. Let the team fail.

[plot-prominent-horde-squad-au]

Squad Roles

For my AU, the whole OG Horde Squad is probably gonna get pretty split up, as they will have different roles in the series, but I also wanted to make it so that they all used to be a part of the same squad. So I decided to do a thing.

So, in this, when Shadow Weaver was putting together “Adora’s Team”, she decided that every member of the squad should get a different role so that they can be more like some sort of “elite unit”.

Each member will have slightly different training, whilst also being a bit more of a team.

Lonnie

Lonnie will be the cavalryman of the squad because I think it would look cool to see her riding on a mini-skiff like it’s a windsail, but also because I wanted to give her a role other than just “basic soldier” while still being able to promote her to Lieutenant. She’s also a mechanic and a navigator, because those seem like roles you might need if you’re always driving a tank or truck or something. That doesn’t stop her from being a great fighter though!

Kyle

Kyle will have a bit of a surprising role: sniper. I was going to make him a medic, but then, for reasons you will see below, that didn’t work out and I decided to give him this role instead. The more I thought about it, the more interesting of a concept it became, and the more interested I became in the concept, the more I realized how well it would fit/complete certain elements of both his role in the story and personality as a character.

So, my baby boy will still be really bad at hand to hand combat and most forms of fighting. After all, that’s what kinda endeared me to his character: he seemed “useless” but was also trying his best. But I believe that everyone’s good at something, even if they’re only kinda good at it. So I thought it’d be interesting if most people saw him as useless and bad at everything, but he was really, really good at things like sniping. The show didn’t really explore any of his strengths, and I wanted to just show that he does have them, it’s just hard for people to see. He will still be slightly stupid in literally ever other area of intellegance though. Because I like that about him.

Another thing is that I’m going to be drawing a lot of parallels between him and Entrapta, and this is honestly a great way to do it. Entrapta is a tech expert, and Kyle is a weapons expert. They will also have similar autistic traits (though not the same ones), and will geek out over thing like these, getting lost in their own little worlds. I also think it would be funny if they shared a trait of sometimes infodumping about morbid things in a really cheerful tone. Entrapta can talk about the deadliness of space, Kyle can talk about how this particular gun can completely incinarate you. Their both weird little nerds with poor social skills and I love it.

One final thing that’s a bit odd, but still something, is that it can help him connect with certain characters better and develop unique dynamics with each of them. For example, rather than telling Bow that he likes his shirt, he says that Bow’s arrows were pretty cool. While Bow is a bit standoffish at first, they start talking, and get along. This will also be a good foundation for their friendship later on. Also, Frosta and Kyle can be weird kids together, with Frosta finding his love of weapons interesting, and Kyle being excited that someone is interested in listening to him talk about his passions.

Rogelio

This man is part of the reason that Kyle is not a medic. So, I wanted to give him a more fleshed out personality, and I decided to look at the show more and see what he does in the background, then think about which types of traits would be most interesting using the info we have (almost everyone has their own portrayal of him, so mine is valid actually). I noticed he’s always saving Kyle, and he was also bandaging him up in one scene. So I decided, using an under-used trope I like, to make the big strong indestructable guy the medic of the team.

It’ll fit with my rewritten version of him being the more protective Mother Hen of the group (they honesty need one), and it actually makes a bit of logical sense. Sure, you could use the one who’s hard to hurt for battle purposes, but if your healer gets hurt, the rest of you are kinda fucked. Might as well have the healer not need a healer so they can focus on their job.

Basically, I thought it would be cool for him to be the medic of the squad, and would add some cool characterization to him.

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Adora’s (supposed to be) the main strategist and the main warrior, and Catra...Shadow Weaver didn’t really give her a specific role. Because Shadow Weaver is a bitch.

That’s pretty much it.

[birindale]

[npinkbin]

The horde kids driving shadow weaver MAD on new years eve

[ladypancakeofmapleton]

[late2theshow]

She-Ra Characters go to McDonald's Drive-Thru

Shadow Weaver: Ordering a black coffee for herself while the Cadets are in the back of the Minivan and orders one happy meal and makes all five kids fight for the toy. Adora wins but is still hungry later.

Angella: Orders a salad and Glimmer something healthy while Glimmer yells "French fries" for three minutes straight until they drive off.

Hordak: Asks for every type of fast food product that is not on the Mcdonalds menu; then drives off in a huff.

Adora: Orders two ice cream cones; then realizes she can't drive her car without her hands.

Glimmer: Orders a happy meal at age 20; because her mom can't tell her "no"

Catra: Orders a Fish fillet; only to find out their gross.

Scorpia: Orders for all her friends and gets honked at in the drive-thru. pays for the other guy's order behind her, but shows both receipts at the pick-up window and drives off with both orders.

Entrapta: orders food; only to practice Youtube video theories on fast food being deadly. Posts it to all her friend's social media pages and ruins Mcdonalds for them all forever.

[darkmasterofcupcakes]

Okay after I found out that Noelle was helping to make a She Ra graphic novel and the plot is to find a fire runestone in a lost kingdom, I now have the headcanon that Lonnie would be the long lost princess of that fire kingdom.

That is an interesting idea, though I have to admit to never having thought about the possibility? I am curious as to what made you come up with the idea, because I would love to learn more about it.

I had honestly never really had much of a headcanon regarding where most of the main group of cadets came from. We learn later in the series that Adora was brought through a portal from another planet, in another dimension, when she was a baby and found by Hordak. And I am one of the people who subscribes to the theory that Catra is also a princess by birth - though one who, like Scorpia until recently, never made a connection with her kingdom’s runestone...assuming they have one at all.

But, my assumption for the origins of characters like Rogelio, Kyle, and Lonnie were that they were just children who had been orphaned at young ages by Horde attacks, and then raised as soldiers.