to coincide with the completion of n7s newest fic we drink the fatal drop i drew some post fic shenanigans for fun. since batdora is so tiny and small and cute i thought it would be hilarious for her to sneak into work with catra by hiding in the pocket of the uniform
yes that is human DT and catra, it feels unnatural LMAO
rip adora she lived. a life. being crushed against ur gfs tits isnt a bad way to go tho!
next is just some batdora enjoying some snacks, i asked and n7 decided that batdora would be able to taste and eat things ONLY in bat form, at the expense of only being able to eat very little bc her bat form is very tiny. its very cute.
realistically yes that cherry tomato would be massive for it to look that way next to batdora but this is Cartoons size is relative for the meme
i like to think that whenever catra gets take out that adora has not tried before, adora poofs into a bat to sneak a nibble XD
WDtFD is now complete! I will be taking the rest of the month of November off from posting for the most part as I will be working on an original novel for NaNoWriMo, but I intend to come back to fic writing after that. See my announcement here.
Epilogue life:
Obviously these two have more healing to do, but it’s going to take years. Luckily, they have eternity to process their trauma. Catra has less guilt than Adora, but she has been through a lot, so it takes her awhile to settle down and really feel safe and loved. Adora struggles with what she has been forced to do, but being an enforcer for the coven helps her to feel like she is “making up” for what she has done.
Catra, despite pending the first several weeks making fun of it, comes to really like life on the faem. It’s the polar opposite of how she grew up while still being secluded enough that she can be in her preferred form with worry. As she slowly begins to meet the farm residence (under good conditions) she warms up to them and eventually befriends them too. Regardless, she loves their cottage. She calls it quaint to disguise the fact that she finds it cute.
Adora does get a new parasol, something like this, and she and Catra enjoy going out together, even if they spend most of their time on the farm so Catra can be herself. Adora gets a “real job” one summer just for shits and giggles and leaves all her coworkers thinking farmers are so backwards and withdrawn that they don’t know the basics of society, but hey, at least they don’t suspect she is a vampire. She mostly sticks to farming and coven business.
Adora does learn to cook, and recognize ingredients, exclusively because she wants to cook for Catra and help her in the kitchen, though it is a challenge when she doesn’t know how anything tastes or how much of something is good, so she always needs to follow a recipe, even if it’s one Catra made up and wrote down on a card for her.
As she alludes to in the end of the fic, Adora picks up poetry, though it takes her awhile to hone her skills. She writes poems to and about Catra, and when she eventually gets good, her poems have this timeless quality due to the almost “throwback” lifestyle she lives with little modernity. At one point, she begins publishing them and becomes quiet famous under one of her aliases. She uses a few to publish poems over the years, almost always in compilations focused on her life or sapphic love.
Catra is right about her immortality, though she would die if she lost Melog as she needs them to sustain her, and she is more susceptible to dying of injury due to her reduced healing factor (though she is also less likely to die this way than a human). She works a variety of jobs, taking up a few trades before she settles into carpentry and wood carving. Of course she uses her claws in addition to her tools, and she ends up building a little workshop near their house with Adora where she creates her pieces. She has a member of the coven sell them for her (as she doesn’t visibly age, she tries not to put her face out there in connection with her work, and then her stuff can be connected to a timeless, faceless studio and she can maintain and client base past what should be one carpenter’s natural life. She hires a few werecreatures in the coven to sell her stuff, in a similar way to how the farm sells its produce).
The two of them have a lot of trauma to work through, but in the end they settle down into a peaceful life on the farm.
Songs for this AU: Lykke Li - Until We Bleed (title track). The Wolven Storm (Priscilla’s Song) – The Witcher 3 Unofficial Soundtrack. One Day The Only Butterflies Left Will Be In Your Chest As You March Towards Your Death - Bring Me The Horizon ft Amy Lee. The Tradition – Halsey. I Will Never Die – Delta Rae. Haunted – Taylor Swift. 1121 – Halsey. Smoke – PVRIS. The Lighthouse – Halsey. You And I – PVRIS. Bells In Santa Fe – Halsey. Eyelids – PVRIS. Bad Habits – Ed Sheeran. Same Soul – PVRIS. Taste Of You – Rezz, Dove Cameron.
Chapter 1
This is my oldest AU ever, with the biggest lag time between concept and writing. I came up with this AU in late October in 2020 as Halloween was approaching, and I intended to write it soon after as I was writing SLAS at the time, but obviously other AUs kept calling to me, and then in March or April of this year I was like “what if I just wait until next Halloween for it” and then I…. ended up doing that lol. It has been a full year since I came up with this idea, but I’m really happy to finally be writing it.
I feel like I have to acknowledge/recommend SleepySappho’s vampire fic from last year. I think I came up with this AU before I read that (though it had been published for 3 months, I only go to the tags occasionally, and I have uncompleted works filtered out so the only way I found that one must have been someone recommending it to me), so it wasn’t actually inspired by that, but it’s good, so I would be remiss to ignore it completely. I don’t know if there are any other Catradora vampire AU fics, but I haven’t seen/read them lol. Another Catradora vampire AU that I got into after I had this fic idea was the CaSPOP AU on Twitter and every time it updated I would start yearning to write WDtFD again.
A puma and a cougar are the same thing, which I feel like a lot of people don’t realize, but I didn’t want to use the word cougar as a descriptor because it just sounded like I was talking about something else.
I was careful for Catra to never use the phrase “her heart/her heartbeat”, though Adora uses it often in reference to Catra. Catra has a weird relationship with the heart in her chest and doesn’t usually casually refer to it as her own. This led to some purposefully awkward phrasing that I left as a trail of breadcrumbs for the later reveal.
Catra mentioning Melog being made out of mud is a reference to Melog (Melog = golem) in the original She-ra, which was quite different. I saw an interview with Noelle where they said they wanted to have something like Clawdeen for Catra in the reboot, but it would seem like they were copying/infringing on Steven Universe if they had a pink lion companion even though it’s from the original show. Thus they made Melog, because Catra really needed a therapy cat lol.
Chapter 2
Shadow Weaver actually got a job at a prenatal clinic so she could scope out potential werecreature of dhampir children. She knew she would find a werecreature first, so when she came across Catra’s parents she was prepared to snatch her (accessing her home address in the office records) with the assistance of her supernatural abilities. Dhampirs are extremely rare. She expected it to take much longer to find one, perhaps even a lifetime that would necessitate her snatching another werecreature, but after a few months, a woman came through the clinic with an unusual pregnancy from a one night stand (vampires aren’t completely sterile, but the chances they get someone pregnant having unprotected sex are lower than the chances of pregnancy on birth control for mortals, and thus the father didn’t think twice about it). Shadow Weaver actually (unethically and illegally) discouraged the woman from terminating her pregnancy despite the problems it was causing her because she saw magical potential within her. When Adora was born, she was proven right and once again stole her in the night, leaving the area completely shortly after to raise the girls in reclusion.
Adora’s place has a built-in microwave, otherwise she wouldn’t have bothered with getting one.
When Angella and Micah were first courting, Angella had him over for dinner and had no idea what she was doing, so despite ordering the food, she still burned it trying to reheat it (she had never worked a microwave before and literally just had one for show). Her terrible cooking became a running theme/joke in their relationship. She would try to cook for Micah when he was sick and it would just make him sicker but he would still be touched by the gesture.
All supernatural creatures are resistant to someone else’s magic being used on them, but sires have compulsion abilities over their fledglings because those fledglings have their venom/magic inside them. Vampires have stronger compulsion abilities over mortals they have recently fed on for similar reasons, though the venom that is used to subdue prey during feeding is different from the venom used to shut down someone’s body and turn them.
Chapter 3
Comments: oh I’m worried about why there’s no chapter titles
Meanwhile me planning this: I hate coming up with chapter titles and it’s a short fic so it doesn’t really need them, right???
Chapter 4
Writing Catra in human form was, like, hard. Like DT said something and I started to write about her ears pining back and then realized I couldn’t. Add on the fact that Adora didn’t have normal body responses like a heartbeat or that much of a need to breathe – though she still does it instinctively, so she could still gasp and stuff – and writing this fic was a unique challenge.
DT passes themselves off as just the manager instead of the owner, but they made up Peekablue for the purpose of tax evasion. No, I will not elaborate.
DT is watching Cats because because they’re a theatre kid and also thought it was a funny joke, but then it seemed fated since I missed this update because I was watching the recording with a group for Halloween. It isn’t good. The 2019 version was so bad I’m still struggling to believe that it was something a major company invested money and time in, saw the final results of, and still released it to the public. Should have just cut their losses and saved a bit of reputation lmao.
Catra’s hate of the butter smell is because of how horrid it smells to her one she shifts, but it’s also inspired by a friend I had who worked at a movie theatre and fucking hated the smell of move popcorn after that. It clung to their uniform and wouldn’t go away. There is a class divide at the movie theatre: those who prefer working concessions because you can watch the movies from that booth, and those who prefer to work the ticket booth because you can avoid ruining the smell of popcorn as much as possible. Catra aligns herself with the latter.
Melog’s mud can’t come loose as magic has granted them an actual body, but I think if you cut them in half then the center would be mud or mud-like (maybe like that pink tubby custard a vegetarian tried to pass off as industrial meat back in the day) and they would have the ability to reform like water-droplets.
They have paperwork because Angella, despite not being techno-phobic, doesn’t trust computers with coven matters on the basis that they could be hacked, so everything is manual/physical.
Micah doesn’t actually say shit like “I’m not mad, just disappointed” but he never raises his voice and even vaguely implied disappointment threatens to make Adora cry.
Chapter 5
This entire chapter is The Scene™ for this fic.
The feeding scene was supposed to be in the last chapter. Actually, it was supposed to be in chapter 3 in the initial outline of 4-5 chapters. As I was writing chapter 2 and I kept inserting scenes not in my initial plan, my outline grew to a solid 5 chapters, but I still posted it with a predicted count of just 4 because I would rather add chapters than take them away. The adjusted outline had the feeding scene at the beginning of chapter 4… and then I wrote chapter 3 and only got to half the stuff I wanted to, which pushed the feeding scene out again to the very end of chapter 4. Except when I got there, there had once again been more added scenes that meant I had run out of room and it got pushed to the beginning of chapter 5. What I had left in my plan was about 1 to 1 & ½ chapters from there, so I was like, I still don’t know for sure it’s gonna be 6 chapters, maybe I’ll just make the final chapter long, and I left the count at 5 until I finished that feeding scene and realized I was already at 6k for Chapter 5 T_T I finished the chapter and gave up on making the fic just 5 chapters at that point. I was so determined to make this a short fic with just 4-5 chapters and it just refused to happen.
Chapter 6
Adora not wanting to kiss Human!Catra was inspired by when I dated a girl with glasses and I felt like I was cheating on her when I kissed her while she had them off. She just looked so different that it felt wrong.
Melog doesn’t need to eat or feel much motivation to do so, but they do find smells interesting.
In this AU, the only way to become a werecreature is to be bitten by another one on the full moon and get their saliva in your bloodstream. You because whatever werecreatue they were, as each kind has its own strains, but appearances vary based on the person.
Adora’s job as an enforcer is to be the first line of defense before they call in a hunter, so she doesn’t kill people. Rather, she hunts them down and tries to talk to them to sort out misunderstandings and accidents. If what occurred was neither and they didn’t have a good reason for what they did, she then calls in hunters, helps them track the individual, and leaves it in their hands. She is hopefully able to help them before that is necessary, though if that isn’t possible, she is comforted by knowing she is helping to protect innocents from people like her.
Catra’s operation on herself is inspired by the five women in recorded history who have survived performing their own c-sections. One was in 2000 and both she and her baby survived. Reading about it is insane. Her name is Ines Ramirez Perez if you want to look it up, but don’t if you’re squeamish. Of course, a human could never remove their own heart, but Catra was still an undead vampire at that point in the operation and could only be killed via being staked, in addition to her werecat healing factor that helped her recover afterwards. A normal human, even if someone else performing the ritual, likely wouldn’t have recovered, but it would be possible, and anyone with a healing factor has far increased odds.
I don’t really explicitly confirm it, but Catra’s taste changed due to a combination of her new heart, the large transfusion, the change in her diet, the change in her health, her recent healing, and having detoxified her blood in the ritual.
The car isn’t mentioned really in this chapter because Adora didn’t get it back from the mechanic until a few days after the fic ended.
Original Outline:
This fic weirdly changed and… didn’t. The backstory changed, but my ideas for the fic itself were always centered around a few scenes, and those followed their outlines pretty well.
My original idea for the backstory was Catra and Adora having the same experience that they ended up having in the final version, but Shadow Weaver wasn’t acting alone. Rather, she was part of a vampire cult (along with Hordak and a few other villains) led by Horde Prime that’s entire goal was creating more higher vampires. It was going to be that Adora was eventually freed when hunters came after the cult, but them letting her live and not mistaking her for just another member of the cult would have been a bit flimsy. Truthfully, though, I changed this just because it was too dense of a backstory. The backstory for this fic is still dense, but this would have just been too much for a “short” fic. However, if this was a full length AU (9+ chapters), I would have kept the cult part of the backstory.
I also changed the world. In my original concept for the first, hybrids still existed so Catra was magicat that, as a werecat, could also transform into a full cat. However, as I wanted the supernatural community to be a secret in this AU, having hybrids also exist kind of “lowered the stakes” since there were already multiple races out in the world and the only reason for supernatural folk to keep themselves quiet would be fear of rejection based on their powers, I guess. It just made more sense for there to only be humans in this AU and all hybrids to be represented as a “halfway form” form for their respective werecreature (werecats & magicats, werelizards & lizardfolk, etc).
As far as the fic itself goes, there was only two changes, really: 1) everyone living on the farm rather than in a regular neighbourhood (which allows them the privacy to be their supernatural selves, so it just made more sense) and Catra not having a place of her own (which allowed for her to move into Adora’s place easier, crucial for the tight turnaround of this AU, and also hammered home the “always running” narrative). 2) is that… well, I came up with this idea before I wrote OTOS, but around the same time. What I’m saying is, in the original, Catra ran back to her own place after healing up, still bitter about the killing/turning thing, and she only returned to Adora when her heart started, thus prompting her to “temporarily” move in. However, I really am done writing heat, so after I wrote OTOS I knew that I would change that, and making it so Catra didn’t have her own place to stay allowed her stay Adora the whole time more easily.
I wrote a very detailed outline for the feeding scene, as well as snippets of other scenes, all on the same day that I came up with this idea and all of that only needed minor adjustment to work with where they ended up being by that point in the fic. Overall, the story of the fic largely didn’t change.
Meta:
Batdora shenanigans
Timeline:
Chapter 1:
Saturday: Hit with car.
Sunday morning: Call Micah/Mara, wake up broken.
Chapter 2:
Sunday afternoon: Glimmer and Bow come over, breakfast, bathroom, cuddle.
We Drink The Fatal Drop…. Seasonally appropriate…. VAMPIRES BABEY
🧛♀️ someone guessed it back when i posted my poorly-censored aus for the very first time. it's specifically vampire, not really any other supernatural creatures. though i did go a bit nuts on inventing my own vampire lore for it.
😏 what is WDtFD? that's quite a question. it's been on my upcoming AUs list since..... last november? i came up with the idea during slas and loved it, but then the muse vanished from me and i haven't really been interested in returning to it since (though i still liked the idea, so i kept it). let's just say that in march i decided it would be best if i waited for it to become... seasonally appropriate again before i write it, both because other people would be the most interested in reading it then and because i would be the mostly likely to have the muse for it again at that time.
