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So I was working on this doodle, then I wanted to add something space-y, and THEN I was like “hey idk why but this looks like a fanfic cover” and so I added a fake title. Not sure why I did this, it just,,,,,seemed right,,,
Btw the title is “In Your Arms” sorry I know my cursive is trash
Oh and here’s the one without words if you just wanted a nice drawing and not me being weird lol
Finished season 3 and want to remember the good old times when i could ship Catradora :,)
catra and adora, as that one arcane s2 poster
Mha au where bakugou is replaced by catra and kirishima is replaced by adora
new she-ra fic: Time To Go
word count: 7,733
summary: After Adora disappears and Catra has to gather a whole army to find her again, there’s a moment on the battlefield where Catra actually thinks that Adora’s about to leave her.
She doesn’t. Of course. All they have is eachother and both of them belong to the Horde. To defect to the Rebellion is unthinkable. Impossible.
In the months that follow, Catra decides that leaving might not be as awful an idea as she first thought.
Reset
Take one.
Micah is strong. More magic runs through his veins than any other student his age. He’s a little too human for Shadow Weaver’s tastes but she’s sure that it can be trained out of him. Then she doesn’t train it out of him fast enough.
She pays for that. Dearly.
~
Take two.
Catra is angry. She’s full of desperation and rage and Shadow weaver can understand that completely. She hopes at first that the anger can be turned into drive, into a need it be the best. It works, sort of. Shadow Weaver can see that she needs greatness like Shadow Weaver craves it, but she buries it. Buries it under her need for connection.
It’s pathetic, Shadow Weaver thinks. Pathetic and childish. She writes Catra off as a failure perhaps a little too early.
~
Take three.
Adora is perfect. Start to finish. She’s Shadow Weaver’s magnum opus. But she’s also not quite right. There’s not enough doubt in her for her to belong to Shadow Weaver, and if she doesn’t belong to Shadow Weaver then she can’t control her. And at that point, what is the child worth? Really?
~
Take four.
Glimmer is untrained and messy and has just had far too much responsibility thrust upon her for someone so young. It’s the perfect breeding ground for dependence. Her magic is just like Micah’s and Shadow Weaver is reminded that if she’d just had a little more time with the boy then he could have been exactly what she wanted. She’ll have that time with Glimmer, she thinks.
She’s wrong.
~
Take five.
There is no take five.
It’s probably a good thing.
Since joining rebellion there’s been a certain amount of adjustment for Adora. A lot of it is weirdly easy. She finds out that something she’s been taught since birth is factually incorrect, she rearranges her world view to incorporate this new information, she finds herself in agreement with her new people and everyone ends up happy.
Sometimes it’s not as easy.
“What do you mean you don’t see the problem?” Glimmer asks, waves of alarm rolling off her.
Adora looks to Bow in search of moral support but he looks just as scandalized as Glimmer. “I just don’t see what the big deal is! We’re in the middle of a war, you can’t just not kill people.” She looks at the two of them. “It’s not like I enjoy it.” she adds, and if she’s trying to convince herself more than Bow and Glimmer then it’s not like they need to know that.
“We don’t kill people.” Bow says haltingly. “That’s not how the rebellion works.”
“Then no wonder you guys are losing!” And finally Adora feels like she’s figured out something useful. “We can just tell everyone that lethal force is acceptable. We’ll be pushing the Horde back in no time.”
Adora says it all with a smile on her face which slowly drops when she realises that no one’s returning it. That fact alone is enough to stun her, Bow and Glimmer always return her smiles, but what makes it worse is that if she didn’t know better she might think it was pity on their faces.
“You wouldn’t think that if you hadn’t been raised in the Horde.” Glimmer says.
“Well duh. That doesn’t make it a bad thing though.”
Bow and Glimmer exchange a look before Bow steps forward and puts a supportive hand on Adora’s shoulder. “We’ll work on it.” he says and Adora thinks he might be talking about her mentality rather than the obvious flaws in the Rebellion’s strategy.
He says it kindly, like he’s being nice, and Glimmer is looking at Adora in clear agreement with him. It’s like they think she wasn’t capable of independent thought before she met them. That every belief she held while in the Horde must be bad because of where it came from. The feeling of their presence turns suffocating and Adora starts looking for an escape route.
For a moment she misses Catra with burning intensity. Now there’s someone who understands that when you fight you don’t hold anything back.
this is genuinely just me trying to be @shanastoryteller
From the very first time Adora transforms she feels a power sing through her and knows it will be there till the day she dies.
Then she realises that that might not be true, because maybe she can’t die any more. The concept of mortality seems small now. Something for lesser people, the ones she can squash under her heel like ants. Eternity doesn’t seem like such a long time with the power of the hidden stars that are as old as forever humming through her veins.
She wonders if she should mention any of this to her new friends, how even when she isn’t transformed she can feel the universe revolving around her. She thinks back to Catra turning away from her (because somehow somehow somehow Catra just knew). Instead she just hopes that the life she could spend with these people might last an eternity all on its own.
More She Ra stuff 💜
I found the post!
And to add...
It isn’t cannon but like, she also has the eyebrow slit like cmon...
Oh my god oh my god oh my GOD! The Season 5 trailer just released!!!! I have so many feels. Chills. Literal chills. Omgggg guys I’m not ready for this season!!! Ughhgggghhg I’m shaking with excitement rn!!!!
and i’ve turned down every hand that has beckoned me to come
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(via Adora Minifig - 3D model by eireni )
There’s a few-second scene in the new She-Ra series where they plan using little minifigures Bow has made, and they were very cute so I figured I’d try my hand at what they might look like. Made it look like he’d done an amateurish slightly messy paint job. You can download the 3D model to print if you’d like
Shadow Weaver's PR team told her not to talk to Catra and Adora.
I've been thinking about this comic for weeks.
she-ra as a religion. she-ra as a sacrifice.
Here’s my gift for @figbian for the @sherasecretsanta !!
I had soooo much fun working on this, and I definitely stepped outside of my comfort zone when coloring. Hope you like it Opal!
