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Macaque meets Red Son.. in which after failing to destroy Sun Wukong using his own power, Macaque starts looking for alternatives to defeating the Monkey King.

So Red Son hasn’t had any blue fire yet, so I’m taking that as an indication that he hasn’t unlocked the True Fire- one of the rare abilities with the power to actually kill the immortal Monkey King. And Macaque with his omniscience might realize Red Son has that potential, so if he had the chance to manipulate this hot head with daddy issues into developing that power so he could steal it, he definitely would :U

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A couple nights ago I shot up out of bed to write down a dream I had before I completely forgot about it in the morning.

This was the result:

“Help

I dreamt Horde Prime was actually a good father

He looked like a frazzled housewife

He even had on mom pants”

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Looking for a fic (SPOP)

A couple years ago I read a story (a series??) on AO3 centered around a group of Horde Clone OCs on a nearly derelict ship. I believe they eventually end up on Etheria, but the main part of the story takes place on the ship. There is a Brother whose function is medical in nature and he's been modifying end-of-life dates for himself and his crewmembers, keeping everyone alive long past when they should have been replaced in the Horde. There's also parts that revolve around chanting prayers to Horde Prime or singing hymns to disguise 'disloyal' thoughts and actions.

I recall a dramatic moment where a junior engineer brother gets injured and another medic wants to terminate him but our doctor character gets protective.

Does anyone else know this story/series? Can you direct me to it? Many thanks!

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>:O

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But seriously… he’s having a phase for 30 years straightxD

So hello everyone! 💜

I thought about this topic and the more I thought about it the funnier it became. XD

I think it's clear that the clones were never children, but puberty? Having free will must have triggered this. XD

Also I thought about the mindset of the clones. I find it quite exciting. According to my calculations, Hordak is around (probably more than) 35 years old at the end of the series. But only physically. Since he has the thinking of an adult since the day of his "birth", he is mentally over 50. and I think that explains somexDD

He’s like an old grumpy man who has never gotten over his emo phase… Hordak my EMO GIRL!💜

And last but not least: I will not keep this design for Kadroh! It only served this funny idea. I think I will design a fitting one soon.

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Mermista: I just don't understand why you'd want to be with HORDAK of all people.

Entrapta: YOU don't understand what it's like to love a big dumb puppy that worships you like a goddess?

Mermista: ...

Catra: Yeah, that shut me up too.

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Day 1: Duct tape

The best dad and husband

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#like the fact that prime was a sheer cosmic threat is what had everyone uniting against him you love to see it#they all just stood up straight and were like okay nevermind we have to kill this guy

as much as i hate horde prime i gotta admire how he showed up and humbled the fuck out of everyone. like SO many characters had an Oh Fuck moment where they realised there was so much more to everything than whatever feelings they had about the war on etheria. like he's the fucked up reason why catra and adora managed to rekindle their bond. and why glimmer was able to see she was wrong and apologise to the best friend squad. and the catalyst for glimmer and catra's friendship. and why hordak was able to realise he cared more about the genuine love he had from one person on etheria than anything else he'd ever achieved there. in conclusion I LOVE SEASON 5 YOU CAN PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.

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I’m sure Entrapta was devastated when she realized that she really had been left behind by her supposed friends. And that they wouldn’t be coming back. This certainly led to sleepless nights for her. Hordak, on the other hand, seems to have his own reasons for not being able to sleep... but in the end, their reasons don’t seem very different to me.

Anyways!

Hiiiii my friends I’m back from the dead! 💜

Sorry for my inactivity (again) but this last year of school is extremely stressful for me, which is why I can‘t find the time or energy to draw or interact on social media much:P

At the moment I have a lil bit more time so I was finally able to finish this comic^^ Hope you enjoy!!!✨

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Ok so She-Ra pulled such a great hat trick with Hordak's characterization, and I LOVE it

One of my favorite things about 2018 She-Ra is Hordak's story and development (and Entrapdak cough but that's not the point of this particular post), and the cleverest thing is that so much of it is actually being set up and told to us in seasons 1 and 2 before we even realize that that's what's happening.

When we first see Hordak in the show, he's giving "generic evil overlord" vibes. Garden-variety baddie. Maybe a little more reasonable than some and clearly capable of long-term thinking, but that just serves to make him intimidating. Everything about him--the way he runs his empire, his armor, his color scheme, his minion, his Villainous Eye Makeup(TM), even his name--are all projecting to the audience "yup, Acme Bad Guy here. Move right along."

But then, backstory. And everything snaps into focus. Not only is it one of the first big oh SHIT moments of the show, where we suddenly zoom out and realize that there is SO much more going on than we realized--it's also the start of the audience seeing Hordak as a character rather than an archetype. Suddenly we realize that he's not conquering Etheria because he wants power, or hates happiness and sparkles, or whatever--he's doing it out of a desperate attempt to prove his worth to his brother/creator/god. This moment where Hordak lets Entrapta in is also the moment the show lets us in on what makes our favorite spacebat tick.

On top of that, we've also seen him bonding with Entrapta and opening up to this person that he respects and trusts...probably the only person he's ever respected or trusted apart from Prime. And she's Etherian--someone of a lower species, someone he's supposed to subjugate, someone who he has been raised and trained and programmed and mind-controlled into believing is below him in every way.

But instead she's brilliant and creative and mesmerizing. She's not afraid of him, and she's fascinated with his work. For the first time since being abandoned by Prime, Hordak finally has someone that he can talk to, who is on his level and both understands and cares about the science! (because he is a giant nerd). She's kind to him, a mere defect. And it just sends his whole worldview into a spin, and that's all before--

Bam, mans is a goner. Entrapta's "Imperfections are beautiful" comment punches right through all the toxic bs that Hordak has been steeped in his entire life. You can see on his face here--I think it's the moment Hordak fell in love with Entrapta, but this is also the face of a spacebat reevaluating his entire worldview. If Entrapta, who is amazing, believes something different from Prime...what does that mean? If Entrapta, who is brilliant, believes that he is worth something, and that she herself is a failure...

Well. We know what happens after that, and how Hordak begins to doubt, and eventually fights back against Prime (and remembers his love for Entrapta after TWO mind wipes help my heart ack). But we also get to see what life in the Galactic Horde looks like: the only life Hordak ever knew before coming to Etheria.

It's not nice.

It's really not nice.

Prime operates in a very specific way, and we learn a lot about it in season 5. Prime expects complete obedience, devotion and worship from his clones. He allows no individuality from his subjects, not even a name. Failure or deviations are punished, mind-wiped, or destroyed. We even learn from Wrong Hordak that facial expressions are considered a privilege reserved for Prime (apart from, presumably, expressions of rapture caused by being around Prime).

And once we learn all of this, suddenly thinking about season 1 Hordak becomes very interesting indeed. The time we spend with the Galactic Horde and Prime throws absolutely everything that we know about Hordak into a whole new context. Now all those traits that made him a generic villain are actually hugely effective characterization! And what that characterization is telling us is that Hordak had already moved much farther away from Prime than we (or, probably, he) had realized, even long before he met Entrapta.

Horde Prime does not allow his underlings to have names, personalities, or any differences of appearance. Not only does Hordak allow this among his own troops, he chose a name for himself as well! Season 5 tells us that his very name is an act of blasphemy against his god. And yet Hordak took one for himself, and that name is part of the core identity he is able to hold on to when rebelling against Prime.

Horde Prime cast Hordak out when he showed signs of physical imperfections. Hordak not only keeps Imp (who is by all appearances a failed clone or similar experiment) around, he treats Imp more gently than we see him treat anybody or anything before Entrapta. Imp is not simply "generic evil guy's minion," he is proof of Hordak's capacity for compassion, and evidence that Hordak cannot bring himself to cast aside "defects" as easily as Prime. Considering where Hordak came from, Imp's existence is a huge, flashing neon sign telling the audience this guy here is better than the hell that molded him, and we don't even realize it until 4 seasons after it's been shown to us!

Very cool, ND.

There's more, though. Hordak's red and black color scheme? His dark eye makeup and lipstick? Very Evil Overlord chic. But nope! Actually these are actually expressions of individuality on a level that Hordak knows would be abhorrent to Prime!

Reading between the lines, I see this as Hordak desperately trying to reconcile two diametrically opposed beliefs in his head: (1) devotion to Prime, whose approval he desperately craves, and (2) maintaining some degree of unique personhood, of Hordak, from which to draw strength. Because a failed, defective clone cannot survive on a hostile world, cut off from the hivemind and from Prime's light. A failed clone cannot create an empire to offer Prime as tribute, nor build a spacetime portal from scraps and memory to call Prime back. A failed clone cannot create cybernetic armor to keep his hurting, weakened body alive; to force himself to keep going no matter what, to fight through the pain and the doubt by sheer force of will.

But maybe Hordak can.

And so there it is. Hordak had plenty of time to gain and explore his individuality while separated from Prime, but I think the reason he did it so effectively (while still deluding himself that Prime would forgive him for these little sins, if only Hordak could prove his value) is because he had to.

Wrong Hordak gained his individuality surrounded by kind, quirky people who took care of him; Hordak was ripped from the hivemind by Prime himself and had to fight for his survival against all odds. And that produced a dangerous and damaging foe for Etheria. But it also produced the one clone with the strength of will to defy Prime himself.

This is long and rambling, but ultimately my point is that 1) I love Hordak, and 2) I love love love love that the show was so clever about his characterization. We learn so much about him and how much progress he's already made in breaking from his psycho abusive cult upbringing, and we don't even recognize it until the show wants us to. Hordak had come so far, all on his own, before he met Entrapta. She just helped push him over the edge and finally realize (at least consciously) that Prime's worldview might not be the correct one.

Idk, I just don't know if I've ever seen all the trappings of Basic 80's Villain(TM) so successfully subverted, where looking back 4 seasons later is actually a smack in the face with the "effective character building" stick. Amazing.

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The super pal trio is so underrated honestly. Scorpia is super in love with Catra even though Catra is still getting over her ex turning into an eight foot tall warrior princess and basically just ignores her. Entrapta and Catra are under the impression that the other is an idiot because Catra has no idea what Entrapta is yammering on about half the time. Scorpia and Entrapta are actually best friends, although you have to imagine that Scorpia is at least a little jealous of her surprisingly semi-healthy relationship with Hordak. They DO have a braincell (somehow) but it transfers between Catra and Entrapta at alarming rates and Catra is constantly fighting for it meanwhile Entrapta gives zero fucks as long as she can hang out with robots. 10/10 would recommend

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It is hysterical writing about Lord Hordak from a Horde trooper's perspective as this shadowy, scary figure, especially with the canon and fanon interpretation we know of him being a big ol' grumpy spacebat who just needs his Entrapta.

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baby mbj

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So last weekend I was at Emerald city ComiCon (It's one of my favorite times to shop for art, books and handmade products form artists!) And as I was leaving after a long day of walking, My sis grabs me to turn me with incoherent hype and shouts "LinkedUniverse!" And lo and behold, an amazing Legend cosplay!!! This is @cloudyskies48 who's done a fabulous job down to the details of the bracelet and proportions of the tunic, I mean look at this! 🤩Even figured out how to interpret and design the gold trim that is ever inconsistent in my art 😆 This was such a thrill to see in person!

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Fable and Legend infuriate each other just as much as they care about each other >:)

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Been wanting to draw this scene for a while!

Note: Legend and Fable are brother and sister in the Wisdomverse AU, since I follow the ALttP sibling theory. Linked Universe has them unrelated, though, and you can read this whichever you way you want— I’m not here to police the fandom :)

And thanks for the suggestions!

(@fithesworddweller, there’s no Ravio in this one, but this is from the scene you referenced so hope you enjoy!)