#Maybe a little Scortra?

[makutas-chronicle]

She-Ra Count of Monte Cristo AU

Inspired by the 2009 Count of Monte Cristo musical.

Adora is a quickly rising star among the Horde’s Force Captains, with her Lieutenant- soon to be Wife?- Catra by her side and her squad backing her up she seems unstoppable.  But, this is causing friction among the more established Force Captains, who- aided by Shadow Weaver who’s begun to realize she lost control of Adora the moment she hit the field- secretly imprison her on Beast Island.

Ten years later, Catra, who was never even able to find out where Adora went, has been forced to admit that she’s dead and has settled in to working under Captain Scorpia, tentatively, finally, letting herself begin to move on.

Meanwhile, a scarred, dead-eyed woman staggers out of the Whispering Woods, dragging King Micah to the steps of Bright Moon before leaving to return to the Horde.  Her name?  Despara.

Plot outline below, someone else please write this fully so I don’t have to.

Chapters named for their corresponding songs in the musical.

Prologue:  Glimmer POV.  It’s another day of infuriating stalemate when the woman arrives, carrying a miracle on her back, her father, terribly injured but alive after twenty-five years.  But there’s something off about this woman.  She won’t tell anyone her name, Micah won’t wake up, and whenever anyone meets her gaze there’s something awful in her one good eye.  It comes to a head when the woman breaks into her father’s sealed armoury, stealing powerful magical artifacts and escaping into the night, leaving Glimmer defeated in her wake with only a name, “Force Captain Despara.”

When Love Is True:  Adora POV.  Ten years prior, Catra and Adora are taking the Horde and the rest of the world by storm, practically celebrities in their own right.  Adora thinks she has a way to get Catra promoted to Force Captain as well; their accomplishments have actually managed to draw the attention of Lord Hordak himself and she thinks a couple more missions might be enough to get an audience with him.  The two of them talk about all the things they’ll finally be able to do unrestricted once it’s happened.  There are makeouts, it’s disgustingly fluffy, and Catra teases Adora for it the whole time.

Unbeknownst to Adora, the last thing Shadow Weaver wants is for the two of them to get any more power.  When they’re summoned to the Force Commander’s chamber she tries to re-establish her control over them, but Adora refuses to step aside.  So close to what she thinks of as the end of their time under the witch’s thumb she refuses to let Shadow Weaver use them against each other any more.  They are dismissed, unknowing that it was a final test, and Adora just failed it.

A Story Told:  Force Captain Octavia POV.  Three of the old-guard Force Captains, Octavia, Grizzlor, and a Lizardfolk(referred to hereon as Hyldren), have met in secret to discuss what should be done about Adora.  She’s gathered too much influence too fast, the only Force Captain the rank and file love more than her is Scorpia, and no one has a better operation record, but unlike Scorpia, Adora won’t bend the knee to anyone other than Shadow Weaver.  They need to figure out how to knock her down a peg.

The meeting is interrupted by Shadow Weaver, who prevents the others from trying to talk their way out of being discovered by revealing that Adora has outlived her usefulness, and she intends to do something that will either bring her to heel, or kill her.  Either way, the problem will be solved.

Weeks later, they trick Catra into going ahead and capture Adora during a base transfer, making it look to like she was attacked by marauders from the Crimson Wastes on the road while they bring her to Beast Island, leaving Adora with a single flare, enchanted by Shadow Weaver to only be usable once Adora is willing to be completely subservient to her.

I Will Be There:  Alternating Adora and Catra POV.  Adora struggles to survive alone on Beast Island, keeping herself motivated by thinking of Catra, who she’s certain will figure out what’s happened and rescue her soon.  Her first section ends with her meeting King Micah.

Cut to Catra, who is trying to find out what happened to Adora, refusing to believe that she’s gone even as she and the rest of their squad are reassigned to Scorpia.  Catra manages to convince Scorpia to help her investigate, wowing Scorpia with her confidence that they can get to the bottom of it and rescue Adora, even if they have to tear the entire Crimson Waste inside out to do it.

From there the POV alternates, going through moments from the next five years where the two of them keep themselves going with thoughts of the other.  Adora learning magic and how to survive on Beast Island from Micah, and Catra steadily leading Scorpia to conquer the Crimson Waste.

Every Day A Little Death:  Alternating Adora and Catra POV.  Adora collects injuries and scars from her struggle to survive, and every day it gets a little harder to believe anyone is coming for her.  A monster blinds her in one eye, leaving an enormous scar down the side of her face and across her throat.  She loses an arm in a freak accident and Micah fashions her a crude magic prosthetic that gets steadily more refined as three more years pass.

Catra’s frustration grows as they consolidate the Horde’s hold on the Crimson Waste and still no one can tell her what was done with Adora, they can’t even find anyone who remembers someone by her description.  And every day it gets a little harder to believe that there’s anyone left to save.

Adora breaks when something breaks her nose and it heals straighter than it was before, realizing that at this point almost no one would recognize her even if she ever got off the island.  During her breakdown she finally gets Micah to admit he’s been there for over twenty years.  It sinks in that no one is coming, and she hopes the reason is that no one knows where she is.  

Rage begins to take hold of her, because what reason did Shadow Weaver have to do this to her?  To take her entire life from her?  And she breaks Shadow Weaver’s flare in her prosthetic hand.

When The World Was Mine:  Catra POV.  Catra breaks when her squad, led by Scorpia, corner her after it’s become clear she’s not sleeping.  She’s been lashing out and then retreating to places where she thinks no one can hear her forcing herself to calm down, her sleep schedule is erratic at best, and worst of all, she only seems to be getting worse the more false leads they have to discount.  Scorpia tells her she knows what it’s like to grieve someone you aren’t ready to let go of, showing Catra the picture of her mothers.  But if someone’s gone, no amount of denying it is ever going to bring them back, and all she’s doing by refusing to let herself grieve is hurting herself more.  

Catra breaks down surrounded by people she has to begrudgingly admit are her friends.

The world loses some of its luster for her, it’s difficult for her to stay motivated once she’s admitted that Adora’s gone, but Scorpia helps her work through it, and by two more years later she’s back in peak form again.  Quieter, sadder, but sharper and more dangerous for how she understands heartbreak now, and how to use it.

When We Are Kings:  Micah POV.  It’s taken two years and a lot of close calls, but Adora and Micah have managed to map out the currents and guard rotations for the area around Beast Island, and they’re ready to make their escape attempt.

The rage Adora felt has crystallized into a cold hatred, she’d been planning her return to the Horde for a decade, but now her plans are much less about taking back her life and more about punishing everyone responsible for taking it from her.  And from the stories about Bright Moon and Mysticor Micah had tried to use to sway her, he’s given her everything she needs to make Shadow Weaver let her get close enough to enact her vengeance.

Micah is gravely injured in their escape attempt, and with his last words before he passes out he pleads with Adora to remember what she really wanted to get back to, to put that before her revenge.  Because he can see the rage growing in her won’t be satisfied with just revenge, if she stays on this path, she’ll destroy herself, and take everything else with her just to try and feel a moment’s peace that won’t come.

Hell To Your Doorstep:  Alternating Catra and Adora POV.  Six months later, Scorpia’s team is reassigned back to the Fright Zone to help train the next generation of cadets, something that irks Catra, but she finds she has more of a soft spot for the kids than she thought she would.

She begins hearing rumors, however, of a newcomer Force Captain, someone rarely seen in the Fright Zone, but apparently a terror on the battlefield, a woman named Despara.

She’s surprised when she’s summoned by the woman, but Catra hasn’t lived this long by ignoring people when she doesn’t know what they were capable of.

When she first lays eyes on Despara there’s a moment where she’s familiar; it’s shorter, but her hair’s the same colour as Adora’s and she’s the same height.  But then Despara turns around, smiles, and the memory is gone.  Adora’s eyes were never so flat, her attention had never felt so cold, Despara’s posture is too aggressive, too predatory, and her nose is too straight.  The woman’s smiles don’t reach her furious eye the way Adora’s had, she doesn’t even smell right, and to Catra’s discomfort she comes close enough that anyone would be able to smell her as she seemingly tries to make nice even as she stalks around Catra, speaking in a ragged voice likely due to whatever caused the scar across her throat.

She asks strange questions, mostly about Scorpia, and every answer seems to frustrate the Force Captain more, like she’s expecting Catra to have some secret knowledge for her that she just doesn’t.  Catra leaves the meeting more confused than anything else.

Cut to Adora.  She’d been hoping, so much, that Catra would recognize her.  She feels stupid for thinking she would when Shadow Weaver hadn’t, when none of the people responsible for taking everything from her had, when Catra has Scorpia now.  Catra had been Adora’s lifeline, and she’d moved on.  She tears apart her office, the hate in her chest searing hot until she’s exhausted herself and it simmers back down into its usual cold burn.  She hadn’t expected to need to add Scorpia to the list of people she is going to crush.  It’s a shame, Adora had liked Scorpia, but now, all Despara can see is someone else who’s stolen from her.

She plans, and the hate in her heart digs deeper.

Ah, Women:  Despara(Adora) POV.  Despara bides her time, though she finds herself gravitating back to the Fright Zone more and more often to watch Catra with the cadets.  One catches her attention, a magicat child named Finn she sees trailing after another recruit with a familiar expression in their eyes.  The same she knows used to be in hers when she looked at Catra.

Something of Adora responds the sight, so she waits until training is over one day and takes them aside under the pretense of interviewing them for inclusion in her squad.  She asks them about their squad, who they’d need to come with them if they were to be assigned to a Force Captain, and lets herself be Adora- if only in her mind- for a bit while they gush about their friends.  Thinking about how best to help this child instead of her revenge for a moment is almost invigorating, but it’s over too soon.  When she brings Finn back to the Barracks she catches Catra watching her, eyes suspicious and accusing, protective of her cadet.  Despara’s walls come right back up; this isn’t for her anymore, Adora would have been able to help look after them, Despara has no use for them.

I Know Those Eyes/This Man Is Dead:  Catra POV.  Despara has been hanging around the edges, haunting the barracks like a vengeful specter, it sets Catra’s teeth on edge.  She’s only seen Despara soften once, around Finn, but she remembers how the hard edges had come right back when she’d noticed Catra watching, remembers how Shadow Weaver used softness against Adora, so that only makes her warier, makes her ensure the woman doesn’t have the chance to get Finn alone again.

Her next full confrontation with Despara comes months later, during a sparring demonstration with Scorpia.  The woman barges in, the cold in her eye burning with rage, and demands to spar with the other Force Captain.

As the two spar, Catra starts noticing little things in the way Despara moves in a fight; her precision, the steps she takes before she makes a strike, the specific way she braces herself before a block.  Catra finds herself almost anticipating Despara’s moves before she makes them and a hope she’d buried deep starts to stir as Despara, for all her vicious determination, is slowly overwhelmed by Scorpia’s experience and size advantage.

She asks Scorpia to tag in, she needs to know.

Sparring against Despara is like slipping back into an old, favourite bed, like coming home; she can hardly believe it, and from the way Despara’s good eye softens, neither can she.  It’s not long before they’re dancing the same dance they used to, each so familiar with the other’s movements and tactics that they could spar uninterrupted for hours without a winner.  Catra looks at Adora, hard and angry but her Adora, back from the dead after ten years, and the cold in her good eye- what had happened to Her Adora’s eyes?  Where had the fire in them gone?  Why didn’t her smiles reach them anymore?  What made her move like she’d never been Catra’s?- melts.

Catra breathes her name and after a desperate, yearning moment where Adora leans in, Despara’s walls come back up in an instant, the cold fury breaking their stalemate as she pounces with surprising ferocity.  The battle becomes pitched, each of them trying to get back on the offensive, Catra refusing to let Adora retreat behind Despara again, and Despara refusing to let Catra back in.

Eventually, Despara lands a blow, winning the spar, and as they stand there, panting with exertion, the hate in Despara’s gaze solidifies again.  “You moved on,” she accuses Catra, turning on her heel before Catra can recover from the shock.

In many ways, Catra doesn’t recover, not until Scorpia manages to shoo the cadets away and find Catra somewhere safe to break down again.

Pretty lies:  Alternating Despara and Catra POV.   Despara goes back into the field for a time, carving her way across the front lines to try and bury the parts of Adora that dancing with Catra had stirred up from their places.  Meanwhile, Catra tries to settle back into her life before she realized that Adora was here, was hurting so badly all alone.

Eventually someone steps forward to challenge Despara directly during a raid, and as Despara steps forward, glad to have someone to direct the wildfire under her skin at, he reveals himself to be Micah.  Despara is shocked, she’d only brought him to Bright Moon out of courtesy for how he’d helped her, she never thought he’d actually survive his injuries.  Then he calls her Adora, and she resolves to do what Beast Island couldn’t.

Intersperse cutaways to Catra confiding in Scorpia, telling her about how Adora used to be, the light in her eyes, her determination, how kind and honorable she could be even when it was infuriating, their plans for the future, how Catra had wanted to wake up wrapped in Adora’s warmth every day for the rest of her life.  The gentle memories contrasting with cuts back to Despara attacking Micah like a woman possessed, like something feral and unstoppable as he tries fruitlessly to talk to her.

Micah and Despara’s fight ends in a draw, but Micah reveals that while he’d been hoping to get through to her he was also keeping her occupied while the Rebellion drove the rest of the Horde away and Despara is forced to retreat.

Meanwhile, Catra resolves to try and rescue Adora, one last time.

All This Time:  Catra POV.  Despara returns to the Fright Zone in a downright incandescent rage, and Catra finds herself horrified by how she seems somehow even less like Adora with that kind of fire in her eye.  But she still goes to her, she has to try, just once.

Despara almost seems frightened of her, the rage struggling to stay on the surface when Catra confronts her.  After a little pushing, Despara agrees to let Catra stay with her for the night, to hold each other close like they used to.  There’s something of Adora in the way Despara hesitates to touch her, though it’s different now, less like she’s waiting for permission and more like she’s worried Catra’s fur might burn her.

Despara doesn’t melt back into Adora in her arms like Catra had hoped, like she’d seen when they sparred, but it’s progress, and Despara sleeps better than she has in a decade.

The next morning Despara almost seems excited, she tells Catra that her plan is finally going to be ready, that she can finally take her revenge on Shadow Weaver, Octavia, Grizzlor, and Hyldren.  For the first time in six months all the Force Captains will be in the same place, now all she needs is to make her move on Shadow Weaver.

As Despara’s trap snaps shut around Shadow Weaver, turning her own magic back against her, Catra can only watch the sick glee on Despara’s face as Shadow Weaver’s screams echo through the chamber, her heart starting to break with how there isn’t even a trace of Adora in that expression.  Shadow Weaver subdued, Despara plucks the shard of the Black Garnet from her mask, leaving the Sorceress barely alive in her lair as she slots the gem into her prosthetic, red lightning flashing along it.

Despara doesn’t even seem to notice how Catra flinches at the sight of the magical electricity.

Next are the Force Captains, gathered up in a conference room, Despara enters and slams her prosthetic hand into one of the walls, igniting the spell circle covering the room and channeling the Black Garnet’s lightning through it.

Catra can’t let her do it, Despara was going to torture an entire room of people to death, was going to kill Scorpia, just to get at three of them.  Adora would never have done this, if there was ever a moment to try and save her it was now.  She pulls her away from the room, breaking her connection to the spell circle.

They fight, Despara utterly blinded by her rage at having been so close to finalizing her revenge and having it denied for even a moment.  It’s not the dance of their spar, it’s brutal and grinding, Despara throwing every spell and power she’s learned or stolen into taking Catra down, Catra barely able to keep ahead of it until finally Despara catches her around the throat, baring Shadow Weaver’s gem and preparing to pump every bit of lightning she can conjure into Catra.

Catra tells her to do it, that she’d rather die than have to keep watching Adora be this.  

Despara braces herself for the kill, to shed the last trace of her weakness, and Adora can’t do it.

The Man I Used To Be:  Adora POV.  She can’t do it.  Adora drops Catra, tears gathering in her eyes as she shoves Shadow Weaver’s gem out of her arm like it’s burning her.  She stumbles away to collapse against a wall, wide-eyed and panting.

She’d been about to kill her, she’d been about to kill Catra the same way she’d spent her whole life terrified Shadow Weaver would.  She’d been trying to kill Micah and Scorpia, who’d only ever been kind to her.  The cold hatred’s claws around her heart hurt, she’d used them to hold it together, keep it from breaking apart in her chest, but she could feel it, she’d been about to let them crush her.

Catra starts to get up and Adora shatters.

She runs, doesn’t want to see the way Catra had looked at her again.  She runs until she’s left the Fright Zone behind, until her legs won’t hold her anymore and then further, until she trips and falls, curling up as small as she can to try and hide.

Catra doesn’t let her, after making sure Scorpia and the others were going to be alright she’s tracked her down.  Catra gathers Adora up in her arms and Adora hesitates, but this time it’s right, this time it’s because she can’t believe Catra would let her touch, not because she’s afraid she won’t be able to hold onto the rage in Catra’s arms.  Then Catra tells her it’s alright and Adora stops trying to put herself back together, crying as she clings to Catra’s arms around her.

Not 100% on how it would wrap up after that, but I’ve got a vague idea of them going back to the Horde, rescuing the cadets and moving off to live in the Whispering Woods, trying to find these kids’ families to return them.  Maybe Micah shows up and is grateful to Catra for helping Adora pull herself back from the brink?  I dunno, this sprang fully formed from my brain six hours ago.

[evisamora]

Since the trailer of She-Ra season 4 came out, I have a lot of questions and predictions about what will happen next.

1. I want to starts with Entrapta.

In the end of season 3, Catra send her on beast island. We don’t see her in the trailer, but she is still the in opening intro. so Entrapta is ALIVE. This is not a surprise for everyone, but I wanted to say it.

Entrapta will be on beast island and who do you think is on this island? Micah. I am at 210% Micah is there, and who send him there? Shadow Weaver. I wouldn’t be surprise that Shadow Weaver saved Michah’s life.

Anyway, we will learn about Entrapta and Micah during the mid-season and they will make a comeback at the end of the season.

I am so excited for this story because don’t get me wrong, but if there’s someone who can escape Beast Island it’s Entrapta, and she will have help of Micah. Plus Shadow Weaver said it, Entrapta is the only one who can combine Magic and Technology.

2. Mara

So, there’s a lot of theory about Mara and I think the one we all agree is that she is still alive.

The first theory is that she is in a dimension, like Angella, and she is stuck there.

Actually, I have difficulties with this one, since she has recorded the message after crashing and we heard people coming for her. Except is she opened the last portal where Hordak get Adora.

The other theory is that she is on beast island, which it can be interesting too and make a nice story with Entrapta and Micah.

Another theory is that Madam Razz is Mara in a costume, and she try in her best to train Adora and guide Adora. Which it could be really nice too.

One theory is that Mara is actually dead, and it was really a perfect world where Adora was not She-Ra. Since she struggles a lot being She-Ra and wish, in a way, to have control in her destiny.

Last theory about Mara is that she is kept by Light Hope in a prison, in the temple where Adora train.

I am pretty sure we will have more keys about Mara, but I wouldn’t be surprise that she will show herself only at the end of the season or at the beginning of the last season.

3. Glimmer

I think Glimmer will be one of the character the most interesting this season and everyone is excited to see it.

Glimmer will leave big change in her life and I the "dead" of Angella. She will feel alone and will push people away, mostly Adora and Bow.

The only person she will allow will be Shadow Weaver, and god no one wants to be close to her. *except me, spank me mama* Shadow Weaver will bring the idea of vengence in Glimmer’s head. I mean, she doesn’t need Shadow Weaver for that, but she won’t help either.

I think Glimmer will be in a depression, that we will call the "Dark side" and at some pount she will cross a line and bring her back in track.

The line she will cross?

I won’t be surprise she will try to hurt Catra and Adora will protect Catra, and Glimmer and Adora will have a huge fight about that. And this could happen mid-season or the end of season 4.

I won’t be surprise either that she will try to banish Entrapta and Bow will protect Entrapta and boom bug fight between these two.

Don’t get me wrong, but if glimmer is going to the dark side will learn the hard way and she will need to cross a line to know what she is doing it’s not ok.

I am really excited to see what will happen. Btw, her new design is so sexy.

4. Catra

Catra is sexier than never. Top me, top me, top me.

Catra will take over Hordak and we already saw it in the sneak peek. Which many of us preddicted.

Catra will love to be in control, but don’t get me wrong I feel she will hit the rock bottom soon more than never.

I feel like Scorpia will play a huge part in this, plus Double Trouble and Horde Prime.

We all know that the redemption arc is closer than never. Is it at the end of season 4? Is it at the beginning of season 5? Is she going to change camp at the end of the last season during the final battle?

Catra has so many possibilities and this is awesome. I really wish it will be end of season 4, where she will start to see what she is doing is bad, but I feel it won’t be.

Is Catra a princess? We know that now she has the same hair that we saw in season 1 episode 12 with Light Hope. BUT is she a magicat princess or it’s because she will be at the head of the Horde and being considered as a princess to fight against Horde Prime? That is really more and more interesting.

I would like to see Catra being captured by the Rebellion and seeing Scorpia with them and going crazy. Anyway, Catra will need a good kick in the ass, but more she gain power more we are close to see her fall and get her redemption fam.

5. Double Trouble

Our new nonbinary character is finally here and god I already love them.

Are they going to be a brat? Yes they will. Are they good or villain? That is an interesting question, since in the old She-Ra they are Glimmer’s cousin and work has a double agent. I wouldn’t be surprise that they are a double agent again but for Horde Prime this time. But we saw them in the Prom episode and I don’t think it was an accident. So they might be a double agent again, but Glimmer doesn’t even know they are.

Maybe they are a new Scorpia love interest? I would love to see that happen. Im sorry for Scortra fan, but in my opinion Scorpia deserves better and deserves someone who will love her as much as she loves.

This character will be really interesting, and I can’t wait to see them.

6. Scorpia

We already know that Scorpia will have an episode about her and I can’t wait to see her stand for herself and kick Catra’s ass.

God, I’ll be honest with you everyone, I am waiting for this moment since season 1. I love Scorpia and I think she will be a great leader. At the end, I want to see her at the head of the Horde and bring peace in this place.

I don’t know what will happen with Scorpia tbh. I feel like she will leave the Horde because Etheria will be more important than Catra happiness. I feel she will bring people with her too, like Lonnie, Kyle and Rogelio and maybe Double Trouble will be the reason of it.

I think it will be a difficult journey for Scorpia but she will finaly find herself and being stronger than never.

If Scortra has to happen, I guess it will be at the very end, because a little like catradora, they need to separe themselve because Catra is in a toxic mode.

7. Bow

Tbh, I have no clue about Bow this season, but I am a little worried about him.

I would like to see him being less a people pleaser and stabd for himself too. NO ONE CARES BOW! BE YOURSELF, WE LOVE YOU THE WAY YOU ARE.

I feel that Glimmer and him will be really difficult this season, but they will find a way. I know they will.

But I feel like the fight about Glimmer wanting to hurt someone and Bow trying to convince her that they are the "good guys" will come back during the season.

I think he will be really important and I can’t wait to see the direction his character will take.

8. Adora

My favorite dumb lesbian.

Since the story turns around her, again she will be the key elements.

I feel Adora will struggle to see Glimmer being bad, Catra being bad and the story with Mara and Etheria.

Adora has to live with the idea that Angella sacrifice her life to save everyone when it was her job. Does it can create a cold between Glimmer and her? Probably.

She will go through a lot of pressure and won’t know what is good and what is bad anymore.

I feel Adora will learn, and she already seeing it, that there’s no balck and white, but more greys areas.

I would like to see Scorpia join the Rebellion and Adora and Scorpia becoming friend. I would like to see them struggle together about seeing their friends becoming more and more villains. Adora will have difficulties to let Glimmer go more than Catra because I feel she doesn’t want to make the same mistake she did with Catra. Or it could awake new feelings about Catra, and see what her mistake was.

Is infected She-Ra will be here again? I hope so.

9. The Rebellion

I really feel that Glimmer going crazy will create problem in the Princess Alliance.

I think it will struggle to get stick together, but Adora and Bow will do their best to keep them together.

I could see Glimmer canceling the Alliance too tbh.

I know at the end they will be back together.

I hope we will see more about Sea Hawk this season because I really missed my boy.

10. Hordak

Hordak lost his queen, and now will lose his position at the head of the Horde.

I feel Catra will keep him around until she doesn’t need him anymore.

He will be lost in his head and I feel he will have like an existencial crisis.

I could see him going back at the head when Horde Prime arrives.

I can see him leaving and going after Entrapta.

I can see him going feral after learning that Catra lied and take back his place to the Horde.

One thing is sure, it’s that he still wants to prove himself to Horde Prime, so I won’t be surprise that he will fight his place until he will be able to.

I wish, my boi will get his anti heros redemption and join the rebellion to fight Horde Prime.

I want to see him and Entrapta reunited, but I won’t be surprise that Entrapta will try to come back to him and he will push her away thinking she betrayed him.

ANYWAYS,

I feel like Shadow Weaver will be important in Glimmer’s dark side.

I wish that Shadow Weaver and Catra will find peace between each other, not for Shadow Weaver, but more for Catra to be in peace with herself and love herself better.

Plus, this season seems really huge and I am really excited because everything can change and alot might change too.

I am not ready, and we are going close to the end and I hate that. I wish they will give us more episodes than 50, because I really need more. I love this show so much and The Crew is doing a great job and continue to slap us in the face so many times.

We all thought that season 3 was our mental breakdowns, I feel that we are going to cry a lot in season 4.

Don’t forget november 5th.

I will tag she ra spoilers and season 4 on my tags.

[breeeliss]

.fidelity

post-s3 scortra

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scorpia comes back a little wrong. 

there are little rips in her memory that have been crookedly sewn together. she spaces out during a force captain meeting and swears she’s shorter, younger, and smaller, watching shadow weaver bleed all of the power from her mother’s runestone while her father holds her head still so she can’t tear her eyes away. scorpia acknowledges the new infiltration targets for this month while also pushing down the vague feeling that something about this war isn’t quite right. 

but scorpia has always listened to her parents. she’s always been eager to please. it never occurs to her to use her size and strength to tell others they’re incorrect. relenting is always easier, and scorpia craves the praise that follows. 

so she leaves the meeting and promises her mother to be obedient, much to the confusion of her fellow force captains. 

it’s just lingering after effects. reality is still fixing itself, and soon no one will have to see their pasts knitted together in a way that makes them agonize over the countless ways they may continue to live or prepare to die. 

and it does, eventually. scorpia’s thoughts whittle back down to their singular mission -- prove your loyalty, and starve the rebel inside you. the memory of being an agitated little girl who fantasized about selfishness was pushed to the back of her skull, and a plea for her next orders was right at the tip of her tongue.

scorpia is shaking off the sensation of toasty desert heat warming her exoskeleton when she comes to catra’s room and peeks inside. 

reality hasn’t been fixed for catra just yet. catra came back a lot wrong. 

her fingers twitch and one of her eyes is impossibly dark -- a long, long drop into nothingness, like the tears from reality left her too scarred for even she-ra to fix. she traces lines on walls like she’s painting a memory before punching it back into the metal panelling. sometimes she clings to scorpia because she thinks the floor is falling away or someone is raising a fist to her face. other times she races down hallways and around corners chasing people’s backs that aren’t there. 

when scorpia knocks, catra spins to look her in the eyes and immediately sees something putrid -- maybe it’s adora, maybe it’s shadow weaver, or maybe it’s scorpia exactly as she stands now. but then catra pounces and scorpia has to blink a few times before she realizes catra’s hand is around her throat and her claws are digging into her skin. 

“don’t you dare,” catra growls. “you are not going to sneak up on me, adora. you’re not going to kill me. you’ll have to try way harder than that.” 

scorpia swallows, picks her words carefully, sifts through catra’s murky memories. “you’re right. i would have to try pretty hard. that’s why i wouldn’t bother. i wouldn’t dare hurt you, wild cat.” 

the nickname brings catra back a little, but only a little. “prove it,” she hisses, and it feels desperate. like if scorpia answers wrong, there’s more than just a thin string of delusion to crumble. “prove you won’t turn around and destroy me.” 

scorpia barely hesitates as she lifts her claw and presses catra’s nails deeper into the skin on her neck until she’s sure that’s blood that’s pooling in her collarbone. “i’ll never destroy you, catra. the world will have to destroy the both of us first.” 

it’s a little on the nose -- the world did destroy them just a week ago -- but catra latches onto her answer, voice dripping with promise as she speaks. “and when it does?” 

“when it does. i’ll be there,” scorpia says. no hesitation. no question. no sign of a rebel. just sitting quietly with her head held in place. “i’ll be there with you when the world ends.” 

scorpia’s not sure if catra is pleased with the answer, but her hand does drop to release her neck. and scorpia’s not sure if that’s a whisper of a thank you on the edge of catra’s lips, but the tremor in her hands seems to calm a bit. 

it’s barely a comfort, but if there’s one thing scorpia is good at, it’s turning pain into a kindness. 

[horde-princess]

I like Scorpia but do u think her and Catra really going to end up together because i feel like her and Lonnie are a good pair and in the au episode Catra's perfect Reality scorpia isn't in it and they have been through so much but i just want your opinion on it (I'm a Catradora shipper but i still want Scorpia to be happy)

why are you breaking my heart rn like… why are you doing this :(

so the thing about scortra is that catra isn’t genuinely interested in scorpia, she’s just responding to her unconditional love and support. and like, even though catradora owns my heart i still find myself rooting for them because i’ve BEEN in scorpia’s place and god how beautiful would it be if catra could just reciprocate!!!… but she can’t. and we could go into all the trauma behind that but what it really comes down to the simple reason that, to quote AJ, “catra’s heart belongs to adora.” 

but i think noelle wrote scorpia specifically to speak on that common lesbian experience where you’re infatuated with a girl maybe for the first time and you let her take advantage of you because you dont know any better ykwim? so thinking about it like that i’m super confident noelle is gonna give scorpia a happy ending apart from catra because her intention is probably to send a message to kids along the lines of “hey i know this sucks but you’re not alone in this experience, and you will find happiness.” and sconnie is probably in the cards after the little moment they had in s2….. yea. u have good taste i’d die for sconnie personally 😭

also noelle said this in a recent interview: “[Scorpia is] always trying to take care of other people, but she really has to figure out who she is and how to be happy for herself. I think that there’s a lot more growing that she needs to do and there’s a lot more in the future for her.” so that sounds exciting :)))