#shera s4

[sherafaces]

all the digital pictures from the show!

[breakthesword]

Adora...I believe in you. You can save the world we love.

[imminent-danger-came]

It's just me and the 2 different season 4s that destroyed me

[time-does-not-exist-here]

THOUGHTS?!?!

[layna-art]

Wow a rare occurrence of me actually posting art (Shera brainrot got to me)

Also just me or S4 is my favorite season and I love Catra’s outfit in it (even though ouch she’s spiraling)

[emileedoodles]

S5 Shera Vs S4 Catra are peak enemies aesthetic ✨

[sometipsygnostalgic]

Idk if this has been talked about before but do you think Hordak and Wrong Hordak are kind of parallels to catra and adora? Adora and WH both fully believed the hoard was truly good, and only defected when they realized it was a lie. Their values never changed, their realities did. Catra and Hordak both seemed to know the hoard was actually pretty evil, but didn't care. They both had there own reasons to rebel in the end, personal pride and whatnot, but mostly it was their love for adora and entrapta that pushed them to change sides.

Yes, I absolutely do.

Wrong Hordak even has a scene where he's petting a horse for the first time, just like Adora!!! And they both have this sort of existential crisis.

They both believed they were honorable missionaries of the Horde, that the Horde was perfect. Whether it was Adora believing the Horde were victims of rebel insurgents, or Wrong Hordak believing that Prime was the smartest and most merciful man in the universe. Sweary Shera amps this up to 11 with their Wrong Hordak having heard a bunch of lies about gay people, kind of like how Adora heard a bunch of lies about princesses (also gay people).

With Catra and Hordak, it's more like... okay, yeah, they were ALSO brought up in these cults. And I would actually say that Hordak was far more "brainwashed" than Catra, because to begin with Hordak fully believed in the hype of Prime, at least for a while. He was cast aside as a defect, and knew of the violence of the Horde, but still believed in his creator's perfection, unlike Catra, who knew from the start that Weaver was full of shit and realised over time that Hordak was too.

I'd say though that both of them were SCARED of their masters, and were trying to get their approval, to sort of... prove that they were wrong about them. Because the little voice Prime and Weaver put in their heads says "You are wrong, you are a failure", and they need to silence that in order to function. This is why Catra never defected, she needed to prove herself in the system and Weaver would "win" if she quit, and this is why Hordak scrambled to Prime's feet once he arrived.

But something changed over time. The versions of Hordak and Catra we get at the end of Season 4, their hearts aren't in it anymore. All of their actions across S4 are driven by different motivations to before.

For Hordak, his motivation actually flips over - He hardly gives a shit about reuniting with Prime anymore! What he wants to do is prove to Entrapta that she was wrong for leaving him behind, and prove to himself that he isn't a worthless piece of shit failure like everyone thinks he is. Hordak goes from a sheltered scientist to leading the army on the front lines, embracing the violence of a warlord and sort of making a name for himself rather than hiding behind the rest of the Horde. He's in the state of mind Catra was in the previous seasons!!!

For Catra, her motivation... well, it ends. We saw the fire and rage from her in the previous season where she was so determined to prove herself that she ended the world, and this is a Catra who has to deal with the consequences of that. She realises that she has very little left in her life and she tries to cling onto those ideas, even to bond with Hordak despite everything he's done to her, and she goes through the ten stages of grief, ending up on Prime's doorstep as having... started to think about what it is she really wants. Like, she sees Glimmer fuck up big time but try to fix it anyway, she goes "You can do that???", and I think Catra starts to accept she still cares about people, she cares about Adora and even Glimmer and Hordak. She's a character filled with so much empathy who tries to crush it dry.

Hordak and Catra both get the "death and rebirth" in the final season, after their "rebirth" they become more introspective with all the rage tempered or gone. Hordak, in close proximity to Prime, starts to see how truly weak the man is, and how hollow his version of "Love" is, especially compared to the sheer strength of heart he sees from Entrapta. And Catra, in "Save the Cat", are their bare selves, all notions of hero vs villain stripped away, just those two girls who grew up together trying to survive. Catra afterwards still has the final strips of her mask that she claws onto, but she lets them flutter away.

Wrong Hordak and Adora "had it easier" when it came to defecting because they were entrenched in the false values of their system, and just applied those values to their new situation. Whereas Catra and Hordak had to develop new values from the ground up, since the whole time all they were made to care about was whether they were on the good side of the person in charge, because if they werent, they were going to get the Stick.

[chronicsyd]

I also want to go on a rant about Adora and Hunter cause I saw an old pic on my old phone that said, “if you Stan Catra you automatically Stan Amity I don’t make the rules” (even though I already made a post of stop comparing these two especially as redemption arcs but that’s not the point of this…)

Cause Adora and Hunter seem to have more in common than people think like the denial of the side they’re fighting for being “bad” (it just takes longer for Hunter to figure it out) (and they both need the literal proof of it happening (ie the decimation of that one village done by the Horde in ep 1 of Shera and Hunter seeing all the other Clones and Philip trying to get rid of him as well) and they both are in this mindset of “there’s nothing worse than disappointing the people who think you’re special” cause Hunter and Adora do what they do cause A) Hunter is being manipulated by Belos by being told that “the Titan has great plans for you”, if he doesn’t question things then Belos wouldn’t act violently towards him, etc. and B) Adora believes that if she does A,B and C right then things would stop going wrong around her like Catra would stop being hurt by Shadow Weaver, Glimmer wouldn’t be hurt in S1, the Horde wouldn’t be Decimating them in S4, etc. etc.

Like this is just another thing that I’d probably go on for days about (and would probably make a more in depth post about if that is something people would read…)

[thecatranimal]

secret look into season 4 catras fantasies

[catrasarm]

i really wanna know what scorpia wrote in this note. please.

ND reveal the note challenge

[anamorph-marco]

[sherafaces]

All the drawings from SheRa part 2

[breakthesword]

Mara Edit - Interstellar Theme

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[imminent-danger-came]

I THINK I FINALLY PUT TOGETHER WHY LUZ'S ARC IN S3 OF THE OWL HOUSE BUGGED ME SO MUCH.

It's because they made her defining moment helping Belos meet the collector—which feels disconnected from the core of her character (and also it happened in an episode over halfway through season 2). That's not her defining moment, and it never has been: it was her choice to walk through the portal door, and become a witch.

That's what makes her similar to Philip, right? Like, Luz has this grand idea in her mind of becoming a witch. Philip has his own grand idea of being a heroic witch hunter and saving the human realm from this great evil. That's what the line "I am the great witch Azura, warrior of piece!" is meant to communicate. It's the idea in her head vs reality. That's what s1 of toh explores.

Luz choosing to walk through the portal door and become a witch is what leads to...well, everything. It leads to her not being able to go back. It leads to her mother's grief. It leads to Eda losing her magic. It turns Amity's life upside down. It leads to Belos meeting the collector. It leads to the near destruction of the Isles.

And that ties in with her foil to Philip WAY better, and it makes her decision to stay in the human realm at the end of 3x01 actually relevant. She wanted to be this great witch, to follow in Philip's footsteps creating a portal door and learning about the isles, she wanted to live her dream...and look what that lead too.

So, Luz feeling like her and Belos are both motivated by love and by their own childish notions...like that would have been SO interesting. She wasn't becoming the villain and didn't wake up one morning evil, but some of her decisions undeniably hurt others. But it also lead to some good things. And that's life, isn't it? Taking the good with the bad and accepting that.

But idk, instead it was like a "blah blah your one single mistake makes YOU the true villain!", which just isn't compelling or at the core of Luz character.

[vizual-sarkasm]

IS CATRA SO FUCKING UNHINGED THAT SHE PULLED AN AZULA AND FUCKED UP HER HAIR???

[sounds-of-my-silence]

I want to do some kind of literary treatise on She-ra season 4 because almost everything about it was absolutely brilliant.

***spoilers below***

The shot composition... I’m deceased y’all. There were so many immensely poignant moments. My fave: Catra’s final descent into madness. Episode 10 had me literally gasping and bawling.

“Everything is under control.”

She says as her tired eyes show she’s barely holding it together.

And then the camera reverses to reveal the truth, the destruction, the brutal reality. Once Hordak’s voice fades, Catra stands in the dark, alone, every screen that could provide a connection to somewhere outside her head destroyed by her own hand.

And then she literally takes the mask off, becomes vulnerable,

and collapses.

And at this moment, Catra finally loses control...over her ability to lie to herself.

My god, this show is good.