#they really gave clawdeen the full ya treatment

[starliteonearth]

Y'ALL this is old old news and no one probably cares anymore but I think I finally cracked the case on why Live Action G3 had the... interesting... idea of making Clawdeen and Deuce a thing.

So you know how in placing Clawdeen as the main character of this gen, they also completely scooped out her old personality and gave her one of a generic female lead of a YA series? You know, the fairly average girl who finds out she actually has powers, that she's from a race of supernatural/magical beings, and she's destined to save the world or something along those lines? Yeah that one. Well, a big proponent of that YA narrative is that she also tends to gain the attention of the resident popular guy. That guy would mostly likely be dating the resident popular girl whom, and this is very important, he's not in love with (anymore) either because she's shallow or self absorbed or they're dating just because... I'm pretty sure y'all can see where this is going.

So if Clawdeen is our YA heroine, who oh who would be her popular love interest? There's really only one option out of our MH cast but I'll take Deuce Gorgon for 500. The very same Deuce Gorgon Frankie had a little crush on back in G1 but this time, they're actually following through on that main character x popular guy pairing. But wait, Deuce is in a pretty established and fairly iconic relationship with Cleo and isn't quite "available", so what. do. we. do? Oh I know, let's make it that he doesn't like her anymore (for reasons listed above) and have him break up with her because he wants a "real" relationship, someone his heart can harmonize with (bc of their duets), and ofc that person happens to be our new main character, Clawdeen.

And boom, it suddenly makes sense.