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Adora || “Geronimo,” Sheppard

Thank you for 4.5k followers! ♡ Here’s an AMV about Adora finding her way and the people who are meaningful to her while struggling to figure out her relationship with Catra. Hope you enjoy!

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For @still-korrasami-trash who requested the scene where Scorpia shows up at Bright Moon. Thanks for the request!

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For sure! I thought it was really bizarre the way that some of the people who were “cancelling” Catra were also huge fans of the woobie!hordak thing. Sometimes shipping goggles can really be affixed a bit too tightly

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I’m really digging this analysis of Catra’s combat skills and I think the reasoning for why Catra’s victory over Hordak made sense narratively is pretty apt. Hordak is a glass cannon while Catra is a much more well rounded, scrappy fighter.

this is not me calling anyone who likes Entrapdak wrong or bad. I’m just pointing out that the cuteness of their relationship doesn’t absolve Hordak of his many sins any more than her relationship with Adora absolves Catra

I’m a fan of entrapdak and am looking forward to seeing where Hordak’s character arc goes now that we are seeing him in a position of vulnerability under the thumb of a “brother” who views him simply as a defect who is of no use to him (interestingly, Catra was able to position herself into Horde Prime’s good graces in a very short amount of time because she understands how and when to leverage certain information. She’s probably had more of Horde Prime’s cooperation and respect, temporary though it may be, in just ten seconds of interaction than Hordak ever has) but I strongly agree with this. His and Entrapta’s mutual affection for each other provides complexity to his character, but there’s a certain point where the “redeemed through the power of love” thing doesn’t quite play, and I think it actually makes Hordak a worse, less interesting character to act as if his crimes/faults should be forgiven due to him caring about Entrapta.

Catra’s Combat Style

You know, I’ve seen some people say that Catra has plot armor and shouldn’t have been able to win that fight against Hordak when he had a gun that leveled buildings and she was on the defensive before that amazing suckerpunch, but Catra has never been a powerhouse of raw destructive power.

The reason why she is such a dangerous combatant, the reason why she wins or least fights to a draw people like She-ra and Hordak who are way stronger than her is because she is insanely agile, can take a beating (remember when Adora slammed her into a mountain so hard it cracked and she was bouncing around again two seconds later) but above all else… She’s smart. Cunning, even.

She knows better than to go head to head with someone like Hordak, particularly when he’s firing off his gun all over the place. Instead she waits until the right moment, when there’s a break in his concentration, and then she closes the distance and goes right for the thing that’ll do the most damage in the least amount of time: his power supply. After making sure she destroyed the weapon that was his major advantage.

That’s not plot armor, guys: that’s just good tactics. The same quality that had the Horde winning under Catra’s command until her guilt/sanity slippage lead to spreading their forces too thin. And although that was a giant fuck up on her part, all of history’s best tacticians have had some screw ups, sometimes spectacular career-ending screw ups, but it still doesn’t change the fact that they were otherwise damn good at what they did. (For examples, just look at the absolute clusterfuck that was the Battle of Teutoburg Forest or the Battle of Cannae, both of which involved smaller or less well trained forces absolutely curb stomping the Romans at the height of military power, because they were lead by generals who knew how to combat the Roman battle strategies and use them to their own advantage.)

Catra’s a good tactician. She knows how to play to her own strengths, and more importantly, she knows how to neutralize her opponent’s. That’s why she wins against severely overpowered enemies. And that makes perfect sense considering she’s been spending her entire life fighting back against people who were either bigger or more powerful than her.

That’s not plot armor. That’s consistent storytelling.

Personal Hordak opinions under the cut. Please don’t click if you know you’ll get mad.

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