#I couldn't focus on Scorpia because it's too much for me ahahaha

[sittingoverheredreaming]

Au where she-ra believes in butch women

Oh I’m here for the salt (Also, this won’t touch anything from the last season, since I don’t know where you’re at)

I read somewhere once (and I don’t know if it’s true so take it with a grain of salt) that Noelle or someone said She-Ra is/was more feminine than Adora is comfortable with, and I think that tension is something that would play out beautifully if Adora was butch

The Horde doesn’t leave a lot of room for personal expression. Adora’s never had a choice, it’s just always been here’s your uniform, here’s a handful of approved haircuts, take it or be forced. She’s comfortable with it, and never has to examine why

And then she’s thrust into the Princess world where there’s SO MUCH choice, but also… there’s a lingering expectation that some choices shouldn’t be made

This is confirmed for the audience through Scorpia, who come Princess Prom mentions that she’s MADE the choices no one likes, and it’s only ever made her fit in less

She and Adora both attend in the least awful dresses they can find

(I do understand the love of big femme!Scorpia, but I’m here for butch wish fufilment)

And of course Adora has the extra struggle of transforming into She-Ra, who everyone likes, whose differences from Adora everyone seems to think are good

(Adora likes being taller, more muscular, having power flow through her veins, but she is sure that people respond just as much to She-Ra’s beauty, a beauty that’s so different from any way Adora might want to be beautiful)

When she makes her sacrifice and loses the ability to become She-Ra, it comes to a head, because she can’t be all the things She-Ra was. She doesn’t have that power, and she just can’t keep trying to be like the other Princesses

And she’s angry, maybe, that now Scorpia is there and Scorpia seems to be doing alright now, as she is, and no one’s asking Scorpia to change

(They have in the past, but Adora doesn’t know that, and the peace they’re at now is partly growth and partly that it just doesn’t matter in the face of everything happening)

(No one ever outright asked Adora to be different than she was, not in that way, but Glimmer has offered her dresses and make up and the implication is there, even if it was never meant)

Adora has to wrestle with who she is with She-Ra gone, and she feels like she’s not a Princess at all without her, like she doesn’t belong with them

And of course she is wrong, of course everyone accepts her, happily ever after etc

Also, this is insignificant, but Frosta’s a baby butch and she’s SO EXCITED to have two cool role models

#this is mildly incoherent but I have too many feelings on this still #I couldn't focus on Scorpia because it's too much for me ahahaha #WE COULD HAVE HAD IT AAALLLLLLLL #docholligay