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I don't know if my other ask went through but I'm salty too about how DT got shafted in season 5. They were vital to season 4 and then they just only show up for one episode? That's it? Then, we only see them one more time and they don't even have a speaking line? Really?

BIG rant about s5 below, scroll if you don't want to see negativity.

I don't see your other ask :( tumblr is mean

Ok I could go on and on about this. Before I go off (again), let me just say briefly there are a few things I did like about their appearance. I liked that even they didn't want to join Horde Prime after seeing what his side was like. I liked that they just kind of... took an entertainment gig after they were done spying, because the most important thing to them isn't actually destroying lives, it's just using their talents to make a living. I liked how they (Swen) slid Scorpia the microphone and winked at her, implying they were encouraging her to perform and boost her confidence. I liked that, however brief, they were shown using their skills to fight Prime's forces without any ulterior motive that we know of, because they didn't want Prime to take over Etheria either.

That said...

Why the HELL didn't the Alliance hire them? Really, what's the reason? DT had already worked for the Alliance in the past, they clearly didn't have any loyalty to Prime, they proved they were able to gather valuable information while disguised as a clone, the rebels knew personally how powerful an asset their spying could be, and DT needed a new source of income after their last gig got flooded out. There was every reason for DT to offer their services, and every reason for the rebels to purchase them. What, could all the kingdoms of Etheria not scrounge up a modest bag of coins between them? Were they nursing a grudge over the Flutterina thing? Did they decline a potentially tide-turning asset just because they found DT's personality unsavory?

"They couldn't trust them, they know DT is prone to switching sides," I hear you say, and that would be valid except DT already tried to join Horde Prime, didn't like it, and left of their own volition without so much as a counter-offer. They weren't going to switch to his side. "Maybe they didn't want to get involved in the war because it was too dangerous." They already got involved in a war! Heavily! They worked with and against warlords and powerful magical individuals! They fought She-Ra herself in their debut episode! And they seemed to have a pretty great time doing all this!! Danger doesn't seem to be too big a deterrent for them. "Too easy, as usual" - that throwaway line in S4 could have set up spying on Prime as a real challenge for them. The show wouldn't even need to show them or have them talk that much - just quickly establish that they're undercover and occasionally sending the rebels information.

There is not a single reason I can think of why they wouldn't work for the Alliance after that episode. I was honestly blindsided when they didn't appear in the next episode - not even a silent shot of them and Perfuma + Sea Hawk going their separate ways. What happened to them after they escaped the dome? They were partially paralyzed, reliant on the heroes for basic movement, not to mention their job just became obsolete. Where else could they go? How could they leave? How long did Sea Hawk have to transport them before they could walk? Or did the heroes just leave them paralyzed on the ground as soon as the immediate danger had passed?? Cause that doesn't seem like their style.

Or, instead of helping, they could have gotten chipped and become a serious freaking problem for the heroes. Prime could've scanned their mind for the heroes' weaknesses, seeing as DT spied on them for weeks/months. They could've been used to spy on the heroes again, this time against their will, and it would've been especially hard to notice because they could hide the chip with their shapeshifting. I won't go too much into it because us DT stans have created a whole AU about it now, but you can imagine all the possibilities that weren't explored.

Hell, they could've, I dunno, met Catra again? The person they interacted with most in S4? Even if it was just a scene of Catra telling them off and realizing she doesn't need to give her time or energy to someone who never cared about her, I would've been fine with that, because at least that would acknowledge that DT was significant to her in the last season. But no, she never even mentions them. Instead they interact with Perfuma and Sea Hawk, two characters with practically no relevance to them. And they interact with Scorpia, who treats them with hostility even though she's only known them as an ally - they were both in the Horde when they met, and they were both with the Alliance when they took down Hordak's forces. They've never been enemies. Knowing her personality, shouldn't she have been, I dunno... kind of happy to see them, even? Since she seemed to like them in "The Valley of the Lost," and they helped her and Glimmer get into the Fright Zone? I don't know, maybe that's too optimistic, but she was literally the only one of the three who'd ever talked to them in a significant capacity, but based on their S5 interactions alone you'd almost think they had never met face to face...

I know they're not a major character. They were never going to have a ton of screentime. But even the couple minutes of screentime they did have could've been utilized a lot better than, say, appearing in a jokey episode, acting kind of silly (and kind of weirdly incompetent compared to S4?), getting their physical agency removed, and then vanishing until a 3-second silent cameo at the end of the season. If they wanted to keep that episode and just expand on DT's presence a little bit, it would've only taken a few seconds here and there to show that they were doing something important with their time behind the scenes.

This character just had a lot of potential, and I feel almost all of it was wasted, and while the season is very, extremely, historically important for gay media (let us never forget that), it fell flat with the only nb representation it had. I'm not nb, but I felt that pain in my soul. Like... seriously? They were interesting and cool and fun and mysterious and impactful the entire last season, and this is the treatment they get in the finale? They get easily outsmarted, manhandled for two minutes, say a few funny lines, and then just disappear? Weren't they important to the showrunners? From the marketing for S4 you would think so, but now I'm not so sure...

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