No known pterosaur lost all of its fingers – all that we know of retained the hyperelongated fourth digit (the “wing finger”). However, Nyctosaurus did lose all of its other fingers:
i think i just realized catra’s real problem. to her, the whole world has been nothing but cruel. everyone keeps saying catra thinks the horde is good and supports hordak when thats obviously not true. she suffered and understood firsthand the abuse and manipulation shadow weaver and the horde put her through.
she Been Knew the horde was evil. but in the grand scheme of things, does it really matter?
in catra’s eyes, everyone has hurt her. the princesses and people of brightmoon have done absolutely nothing to help her in any way, shape, or form. so how are they any different from the horde? catra already thinks that the people of bright moon cant be as ~~good~~ as they claim to be when she says this:
to catra, there is no difference between the horde and the princesses/people of brightmoon. so why should she switch teams all of a sudden? at least with the horde, she already knows how to stay alive and protect herself the best way she can. so, in her opinion, why leave if both sides just do the same things and hurt people anyways? thered be no point.
and then the worst happens. adora, possibly the one good person catra has ever met, abandons her. (i’d like to emphasize that this is in catra’s eyes i am in no way saying adora escaping the horde for her own safety was abandonment). but adora’s “betrayal” might hurt the most. catra thought it could be them two against the world and puts all her trust in adora, only for her to leave and move on to bigger and better things, having fun with her new friends and becoming super powerful, leaving catra in the dust.
literally.
which would explain why she tries so hard to hate adora, regardless of what she may actually be feeling inside, and take she-ra down. in catra’s eyes, she’s been hurt by literally everyone shes ever met.
so i think her redemption arc might focus more on her realizing that the world isnt all a bad place, and not everyone is cruel. she doesnt need to close herself off to protect herself from getting hurt by others. catra believes that there is no such thing as innocence, everyone has either done wrong or will do wrong at some point, and all she can do is fight against them. and i think her arc will be about learning that that’s not the case.
Entrapta had lil pigs in a blanket at the ball, she’s not vegan, but she also isn’t here because she’s busy shouting “WHITE CASTLE” over and over because tiny hamburgers,
Y’know, every time I see people aghast at how vicious Catra becomes toward Adora as the season goes on, I have to take a moment. I get it: it’s a shock, and it’s hard to watch, and it makes Catra look like she’s gone mad, but listen here.
Y’all remember, in the first episode, when Catra’s complaining about Shadow Weaver’s treatment, and Adora offers the helpful suggestion that Catra is “kind of disrespectful”?
Adora, between Shadow Weaver’s manipulation and her “softer” upbringing, had always viewed Horde life as strict, but ultimately fair.
I think it’s this realization, this concept, that breaks Catra once Adora leaves. It’s not just the defection. It’s not just a broken promise (though obviously, that didn’t help).
It’s the idea that Adora finally saw that what the Horde did was evil… so she must not have found it evil before. Meaning that she did not find Catra’s treatment evil. Maybe she even found it fair. Maybe… she found it good, because it pushed Catra down and ensured that she, Adora, would continue being the golden child.
It wasn’t just a broken promise, it was a lie, a collection of lies accompanied by years of keeping Catra weakened and afraid and easy to beat. This is what she talks about in the First Ones’ temple, and this is what ultimately fuels her cruelty.
Y’all see those leaps of logic? Obviously none of them are true.
They’re not true, but they’re the ones that Catra makes. Because of their different upbringings, because of the rivalry manufactured between the two of them, because of Catra’s repressed resentment, these are the leaps of logic she makes. They’re clearly wrong to us, but to a child in her position, they make a sick, awful sort of sense.
It’s easy for us to see because we’re seeing the whole situation from an outside perspective, but for a child that has lived it, whose one safe relationship has been tainted by years of manipulation, a child who is now isolated and lonely and in emotional shock… it’s a lot harder.
Fantastic summary of my personal feelings on Catra. Tldr, abuse fucks with your head and perception of reality sometimes, and leads you to make wrong conclusions.
When I first saw Catra’s headpiece thing, I was kinda confused as to why it was there and everything
but looking at it now, it makes sense. I mean if it was properly fitted and all, it would do a very good job of keeping her hair out of her face. She’s not the type to bother doing up her hair like Adora.
So yeah, cool design choice that was in the original for the aesthetics (since catra in the original already has a ponytail, thus disregarding the use of the headpiece) but made practical and functional in the remake (which has her hair out)
Look you don’t have to like Catra and don’t want her to been redeemed, it’s fine. But it doesn’t change the fact that Catras been abused since she was a child who has grown up in a military regime that trained her to be a ruthless soldier her whole lie. I’ve seen dozens of men in various media (Star wars, Harry Potter, Supergirl, etc.) get fawned over and treated like babies by people in their fandom despite being old enough to know better when they’ve done far worse than Catra with far less of a reason. There would be those in their fandoms who would bend over backwards and tie themselves in knots to justify their baby boi’s behaviors. The most often of these excuses would to claim they were abused, despite there often being no evidence of this and often evidence of the contrary.
I’m not saying that this means Catra deserves a redemption arc, despite wanting her to have one. I’m also not justifying or excusing Catra’s behavior, I get that she’s a villian and despite her being my favorite character I am not saying she’s the good guy just because of her circumstances. I’m just saying that seeing dozens of male characters having their actions excused by fandoms because their men, it’s pretty fucked up that a young woman who has been abused hero whole life is the one people get annoyed over potentially having a redemption arc
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