catra would have left with adora to join the rebellion if they’d stuck together until that point (albeit with more resistance than adora showed). why? because she was willing to risk being trapped in that forest forever, never having a way “home” to the horde, as long as she was with adora. sure, she wouldn’t have actively tried to find a way to “escape”, but finding a perfect excuse to get lost? she could humor herself with the possibility.
as adora herself said, catra isn’t a bad person. so much of catra’s refusal to join the rebellion is based in her feelings of betrayal, specifically that adora left her and adora chose someone over her.adora, who promised that they would be okay as long as they had each other, and then left catra to deal with the fallout–the punishment that adora always avoided somehow. adora, the one part of catra’s life that wasn’t pure oppressive misery and pain and fear. adora, who, for all that she was oppressed and abused as well, never suffered the same verbal and physical abuse that catra did.
“Entrapta, stop giving Clawdeen hairstyling robots to use! She needs to strike terror into enemies!”
“Uh, why are you even more princessy than Adora’s dumb horse?”
“Stop licking me! I’m an adult!”
(Note: My idea is that Clawdeen identifies as nonbinary but uses female pronouns. Though I imagine her being a runt before she gets accidentally transformed by She-Ra’s sword. Based on real maned lionesses)
Thinking about it, I sincerely am terrified realizing that someday ableists might sieze upon the idea of the “missing stair” to invalidate disabled/non-NT people from working within their limitations because “Oh, you’re treating that disability just like a missing step instead of working with WILLPOWER to Just Get Over It.”
Like how skepticism of the predatory practices of pharmaceutical companies mutated into the anti-vaxxer movement, and environmentalist fears of contamination were hijacked for the whole “THEY’RE TURNING THE FRIGGIN FROGS GAY” shit the populist-right does.
Of course, I bring this up in the hopes we can nip that shit in the bud when some dipshit does try it, via foreknowlege and all that…
Level 1: Monster in your closet is just doing its job.
Level 2: Monster in your closet is pursuing an esoteric hobby.
Level 3: Monster in your closet is conducting a social experiment.
Level 4: Monster in your closet is performing court-assigned community service.
Level 5: Monster in your closet is just as confused as you are.
shitmysossay Level 6: Monster is upset that there is a portal to some weirdo’s room in his closet
My devotion to minimizing casualties is why we’re building the giant robot monsters! They cause as much infrastructure damage as a bombing raid while giving people more time to flee!
trying-not-to-be-evil overlord
It is an underrated ship.
Look at Bow here. Kissing the hair tendril she put out.
Monsters and Stuff 