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.
more analysis behind the cut:
catra was perfectly happy to ditch the horde when adora was beside her, but as soon as she started to think that adora had betrayed her, she clung to the horde as the only thing she felt sure of anymore. she doesn’t want to leave, because if she does, can she trust that she actually has anything else? can she really? was she stupid to ever believe that she could trust adora in the first place?
stupid to believe that they’d always look out for each other?
the devil you know, right? there’s comfort in knowing what to expect.
catra has doubled-down so hard, she’s actually the horde’s second-in-command, even though the only reason why she wanted to rise through the ranks to begin with was to call the shots with adora. her true motive for power seems to simply be survival. she wants to be safe, but she’s never known what that truly meant.
it’s so sad, because adora would do anything to keep her safe, but catra can’t trust that anymore. she can’t let herself “give in”–she needs to be strong, right?
A bunch of us in The Dragon Prince office have been watching She-Ra on our lunch breaks and we think Rayla and Catra would definitely be friends, so our in-office artist ctchrysler drew them! Congrats @dreamworksshera on a great launch and awesome show!
this very important thing was in the background of several shots and i’m crying about it a lot because it’s both extremely cute and also has some very sad implications
Entrapta is so interesting, because she cares, first and foremost about her research. She has no malice, no desire for power in and of itself, and she’s a passionate and caring friend. But when it comes down to it, while she loves her friends, her thirst for knowledge overcomes everything else. She joins the hoard mainly as a way to further her research, which is her special primary interest. It’s like nothing else matters.
She also comes across as naive and trusting, but I wonder if that’s a coping strategy. We saw three people in her castle, and a picture of her with two robot parents. She’s been alone for possibly her whole life. She probably stays upbeat and positive to keep herself going. She forms strong emotional attachments to robotics, because she understands them, and that’s why she went back for Emily. I think there is an innocence to her, where she may not be able to fully comprehend the repercussions of her actions, but I think she should still be held accountable. She wishes to blindly go ahead with her research regardless of consequences because the results interest her.
I think there will be a point where she will have to make a choice. She’ll have to take responsibility, and see that she can’t eliminate the heart and concern from her research. That the most important thing can’t just be to see what will happen, because that hurts people. She might have to destroy her work in order to save people. But I hope think she will make that choice, because she cares. Because she understands what its like to be alone, and scared, and because she doesn’t want to make others feel that way.
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