Anghraine

I caved and searched AO3 for Catradora fics, of which there are many, but ... uh, a lot of modern AUs (at least ranked by kudos), which genuinely did not even occur to me as a thing for this canon. I guess it's always a thing, but in this case there's zero appeal.

Anyway, Catradora AU of my dreams:

It’s probably been done a bunch of times, but what I long for is one where Catra does leave the Horde well before the events of the end of S4, perhaps right at the beginning with Adora—but is still more or less the same person she was at that point.

I’m not sure how it would work tbh … likely she’d have to see better opportunities in the Rebellion than the Horde for some reason. But I just really like the idea of Catra in her calculating, opportunistic, yet loose cannon phase operating within the Rebellion, and thinking about how her fixation on Adora would wind out in that context. I mean, w/ Catradora obviously, but I’m also interested in what the dynamic would look like before they got there, and when it would happen, and just, AU Adora and Catra’s relationship in general.

Also, the whole concept of the Rebellion dealing with someone like Catra in their ranks is amazing to me. IDK, maybe they’d just kick her out and it’d be terrible, but if she held herself together enough to succeed and people just had to put up with her … <3 <3

I also had another idea that might fuse with it, but might not—what if Catra and Adora noped out of the Horde before the beginning of the show's timeline? Like, things are just worse enough or something. I don't know, but they end up escaping into the Whispering Woods, Adora finds the sword, and Catra's like ... okay, this is the stupidest thing we have ever done. How are we going to rule the world now?!

*Adora turns into She-Ra*

Catra: ...actually, I have some ideas.

I like Catradora for a lot of reasons, and suspect most of them are pretty standard, but also ... as an Adora stan, part of it is because I really want her to have someone in her life who may not always fully grasp who she is, but does have a personal understanding of what made her that way.

Also, it's like—okay, imagining an AU where Catra got her head screwed on right sooner, I am pretty sure she would not have responded well to Glimmer's treatment of Adora in S4. And honestly, I would very much like Adora to have someone in her life who would Not Respond Well. 

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