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turtletotem responded to this post:

#yes yes yes yes #do go on

ilonga said [on August 1st, 2021]:

#oooh

kataaitheskittle said [on March 22, 2022]:

#interesting concept

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I’m still thinking about the Catra-ditches-the-Horde-early Catradora AU. (I haven’t quite finished the show, but … ANYWAY.) I’m particularly fond of the variant that came up in my tag ramble where Catra not only ditches the Horde before she does in canon, but (with Adora) before the canon timeline begins at all.

My idea was that for some reason, they run away and escape into the Whispering Woods. Catra thinks it’s awful, they’ll never rule the world now. Then at some point, Adora finds the sword and turns into She-Ra, and Catra’s like “…actually, I have some ideas.”

I wasn’t sure exactly when in relation to the canon timeline this happens, though definitely earlier, and there’s some period where they’re mostly just trying to survive the woods together (I am 100% sure they encounter Razz, partly because I think it makes sense, and partly because Razz and Catra dealing with each other is hilarious to me). Maybe Adora manages to get the Crystal Castle to accept Catra and they hole up there while they’re figuring out what to do. However it works out, they ultimately get drawn into the Rebellion as a duo.

The end result is that the Rebellion has someone as ferocious and resourceful as Catra on their side (for a certain value of “side”; she’s really just on her and Adora’s side and sees the Rebellion as the only available vehicle for them) alongside Adora/She-Ra. But that means dealing with early Catra as one of their own (also hilarious!).

It could go all sorts of places from there, but the main problem is figuring out what kind of inciting incident could drive Catra from the Horde and convince her that their only chance for power lies with the Rebellion. That’s a big swerve from canon. I was thinking vaguely that things are worse for her in some way that drives her to turn away for fairly self-interested reasons (hard to see her doing anything else), but things are canonically bad enough for her that it was still difficult to see, until I suddenly remembered—

Shadow Weaver was going to wipe Adora’s mind.

Suppose that in the AU, Shadow Weaver decides that Catra is such a liability that she’ll just wipe her mind and start all over again. Before she actually does it, though, Catra and Adora somehow find out and can’t think of any way around it except just not being there. They manage a narrow escape from the Fright Zone and keep going until they’re faced with Horde pursuers on one hand and the woods on the other. They choose the woods, and the AU spins out from there.

Tagged: #i'm thinking that catra is actually the first to think of joining the rebellion #because if she can't climb to power via the horde ... the rebellion it is #especially given that adora just morphed into a princess #she'll just have to reshape it to their purposes! #(this can only end well) #meanwhile adora is resistant because princesses are EVIL #but she gets a reality check and is onboard soon enough #leaving us with horde defector rebel duo catra and adora #<3

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turtletotem responded to this post:

Everything about this is amazing.

I replied:

Heeeeh, thank you!

argumate said:

the Best Friends Club! *awkward side eyes at the Insane Cat General Best Friend*

riana-one said:

Catra shrieking at the Rebellion for having issues with their well meaning parental figures *ADOPTION VIBES GROW* Also Catra is Just Murder? Maybe? And hissing at Shadow Weaver.

alias_sqbr said:

I like your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter

[ETA 5/22/2024: I got enough responses that I lost track of actually responding to them all, but I've always found this fannish turn of phrase delightful and particularly when we'd been subscribed to each other's newsletters for over ten years :D]

hermajestythebomb said:

If you ever write it I'd love to read it.

horace-tabor said:

I think that if Catra was with Adora when she met with Glimmer and Bow and the whole adventure after that she probably would have begrudgingly gone with them. Or they might have just won the initial fight and captured them, which could go a variety of ways. Alternatively if Hordak didn't promote Catra she might have defected shortly after, since she is already talking about it when Shadow Weaver confronts her in one of the earlier episodes after Adora leaves.

Granted, Catra would probably be too bitter to seek the rebellion out in that scenario but she could wind up working with them in a variety of ways

venndaai said:

I love this

thoroughlycaffeinated said:

Dude I have so many ideas for this but I’m at work rn 😩

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It’s probably been done a bunch of times, but I’ve decided the Catradora AU of my dreams 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

Tagged: #and i love the idea of catra and glimmer having to work together /before/ their respective character developments #a magnificent disaster waiting to happen #the au could happen in a lot of ways #it's also possible that the au could split off /before/ the show's timeline #maybe younger catra and adora nope out of the horde together for some reason—things are worse than canon or something #escape into the whispering woods and find the sword #catra's like... okay this is the stupidest thing we've ever done! how are we going to rule the world now??? #*adora turns into she-ra* #catra: ... actually i have some ideas

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