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The war is finished.
The Horde, collapsed.
The fright zone is all but a ghost town.
Adora and Catra have had some time to reunite, to rest, to set Etheria down the road to recovery.
But there are personal wounds that need attending to, a shared history that they've not yet had the time to truly address.
Sometimes recovery means confronting your past firsthand. Sometimes you have to look your trauma in the eye and take in its horror, its ugliness, the pain it caused you.
Sometimes you need to look upon that beast, defeated in the sand, and open yourself up to it one last time, so you can finally leave it dead and buried.
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20 Oct 2020
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In the private world of high fashion and paparazzi headlines, it's a practiced art to lose a piece of yourself in pursuit of more. It's made to be enticing like that. It's easy to ask for excess when all you had was less.
And when it wears Adora down, breaks down her resolve, taking it apart and apart until there's nothing left, she meets her again.
Catra.
"You need to learn how to be selfish. To take what you want." She trails a finger from her neck to her jaw. It's intimate. It's devastating. "Don't you want me, Adora?"
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20 Oct 2020
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When Shadow Weaver tried to wipe Adora’s mind, fortunately she couldn’t finish the job, thanks to a scrappy, sparkly princess in a prom dress punching her lights out.
But even half a mind wipe is still a mind wipe, and while Adora doesn’t know who this Princess Glimmer is anymore, she knows that nothing matters more to her than keeping Glimmer safe.
Which is turning out to be harder than it sounds, since with years of brainwashing back in full force, Adora refuses to leave the Horde, and even worse, Glimmer refuses to leave Adora.
Mind Wipe!AU with Glitradora endgame, with all the ships under that umbrella sprinkled in liberally throughout.
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20 Oct 2020
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In my dreams (you should see the things we do) by Tanaqui for weakinteraction
Fandoms: Ready For It - Taylor Swift (Music Video)
15 Aug 2020
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They made them smart enough to fight. And smarter than they realized.
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19 Oct 2020
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scream out my name like you mean it by ThisWriterD
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
08 Mar 2025
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Catra auditions for the role of the new antagonist in the hit teen drama show, Wolf Spring. She draws on every bit of anger, hurt and betrayal that still sits heavy in her chest, and she grabs the role easily. The catch? Adora plays the main character. Their troubled childhood looms over them, and Catra is unwilling to even talk to Adora. Because after all, Adora was the one to betray her so many years ago.
Adora does not expect to walk into the audition room to see Catra right there, after so many years. Even more confusing is still having no idea what she really did to make Catra hate her so much. Adora is happy for her, getting the role. But Catra is infuriating, and just as their characters are at each other's throats, so are they.
When season 5 of Wolf Spring airs, they are all caught off guard by the instant popularity of not only Catra, but the relationship between her character and Adora's. Media, paparazzi and crazy fans shipping them and their characters make a complicated situation even more so.
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19 Oct 2020
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The voice was always there, in the corner of her head, telling her on how she doesn't deserve anything anymore. Not after everything she's done.
And Catra believed them.
OR
Basically a post s5 series but in a college AU because I suck at writing stories with magic fr
This story is also very problematic, consisting of depression, mentions of self-harm, abuse and suicide, also PTSD, so um,,,,,, stay safe, read the trigger warnings, and friendly reminder that y'all signed up for the feels train when you hit this story
jsmhsjhfmdfjh :) ok pls enjoy
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19 Oct 2020
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“Are these Bright Moon jerks going to have a summer get-together every year now?”
“I certainly hope so."
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One year after the events of Second Chance, Adora helps Catra face her demons.
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- Part 2 of Summertime
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18 Oct 2020
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love taught me to lie (and life taught me to die) by echoes_of_realities
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
03 Jun 2020
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But then Adora leaves and Catra shatters. Adora finds new friends and replaces her in the blink of an eye, and that betrayal stings the worst because it doesn’t even take Adora a second thought to leave everything she’s ever known behind.
To leave her behind.
But she survives, because that’s all she knows how to do.
She claws her way out of death’s jaws more times than she can count, crawls back to the surface even when she’s the one throwing herself off the cliff, lets herself become the villain that Rebellion thinks she is because she doesn’t know how to be anything else, loses herself to bitterness and anger and darkness because it’s all she has left.
Leaving the Horde isn’t an option when she has nowhere else to go, so she becomes sharper and meaner and harder until she’s nothing more than the cutting edge of the Horde’s blade.
Or: A Catra character study.
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18 Oct 2020
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18 Oct 2020
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Catra was an artist of destruction. She couldn’t think of a single thing she valued that she hadn’t betrayed, at one time or another: the Horde, her friends, the world itself, any sense of ethics or morality, Adora.
Stuck in Brightmoon, mistrusted and surrounded by do-gooders, she felt more alienated than ever. Her and Adora were together again, but what did that mean when they were both so changed? There was only one way forward, if she wanted her friend back. For the first time in her life, she would have to learn how to build.
[Catra redemption arc part 3]
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- Part 3 of Insurance Protocols
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18 Oct 2020
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bid my mother to bear witness (won't be driven from my seat) by womenlovingwonderwoman (The_Camel_Queen)
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
13 Aug 2020
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Micah glanced up, realizing Lilly and Juliet both stood over them. Micah made eye contact with Juliet and she shook her head. There were no other survivors.
He reached out a hand to the little girl, “Do you want to come with me? Meet Glimmer? I promise I’ll protect you. No one will ever hurt you again.”
The girl’s eyes drifted up from behind her knees, one blue and one yellow, beautiful. She looked at the hand and he smiled. “Promise?”
He nodded, “I promise.”
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King Micah finds Catra before the Horde and adopts her. She never meets Shadow Weaver and it's only years later, restless and wandering through the Whispering Woods, that she meets Force Captain Adora.Sometimes the fate of the universe can change in a single night.
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18 Oct 2020
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To survive in the Horde, you had to think three steps ahead. So even though everything's going according to plan, she is prepared when Hordak himself tries throwing a wrench in things. After all, she knew he'd eventually figure her out.
And Catra's plans end up changing everything. Though Adora's not sure she can handle it herself.
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- Part 14 of All Roads Lead to This
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18 Oct 2020
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The Heiress and the Thief by Fuhadeza
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
29 Apr 2019
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When Adora is taken in by Lady Brightmoon, she leaves her boarding school—and her best friend—behind. She manages to avoid regretting it right up until the day she sees Catra again...
It's the She-Ra regency romance AU you never knew you wanted! There will be balls. There will be card games! There will be duels and burglaries and maybe kidnapping! Come join me as I find out how all those things fit together!
(Since a couple of people have asked: this fic is focused on catradora, but I try to present adora's relationships with both catra and glimmer as extremely important & extremely different. ymmv as to whether you interpret the latter as romantic. whether or not you do, they are both endgame. no ship angst here. :D)
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17 Oct 2020
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Weakness and Strength by SecretEvening
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
25 Apr 2019
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Some time after the battle for Brightmoon, the war rages on. Exhausted by fighting against the girl she loves, Adora makes a crucial mistake - she tells Catra how she feels. As Catra presses the advantage and capitalizes on her vulnerability, Adora needs to figure out how Catra feels about her, and what, if anything, they can do about it. The rift between them may have started with feelings of betrayal, but their lives have changed, and there’s a lot more that stands between them now. Even if the two of them can reconcile, are they in too deep to recover?
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- 11/11
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16 Oct 2020
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A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words, But All My Pictures of You Are Torn to Shreds. by AkariHope
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
11 May 2020
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Catra finds herself haunted by the image of a young girl and the memories of a childhood she never had with her. She's fine, until she starts to realize that something doesn't add up. She knows things she shouldn't, and doesn't know things she apparently should. Her recollection and those of everyone else don't mesh. Those memories are where everything collapses, and where Catra decides to begin searching.
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- Part 1 of Memory Album
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16 Oct 2020
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Mystery Work
Part of UC
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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15 Oct 2020
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kind of a freak accident by lunchables
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
22 Jul 2020
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It wasn’t until Adora collapsed into the backseat of the cab and went to pull out the address that she realized.
This was not her freaking phone.
a swapped-phone texting au
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15 Oct 2020
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“Why are you here?” Adora asks.
Catra steps in close, gratified when Adora takes a shaky step back and then another, til her back is up against the wall of the gym. “Would you believe that I missed you?”
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When Adora transfers from Horde Academy to Bright Moon Prep in their final year of high school, she and Catra pretty much stop talking. Until they don't.
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15 Oct 2020
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Adora just aged out of the Fright Zone, or 'Hordak's Home for Wayward and Unwanted Youth' and her friend Perfuma set her up with a job, running her flower shop in the small town of Brightmoon.
Things should be going great, but she accidentally starts a rivalry with the cute tattoo artist, Catra, who works in the shop across from her.
In this small town filled with odd shop keepers, Adora's just trying to get used to this crazy new world outside of the Fright Zone.
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15 Oct 2020
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Hail Mary by Johannas_Motivational_Insults
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
18 Jun 2021
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Adora and Catra have been best friends for as long as they can remember, but things are not as rosy as they may seem. As the playoffs near in their senior football season, a series of events unveil their frustrations, shattering the facade and forcing them to reevaluate who they are, to themselves and to each other. They're on the edge of greatness, can they stay together and see things through? Or will their team and their hearts fall to defeat?
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- 16/?
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Bookmarked by DragonByte
15 Oct 2020