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[Post Season 2]
When Catra enlists the help of a strange sorcerer to escape Beast Island, she never thought it meant returning to Bright Moon and confronting a past she knows nothing about.This is the Micah-mentoring-Catra fic that you know you've wanted since the Light Spinner episode.
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She pinched her eyes shut tightly before opening them to ask, “You really think they’d let me stay in Brightmoon?”“Just let me have a conversation with my wife… and my daughter.” He finished eyeing her. The slightest twitch in Catra’s jaw betrayed her.
“What is she like?” Micah prodded. “You seem to know one another.”
Catra instinctively felt for the cheekbone where she could still sometimes remember the fist of a certain sparkly princess. “Hot-headed.” Catra said simply. “And stubborn. Naive.” She looked at him, forgetting herself for a moment. “But… I’ll give her.” She thought about it hard. “She seems to be really loyal... to her friends.” Her voice felt faraway.
“Hmmm,” Micah raised an eyebrow again. “That sounds familiar.”
Catra crossed her arms. “And she’s really… sparkly.” She paused. “That we don’t have in common.”
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Music, beating constantly throughout her life, although she doesn’t know the word for it at first. Then, it’s something more because it’s not just hers — it belongs to Adora as well, and between them, it only grows.
Or: Catra, Adora, and music.
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24 Apr 2021
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where the spirit meets the bones by auberigine
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
11 Jan 2021
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Adora had made a promise to Catra years ago that she would protect her from everything. She would save her from it all. She would’ve done anything to keep her promises to Catra — both back then and now. She’s going to do whatever it takes to make sure she can keep this one.
“I promised you I'd take you home,” She says. "I meant that. I’m gonna do my best to get it right.”
(Or Catra and Adora in the aftermath of Horde Prime.)
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14 Apr 2021
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They stay that way for a long time, Catra’s face tucked into Adora’s shoulder, Adora gently cradling Catra’s head. Adora is careful not to hug Catra too hard or make her feel restrained, anticipating the moment that Catra will start to pull away — but Catra doesn’t. She hangs on so tightly it hurts, her claws digging through Adora’s jacket and into her back, latching into her like she did when she was a kitten and didn’t know how much her claws could hurt. Adora tries not to wince, tries not to move a single muscle, worried that if she does the spell will break and Catra will struggle away, appalled at having shown weakness.
But Catra doesn’t let go. And so neither does Adora.
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17 Nov 2020
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"We'd play tricks on Kyle, stay up late whispering about... you know, whatever."
Twenty years. The nights before, during, and after.
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09 Jun 2020
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As long as we stay together (if we just stay together) by HerotheHardWay
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
02 Aug 2020
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Adora is an Astrophysics PhD student who just can’t seem to write her dissertation. When the opportunity arises to work at the IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole, she jumps at the chance, even though she’ll be stuck there for six months during the Antarctic Winter. When she arrives, she discovers that her research partner is her former roommate, former teammate, former best friend, former, well, everything, who she hasn’t seen since they graduated from college five years ago.
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