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Adora Burbank lives what many would consider a fairly average life - a stable desk job, a supportive boyfriend, a house in the Bright Moon suburbs. What she doesn’t realize is that there’s nothing remotely “average” about her at all. That’s because her entire life takes place on a massive soundstage, with hired actors playing her loved ones and cameras broadcasting every moment of her day. Now approaching her twenty-fifth birthday, Adora has never left her fabricated island home - and if auteur director Sharon Weaver has anything to say about it, she never will.
Enter Catra, a part-time actor and full-time burnout who can barely afford the rent on her shitty LA apartment. When a lucky break lands her a background role on one of the biggest reality shows in history, she has zero intention whatsoever of rocking the boat. Her job is to get in, blend into the background, and collect her paycheck - the minutiae of Adora Burbank’s life are none of her concern.
Catra's always been good at getting herself into trouble, though. Especially when it runs straight into her.
(Truman Show AU - no base knowledge required)
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Catra flees through the Whispering Woods. Adora chases after her. Instead of merely grabbing her by the wrists, Adora pushes Catra a bit further.
Things diverge quickly from there.
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Catra has been struggling in the lowest rungs of the Vegas cocktail scene for about a year when she comes across an interesting offer online - $100 to get fed on by a vampire. Sure, Catra’s never actually met a vampire before, let alone gotten her blood drawn by one. But she’s done worse things for less money, and shifts at the casino are drying up fast. Why not let some Craigslist rando suck on her neck for a few minutes?
As it turns out, there are quite a few answers to that question. They’re just not the ones Catra was expecting.
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There are many ways to seize control of a human mind. Hate, envy, thwarted desire - all are powerful tools, and all have been wielded by Light Hope to great effect in the past.
But not this time. This time, Light Hope chooses differently.
(Alternate “Promise” fic with Adora!protag where instead of driving Catra and Adora apart, Light Hope…well. You’ll see 😉)
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Winter, 1996. It’s the semester before high school graduation, and Adora is bonding over drinks with a few soccer teammates. Out of nowhere, one of them brings up a game that Adora’s never heard of before - “gay chicken.”
Naturally, Adora has questions.
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The year is 2082. Temperatures reach record-breaking highs. More than 80% of the population fall below the poverty line. The world's leading corporations and CEOs continue to live comfortably.
Welcome to Styx City, populated by a mix of humans and bioengineered people developed by Nyx Industries. These new type of humans are known as the Keres. Despite protests and treaties for their freedom, the Keres still live under a closely surveyed rule, seen only as ‘just androids pretending to be real people’. Some Keres choose to accept the life they've been given. Others choose to break free and Disconnect, forming their own identities and becoming Offline Keres, or 'Ghosts'. This is an action punishable by death.
In this city of neon, two people--Catra, a bartender with many secrets, and Adora, an Angel who feels undeserving of her wings--try to survive with their own sets of problems and regrets. The city should've turned them cold, but instead, they find warmth with each other. Their forbidden bond is sometimes the only thing that can keep them going.
And if their bond somehow lasts, it might be what changes Styx City forever.
A Catradora Cyberpunk AU.
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“Could I get your number?” they ask, as if they’re not still a completely faceless enigma that’s been making one-sided passes for two weeks now.
“So I’m supposed to exchange messages with someone who I wouldn’t even be able to pick out of a police lineup if this ends up being just a long con to get me to join a cult?”
To her shock, they place an elbow on the bar, lean over, and lower the hood.
“Does this increase my chances?” they ask with a goofy smile.
They're cute. Like 90s teen drama cute. Like Catra could see them singing fucking annoying pop songs outside her window cute. That’s not good. This person is absolutely trouble.
“Fuck,” Catra breathes out. It kinda feels like someone just kicked her right in the gut in a thrilling way. “You couldn’t have the decency to make this easier by being ugly?”
Catra finally meets the woman of her dreams/nightmares, a goofball blonde with big captain save-a-ho energy. She's easy going, gets Catra's jokes, and likes her band, even though it's pretty shitty and Catra's sabotaging them from the inside. It's just a shame that the girl is already competing on a reality show for 20 women's hearts.
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Secrets Are the Enemy of Intimacy by ResFlower
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
19 Oct 2025
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"So, what did you say your name was again?" Adora asks as she drops soft kisses down the woman's back.
She smiles as she nuzzles into the pillow, stretching under Adora’s careful touch. "I didn't say." She murmurs back.
"Mind sharing with the class now?" She prompts. She got so swept up in their chemistry and the absolutely devastating way this woman had about the sheets, that she forgot to ask. For a while when she laid claim to Adora’s thighs, she barely remembered her own name.
"Catra." She sighs as Adora lingers between her shoulder blades. Adora freezes her lips inches from Catra’s skin, still feeling the heat there. She pulls back, feeling the blood rushing from her face.
She's so screwed.
Fuck fuck fuck. She'd just fucked Glimmer's ex. Fuck.
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When Catra moves back to Elberon, Glimmer tells Adora to stay far away from her ex. How hard could that possibly be? "Dating Your Best Friend's Ex" AU.
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Adora, anxious to get a fresh start after the death of her parents and twin brother in a car accident, moves to the small town of Bright Moon. She’s far from happy about it and just wants to forget about her ongoing complications from the accident, graduate, and get out again.
Catra is just as desperate to get out of Bright Moon herself. Stuck in a house with an emotionally abusive mother and keeping a lot of secrets, Catra knows that the only way she’ll ever feel okay is if she gets the hell out. After a string of awkward encounters, both are perfectly fine with keeping a mutual avoidance policy in place.
But then the first body is found, and Catra and Adora are thrown together in grizzly circumstances where one thing is certain.
Nothing will ever be the same again.
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- Part 1 of scream au
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“It’s… it’s stupid…” Adora repeats, voice quiet and small. “But I just thought that… maybe someone with more experience could, like, teach me. How to kiss. But it’s stupid. I was joking.”
Catra stares at her, eyes wide.
or, what not to do when the best friend you’re in love with asks to practice kissing with you before she goes on a date with someone who is not you: a guide by Catra