[ SECRET POST #4738 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4738 ⌋

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Comments

[erinptah]

OH AND: Scorpia! With her regular thing of "Catra is so amazing and gorgeous and wonderful and someday she will realize that she's my soulmate and we are Best Friends!"

The writers gesture so hard in the direction of that being an unambiguous f/f crush, and then keep coming back to calling it Friendship. Exactly like you would if gay content was the goal, and then management came in and said "side characters are one thing, but we can't let you make a recurring character explicitly queer," so you appease them by pasting in a few references to "friends" while changing nothing else. Just Fright Zone gals being Fright Zone pals.

(...And then did the same thing with Sea Hawk's feelings for Mermista, so at least it's equal-opportunity romance-obscuring.)

[(Anonymous)]

I think that's the thing with She-Ra. Since it's supposed to be for young kids, I have a feeling management keeps coming down on the creators to keep things squeaky clean by requiring all romance to carry on in subtleties even though I keep doing air quotes in my head when characters say "Friend", but their actions make it explicit that yup, there's romantic interest there.

And I admit to enjoying see what they can sneak past the censors. Like Catra sleeping at Adora's feet in season one. Or giving Entrapta freaking shoujo sparkles in season three. Which a weeb like me would understand in a snap but random Joe Schmo on the street wouldn't think much of.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't find Netossa/Spinerella, Bow's Two Dads, Double Trouble, or Adora's lady crushes to be at all subtle.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, Scorpia is just fine. Not everyone comes into young adulthood with the emotional intelligence to clearly understand or articulate our romantic desires, and her multi-season character growth in this direction has been one of the joys of the show. Also it's almost entirely unreciprocated anyway, and "Catra is a shitty friend" is probably THE biggest conflict of the show, affecting Scorpia, Adora, Entrapta, Hordak, and even Lonnie.