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The crabs will force the anemones to clone themselves if one dies OR steal others’ anemones if both die

They haven’t found these anemones in their free-living form, so, as far as we know, this anemone species is these crabs’ slave species—it’s only known in association with pom pom crabs

Cool paper on this: Schnytzer, Y., Giman, Y., Karplus, I., & Achituv, Y. (2017). Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft. PeerJ, 5, e2954. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2954

Their anemones aren’t a unique species, they are only visually distinct because the crab farms them in a very specific way - making a fragment of a larger hawaiian anemone, or finding a newly spawned one. When they carry it around, they force the anemone to adapt to an entire new lifestyle. The crab’s nocturnal behavior slowly kills the anemone’s photosynthetic symbionts, from which it gets its color. After that, the crab can control how much food the anemone actually gets by using it to mop up food off the sea floor, and take excess out of its mouth. Since it doesnt have to reach for sunlight, or reach to catch food, this encourages dense, but short tentacles.

The shortcoming of this study was just that its very hard to get the anemone away from the crab without killing both, and its equally hard to get an anemone to bounce back from this state.

Additionally, I may not be the best at math. But. If you’d allow me.

Hordak + Imp + Wrong Hordak = 3 clones

Three is a group.

Entrapta has a flock of clones.

ETA2: we do use inches/miles in poetic ways ("he was lost in thought/miles away" or "his lips were a bare inch away").

Yeah I should’ve clarified (pun intended). They had glass in the ancient world especially in Rome and Egypt but it was basically super heated sand and color additives put in a mold and often looked opaque and kinda lumpy. Even if it was blown like it was in some regions it wouldn’t have looked like modern glass.

Clear blown glass like you’d see a modern scented candle contained in wasn’t invented until the late Middle Ages and certainly wasn’t mass produced until the 1500s and even then places like Venice that had knowledge of these techniques literally forbid their glassmakers from leaving their city or region so other people couldn’t make it, forcing artificial scarcity and making it a very expensive material.

Catra wages a war against Adora because she feels betrayed that Adora would ever break their childhood promise, and she wants the approval of her shitty mother. Catra has been tortured and electrocuted by Shadow Weaver, and that hurts, but she is way more hurt by Shadow Weaver always preferring Adora and loving Adora more than her.

Catra gets tortured by Hordak and that's awful and she spends the season terrified of him but she's way more bothered by how Hordak trusts someone else and doesn't trust her. It is more rejection to her.

The portal incident? Well, Catra blew up a giant bomb that destroyed the world and that caused a lot more problems. Catra is way more guilty about losing Adora's faith and betraying Entrapta than she is about blowing up the world. And she's not even guilty about the sending Entrapta to die part. She is far more guilty about the act of betraying a friend who believed in her, which is her greatest grievance that caused her to turn against Adora.

... Entrapta is in agreement, and also way more bothered about being abandoned by a friend than she is about being sent to an island that kills you. This doesn't even register to her as a factor. Life and death are not priorities to these characters. Promises are the most important thing in the world!