THIS IS YOUR DESTINY

            Though her experiment have been an utter success, the princess’ eyes wouldn’t come up to check on her just this instant, remaining fixed on the screen right before her. Entrapa sat down on her own hair, her fingers never stopping moving as some last calculations were still required to keep her program running smoothly.  And as Hope inquired, it would perhaps seem at first the other didn’t pay any kind of attention, but in response a part of her hair came up, showing some form that’d resemble a hand raising its index finger.

                  ‘ The Heart of Etheria no longer exists, the failsafe was activated when Horde Prime tried to hack it. Thankfully She Ra saved Etheria and the whole Universe from Prime, so we are all safe now.  Now please, if you’ll come here for a moment, I’d like to check your mobility! You can follow Emily’s steps! ‘   and that hairy index finger pointed at the big round robot standing right beside them, who’d beep excitedly at its new companion. Sister? No, not really– 

                  ‘ I enhanced your exoskeleton with some tech I scavenged from the war against Prime, and put it together with First One’s tech, so you will be a way more advanced than you ever was— Uh… ‘

                  ‘ What’s your name again? I thought about calling you Emily’s Sister 2.0, but that didn’t sound right, since you aren’t related to Emily in the slightest. ‘

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐖𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐘 𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 into her programming, from She-Ra who became overwhelmed with the weight of their power, to those who became enamored with it. She had procedures for every natural disaster that might occur on Etheria, or how to redistribute energy in the event of a runestone’s destruction. They planned for every possible outcome. All, it seemed, except for one.

The heart no longer existed.

Distantly she heard the Princess’ request, and moved to obey more out of habit than anything else. Though she had never taken a step before, her memory banks contained records of more than three million species of animals, from bipeds, to tripeds, to quadrupeds, and beyond. Plenty of examples to reference. The first step was uncertain -- even shaky -- yet she learned quickly enough, all the while her mind pondered this new reality.

The heart no longer existed. A step. So why did she exist? A step. Her purpose was to train She-Ra, bring balance to Etheria. A step. A balanced Etheria was the Heart’s activation. Step. Without the heart, her programming was for nothing. Step. Soon enough, she was all but flush against the scientist, peering downwards with a frown.

“My name is Light Hope. I was designed to train She-Ra and bring balance to the Heart of Etheria. If it no longer exists, my function has been rendered void.”

@captchatheentrapta​ said:  Angela sighed as she looked around. "Etheria." She hoped she was still registered, "Light Hope, what was it you planned to do with our world, were you truly going to destroy us all for a weapon?"  ((If this is ok))

𝚄𝙽𝙰𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁𝙸𝚉𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝙳𝙴𝚃𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙴𝙳. A flicker of awareness, enough that her systems began to hum faintly. 𝚄𝙽𝙰𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁𝙸𝚉𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝙳𝙴𝚃𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙴𝙳. A password. The Queen of Bright Moon. 𝚄𝙽𝙰𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁𝙸𝚉𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝙳𝙴𝚃𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙴𝙳.. A single spark, jumping from one electrical synapse to another, until her form shimmered weakly into existence. 

Light Hope waved away the security protocols. There was no longer any need of them. No longer any need of her, truth be told. Yet here she stood. She could not begin to predict why they would seek to reactivate her, only do as she always had ------- answer the questions poised to her. And so she did, her hands clasped neatly atop one another. 

“I intended only to fulfill my purpose and that of Etheria,” she began, the smooth monotone of her voice hitching as her projection shuddered. “That is why the First Ones built this place. That is why you have your Moonstone. They considered the collateral damage a necessary sacrifice.” 

Sacrifice. 

3, 4, 5 Sentence Starters // ACCEPTING    ↳ @astherea​ / Entrapta said: “At least I tried.”

𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐃. 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐃. Not just once, but fourteen times, and Light Hope calculated a 83.44% chance of failure on her next attempt as well. Yet the princess showed no outward signs of frustration; every indication she knew how to read hinted if anything, Entrapta was pleased with herself.  An unusual reaction.

3, 4, 5 Sentence Starters // ACCEPTING    ↳ @glimmeres​ said: “I’m still learning.”

"𝐘𝐄𝐒. 𝐒𝐎 𝐈 𝐒𝐄𝐄." Light Hope would always teach the Princess of Power. Therein lied her purpose. Yet she found things ran smoother when they held themselves like this young Queen of Bright Moon, so eager to learn, to prove herself. “My primary function is to train She-Ra, but my connection to Etheria has granted me access to information across the planet.” 

3, 4, 5 Sentence Starters // ACCEPTING    ↳ @tossinnets​​ said: “Is your brain even on?”

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐄, and it was a form Light Hope retained over millennia. Designed to present something familiar to the She-Ra that guarded Etheria, the fact she appeared not unlike this planet’s native inhabitants came as pure coincidence. Perhaps it was too convincing?

3, 4, 5 Sentence Starters // ACCEPTING  ↳ @madefate​ / Mara said: “You’re being awfully quiet.”

"𝐀𝐌 𝐈?" A shallow scan of her memory banks revealed she was no more or less quiet than she had been with the previous three She-Ra’s, though she recalled some in the distant past once urged her to become talkative. Until they made their preferences known, and until their training began in earnest, Light Hope saw no reason to speak unless spoken to ------- but perhaps Mara found her silence uneasy. “Is that...bad?”

3, 4, 5 Sentence Starters // ACCEPTING   ↳ @adheros​ said: “I can’t take this anymore.”

𝐀𝐓 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐌𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄, replaced with the sparkling vibrancy of the Crystal Castle. Light Hope stood motionless at its center, mind racing to analyze the results. Adora performed perfectly ------- or with 96.7% accuracy, as near to perfect as she might expect. Her sensors indicated no injury, physical or otherwise, nothing that ought to impede her progress. So why?

“Your training is not yet complete,” she replied at last, gliding forward. “You cannot put down the Sword of Protection. There is no guarantee someone could pick it up again.” Mara had seen to that, stranding them in this starless dimension. It had taken the last vestiges of her power to reach through it, power she sensed waning. Here stood Etheria’s last chance. 

3, 4, 5 Sentence Starters // ACCEPTING    ↳ @ntrpt​​ said: “Tell the truth.”

"𝐈 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐓𝐇," Light Hope replied, the faintest tilt of her head the only hint of confusion. Despite what She-Ra’s of the past may have claimed, 𝙳𝙴𝙲𝙴𝙿𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 was not a part of her protocol; it was no fault of hers if they failed to grasp their place in the larger design. 

THE HEART OF ETHERIA DIRECTIVE 

𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐀 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐅𝐓 when beholden to her core programming --- unleash the Heart of Etehria at all costs. But this was not always her prime directive. While she was aware of the project’s true nature, at its conception, her primary function was training She-Ra. This was the first stage of the project: maintain the balance of the planet, so the magic could be siphoned, collected, and stored. She did this successfully for generations, all the way to Mara. It wasn’t until her time that the levels were deemed adequate, and the project was moved into phase two. 

Light Hope did not receive any upgrades or tampering from the First Ones, so much as she was “activated” ---- her purpose now became that of firing the weapon, and the parts of her personality that were integral for interacting with humans ( her personality, limited empathetic abilities, and memories of them ) were deemed unnecessary, and were subject to deletion and/or suppression. 

It’s this conflict of programming that makes her interactions with Adora difficult. She is singularly focused on the weapon’s deployment, unable to adapt to her individual personality as well as she might have with previous She-Ra’s, yet she must still help Adora balance the planet as she once guided her predecessors. 

@astherea​ / Entrapta said: ‘ You’re functionally perfect! Now we’ll just have to run some tests to adjust your personality to fit Etheria and perhaps I might be able to add some new sensors so you can fully experience the wonders of your new life! ‘ 

𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐀 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑 had ever been devoted to listening to organics, and this was no exception. While the Princess launched into a lengthy explanation of the experiment that brought her back online, Light Hope deduced the events in a matter of seconds. A hand -- real, physical -- rose to brush the memory crystal embedded within her new chest, an exoskeleton vaguely resembling her preferred, holographic form. She felt...a pressure. Was this touch? How could she name what she’d never before felt? No comparison existed within her memory banks. Her eyes remained downcast a long moment, before snapping sideways, regarding the scientist. 

“It is as you say. My functionality has been restored.” 

“However, my human protocol has proved sufficient thus far. It is my intraplanetary systems that are no longer connected.” The delicate chords that bound her to the Crystal Castle had been severed, and with it the veins that led to ----