Okay, no, I need to get this out of my chest:
If I see, once again, the "Light Spinner was abusive to Micah" discourse, I will combust.
How on Etheria can you say that after the whole of S1, where you see ACTUAL child abuse!? Listen (actually, read) here, MF, I suffered my father for 8 years, but such abuse I can only see in Catra. Micah wasn't abused, he was TRAUMATIZED. It's a very different kind of suffering. Plus, LS didn't mean to do that to him, while SW very purposely chose to be a nightmare to Catra.
Micah's trauma steems from seeing his Master, whom he admired, turn into a monster with his own eyes. Feeling like this was something that was already brewing but he couldn't see and, by accepting to help with the spell, he allowed it to happen. He saw it as SW having ruinined his Master, LS, which now makes him fear SW can and will ruin everything he loves. That's the whole reason why their brief interactions in S5 are like that. That is TRAUMA, but not abuse.
Catra only knew SW, who raised her and never showed a drop of kindness; Catra couldn't even see that what she did with Adora was mere manipulation. And I'm saying all of this as someone who is VERY obsessed with SW, I even relate to LS because I have been there! (I traumatized my brother and haven't forgiven myself for it) And the portal episode shows what SW could have been if she hadn't gotten so bitter that she purposely kept her wards at arms-length.
So, NO, LS did not do to Micah what SW did to Catra. Her care for Micah was genuine, and THAT is why she then saw care and kindness as a weakness! That is why she made sure not to get attached to her wards. That is why she only accepted that repressed/denied care for the girls in her final moment and elected to quit and erase herself from the equation. As I said, I've been there, so I know what was going on in her head:
1- what would be the point of regretting what can't be undone?
2- even if I regret and apologize for it, no one would believe it, no one would accept the apology, and I'd continue to be seen as a monster; so there is no point in trying
3- they will be better off without me. This is just the beginning for them, let the nightmare perish so their lives are finally free from pain
It doesn't justify anything, but this is something most of us, abused childs, never get. Never
