Designated Fighting Area

For Beatrice

The obvious obstacle is she’s a nun who has vows but also very afraid of rejection for who she is from society, God, friends and family, not to mention how she was raised is a big ol’ wall in her path to a relationship with Ava.

One thing I don’t see brought up enough is that she could have totally realized Ava was attracted to her but thought it was like a fleeting thing, because from Beatrice’s perspective Ava probably flirts with a lot of people (JC, Micheal even tho she wasn’t Beatrice still sees it like that plus all those “friends” she apparently scared off) she doesn’t want to be an experiment for Ava or something Ava wants in the moment because she believes Ava’s impulsive and in Beatrice’s mind it’s a lot more real than just attraction to her

They are living together working together and training together and if that tight rope of friendship isn’t walked on perfectly there is no escaping each other possibly leading to disaster not just of their friendship but of the whole mission. And speaking of the mission I think it’s always been in the back of Beatrice’s mind that Warrior nuns don’t last long after seeing what happened to Mary and Shannon she didn’t want to repeat it

For Ava

A couple of people pointed out how much Ava respects others consent like I don’t think she would have went for it no matter how much she wanted to or even if she knew Beatrice liked her like that because she believed Bea wasn’t ready to go there. I think if anything happened in Switzerland Ava wanted it to be Beatrice who made the first real move since it was her who took vows. They were definitely on the right path in Switzerland but not in a place to make that leap yet at least form where Beatrice was

I noticed a lot of the times Ava got emotional or mad at Beatrice it was because she was frustrated Beatrice didn’t see how much she had grown or changed as a person. Like she is working so hard to become a person she thinks is worthy of Beatrice and anytime Bea was disappointed or mad at her you can just see how distraught Ava gets. She wants to get into a relationship with Beatrice when Bea finally sees her as a changed person who isn’t selfish, impulsive or flighty. Basically she wants to feel on equal footing with Beatrice not someone who has to be looked over protected and told what to do she needs that validation that she’s ready from Beatrice and she didn’t feel she earned that until she was willing to sacrifice her life for the mission/Beatrice

Kind of leaping off the last one is that Ava has major abandonment issues, she’s worried she’d scare Beatrice away if she revealed just how deeply she cares for her because attraction is one thing but Ava is literally head over heels I’d sacrifice my life, I’d sacrifice the world for you kind of in love and if Beatrice was only attracted to her and not at that deep level of love I think Ava would be scared that would be the one thing that could make Bea run away

First we have no habit Beatrice

- she’s awkward more like fish out of water, she doesn’t have her “protection blanket” of her habit, just look at how she responds to Ava asking if she ever had a drink before

- more jealous/petty but also more easy to compromise with and joke with, she looks around like everyone is watching her and she’s nervous about it like she’s insecure about her place in the world

- she’s basically thrown back into the real world that she left long again to be a nun and it reads as her trying really hard to fit in and still prove her worth. But she’s much more free, she dances, she curses, she is still a badass nun but you get that her sometimes acting like a “70 year old” is more of her personality and nothing to do with being a nun

Then we have tactical nun habit Beatrice

- she has a mission and is solely focused on it, she’s deadly, barely any room for emotions, is very precise

- she’s in charge and ready to give out orders or even step on people’s toes the level of confidence skyrockets

- I think this is where she feels most comfortable when it comes to a dealing with new situations like it’s her physical armor that reflects emotional armor and lets her put herself in the position of someone she believes has value

Then we have blue habit Beatrice and here I think is her middle ground between no habit and tactical habit

- she’s more open and soft but there isn’t that insecurity we see without the habit because she has the identity she chose wrapped around her

- This is where she’s most comfortable interacting with people like she has her habit to ground her so she’s not as flustered but still open more emotionally

- I also don’t think we’ve ever seen her fight in the this outfit like it represents what an actual nun is like where “no habit Beatrice” is actually Beatrice just a girl with a lot of expectations put on her trying to be perfect and the tactical nun habit shows her as this warrior with great fighting skills and an arsenal of knowledge, this blue habit represents an actual nun who is supposed to be faithful caring kind and devote.

And this season put all 3 “personas” you could say in extreme different circumstances

- Beatrice without a habit having to fight in the street and giving orders/ information out to follow the FBC while in the car

- tactical nun habit Beatrice had to deal with the emotional turmoil of losing Ava and kissing her/ saying I love you

- blue habit Beatrice losing her cool/ faith and becoming jaded after losing the crown

They are all starting to merge together to make Beatrice whole again!

“✨I’m just built different✨”

They totally missed the opportunity to have Ellie play Jessie’s girl😔Bonus drawing is for how I think Joel figured out Ellie wasn’t into Jessie in the first place.

Day 2 of drawing She-ra fan art till season 5 hits. Got this idea after finding a screenshot of the OG She-ra doing something similar. I literally have no clue what she’s doing but I like to think Catra would have made fun of her for it