"chose her morals over you" first of all, it was a literal life or death situation. people were DYING. secondly, she didn't choose it OVER catra, she asked catra to join her.
"oh catra abandoned her morals for adora" can't abandon what you don't have though.
catra never had morals. she never showed remorse for anything she did. never showed compassion towards the innocent people that were caught in the crossfire. never expressed guilt for staying in the horde. not even after her "redemption" in s5.
she didn't abandon her morals for adora, she just simply did not give a shit. if catra really cared, she could have told adora and left the horde together. it's not like there was anything holding them back, hordak didn't give a shit who stayed and who left.
i have a lot more to say about this but i'm too tired and i'm sure you'll say it better than i ever will
i had to physically step away from this for a minute, because i was doing that "so angry you breathe hard and start laughing" thing.
let's break this post down. this is gonna be a long one.
"what if you were deeply in love with your best friend?"
adorable. but if Catra's actions towards Adora, from childhood to adulthood, was her expression of love, then i can't imagine how she expresses her hatred.
first off, being in love with the one you share a mother with, regardless of abuse or otherwise, is incestuous.
second off, being in love didn't stop Catra from scratching Adora across the face and flinging her halfway across the room.
being in love didn't stop Catra from being jealous of Adora for having Shadow Weaver's and the Horde's "love" and "validation", or from blaming Adora for Shadow Weaver's actions.
being in love didn't stop Catra from choosing the Horde over Adora.
being in love didn't stop Catra from choosing power over Adora.
"what if you chose long ago to abandon your morals to stay by her side?"
what evidence is there that Catra had morals prior to meeting Adora? there's nothing in memories, details, symbolism, etc., nothing, that indicated that Catra had morals before Adora.
at most, Catra was taken when she was four. but, for all we know, Catra's memories consisted of the Horde and the Horde alone until Shadow Weaver said she was taken in. so, at the least, she might've been, what, two?
there can't be a real discussion of Catra's morals before Adora because, according to the writers themselves, there was nothing before Adora!
are people arguing she threw them away as a child or teenager? because that isn't love, either.
if Catra did love Adora, she would've told her about the Horde as soon as she figured it out.
what reason would Catra have to keep that huge secret ( there is no plausible way that Catra thought Adora somehow knew and that just never came up? ), if not out of fear that Adora will make the right choice and leave? if not to keep Adora right where she wanted her?
if Catra did love Adora, she would've respected her decision, her person, and let her go.
if Catra did love Adora, she never would've hurt her so much or tried to kill her, multiple times, without remorse or care.
if Catra did love Adora, she wouldn't have abandoned her.
there's so many things Catra should and shouldn't have done if she loved Adora at all, not even just in a romantic context.
"what if, at the very first chance, she was faced with the same decision and chose her morals over you?"
again. when did we ever see Catra choose Adora over her morals? when she did have morals?
more importantly, this person is really insinuating that Adora being a good person somehow makes her in the wrong.
ignoring the fact that Adora asked Catra to come with, and accepted it when Catra said no, morals matter far more than an abusive relationship, fascism, and colonization.
hell, morals matter far more than a good relationship!
they're seriously saying that Catra had a right to feel betrayed because she's a bad person and Adora isn't. that is astounding.
how are these people real.
Catra is not owed Adora's obedience. i don't care how long they've been "best friends", Adora doesn't owe Catra a fucking thing.
"what if your grief over that was so immense that it fueled five seasons of television and almost ended the world?"
so we're saying that we should feel bad for Catra almost blowing up Etheria and everyone on it because of grief.
we're saying that Catra kidnapping entire towns, destroying a whole Kingdom, killing a monarch that had nothing to do with her personal problems, subjecting your "best friend" and "true love" to extreme sadism, drugging, psychological and physical abuse, stalking, etc., is heart-tugging because of grief.
we're saying that Catra destroying people and homes deserves the space for empathy and tears because of grief.
we're saying that Catra can kill Angella out of grief.
we're saying that Catra can destroy Salineas out of grief.
we're saying that Catra can lead Horde Prime to Etheria out of grief.
we're saying that Catra can do whatever she wants out of grief.
we're saying that Catra's actual war crimes, domestic crimes, civil crimes, and so on are fine because she did it out of grief.
we're saying that deserves empathy.
"what if, at the end of it all, the end of of the very world she fought so hard to save, you asked her to stay and she finally, finally did."
yea, Adora had to save the world from her. multiple times. did you forget that, or was it only important to you because you're pathetic meowmeow of a Mary Sue ass bitch is sad and angry and so, so betrayed, waaah!!!
and, let's not forget, ADORA HAD ASKED CATRA TO STAY. PLEADED WITH HER TO STAY. CATRA SAID NO. CATRA LEFT HER TO DIE AND ONLY CAME BACK FOR AN TRIVIAL REASON.
like, i don't know if people realize this, but Catra did the same thing in Adora's final moments that she did in the Whispering Woods.
she was making it about herself and twisting it as if Adora was making the choice to die. she was ignoring that there was no other choice.
the "love" that saved them was pure luck, no one could've known that would work. Catra was, once again, choosing herself over the world, the universe. she didn't learn a single thing from her "redemption".
and no, it doesn't matter that it's "the beginning" of it, or whatever Nate had said. she didn't learn that Etheria is a home. that people live there, that life is important. that it's terrible, but beautiful, too.
Catra's redemption had nothing to do with her crimes stemming from apathy, self-obsession, and the inability to accept rejection or other alternatives to her life.
Catra's redemption had nothing to do with the world she almost destroyed, the people she killed and hurt, the homes that are no longer there because of her.
Catra's "redemption" is a fraud. a lie. it distracts you from the real problem. and the real problem is that people like Catra don't change. that her love isn't real. that her love is destruction.
i will never believe that Catra as she is is worth the time taken to give a redemption. other versions, of course. but not this one. because she is fundamentally incapable of understanding that life does not revolve around her and her desires.
