#magicatra au

[thestargayzingetherian]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Adora/Catra (She-Ra) Characters: Adora (She-Ra), Catra (She-Ra), Melog (She-Ra), Clawdeen (She-Ra) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Catra is She-Ra, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Magicatra AU, Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Adora (She-Ra) Needs a Hug, Catra is in Love with Adora (She-Ra), Melog Is A Wolf, Horde Adora (She-Ra), Mentioned Horde Prime (She-Ra), She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Season 5, Canon Era Series: Part 1 of Magicatra Summary:

After being freed from Horde Prime’s control, Adora feels the weight of the world on her shoulders as she struggles to make amends for her sins… and to try to adjust to being around Catra again. (Catradora, Canon-Divergence/Magicatra AU, Hurt/Comfort)

[lightdancer1]

Magicatra AU updated:

[zander792]

[chronicsyd]

I have thoughts about this and I’ll probably make a more in depth post later but a lot of people say that Adora is “so out of character” in the Magicatra verse and I don’t think that’s entirely true cause the way I see it is they essentially wouldn’t have the same childhood growing up as they do in canon (cause the only reason Adora was favored over Catra was cause she was powerful to Shadow Weaver as we’ve established in episodes like “Light Spinner”. And really the only reason Catra was abused the way she was was cause Shadow Weaver felt like she was “getting in the way” of her trying to manipulate Adora if that makes sense) but at the same time I don’t think she’d get the “Catra treatment” sorta speak.

I’m definitely going to sleep on this idea but I’ll explain it more later when I have the time

[catrasredemption]

Fic Roundup - Multi-Chapter

It's been awhile since I went through all my stories, so I figured this would be a good time (before I start my next multi-chapter fic) to do a little organizing.

So here's a list of all my multi-chapter works for easy access:

'Cause There's Magic In My Bones (Magicatra AU) : Easily my most ambitious project - a three-part series about Catra as She-Ra. Obviously extremely canon divergent, minor warnings for extremely low self-esteem and temporary sort of character death. Fun Fact: Every title, including the title of the overall series, comes from an Imagine Dragons song.

This Is My Kingdom Come | This Burden Came To Me | Smoke and Mirrors | Here's To My Yesterday (post-series onshot)

I have faced it, a life wasted: The very first She-Ra AU I ever wrote. Catra and Adora reunite after not speaking for 8 years following Catra crashing a car they were in while driving drunk. The reunion brings a few unpleasant secrets to light. Major Themes: Alcoholism and Recovery, Abusive Mothers, Chronic Pain, Head Injuries.

Accompanying Oneshot But why let the sad song play: Snapshots of Catra's birthdays throughout the years

Fun Fact: Both titles are from Pearl Jam's song Life Wasted.

Always A Heartbeat From Me: Werewolf/Werecat childhood best friends to lovers AU. Adora and Catra grow up together in a wonderful and loving environment, where they can be themselves and love each other, until tragedy strikes, and both their worlds fall apart. Major Themes: CHARACTER DEATH, fake character death, GRIEF, trauma. This story has a happy ending, but it takes a hot minute to get to it.

Accompanying Oneshot Series Between The Heartbeats: The stories of what happened between chapters and after the end of the series.

All Eyes On Me: Drunken Dial/Wrong Number AU. Catra is a retired musician dealing with years of abuse by her record label, Adora accidentally calls her after mixing up the digits in her friend's new phone number. Yes the title is from the Bo Burnham song. Major Themes: Abuse in a professional setting, Coming out, Transgenderism

The Day The Sun Vanished: Alien AU based on The Sun Vanished ARG. Horde Prime's forces invade the planet, taking out all sources of light to drive people out of their homes and make them easier to capture. Best friends Adora and Catra survive several weeks alone in their homes before they're force to flee into the world.

It's dangerous to go alone: Streamer AU. Adora and Catra dated and broke up five years ago after crazy fans of Adora's YouTube channel went after Catra, driving her off the Internet and across the country to escape it. Now she's remaking her online persona, and will be facing Adora again. Yes, the title is from the Legend of Zelda. This story's been described as "a love letter to video games", and that sticks with me.

Leap of Faith: In one universe, Adora is Spider-Woman, with the help of her best friend Catra. In another universe, Catra is Spider-Cat, with the help of her best friend Adora. Unfortunately, every hero has a tragic back story. Fortunately, the multi-verse has other ideas. Title is from Into The Spider-Verse, with all the chapter titles being songs from that soundtrack. MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH.

Little Wonders: Catra and Adora (who is trans but very not out as a teenager) have a relationship in high school that mysteriously ends when Catra is sent to a new foster home and never contacts Adora again. Ten years later, Catra's child walks into Adora's fifth-grade classroom. Major Themes: Transgenderism, long lost lovers, surprise you're a parent, teen pregnancy

[wanderingghostz]

chipped Adora edit/drawing I made cuz I feel like chipped Adora AUs are such an underutilised concept, and I don't get why because it honestly makes so much sense.

So anyone who watches shera knows adora never had the most self-worth, but throughout Season 4, especially after she breaks the sword and loses shera, and through Season 5, I feel her self esteem is definitely of its worst, so, it makes a lot of sense prime world take advantage of that.

and there's barely any content of it, and most of what is out there is Swap AUs (Magicatra and Horde!Adora) And there isn't anything wrong with that, I enjoy them, but I wish there was more with our canon Adora. With prime getting shera, and the rebellion needing to fight their becon of hope.

I love angst so much!!

Don't think anyone will have actually read that, but if anyone knows of any chipped Adora AUs, please let me know!

[adorescupid]

share angst catradora fic recs please :)) and if you have heavy angst hiding in your pocket dont be shy im a fan too i need a good massive cry (idm long fics like the magicatra au)

[chippedcat2]

Chip's Fic Master Post

Hello there! I'm Chip, these are the things I've written. Mostly Adventure Time rn, but there's plenty of SPOP stuff under the cut. If you read them, that'd be pretty cool!

Adventure Time:

Interludes- Drabble collection written to fill in some canon Chapters 1/? A collection of short stories set within the show canon meant to fill in some gaps. Basically, a dumping ground for little in-universe drabbles.

Brave New World- Pre-Canon fic exploring Marceline and the Hyoomans Chapters: 1/? The others thought she was crazy, but Jo knows that the Mainland wasn't a hellscape. Sure, it was rough around the edges, but it was chock-full of adventures and land ripe for the claiming. With nothing but a boat, muddled memories, and her old bunny hat, she was ready to face whatever waited for her outside the islands.

I'd Know You in Any World (Series):

Blast Off- Set-up fic for the series Chapters 2/2 Finn, Bubblegum, and Jake need to take the Farmworld Enchiridion back to its home, lest a GOLB situation happens again. However, as the trio is about to learn, finding one dimension in the massive cosmic sea is much easier said than done.

Adventure Time with Marcy the Human- Human AU (for some) When the trio finds themselves in a strangely familiar place with profoundly unfamiliar people, they realize they've been blown off course much faster than they anticipated. To take another shot, they'll need the greatest minds of the dimension, some royal gems, and more than a little vampire blood.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:

What You’re Worth- Massive Magicatra AU spanning the first three seasons Chapters: 24/30 Adora doesn’t want this. This isn’t what she signed up for. But it’s the right thing to do, the only thing to do. Etheria chose Catra. It wants her to protect it, to stop the Horde. The Rebellion chose Catra to be their strongest fighter, their greatest asset, and their most exalted member. They didn’t want Adora. They wanted Catra. She was finally worth something.

We Three Queens- Horde Wives at the fall of the Empire Chapters: 3/3 When the Horde empire fell, Commander Glimmer scoured Etheria to find soldiers and agents who may have escaped capture. A year after the fall, only three have evaded her and it seems that it will stay that way. No one can find the two Horde Queens and their loyal lieutenant, and that’s the way they want

Golden Arrow- Bow-Ra and Horde Glimmer fic, written for Glimbow Week Chapters: 7/7 Imagine the Etherians' surprise when their savior is the universe's first He-Ra.

Adora Bull: Cat Caper- Kim Possible AU because IDK Chapters: 1/2 She's your basic average girl, and she's here to save the world. You can't her stop cuz she's Adora Bull.

To Skin a Cat- Post-Canon Whump with a little plot occasionally Chapters: 7/11 (lol) Who's out to get the cat?

Wild Heart- Feral Catra Fic with a Glimbow focus Chapters: 3/3 There's a secret deep in the Woods who only Bow can call upon.

Domesticity- Post-Canon Fluff, will cause tooth decay Oneshot Ten years since the day we kissed.

Open Heart- Feral Catra's back Oneshot C'yra doesn't know much about love, but she suspects that her brother may have found it with that strange pink girl. Part of the Wild Heart Saga.

War is Heck- Real-World Childhood Fic Oneshot A brief look at the horrors of battle and the devastation of it ending.

Six Gifts- A classic 5+1 Fluff Fic Oneshot There are six gifts Adora treasures the most.

The Vessel AU (Series)

She’s Gone- Canon Divergence in which the BFS loses hard Oneshot Convinced that she’s dead, the Best Friend Squad returns to Etheria without Catra. However, without her influence, Adora fails to forge a stable connection with She-Ra, and Prime destroys the planet. With most of her friends gone and an empty heart left in their wake, Adora is consumed by a need for revenge, intent on hunting Prime to the edges of the universe and destroying his mysterious “new form” before he can hurt anyone else.

Rest for the Wicked- Fic about Adjusting to physical and mental trauma Oneshot Catra feels empty. She can't decide if it's a good or bad feeling.

The Remains- Vessel AU 5+1 with implied Catradora Oneshot Six stories from the world of New Etheria.

The Wreckage of the World (Crossover Series):

CHIPped (Carnivorous and Highly Infectious Prototype)- Catradora Zombie Apocalypse AU Chapters 2/2 The days Catra spends wandering the wreckage of the world are the worst of her life. But they are perhaps the most peaceful. It is just her, her shovel, and her gun. And the zombies, of course, but they rarely bother her. Only when they got truly hungry would they attack one of their own.

Bitten- Bubbline Zombie Apocalypse AU Chapters 1/4 Bonnie's world is Marceline, and when Marcy is bitten by an Oozer, nothing can keep Bonnie from tracking down a cure. Luckily, it seems like the only thing in her way is that angry catgirl and the blonde dumbass.

[katananonakata]

Alright, first question: what do you like about the magicatra au the most? Or, what got you into the magicatra au originally?

So sorry for answering this very late,just saw this after being inactive for a while.

But anyway,I like how both main charactera can represent the side that they didn't really show in the series itself.

For example we can see a Catra who's her true self,having people who care about her and being happy.

And in another way,we can see Adora who never got to be her true self,being the obedient soldier Weaver wanted to make from her,or having to experience being lonely and feeling that no one cares about her.

And the things that made me find something about role-reversed things,was the fact that I usually like villains of the stories,but it was always fun for me to see the powerful "hero" as the "villain" of the story.(and always that role-reversed version of that"hero" made me like them more)

So I searched in the social medias and I found out that some people had that idea in mind and made their stories about it,so I got inspired and made my own au after a while.

[sim0nade]

No thoughts, just Horde!Adora in her uniform

[lyssa-stone]

This Sunday Chapter one of "Crushing Reality" sequel to "A Debt Repaid" will be posted and updated every Sunday. I have a good amount of chapters pre written and intend to keep up a 1 to 3 ratio at all times. (One chapter posted, three more written.) This way if any life problems happen I can always get updates out without leaving you waiting. So excited to start posting again! In the meantime have some pre-Horde Catra and Cyra!💜💜💜

I made her a bit darker because looking back she was super pale and so I fixed that but also I just love Cyra.

[thestargayzingetherian]

Into The She-Ra-Verse

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53450545

Into The She-Ra-Verse (3272 words) by TheStarGayzingEtherian Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Adora/Catra (She-Ra), Bow/Glimmer (She-Ra) Characters: Adora (She-Ra), Catra (She-Ra), Glimmer (She-Ra), Bow (She-Ra) Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Canon, Post-She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Season 5, Fluff, Multiverse, Alternate Universes, Mentioned Angella (She-Ra), Minor Adora/Catra/Glimmer (She-Ra), Despara (He-Man), Alternate Universe - Adora Remains with the Horde (She-Ra), Alternate Universe - Catra is She-Ra, Horde Glimmer (She-Ra), Evil Glimmer (She-Ra), Magicats (She-Ra), Halfmoon (She-Ra), Princess Catra (She-Ra), Princess Adora (She-Ra), Future, Episode: s05e13 Heart Part 2, Role Reversal, Horde Adora (She-Ra), Horde Lord Adora (She-Ra), Horde Lord Catra (She-Ra), References to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Best Friend Squad (She-Ra), Married Adora/Catra (She-Ra), Married Bow/Glimmer (She-Ra), Married Adora/Catra/Glimmer (She-Ra) Summary: After the rescue of Queen Angella, Adora has picked up a rather… interesting new hobby. And now, she’s finally ready to share it with Catra. (Catradora, Canon, Fluff)

[lightdancer1]

Also a quick scene from a future chapter of my Magicatra AU:

A simple idea, or so it seemed. Straightforward and to the point, an Adora special. If Catra could be parted from the monster, from a monster working with that impossible thing that Shadow Weaver said (technology, there was no magic, just insufficiently understood technology) then a glitch would work work wonders. Well she'd done it. She'd thrown the glitched thing and then Catra had arched up, red lightning coursing around her, eyes turning red and her lips parted in a silent yowl and then she'd gone off staggering into the shadows.

"Force Captain Adora," she turned to hear the unease in Force Captain Scorpia, the one that dared smile at her Catra, and couldn't resist a slight grin at that. "What happened?"

A sudden sound and then the mutilated chunks of a great robot were thrown between them with overpowering force, and both of them stood very still. There were marks on it, the savage works of claws that had never cut Horde troopers as deeply as they could.

Scorpia turned to look at her with a look of genuine shock on her face.

"Force Captain," she hissed, "What in the name of Despondos did you do?"

So that's what Scorpia was like when she was genuinely afraid. Footsteps, a heavy ponderous tread and then breathing and a wet leopard growl as eyes shone with feline hunger.

"Hey Adora," the old greeting, said for the first time since these transformations, once their own thing. Said slow and sultry, just as Adora liked it, only she had-she did not see the massive clawed hand reach for her nor register that even as she tried to block it the hand had moved and struck her with a back-hand blow until the pain registered, until she was flying in the air.

Scorpia stood between her and the transformed monster that had once been her friend.

"Kitten, please."

Red light shone from her eyes and she did not breathe, she growled.

"I want you to know, Scorpia." The tone retained that sultry aspect but with a growling interspersed within it, and Adora had the time to register the stunned face of the damned Princess who'd taken her friend, the gasp of shock and horror from the purple-haired one, and 'cut up my abs' boy with the bow.

"I was holding back before. Not now."

She swung a fist and Scorpia caught it with her pincer. In an ordinary fight this was the start of what Adora could at least try to enjoy even if She-Ra was too fast to follow. This time the impact barreled Scorpia over, as She-Ra grinned.

"Adora." This time the word wasn't crooned. It wasn't her friend the sweet little Magicat, it was a lioness, crouching in bright white armor, a low rumbling growl echoed in the room.

"Still believe," she heard Sparkly Princess with the pink hair hiss, "that this is-"

Once again nobody could track She-Ra when the Princess of Power moved.

[zander792]

[chronicsyd]

Thoughts On The Magicatraverse (pt1 of Many: The Childhood)

Ok so now that I’ve had some time to think about this I’m gonna put all my thoughts out there in a few parts mostly to discuss different plot points. Also, I do apologize if this uhhh... “think piece” I guess you can call it is all over the place mostly cause I have a lot of thoughts on this and it’s all over the place and I’m not going to be formatting this like it’s a high school essay cause high school was like 4 years ago for me at this point. With all that being said, let’s get into it.

So, one of my first thoughts is that there are generally two (sometimes three) different stories that are told during the au. Either, 1) the sword was originally meant for Adora but somehow Catra gets her hands on the powers of it and She-ra. 2) the power was meant for Catra from the get-go and the power of Shera comes not from the First Ones but the Magicats (Catra’s people). Or 3) Adora still has the sword and the powers of She-ra but She’s the one that stays with the Horde and Catra is the one that ends up with the Rebellion. However, with that third option, it really isn’t falling into the Magicatra verse as much as it is just a “Rebellion Catra au” which Trust me are two Totally separate things if we’re talking about fanfictions and stuff like that so we’re just going to be shoving that third option off to the side for now.

Now, something that most people seem to generally agree upon on the au is that by around season 4ish, Adora is able to overpower both Shadow Weaver and Hordak and essentially become what the fandom has called “Horde Lord Adora”. Now, most peoples complaints about this is that Adora seems “out of character” in the fact that she’s perceived as this ruthless overtaker that is able to crush Etheria in her fist.

Now my main issue with this depends on what story people like to tell. If we go about the first way people tell the story then arguably they’d have close to the same childhood as told in canon cause if the power was originally meant for Adora then it’s arguable that Shadow Weaver would treat the two the same way during childhood up until Catra is able to get her hands on the power of Shera. But if That’s the case, then I don’t think Shadow Weaver would make Adora try to go fetch Catra in the same way that Shadow Weaver makes Catra fetch Adora in the first few episodes of S1; not to say that Adora wouldn’t try to go off and fetch Catra herself I’m just saying that Shadow Weaver probably wouldn’t make her be the one to do it. (where Catra uses that to her advantage to show Hordak that Shadow Weaver is misguided in her role as second in command and how she ends up climbing the power ladder in the Horde) (In fact if I’m to be completely honest she’d probably try to do some fucked up Shadow Weaver thing and take the power from Catra entirely and try to give it to Adora because it’s Shadow Weaver and of course she’d probably try something like that.) 

Moreso, if Adora already has the Force Captain title and is already Shadow Weavers favorite then in reality Shadow Weaver would be shoving more responsibility onto her in order to climb the ranks faster in order to take over Etheria. And it would probably be easier for Shadow Weaver to accomplish this because Catra is out of the way (that is until the two start seeing each other on the battlefield more often and I think that they would probably have the same amount of sexual tension and banter that they usually do in canon). And Shadow Weaver would probably feel that Adora is getting “distracted” by this; and thus, puts even MORE pressure on Adora while she’s in the Horde thus probably changing some components of her character like while she does resent Shadow Weaver in the show she’s more so scared of her at first but I think we’d probably skip that step and she’d probably be showing the angry bitterness that Catra was showing during the time that she was in the horde in canon. Hell, I’d probably even argue that it would be Easier for Adora to overthrow Shadow Weaver than Catra did cause even though people don’t like to admit this, Adora is CUNNING (which is why I believe that she’d actually make a very good Slytherin if we did a whole Hogwarts au thing however JK is a terf and we don’t support that behavior in this household.)

Now if we were to tell it from the other foot where Shera comes from the Magicats and thus Shadow Weaver knew this then we could flip the coin that she’d treat Catra better in their childhood however that wouldn’t be a flip flop where Catra was suddenly goody two shoes over here. Essentially what I’m trying to say is that we wouldn’t take Adora’s character and shove it into Catra and vice versa like a lot of people like to explain the au. However, in that same vein, I don’t think that Adora would be getting physically abused in the same way that Catra was cause remember that the way Shadow Weaver was able to manipulate Adora was by punishing Catra and making Adora feel at fault for it, “if only you kept a better eye on her” “if only you could keep her out of trouble” so on and so forth. With Catra, that simply Wouldn’t Work; cause Adora and Catra are separate people with separate physics and Shadow Weaver tells Catra that one of the reasons she treated her the way she did was “cause she sees herself in Catra” (that’s a hard maybe at best. Cause Shadow Weaver was just someone who craved power, Catra was really just misguided in thinking that power would be a good substitute for happiness/Adora and we all saw how THAT worked out for her. And in the Horde, really the way to get to the top/simply surviving is by being the best but really can you blame her?)

 Ok I’m going to make another part to this to discuss the more specifics of Horde Lord Adora and how I think she and the story would differ than what’s told in canon cause I think that there are certain things like the “Catra losing her position/Hordak not trusting her arc” in season 2 that I think wouldn’t happen mostly cause I think Adora would go about things a different way and mostly cause it would just be a rehash of the show just with the characters flip flopped. Anyways like I said, that’s a story for another day.

[cambieart]

Corrupted adora drawing practice