“how to set a ship on fire DIY (let’s hope the FBI doesn’t take this down)”

thought you all would appreciate this more than instagram did

Rewatching this scene for sexy murdercaps and Hordak does not seem to be aiming at the sea elves. The lasers and explosions have a “rev up” period that conveniently allows time for everyone to run out of the way.

The hovertanks only seem to aim directly at Sea Hawk, who handles the explosion inches from his ass like a Looney Tunes character. At one point it hits a rock in front of them, either to herd them or a bad shot at SH. It looks like it’s about to finish them off before Glimmer intervenes. We cut away as Sea Hawk is about to face down two tanks, and the next time we see him he’s completely fine other than his hair sticking up.

The next scene confirms everyone in the village was saved.

In conclusion:

Man, that’s kinda disappointing. I think murder’s pretty hot. Hordak just dropped in hottness level.

I wanted to see him fry up a sea elf calamari dinner!

So, what I’m getting from this post is that Hordak was actually waging war in order to kill Sea Hawk.

Which, honestly, I can’t fault him for.

Sea Hawk was actually baiting the cannons to show him a more efficient village burning pattern. Hordak’s arson skills are so lacking he can’t manage to kill a single sea elf with explosions the size of the entire village, smh.

Imagine if they teamed up together, though. 🔥🔥🔥

The boys went out to sea and My boi Seahawk got carried away

I got a bunch of requests for Sea Hawk so here’s everyone’s favourite himbo arsonist updating his insta account! 🔥🔥🔥 I’m so excited and so scared for the finale tomorrow...

i really love zuko avatar the last airbender but he also definitely influenced people into thinking all the villains in the world can and should be redeemed like. shut up. youre not zuko avatar the last airbender and you will never be zuko avatar the last airbender

this is wild to me because if anything the opposite has happened in popular fandom, people think being “redeemable” means you HAVE to be like zuko: being handled in this safe, unchallenging way where a character is only allowed to change if they were always a victim, like how zuko is abused by his family and framed as morally better than his sister since they were literal toddlers, knew what was right when he was 12, for no compelling reason other than just having a better inherent moral compass. because apparently to deserve redemption, you have to be born with inherent moral goodness.

i like zuko avatar the last airbender but he’s created fandom brainrot in the opposite way. a villain shouldn’t HAVE to be zuko avatar the last airbender to be redeemable. moral determinism will never be cute.

I have to confess that, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to view Zuko’s redemption as Baby’s First Redemption Arc.

It’s fine for what it is, but it’s played so safe. He never does anything truly terrible, never acts as a legitimate, morally problematic villain. So it’s easy to root for him, easy to forgive him, and fairly simple to redeem him.

Unlike. Y'know. Other characters that I might currently be interested in. Bat-eared, conquering ones. Hypothetically.

he burnt down villages, beloved

Wow, really? When?

I’m trying to remember, and it’s sadly not working. Whereas I feel like that has been a discussion as of late, with ATLA coming to Netflix: that, compared to various other villain redemption arcs, Zuko’s never has to contend with him doing anything hardcore awful.

But maybe I’m remembering it wrong? It has been a while. Wish I could find that discussion, but ah well. Work.

Oi, @hirazuki , do you remember this? I feel like we chatted about this, but I’m having trouble.

Oooh this is exceptional and fascinating analysis on contemporary villain redemption arc expectations in fandom!

Burning villages is Y7 child’s play. The actual line for redeemability is if he burnt any boats.

Come to think of it, it is a little suspicious that almost all the kings and queens of Etheria died at once in a royal cruise ship fire. 🤔

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….. Amd we thought chipping Entrapta would lead to Prime’s downfall.

Can you imagine the hivemimd after it downloads this?????

It’s okay for ships to be unhealthy! Shipping something doesn’t mean “this is the perfect ideal relationship that I aspire to have in real life.”

Maybe I want to ship a Horde Prime/Sea Hawk/Shadow Weaver sandwich because fiction is a safe space to explore the kinky toxicity of the evilest person in the show with the abusive wine mom and Horde Prime.

I did a spit-take at the end there. #Arson Is Bad will never get old. In other news, series such as Lord of the Rings and Left 4 Dead are safe and fun ways to experience adrenaline rush survival situations you wouldn’t actually wish on anyone in real life. Tune back in at 11 for exciting updates on the psychology of roller coasters and catharsis via the Blues music genre.

Now I want to see an alternate ending where Sea Hawk lights the Velvet Glove on fire.

If Sea Hawk can get a ship to burn in space where there is no oxygen, then he is a god and my arson is my new religion. 

Ah, but there's plenty of oxygen INSIDE the ship* for him to light stuff on fire, assuming it's not all fireproof.

*Even though the clones don't need to breathe it. Maybe that's what the "This part of the ship is off-limits to you, little sister" was actually was about. What if Hordak actually saved Catra from going into the no air zone? Character development!

And don't ask me how the magic space tree is supposed to work, but Sea Hawk is definitely staring up in the sky every night dreaming of burning that gigantic wooden spaceship.

It’s okay for ships to be unhealthy! Shipping something doesn’t mean “this is the perfect ideal relationship that I aspire to have in real life.”

Maybe I want to ship a Horde Prime/Sea Hawk/Shadow Weaver sandwich because fiction is a safe space to explore the kinky toxicity of the evilest person in the show with the abusive wine mom and Horde Prime.

I find it amusing that people claim Wrong Hordak as a better Hordak because he "wasn't a mass murderer."

Like, it's not at all clear that that's the case? We don't actually know whether or not he was a baby clone. For all we know, he was hanging around in his pod for maintenance after successfully gunning down an orphanage on some random planet. He certainly approved of Prime's status as a conqueror well enough.

It reminds me of how people would often use the idea of Hordak already having murdered millions prior to coming to Etheria as reason to condemn him; as if that further justified their desire to kill him.

But it's somehow not a thing we assume of Wrongie, hmm?

How... interesting.

You can also assume, based on this same type of logic, that Sea Hawk is also an unrepentant murderer... and he doesn’t even have a tragic backstory. And the only way it’s possible for Entrapta - the killer robot building planet hacker - to not be a mass murderer is if this show was operating on some sort of “kid’s show logic” rather than realism. But that would be ridiculous!