Sorry if this is out of nowhere but I happened to see a SPOP post of yours.
I’m just gonna say Catra and Hordak are two disasters with two similar but different experiences of abuse via Shadow Weaver and Horde Prime primarily, but they also mess with each other. Both narratives offer their own tales. I’m kind of shocked there aren’t more fans of both of them. There doesn’t have to be this fight of who had it worse. :/
To be fair, a lot of post-canon Entrapdak fics I’ve read have Catra as an unexpected ally to Hordak in helping the princesses come around to accepting or at least not executing him. Which seems like a natural place to go based on their awkwardly unhostile interactions in S5! I have a collection of platonic Catra and Hordak catharsis fics here, if you’re interested. (and always looking for more)
If Entrapdak fics treated Catra the way the rest of the fandom treats Hordak, they, uh, wouldn’t be very good fics. Believe me, if a fic started with Adora saying “I realized Catra sucks and locked her in a dungeon off-screen to starve, lol” or had Hordak start a “We Hate Catra” club I would not be giving it my kudos!
(btw I wish fans wouldn’t act like being anti-princess was Catra’s only flaw. I think pointing out the hypocrisies of who the narrative frames as “good guys” is a good actually, particularly when they are superpowered rich kids. Let Catra keep criticizing the princesses instead of unquestioningly buying into their sparkly bullshit, and Hordak can back her up because they were ableist to his wife!)