Follow your heart? What if it isn’t yours?
Hey Magicatra peeps! Here is an idea for you guys. There is potential but IDK where to go with it.
So as I said before this will be a Magicatra AU. Or at the very least it will have a base foundation of a Magicatra AU.
Anyway in this AU Adora has the brand (or is it just a magical mark?) from the Heart of Etheria early on. Like as in a baby early (maybe not that early? I am kinda playing loose with this idea)
At first the brand would glow like in cannon and as she gets older it would settle into something more like a tattoo. (I say this only for my own sense of aesthetic. because a Horde soldier with a glowing brand on their chest just wouldn’t mesh IMO)
Shadow Weaver even though can easily sense the overpowering well of Adora’s magic, she herself could never tap into it. (So at the very least baby and toddler Adora are safe... Well as safe as cannon Adora was during that time).
The only thing Shadow Weaver could do was teach Adora only the most basic of spells. This is because Adora has so much raw magical power ebbing and flowing through her at any given time she would overpower anything more complicated. ((Note: basic spell IMO is like a simple heal, i.e. burses and small scrapes, or maybe a shield or armor buff spell))
Now for the Magicatra stuff:
You may be wondering, “if Adora already has Heart of Etheria why couldn’t/wouldn’t be She-Ra too?”
Which I reply, “Ah... I didn’t think that far ahead. Shut up.”
Lol.
But in all seriousness, Let’s say it could be a few things:
1. Shadow Weaver’s meddling warped/corrupted Adora’s magic, preventing her from being a balancing force Etheria needs.
2. Basically being a ‘living runestone’ she has free will. As such has been subconsciously repressing the call to action because she is ‘For the Horde’
3. Light Hope being Light Hope. She sees Adora possessing the Heart but not activating it as a problem. So she decides to use ‘the right key’ (Catra) to unlock that power that Adora has unwittingly locked away.
4. I want a Magicatra AU. And the added drama when it is reveled that Adora might have to be sacrificed to save the planet would be quite the emotional gut punch. (I like my angst)
So possible reasons aside a few things I want to add to this.
1. Adora is a ‘Living Runestone’ in a sense. She is tapped into the Heart at all times and has a much power in her as other Runestones do. (Not much to this one other than I like the idea of Entrapta making that discovery and referring to Adora as such. I think it would be very cute.)
2. She can cause the magic in Runestones around her to overflow if she gets to close. Shadow Weaver had to teach her how stanch the flow of the magic within herself so it wouldn’t mess with the Black Garnet. (Cant have Adora mess with her precious source of power now can we) Which means that simply being around other Runestones acts as booster to both herself and the Runestone. Meaning that Adora would get a boost to her natural abilities. A Princess if they were close enough to their Runestone would have their magical output amplified too. (this could be used in fun ways. In that the Princesses could use it to their advantage fighting Adora, or Adora could regulate the flow of her magic to disorient them.)
3. Give a few ‘In Sync’ moments between Adora and Catra. If the Sword of Protection is the “Key” and the Heart of Etheria is the “Lock” there should be moments when they are fighting that they are just synchronized to the point it looks more like they are dancing or predicting each others moves.
That is the very basic idea I had, and I wrote it down before I forgot anything. What do you guys think?? Is this idea any good? Share your thoughts if you want to. I would be more than happy to get more input to expand this into an actual story.