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Cᴀᴛʀᴀ ([personal profile] purrsistence) wrote in [community profile] meadowlark2020-09-26 03:09 pm

@catra.victorious

What's the deal with your surname? If you have one. We don't have them, where I'm from. I'm not stupid, for what it's worth-- I don't need the concept explained to me. I know they're just... family names, or whatever.

I just wanna know... what does yours mean, I guess. If it has a meaning. Where did it come from. If you don't have one, how did you... I don't know, choose yours, when you got here?


Anyway I guess I was gone for a bit, now I'm back, don't make a big deal about it.
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[personal profile] dumbjockenergy 2020-10-09 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Then what am I supposed to do?

[ the fight finally drains out of her, voice small. ]

I don't know who I am without She-Ra or some kind of...purpose or mission or--or destiny or whatever. I feel so lost, Catra.
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[personal profile] dumbjockenergy 2020-10-11 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
But I don't know what I want to do. All my life it's been someone else telling me what to do, and now--

[ She's like a ship without an anchor, threatening slowly but surely to float off. ]

But we... Catra, we--

[ And for as frustrated as Catra is with hr now, Adora is completely sincere as she asks-- ]

We can figure out what to do next together. Right?
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[personal profile] dumbjockenergy 2020-10-11 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Of course.

[ And though the situation is so complicated, it makes something ache in Adora to know that after all their years together and their plans, enough damage has been done to make Catra doubt. ]

Anything I do, I want to do it with you at my side. That could never change.
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[personal profile] dumbjockenergy 2020-10-11 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
I think this world is a little big for conquering together, but... If it's the two of us, I'm sure we can come up with something for ourselves.

[ and now, Adora grows tentative. it's a potentially explosive subject to bring up to Catra, when she doesn't know everything that has happened to Catra in the time she disappeared. ]

We can make a new promise. One without the Horde or the Rebellion or...anyone else to interfere. Just us, here.
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1/3

[personal profile] dumbjockenergy 2020-10-11 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ For a moment, Adora gives Catra that look right back, expression soft, eyes warm.

She looks so painfully hopeful. ]
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2/3

[personal profile] dumbjockenergy 2020-10-11 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ A hopefully look that collapses into nothing short of heartbroken.

The feeling of her heart falling into her stomach is almost physical and for a moment the only thing she can think is...of course.

What else should she have expected? Adora had already messed up once. It was stupid to think Catra would be willing to go that far, put that much trust in her ever again.

Stupid, stupid Adora. ]
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[personal profile] dumbjockenergy 2020-10-11 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Right, sorry, it was a stupid idea. I was being an idiot. I'm so--

[ She was okay. She was fine. Adora should be glad Catra is even willing to try being friends again after everything they've been through. It'd be selfish to ask for anything more. Catra has made her stance clear and Adora will respect it.

But she can't be here right now, not with this sudden misery and rejection bubbling in her chest.

There's a strangled quality to Adora's voice as she says it. As she feels the burn of tears, Adora shoots up from the couch, half-running to their shared room in what is supposed to look non-hurried but definitely doesn't. It's easy to grab the few outfits she has and start stuffing them in a backpack. ]


Um, a-anyway, Glimmer asked if she could move in with us since we have the spare cot and she doesn't like living alone. I was going to talk to you about it, but I figured since you had your truce, it should be fine.

[ It takes her less than a minute to pack and slip her shoes on and she's heading for the door before Catra can get a word in edgewise. ]

I'll be over at her place for a few days helping her pack.

[ And with that, Adora is out the door without so much as a goodbye. ]