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tsob posted:The major problem with that is Adora is literally the only one who can do the thing she's trying to do, and if she doesn't do it then her planet and probably a lot of other planets will be wiped clean of all life. If Adora was just one random soldier doing something a thousand others could do, then appealing to her to stop putting others before herself might make sense. It doesn't make sense in that specific situation though, and is actively selfish. Except that doesn't quite track. As Catra points out, this is legitimately something that Shadow Weaver, or really anyone else, could do. As in, get the failsafe, take it to the Heart, and deactivate it. The issue is that whomever does it would die; even being She-Ra isn't a guaranteed protection against that. Shadow Weaver specifically is pushing Adora to do it with the caveat "you might live", but she literally only mentions that after Catra forces her to tell the whole story. Shadow Weaver might be doing this from what she sees as an altruistic place, but she is absolutely using Adora as a tool in it. Especially the whole "not even warning her" thing. She can do that because she knows that Adora has a massive flaw: not knowing where she's from, her origins, or why she's really here, Adora has become someone who feels she needs a destiny. She thought that defying it when destroying the sword would free her, but she found out that it just left her floundering without purpose. In this case though, the only thing being She-Ra does is give her the chance she might not die, and even then Shadow Weaver has set things up, intentionally or not, so that there's no time to think of a better way. One thing that Catra does in the end is refuse to let Adora sacrifice herself alone. She leaves at first because she can't stomach watching what's about to happen, but when it comes right down to it, she refuses to allow Adora to die alone, or face her "destiny" alone. She makes Adora confront that even if she succeeds, this "chosen one" destiny she keeps trying to fulfill is going to hurt the people she loves. In the end, what works isn't Adora going for a sacrifice to fulfill her destiny, it's embracing someone she's clearly always loved, and choosing to be with them. About to die or not, Adora made the choice to be with someone instead of push them away to protect them, and that finally gave her the power to transcend all the pain and poo poo and become She-Ra again. Her power literally comes from love, and love was what saved her in the end, not destiny.
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