isabellerecs | Entries tagged with pairing: catradora

Title: Breaking the Chain
Author: TheWolfThatWaits
Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Pairing: Adora/Catra
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 65,323
Summary: Captured by rebel forces, newly appointed Force Captain Adora notices an opportunity to make good on a decade old promise. After all, who said she had to defect alone? AU; Where Catra and Adora defect together.

Recommendation: Comment Hiatus ~ A partial hiatus in that I'll post a rec but I won't do the write up because I'm really behind and real life is getting in my way.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,269

Title: The Silence of Words
Author: sheadoras
Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Pairing: Adora/Catra
Rating: Mature [R]
Word Count: 9,770
Summary: Enemy. Feels like such a dirty word, like a forbiddance. When Catra thinks of Adora, she doesn’t think of enemies, nothing close to that. Well, at first, she did. But with the now empty bed below hers and the missing smile at the beginning of every day, Catra ignores their stances, their alliance.

Recommendation: Comment Hiatus ~ A partial hiatus in that I'll post a rec but I won't do the write up because I'm really behind and real life is getting in my way.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,268

Title: Keep on Walking, Come What Will
Author: strangehunger
Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Pairing: Adora/Catra
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 8,564
Summary: Adora and Catra get engaged. If only someone would tell them.

Recommendation: Comment Hiatus ~ A partial hiatus in that I'll post a rec but I won't do the write up because I'm really behind and real life is getting in my way.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,267

Title: Blooming
Author: RaeDMagdon
Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Pairing: Adora/Catra
Rating: Explicit [NC-17]
Word Count: 6,078
Summary: Catra and Adora explore Brightmoon's gardens together, deepening their bond along the way.

Recommendation: Oh man, these two deserve good things. And by good things I mean chances to make love in gardens.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,060

Title: Lost Before We're Found
Author: Imwastingmylifeinhere
Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Pairing: Adora/Catra
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 86,839
Summary: Catra, deemed "useless" by Hordak, is shipped off to Beast Island. After managing to escape, she finds something she never thought she'd have. A place of her own. A proper home. A mother. Oh, and apparently she's a princess. Well, isn't that ironic. ~ Adora, having learned of Catra's banishment, is determined to get her friend back. Whatever that takes.

Recommendation: Oh man, I love this. I love thought of Catra discovering that she is in fact an honest to God PRINCESS. The irony. The hilarity. The trauma to unpack. But with family and a people just like her. Adora side is rather like a gut punch, but the pay off is worth it. Oh man, so good.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,059

Title: What Love Is
Author: RaeDMagdon
Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Pairing: Adora/Catra
Rating: Explicit [NC-17]
Word Count: 58,403
Summary: Season 1 AU Ending. Bright Moon stands, but Adora has been captured and taken to the Fright Zone. While Catra tries to figure out how She-ra's sword works, and struggles with her unresolved feelings for her ex-friend, Shadow Weaver has an agenda of her own...

Recommendation: I just love the idea of Catra getting a chance at self-reflection and redemption earlier when she has less to regret. I love that Kyle get a chance at doing the heroic thing. And I love Shadow Weaver getting her comeuppance earlier cause yeah.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,058

Title: Lost Before We're Found
Author: Imwastingmylifeinhere
Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Pairing: Adora/Catra
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 86,839
Summary: Catra, deemed "useless" by Hordak, is shipped off to Beast Island. After managing to escape, she finds something she never thought she'd have. A place of her own. A proper home. A mother.
Oh, and apparently she's a princess. Well, isn't that ironic. ~ Adora, having learned of Catra's banishment, is determined to get her friend back. Whatever that takes.

Recommendation: Oh man, I love this. I love thought of Catra discovering that she is in fact an honest to God PRINCESS. The irony. The hilarity. The trauma to unpack. But with family and a people just like her. Adora side is rather like a gut punch, but the pay off is worth it. Oh man, so good.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,059

Title: Learning Curve

Author: ForsythiaRising

Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Pairing: Adora/Catra

Rating: Teen [PG]

Word Count: 13,710

Summary: Adora’s still getting the hang of this whole “wanting” thing, Glimmer and Bow put up with a lot, and Catra negotiates gainful employment. Or: they’re intergalactic diplomats. There’s an incident. Or: five times Adora’s newfound possessive streak gets the better of her and one time it gets the better of Catra.

Recommendation: Oh man, I love this story so much. I love the thought of Catra being both appreciated for her skills and being confident in herself. I love the dynamic that develops between Catra and Glimmer because they are much more alike then Bow or Adora. And I love that Catra gets to see that Adora wants her every bit as much as she wants her. And Adora, the sweet dumb jock, we love her even though she is bad at feelings.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #2,108

Title: The Baseball Epilogue

Author: RaceCloud

Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Pairing: Adora/Catra

Rating: Teen [PG]

Word Count: 13,260

Summary: Post Season 5 content. With the story all wrapped up, it's time to settle all the loose ends once and for all the only way that feels right: Baseball! What are the teams? Who's leading them? Why? And what are the stakes? Read on and find out!

Recommendation: This was surprisingly adorable, and it kind of feels like something that might have happened post-show. My absolute favorite part was Glimmer commenting that it was a good thing Catra hadn't known she could use her wiles on Adora while they were fighting. *waggles eyebrows* I know right. ;D

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #2,107

Title: Reminiscence

Author: lunarpaddle

Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Pairing: Adora/Catra

Rating: Teen [PG]

Word Count: 3,171

Summary: ""Where the HELL am I?” None of this made any sense – god, was this one of Adora’s first one bullshit hologram things, or – or one of Shadow Weaver’s messed up magic games! It had to be something, there was no way in hell that this was actually – “Welcome to the future, little brat. Want some tuna?” Catra – not-Catra – old-Catra – imposter-Catra held out a can of some kind of weird princess food to her. She passed out. Again."" Or; Catra wakes up in the future, and she can't make sense of any of it.

Recommendation: I love the thought of season three "I really need therapy" Catra meeting her much more adjusted elder self. It does get better.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #2,106

Title: Ain't My Fault

Author: vandalwithoutacause

Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Pairing: Adora/Catra

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 6,367

Summary: Adora sighs into the kiss, melting against Catra so that her hips pin her firmly to the door. She slides her free hand slowly up Catra’s side, tweaking her shirt out of alignment and mussing the short fur underneath. Her hand continues up, and up, and Catra draws in a ragged breath as Adora tips her chin to the side and dips down to press her mouth against the column of her throat. The breath turns into a squeak as Adora’s teeth graze her collarbone. Adora pulls back a bit to look at Catra, pressed flat to the door and panting a little, her blush rising up from her chest to her ears. She quirks an eyebrow. “Are you okay?” Or; 5 times Catra's internal monologue chanted ""top me"" and the one time it didn't need to.

Recommendation: AAAHHHHH!!!! I LOVE SHE-RA SO MUCH!! Seriously, it has at long last toppled Avatar the Last Airbender from it's place as most perfect cartoon. *flails in lesbian* There is nothing major and very little minor that I would change about this show. I've loved Catradora from the first season because friends to enemies to lovers is . . . MY JAM. I also love this story, because Catra is just so thristy. *continues to flail in lesbian*

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Recommendation #2,105

The very latest OTP to latch onto my heart has been Catradora from Netflix’s She-Ra: Princess of Power. Oh, I’ve not been this gone over a cartoon since Avatar the Last Airbender truthfully and I’m so excited that Season Two drops in April. \o/

I have enjoyed the dynamic that they embody (friends to enemies to lovers) as one that I’ve loved and seen played out by a few slash ships over the years. I love the thought of a femslash pairing getting to do the same thing. They are so delightfully fraught. I don’t even need them to be endgame, but if Catra doesn’t get a redemption arc I’m going on record now that I am going to be UPSET™. That being said I’m enjoying the heck out of the fanfiction that has already been produced and I’m looking forward to more.

And because I’m enjoying the icon-making I have a few more SPOP icons to share. :)