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Name: Cassie
Age: 27
Contact info: PM,
Character: Adora / She-Ra
Canon: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Canon Point: Post Season 1
CRAU, Canon AU: N/A
Character age: 18-19
Canon Abilities/Powers:
Adora has been trained almost since birth by a military organization known as the Horde, and was the top choice for promotion to Force Captain among her cadet group before she defected. She's good with both her fists and an extendable staff, knows basic survival skills, and has a mind for strategic planning, even if everything tends to fall apart the moment she actually starts on a mission.
More uniquely, she also has the ability to turn into She-Ra, a giant glowing woman with incredible power. For the most part She-Ra is Adora, just bigger, stronger, and with better hair, but she also has a few extra powers (see below). Her biggest weaknesses are her relative lack of speed, largely close-quarters fighting style, and the fact she's still Adora, thus incredibly stupid and gullible.
I'm gonna try and make this a comprehensive list for the sake of completion, but also not tl;dr too much, so please ask if you need clarification on anything! At her current canonpoint, she's nowhere near as powerful as she eventually becomes, but I'm happy to nerf her further.
» Healing. Right now, she's highly untrained at this, and doesn't really know how to properly focus her abilities, but it's something she can and will greatly improve at with experience. No matter what, healing people from anything more than a few scratches leaves them feeling exhausted afterward, and while Adora's own wounds as She-Ra usually heal without a trace, she's still left with the sensation of them; a burning ache that only fades over time.
Later in canon, she's shown saving someone from death's door, with their guidance, and also reviving an Actually Dead (or incredibly close to it) person, though both of these are in very emotionally charged situations. I will 100% be asking for mod permission before healing anything on that level, and the side effects will be severe on both Adora and the other person.
» Animal transformation. At the start of the series, Adora transformed an ordinary horse into her flying, talking steed, Swift Wind... and also gave a random lizard wings, before it literally flew away and was never seen again, lmao. Since she never uses this ability again in the show (and both times she did it was unintentional), it won't ever be a thing in-game. Swift Wind would get jealous. :(
She-Ra seems to be able to calm wild animals at some points, though this is only on a case by case basis, as it's likely tied to her connection to the planet itself. If it would be relevant to an event creature or something, I'll be letting the mods RNG me as to whether it works or only makes things worse.
» The sword itself can also transform into various items, from the purely mundane (a mop) to more useful things (a shield). Adora has only just started training with this aspect of her abilities, so it'll be a while before she gets the hang of it, and stops getting random junk instead of the thing she actually wants. I'll be limiting the more useful transformations to those shown in canon — a shield, rope, and a bracer — no matter what, and just let her expand on her random item repertoire from time to time.
An important note: as far as Adora is aware, her transformation ability (and all her powers) are tied directly to the Sword of Protection, but this isn't actually the case. Her current sword is just a means to control her, and when it's broken towards the end of canon, Adora eventually gains the ability to transform into an even more powerful version of She-Ra of her own volition, including summoning her own 'true' version of the sword. Turns out the giant warrior lady was inside her all along.
Barring extraordinary circumstances, this won't be happening in Upcycle until she's canon updated to the appropriate time period, but I'll be sure to hit the mods up if this changes in any way.
What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:
Right now, her negativity is directed towards the Horde; more specifically, Shadow Weaver and Hordak.
The former is incredibly complicated. Shadow Weaver was the closest thing Adora had to a mother, the person who raised her from a literal infant until she was about 18, but Adora is finally starting to understand all the ways she was manipulated and abused during those years. Not all at once (she's thick), but when someone points out 'hey, that sounds kinda fucked up' about her upbringing, she's usually like 'huh, guess it was', aka what everyone else in the Horde realized as children: that you should never trust someone who literally calls herself Shadow Weaver.
Hordak is a much more black and white case, because it's a waaay less personal one. He runs the Horde, and so, to Adora, he's responsible for every bad thing that's happening to the planet right now... but compared to Shadow Weaver, Adora had so little direct interaction with him that he's more of a distant evil to her.
How strongly do they feel about the negative subject matter, on the scale of one to ten?:
A 7. Despite her absolute conviction to fighting against the Horde as a whole, Adora still feels some conflicting emotions towards Shadow Weaver (even saving her life later in the show), and is often the first to remind people that not everyone in the Horde is bad. Most are just like her, raised in an abusive environment, and never given the same chance to make a clean break from it.
While her strongest emotions in general all involve Catra, there's enough confusion and hope mixed in there right now that what she feels isn't entirely negative. It's shifting that way, though, the more that Catra is responsible for hurting her friends, and since their relationship would definitely rate a
What is their greatest virtue?:
Her heroism, and her overwhelming desire to help those around her. While definitely a virtue, it's actually a little more complicated than that — Adora's entire self worth is tied up in how useful she is, so it can (and does) loop right back around to causing harm either to herself, or the person she's trying to help, who may not need or appreciate it. Basically, she has has a habit of smothering the people she cares about, instead of trusting them to stand on their own two feet.
She also sees every single thing that goes wrong, large or small, as being her fault; attempting to shoulder all the responsibility even when her friends try to convince her to chill the hell out for five minutes. It means she doesn't run from her mistakes (at least, the ones she realizes she's made), but it also means she's about five seconds from an anxiety-ridden breakdown at any given time.
How aware are they of their virtue, on a scale from one to ten?:
Probably about a 5, but again, It's Complicated. Adora wants to be a Big Damn Hero, and she's more than happy to show off her prowess in battle or flex to an adoring crowd... but it's not her choice to be this way. It never has been. It's her destiny, and while she wouldn't choose anything different, even if she could, it's still not something she ever actively decided on for herself. As a child, she had responsibility for Catra thrust on her by Shadow Weaver; as an adult, for the entire planet by Light Hope, and she accepts them both without a second thought. This desperate need to please everyone is what makes her come off as a sycophant sometimes, much to Catra's chagrin.
Adora also lacks self awareness in general, especially of the negative ways her overly protective nature and hypervigilance affects herself and others, which causes a fair amount of conflict in the series. This part, she'll slowly get better about, but boy is she bad at it right now.
Items: Her clothes (most notably her red jacket, which she wears for five damn seasons), her sword, her complete lack of self worth.
Samples: tdm toplevel, second thread with catra bc elle changed canonpoints, that jerk.