Once upon a time there was a little girl lost in the middle of the sea after a shipwreck. She held the lid of an applesauce crate for dear life. She had hurt her eye and she was very scared and alone.
Then, an extrange little blonde girl around her age emerged from the sea.
She comforts the little stray girl, kisses her wounded eye and tells her everything is gonna be ok.
Maybe it’s because the girl from the sea is a mermaid, but the kiss not only heals her eye but turns it blue like the sea. The little lost girl feels different somehow. Later she discovers she can also breathe underwater too.
After the little mermaid saved her life, Catra visits her often and they become very good friends. She doesn’t tell anyone, of course, mermaids are not well seen on solid ground.
When they grow older, Adora asks Catra to take her to her world. She wants to spend more time with her friend and know how is the world she lives in, even if she is not supposed to leave the sea. So Catra helps her out to the shore, and suddenly, the mermaid’s shiny silver fish tail turns into a pair of legs. Catra can’t stop laughing while she teachs Adora how to walk with them.
i love that one second of surprise she has like she didn’t expect them to go that far and actually hug her can i just say i love all of the support and love she’s getting from the mane six its so wonderful and really uplifting
•Smith-Cameron is a student of human behavior, so it’s not surprising she has also imagined a yet-to-be-written character she would like to play in the future, based on a type of woman she observed in her youth. “There’s a kind of Southern woman I grew up with,” dipping into a deep Southern drawl, “who’s a cigarette-smoking, whiskey-drinking, boss woman, who’s maybe conservative and moneyed,” she said. “That’s a type my sister and I used to imitate when we were little. I have decades of observation of these types of characters—they’re dames, they’re broads, they play poker, and they’re ballsy.” Either that, or they’re “someone in really bad trouble,” she said with a knowing laugh. •
