Bait And Switch - Tumblr Posts
Catra (Staring at the spy bot controller): Oh Come on why is the video feed down!
Scorpia: hey settle down Wildcat at least we have audio, audio from inside the private quarters of the commander of the princess alliance herself, this will be big even without video!
Catra: Uuuuuhg i guess you’re right, now let’s see what they are taking about!
Adora: Ooh Glimmer that’s great! deeper!
Glimmer: You sure Adora?
Adora: Oh Yeah! your hands are magic!
Glimmer: Is this like your first time or anything? i mean i have never heard anyone moan so much.
Adora: nah Catra used to do it all the time but it was terrible, her claws always got in the way.
Glimmer: Oh yeah i guess i can see how that would be a problem.
Adora: Yeah usually i would let her go for a bit then lie and say she took care of it and go get Lonnie to finish, or if i was really desperate i’d use a stun prod.
Glimmer: Wow so Catra was really that bad?
Adora: Yeah, i mean some times i was so desperate i would even go bug Shadow Weaver to handle it!
Catra (Jumping out of the bushes near the palace of bright moon): ADORA YOU FUCKING FLOOZY! GET DOWN HERE AND TAKE THE BACK OF MY HAND!
Glimmer (Looking away from scratching Adora’s back): What the heck is her problem!
Idea: The queer bait (and switch)
Have 3 leads, two white pretty boys with a classic ship dynamic between them (but no romance) and the third is a girl. Later on in the cannon, once the fandom eventually begins shipping the pretty boys introduce a new character, another girl. She and the lead girl fall deeply in love (of course they can't run away together, they stay on the show)
The pretty boys on the other hand, both end up having girlfriends and because fundamentally incompatible, maybe even have one leave the show to raise kids with his gf. Two of the straightest straight men to ever exist
The fandom can't even call out the show for queer baiting because well, there is actual real queer relationship explored in the show- just not the one the fandom wanted.
