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Breaking Free of the Vines - Telling an Emotional Journey Through Music

The music starts out sad and loud while the vines are covering her. She is still fighting and the music becomes louder the more of her allies get taken by the vines while she still fights. 

It quiets as the fight in Adora starts to die down and it almost completely goes away once Adora gives in and says “I can’t do this on my own”. 

The music is still soft, but it shifts to Angella’s leitmotif and flashbacks to her sacrifice and everything that came after. Angella’s sacrifice is a huge motivating factor in this season and, while for most of the season it has been a source of Adora and Glimmer’s rift and respective spirals, in this moment Adora is realizing she can’t let it be in vain. Adora can’t give up on the people she cares about or herself because Angella’s last speech to her was about how Adora is the one who inspired her not she-ra and that it is Adora who makes she-ra a hero not the other way around. It’s Adora finally realizing what Angella really meant with her final speech instead of her guilt clouding her interpretation.

 The music grows in volume and turns triumphant when Adora snaps out of it and overcomes the signal to transform and save her friends. The music isn’t she-ra’s theme. It’s Adora’s theme because, while Adora does transform into she-ra in this moment, Adora’s own will is what overcomes the vines not she-ra’s power.