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The Emperor's Love - watercolour ink, watercolour, alcohol markers, and pigment ink on paper.
. . .
He Weaves, He Makes,
He Gives, He Takes.
He Reigns, He Conducts,
The Grandest Orchestra of All,
That of Perfectly Crafted Dolls.
. . .
I have but a little poem this time, so here is an abstract from a song that I love, it is from Black Math, the song is called Sirens:
"How open is
Your empty space
I’m moving in
We’ll see the end of something unfamiliar
I saw your hand
You took awhile
The cold was crisp
I thought your warmth
Would break the silence
But all I hear are sirens
You take me
Far, I’m far from safety
Lines where you try to chase me
On hollow ground
I’m navigating this mystery
While I follow you into your history"
Can Horde Prime actually fight, I don't remember him throwing a single punch??
No, I genuinely believe he could not beat someone in a 1v1 even if he tried (despite being built like a tank)
He has an army of clones to help him do his fighting for a reason, he himself would try and swing at someone and fall over in the family guy death pose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Castaspella (She-Ra), Catra (She-Ra), Adora (She-Ra), Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra), Hordak (She-Ra), Lonnie (She-Ra), Horde Prime Clones (She-Ra)
Additional Tags: Interlude Two, Worldbuilding
Series: Part 6 of The Defects
Summary:
Interlude Two for 'The Defects', my novel. Castaspella holds three therapy sessions with three different patients. Little progress is made.
as much as i hate horde prime i gotta admire how he showed up and humbled the fuck out of everyone. like SO many characters had an Oh Fuck moment where they realised there was so much more to everything than whatever feelings they had about the war on etheria. like he's the fucked up reason why catra and adora managed to rekindle their bond. and why glimmer was able to see she was wrong and apologise to the best friend squad. and the catalyst for glimmer and catra's friendship. and why hordak was able to realise he cared more about the genuine love he had from one person on etheria than anything else he'd ever achieved there. in conclusion I LOVE SEASON 5 YOU CAN PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.
Entrapta: My research has recently yielded some interesting results. I have reason to believe that Horde Prime's clones and humanoid Etherians are more similar biologically than we initially realized.
Bow: That's fascinating! What led you to such an amazing discovery?
Sorry for this huge shitpost, but those were exactly my thoughts when I saw Prime in this scene! Prime and his weird AND touchy relationship with his clones. This is a sick fu**ing cult! And I certainly don’t want to get into detail but he’s a narcissistic jerk and I bet there’s nothing more attractive to him than those cloned versions of himself! XD
I bet he looks at his clones and thinks: „Bloody hell my ass is looking damn hot“
And I also bet if She-Ra wasn’t age-rating 6 Adora would have said that! Or anyone elsexDD
I was working on this vid back in 2021 but soon abandoned this project. However, yesterday I suddenly felt motivated enough to finish it in one sitting lmao. It was supposed to be a small "introduction" video to my young Prime/Kur twins AU. I still like it quite a lot actually c: It's giving analog horror
Pigment ink, watercolour ink and watercolour on paper. (this is my first ever try to paint with watercolour ink)
Holding to the Light, which allows to see, only through the fragmented hues of the Prism.
Colours, as Parts of the Whole.
The Emperor and the Companion.
What do you do with a brainwashed army of cult survivors?
At the end of Heart Part 2, Etheria still has a population of thousands of Horde Prime’s clones. This is going to be, putting it mildly, a Problem for the Etherians. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen what happens to a cult follower when they are faced with conclusive evidence that their entire worldview was false, but you probably have some intuitive idea. Imagine if you said to a young-Earth creationist “Hey, here are multiple overlapping lines of evidence proving beyond reasonable doubt that life on Earth evolved over hundreds of millions of years,” or to a Scientologist, “Check out this evidence that L. Ron Hubbard was a fraudster who started a cult as a money-making racket!” You can probably guess that in each of those cases, the response is unlikely to be, “Goodness, I have been mistaken all my life! Thank you, kind friend, for relieving me of my false beliefs.”
As someone who’s left a cult, let me tell you, the clones are not all gonna react like Hordak or Wrong Hordak.
You might have heard of cognitive dissonance theory, but most people misuse the term, so I’ll quickly explain it. When humans encounter information which contradicts or disproves their deeply held beliefs, they experience psychological discomfort. This feeling sucks, and people will go to great lengths not to experience it. But when those beliefs are central to your identity and your place in the world, letting go of those beliefs also sucks, and people will go to even greater lengths not to do it. So they resolve the cognitive dissonance however they can. They might decide the person who gave them this information is an evil liar and lash out at them. They might find a way to convince themselves the information is in fact compatible with their beliefs after all, and then try not to think too hard about whatever mangled assemblage of the facts they have settled on, in case it falls apart under closer examination. They might modify their beliefs slightly to fit the facts ("Prime always said he would go away for a while before returning in triumph!"), and then maintain that this is what they thought all along.
As an aside, one of the landmark texts on cognitive dissonance theory is When Prophecy Fails, which tracks the actions of a doomsday cult after the world failed to end on their predicted date. Sure enough, the acolytes of this cult did not abandon their beliefs despite this pretty concrete evidence that they had been wrong. Instead, they started recruiting new followers as hard as possible. They tried to get social reinforcement for their beliefs (“This must be true—look how many people believe it!”) to help them cope with the empirical disconfirmation they’d just lived through. So yeah, this theory is highly applicable to cult behaviour. And Prime’s clones are quite definitely a cult.
So it’s fair to say that just because the Hive Mind is down and She-Ra has just kicked Prime’s ass into oblivion, the clones are not all gonna just accept that Prime is gone and his mission is over. Some of them are going to continue fighting, convinced that Prime is not really gone. Some will insist that their connection to the Hive Mind is still intact, and deliver messages as the word of Prime. At least one clone is going to claim to be the reincarnation of Prime himself, and begin recruiting followers. More likely, several clones will attempt this gambit, creating factions with names like The True Followers of Prime and The Glorious Servants of Prime. These factions will go to war with each other in service of their Prime (honourable, redeeming) against the enemy’s Prime (evil, destructive). As time goes on, these factions’ ideas about Prime’s teachings will diverge, providing new opportunities for conflict. If they’re allowed to go on long enough, probably some benign and progressive versions of Prime’s cult will emerge, teaching that Prime in fact existed to bring peace and freedom to the Universe, and that those warlike factions have strayed from the true path of Prime.
All of this gives the people in charge of Etheria a headache. Etheria doesn’t believe in retributive justice, and as brainwashed cult members, the clones have diminished responsibility for war crimes they committed while Prime was alive. So it’s fair to say they can’t kill them. But they also can’t just ship them all off to live unsupervised in a colony somewhere in case they radicalise each other and start another war. Sure, some of them will follow Wrong Hordak into accepting that Prime lied to them, and they will find meaning by travelling the universe, attempting to restore planets Prime destroyed. Some, like Hordak, will give themselves names and begin the agonising process of creating an identity for themselves outside of everything they ever thought was true. But what of the rest of them? They’re essentially adult children, ignorant of everything Prime did not want them to know. They also trigger PTSD flashbacks in a great many citizens of Etheria, who cannot look at them without remembering what they suffered under the Horde.
What do you do with that many brainwashed survivors? What does compassion and restorative justice demand? I don’t know if I’ll get around to writing this as a fic or not, so here’s the setup and you can let your imaginations take it where you like.
I’m new to tumblr and to the spop fandom, so if you read this far I’d really appreciate a reblog. And if anyone else has already had similar ideas, I’d really like to read them.
Continuing my collab with the awesome Draculadana on IG. Original post here. (In spite of some similarities, this does not pertain to my Galactic Horde/Light-Bringer AU.)
Horde Prime has summoned his second-in-command Hordak and Hordak’s two Generals to send legions of clones into space conquest. Armored and armed, he will oversee the brethren upon the battlefield. Two attendants are accompanying him everywhere, ready to serve refreshments. They’re however a little surprised at his vehemence. Hordak cannot contain his eagerness to prove himself as a powerful leader and warrior to Prime.
The setting is a (different) Galactic Horde AU before Hordak’s banishment. Prime’s costume and some of the motifs were inspired by Thranduil and LOTR’s elvish designs. Hordak’s armor was adapted from some of my older drawings. Further inspiration has been gained from Masters of the Universe, especially Hordak’s earlier incarnations. We gave him a tech-saber as a symbol of the highest rank to distinguish him from the Generals. Equally their armor and taard s will bear different hues, once colored.