#i like the idea of shadowwhore attempting to be a good parent at SOME point and slowly giving up

[blonde-and-cat-suc]

11. siblings

rating: M 

wc: 996

cw/tw: incest, c//a, canon shippings, glimmer curses lol 

desc: Glimmer and Scorpia talk about the legitimacy of Catra and Adora’s relationship. The first one. 

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“I’ve never had a sister!” Scorpia’s eyes are as bright as her exoskeleton. It had been buffed the day before, and today Glimmer was taking the time to polish the scuffed, jagged patches of her pincers that had been earned during battle. This was as close to polishing her “nails” as she was going to get.

Glimmer gave the gentlest of smiles. She hadn’t a sister either. Having one wouldn’t have been desirable when she was younger. If she remembered correctly, her mother and father’s attention was the most valuable thing to a young, restless Glimmer. Sharing that attention with the Kingdom of Bright Moon was already unsatisfying. Having a sibling probably would have made it worse.

But she was an adult now. There was something incredibly special about the way she and Scorpia gossiped about the rest of the Princesses, went shopping in the village, discussed the latest fashion trends, and pitted their outfits against each other... They even shared clothes sometimes. Scorpia’s dresses flowed around Glimmer’s ankles, and Scorpia found great interest in the clusters of jewelry piled in Glimmer’s vanities, most of them long-forgotten gifts from various kingdoms.

At the moment, Glimmer was wearing Scorpia’s favorite texture of lipstick, matte black. The smoothest, non-smudging lipstick in all of Etheria. In turn, two sparkling, heavy diamonds dangle off of Scorpia’s ears. Where they were from was a mystery, though if they asked Micah, he would probably remember.

Glimmer takes great care in brushing away at the sharp, blade-like ridges of Scorpia’s pincer. “If I did have a sister back then, we would have never got along!” She truly could not imagine her younger self running her fingers against a huge, powerful scorpion claw to polish it, nor could she imagine admitting that she felt some kinship to her former enemy. “I’m glad we are.”

“Me too!” Scorpia nods. “I wonder why Adora and Catra just didn’t stay sisters. It seems really fun!”

...

What?

“Huh?” Glimmer’s form tenses up.

Did she mishear?

Scorpia blinks her dark eyes, as innocent as a deer. “Having a sister seems fun?”

“No! What you said before that.”

“’I wonder why Adora and Catra didn’t stay sisters...?’ “

Glimmer’s lip curls. She can’t control it. Sometimes Scorpia says the strangest things without realizing it. But this one is very strange. Adora and Catra are married. It was like suggesting she and Bow were brother and sister at one point. She explains this to Scorpia as patiently as she can, biting back the sigh in her voice. “They were never sisters”, Glimmer finished, shaking her head. “Always just friends.”

Silence falls over them. It seems like Scorpia was still processing Glimmer’s tangent. Glimmer moves on to Scorpia’s next pincer, setting a neat dollop of polish on the very base where her skin met the armor. She began brushing it across the rough blades, but Scorpia squirms, ruining the even spread of polish.

“Are you okay?” Glimmer narrows her eyes. She didn’t like her perfectly good work taking any longer than it had to.

“If Adora’s mother is Shadow Weaver...” Scorpia’s tail twists behind her in thought. “And Catra was also raised by Shadow Weaver...”

“Everyone was raised by Shadow Weaver!” Glimmer retorts.

“Nope.” Scorpia tips her head to one side. “I wasn’t. Lots of us weren’t.”

At this, Glimmer frowns. It was almost too easy to forget that Scorpia had once been a Horde soldier. She was present for even the smallest of Horde-based offenses. The Fright Zone Princess had a good point there.

“They aren’t related...” Glimmer replies, unsure if this was a valid point like Scorpia’s was. “Not even the same species.”

“I don’t know if that takes away from the bond. The first one.”

She finishes with Scorpia’s pincers, and it was time to move onto her own fingertips. They changed the topic, waiting for Scorpia’s polish to dry.

They talk a little bit about Bow. A little bit about Perfuma. A little bit about how they were going to let their children have playdates with each other on weekdays. "Auntie Scorpia" enjoyed babysitting for Glimmer and Bow. Sometimes it was unclear if the playdates were for the children or for Scorpia.

When Scorpia’s huge pincer held a nail polish wand (for human fingers), she quirked her brow. “They used to take baths together.”

“Can you drop this already?” Glimmer wiggles her fingers and rolls her eyes. 

“I can’t!” Scorpia protests. “I know you think I’m dumb or something right now, but I swear to God I thought they were sisters in the Fright Zone.”

“You’re not dumb. Just...” Glimmer wrinkles up her nose. “Why do you know if they used to take baths together or not?”

“Before little cadets went on puberty rampages...” Scorpia lowers her voice as if embarrassed to be talking about this, though there was no one else around to hear. “You know, like... They start...”

“Having sex.” Glimmer urges. “I got it. What about that?”

“I was going to say start getting acne!” Scorpia’s skin flushes. “But yes, before that, we all took showers in the same bathroom.”

“Right! Okay, so what then? Everyone bathed together.”

“Everyone showered together”, Scorpia corrects. “No, siblings would take a bath. Shadow Weaver would prepare them baths.”

“Like... A good commanding officer?”

“Like a good mother.”  Scorpia furrows her brows. “But from what I hear about her, it seems like she was only ever good at keeping her daughters in line.”

“God-fucking-damn it! Don’t say daughters, that’s so gross!”

“Sisters?”

Glimmer reaches her hands up, ignoring that she might smudge the pink polish dripping from her fingertips. “Shhh! Stop talking about this! They’re married. They’re having a baby. Don’t ruin it for me!”

Scorpia purses her lips. She slides her gaze away. “Okay, yeah, sure. We don’t have to talk about it.”

“Okay. Thank you.”

“But it’s still there.”

“Well...” Glimmer closes her eyes and holds out her hand. “It’s going to have to stay there. It’s too late to do anything about it. The only thing left to do now is to finish my nails, please? Thanks.”

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#scorpia and glimmer having a sister relationship? BIG BRAIN #canon divergence piece #sister!c//a #i imagine that glimmer and scorpia are still going to talk about it eventually #mariposa fics #in which scorpia is the anti fandom and glimmer is the rest of the fandom #headcanons about cat and blonde and shadowwhore pre-show #i like the idea of shadowwhore attempting to be a good parent at SOME point and slowly giving up #i only wish there was some other explanation as to why she adopted catra? #i might write about that later #anti c//a