>>115403477>Telling kids that you abused that it was "to toughen them up" is literally textbook child abuser behavior, an easy justification. It's also what she actually believes, because she is a self-hating narcissist that internalized that exact philosophy to explain to herself why she is how she is.
She flat out threatened to murder Catra when the kid was ten or possibly younger, along the lines of "I only allow you around because Adora cares about you, but if you drag her down I will end you."
Because she would. Adora always takes priority because SW views Adora as her "project", and her successes are SW's successes. If Catra brought down Adora that would injure her SW's fragile ego and that is an unacceptable transgression. SW is largely just full of threats and cruelty, but I agree in that instance she would murder or at least disown the cat.
>Because Adora and Catra TOGETHER decided to look in SW's quarters while she was out.That was actually Catra's idea. There's no way SW would have known that, but that is actually how the scene plays out
>She didn't threaten to kill Catra out of "tough love," she didn't steal credit for Catra's prom caper to "toughen her up," she didn't belittle the kid at every turn because "the world is harsh," she did it because she was a selfish piece of shit.She did it because of exactly what she said in
>>115397066: mediocre people shouldn't have it easy in life. She views herself as mediocre, and views Catra as much like herself, and because she's a psycho full of self loathing, she takes out her rage on the kitty and explains it as "well my life sucked so should yours", which she's internalized so deeply she genuinely believes it.
>Goddamn, don't make me hate SW by being a psycho that thinks she did nuffin wrong.She literally is. That's her whole character. She's meant to be a picture of what Catra could have become. "It's too late for me, but your story is just beginning" was her acknowledging that.
