Light Hope - Permanently Delete
Anyone else notice how Light Hope never brought up activating the Black Garnet to Adora, and instead remained focused on combat training? Something that was, at best, extremely incidental to her programming's goals?
Like, in Season 1 you can argue there's an element of placating Adora - that Light Hope is training her because otherwise Adora was just going to tantrum and leave - but by Season 4?
By Protocol, Adora is bored and frustrated, and is actively seeking the First Ones' secret weapon.
And yet Light Hope remains vague about 'balancing Etheria', implying that more She-Ra training is needed to achieve that goal.
Except, y'know, it isn't.
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Adora getting better at fighting isn't going to activate the Black Garnet, the one piece of the Heart that's actually missing.
Once all the channels are open, it doesn't matter what state the Horde or the Rebellion are in, and Adora's competence (or, indeed, her concious compliance) is entirely irrelevant.
So why didn't Light Hope push Adora to capture the Garnet?
And why did she use Glimmer to that end? What changed?
Well.
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Of all the characters in this show, Light Hope is the one most explicitly bound by Fate. For all that she is more than what she was made to be, she is unable to abandon the Castle and the Heart, or stop searching for a new She-Ra. She cannot so flagrantly deny her programming.
But she could frustrate and circumvent it, driven by a secret memory of warmth.
She could slow walk her search for the next She-Ra, modifying the parameters to ensure the most unsuitable candidate possible.
She could 'accidentally' place them somewhere where she might never be able to reach them.
She could waste time on pointless trivialities and parlour tricks, things that are ultimately irrelevant to the Heart's true purpose.
And, of course, she could mis-order the steps, requiring the planet to be 'balanced' before revealing how that could be done.
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Light Hope's distant, high-handed, frustrating bullshit is not malice, or an expression of her intrinsically inhuman nature - it is a form of protection.
Her attempts at creating a new She-Ra are ineffective, not because she is incompetent, but because in her deepest, most secret of hearts, she does not want to succeed.
Until, of course, that resistance is discovered - and crushed.
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[But not completely, not forever - because in the end there is always, always a choice]
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