Characters from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power fanfic World War Etheria by Keel. Be warned, this page contains unmarked spoilers for She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
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Main Characters/Starlight Brigade
In General
While on opposite sides for most of the fic they receive the same amount of focus as they did in the source material.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: They're an extended family unit at the end.
- Determinators: All of them, with Etheria caught in the middle.
- Oblivious to Love: All of them to an extent, Hordak realizing that Entrapta's love is enough, Catra and Adora feelings for each other until about Book 5, Bow and Glimmer even.
Adora
The leader of the brigade
- The Ace: Like canon, she is regarded as one of the best fighters and strategists in the series.
- Adaptational Intelligence: This version of Adora is far more knowledgeable about maintenance and tactics than her canon-self. She also decides to arm herself before going back to the Whispering Woods, declaring only an idiot would go into unfamiliar territory unprepared.
- Badass Teacher: Single-handedly updates the Bright Moon army and later the entire alliance despite just being a non-com in the Horde, mind you she did go to military school before enlisting.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Not usually, but she can alter her She-Ra form to be so if she wants.
- Clingy MacGuffin: When she finds the sword, it transforms into a bracelet around Adora's wrist and she can't take it off. The idea of just cutting it off is immediately shot down.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: Has a hard time reading non-first one script due to dyslexia.
- Semi-Divine: She-Ra's status as this is made abundantly clear, called this in-story from the beginning with later examples of her powers including resurrecting blasted corpses and fighting entire Astrys of spaceships without tiring.
- It's All My Fault: When you have healing powers wouldn't you consider it a failure if you didn't do everything you could about preventable deaths?
- Martyr Without a Cause: Has high standards which can grind even herself down trying to meet them, driving herself ragged in training, going on a mission without full supplies, and healing a cholera outbreak to the point of exhaustion.
- Never Learned to Read: Adora's training in the Horde didn't include teaching her to read. Her dyslexia doesn't help.
- Powered Armor: One of many forms the Aegis can take.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Part of what gets Adora to defect is seeing the flagrant violation of the very ethos she was taught the horde subscribed to. This opens the door for Bow and Glimmer to recruit her to the Alliance.
- Their First Time: With Glimmer during chapter 11.
Bow
Ranger and academic.
- Ace Pilot: The main driver of the swift wind when it gets unearthed, unlike in canon he can navigate planetary ring systems without colliding with them.
- Adaptational Sexuality: Unlike canon, he is confirmed to be bi.
- Hereditary Homosexuality: Discussed. Bow, at one point, admits that he though since he had two dads, he himself was gay. He's at least bi, so he wasn't too far off the mark.
- Really Gets Around: A lot, had a few boyfriends, a genuine crush on Seahawk, dated Perfuma and ends up with Glimmer.
- Renaissance Man: Slots easily into this definition, on top of having an academic family background Adora mentally notes that his natural woodcraft would have seen him rapidly promoted to a specialist in a modern army like the Horde.
- The Social Expert: Highlighted in this version, Bow is the diplomat of the group and keeps things copacetic. He's the one that gets Entrapta to help the group.
Catra
Strategist and officer material and scared girl.
- Adaptational Badass: While canon Catra was a decent leader and very intelligent, part of the reason she got to be Force Captain was due to Adora leaving. Here, she obtained the rank of Sargent all on her own before Adora defects and is even called by Prime the real conqueror of Etheria.
- Always Second Best: Like canon, she was raised as this to Adora. The first chapter notes notes how Catra is always a step behind Adora in terms of performance.
- Amazon Chaser: She quickly starts a relationship with the very muscular Scorpia and is clearly attracted to Adora in part due to her badassery.
- An Arm and a Leg: She lost an arm after Glimmer accidentally cut it off.
- Cat Girl: She's a humanoid cat woman.
- Cats Hate Water: Like canon, she hates getting wet.
- Composite Character: While she is mostly based off of the 2018 version, she also shares her 1998 self's promiscuity, flirting with people if she thinks it will help her get what she wants.
- Covert Pervert: Admitted to reading a lot of books about sex after hearing about people hype it up so much.
- Crush Blush: She blushed a lot when she was aroused by Scorpia.
- Cyborg: She becomes one as a result of being experimented on by Entrapta to remain able-bodied after being injured in combat.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Justified as she is a lesbian. She has knocked boots with Scorpia and Glimmer and ends up with Adora.
- Expressive Ears: Mentioned to be cute and an obvious tell of her emotional state. Entrapta recognizes them as part of her emoting which is why they're included on the helmet.
- Eye Scream: She loses her eye in a bungled suicide attempt.
- Friends with Benefits: Enters this relationship with Scorpia.
- Furry Reminder: It happens, like purring when she's happy.
- Natural Weapon: Her weapons are her claws and teeth. Even after becoming a cyborg, these are her main weapons.
- Pragmatic Pansexuality: Catra may be strictly gay, but her attempt to preform sexual favors with Tongue Lashor shows she isn't above sleeping with men if she thinks it will benefit her.
- Sex for Solace: Enters a relationship with Scorpia to relieve the stress of her job and Adora leaving.
- Sexy Cat Person: She acts like a typical Femme Fatale and Scorpia, Glimmer and Adora have all shown to be attracted to her.
- The Strategist: Made clear here, Catra may have mental health issues but she is amazingly clear-eyed on larger strategy and doctrine.
- The Unchosen One: She bucks all the magical destiny stuff solely meant for Adora to stand on an even footing with her throughout the series regularly coming up with strategies to counter the princesses' magic. It also nets her the ability to become Melog as she just happened to be at the right time and place.
Unmarked Spoilers for book 5
- Celestial Body: All melogs can manifest a version of this, Catra's black hair becomes a window into a starfield.
- Semi-Divine: Melog's status as this is equally clear, able to interfere with all magics at an unprecedented scale. Fix damage to the soul and imprison divine entities older than planets.
- Floating Limbs: Uses her own severed limbs as this, first making them invisible first, it plays like telekinesis though the hand can still get destroyed.
- The Sacred Darkness: Melog's powers derive in part from this, while other magic users can use darkness as well Melog has supremacy. Even when if they're more powerful than her Melog will be largely immune to any effects as long as they're shadow-based.
- Shadow Walker: Has powerful command of darkness that lets her use it to teleport virtually any distance on top of it serving as Hammerspace for various items. Glimmer can still outmatch her accuracy wise.
- Super-Strength: She eventually becomes strong enough to deadlift 2 tons.
Entrapta
Tech savant and stateswoman.
- Better Off with the Bad Guys: Starts the fic with them in fact and is living her best life, once condemned to beast island her entire mission is essentially to get back to them.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: Downplayed. Has a legitimate neurodivergence as in canon but it's front and center here, it gets in the way of her enjoying life and socializing which is also explored.
- Feeling Their Age: Instead of being in her late twenties she's in her late thirties near forties and she has not been taking care of herself at all, long nights, poor nutrition and no exercise regime will do that.
- Happily Married: Entrapta has an excellent lab partner in Hordak and completely overhauled the technological base of the horde. They’re nonsexually intimate but they're still affectionate.
- Pining After Protagonist's Parent: Hits it off with Damara which causes Entrapta guilt as she's striving to make sure she isn't a widow.
- Prematurely Grey-Haired: Showcases how hard she's working despite being the first lady of an advanced nation she is still heading several important R&D departments.
- Robosexual: A major aspect of her character, Catra takes note of the literal flirting Entrapta does with the replicator she brings her in book 2. Another reason she likes Damara given she's a personified ancient spaceship.
Glimmer
Princess and commander, magician and heart of the rebellion.
- Big Beautiful Woman: She a bit plump like canon, and is considered attractive.
- Blinded by the Light: Her sparkles have this effect.
- Flashy Teleportation: Every time she teleports herself or others she leaves behind a sparkly silhouette.
- Good Is Not Soft: Glimmer is not above using her powers to deliver lethal attacks and threatens to teleport the blood out of Sweet Bee's body at one point.
- Growing Wings: Her wings grow much larger after she is healed by She-Ra.
- Ideal Illness Immunity: Her mother's side of the family grants her this.
- In the Blood: She's a genius when it comes to magic, like her father before her, she even outpaces him when she gets back from a trip to space where she reconstructed the theory of magic from first principles.
- Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality: Comments by the author point to Glimmer being a sniper rifle as opposed to a cluster bomb. While unable to transport a massive amount of stuff like people or goods or ships she is incredibly precise, fast and controlled in what she can do. This is on top of making use of Lethal Harmless Powers where she can thanks to her own creativity.
- Lethal Harmless Powers: Oh yes she can kill people easily with teleportation powers, soil in the lung or air into the brain, people don't need all their limbs right?
- Magi Babble: The main spouter of this in her collaborations with Entrapta and when discussing larger theory, she goes out of her way to describe how they're making a platform for an airshaft that goes through a planet's core.
- Mundane Utility: Used a few times to transport various objects she needs, from guns to keys to important documents. Her magic staff too of course.
- Portal Cut: She does this to Catra's arm after losing control of her powers.
- Really Gets Around: Gets together with Adora, Bow and Catra over the course of the series and talks about her attraction to them in quiet moments.
- Rebellious Princess: Downplayed but she's still the fiercely independent Glimmer we know, her capturing of Adora was explicitly outside her mission brief and she regularly goes off-mission to do what she thinks is right.
- The Red Mage: Combines eutherian and runestone magic and can diagnose other magic almost on the spot. She even learns how to use her sparkles to create Anti-Magic glyphs capable of disabling capital starships!
- So Long, Suckers!: Fitting with her mischievous personality, Glimmer isn't above taunting opponents as she teleports away.
- Teleporter's Visualization Clause: Discussed but she's superlative at visualization, part of what makes her excellent at magic, so she's not hampered by it. She's called one of the most powerful moonstone wielder in generations.
- Their First Time: With Bow of course, turns out it happened when they were teenagers.
- Weight Woe: Inverted. Unlike most examples, it's losing weight that's the problem. She dislikes that the weight that she's losing from stress is making her muscles more prominent, thinking she looks too manly.
- Winged Humanoid: She has pink feathered wings. Yet unlike her mother's wings, they're so tiny that it would be easy to mistake them for tattoos. They do grow after Adora restores her powers though.
Hordak
The de jure advisor but defacto ruler of the hoarde.
- Adaptational Intelligence: You can believe this is the man who led a society through an industrial revolution socially technologically and culturally. He's published several well-received books on politics which everyone seems to have read even if they're long-winded.
- Birds of a Feather: Entrapta and he have complementary approaches in science and built the horde together, the fight against prime gets a huge boost once these lab partners are together because they collaborate easily
- Happily Married: Hordak has someone who can keep up with him in Entrapta and owes his health to her invention and discoveries.
- Just the First Citizen: Officially he's just chancellor Hordak at the beginning. It changes when he has to deal with coups and-anti coups by various cabals.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Hordak is a stand-out example in a work that focuses on the fashion of an alternate world, pretty much every outfit character designer Rae Geiger made for him is included, from dresses to tuxedos and more.
- Trapped in Another World: The author outright calls him an Isekai protagonist and he hits many of the benchmarks; found love reshaped a society around himself where he holds a privileged position, has powerful outside knowledge and goals he works towards. Check, check and check.
Etherian Factions
Alliance
In General
- Amazon Brigade: Unsurprisingly, the princess alliance is mostly made up of women.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Everyone has a color scheme to set them apart.
- Elemental Powers: Each of the princesses connected to a Runestone has some form of elemental magic that they wield in battle: Glimmer has her sparkles, Perfuma controls the earth and plants, Mermista can move water, Frosta can conjure ice Huntara can move rocks and Scorpia can shoot lightning. Spinnerella can also manipulate the air.
- Power Crystal: Nearly all the princesses draw power from their kingdom's central Runestone.
Perfuma
Princess of Plumeria and ally of She-Ra.
- Adaptational Gender Identity: She is confirmed trans here.
- Botanical Abomination:
- Perfuma makes multiple examples of these during the war, compared to the show it showcases how terrifying an opponent she is.
- They first début in the Rescue Arc for Bow and Glimmer, comparable to Megafauna in size, form, and appetite. She starts making more and more as the war heats up.
- After showcasing her ability to create explosive gases Adora gives her the idea to go for quantity over quality and makes thousands of little critters that run-up to armored vehicles and detonate.
- In the war against Prime she makes an out and out War form, which is called a dragon several times, it makes her an equal to any moonstone princess.
- Fungi Are Plants: The Heartblossom lets its wielder (Perfuma) influence plants and some fungi as well.
- Garden Garment: She often wears such clothes during events. She also uses them to get into places that are to dangerous to enter without special gear, like sewers.
- Green Thumb: The powers her gemstone gives her is plant manipulation once again.
- Imagination-Based Superpower: She has shown the ability to make weapons and suits out of plants.
- Incompatible Orrientation: Admits the reason she broke up with Bow is because she prefers women.
- Make-Out Kids: Enters this relationship with Scorpia.
- Pink Means Feminine: A flower-loving pacifist with Green Thumb powers who primarily wears pink.
- Plant People: She's half-dryad.
- Related in the Adaptation: Seneschal is her elder half-brother here.
- Token Minority: She's the only confirmed trans-princess among the rebellion members.
- Token Religious Teammate: She is portrayed as a religious priestess here and holds religious meetups and Plumera.
Sea Hawk
Prince Consort of the Thalassocracy of Salenis.
- Adaptational Skill: The major difference between Sea Hawk here and his canon counterpart is his ability to back up his claims. He has a legitimate claim to being Pirate King when an emergency rears its head he takes command smoothly and efficiently.
- Pirate King: Is literally this having been able to marry Empress Mermista as a near equal, his armada was a major asset in rebuilding the Salenis military following their war with Candilla while the marriage legitimized his navy.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Averted he's had a lot of work to do.
Mermista
Empress of Salineas.
- Action Mom: Became a mother to a child she named Adora and a water mage.
- Making a Splash: Her Runestone grants her water manipulation abilities.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Sunk Octavia's ship when she attacked Salineas.
- Water Is Womanly: She has water manipulation abilities and is female.
Castaspella
Sister of Micah and sorcerous of Mystacor.
- Adaptational Sexuality: Here she's explicitly gay and has a relationship Juliet.
- Amazon Chaser: Her hook-ups are Shadow Weaver, a powerful sorcerous and Juliet, a general in the rebellion.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: She's Micah's older sister here.
Juliet
Captain of the royal guard.
- Adaptation Expansion: She is far more important than her canon-self.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Ends up dating Castaspella.
- Bodyguarding a Badass: Assigned as Glimmer's bodyguard to keep an eye on her.
- Number Two: Effectively becomes one to Glimmer over time.
Peekablue
- Adaptational Job Change: In the original series, he's a hermit. Here, he's a king.
Sweet Bee
- Bee People: She's a bee humanoid.
Huntara
A former member of the Horde and the wielder of the earth runestone.
- Amazonian Beauty: Every bit as muscular and attractive as canon.
- Butch Lesbian: She's incredibly jacked and married to Melissa.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Gains this power upon connecting to her Runestone.
- Happily Married: To Melissa.
Horde
Shadow Weaver
Evil sorcerous and child abuser.
- Abusive Mom: Played straight and Discussed. She manipulated Adora and Catra and really messed them up but she also protected them and thought them things they needed to know. The emotional pain of having someone who's such a formative figure in your life being abusive is acknowledged.
- Adaptational Sexuality: Tumbled Castaspella for the hell of it decades ago and hits on various bartenders when she gets very drunk.
- Ambition Is Evil: Well more sociopathy but she went to the horde because she wanted her independence and more which was a major part of why she sought out the horde and then Adora. She wants to live.
- The Dragon: Like canon, she was this to Hordak before Catra overthrew her.
- Evil Versus Evil: She’s largely Amoral more than anything else so she’s copacetic with fighting Prime alongside her former Alliance enemies.
- Eye Scream: She sacrificed her eye to save Angella from the void.
- Lesser of Two Evils: Like canon, even after all she's done, she is still less evil than Prime.
- Mentor Archetype: Like canon, she is one to Micah, Adora, Catra and later Glimmer.
- Power at a Price: In serious matters, she can actually sacrifice parts of her body to get the needed knowledge and power.
- The Sociopath: The author describes Shadow Weaver as a cut and dry sociopath even if in story its acknowledged she had a very hard life previously.
- Squishy Wizard: She's a long range fighter and goes down pretty quickly when she's hit.
- Time Stop: One of the abilities she can pull out when needed, and an example of Cast from Lifespan though so she uses it sparingly.
- Token Evil Teammate: Just like canon, after joining the rebellion.
- Tracking Spell: She preformed one to find Adora after she is first separated from the Horde.
- Wicked Witch: She was a powerful, evil Horde witch that uses her powers to harm others.
- Willfully Weak: Actually this past the book 3 healing Adora gives her, SW talks up how powerful Micah is she's able to match him even after he gets a Deadly Upgrade. She's definitely powerful but is equally good at manipulation and started to lean on that when magic use threatened her life post-obtainer. Later she fights Prime to a standstill when he has the power of the Heart of Etheria behind him.
Scorpia
The Horde princess.
- Amazon Chaser: Scorpia admits her attraction to Catra is due to how badass she is.“Have I ever told you just how cool it is when you’re like that? Just all whu-pow! Ass-kicking! Taking names!”
- Birds of a Feather: Naturally bonds with Perfuma due to how friendly and peaceful they are.
- Cuddle Bug: She is, as ever, a hugger.
- Garden Garment: Wears a dress made of this after Perfuma made her one.
- Make-Out Kids: Ends up in this relationship with Perfuma in book 5.
- Nominal Villain: Like canon, she isn't really a villain, just following her family legacy.
- The Paralyzer: Her tail injects paralyzing venom.
- Relationship Upgrade: Hooks up with Catra quickly by chapter 11. She hooks up with Perfuma after being freed from Horde Prime's control.
- Super-Strength: She is the strongest princess in terms of physical strength.
The other trio
Lonnie, Kyle and Rogelio
- Adaptational Backstory Change: Unlike their originals who were implicitly orphans collected from previous wars and conquests and trained to fight in later ones. Here they had actual parents here and were placed in the war college with Adora and Catra with funding from Shadow Weaver.
- Adaptation Expansion: They join the battle against Horde Prime in this version. Special mention goes to Lonnie stepping up as the leader for the combined resistance.
- Antiquated Linguistics: Rogelio uses a bit of odd word choice that's even older than most alliance members. At least he's understandable here.
- Closest Thing We Got: Part of the reason Lonnie became the leader of the alliance is that she's one of the only members of the alliance with actual military training.
- Polyamory: The three are all dating each other.
- Take Up My Sword: Lonnie steps up as the leader of the alliance in Adora's absence.
Others
Nebularian Roost
- Hero of Another Story: Have been fighting Prime on and off for years and what's more doing so successfully without a way to reverse sanitation.
The Mimic
Double Trouble, who brings nations to their knees, an immortal.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Very much so given their own centuries of experience, it shows that they're not helped by any special powers only that of their vast experience and observational skills.
- Break Them by Talking: Has a talent for this which they showcase against Catra but also the princess alliance when disguised as Flutterina. It's why they hits it off so well with Peekablue, whose runestone lets him do the same thing.
- Deathless and Debauched: Readily admits to being a hedonist and works for the Horde to supply themselves with the comforts they enjoy. They even give away some hints to their fellow immortals on how to deal with eternity.
- Love Redeems: A major part of their character arc is the fact DT falls in love with their intellectual peers.
- No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: This is Double Trouble's main issue with Catra's infiltration mission. They are an excellent saboteur that could well bring nations to their knees, and it's implied they have for Hordak.
- Sex–Face Turn: Downplayed but part of the reason Double Trouble officially joins the rebellion, they were challenged by Peekablue and Sweet Bee. So it was explicitly intellectual intercourse that turned them not the implicit sexual intercourse.
- Shapeshifting Heals Wounds: Can do this unlike their canon counterpart, they're not invulnerable but they can shrug off non-lethal bullet wounds easily.
The Armada's Crown
Horde Prime
- Big Bad: Of the series finale.
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: Justified as he is billennia old at this point has been doing his work for at least a few million years. He deliberately forgot his own origins to protect himself and cover any weaknesses, his home planet is destroyed even.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Of the series as a whole.
- Moral Sociopathy: Genuinely sees himself as the only path to peace in a galaxy torn with strife and chaos he even tries diplomacy with Adora, only really stopping after he kills his host body for the third time.
- More than Mind Control: Subverted as its actual mind control but any sanitized individual bends all their mental faculties to working for Prime. The "control" part is the substitution of core values for Primes own. A major reason they're so much deadlier here than in canon is they have all their ability to independently plan here versus just being functional automatons.
- The Mothership: Prime has two, the canon Velvet Glove which gets a facelift to be a pair of even more elaborate space stations, and the Iron Fist a massive warship that characters think could ram a moon and win.
- Transformation of the Possessed: It seems that taking in Prime’s spirit isn’t enough to mutate a given clone but when he exerts his influence that’s when they start sprouting extra eyes and muscle.
- Villainous Vow: Prime intends to bring peace to the galaxy no matter what and he has unswervingly been carrying this out in all manner of intelligent permutations for eons.
