Adora (She-Ra)

**Adora**, also known as **She-Ra**, is the main protagonist of the *She-Ra and the Princess of Power* series.

A fierce member of the Rebellion, Adora is an orphan who was raised by the evil Horde and believed they were doing good, but when she discovers a magic sword that transforms her into She-Ra, a mythical warrior princess, Adora learns the truth and becomes driven to fight the Horde. She finds a new surrogate family in the Rebellion and unites a group of magical princesses in the ultimate fight against evil.

In the TWA fics, Adora debuted in the Twisted World Animania - She-Ra and the Princess of Power.

## **Appearance**

Adora has dark blonde hair, bluebell eyes, and narrow brown eyebrows, she has athlete body physics, wears a long-sleeved white turtleneck with pointed sleeves, and red accents (one of which being the Horde symbol on her back, removed after she defects to the Rebellion). Usually worn over her shirt is a red jacket with quarter length sleeves, and a popped beige collar (until she defects, she wears the Force Captain Badge). She also wears gray pants and a brown belt with a Horde buckle, which is later replaced with a golden wing, a symbol of her newfound Rebellion allegiance.

As She-Ra, she has a long, wavy/straight light blonde hair and light blue eyes. She also has a thin golden crown with two wings on each side, and a red jewel in the center, and solid, golden arm cuffs. She wears a white dress with golden, a six-pointed flower embroidered on the chest, divided by a golden seam that splits the bodice from collar to belt. At the center of the flower sits an oval azure gemstone. Her sleeves are golden, pointed pauldrons that stand of their own accord. The aforementioned seam blends into the gold trim of her uniform collar and ends when it reaches the apex of her thick golden belt, creating a V-shaped belt at her waist. Her white ruffled skirt, which begins under the belt, is open at the front revealing a pair of white, skin-tight shorts striped with a thick golden line on the outside of each thigh. She-Ra also wears knee-high athletic white and aqua boots, with gold soles and accents. She completes her ensemble with a knee-length red cape. She is also about 8 feet tall, taller than many of the other characters.

## **Personality**

Adora is a brave, competitive and noble warrior and is true to her own values, she's very strong as it's seen in arm-wrestling match where she beats well build and strong-arm wrestler, Sea Hawk. She is shown to be a leader in every group she joins. Realizing what the Horde has done to innocent Etherians, she makes a major life decision (to leave the Horde). Reluctantly, she is willing to lose her lifelong friend, Catra, in order to remain true to her values.

Despite making the decision to leave the Horde, Adora has been shown to be most comfortable following rules and sticking to plans. She is not entirely socially competent, having been raised in a military environment, and therefore is typically very blunt and always prefers to be prepared for battle. She is also shown to be unaware of certain familial terms like 'Aunt'.

Adora's heroic deeds, power, and positivity begin to grow as she and her friends continue to battle the Evil Horde. She suffers from occasional clumsiness sometimes, especially when trying to control her powers and weaponry, or trying to bond with Swift Wind, and struggles with pressure when discussing the allies' strike plan in the war tent. Despite all this, Adora/She-Ra works to overcome her fear and become a powerful warrior to save Etheria from tyranny.

## **Abilities**

### **Powers**

* **Powers via the Sword of Protection**:
	+ **Transformation**: Using the Sword of Protection, Adora can transform into the legendary warrior She-Ra. Described by Mermista as being eight-feet tall, Adora becomes much taller and more muscular when transformed into She-Ra. Her hair also becomes longer and a much lighter shade of blonde. Finally, Adora's clothes are transformed into She-Ra's costume.
	+ Adora can also transform the sword into any form (Season Two and onward). Some include, a shield, a flute, and a cup.
		- **Superhuman Strength**: Adora is incredibly strong as She-Ra, being able to easily lift alder and punch dents into Horde tanks with very little effort. Even without She-Ra powers Adora is very strong which can be seen when she win in arm wrestling match against well build, strong Sea Hawk who himself is a excellent wrestler.
		- **Superhuman Agility**: Adora is shown to be able to make incredible leaps while transformed.
		- **Healing Powers**: According to Perfuma, She-Ra is said to possess powerful healing abilities. The first time Adora successfully performed this ability as She-Ra was when she restored Plumeria with the very same machine the Horde used to poison the land as the conduit, reversing the damage. Later, Shadow Weaver guides Adora into being able to heal her using the runestone housed in She-Ra's sword.
	+ **Animal Transformation**: Energy from the sword's Runestone is shown to mutate animals. The only known (followed\*) instance of this was accidental and resulted in a common horse becoming intelligent as well as giving it wings and a magical connection to Adora. (\*She has also transformed a reptile in Plumeria, but its whereabouts are unknown.)
	+ **Energy Blast**: Adora is shown to be able to project rainbow-colored energy that was able to cause damage to a nearby tree. She is also seen to be able to do this through the sword.
	+ **Aura Generation**: When united with the other Princesses, Adora can generate an aura that greatly increases her power. Her aura manifests in white.

### **Skills**

* **Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Even before finding the Sword, Adora was an incredibly skilled combatant as a result of her cadet training with the Horde. She was able to complete her training in record time.
* **Navigation and Survival**: Using materials in the Crimson Waste, Adora was able to find the right way to go.
* **Leadership**: Adora has been shown to be a competent leader, capable of coordinating her allies and develop strategies.
* **Indomitable Will**

### **Weakness**

* **First Ones Artifact/Corrupted Virus**: If the sword is infected directly with the Data Disk when she is She-Ra, she enters a berserk state, acting violent and being incapable of differentiating friend or foe (to the point of throwing Bow, Glimmer, and Sea Hawk to the void and coming extremely close to killing Catra). This state can only be stopped by keeping She-Ra's sword away from Adora and destroying the Data Disk - Adora doesn't remember what happened during her time of being corrupted once the sword is taken away, and she remains in a compromised state often compared to being inebriated for a period of time.

### **Equipment**

* **The Sword of Protection**: As the current She-Ra, Adora wields the Sword of Protection which allows her to transform into She-Ra and access her powers. She destroys the sword at the end of Season 4.

## **Trivia**

* Promotional images released in the lead up to the Season One premiere caused a massive stir on the Internet. The images in question were of Adora transformed as She-Ra. The accusation was that the crew were attempting to de-feminize Adora by giving her a more modest costume with shorts and overall reducing the design from the 80s' sex appeal.
* Adora doesn't even try to hide the fact that she and She-Ra are the same person and everyone, including her enemies, know this. When transformed, She-Ra's personality is the same.
* Adora's astrological sign is Capricorn, also known as the horned goat.
* Adora was seen to sleep with a knife under her pillow. Furthermore, she dislikes having her weapons taken away from her as seen in "Princess Prom".
* As of Season 4, Adora is the only character to appear in all the episodes of the series.
* Adora is only one of two people on Etheria who are not from Etheria, the other is Hordak.
* Adora is the second She-Ra to use the Sword of Protection, Mara was the first.
* In the original version she was brainwashed into being a member of the Horde, in this version she's technically willing, though she was lied to by the Horde's propaganda, and has a genuine heel realization.

## **External Links**

* Adora at She-Ra and the Princess of Power Wiki