Adora

Adora
Adora, the current She-Ra, is the co-leader of the Princess Alliance and a member of The Rebellion.

After finding the Sword of Protection, she gains the ability to transform into the Princess of Power - She-Ra.

She was raised as a soldier of the Horde, but after learning that the Horde were actually the villains, she left to join The Rebellion. She later discovered that she is one of the Elemental Princesses.

After defeating Horde Prime once and for all She and her enemy turned girlfriend Catra decide to explore the universe with their friends Bow and Glimmer.

Adora was not born on Etheria, she is who the Etherian's call one of the First Ones.

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's blade at the end of Season 4. In Season five she becomes able to transform without the sword and summon the "true" Sword of She-Ra
 * Staff: In a pre-release clip, Adora is shown destroying a True Horde robot with a staff.
 * Due to the loss of the sword's blade she used a folding staff in season 5

Past:
As Light Hope said in Season 3, Adora is not from Etheria but from another planet called Eternia. Light Hope brought Adora into Etheria by a portal from another place which the First Ones had come from. The First Ones created the Sword of Protection to activate the Heart of Etheria which was built by the First Ones to turn Etheria into a giant weapon. Mara tried to hide the sword from anyone who could wield the sword, she did this to prevent another portal opening back to the First Ones.

After Adora came through the portal, Lord Hordak found her and took her away to become a Horde Soldier. Shadow Weaver, the second-in-command of The Horde, raised her after telling Hordak that she had power, raising her along with Catra and training her to become a child soldier.

Light Hope watched over Adora waiting for the time to present her with the Sword of Protection, which she does in episode 1 of season 1, which is where our story begins

Season 1:
Adora starts as a prodigy Horde soldier, eventually becoming Force Captain, until one day on an excursion with Catra she locates an odd sword, and touching it she receives visions. Although she returns to the Fright Zone, she is drawn back to the sword where she encounters new friends, Glimmer and Bow. They introduce her to parties, and when the Horde attacks the village she is partying at, she makes the choice to take up the mantle of She-Ra and defend them from the Horde, defecting and becoming estranged from Catra.

Pledging herself to Queen Angella and the Rebellion, Adora then sets out to aid the besieged land of Plumeria, encouraging them to fight for themselves and successfully healing their poisoned land. Adora continues to the kingdom of Salineas and the aid of Mermista, repairing the Sea Gate while keeping Catra at bay, who continues to try and return Adora to the Fright Zone. Adora then moves on to Dryl and recruits Entrapta for the Princess Alliance as well, and finishes by recruiting Castaspella of Mystacor by saving them from Shadow Weaver's magic.

At Princess Prom, Adora encounters Catra on neutral ground, and fails to respect the neutrality of the space, angering Frosta, the hostess Adora is attempting to recruit. Catra then kidnaps Glimmer and Bow, leaving Adora alone and without her sword, unable to transform into She-Ra.

Adora rallies other Princesses to mount a rescue mission, and although it is successful Entrapta is left behind, Adora and the rest leave thinking her dead. Glimmer, however, is sick with a curse, and Adora goes to The Beacon to get Light Hope's help to learn healing to save her. There, she encounters Catra and numerous illusions draw forth memories of their past together, always promising to watch out for each other, but their bond cannot be mended and Catra departs. Light Hope insists on Adora serving the entire planet first, however, so Adora refuses to stay and returns to Bright Moon with her friends.

At Bright Moon, the Horde arrives to assail the kingdom and Adora is nearly defeated until numerous Princesses arrive to help, and together they push back the Horde.

Season 2:
Adora continues to train with Light Hope to enhance her martial prowess as She-Ra while staving off the Horde that continues to assail the woods. She along with Bow find themselves in a rut as they struggle to capture one of their robots, and when they do, they realize that Entrapta is alive as First Ones technology has been embedded into the machines, something only she could do.

While Glimmer and Bow handle that, Adora is sent to fix an outpost by Light Hope in order to bring her to full computational capacity. She then continues to Alwyn, where reports of hauntings turn out to be old First Ones communications that were never properly sent, which Adora resolves. Later, Adora struggles to formulate a plan to take a strategic Horde-occupied fortress, but none of her compatriots take her planning seriously. She eventually ends up assaulting the fortress with nothing but improvisation, and the operation is successful.

In the Northern Reach, Adora seeks out an anomalous Horde outpost to stop whatever they are attempting, and end up encountering Catra and Entrapta. Catra uses an old Data Disk of Entrapta's that infects First Ones technology to infect the Sword of Protection, Adora's Sword is part First Ones tech, the infection caused Adora to fly into an indiscriminate rampage until separated from her sword. After Scorpia separated Adora from her sword she became docile and incoherent. Scorpia eventually destroys the disk in order to save Catra from similarly infected First Ones' Snow Monsters, freeing Adora from her stupor as her adversaries flee the area.

It is later revealed, incorrectly, that Adora was brought into the Horde by Hordak when he opened a portal very briefly - it was Light Hope that opened the portal that brought Adora to Etheria. Adora meanwhile helps Bow with a transmission he found, thinking it a message about her past or past She-Ra's. Bow leaves to investigate, but Glimmer and Adora follow, discovering Bow's secret; he has two fathers who believe him to be a historian-in-training at a made up academy. Adora advises him to tell his fathers the truth while they quiz her on her knowledge of First Ones' language,until she accidentally activates another First Ones' elemental. She transforms into She-Ra and holds it off until Bow can deactivate it. Later, with his fathers, they discover that the message Bow found can only be properly heard at the center of the Crimson Waste.

Season 2 ends with Shadow Weaver standing menacingly over Adora's bed.

Season 3:
Adora draws her sword when she senses Shadow Weaver near, who collapses to the ground and is taken into custody. Adora desperately wants to interrogate her, but Angella forbids it and Bow and Glimmer agree, the latter two working together to prevent Adora from doing so until she convinces them otherwise. Now able to enter the room without resistance, Adora does begin to interrogate the ailing Shadow Weaver and eventually reaches a deal to heal her in exchange for knowledge without any lies. Shadow Weaver teachers her to heal, and Adora successfully restores the sorceress to health, after which point Shadow Weaver reveals that Adora is not native to Etheria. Adora runs away in shock.

Flying on Swift Wind, Adora seeks out Light Hope, who confirms that Adora is a First One, stolen from beyond Etheria via portal by Light Hope, something she hid from Adora. Refusing to answer Adora's further questions, Adora sets out on her own to hunt down her lead on Mara in the Crimson Waste. There Adora faces numerous setbacks, but eventually befriends an initially traitorous Huntara, who takes them to the center of the desert to discover Mara's ship.

Listening to a recording of Mara, she explains to Adora that she deliberately cut off Etheria from the rest of the universe, placing it in a completely empty dimension called Despondos with nothing else in it, hence the stars vanishing for Etherians. She begs the future She-Ra not to use the Sword of Protection to open a portal, lest it destroy the planet, but Adora is captured and her sword is taken by Catra shortly after.

Struggling in vain to reach out to Catra, Catra has Adora gagged, bound, and brought before Hordak to have him use the Sword to open a portal to Horde Prime. Adora tries to dissuade Entrapta from opening the portal, mocking Hordak, but despite this and the efforts of other Princesses Catra ends up successfully opening a portal anyway, causing reality to become disjointed.

As a result, Adora suddenly wakes up in a "perfect" illusory reality, back with the Horde in the Fright Zone. Adora does not remember any of the events beyond "The Sword: Part 1", only in this reality she successfully completed the invasion of Thaymor and returned as a war hero. Adora is nonetheless ill at ease, as suppressed memories lurk beneath the surface, and the continuity of this reality is not sound (e.g. time passing without memory of it happening, traversing distances without remembering traveling the intervening space). Adora begins to panic despite the assurances of her peers that all is well, and seeks out Scorpia for help.

Although initially distrusting, Adora manages to convince Scorpia that something is amiss, and eventually they reach Hordak's lab in an attempt to close the reality-altering portal; but it isn't there. Adora loses Scorpia and Lonnie to flickering flashes of light and rifts in reality, but uses advice from Madame Razz to try and set the world aright. Adora knocks out Catra and takes her with her, attempting to save Catra, but Catra lets herself fall into a rift and become corrupted.

Crying, Adora presses on to Bright Moon and makes Glimmer and Bow realize that not all is as perfect as it seems, and together they go to Dryl for Entrapta's help to close the portal and fix reality. Adora learns that someone must be trapped between dimensions in order to do so, and that the disruption in reality is following her, so she leaves the faded Entrapta for The Beacon. There she sees Mara in the flesh, but she quickly vanishes, and then Bow and Glimmer fade as well. Adora breaks down, fights with and defeats a corrupted Catra, and then finds herself falling into the rift in reality even as Catra disintegrates.

Miraculously, Adora is saved by Queen Angella, who had pieced together that this reality was false and recovered her memories. Angella then sacrifices herself to stabilize the portal and return the Sword of Protection to Adora, which she uses to finally resume her form as She-Ra. She emerges from the still-open but now stable portal into a restored reality, and closes it for good with a slash of her sword. Catra and Hordak flee before her, and Shadow Weaver and Glimmer work together to transport her and everyone else back to Bright Moon. There, Adora shares the news of her Mother's sacrifice with Glimmer, and they begin grieving.

Season 4:
In the season premiere, Adora and fellow rebels gather for the coronation of Glimmer as the new Queen of Bright Moon. However, Glimmer is still grieving for her mother Angella, so Adora and Bow agree to cheer her up and try not mention Angella. However during the Quest of Queens in a magic cave under Bright Moon which is a key coronation ritual, Glimmer, Adora and Bow encounter a large slug, which attacks them. When they were cornered Adora finally talked to Gilmmer abut her mother which helps her get herself together. After Glimmer completed the quest they returned to the castle to make Glimmer's ascension to the throne official.

Glimmer gives Adora, Bow Huntra and Perfuma a mission to retrieve Mara's ship from the Crimson Waste.

Adora begins to question Glimmer after she used her as bait during a Horde attack and started studying under Shadow Weaver in the ways of sorcery. Bow tried to get them to reconcile and briefly succeed; but Double Trouble under the guise of Flutterina sabotaged all his efforts.

Adora and Glimmer temporarily put their arguing aside in order lure and trap Double Trouble only for the Shape-Shifter to reveal that they distracted the princesses so the Horde could take control of Salineas.

Glimmer keeps going out on her own without telling anyone much to Adora's chagrin. Adora and Glimmer continued to fight ,because of their inability to agree on how to deal with the Horde to the point were Glimmer blames Adora for her mother's fate which breaks Adora's heart. But before Glimmer could apologize Mermista barged in to inform them that Bow, Sea Hawk and Swift Wind were in trouble. After the guys were rescued from Octavia Adora decides to find out more about the weapon Mara mentioned in an effort to win the war.

Adora goes to Madam Razz and after much effort; she leans the truth about how Mara sacrificed herself to save the planet from the Heart of Etheria.

When she presented her discovery to the Princess Alliance she and Bow declared their plan to disable the super weapon; but Glimmer wanted to use its power to defeat the Horde. During the debate Scopria appeared in front of everyone. While the princesses attacked Scopria and Emily they stopped when Scopria asked for their help to save Entrapta from Beast Island. Glimmer forbade Adora and Bow to go on a rescue mission, so they along with Swift Wind sneak out and use Mara's ship to locate and fly to Beast Island.

When they arrived at Beast Island they encounter Glimmer's father King Micah who is surprisingly still alive. But it during their search for Entrapta; Adora discover's she can't transform into She-Ra. She thinks it's the island interfering with her powers but then finds out it was her own doubts about her ability to stop the Horde and her damaged friendship with Glimmer that prevented from transforming. After she renews her vows to protect Glimmer and everyone she finally becomes She-Ra. After that Entrapta comes to rescue them from multiple monster's with a giant robot she built.

During the season finale Entrapta took Adora and her party to a First Ones' temple at the heart of Beast Island were she discovered the First Ones' plan to use the planet Etheria against their enemies and how She-Ra is the most crucial part. The group sees that the Black Garnet is still offline. It was then that they realized that they needed to hurry back to Bright Moon to stop Glimmer from reactivating the Heart. Entapta resisted at first but change her mind when Adora informed her of the First Ones ship they flew to get to the island. They make it back only to learn from Shadow Weaver that Glimmer had already gone to the Fright Zone with Scorpia.

Adora left Micah at Bright Moon to recuperate, calls the Sorcerers guild of Mystacor to protect the castle and tells Bow, Entrapta and Swift Wind to go after Glimmer. When Light Hope successfully reactivated the Heart, Adora felt it and hurried to the Crystal Castle in an effort to stop the weapon. Light Hope takes control of Adora's sword and body; preparing to fire the weapon. Adora tried to reason with Light Hope saying that the First Ones' war is long over only for the AI program to repudiate her by saying she will return the First Ones to glory. Adora reminds Light Hope that Mara stranded the planet in Despondos, but Light Hope is one step ahead of her as she uses the Heart and the power of She-Ra's Sword to bring them out of the shadow dimension and back to the wider universe. As Light Hope is switching between her true self and her reprogrammed self she tries to tell Adora that this is their destiny, but Adora shouts "This is not my destiny!" and with all her might she turns the power of The Heart of Etheria back into the the sword, shattering the Sword of Protection's blade. A remorseful Light Hope thanks her before fading away. Adora steps out of the Crystal Castle and sees the Horde Armada roaming the sky. She reunites with Bow; as they hug Bow informs her that Glimmer was captured and Adora informs him that her sword is broken. Bow then asks Adora what are they going to do; Adora even without She-Ra, answers that they were going to save Glimmer and then the Universe.

Season 5:
TBA

Trivia:

 * In the original series Adora was the twin sister of Prince Adam (He-Man) of the house of Grayskull on Eternia. While both Eternia and Grayskull are referenced it is unknown if Adam even exists in this continuity.
 * 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 as Adora's.
 * Adora's astrological sign is Capricorn, also known as the horned goat.
 * Adora's first act as Force Captain was to steal/"borrow" a skiff.
 * 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.
 * Noelle Stevenson created two playlists called "Adora" and also "She-Ra" on Spotify, along with a few other of the main characters. These playlists seem to have songs that Noelle identifies with the characters, or about their feelings throughout the show. The "She-Ra" playlist may include themes for a lot of the characters, or for the show's themes itself instead of just a playlist centered around the character She-Ra (seeing as Adora already has a playlist).
 * Noelle also tweeted that in terms of Hogwarts houses, Adora is a "Slytherin trying to be a Gryffindor."