Heh. I'm glad that it your post got picked up by thisweekmeta, then.
I think the drug effect of power and competence is a perfectly good explanation, but the way things were presented, I would have needed to see the praise first, and then the hurt, and then it would have made sense as to why Catra might stay and try to Show Them All. Maybe I missed it, but it didn't seem like she was getting any of that praise, at least on screen, until after Shadow Weaver dismissed her for Adora. It was all backhanded enough that it seemed like Catra would be cynical about it instead of appreciative.
I would have also taken that Catra has an attraction to Scorpia and that since she's not very good at building and managing secure relationships, the fact that Scorpia showed any interest in her at all that might be interpreted as romantic (vis a vis the dress montage for Princess Prom), Catra didn't want to go with the unknown relationship with Adora and wanted to shore up the known one with Scorpia. But that wasn't explicitly foregrounded, either.
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I think the drug effect of power and competence is a perfectly good explanation, but the way things were presented, I would have needed to see the praise first, and then the hurt, and then it would have made sense as to why Catra might stay and try to Show Them All. Maybe I missed it, but it didn't seem like she was getting any of that praise, at least on screen, until after Shadow Weaver dismissed her for Adora. It was all backhanded enough that it seemed like Catra would be cynical about it instead of appreciative.
I would have also taken that Catra has an attraction to Scorpia and that since she's not very good at building and managing secure relationships, the fact that Scorpia showed any interest in her at all that might be interpreted as romantic (vis a vis the dress montage for Princess Prom), Catra didn't want to go with the unknown relationship with Adora and wanted to shore up the known one with Scorpia. But that wasn't explicitly foregrounded, either.