I'm concerned by how little consideration people are giving towards Entrapta's mental welfare.
Shadow Weaver (as Castapella) went after her nearly as hard as she did Catra. And we all know the damage that SW can inflict with a few choice words.
And this happened when Entrapta was still reeling from the fresh wound of "that guy I kinda liked who was the first person I've ever really connected to on an intellectual and emotional level is actually an absolute psychopath and intended to kill most everyone I've ever known or cared about just to get to me".
Neither of the leading plans address this. And I'm seriously concerned that our girl genius is going to keep quietly repressing things until she has a mental break in the near future.
I'm wary of doing any diplomacy this turn, because neither of our diplomats are in a good place mentally. Catra's still a complete mess who's said in updates that she doesn't want to deal with Adora, and would rather stick to military affairs right now. Scorpia ... has her own biases when it comes to Adora, as we saw when she pretty much blamed Adora for Catra's breakdown. Sending either of them on a diplomatic mission while feelings are still raw seems like a recipe for disaster.
I disagree (at least in regards to my plan - as far as Scorpia goes it depends on where she's being sent).
I think this is really a turn where Diplomacy is key - on the Brightmoon front I don't want to give Glimmer and Shadow Weaver time to potentially turn Angela against us, and we should definitely push for concessions while Angela is still off-kilter from her daughter's betrayal. This is our chance to seize (or at least place ourselves in a strong position) to take control of the Alliance; we have the momentum as we promised to act in good faith and did so. Whereas the representative that Angela sent entirely betrayed that showing, sabotaging the diplomatic conference and causing mental and emotional harm to... well, pretty much everyone there, but Catra, Adora, and Entrapta especially.
I don't want to trust that Angela will come to the right and moral conclusion if left alone, when faced with a choice between "my daughter is acting with sinister intent and in cahoots with Shadow Weaver" (not to mention the landmine that is by simple virtue of Shadow Weaver having been Micah's mentor and everything that followed) and "maybe my daughter has a point, and she's right about Catra, and it's my fault for not listening to her in the first place". Seriously, when it comes to their children parents will easily often delude themselves into justifying their children's actions, and I don't want to chance that happening.
In that regard I think Scorpia is the perfect choice for sending an envoy to Brightmoon, since she's the one to have arranged the conference in the first place along with a guarantee of ensuring Catra's good faith, with Angela failing where she did not. That combined with her disposition (Scorpia has a disposition that's inherently difficult to be affronted by), means that we can press for concessions
and cement that her daughter's on a truly questionable path - and maybe Angela should put out a warrant for her capture before she can slip any further - without coming across as manipulative and, well, an ass.
As for Catra... I mean... she's hardly the most reliable narrator. And if you look at the sentence just before she says she doesn't want to deal with Adora, it even says that:
I hesitated for a second. Could I really trust her again, after everything that happened? Maybe it would be better if I just never saw her aga—
The thought of that made me feel ... sick. Kind of like the time Adora dared me to eat three of the blue ration bars. I didn't—I didn't know what I wanted to do about Adora, but it couldn't be nothing. If Entrapta had it right, then maybe she really did care about me, and all the stuff Shadow Weaver said was just lies. But why hadn't Adora told me about Shadow Weaver joining the Alliance? Ugh, it was just... just too much to deal with right now. I wanted something easier to handle, like the planet-wide war that had been going on for decades.
So, let's be real here - leaving Catra and Adora to stew on this whole thing is, frankly, a terrible idea.
For Catra, there is no baseline stable mental state for her to return towards without Adora. It's either with Adora and happy, or without Adora and on the verge of a mental break. She even has trait that reflects this.
As for Adora... as we saw from her POV she's devastated and feels incredibly guilty. I can't see anything positive coming from leaving her be to stew in her heartbreak and guilt, so the sooner we resolve this the better - any time Catra and Adora are left to wallow in their feelings they begin to make questionable decisions and bad things happen.
So, yeah, need to nip this in the bud.
