BabyBrain Catra

Catra is a slender, tan-skinned girl of feline origins with an athletic physique. She has angular features, such as a pointed chin, straight nose, and slanted, almond-shaped, heterochromatic eyes; pale yellow (left) and turquoise (right). She features three freckles on her cheeks, and soft curving dark eyebrows. Due to her feline display and ancestry, she has retractable black sharp claws on her hands and toes, small fangs, large, black, catlike ears slightly buried within hair, a long prehensile dark brown cat tail, and light brown horizontal markings on her arms, with three on her back that resemble a tabby cat's stripes. She also sports wild, spiked, cedar brown hair with two lighter colored tufts below her ears, held back behind a scarlet headpiece inspired by the one worn by her 80s series counterpart.

Catra is confirmed to be a lesbian, hence how she and Adora kissed on the lips during one of the scenes of the last episode of the series as she confessed her love for Adora. In the original series, Catra was a human female who wore a mask from the magicats, a race of cat people that live under Etheria's surface, that could turn her into a jaguar. She also had a tendency to make cat puns. Both were utilized in Bow's fantasy in "Roll with It" along with several other aspects of the original series, such as the way she wore her headpiece. According to ND Stevenson in his BLM charity stream, Catra's distant origins are the Magicats from another planet that we get a brief glimpse of in season 5, when Horde Prime surveys the planets that are rebelling against him, an Easter Egg for the fans. ND also says that when the Best Friends Squad will travel to restore magic in the universe, they may find the Magicat planet. Catra's astrological sign is Scorpio, also known as the scorpion. This is ironic since she and Scorpia are friends. Catra's future appearance is teased in Adora's dream visions in "Heart Part 2," as she would later couple with the latter and live in Bright Moon palace as part of the Best Friends Squad. As confirmed by Mickey Quinn, who designed Catra’s appearance in that scene, Adora and Catra are supposed to be married in that possible future, as it is apparently an Etherian custom for married couples to have matching colour schemes. This scene may have been a foreshadowing of when she and Adora kissed. Catra's catchphrase "Hey Adora." are the first words spoken by her in the show. She first said it at the end of the training session in the first episode of Season One. She's uttered it fifteen times over the course of the series. Catra's heterochromia (having eyes of different colors) can represent her inner imbalance that she constantly tried to even out through her unending struggles for power, dominance, and control despite her true desire for something else, something that would bring her true happiness and harmony yet is hindered by her trying to hide and squash her vulnerabilities. Catra actually purrs when she's happy like a real cat. She does this several times throughout the series, notably after being rescued by Adora in "Save the Cat" and after confessing her love for Adora and embracing her near the very end of "Heart Part 2." In Season Five, on Catra's first mission with the Rebellion, Bow noticed that Catra has the cutest sneeze he has ever heard. In a similar way to this, in the same episode, when Catra chooses not to remove her helmet due to her doubting Entrapta's mentions, Bow states that "if his helmet was that adorable, he'd leave it on too." She then attempted to remove her helmet, which partly involved using her right foot to remove it. In a tweet, ND Stevenson references Fever Coat and also a picture of young Catra with a central focus on her ear tufts. The reference states: "Fever Coat appears in kittens because the pigments have not been properly deposited in the fur. This causes parts of the fur to appear silver-grey, cream or reddish as a result." Stevenson created a playlist dubbed "Catra" on Spotify, along with a few other of the main characters. These playlists seem to have songs that ND identifies with the characters, or about their feelings throughout the show. Stevenson also tweeted that, in terms of Hogwarts houses, Catra is a "Hufflepuff trying to be a Slytherin." Then, in the same thread, "like, a mean Hufflepuff though". According to Ray Geiger, her middle name is "Applesauce". And according to creator Stevenson, Catra's last name is "Meowmeow". A joke from the creator and character designer to make the fans laugh and likely not intended to be taken seriously. Catra is the second character to be in the same intro twice. (The first was Double Trouble, appearing in The Horde behind Catra, and as Flutterina, replacing Entrapta). The rebooted incarnation of Catra has been praised as one of the show's most complex and interesting characters by .[1][2][3][4][5] In a BLM livestream fundraiser ND Stevenson said that Catra's favorite number is "66666" though this is never stated on the show and is therefore not canon within the show. Also in the BLM livestream, ND Stevenson stated that Catra is loosely based on one of her cats, named Toast. The reason why Catra’s hair was cut short in Season Five was because ND thought she would be really cute with it. [6] It was also to better show the control chip on her neck. Originally, Catra was going to have a ponytail designed by Mickey Quinn, however, this was changed to the short hairstyle seen in the show. The ponytail was reused for Catra’s future design. Catra’s short hairdo may have been hinted at when ND Stevenson made a joke about Catra getting an undercut around the time of season two.[7] With her short hairdo, Catra bears quite a resemblance to Molly Osterag, ND Stevenson’s wife. Catra was the first Etherian to be Chipped. This happened while she was aboard Horde Prime's ship, the Velvet Glove. ND Stevenson tweeted that Catra had 'died' nine times throughout the series, and was revived by Adora in "Save the Cat". This is presumably a joke referencing the myth of cats having nine lives.[8] A very early episode idea would have revolved around Shadow Weaver forgetting Catra’s birthday. Catra and Adora would have ended up becoming trapped somewhere, where it would have been revealed that Adora had remembered Catra’s birthday. Another early episode idea would have had Adora thinking an ordinary cat was Catra in disguise, a possible reference to her 80s incarnation. ND Stevenson confirmed on Twitter that Catra is indeed a WOC (Woman Of Colour) with the popular headcanon among the crew being that she was Latina, though ND is supportive of all ethnicity headcanons for Catra. It is not currently known where Catra got her new outfit in season five. The original idea was for Catra to wear Adora’s shirt but with the sleeves ripped. According to her voice actor AJ Michalka, Catra's favorite color is red.

A while ago, Catra accidentalls stepped on a rusty metal ball with the button side up. A few seconds after she stepped on it, it emitted an invisible mindwave directed at Catra. The wave made her marginally dumber than the average 4 year old and very not-Catralike. She’s also a whole lot sweeter off the bat, innocent too.