Is she a well-written character?

This is the first she-ra thread I made since the whole Noelle controversy. I barely come here to see what you retards do.

Short answer: no.
Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

how big do you want it to be?

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When her sum total winds up being OMG LEZBEAN YASS then no.

>dyke ra
>well written
Pick one

She was neither a notably "well-written" nor a "poorly-written" character.
She is likeable and sympathetic, her motivations are consistent and understandable. Even when doing something stupid, the viewer understands why she's doing it, you generally don't scream at the screen about what an idiot she is. It's helped by the fact that it's a major canon character trait that she's not particularly smart. She's the lovable goofball archetype.

She doesn't go through a particularly deep or engaging development, those are reserved to other characters in the series. The lessons she learns are relatively shallow. But they serve their purpose and, again, she doesn't really fuck them up, making you slap your face in frustration like some other heroes in similar shows.
Overall I'd give her a strong 7/10 as far as protagonists go.

>I barely come here to see what you retards do.
Taht seems like a reasonable course of action. Why would you change that? If you really are looking for genuine answer to your OP question though see the second part of my comment. I meant that seriously.

she was a blank slate. all the other characters around her were far more interesting.

>she was a blank slate
I mean, she's not a complete blank slate, she has canon relationships with other characters, her own personal motivations, and an actual personality.
She is definitely meant to be the audience anchor though, easily relatable for everybody, and so isn't allowed to be remotely as interesting as everybody else.

Almost developing her character since Season 3 but deflated 2 seasons later.

This

>She is definitely meant to be the audience anchor though, easily relatable for everybody, and so isn't allowed to be remotely as interesting as everybody else.
>It's badly written because it's meant to suck, so it's good

She's a decent character on a poorly written show.

>SJW-Ra

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She's not badly written. She's SIMPLY written.
Those are not equivalent. A plain hammer is not a bad tool. It performs its job effectively, does not break, and can be easily mastered. It only has one purpose, and in serves it well. It's an essential part of a toolset that also features screwdrivers, electric drills, and other more elaborate implements.
A "badly" written character has obvious and gaping holes in their personality or motivations, does not learn from their own mistakes, cannot be related to or sympathized with to any degree.
An extreme case of a "simple" character can also be considered "bad", if they don't actually have any semblance of personality or motivation, when they are nothing but a completely empty vessel. But that Adora is not.

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>she has canon relationships with other characters,

Like Hordak who she worked under for years-nope.
Like any of the Horde that were essentially her family her whole life-nope.
Like Bow who she... knows?
Like Glimmer who they mostly spend bitching at each other then pretending verbally saying they're best friends because they don't show it.
Like Shadow Weaver who's her actual mom-well shucks.

>, and so isn't allowed to be remotely as interesting as everybody else.
That makes no sense. Harry Potter was more interesting than Ron or Hermonie because he was a chosen child with an interesting past and an interesting relationship with Dumbledore that was the main focus of most of the books and a distinct relationship with the people who raised them that acknowledged their history.

Luke Skywalker was interesting because of his relationship to his evil parental figure, both before he knew of it and afterwards.

Tony Stark stole the show whenever he was on screen and was by far the most interesting character in his first movie.

Where did you get the idea someone relateable isn't supposed to be someone it's actually engaging to watch?

>She's not badly written. She's SIMPLY written.
I have to disagree, I find her just plain badly written because of the way they stripped away everything that might cause actual conflict for her. Her connection to the Horde? Forgotten in episode 2. Fighting with Glimmer? Resolved offscreen. Debating about actually doing something about Catra? No worries, we pulled a brand new bog standard evil emperor out of our asses you can go and fight instead so you don't have to ponder the previous season of Catra doubling down on being a shitty person. Shadow Weaver, her mother who raised her, blows up? Catra is the only one who seems to even notice because that entire whole "YOU RAISED ME" thing is just plain deleted come episode 2.

She also has massive holes in her personality regarding her relationship with Catra, a complete and utter loss of character regarding Shadow Weaver or Hordak, and ultimately the final nail in the coffin of just plain "BAD" as a character, she solves most of her problems by just wanting it hard enough. Not working for it, not figuring things out from what she learned, if she just closes her eyes and wishes hard enough the universe will hand her anything she wants. How can you say she's not a terrible character when the season 4 finale hinged on giving up the She-Ra powers, and then when she hits an obstacle in season 5 she literally just goes "I want it I want it I want it!" and blammo, back to She-Ra.

She is both simple, as in nothing much to her, and badly written.

>Where did you get the idea someone relateable isn't supposed to be someone it's actually engaging to watch?

At a certain point a character being RELATABLE has come to mean something closer to "OMG THEY JUST LIKE ME" instead of "I actually understand this characters reasons and logic and could see how I myself may fall to the same issues." It's the same bullshit for self absorbed millennials.

>Harry Potter was more interesting than Ron or Hermonie
harry potter is the most annoying character in his own series and re-reading it had me keep wishing that he wasn't there