Scruffer, Kyle, and Imp
I'm afraid it is not in the best condition. Its blade lost its sharpness long ago. It hasn't been treated well and it's missing some parts to make it work. It's been broken. But perhaps with a lot of effort and love... It can be a powerful sword again. A sword to protect those who can't.
The Oracle
The Kyle Saga is a post-canon She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Fan Webcomic centered around Kyle, the series' Butt-Monkey. After the fall of the Horde, Kyle leaves Rogelio and Lonnie and sets off on his own into the Crimson Wastes. However, after gaining a glimpse into the many possibilities of the multiverse, Kyle must confront his past and his trauma, and answer the call of an ancient First Ones prophecy...
The comic can be read here,
and Word of God on the series can be found here.
This work provides examples of:
- Accidental Murder: Subverted, as he was stopped in time, but Kyle almost murdered Rogelio as a child by mistaking him for his plush dragon and nearly suffocated him to death.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: The Twigget sisters all have bright purple skin, while Madam Razz has bright pink skin.
- An Arm and a Leg: Lonnie loses half her hand in a fight with Kyle, leading to her gaining a robotic prosthetic in its place.
- Animal Motifs: J'red and the First Ones as a whole are associated with falcons, while the Horde and the False God are associated with bats.
- Ascended Extra: Many if not all of the webcomic's original characters are either background characters in the original show or redesigns taken from the 80s show or from the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
- Bad Powers, Good People: King Jared is an immortal spirit with the power to control the Guardians, the massive crazed animals even Adora could only keep down temporarily. He could have also attempted Grand Theft Me on Kyle. He doesn't want to, however, and instead gives his life to save Kyle and empower him to rein in the beasts in his stead.
- Big Damn Heroes: Queen Angella saves Kyle from being mentally trapped in the space between worlds in Chapter 3.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: Kyle's transformation phrase is "By the Wisdom of Grayskull!".
- Celibate Hero: After Chapter 9, Kyle acknowledges he's not ready for a relationship due to his trauma and what he both went through and put Lonnie and Rogelio through. Even if he were, he's overall oblivious to advances both men and women put on him.
- The Chain of Harm: As in the original show, the chain of harm is acknowledged in this webcomic, with Lonnie's treatment of Kyle being due to Catra and Commander Cobalt's abuse of her as a child.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Once Kyle inherits King Jared's power he and the Guardians Jared controlled easily stomp Lonnie's squad, subjugating the Crimson Wastes in a matter of minutes.
- Demonic Possession:
- The False God attempts to possess Kyle after his Heroic BSoD in Chapter 12, but at the last moment Kyle resists his control.
- King Jared claims he has the ability to do this to Kyle, but he refuses to do so and instead merges with Kyle to save him from his Black Garnet corruption.
- Desert Warfare: The Beast Riders go to war with the remnants of the Horde in the Crimson Wastes.
- Disappeared Dad: Inverted; Kyle was stolen from his father when he was a small child. Kyle's quest to find his father kicks off the second arc of the comic.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: In Chapter 17, Kyle is forced to fend off a Heroic RRoD Scorpia without the use of Jared's power so he doesn't reveal his identity to either Scorpia or Perfuma.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: King Jared is one of the Wreathed in Flames variety. His state is the result of a Forced Transformation he went through to turn himself immortal, which consumed his natural body.
- Explosive Leash: Shadow Weaver's magic over Kyle's mind acts as one. Once the Twigget sisters break the spell preventing Kyle from remembering his past, it begins to corrupt and kill him.
- Fantastic Drug: The Portal, a mystical herb grown by the Twigget Sisters.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Chapter 12 reveals that Horde Prime was really a champion of an entity known only as The False God, which is attempting to return to a position of control over the universe through a new champion.
- Heroic BSoD: After Chapter 11 when the Twigget grotto is destroyed and Sproc is killed Kyle goes into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge as a result of a prolonged BSOD.
- Heroic Sacrifice:
- In Chapter 11 Sproc sacrifices herself and her grotto to save the other Twiggets and Kyle from Lonnie's forces.
- In Chapter 12, Rogelio takes a fatal injury meant for Lonnie. This does no favors for Kyle's mental state. He turns out to have barely survived.
- Hidden Elf Village: The Twiggets' grotto in the middle of the Crimson Wastes.
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: The False God leads Kyle to Mantenna so that Kyle will be corrupted by murdering him, allowing the False God to possess him.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Kyle was subjected to a mind wipe at the hands of Shadow Weaver for being too defiant as a child, leaving his mind a blank slate and giving him painful headaches whenever he began to remember his father.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Deconstructed with Kyle's view of Rogelio. As Kyle meets new friends and forms new bonds, he acknowledges he wanted too much of Rogelio and was likely suffocating to be around. Kyle realizes Rogelio likely pitied him more than loved him and felt responsible for his survival, and him choosing to be around Lonnie was due to Rogelio being able to respect her as an equal better.
- Lotus-Eater Machine: The False God tempts Kyle through the use of a dream in which Lonnie and Rogelio are both in love with him and want to marry him. However, Kyle recognizes how far the dream is from the reality he lives in and rejects it.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: What fuels the conflict between Lonnie and Kyle is Lonnie's need for control versus Kyle's desire for revenge for the abuse he suffered at the Horde's hands.
- The Multiverse: During a Mushroom Samba Kyle was able to see various universes, many in which he became the wielder of She-Ra's sword. The reason he didn't in the current world is due to one of Shadow Weaver's spells crippling his mind and the bullying he suffered making him a nervous wreck of a person.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: J'red (which sounds like Dread) also known as the Mad King and the King of Monsters. Subverted as his name was really Jared and the "Mad King" title was propaganda spread by his evil stepsiblings.
- Official Couple: Lonnie and Rogelio, who remain in a stable relationship without Kyle.
- Scars Are Forever: Lonnie's eye gets scarred in a fight with Kyle. Her gaining it marks the start of her Sanity Slippage.
- Ship Sinking: The comic's Tumblr page flat out warns readers that the Kyle/Lonnie/Rogelio polyamorous relationship is going to be sunk, and true to its word Chapter 1 starts with Kyle leaving the relationship after coming to the realization he's a third wheel to Lonnie and Rogelio.
- Take That!: The comic usually portrays Catra in a negative light on several instances (see The Chain of Harm above, for example), as well as how it takes a bit of a jab at the shipping community of the show with how so many people in-universe are obsessed only with romantic love.
- The Unchosen One: Kyle's visions of the multiverse imply he was initially going to inherit She-Ra's sword before Light Hope pulled Adora from places unknown into Etheria. Subverted when he later becomes King Jared's chosen one to inherit the power of Castle Grayskull.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Both Lonnie and Rogelio went right back to abusing Kyle after the events of Protocol, causing him to finally leave them at the start of the webcomic.
- Wrecked Weapon: The "replica" sword Kyle inherits from the Oracle of Darkedge is in poor repair. Kyle ends up repairing it using a mixture of First Ones and Horde technology. The Beast Riders view the inclusion of Horde materials as sacrilegious, but King Jared, the sword's original owner, gives his approval to the sword's repair job.
- Younger Than They Look: Kyle's 20 during the series, but looks like a teenager due to the malnourishment and suffering he incurred at the hands of the Horde. This is lampshaded In-Universe, where the Beast Riders are stunned that Kyle is an adult.
