radioactivesupersonic:

I would love to see more AUs reflecting just how limited a lot of Lotor’s resources are shown to be, that until pushed incredibly far in s4e3 he doesn’t want to risk anything, the riskiest he’s been is with a single swarm of fighters or burning resources that aren’t his (letting Voltron attack the fleets in s3e3) and with the exception of large construction projects pretty much his entire operation relied on five people doing everything.

It feels like people assume because he’s a prince that he’s covered in extravagant luxury but as best as we can tell he lives in his armor and seems to sink the majority of his resources and effort into scientific pursuits- getting things he can immediately turn around and use strategically.

Like he’s a prince, but he’s an exiled prince from an incredibly spartan empire, whose parents are completely disinterested in his comfort even if he were remotely inclined to ask for their help when he legitimately needed it. Losing the cruiser left him functionally homeless because he actually doesn’t have any bases.

Give me like, a superhero AU where the team is having an incredibly difficult time tracking down Lotor’s secret base and he’s just living out of an RV parked behind a Denny’s and mostly resorts to burglary because his minimum-wage internship day job can’t actually cover the costs of the things he needs for his plan. Watching TV where they’re talking about this mysterious criminal mastermind and “how are they staying undetected?” and there’s Lotor eating microwaved spaghetti-os out of the can, “I have my ways.”