How do you know you can trust a creature/machine who’s main attributed ability is to get into your head and relay information directly? And not just their specific paladins: Blue sends that image of Voltron’s complete form to all of them.
Equally worrying, they can do so without it being an obvious hallucination. After all, Shiro didn’t know that they’d never left the hangar in Space Mall. The information felt completely natural and from his own perceptions. Experiences are the way in which humans, at least, develop their opinions and reactions, and those are highly tied to emotions.
Kinda puts a new spin on the fact that not one paladin or member of the team has ever found the lion’s abilities more than passingly odd, huh? Even though it came from the same place that corrupted Zarkon and Honerva. Even though they’ve seen monsters form out of that energy. Even though it made Honerva deathly ill.
Not one person has ever gone ‘maybe this stuff isn’t safe to be around’.
at this point my only fear is that the pre-kerberos sheith backstory is just going to be one short flashback clip and we’re going to spend the next six months editing and overanalyzing the same thirty seconds over and over.
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.”
just moving along like everyone else 