So the new clip reveals that Lotor was actually raised by a nanny-like figure for what sounds like most of his life, given that she "raised him from boy to man". Do you have any thoughts on the relationship between Lotor and Diac (pretty sure I spelled that wrong)?
blue-rose-89 said:So the new Voltron clip reveals that Lotor had a nanny (Lotor: “Governess….”)! What do you think of that?
So I took a bit to mull over my feelings re: Daiak, but my cautious decision so far is she seems trustworthy. She comes off strong, but the in-universe reaction implies she’s supposed to, and while Lotor’s a bit flustered / awkward about this, that seems to be more down to embarrassment, and if anything… This is an especially expressive and open Lotor, and a sincere one. He doesn’t find Daiak threatening or dangerous and is comfortable asking her to dial it down.
It is also interesting that while she’s incredibly matronly and, according to Lotor, quite old-fashioned… she doesn’t seem particularly on board with Zarkon’s particular flavor of racism considering how quick she is to defend what she perceives as Lotor’s honor, and her comment about how she knew he had it in him to crush his enemies.
You have to consider one of those enemies is Zarkon- and she does specifically talk about Lotor’s “ascent to the throne” that involved crossing Zarkon (fatally) and Haggar (though she sure survived). That, and how the target of her ire is Lance who’s the most flippant towards Lotor in this situation overwhelmingly sets up the idea that Daiak isn’t just a dour matron, but she’s specifically in Lotor’s corner.
Looking at Daiak as a caretaker- just the sample the clip gives us- and Lotor as a person, I have to wonder if Daiak contributed a lot of how, in the face of how much the empire looks down on him, Lotor will often produce this kind of, “I’m under absolutely no obligation to take this attitude from you, I am royalty, and I don’t care what you have to say about it.”
As far as Daiak’s role, it’s fair to assume someone had to have been there for Lotor. Presumably she was employed sometime after the snippet we see of baby Lotor, but simply, even if Haggar had remembered Lotor was her son, I can’t see either her or Zarkon actually taking time out of their lives to have patience for a child. So I’m not particularly surprised that she existed, though seeing her around in main canon is definitely gonna make things interesting.
I have to wonder if she’s going to end up as Sincline’s counterpart to Coran now.
