crying over fictional men? its more likely than you think

you know when you bond through this kind of jokes

Watercolor sketch commissions for @elixir4paradise and @airctchvr 💕 Thank you for commissioning me and for your patience 🥹🩷

It’s a popular fandom view that Light is a person who doesn’t care about his family and would have absolutely murdered Sayu in the second arc if it wasn’t self incriminating to do so. Personally, I think there’s a lot of evidence in the manga that goes against that view and this is an analysis I wrote on the relationship between the two Yagami siblings that I am re-posting here. 

In my opinion, the most interesting conflict in Death Note is the silent one that takes place between Light and his own family members. The source of this largely internal conflict is obvious; Light is Kira, but the other Yagamis are sensible and they don’t acknowledge Kira as a legitimate enforcer of justice. As I said at the beginning of this post, the prevailing fanon opinion on Light is that he views his family as tools and merely plays to what’s expected of him as a son and an older brother.

But here’s the thing. what we actually see is Light repeatedly bending over backwards to try and protect his family and it is often to his own disadvantage rather than to his benefit. Why? Because he loves them. Plain and simple. It’s quite literally one of Light’s only redeeming traits and it’s a key part of what makes him a hopelessly tragic kid. In this post I’m specifically focusing on Light’s relationship to Sayu.

Yeah, me too

As a fan of Voltron: Legendary Defender, there’ll always be things that I will be salty about. I’ll always be irritated at how much of a rushed clusterfuck the last season was. I’ll never be okay with the blatant “Bury your Gays” trope in their half-assed attempt at throwing in last-minute LGBTQ+ representation. I’m appalled at how poorly they handled the death of [REDACTED] at the very end of the series.

But nothing has made me legit angrier and more disappointed in a series and its writers than the way Lotor’s character arc was handled.

"Sorry to reblog this again, but I just had a thought before I went to sleep. So everything happened according to S6, but instead of Lotor being left to rot in the rift, Honerva manages to save him in time. Of course he isn't in perfect condition but because she doesn't have actual healing abilities like Allura (at least she wasn't shown to have them), she turns him into a "puppet". Oh the irony, also I imagine he'll have Zarkon's purple glowing eyes.

Later on Team Voltron would go to Oriande and face Honerva, and she'll use Lotor to make him fight them. Although he tries to resist her influence, he is powerless. The paladins are shocked to find that he is still alive, especially Allura. Everyone is set on taking him down anyway since he is obviously being controlled by Honerva, but Allura convinces them to save him instead.

So they duke it out, and at some point maybe Allura would say something that will tug at Lotor's heart (one of those "I know this isn't you" speeches lol) that will finally give him the strength to break free from her grasp. At a loss, Honerva flees, and Team Voltron takes Lotor back to Earth.

There he finally gets to explain what's truly going on in the colonies, an we find out that he never meant to kill them at all or they willingly sacrificed themselves. We also learn why he needed all that quintessence. He and Allura reconcile, and have a little moment together where he tells her that his feelings for her were truly genuine and that he's okay if she needs time to put together her feelings towards him. From there their relationship starts to heal.