~Space Embrace~

Everyone hating season 7 for the LGBTQA+ rep is digging themselves deeper into a ditch. Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery are the showrunners of the show yes.

But they don’t have all the say.

Dreamworks is a corporation. This is the capitalist America you live in. They don’t care about why you hated this season. They don’t care that you’re angry because you want better representation. They’re never gonna see that. Harassing the showrunners and voice actors who fought so hard to get representation is not the way to voice your criticism. Find out who the people are at the top of the food chain. Express your concerns to them. Email them. Send them letters. Reach out to THEM. Not the crew of Voltron. And here’s the other thing.

Again. Corporations don’t care about you. They care about making money, how high their ratings are, and when you decide to rate the season with LGBTQA+ rep BADLY, they’re not going to think “well we have to do better”

Nope. They’re going to think “we shouldn’t have gay representation in our cartoons in the future. It won’t do well.”

It’s a showrunners worst nightmare and a corporations “I told you so.”

You’re not doing any good this way. I understand why you’re upset. There are things that could’ve been handled better but what we got is literally what they were allowed to give us. Shiro is great representation. He breaks so many stereotypes. He’s a POC, disabled, neurotypical gay man with a chronic illness BUT HE’S ALSO. THE FORMER LEADER OF VOLTRON. NOW CAPTAIN OF THE ATLAS. SOMEONE EVERYONE LOVES, ADMIRES AND LOOKS UP TO AND TRUSTS WITH NO QUESTION. HE LITERALLY LEADS TEAM EARTH RIGHT NOW.

I for one am so grateful for him. For SHIRO. Our MAIN representation. If you put your anger for the mistreatment of the rest of the queer characters out on the wrong people, on the crew who had the best intentions at heart and worked so hard… on the show and it’s ratings.. it’ll be MUCH harder for there to be more representation like Takashi Shirogane.

Lance:

He was really enjoying his vacation.

Note: In this work I’ll be referring to Shiro’s clone as “Kuron”.

So after today’s episodes most of us hated that goddamn clone and wanted him gone and are now cheering and happy to have our classic Space Dad™️ Shiro back.

And while I am happy to have the real Shiro back and safe, please don’t write off that clone as a villain. Kuron, while only a copy of a person, was in fact a person himself. Let me explain why:

Kuron was designed to be an exact replica of Takashi Shirogane. Not only was he physically reconstructed with Shiro’s features and body type, he was created (programmed?) with all of Shiro’s memories, emotions, and idiosyncrasies. Kuron had everything from the way Shiro presented himself to even something as intamate as the “shoulder touch” Shiro and Keith had. He knew and he was Shiro. The memories he had might not have been Kuron’s, but the feelings and bonds those memories created were.

Kuron had no idea he was a clone either. He truly and wholly believed he was the fun-loving, PTSD ridden, and heroic leader of Voltron. And so whenever he had doubts of that, he lashed out.

Like in this scene here for example:

This was arguably one of the more obvious moments that showed Kuron and Shiro were two separate entities. Kuron was programmed to be the leader of Voltron. In his created memories, everyone did as Shiro had instructed because that was his job.

In this moment, Lance questioned Kuron’s leadership and that triggered Kuron’s agressive nature. Something was happening against Kuron’s protocol and he didn’t know how exactly to respond, so, much like a toddler not knowing what emotion to use when something isn’t going their way, he lashed out. Kuron was also heavily under the influence of Haggar during this time. Haggar’s anger and desire for Lotor’s return to her obviously carried over and made Kuron himself more and more agressive.

In the later episodes Kuron begins to notice his behavior and starts reflecting on himself. He even pulls Lance aside and tells him he’s not, “feeling like himself” which, in Kuron speak, means, “I’m supposed to be Shiro but for some reason I’m not acting like him”.

However, despite these confusing moments, Kuron still believes he’s Shiro. He has moments of humanity and personality. Kuron smiles when he sees Keith— someone Shiro cares about so therefor Kuron cares about them— and laughs and teases the other Paladins. The the DND episode, for example, was all about the team having fun and being alive and being normal. Shiro believed there was nothing more worth living for than protecting and caring about the ones he loved, which is why Kuron so strongly chose to be the plaladin. He was programmed to be the Paladin because that’s who Shiro was.

Shiro also had fun and put his all into everything he did. And so Kuron did too. He had his own emotions just like Shiro did.

In the end of Kuron’s life, he was finally taken over by Haggar and forced to attack those he loved and cared about. Yes, those he, Kuron loved. He lost all consciousness under Haggar and was just a meat puppet for her to use and play with. But the most awful part was that Kuron was awake to see what he had become.

Even though Kuron was just Shiro’s clone he still felt the emotions that Shiro had. Emotions like love for his adoptive baby brother. It was Kuron who flinched when Keith called out to him, and it was Kuron who, in the end, had realized he nearly killed Keith.

This photo right here is Kuron awake and not controlled. It’s only seconds before he dies but in those seconds Kuron realizes the people he cared about were dying because of him. It’s debatable whither or not Kuron knows he’s not Shiro here, but it’s obvious that he cares about these people regardless and he put them in danger. Kuron died doing the exact opposite of what Shiro would do, the person he was supposed to be.

mark of the chosen

if i had my way, i would be yours

1) my eyes2) dat booty ;)3) my hair4) how understanding I am usually? I just get what people mean or how they feel5) my teeth. They’re pretty straight even though I’ve never had braces

1: my eyes

2: my excitement

3: my writing

4: my gf does that count

4.5: how willing to understand i am

5: my nose???? idk why

1. My hair

2. My creativity

3. How accepting I am of others

4. How friendly I am

5.my writing

My freckles (all natural baby)

My singing voice

My creativity (sometimes)

My humour

MY MEMES

The langst

The suffering

The pain

I have never met somone I can’t pick up in a hug

1. My eyes

2. My false lashes

3. My hair

4. My personality because I’m sweet bitchs ✌️

5. My singing voice

2. My compassion

3. My imagination

4. My smile (I don’t have straight teeth, but I like my smile anyway ^.^)

5. My nose

2. My art

3. My writing ( i just got done planing some more chapters so im looking forward to writing them)

4. My sense of humor

5. My nails (when i actually grow them and fight my anxiety to bite them)

1. My hugs :)

2. My muscles (ehehe, ya girl is bulking up)

3. My drive to learn/understand

4. My problem-solving skills

5. My art and writing :)

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what if voltron was just a really long dnd campaign

matt: zarkon emerges from the ship with the black bayard in hand. what do you-

keith: i attack him

matt: …keith you’re a level three

keith: i’m rolling

matt: you arrive at your brother’s grave, confirming that he was one of the casualties in the battle. you collapse into tears in front of it and-

pidge: i’m rolling for perception

matt: wh- what is there to perceive? he’s literally dead-

pidge: yeah i doubt that. my brother and i used to code break together. i want to check the grave for a cipher

matt: fine, roll for it

pidge: nat 20

matt: i… you notice that your brother’s birthday on the tombstone is wrong. he’s left you a code on his grave. because he’s alive, which you weren’t supposed to find out until the end of the session, pidge

lotor: i try to convince them to ally with me

matt: you do realize you’ve tried to kill these people on multiple occasions right?

lotor: i’m going for it

matt: …okay. roll for charisma

lotor: …i got a 3

matt: you attempt to charm the princess by talking about her dead father for fifteen minutes

lotor: i try to convince them to give the galra empire unlimited access to quintessence

matt: i- you know what? fine. allura, roll a perception check

allura: ………i got a 1

matt: …you think lotor’s plan is absolutely wonderful and allow him to join your party

matt: the sea serpent follows in quick pursuit. it’s gaining on the blue lion fast and-

lance: can i roll to seduce it?

matt: no

lance: why do you hate me

matt: rax asks if your ship is still working so that you can leave

hunk: well we can’t leave without the crystal, and we still haven’t found out a way to get it…

coran: i have a plan. we attempt to impersonate a galra sentry

matt: you… do realize they’re robots right

coran: yes

matt: alright then. roll a bluff check

coran: i got a 5

matt: you grab a broken sentry and get on hunk’s shoulders, putting on a cloak to hide your body from view. the two of you stumble towards two guards, very obviously whispering to each other under the cloak, and attempt to convince them that their shift is over. they raise their weapons and ask for your identification number

hunk: …yeah i’m just gonna shoot at them now if that’s okay

matt: voltron drives its sword right through zarkon’s robeast. it erupts into brilliant flames and completely destroys his robotic body. the explosion tears voltron apart. shiro, roll for dexterity.

shiro: …why? the battle’s over?

matt: lol

shiro: matt

matt: lol just do it

shiro: i got 20

matt: …how did you roll nat 20. you never roll 20

shiro: i have no idea

matt: shit. i’ll be real, i wasn’t expecting that. uh. so shiro’s… shiro’s gone now i guess

shiro: what? where did i go?

[✓ Lance will remember this bonding moment]

[⏳Lance has to make a decision]