Kuron (Voltron) stuff

I mean, you go through hell and come out the other side miraciously alive- but how much of you is really left intact, in the end? What if your own copy acts and looks more like you used to than you do yourself? What if youre tired of being who everyone you know expects you to be? What if you fear youve lost that person they love somewhere along the way?

This is pretty solidly canon, given how cold, stoic, and "benignly" racist they are, but the Blades of Marmora do not and would not dote on Keith with Kolivan, Antok, Thace, and Ulaz (a character who is tied exclusively to Shiro), adopting Keith as their kit and grooming him with their tongues in giant cuddle piles.

Like yeah sure BoM wants to stop the empire, but also they are so..... white saviour about it? Like they just refuse to even engage let alone even talk to people they are supposed to be saving, they refuse to get any allies that weren't Galran and only ever teamed up with voltron (despite voltron being the strongest weapon literally making the team the most important ally) because one of them turned out to be a "True Galran". And even after all that the only person they even let join in their missions is said half-galran despite that guy being the new leader of voltron team and therefore has more responsible towards them Keith!!!! (As you can see I am still pissed about Keith abandoning the team and still be considered good choice as a Black Paladin, like shut up dude!! Shut up!!!)

Like i don't want to compare real life politics and issues with goddamn fictional characters but BoM remind of 'progressive' white spaces? Where they claim they want to support marginalized communities and yet they also tend to speak over them and while not actively hostile they certainly do not support marginalized communities until and unless one of them is there.

Also being Galran is very much a source of pride. It's almost revered as their literal calling sign only activates because of True Galran shit or whatever, as if being galra is something is extremely special and unique and not just another species who is currently in the power through colonization across the universe. (Not really a great message to portray in this day and age, especially when one of the shows selling point is it's diverse cast)

And thing this could have been interesting! To me this came closer to being a reflection of racism and how covert it can be even among well meaning individuals, cause just look at everywhere. Hell look at tumblr fandoms themselves, despite claiming to be progressive and accepting only caters to white fans and can be actively hostile towards fans of colour especially black people. So it could have been interesting if the writers had criticized it!!! But they didn't because writers can't not make Keith the specialist boy ever and nothing about him is wrong which includes his backstory team of white saviours.

This is how I picture Ryou 90% of the time when Romelle isn't around

Enjoyed sketching this grumpypants lol

Scrapped edits of an AU where both Shiro’s were on the Atlas

Goretober 2019 Day 2: Decay

Round 4

Korekiyo Shinguji submission

Round 4

Korekiyo Shinguji submission