Voltron Isnt Dead Yet

I love the LGBTQ+ Voltron stans and the Klance stans so much. They are honestly such a blessing. Because of how season seven ruined rep and did a bunch of characters dirty, @kciths and @captainlumin have come up with a reboot of Voltron called Defenders of Tomorrow. 

In this reboot, we get all of our main characters, except they have different names and almost all of them are lgbt+. Lance is Leandro, a bisexual born and raised in Cuba and Keith is Akira, a gay, Japanese-Filipino man. Shiro is Hachiko and is married to Dante, aka Adam. Allura is Alzina, she’s either pan or lesbian, that’s not confirmed yet. Romelle is Rowan, a lesbian and Pidge is Layla/Pana, I believe that they’re a genderfluid asexual. The names for the other characters haven’t been talked about yet. 

This reboot/headcanon is quite different from the Voltron we know now. It has a futuristic, cyber-punk theme and takes place in a city almost overrun with this reboot’s equivalent of galra. 

The creators have promised to make Leakira (LeandroxAkira) a canon endgame to makeup for the queerbaiting we experienced from VLD. Hachiko and Dante are also married, making up for VLD killing off Adam before we saw him and Shiro together. 

There are so many designs for Leandro and Akira right now, so I just want to go over my favorites.

Leandro:

-Has short, light brown curly hair

-Cuban

-Freckles

-Has an undercut

-Has a couple of piercings

-Bisexual

-Wears goggles to help with his sharpshooting

-Uses double handed pistols

-6′1

-He has Lance’s original jacket, but it’s way longer and baggier

-Wears a turtle neck and finger-less gloves

-Has thigh holsters for his pistols 

-He and Akira have matching tattoos

Akira:

-Japanese-Filipino

-Gay

-Still has a facial scar but it’s either lip or eyebrow insead

-His hair is always in a ponytail

-He wears a necklace that he got from his father before they were separated

-Has either helix or nose peircings

-His jacket is more like Leandro’s, except it’s completely red and is cropped. 

-Has a tattoo that matches Leandro’s

-Has fangs

-Has a super badass motorcycle and likes to work with bikes

ok so first off, no voltron did not queerbait, there WERE canonically queer characters plus shiro is still alive and gay and a very prominent leader/character 

but while vld did not queerbait, their handling of gay story lines was disappointing, that’s totally a valid point of criticism

I’ve talked to a lot of my friends who’re gay and love voltron and while we agreed that the season had many enjoyable parts, executive melding and general homophobia stemming from the higher ups probably severely limited what the cast and crew were allowed to show and do, which is why the end result was so messy

I get that this season was about showing the severity of war and that not everyone gets a happy ending, but when you kill off a gay character in THE SAME SEASON where you introduce another (possible) unnecessary m/f romance……..that’s just not a good look man

I was of the mind that “shiro doesn’t need a love interest to have his gayness validated” but now it’s like, if the show is gonna pair off all their main male MCs with a girl but leave ONLY SHIRO without a love interest? yeah that doesn’t sit well with me, in the larger context of things it’s not a good move 

I know people right now are split between “voltron is the worst and the crew all need to die” and “voltron owes u nothing and can do no wrong” but i’m more of “I really loved a lot of this season but it definitely had some problematic elements and questionable choices that i hope are addressed/resolved in season 8″

at the end of the day, it’s not about ships, it’s about shiro’s character getting the justice he more than deserves, and I hope dreamworks realizes that holding back their show-runners will do more harm than good 

Don’t get mad at the writers for not doing what you wanted because it’s not your show. It’s their show, and it’s the story of paladins saving the universe.