#averan

A song that reminds me of them: Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

What they smell like: Ozone and woodsmoke mixed with herbs

An OTP: I don’t really have any strong shipping preferences yet tbh

A NOTP: See above… I guess maybe the little kids though, for obvious reasons

Favorite platonic/familial relationships: Don’t know enough to say :<

Position they sleep in: on his back, with one of those egyptian headrests as a ‘pillow’ xD 

Crossover AU I’d love to see with them: I could see Castlevania via the mirror angle… >.>

Favourite outfit they’ve worn: We’ve only seen him in the one but it is pretty bangin’ so…

okay - aside from the fact that killing him off so shortly after bringing honerva back would make very little sense from a writing perspective - his character this season was handled very badly, in the sense that he was given a backstory that contrasts strongly with everything we’ve seen of him in s3 - s5. 

lotor despised zarkon’s power-hungry attitude and never showed interest in ruling his own empire. don’t even get me started on the elitist behaviour. pre-s6 lotor is very down to earth and doesn’t think of others as inferior, let alone underestimate them - and “a new altean empire” after all that talk of “allowing those worthy to rise and join our ranks”? after “being proud of both sides of his heritage” you’re gonna expect us to believe that he’s been delusional like zarkon all along? 

quintessence amplifies bad traits, so the only believable ‘real’ thing from his breakdown is his god complex. because that was there in previous seasons, although lightly and not always obvious. everything else doesn’t add up with what we know of lotor’s character - and while his sudden 180 turn may have been for shock value - spending this much time on humanising a character just to discard them in the end would be an exceptionally stupid decision, even for this writing team. but fine, moving on into theory territory:

lotor was exposed to quintessence before he was even born. he refers to himself as “child from the void”. his dna is quintessence-enhanced and he’s been called honerva and zarkon’s “daywalker son”. you can’t kill the dude by leaving him in a place full of quintessence; it has the opposite effect on him. 

he has a ship that can enter & exit the quintessence realm whenever he pleases - if voltron made it out of there, you bet we haven’t seen the last of sincline, either. 

zarkon and honerva “died” without being dead. even if the rift has the same effect on lotor that it had on them, he wouldn’t be gone for good, just more deranged than we could ever imagine. 

i know lots of people were rooting for a lotor redemption arc, but the thing is, there wasn’t really anything to redeem before this season. he wasn’t being unnecessarily aggressive and never used violence when it could be avoided - another reason his behaviour in s6 episode 6 & 7 made little sense to me - but now that we know of the altean colony?