#drule

So, @breadstickcat was talking about Pidge (DotU) in an AU divergent being close with a Drule not much older than him and being a DotU take of Blade of Marmora. And my brain took that, put it to VF, and RAN WITH IT. And I ended up with this guy. A Drule rebel (Blade of Marmora equivalent or actually BoM existing in VF) and just existing and not at all evil. If anything, my thoughts is of him being relatively chill. Also, I was originally considering calling him Ivok (EE-vawk), but I realized days later that that was close to DotU's Avok. Damn. May need to reconsider.

I feel like he'd also suit VLD, too. Especially as I went more VLD route in appearance since the Drule of DotU and VF don't exactly differ from each other much (if at all). Also, his comment of nine kingdoms? In the DDP comics, there are apparently ten kingdoms, which we like to work with in a server I'm in. I briefly forgot there are ten, though, and thus had him say "nine". When I realized it, instead of fixing it, I decided to go with it. Perhaps there was a tenth in the past but in VF era, it might be long gone.

I like the idea that they have relatively poor eyesight but are capable of echolocation and rely on impressive hearing and smell to navigate their surroundings. They’re better-equipped to identify movement and track it, so they’re pretty good shots on a moving target, but for stationary ones most of their machinery has built-in targeting aids and a heads-up display.

Same omg dairugger deserves so so so much more love and attention! I’d love to see some dairugger in VLD, even if it’s just a little! (Ofc it’d be better if they’d reboot it after VLD aaa ��)

Yay!  Glad to hear.  We are a small but MIGHTY crew!  I would love to see some Dairugger get worked into VLD, for instance I notice that the entire motivation for the Drule in Dairugger - their planet basically dying - is used in VLD and I’m kind of curious to see if there’s any of Hazar’s old characterization in Lotor (would love to see Dorma too (Acxa looks a bit like her, don’t you think?)).  I’d love to see the Dairugger crew show up in some form or another too in VLD but I heard that the writers admitted they didn’t know the Vehicle Voltron well (though that’s hearsay and I never saw that actual interview, fingers crossed, so we can hope).

I’d imagine that, if VLD makes enough bank for Netflix though, Dairugger would be a sensible follow up.  So there may be hope either way. (I’ve got my own personal weakness that would rather see a crossover between the two but I’ll take what I could get lol).