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Season 5 ready Cosplayer is @zents-girl and volted_up on Twitter.

Shiro: Keith you can’t just do that to your teacher 

My homage to Stranger Things

(no spoilers for s5!)

The panel opened with everyone singing Happy Birthday to Shiro/Josh.

Josh watched the original Voltron growing up! Josh would also dress up as He-Man as a kid and run through the grocery store yelling I HAVE THE POWER!

Jeremy said he just turned twenty-one and subtly dabbed.

(When asked about fan art of Shiro as Craig from Dream Daddy and how Shiro would be as a father of three) Josh: “Shiro would do anything for his kids. I think he would be a great dad.”

Jeremy said that Lance really doesn’t like Lotor because “he’s competition, I mean, look at that hair” and the cast/writers proceeded to talk at length about Lotor’s design. 

Joaquim said (about Lotor), “He is very beautiful,” and it’s safe to say Joaquim likes Lotor’s character a lot and there’s a lot in store for his character, bc Joaquim talked about Lotor as a complex character with a great deal of trauma in his life, which he’s struggling to cope with.

When asked about their thoughts on #NotMyShiro, the cast/writers were very vague, and Joaquim weakly tried to defend “Shiro’s” new haircut. I’m still suspicious, let’s put it that way. 

When asked if there was a defining moment that made Lance view Keith as his rival, the cast/writers confirmed there really was no defining moment, Lance is just competitive and it’s a lot about hearing so much about Keith as a great pilot and aspiring to be better than him, only to find out Keith didn’t know who Lance even was upon meeting him (which the writers also confirmed)

(When asked if Lance is a singer and if so what’s his favorite song) Jeremy: “Lance is definitely a singer, his favorite song is SexyBack by Justin Timberlake.”

Joaquim an Lauren were talking about pitching/creating the show, and revealed that in the original pitch they had, Earth was post apocalyptic and had been taken over by the Galra. Yikes??? holy shit????

The writers confirmed that the story is pretty much locked as it’s been written far in advance, so they’re not influenced too much by the fandom/fandom theories. 

Someone asked if Allura’s bday could be on Valentine’s Day because everyone loves her, and the writers said that was a beautiful idea and every day is a good day to love Allura.

When someone asked the dreaded question of when/if there would be romance in the show (and specifically mentioned Klance, much to everyone’s collective dismay), the writers/cast had a really eloquent and thought-out response about not wanting that to be the focus of the show/characters and wanting any romances to develop naturally, Jeremy said that everyone has cool arcs that are non-romance related, and Joaquim said “it’s a cool place to explore...” and Jeremy said “it’s very possible.”

When asked about what the other paladins reactions to Keith being part Galra were, Lauren said: “The rest of the team knew Keith well enough to know it wasn’t a big deal, and unlike Allura didn’t even really know what that means, like, does he grow purple fur at some point or something? and Josh said, and I quote: “Shiro loves Keith so he sees the good in him.”

We established that Lance embodies the loverboy persona at all times.

When asked why Keith was booted from the garrison, Joaquim literally said, instantly, “You know how Iverson has a closed eye permanently...?” implying it was due to disciplinary issues and BASICALLY KEITH PUNCHED IVERSON? and Lauren added that Keith was not coping well with the loss of Shiro and dealing with his at that moment unknown Galra genes.

When asked what they thought about hc’s for Pidge as trans or nonbinary, Lauren replied that Pidge was meant to embody those who don’t really fit in or abide by the “norm,” so it’s great to see those hc’s.

Lauren also revealed that originally there was going to be a full flashback of Pidge searching for her brother and dad and cutting her hair Mulan-style and leaving a note for her mom, but the scene was cut down a lot to what we saw in S4. 

Joaquim Dos Santos told us that when in production, the Voltron team’s files were open to the whole studio, so people would just sneak onto their server to check out what they were up to. In response, Joaquim made the “Voltron” folder only contain a stick figure kitty cat drawing; the actual folder was hidden very well

Christine admitted that as far as bad design choices go, there was one design of the black lion that looked pretty much like a zebra/had a Mohawk, because “Mohawks are cool!”