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Hunk-

favorite thing about them- i love how grounded in reality he is. Hunk in my opinion was the only having reasonable and realistic to everything happening in S1 (granted Shiro, Allura, and Coran were already immersed in the alien bullshit and more used to it meanwhile Lance is fucking insane but still). He is scared but also that makes him braver than anyone else and he is also genuinely so kind and so talented in everything he does.

least favorite thing about them- i hate the fatphobic jokes, he deserved better

favorite line- "I'll come back for you Shay! I promise!" 🥺🥺🥺🥺

brOTP- HANCE!!!!! Also Hallura 💖💛💖💛💖💛

OTP- HANCE!! ALSO HUNAY, which was honestly my first ship from the show as well, Hallura is pretty epic as well

nOTP- I don't have any since I think Hunk has interesting healthy dynamic with everyone, I guess He.ith or Hi.dge? But even then I do like them from time to time

random headcanon- he is a drummer to me. I imagine the physical exercise it takes as well as the music to play drums works as stress relief. Also whenever he is having problem with engineering or something he'll just grab the nearest person (usually Lance) explains them the problem and before the other person can reply, Hunk goes, "oh wait nvm I fixed it, thanks for help!" And then gets back to work

unpopular opinion- i don't like the fanon "teddy bear sunshine emotionally mature mom friend" Hunk, I get where it is coming from but still. Hunk is a bit meaner and more assertive than people give him credit for, especially in season 1. In first two episodes he is the one who questions Allura's, Shiro's, and Coran's judgement and is incredibly skeptical of others. What's more he is sarcastic and irritable. i find these traits genuinely interesting and wish they were explored more in show and the fandom, also he is still just a kid in a war zone he deserve to have moments™ where he is an asshole

Also hance queerbait would have fixed the show, every fatphobic joke, dumb Lance joke and Keith being emo scene should have been replaced with Hance queerbait/j (this is more of a joke but also Hunk and Lance should have had more moments together to develop their relationship)

song i associate with them- Hollow Moon by The Crane Wives

favorite picture of them-

He looks so cute here

Lance-

favorite thing about them- My most beloved boy of all time!!! I love that there is so much duality to his character!!! He is genuinely loyal kind person who would willingly shield a person he met 2 days from a bomb 2 days ago who is also canonically a ragebaiting douchebag. The actual asshole with a heart of gold character of vld <333

least favorite thing about them- if I had met his early season self irl i would have beat him up, he is obnoxious and annoying love that for him <3333

favorite line- "You ever notice how far the planets are from each other, Coran?"

brOTP- Everyone actually especially Hunk, Allura, Coran, Shiro and Kuron

OTP- Allurance and hance!!!!!! Kinkance and Plaxance as well!!! But I love most Lance ships

nOTP- I am tired of kl i don't hate the ship and occasionally do like fanart and fanfic but with toxic fanbase that just shits on every other character and fan and it being so everywhere it's hard to enjoy, i don't care about pl.nce either so many of the "shippers" love to thrash Lance so much i have doubts they actually even care about him

random headcanon- he is bisexual to me but has horrible taste in men, we are talking toxic chad type of men (because yknow otherwise he would have been flirting with Hunk at the start of the series)

unpopular opinion- i don't know how unpopular this is but Lance and Kuron had so many interesting parallels (both being replacements and struggling with being someone they are not) and should have had deeper more developed bond and he should have been the one to save/helped Kuron and they both should have had a shared arc about individuality and being their own personhood. Also!!! Lance should have stayed the Blue Paladin of the Blue Lion, I hate the lion switch.

song i associate with them- Couldn't decide between Oh No! By Marina and the Diamonds and Top of the World by Greek Fire

favorite picture of them-

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Allura-

favorite thing about them- She is one of the kindest and strongest character of the show. She went through SO MUCH since the very beginning of the show and yet still remained kind and giving as she could and that takes so much strength itself. Truly the heart of voltron

least favorite thing about them- She's dead 🥺. (Also the entire thing with using Kuron's body to bring back Shiro. Like it is understandable why she did it considering the circumstances but also it's still fucked up)

favorite line- "So how would you rate your bloodlust level from 1-5?"

brOTP- So many!!! She should have had more friends, her and Coran and her and the mice. Also Allura and Shiro 🥺🥺🥺

OTP- Allurance!!!!! Hallura as well!!!!

nOTP- Lot.ura and Kall.ura

random headcanon- She is insomniac to me and does not like to go to sleep, also absolutely refuses to use healing pods unless she really really needs to

unpopular opinion- She was in the right to not trust Ulaz at first, love that guy but he literally broke into her house and beat up her friends and this is ignoring the fact that he is part of the same species they were currently at war at and killed her entire species. Same goes for BoM, like they were shifty af at the beginning. Also i can't get behind girlboss!Allura, to me she's embodiment of this picture-

Another unpopular opinion!!!!!-

song i associate with them- Queen of Nothing by The Crane Wives also Ship in a Bottle by Steffan Argus

favorite picture of them-

Veronica-

favorite thing about them- confession time- i merely skimmed through last two seasons so i don't remember much about them and therefore her at all. That being said I did like that she was trying to be friends with Axca so I am guessing she is probably the type of person who sees good in everyone

least favorite thing about them- i don't know I guess the one time it is implied she has a crush on Keith?? Which like, there are better men out there girl

favorite line- I am sorry I don't know any 🥺

brOTP- Her and Lance!!! Also Veronica and Kuron dynamic that exists specifically in my head

OTP- i have really started to like Veraxca

nOTP- I don't think I know any??

random headcanon- Really really really loves chocolate especially paired with something like black coffee

unpopular opinion- I think she should have been introduced earlier

song i associate with them- Technically Hand me my shovel by Will Wood and the Tapeworms but it's more for an au over canon. Let's go with Seven Nation Army by White Stripes for now

favorite picture of them-

To start with this episode is another example of Reverse Racism the vld writers love so much and one of the many many many many Many examples of the fact that vld is very much written by white writers for a white audience and focusing on a white UsAmerican narrative that pretends to be progressive and inclusive but is absolutely shallow in its ideals and is not at all sympathetic towards minorities, victims of oppression, and those who are not white american. Furthermore this episode is yet another example of this shows contant need to criticize and punish Allura for wanting to reconnect with her dead people and culture.

First of all lets look at the motivation of Empress Allura that led her into making a colonizing mind-washing empire out of her once peace loving diplomatic people. Apparently it is similar to main reality in that the Galran attack and Alfor was killed, however this time they went with Allura's plan in the first episode to bring voltron together which leads to the Galran empire's defeat and Altea becoming the colonizing force instead (i rewatched that stupid episode just to answer this ask, so yes this is literally what happened in that episode. While the evil alteans dont say that Empress Allura brought the voltron together, it was jds who mentioned in an interview that that's what happened)

Problem with that is we already know how Allura would react to such situation! In canon! And sure she was (rightfully) hurt and angry about it, but she never let go of her kindness because of it! She lost her father And her planet And everyone she ever loved and still remained a kind and giving person to her own detriment.

And inspite of what your average Allura-hating Keith/Lotor/Klance stan would have you believe, her hatred towards Galran was never this deep to the point of enacting unjust violence on them, let alone destroying the universe because of it. Yes she was distrusting of Ulaz except he also broke into her castle and beat up her teammates which most likely did colour her opinion. Yes she was cold towards Keith except it only involved side-eye and a cold comment for which she apologized in the very next episode without anyone else's prompting. And people bring up her actions against Lotor after his reveal and rage against good!Zarkon to say she's a bigot, and i am sorry i don't have to explain how that's just plain stupid, all i can say is that even after everything the stans still think that she didn't deserve to kick both their asses let alone genuinely consider she was in the wrong then i am sorry but there really is no hope for them.

Also even if she had a damning corruption arc, do you really think Coran and the paladins of the old who very likely were alive to defeat the galran would have let her go that far? Do you really think she wouldn't have crumbled immediately if Alfor's Ai had come to know about this and looked at her with shock, pity, and disappointment?

Not to mention Alteans were established to be a peace loving diplomatic species. How did they end up being this colonizing brainwashing race? This was certainly not written to be a nuanced take on topics like "trauma and tragedy causing a massive shift in a culture causing continued cycle of violence" or "Oppression is relative in nature", because this was only one episode. One episode and the only thing we get is "All Alteans in this reality are evil" with no "it's not black or white" notion this series wants to preach but absolutely fails at.

This show does this thing a lot where it's much more critical of victims being angry at their treatment while coddling the perpetrators. Galra get the "They are not All Bad, they were just following Zarkon's orders who is also Not All Bad poor baby just got corrupted by bad quintessence and also if you are mean to them you are just as bad uwu 🥺🥺🥺". Meanwhile Alteans are just, "All Alteans in this reality are evil", and there's certainly no corrupting purple quintessence involved cause otherwise everything would be purple.

And yeah i knowww it's because it's one off episode vs entire series but it still could and should have been better. Have Sven be an Altean which actually makes sense given Guns of Gamara represent Blade of Marmora in this reality, or make it so it's not Allura who created this empire, or better yet! Just Don't Write that episode! One of the links i added above talks about an alternative dark!Allura which i found to be much more interesting and provided for a much more meaningful introspection and possible arc for Allura without turning into another "Oppressed can be as bad oppressors" shallow life lesson white people seems to think is height of nuanced truthful worldview. You could have had a Galra-won bad end timeline to establish multiple realities. There were just so many options.

And of course this episode is another example of putting down characters of colour to put fucking Keith on pedestal. All throughout the episode is Keith as this "logical, voice of reason who's always correct" white-coded man, While making Allura out to be "illogical dumbass who nearly handed clearly evil alteans an ore that would threaten all the realities all because she wanted the help from those Alteans 🙄🙄🙄" Black-coded woman. Maybe it was her trauma and wishful thinking talking but i feel like the moment she heard them call her Empress Allura while a Shiro looking hates Alteans, she should atleast some suspicions. But nope, Allura has to be an idiot specifically because she wants to get in touch with her culture while Keith is the extremely Specialist Boy who is always right. I fucking hate it here.

And of course the shit cherry on the top of this enormous shit pile of tone-deafness, you have this episode framing Alfor's decision to hide the lions be that if they had formed it.... It would result in evil altean reality. Not because the head of voltron is controlled by Zarkon, not because it's an extremely powerful weapon with very high chance of falling into wrong hands, not because they did not have enough paladins to pilot the whole thing, not because it was literally a losing battle. Nope! Apparently it was possible to win the war 10k years ago, but there was a possibility that living Alteans, including his own daughter would go on to take over the universe for asinine reasons so he pretty much hid the weapon so that the Galran can take over the universe and take over the universe and destroy multiple planets including his own. Yup this is totally a normal and logical thought process to have, nevermind that Alfor's ai literally says they should have gone with Allura's plan in the very first episode. Yup this a totally normal and logical thought process to have/s

Tldr- it's a shit ass episode

Honestly if you want to improve on it/keep it's elements here are my suggestions-

Make it a Lotor focused episode instead of Allura focused episode. Let other reality Lotor be the one who formed the empire instead of Allura. Especially if you want to redeem him. He's the one this obsessed with Alteans and this hateful towards Galran. He's the one who believes in sacrificing as many people as there needs to be in order to achieve peace. (In this episode it is implied he cause the death of many pilots while trying to get the Ore). Let him see this version of him who has achieved what he could only dream of, except he can stare in horror seeing a version of him has become just like their father

Or

It's pretty much the same/similar scenario. Kuron is Shiro's (Swift's) clone and a spoilt cat and a mamma's boy

2)Allura is a vet assigned on Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Rehome. She is also like the only one on this cause she's the only vet available in the town and the govt there is stingy with funding. So like the girl's Stressed™

3) She probably knows or atleast is aware of the cat cult. She just Doesn't Care they are fucking up the biodiversity

4)Lance was either an ex-kittypaw who's Trying so hard to pretend he's enjoying his life and loving being a Warrior cat though internally he's crying, sobbing, throwing up because he wants to Go Home!!!! Yes it's been years but he still misses his human family and his soft bed and his squeaky toy and his wet food and🥺🥺🥺🥺

5)Either that Or he is a human turned warrior cat by the Cat gods either because he accidentally pissed them so they cursed him or pleased them too much that the blessed them😔 sad! Anyway his usual inner monologue is going "What the fuck? What the fuck?!? WHAT THE FUCK?! WHAT THE F-" entire time

6)Keith is just a cat. Like a completely normal cat. Imagine a cat from our world, that's him. He doesn't know what a warrior code is and he doesn't care. Warrior cats think he's So Cool and Mysterious and Quiet loner when actually he is literally just a head empty cat

7) He's also responsible for like 50% of the bird population's steep decline making him a hot topic among the clans and the top bounty on Allura's hit list

8) Reason why he is normal is because he is raised by wolves

8) Hunk is maybe a fae. Maybe.

9) I think we already talked about this but Lotor is a well intentioned idiot here. He's the one who keeps setting cats free into the wild forest, accidentally removing the traps Allura set to capture the cats, feeding the ducks bread even though it's a bad for them, keeps removing the native flora in his mom's backyard and planting invasive plants, and tries to start fire during dry season almost causing a forestfire etc etc Allura is going to kill him if she comes to know