#galrans

March Madness is one of my favorite sporting events and I get... really into it. In the spirit of the “season” I thought it’d be fun to have a little tournament of our own and what’s a better face-off than villains? :D 

To be very clear: this is for fun ONLY! Bragging rights and all that jazz. This is not a contest with prizes, just a little game. I love prizes too but I am tapped dry xD 

How it Works: 

Check out my awesome bracket below! There are a total of 32 villains I’ve taken from my fics (please note the fic too as some, like Lotor or Sendak, appear for a specific fic and not another and they have different methods/personalities/resources depending on the fic) that are being pitted in a 1 vs 1 match-up.  You will vote who would win in a fight between these two opposing sides. And just remember, the “strongest” might not always win because there could be other factors at play (just like how upsets occur amongst seeds in the actual NCAA tournament) so think about the match-up carefully! Have fun with your choices too ♥

I will post a Google poll according to the schedule below and you’ll have that day to cast your votes. Majority will move on until we have our winner! There will also be a spot for you to explain your choices if you’d like and I’ll post the best responses with the vote results the next day.

For fairness, the villains are listed in alphabetical order over any perceived ranking on my part. So we might eliminate a few “strong” villains earlier than they’d like to be, but alas, Naruto chunnin exams, that’s how random selection works ;p

The Bracket:

See below! Feel free to fill it out ahead of time to see where you fall. Again, this is just for fun but if you win you are most definitely entitled to bragging rights and I will post your awesomeness on the page! :D 

(If Tumblr is being silly for you, view the full image here too: http://oi67.tinypic.com/1625x52.jpg) 

The Schedule

Round 1 (32 teams)

March 21: Four games March 22: Four games March 23: Four games March 24: Four games

Round 2 (16 teams - Sweet Sixteen)

March 28: Two games March 29: Two games March 30: Two games March 31: Two games

Round 3 (8 teams - Elite Eight)

April 2: Two games April 3: Two games

Round 4 (4 teams - Final Four)

April 4: Two games

Round 5 (2 teams - FINAL!)

April 5: Final game! 

All winners will be posted ~an hour before the next set of games/polls is released on subsequent days.

I already have my prediction of who would win and have my own bracket filled out  ♥ I can’t wait to see who you guys pick.

Let’s have some fun!!!

Hi, anon. Thanks for your note! Ido have a few head canons about the different alien groups in VLD:

Galrans

They have a warmer body temperaturethan humans or Alteans due to increased metabolism. This gives them some oftheir more Captain America-like abilities, including quick recovery and resilience.

They have music and recordings,but these are used to perpetuate the Galran empire’s aims. Galrans would gowild for human culture and music, which is so diverse and often unrelated orcritical of politics.

Galrans can and like to eat bone.It’s considered a delicacy. On this note, I head canon that Planet Feyiv hasskeleton-like creatures as part of its wintry ecosystem, and that resource iswhy the Galra desired to conquer that planet first, even though they are suited or hotter climates.

They have shorter life spans ingeneral compared to Alteans but still much longer than humans. I wonder if thisis why Zarkon spoke of the desire for immortality in that s3 flashback.

The Galran race has interbredoften, and their ability to still interbreed with Alteans, etc. would suggestperhaps a common evolutionary ancestry somewhere.

Galrans have enhanced senses wellabove those of a human’s, but Galrans with the big fluffy ears have betterhearing than sight, and Galrans with elfin ears have better sight than hearing.

There are planets through theuniverse where Galrans from the original fall of Diabazaal settled and lived inpeace with the native people, sharing their passions about honor and personalself-discipline.

Galrans would love human soapoperas. And trashy reality TV.

Alteans

They have the strangest cuisines of any other people.This is why Emperor Zarkon often hosted dinners for the first paladins, becausehe could not stand the traditional paladin lunch Alfor liked to offer them. Buthe was also too honorable to insult his friend.

The Alteans suffered a major cataclysmand loss of culture in its far-ancient past, like an Atlantis story. Oriande issaid to be an ancient/legendary place, but in s3, Honerva scoffs that the ancientsbelieved lightning was sent from the gods. I think Oriande was built at a veryearly time for Alteans, was well-known at one point, but there was some kind ofmajor collapse (either natural cataclysm or massive war). The remaining alchemistscreated the guardian to protect it from the threat, and the surviving bottleneckedpopulation of Alteans mostly forgot about it, until the riddles and facts becamelegends and bedtime stories, and a lot of scientific knowledge faded back intomythology. It wasn’t for several millennia that science began to once moreovertake mythology.

Royal Alteans have a deeperconnection to quintessence than most Alteans, because they have white hair(there seems to be a connecting factor there between white hair and quintessence?).

The “Ones Who Came Before” mightbe a reference to the destructive, trans-reality rift creatures/The Entities. Itis interesting to me that the term “Life Givers” is explicitly separated from “OnesWho Came Before.” I wonder if the far-ancient Alteans understood that the meddlingof The Entities was necessary for the creation of the branches in the multiverse.Honerva was attempting to seek more knowledge of them but failed to fully grasp/controlthat knowledge, and so it destroyed her.

Olkari

They might share a distant evolutionaryrelationship with Alteans and Galrans. (Perhaps the diaspora from the originalfall of far-ancient worlds?) Their abilities with nanocellulose heavily mimicAlfor’s abilities to build weapons from quintessence, but over time they adaptedto their new environment, hence their excessively different physicalcharacteristics.

Nanocellulose might have once beenmore readily available throughout the universe.

Their traditional music is beautifulenough to make anyone cry. But it is also sacred enough that one must be connected to the planet to be given the right to hear it.

They have regenerative abilitiesand can regrow lost limbs. 

The Olkari once had a great alliance with the Galra and helped them and native Alteans to build a large amount of pre-rift technology.

Honerva and Alfor had several teachers who were from Olkarion.

The Mining Colony (The one Lotor was in charge of before Zarkondestroyed it)

I originally named it Strayix inmy story The Second Law.

The people of that planet knew ofEmperor Zarkon and feared him well before he ever arrived to establish acolony.

About my thoughts on Ven’tar/Lotor:When Lotor was sent to oversee quintessence mining, the people wanted to createa tie between their people and Lotor to ensure their ongoing survival. They’dheard he was a little more reasonable than his father (But Lotor would havebeen quite young still and obviously still attempting to please his father, andso might not have been as kind/diplomatic as seen later in his life.) Ven’tar,a beautiful woman of high rank and education, volunteered herself to make surethe prince would enjoy his stay. (Think of Scheherazade from 1001 Arabian Nights.) Despite aromantic interest and his increasing curiosity in the kind ways of Ven’tar, Lotor soondiscovered that Ven’tar’s kind actions toward him were originally an engineered ploy, and perhaps that her people had an interest in establishing immortality for themselves through such an alliance or otherwise escaping the bad consequences of Galran imperialism. And so, whilehe respected and greatly admired Ven’tar, he could not believe her love for him wasever truly real. This would align with Lauren Montgomery’s s6 statements: “PoorLotor, he’s never experienced a trusting relationship. So he has no clue. Like,all of his relationships are lies… Like, this is normal. This is what normalpeople do.” It was out of respect for her that he ultimately desired to save the planetfrom his father and see it thrive. Ven’tar/his colony experiences might have been a majorinfluence for his ongoing interest in cultures, and for his later attempt topreserve the Alteans.

The people of this planet havemultiple types of vocal chords, resulting in the garbled sound of their voices.

Because of their many vocal chordsand the complexity of their throats/mouths, the people have antennae throughwhich to taste or smell.

They have regenerative abilities.

Some of them managed to escape thedestruction of the planet, just as many Alteans escaped the destruction oftheirs.

Ven’tar lived. Zarkon had nointerest in speaking to her or her people and might have completely ignored herpresence in s8, ep2. (To talk to or do anything to her would require he “lower himself” to interact with an “inferior” species.) Her people might have dragged her away from the fallen Lotor,perhaps using escape pods to disappear to a lesser-known moon.

The people of this colony havebeen rebuilding in secret for the last 10,000 years, living in a hollowed-outplanet previously mined for quintessence. The planet’s thick crust hid themfrom Zarkon’s radar. They nearly appeared to team Voltron when they heard of Lotorrising to the throne, but the subsequent fallout between Voltron and the emperorinspired them to remain hidden.

9,000 years ago, Ven’tar allowed fora fledgling Blade of Marmora to train within their sanctuary. Before dying ofold age, surrounded by family, her last communication to an outcast Lotor wasan encrypted message that “hope is in the stars.”

Ask and you shall receive! 

Enjoy! 

Helpless

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Snippet: 

Pidge chewed on her lower lip. She tried not to watch as the interrogator asked Keith another question. And Keith - to his credit with blood all over his nose and face - fixed the interrogator with one of his famous glares and told the Galran to go fuck himself.

The scream that followed as Keith’s arm was twisted in the Interrogator’s grasp made Pidge’s stomach churn.

Start small, Pidge thought, glancing down at the manacles that bound her wrists. They weren’t high-tech, like the rest of the Galrans bindings were. The outpost they were held at must not have had the same updated technology as the forefront of the Galra force did. A small circular-shaped hole on the underside of Pidge’s wrist was the only indication that there was a lock to release the chains.

And where there was a lock, there was a key.

Just not…a conventional key.

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