#vdotu

in the franchise, lance has been established to be an ace-flyer, incredibly perceptive (specifically in dotu and vttd, the source material + the closest sequel!), impulsive, and cocky—but his cockiness had SUBSTANCE. he knew he was that good. to me vforce has one of the best lance characterisations in how they get him: he’s a great flier, he’s a dependable figure of authority, he’s snarky, he bites back, he has the right amount of silliness and pettiness dotu lance had. in vforce, everyone could get teased by the narrative! it wasn’t one or two characters taking the brunt (hi vld hunk and lance!).

but in vld, they practically cut out all those parts of lance, the flying, the perceptiveness, his confidence, and then give it to keith (whose original personality had been then given to shiro). they leave him with the cockiness, but there’s nothing to back it up. they orchestrate keith and lance’s rivalry to be one-sided and terribly unbalanced because keith IS better than lance in a lot of things. this was never the case before, they had strengths and weaknesses that the other complemented and would sometimes cause conflict (vttd is a great example of this!).

i think the reason why it bothers me so much, is because this is first time lance has been latino and not white (not counting golion’s isamu in this). the first time! and the moment he is, they take away his skills and his strengths, have him bullied by the narrative and made into a joke, never taken seriously, and dialed up his flirtatiousness to over 9000. the only time i can actually recall lance being flirtatious in the franchise was in ddp’s run, but even then it wasn’t nearly as prominent or excessive as vld lance’s nonstop flirting. he gets keith’s leftover lion, he gets a sword like keith, he’s allura’s second choice, he never really finds his place in the team.

My contribution to Keithtober. This survived many moves since the 1980s. Keith has been my boyfriend since 1984. ❣️

casually resurrects this blog to post one piece of art then dissappear for the next 5 years

hey look, a post! isn’t that rare

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As Blue did in the show, Red wants his first stop to be the castle of lions.He takes Keith, Antonk and Kolivan straight to Allura.

Her wake up is anything but pleasant, and soon the princess see herself tied up and in a verbal fight to make her understand they’re actually the good guys. It takes them a while but they end building an alliance.

In the meanwhile, on earth, it’s been like a month since Shiro landed on the desert and Pidge - along with “his” friends Lance and Hulk - are finally ready to put their plan to break him out into action

They succeed, of course and end hiding in the shack they had previously prepared to hold Shiro while he recovers.

Pidge discovers Blue’s energy while trying to learn more about Shiro’s arm and all four of them are finally going to investigate the cave when the Galra ship shows up, promptly followed by the Castle, a huge, mechanic, red lion and a bunch of weirdos all dressed up in black.

In the chaos that follows, a few Blades and several Galra soldiers try to get Blue’s barrier down but it stays put until Lance is violent threw against it.

It’s a total mess. One of the Blades in the place grabs Lance and forces him into the lion’s cabin. Hunk and Pidge and Shiro freak out and scream a lot and a few Blades drags them along after them because wE CAN’T LEAVE THEM HERE, SUSAN, THEY WILL KILL THEM DEAD and that’s how a few Blades, plus our four remaining main characters find themselves on a huge, mecha blue cat flying straight to the Castle of Lions.