#You deserved so much better

[moodyvoid]

[hitmanflam]

Very good question Endou

[certifiedgoofball]

[nickesx]

i absolutely DESPISE voltron for not giving hunk enough screen time. he’s a very complex character, and has a lot of potential for an amazing character arc, but they just threw him out. 🙁

please give my sweet beautiful angel more. he deserved better!!!🙏🙏

[soup--champ]

chaos is inevitable.

[ilovepersephoneprice]

I love him so much, you guys actually don't understand. I just want to kiss him and cuddle with him

[helpmeimblorboing]

I wonder how Daisuke’s mother feels after her son’s body is eventually recovered from the crashed Tulpar, shredded beyond repair, with a massive axe wound in his face and mouthwash in his veins.

The son who would never have been on the Tulpar had she not made him take that internship at Pony Express.

The son who would never have died had she not tried to solve him being a “slacker”

[eternallyunrested]

As a Donna sympathizer, this was top 10 worst moments in human history

This is what I listened to while drawing this

[emptyportrait]

[fanfictionroxs]

"We leave the damage so we never forget the damage."

Lestat living in the shack with his broken piano that he smashed because one of his last memories with his family in NOLA was playing that piano with Claudia. Claudia who burned alive in front of him because he didn't save her, Claudia who he abused her entire life, his fledgling, his daughter. "It was never you," he told her. "A mistake," he called her. You can get a new piano, but can you get your child back?

[kismetconstellations]

There are so many ways that Voltron: Legendary Defender failed its characters. From the unfathomably idiotic decision to kill Allura off in the finale, to putting Coran through the pain of losing his family twice over, to all of the "jokes" at the expense of Hunk's anxiety, weight, and stomach problems.

But, to me, the most egregious example of this will forever be the numerous ways that Shiro was mistreated, even though I fully believe that most of them were unintentional and the fault of incompetence, rather than maliciousness.

I never expected a show with a TV-Y7 rating that was made to sell toys to children to address this character's extensive trauma in any meaningful way. And, perhaps there was a push behind the scenes to sideline him in order to bring Keith to the forefront, due to Keith being the head of Voltron in previous incarnations, and Shiro essentially being a Canon Foreigner created exclusively for this series.

But, when you have: - A poorly executed attempt to recreate Shiro's fight with Zarkon in the Astral Plane, void of the stunning visuals, impressively fluid fight choreography, and emotional and narrative stakes.

(Shiro fighting the show's main villain and his predecessor hand-to-hand for control of one of the most powerful weapons in the universe, vs the Paladins fighting shadowy, faceless foes that none of them- aside from Allura- have any personal connections to or conflict with, even once their identities are revealed, with long-range weapons, inside of Honerva's head.)

- Shiro, the previously "undefeated" Champion of Zarkon's gladiatorial arena and a highly trained and skilled martial artist, being slapped across the bridge of his own ship.

-Shiro's personal abuser telling him that the arm that was forcibly grafted onto his body in an attempt to turn him into a weapon for the Galra Empire is "the strongest part" of him,

Slav, an ally, echoing the sentiment and arguing that Shiro would be "even stronger with two robotic arms", and the first half of Season Seven confirming as much by depicting Shiro standing, often completely mute, on the sidelines

until he's outfitted with a new prosthetic arm. Only then is he actively allowed to participate in combat, again, and promoted to Captain of the Atlas.

-Shiro winning an intergalactic arm wrestling tournament to prove that he isn't a washed-up retiree (at the ripe old age of twenty-six), with that prosthetic.

-Said prosthetic being a mirror of his abuser's.

-No acknowledgement of Shiro's essence being transferred into the body of his clone that is down an arm. Or, how he's coping with not only not having a right arm at all, but also having been dead for a huge chunk of time, trapped inside the consciousness of the Black Lion and watching on helplessly as someone wearing his face tried to kill everyone he loves, and then resurrected to be suddenly "retired" through no choice of his own.

-Aside, of course, from an all-too lighthearted and chipper comment on routine helping him get through "being in the infinite void of the Black Lion", and a throwaway quip about how "having my consciousness transplanted from the infinity of Voltron's inner quintessence into the dead body of an evil clone of myself" has left him "a little out of sorts".

-And, Shiro not getting to kill his abuser, or even best him in combat.

Instead, he lies beaten and helpless, once again, as Keith, his replacement, takes Sendak out.

It crosses the line from clumsy writing to infuriating negligence and ineptitude.

The repeated violations of Shiro's autonomy, and what seems by all rights to be unintended ableism, even though it borders on outright disrespectful, went above and beyond any terrible writing and direction that I anticipated gritting my teeth and slogging through when I decided to finally bite the bullet and watch this show. It's utterly baffling to me that no one seemed to stop and realize that, "Hey, maybe introducing and then reinforcing the sentiment that a disabled man's prosthetic is the 'strongest part' of him, and he's effectively weak and useless without it, is a bad idea", at any point in the creative process before these episodes made it to air.

I wholeheartedly believe that as much as other characters were wronged, Voltron: Legendary Defender and its notoriously hellish fanbase that was more concerned with who these characters were having sex with than the actual plot, did not deserve Takashi Shirogane.

Shiro; a gay man, ace pilot, ambitious space explorer, and scarred trauma survivor who was abducted and forced to kill for the entertainment of his captors, subjected to unimaginable torture, and had his body modified without his knowledge or consent twice, yet never let any of his experiences, no matter how grueling or dehumanizing, stop him from being gentle, compassionate, noble, brave, self-sacrificing, and everything that epitomizes a True Hero, right to the bitter end.

[immagrosscandy]

y6ch18 feat. hora de aventura reference

[getvalentined]

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[ Unpopular Opinion Ask Game ]

🤍· Which character is not as morally bad as everyone else seems to think?

Already answered previously, but I can go off on another one: Sephiroth.

I mean what he did is reprehensible, obviously, but the intent, the motivation, even the catalyst for Reunion—Sephiroth's story is a tragedy in every respect.

One big thing a lot of people seem to miss is that, from Sephiroth's perspective, he didn't burn down Cloud's hometown. He'd only known Cloud for a couple days, that didn't matter. Instead, Sephiroth destroyed the place he was created. He burned down the place he was born, the place he drove away his closest friend because he'd chosen to believe Shinra's pretty lies over Genesis' harsh truth, the place everything started. He destroyed ground zero of the horror of his own existence.

Did the townsfolk deserve it? Absolutely not. But Banora was subsidized by Shinra, everyone there was on company payroll to some capacity because it's where Project G was carried out—who's to say he didn't assume the same of Nibelheim because of Project S? Who's to say Sephiroth didn't sincerely believe that everyone in Nibelheim wasn't just a usurper of his throne as heir to the planet—even though he wasn't, because he still unwittingly held to Shinra's lies until after his death—but also paid agents of the company that made him to be something more than human and then treated him like something less for his entire life?

With all that in mind, what should he have done? What else could he have done?

What would you have done in his place?

🖤 · Which character is not as morally good as everyone else seems to think?

Also answered previously, but I'll go off on another one here: Gast.

Professor Gast is horrible person in every discernible way, fandom only thinks otherwise because Sephiroth spoke of him fondly before the Nibelheim Incident, and because he's Aerith's father and apparently that's supposed to impart some of her goodness onto him or something.

The actual facts are that Gast had to have known what Hojo did to Vincent because it happened in Gast's own lab and never said or did anything about it, he's the one that didn't allow Lucrecia to have any say over Sephiroth after he was born, he's the one that fostered Sephiroth's obsession with a mother that didn't exist (starting during a period of time when his real mother was still working for the fucking company), abandoned him to Hojo's abuse when he turned out to be something other than what he wanted, and ran off to go make a real Ancient with someone half his fucking age. The fact that Ifalna forgets to call him "dear" instead of "professor" in the recordings found in Icicle has some pretty chilling implications about the truth of their relationship, but he was killed when Aerith was only two days old so we'll never know. Regardless of whether or not that was entirely consensual, there is literally nothing in canon to indicate he's anything but a genuinely reprehensible person.

💔 · If you had to remove one major character from the series, who would you choose?

Also answered previously, and I don't really have another answer for this one other than "nobody" because everyone is integral to make the series I love exist as it is.

[kneedeepindramaandcocaine]

On the treadmill, tears streaming down my face, listening to Chapter 34 of Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze like a perfectly sane person.

Need to fistfight Rick Riordan immediately.

[taters-for-tots]

screaming crying throwing up etc

[ink-and-dagger]

something something, an exasperated Jinx comes into TLD one day staggering lopsidedly and asks Astrid for help dislodging a wide-eyed Isha, who's clinging onto Jinx's leg like a barnacle. is this anything