#i'm so sorry i really don't hate a\\urance at all it's just so prevalent in the vlog

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On Lance’s Vlog

so. that happened.

i know a lot of people are feeling cheated on this. i know i was looking forward to some actual character development, but we got what we got and i am so ready to analyse this.

i usually keep my mouth shut about this stuff but what i saw was actually interesting and contradicts what others are saying. i was... amused, more than anything? if you forget about the potential of the blog and the multitude of things that would have been better to talk about (lance’s!!! family!!!!) there was some interesting stuff i picked up on.

disclaimer: i am tired and wrote this in three hours so it’s only roughly edited, slightly incoherent and probably missing bits.

bear in mind this is just my interpretation and while i would be okay with a\\urance i am going to be quite negative about it here, not because klance owns my soul (i mean it does) but because the video is literally 80% a\\ura and it’s impossible to avoid. i will try my best to be impartial and critical.

okay. let’s do this. (and yes i have an hour’s worth of english that’s due tomorrow that i’m not doing in favour of this hellhole of a fandom.)

for all of you saying ‘a\\urance confirmed’ – this statement is made by the majority of you because a\\ura is literally all he talked about for half the video. thing is, we know already that he has a crush on a\\ura. we knew this very clearly from the very first time we saw them interact. we haven’t learned anything new on this subject and there’s been no real development on it through this vlog. (apart from maybe the fact that the crush is still there when we thought he’d grown out of flirting with her or the crush had mostly worn off. character development? never heard of her)

what really interested me is that the clips shown where he was ‘flirting’ with her were the ones that made it very, very obvious she’s not interested.

the one time she reacted like she didn’t want to throw him off a cliff was in that space mall episode (2x07) when he offers to buy her something shiny and she says (this is paraphrased okay) ‘i’d love something shiny’. so why didn’t they include that?

the most obvious answer: to make it very, very clear a\\ura is not interested in him.

the thing that bugged me when i first started watching the show, that i couldn’t put into words until recently, was this – the trope where a guy flirts with a girl who’s not interested, and she keeps declining him and he keeps pushing until he ‘wins’ and the girl says yes. it’s unhealthy as hell and it completely put me off a\\urance, which completely fit this, until recently when lance started actually treating her as a person. or so i thought. grr.

the other explanation for the clips with allura, that i’m far less convinced about, is that it could be done for humour, but this would be in incredibly bad taste, invalidate a\\ura as a charater and all of lance’s development and honestly? it’s not fitting with how the show has treated their female characters at all. (that being said consistency and character development isn’t this shows strongest point if this vlog was anything to go by. yes i am still salty about this.)

for a\\urance to be confirmed more the vlog would have to include allura showing interest, to be blunt. the thing is, there are two people in a relationship, not one. lance likes her, we got that loud and clear from the start. but a\\ura is not interested. a relationship cannot happen when only one person is interested. there are scenes that could be interpreted as romantic between them (at a push but still) and none. of. these. were. included. in. the. vlog. why? to emphasise he’s chasing a dead end.

this video was literally showing lance being a deluded fool completely failing at anything and everything to do with flirting with girls. the only time he didn’t get completely wrecked in this video was with plaxum and that was all of three seconds of the video and is never going to happen. otherwise it shows he’s completely clueless that what he’s doing isn’t working (or it’s a front/facade – more on that later). again, space mall episode, 2x07, he actually makes a couple of girls blush – why not include that instead of him getting slayed by nyma?

because they want to emphasise how utterly miserably he’s failing to live up to his ‘lover boy lance’ name.

my other main point was this one small thing: ‘pretty’. lance says this:

yeah she’s [a\\ura] great

i mean she probably thinks i'm great and strong and pretty--

—i mean not pretty, pretty, i mean,, ha---

han--*eternal sigh* is there –

 is there– computer is there a delete button on here?

lance. you wear face masks and hair towels. and you’re concerned about your masculinity?

to put it plainly this video was painfully painfully straight. and the fact that the vlog was basically all about how much lance loves women was kinda intriguing for me? add this thing at the end where he’s afraid to call himself pretty and tries to delete the fact he ever called himself that and i’m kinda... huh.

either the show has made him into this caricature of lover boy lance and that’s literally the only thing he’ll ever be or he’s desperately in denial.

let me explain:

lance is good at putting up masks. he’s good at acting all brash with a shitload of bravado when he’s feeling insecure. and it’s kinda logical that the more insecure he feels the more and more bravado appears.

i know that some of this is literally just the style of animation but his expressions in this? half of them are so over-exaggerated and fake. in animation exaggeration in expressions is used to convey emotion but to have this much in such a short clip is strange to me.

at the start he outright lies to make himself look cool – ‘you can call me sharpshooter, it’s what my friends call me’.

no, lance, it’s what you want your friends to call you, even though they never have.

it sets the tone of the whole thing up as an exaggeration or straight up lie. this tone is continued throughout and it basically means that anything he says you have to take with a grain of salt – which, as we see, is completely and utterly backed up by the aforementioned utter failure to flirt with girls, especially a\\ura. this whole thing is just fake fake fake.

i mentioned insecurities – if you haven’t noticed lance is insecure by now i’d be a little surprised. in the space prison he talks to lyca about being the seventh wheel (2x10). he wanted to be black paladin solely to give himself some feeling that he was useful to the team (3x01). and then there’s the famed ‘bedroom scene’ (3x06) where he does all that finger counting and basically says he’s useless to the team.

he never lets this slip to any of his team, he covers it up by trying to appear loud and arrogant. (he does confide in keith but that’s not the point of this)

now, what’s the main reason for bending the truth and lying? insecurities.

if we say that he covers his insecurities with bravado

and this is shown through exaggerated behaviour and expressions...

and the vlog had a hell load of exaggerated expressions and outright obvious lies...

he’s hiding something.

and what was he exaggerating? his love for girls. his sexuality.

exaggeration to cover up his insecurities, perhaps?

his insecurity about his sexuality?

could it be he’s in denial about his sexuality, then?

(klance bonus - it’s a popular therory keith developed a crush on lance after the bonding moment(tm) and lance has had a crush on keith since the garrison, just mistook the feelings for rivalry. now if this video is just one whole load of denial it would fit in very well with the coming to terms with his sexuality thing. it’s just so blatant to me there’s something off about this video and this is how i interpreted it. why are you so concerned with looking completely straight, lance?)

anyway, i’ll leave it up to you. to me lance is bi and i would bet good money he will be confirmed canonically bi. strangely enough this vlog has only reaffirmed this in my mind.

okay so maybe the entire point of this was to back up the lance is bi argument. i’ll just leave you with this:

fingerguns.