#noctis is a niffler

[ask-wiggles]

Hewwo... Ok no. Hi how has you and your new cat does all this time?

I’ve been good! Having a jerb and moving back closer to my fam and friends has done wonders for my less-than-great mental health. Hopefully the Dark Times are over because BOY HOWDY THERE WERE SOME D A R K T I M E S

but speaking of dark things, remember how I got one cat named Bernie and then my other roommate got a cat named Noctis?

ha ha no he is mine. my cat. he mine now. forever. other roommate has returned to college and surrendered his son to me. mine. noctis is my child officially.

HERE ARE MY BABIES SOME MORE dey wuv each uvver

[darkspellmaster]

Voltron Theory: Season 7 Trailer Analysis

Wow a lot of thoughts. I’m going to combine two aspects into one, covering the first episode, so Spoilers ahoy further down. I’ll mark where I put the spoilers, so you’ll know if you don’t want info to skip.

So we open with Lance talking about the fact that they’re going home and everyone seems a bit pensive, this is different from what we saw at the end of season 6 where everyone looked very happy and ready for a new adventure going home.

We see in the next shot that Shiro is clearly thinking about the situation back home with a person that’s important to him (again I’m trying to not spoil for those who haven’t seen this, details about said person will be far below in spoiler section).

We get a shot of the person from behind and it’s clear by the guy’s back that he’s tense and not very happy. The body language reads more annoyed or hurt or worried about something.

Allura informs the group that it’s going to be a long and difficult voyage and that it’s the only chance they will have to replace the castle of lions. It’s clear from the look on her face that she’s not thrilled with the idea either but it’s all that they have. We’re still on the planet where they woke Shiro up and the Niffler incident.

We cut to the team coming over a ridge sans Allura. It’s clear that they’re looking at something and there’s smoke behind them. I think this may be a later episode when they get to earth and probably after the moment with the girl in the garrison vehicle.

We see a close up and Lance, Hunk and Pidge are shocked while Shiro and Keith are grim as hell about what they see. This may be connected to the over turned Garrison vehicle and after they land and save someone, which is why I think the others are not there, they’re tending to that person. 

Pretty sure this and the first five pictures are all from episode two, the ones in the middle are flash backs to things we see in episode one. Lance takes off first in his lion, followed by Hunk then Keith, then Allura and Pidge as they head off the planet they landed on during the ending of season 6 and the first episode of season 7.

Pidge, using her real name, Katie sends out a message to the earth but there is no reply.

We get a shot of Lotor and Voltron fighting and Acxa saying that no one has seen Voltron since that fight.

Hunk with Romelle in some sort of room where you can see the cloth in the door way, they’re in a fire light moment, so it’s clear that they’re being taken care of here. Hunk mentions that he thinks people think they’re dead.

Next shot is the Galra coming after them in space with Coran broadcasting about that. I think this may have ties into what’s going on with events later on. It seems like Haggar may have advanced the Galra ships at this point.

Moments later we get a shot of Lance and Keith, and this is not taking place in the same scene as the one with the group flying away, but I think it’s in the same episode. You can see the green light in both their cockpits, and that same green light is seen later both with the monster that we see and a black hole, worm hole, thing that they’re around.

The one thing about the energy tendrils are that they are pink and this is kind of important later. I’m wondering if that may be Acxa and the others that chose not to follow Sendek. Maybe they think that Sendek murdered or forced Lotor into that situation. Although it certainly looks like they’re headed for trouble with this.

Hunk nearing some sort of green black hole structure. In the closer one you can see it’s glowing the same color as the colors in the monster scene and the one with Lance and Keith.

Hunk is surprised by the new weapons that the Galra are using. Which should tell you a lot about how they were achieved thanks to Haggar.

We next see a shot where Keith is pulling up information around our solar system and showing locations that seem to indicate possible Galra forces. Then we get a shot of earth and the Atlantic area, and Keith saying for them to look at that. Something’s going on down there with his readings.

Katie’s parents are sending out a message of help, it keeps getting distorted. I have to wonder if this is what Acxa is showing the group when Hunk is talking about them being dead.

Okay so I grouped these three together because they follow a sequence. We see the monster from the green center. Which connects to the hole with Hunk’s shot and the Lance/Keith split screen moment. It’s clear the Monster sees them and looks hungry, and opens up it’s mouth and the group blast off to get away. What’s weird here is that it’s just the main 5, and no signs of Romelle, Krolia, Coran, Shiro, or the cow anywhere.

We see a shot of a ship shooting out tendrils, thing is unlike the Galra ship we see later, that’s clearly the blue of Lotor. So I think this may be the Generals grabbing hold of the Lions to maybe pull them to safety for some reason, vs. it being an enemy grabbing Hunk.

Which brings me to Yellow getting caught.

Next three shots of Keith throwing his Blade are all connected as he’s attacking a Mercenary that we see later in some sort of cavern that’s being used as a facility. Not sure what the wires are being used for though. This also may be connected to the fist hitting the ground as it’s the same sort of background. 

Okay the next to pics are weird but important. In the first one you can see that it’s (starting on the left) Keith, then Hunk, then Allura, then Lance, then Pidge. Keep this in mind as they are all in a group falling, or floating, in some sort of lighting storm of red space. What happens next is important I think. Hunk has both legs lassoed by the lighting, Lance has the right leg lassoed and Keith has his left leg being pulled.

What’s also interesting is the placement in some weird way. Pidge is between Keith and Lance, while you have Lance next to Allura and Hunk between Keith and Allura. Also another important thing is that none of the other characters (Shiro, Romelle, Coran, Krolia) are here at all. So what is going on. Why is it just the guys being lassoed in the shot? And for what reason are they the ones that the lighting hit?

Okay so we’re getting some back story here it seems. The yellow paladin, yeah I think that’s the first Yellow Paladin and we’re seeing his death. He’s got his gun at the ready. You can tell it’s not Hunk because of the design of the armor and the shape of the body.

So the next two shot is a fist hitting the ground, followed by the ground breaking, a blue energy being released and guys flying all over.  Now that could belong to at least three people. One is Allura as we see in the two shots the person is using the pink energy that she’s used, along with the blue and a blue force field around them. It would be the most logical person as she can hit like a truck (see what Zethrid said when they first fought). Option two is an odd one, in that that could be Shiro activating the powers that he got when Allura brought him back and this is his new attack. Problem is that we don’t know if Shiro is going to get a new arm or not, since they don’t have a lot of supplies. Also the hand is the right, and that’s the one he’s missing. This leaves us with option three which is Keith. As weird as this is going to sound, it makes sense. This could be some latent powers from the Black lion and the blue maybe from his wolf friend creating a field around him. Because we can see this is the same place he’s fighting the mercenary later on in the trailer.

The following shots are weird. I’m still trying to figure out where they are. But it’s clear that Voltron is flying at something very powerful. They manage to form Voltron but it’s clear that the power is way to much for them and it shorts out the lions.

We see a shot of Lance on his own, Pidge with Shiro –which makes sense since he’s still protective of her even if he isn’t a paladin, Hunk on his own, and Coran with Allura. Which makes me think Krolia and Romelle are with Keith…where’s the cow though? Probably in the back of the Red lion with Lance.

So the lions are out of juice…now what? Also I don’t think that the images with them losing power with the floating lions and them still in the ship are part of the same black space images. I think that that may be something to do with the weird attacks from the Galra or something else, since the space with the lions floating is different than the one with Voltron.

We cut back to that fight with Keith and the Merc, and apparently someone at Mir is playing way to much of Final Fantasy XV because Man….is that a freaking reference to Noctis’s warping skills, complete with the little blue crystal after affects going on. Like…wow. I love it but…wow…

Anyway, seems like Wolf can transport Keith around, but…

As we see a moment later, said Merc can do it too. Question is why? Looks like he’s got Galra tech via his sword. Also why are they ganging up on Keith? What is he up to?

Hunk and the others together in season 7 episode 1, which I’ll go into below. Nice to see Romelle joining them on their adventure.

Next three shots I think connect to the earlier one where the team comes over the ridge. We see there’s a garrison vehicle, and given the outfit is very much similar to the one we see the woman in the first episode wearing,

 I’ll be it it’s more a uniform then a space suit, it seems like the Garrison is under attack.  And Lance may have jumped down to protect either an officer or a student that is in that situation, it’s up in the air at this point.

We do not see Allura, Coran, Krolia or Romelle at this point, making me think that the group got split up.

Again we’re back at the weird black space, and there’s a green energy orb in the center of it. Given that we see the team out of the robot at this point, I think that the weird black space with the green energy orb and the following shots are probably connected to the red world sequence. So we have Pidge, Allura, Lance, Keith and Hunk on the outside. They fall, starting with Pidge, and I’m damn sure that the red space stuff is part of this trippy sequence of events.

Sendek giving his order is probably something connected to an earlier episode or at the end of episode two, where we get the whole “we’re seen as dead” idea.

The last shot I think may come from the moment they come back to earth and are dealing with the attack.

Over all, I get the feeling that the first six episodes are going to deal with the trip back to earth, a small time skip due to the dream situation, and then the last six or seven of the 13 are going on earth, building the castle, beating Sendak and possibly getting hints of Lotor coming back and the Alter-teans.

So why is Acxa saying what she’s saying? My guess is that after the situation with Lotor it may have caused some sort of ripple in distortion in time that allowed for Haggar to build things and time moved faster for everyone else while they got stuck frozen for a bit. I’m also curious as to what is going on with Shiro, Romelle, Krolia, Space Wolf, and Coran while the group of five is in that weird black Space.

Also Matt and the Coalition, I think they are still fighting.  I feel like they are still working on things, but without the Voltron it was easier for Sendak to scare the planets into submission.

(Skip to the end if you don’t want to hear about anything from Episode 1)

So Spoilers now.

Episode One “A tiny Adventure” pulls in a lot of backstory and, finally, gives us more regarding Keith and Shiro and their relationship. I would have thought this would have been in the story, you know, earlier, but okay then. So we learn from Shiro’s point of view about Keith. How he stood out to him and, I should note, that Keith certainly didn’t change that much visually as he got older.

During the school situation we see that he, Keith, is kind of looked down on by some of his classmates and certainly the principle. What’s interesting is that he already knows how to drive a car, and steals Shiro’s. We also get to meet Adam…Shiro’s ex-fiancé.

There’s a lot to say about that scene, namely that it was both good and bad that it felt so stereotypical. We learn that Adam isn’t keen on Shiro going into space again due to what probably is MS and he’s worried that he won’t be able to handle it. Now while I disagree with Adam on this, I understand his reasoning. He’s scared that Shiro may die and, as others have said, this is not easy for him. However, what makes me sort of annoyed with his behavior is that he too is a pilot, formerly Shiro’s partner there as well.

So I would think that he would understand the reasons for Shiro to want to go out into space. This is the same argument I tend to level at writers who have people that are together and have the same risky jobs, where the one partner tells the other that they don’t want them risking their lives, when they do the same damn thing in their own line of work. It’s weird, and a bit hypocritical of him, but it’s understandable.

The thing that struck me about Adam though, and also in a moment we will hit the others, is that he looks a hell of a lot like a character named Shannon from Vehicle Voltron. Shannon was a member of the Sea team, and also one of the hot heads who hated the villains of the series due to his sister being missing or killed due to their actions. So if Adam happens to have Shannon as his last name…well….

Other things to note about the flashbacks, was that we now get why Lance thinks Keith is his rival, because Keith bumped him. Yeah….

Also, about James Griffin, and the other members of the flying team. 

A lot of them look like the characters from Vehicle Voltron (maybe hints of the next cast coming down the line if they do a second series?). What isn’t so surprising is that we finally know who pushed Keith as in regard to the whole discipline issue, that being James, and probably he would be more of a rival than Lance.

Other things that we learned, was that Romelle is Usagi Tsukino from Sailor moon. She even have the run down! It’s clear from her issue with Adventure’s not being fun, that she’s supposed to be a mix of Sailor Moon (if the drawing for SDCC wasn’t enough to show it) and some of the other girls including Sailor Mars, and Jupiter, with the possibility of seeing some of Mercury and Venus in the mix later.

Her interactions with Hunk were amazing, and on point for someone who has been pretty sheltered their whole life. This means that during these next two seasons (and maybe if we get a new series into that one) we’ll see her grow past her own fears and become, maybe not as “Whoo hoo” about going out there, but more willing to do so. Though I get the feeling that she and Shiro are going to be the two going “Are you guys seriously going to do down that waterslide head first?” with Hunk pointing out he was just thinking that.

The balance between the dramatic and the funny in this episode was a good thing as it gave a breather and allowed for an interesting dynamic to be fully fleshed out. Now the question is how are the other dynamics going to change and adapt for the last two seasons.

Over all the fun of them being chased by a Niffler, and seeing Romelle be corrected by Pidge and the others (I think poking some light fun at people who think they know a language from watching shows and then trying to sound like they speak it) showing how the language has changed over the years. And seeing them dealing with the issue of being small, and how they course corrected the whole thing. I love the fact that they were all happy to see Shiro awake, including Romelle, because while she doesn’t know him, she clearly can tell he’s important to the others that she’s going to make friends with.

I loved the fact that Coran managed to yet again prove to have a great deal of knowlege, but also is on top of the silly actions department, even after a very serious situation. Also loved the interactions between Pidge and Lance. 

(End of Spoilers)

I think this season is shaping up to be a strong one. I really hope that by the time 8 finishes, we’ll be able to be happy with the conclusion of the series.

[spectrespecced]

I.   NOCTIS...

SHE IS ELEVEN, having just received the famous letter of acceptance to the prestigious school of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, just one week ago, on the EXACT date ( February 13th, 1992 ) of her eleventh birthday.  Now, she has to prepare to become a student of the magical world, to become a student of Hogwarts.  

SHE IS EXCITED, as she and her father, Xenophilius, pad across the cobblestone way of Diagon Alley, a place she’s been before, many times, but this trip is SPECIAL, this trip is different.  Just like her.  They journey the market, from shop to shop, collecting the required school materials.  At Madam Malkin’s, she was fit and measured for hand-tailored robes.  A process that required Luna to be still, of which she struggled with dearly, due to a slight bobbing and bounce of her person ( sometimes a soft rocking of heels ) when standing IDLE, until her father asked her gently to be still for the nice woman.  And then there was Flourish & Blotts, a bookstore she had frequented with her mother when she was even more a child than now, only two years prior and many years even before.  She stands FROZEN, just inside, in the foyer of the shop, mere feet away from the door that has closed completely with a soft jingle.

AND SHE IS FULL OF SORROW, sullen gaze drifting among the books, from section to section, memories of her mother flooding her mind.  Spell books of ingredients for potion brews, and a section for spell books of how-to’s where her mother would frequent to gather KNOWLEDGE of spell experimentation.  The same experimentation that had led to her mother’s demise, that now made a place once of refuge and safety into a place of a grim reminder.  Two hands land against her shoulders, giving a gentle squeeze, “ Your mother loved books, almost as much as she loved you, ” her father whispers to her.  “ She was so happy when you expressed an interest in them. ”

AND YET A STRANGE OPTIMISM envelopes her, her mind no longer muddled with heartache, but with joyful memories.  She remembers how her mother would read to her aloud, a voice as soft as her own, and how they would sit together and Luna would read aloud to HER.  You’re our brilliant and bright little moon, her mother would say to her, with a smile that graced every nook and cranny of her features.  Her father gently guides her to move further into the bookstore, his hands leaving her shoulders as soon as she does, but Luna’s hand finds her father’s, her brow set, determination AFLAME upon her face to search and locate the required books.  “ Our brilliant and bright little moon, ” he whispers, and gives her hand a proud squeeze.

FOR SHE IS NOT ALONE, her mother, and her father, are in her heart, and they will always be with her.  If she is the moon, then they are the STARS that paint the sky in the night, even when the moon is anew.  I’ve got Daddy, she smiles to herself, and Mum too.  As long as they are in her heart, SHE WILL NEVER BE ALONE.  With their visit to Flourish & Blotts a success, her books ordered and on their way to the ROOK, they venture for more of her school supplies.  To Wiseacre’s Wizarding Equipment and Potage’s Cauldron Shop for odds and sods, and finally to the Magical Menagerie, the last stop of the day.  Even with magical brooms sweeping away and rags wiping FRANTICALLY at fingerprints on the glass surfaces, the shop was disorderly and stunk of mildew.  Feathers littered the floor, and old newspapers sat in piles, likely used by shorter children to stand on so they could look in the the cages and tanks that lined the walls filled with owls, frogs, toads, rats, and even a rabbit or two.  For all it’s disorder and stink, Luna did not have a care in the world, there were creatures to see.  Some which are considered ‘ NORMAL ’, and some not so normal.  Just like her...  She went from cage to cage, from tank to tank, squeaking with excitement; “ Daddy, look!  Baby Nifflers!  Daddy, look!  Toads!  That’s a Harlequin, so colorful, I wonder if they think our colors are drab, oh, and that’s a Natterjack!  They chatter, I wonder what they speak about. ”  But, her attention strays, gaze lifting, towards what had been a glimpse of movement in her peripheral.  The most BEAUTIFUL creature she has ever seen sits just above the tanks, peering down at her with eyes that shine like stars, of blue so light in color that they are silver.  Just like hers...  “ Hello, ” she speaks softly, holding her arms out, “ Would you like to come down? ”  And the creature does, jumping from the top of the tanks right into Luna’s waiting arms.  Now in the light, she could see that it is a hairless cat, a Sphynx to be specific, and a HE, who is bald all over with skin like soot-colored, softened leather.  He begins to purr as she rubs his smooth skin, content within the shelter of her arms.  “ I think I’m going to take you home with me, ” she smiles.

SHE HAS A NEW FRIEND, several galleons later, of which the shop-keeper was happy to accept for the peculiar breed.  Almost too happy, for Luna’s liking, to be rid of the Sphynx; a WEIRD one, the keep had called him, but she says nothing, almost too happy that she’d chosen to give the little fella the home he deserved, with someone who could, and WOULD, appreciate weird.  Because, SHE is weird, because she understands.  Soon, she, her father, and her new friend are aboard the train home to the ROOK at Ottery St. Catchpole.  Luna sits serenely, criss-cross applesauce ( as she likes to call it, the muggles do ) in a seat beside her father, silver gaze resting on her feline as fingers rub his bald, black head.  “ What do you think of the name Noctis?, ” she asks the cat, who sits staring out the window in her lap.  The moment the question leaves her mouth, the cat’s eyes close slowly and RELEASE.  “ Yes, I think I like it too. ”

                                             A FRIEND NAMED NOCTIS.