#soley because of their lack of bond in year one and like

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@ghostdoctor i had to like scroll so carefully to fit this into one screenshot but THESE IDEAS ARE SO CUTE

i think we finally found something we have different opinions on because i physically cant see this before izuku's crush realization for me.

i just really like the idea of like when monoma and izuku sorta become buddy buddy with their shared quirk enjoyment Izuku starts to become endeared by the little things (and even the things he used to think were lowkey annoying) that monoma would do when they spend time together.

AND LIKE WHEN 1-A QUESTION"S IZUKU OR SHITS ON MONOMA IZUKU IS LIKE "guys he's actually really sweet" and someone would be like

"no he just has a soft spot for you"

and like,,, he does. monoma like absolutely refuses to admit it but he really does think that izuku is just amazing. better than him in every way. which fuels his inferiority complex but also has this mixed in admiration and it messes with monoma's head SO BAD because hes supposed to hate this boy.

he wants to be around izuku but he wants to run away from his as fast as he can when hes nearby. he wants to love him but it would never work because izuku is thousands of miles ahead of him in everything, so why would he ever look back at monoma? why would he ever choose him out of all people. its impossible, so its better to hate him then to get himself hurt by wishing on a star that doesn't even exist.

and then with Midoriya, he probably thinks that monoma lowkey dislikes him still since he sucks at expressing feelings by anything other then being mean so its like

izuku knows that monoma likes being around him because he keeps spending time with him, but sometimes he's unsure due to the things Monoma says. (AUTISM. and his self image issues lol)

so these two are just in this never ending "he doesn't like me like that" cycle and the hypothetical readers are just like

"FUUUUCCCKKKKKKKK PLEASE JUST TALK ABOUT FEELINGS OR SOMTHING FOR ONE MINUTE I BEG"

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The Donovan Desmond Theory

In light of the latest chapter.

Donovan Desmond is giving serious Reginal Hargreeves vibes.

But like if I had suspicions that he was a bad dude or at least is involved in some bad things then that’s been cleared up a little bit in the most recent chapters.

I don’t know if I fully believe Desmond is an alien like Melinda thinks I think maybe he has a non human quality to him (like say something like Anya’s powers) combined with his general lack of human understanding it seems I think him being an alien is Melinda’s explanation for what is happening (or you now chances are he could be one but so far the story has remained fairly grounded and so im inclined to believe it will stay that way)

But what I think is most liek let is that he is the one behind the scientific experiments that Anya, bond and probably a whole lot of other dogs and children were subjected to that gave them powers.

Also

Look at the scars on his head. This is just a little lower than where Anya’s comes (which i think are kind of connected to her powers or atleast covering up something connected to her powers) sit. And honestly they just look like brain experimentation scars.

So initially I thought maybe he was the founder of the experimenting giving powers organization looking for a way to perfect or gain powers but now I think that maybe he was one of the first kids to be experimented on. Maybe he was the only one/ one of the only ones/ the most successful experiment, to survive the process and so they make him the poster child of the project and he grows up within it and they are essentially the shadow organization pulling the strings and orchestrating his life. That would explain why he seems to lack so much proper human socialization skills and why he appears odd enough that Melinda thinks he’s an alien.

Or maybe the original organization fell apart in the lead up to the first war and now he’s rebuilding it to try and continue the work or fix what’s wrong with him but I’m inclined to believe he just believes in the work.

All this to say that I think Desmond can read minds like Anya. I think the boys and his family might be part of some side experiment he’s running to see if these powers can be passed down through dna and so he got himself (or the organization set him up with) a family. I think thats the reason he spent a lot of time up close and personal seemingly monitoring Demetrius and his progress. Trying to see if he would develop any special abilities. But he doesn’t and that why Donovan seems to lose interest in his family.

But I think during this time Desmond teaches Demetrius (without explicitly explaining why or what they are doing) how to be impervious to having his mind read I’m guessing incase Demetrius did show promise and would be brought into the fold, and that’s why Anya can’t read him but he seems to have internalized this as simply just not having a stream of consciousness. The only time we hear his thoughts is when he’s thinking about things in the abstract and that’s probably the key to it. He focuses soley on what he is doing right then in every moment and so thereby doesn’t mule anything over enough to have an internal conversation with himself he was probably taught not to “waste time pondering”anything and just to act when it is appropriate to do so, disguised as a very strange business lesson. As he was probably being very intensely instructed on this. But Demetrius shows no signs of any developing powers so Desmond kind of just pushes him to the way side which must have been jarring to suddenly be so unimportant to your father after so many years of such intense observation

Which is why I think Demetrius harbors anger towards his father and doesn’t understand him because what were the lessons for and why did they abruptly stop and why doesn’t anything he do seem to bring them back? But he never really investigates this deeply because the act of not pondering was instilled within him deeply.

So yeah. I think Donovan Desmond can read minds I would also kind of say him saying “this was a worth while evening” after sitting in silence with his family makes me feel like he just read their minds (those of which he could read) and got what he needed to. Which also makes me believe he is still running some kind of passive experiment on them and that’s why he doesn’t want Melinda to interact with Damian so much maybe he’s going the opposite route and seeing if neglect will allow the boys to awaken their possibly latent abilities. I don’t know man I’m just tapping 🤷🏿‍♀️ Donovan Desmond just has the look of someone that’s been experimented on whole Demetrius has the look of someone who withstood all kinds of psychological torture from a young age. Take all this with a grain of salt

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klance is one of the best relationships in animation (imo)

i have yet to see a cartoon show that delivers an emotionally riveting and engaging romantic pairing that gets me feeling for the characters a lot. except, of course, keith and lance. probably gonna sound corny, but bear with me.

lotura was a well-developed relationship that i saw backing to, and they did it in a relatively short span of time. so i give kudos to the writers for building it up well. but usually when this kind of relationship that is sort of predictable happens (of course disregarding lotor's betrayl) in all these shows, i usually just think: "that's cute." but i'm not dedicated to it very much. they usually don't get me excited and entertained.

honestly out of all the animated films and tv series i've watched, usually the hetero ships happen in a short amount of time - kind of defeating the purpose of affecting the viewer much. it's almost like some writers have their hands shaking, desperate to just have a relationship to work on, that they're sloppy and rushed. that also ties into some peoples' view that you have to have romance to be happy - which is silly, because aromantic and asexual people exist. writers are often just... impatient to have characters get together, and i can say that because i'm a writer, and it's absolutely true. but to get a great relationship, you need to have good characters and a good arc for them.

like, a couple episodes in and they kiss - and ur just like - "oh. this is happening now i guess." it lacks emotional ties with the audience. but if you make it a slow and grueling romantic burn - the audience gets more and more drawn to it. in a lot of cases - that's one of the biggest reasons people watch the show, because, when done right, the romantic delivery is so satisfying to see.

lance and keith's relationship has started since season one, which is a pretty huge leap from LOK where korrasami sort of just,, happens. of course there were limitations on the network, but the buildup was relatively minimal. when i watched it, i was in a state of disbelief and excitement to see two women romantically coded on animated television. that was more of a shock factor for me other than dedication to seeing them pair up. i was happy there was rep, but that was about it. the characters weren't as lovable and complex as i thought they'd be - which is something voltron is succeeding in: having amazing characters.

klance has a huge amount of evidence stacked up, going all the way back to s1. i think the writers pre planned this much better - and in interviews they've stated that writing whole seasons in chunks is easier than going episode by episode like korra. so they've definitely had this in mind since early seasons. another reason they have so much freedom when it comes to romantically coded m/m scenes is because they're on netflix. netflix isn't really a "big bad" of the lgbt community. they have lots of great lgbt shows avaliable.

klance is a slow burn. by the end of the show, we'll have gone 70-80ish episodes total. that's a lot of time to have hetero ships put together. that's a long time for a hetero slow burn, but none were directly present at the beginning. but we did get m/m romantically coded scenes. the fact that lance and keith got one of the most romantic scenes of the first season and it wasn't straight baffles me. it will blow my mind if klance is the only confirmed endgame relationship by the finale of the show - it would be a huge step for representation.

their relationship has been the spotlight for me, something that keeps me tied to the show. it's what the writers do with the characters - how they interact - that is so enjoyable to watch. lance and keith have a lovable relationship, there's no denying that for me. a large part of their characters is the struggle for finding love.

for lance : love/appreciation from his teammates; romantic love. for keith: parental love, brotherly love, and finally - romance. he is one of the more focused-on main characters, as he was in the original shows. so ending him with a relationship would be the cherry on top for the finale. it would also tie into the hints why keith was so strung up on the bonding moment - where he might have developed a crush on lance. there's a lot more evidence for pining keith in early seasons than people give credit for - another thing i love about voltron. it's complex; it has layers to be pulled back. the characters are believable and realistic. and mostly, i love theorizing.

romance in voltron isn't as flexible as it was in korra - where you had no idea by the end of the show really who was ending up with who. of course there were hints, but you could never know for sure. voltron ain't like that. again, since it was planned out in chunks and as a whole, the show flows much better - rather than last minute whims of the writers in weekly tv series. that's why i'm so confident in klance. it was planned out early and clearly.

lance and keith's relationship really keeps the viewers guessing. you have no idea what's going to kick off an interaction. maybe an argument, maybe a confession - but it's so hard to tell how their characters will interact because, well... they're both relatively confused too. they don't know how to act around each other, and that's incredibly entertaining. honestly, i think that's why a lot of fanfiction fails to capture their characters well because of how complex they are.

you never know when something like "i think he's, like, the future" is going to pop out at you. years ago, i would have said that line sounded ooc. but now, it's not.

i didn't know if dw would take the leap, but the amount of foreshadowing interactions of lance and keith in s7 lead me to strengthen my belief that they are voltron's main slowburn.

so basically: if klance happens (and i'm confident it will), it's going to be one of the best romantic buildups i've seen in a cartoon. i'm not just saying this because they're a m/m ship (even though i definitely do want solid representation), i love the ship because of everything subtle - and not subtle you can see in it. to the blatantly obvious bonding moment scene where they hold hands and stare at each other smiling softly in purple lighting, to just a small frame of keith looking disgruntled as lance flirts with allura. the list goes on, and on, and on.

many shows with lgbt characters can fail in making the relationship memorable - sadly, they can just be added as an afterthought only so the creators can take the credit for having "representation."

klance is one of my all-time favorite ships because of how well planned and memorable it is. it's the fact that i can say i love the characters and relationship not soley because of the rep, but because it's a genuinely great story.