#vld robot

[blueblurbbaskets]

admittedly I don't think about VLD much anymore but every so often I remember how stupid the whole "oh Lotor is draining Alteans of their energies therefore he's evil" set up was given that it was established in the first episode of the show that Haggar could sense Altean energy across the universe. Like if she could sense one single ship being activated and use that plus Zarkon's connection to the Black Lion to track the protagonists down in a matter of days, it's completely reasonable to assume that she could track down an entire colony of hidden Alteans if their quintessence ever got too strong or whatever. There was absolutely a way in-universe to establish that Lotor's actions were horrible but stemming from a reasonable motivation of "don't get fucking caught because the entire colony is gonna get nuked if it's discovered".

[puppiesandnightlock]

rest in peace voltron

[vldunchartedregions]

As a Lance girlie I'm very excited to read what was his og involvement in the finale. Is there anything you could tease about it? Like if some scenes with Veronica or his other family members were cut or if his scene with previous paladins (Alfor or Blaytz) was also changed?

Really excited for reading and thanks to the team for all the hard work!

Good morning!! Thank you for the question. I hope you’re having an amazing day.

We’re excited to talk about it too, as fellow Lance Stans. He deserves the world.

It’s not really in the meta, but fun fact: Neil Kaplan discussed at a panel where he voiced Lance’s Dad in a scene in Season 8 and it was beautiful, made him emotional, but it was cut.

[Timestamp: 3:00]

Since you’ve mentioned it, there is reason to believe that a conversation between Lance and a certain Blue Paladin may have been altered or exchanged, as suggested by narrative context and character arc analysis.

More to come. ☕️

Thank you for the question!

[nicollini]

I remembere this awesome fic from @hailqiqi the other day. This picture is not related, but I still really like the idea of Lance just carrying Pidge like this.

[d4rk-x-w0lf-17]

whoops it's time for my comfort characters now

[voltron-starlight]

I finally got to texture godzillatron and i made some quick renders of him with wings and with out including the burning form

[robylovi]

Y’all ever wonder how dizzying it must be to form voltron

[dreamonslair]

Splatoon Voltron AU because I'm sad it's getting taken off of Netflix. I'll probably post more random jargon later

[californiannostalgia]

Regarding the Blue Lion (More Lion Meta)

It's never explicitly stated what the requirement is to pilot the Blue Lion. But I have my own theory about the lions, based on how much we've seen of the six paladins.

Green and Yellow are pretty straightforward. Green is the keen mind, the flexible strategist, the unflinching heart. Green will keep you on task without losing sight of the consequences.

Yellow is the voice of caution and empathetic connections. Yellow will usually be the first to warn the team away from a threat, and the first to befriend a local. Yellow is often the best diplomat.

Black and Red are a balancing act. Black paladins have a tremendous force of will, and they refuse to give up. But Black can't be without the team, and the team can't be without Black. Black is the indestructible core of Voltron. No matter how fucked up they get, they will not die.

Red is the action-oriented defender. Red is responsible for counterbalancing Black (Alfor & Zarkon, Keith & Shiro, Lance & Keith). If Black is level-headed, Red will be the risk-taker. If Black is impulsive, Red will be the voice of reason. If Black turns dangerous, it's Red's job to take them down.

So what does that make Blue? Blue isn't as fast as Red or Green. Nor does Blue have the heavy armor like Yellow, or the sheer power of Black. So what makes Blue unique?

Blue chooses the hero with a sense of inadequacy. The Blue paladin is the one who thought they'd never get a chance to fly, or fight, but who really wanted to. Blue is the first chance, the first believer.

Blue is also the last goodbye.

Blue isn't built to take hits and survive them, which is ironic because the Blue paladin's way of defense is through life-threatening sacrifice. No matter how many risks Black or Red take, they don't come so close to death as Blue does.

I think Blue takes the loneliest, the most homesick as paladins. For Black, Red, and Green, their anchor is the people they love, and that's all they need. For Yellow, every planet they touch down on has their own beauty. But Blue preserves the memory of a home planet. Blue is the water-logged origin of life (Earth and Altea, both blue).

The Blue Lion picks the unlikely hero who will, one day, have to leave it. Blue is literally the beginning and end of Voltron. But really, that's just how the cycle of water works. Endings, beginnings--this will not be the last story told.

Blue is home.

[keithkog]

What is AO3 and why is Pidge freaking out about it going down for 10 hours?

-Keith

[storm-saturn]

i know the galra had ten thousand years and unlimited resources to build up their defences and offences, to create an insane amount of weapons, to do evil experiments, and rule far across the universe, but HOW does it go from voltron being the defender of the universe, the most powerful weapon in the universe, something that zarkon has been hunting after for ten thousand years, something that made sendak (a very strong galra commander who would not let anyone stand in his way, according to himself) gasp and RUN.

yes he didnt fully run away but he retreated; he watched his battle cruiser get blown to fucking pieces, and remember this is the first time the paladins formed voltron. there was no sword. it was like their second or third time flying in their lions, and the only one that has had consistent flight simulations and training for however long is lance, and even then i think we saw him struggle to strategise a battle plan when going after the yellow lion with hunk because we heard him say he would cover hunk, we saw him carry that out but then get overwhelmed by the galra fighters in the air and take off after them.

hes a damn good pilot, and they all are, especially in the lions, but this is on a next level to what they could've been training for at the garrison.

so, this takes me to my point, why in the fucking world was voltron so fucking nerfed in the later seasons. like yes i dont want an easy win for voltron every battle, yknow, its about them working together as a team, its about voltron not always being the solution (aka when its better for them to split off into lions while they strategise), its about them actually coming up with strategies instead of just going in voltron first and hoping for the best.

its been a while since i watched the later seasons but rn im mostly thinking of atlas. like it just doesnt really make sense to me tbh? to build the atlas, yes, its essentially a replacement for the castleship, a place for a team to watch voltron from the sky, provide back up, but then to have it form into a voltron-esque robot ??? i just dont think thats where they should have taken it.

im glad for the castle of lions to take an important role in some episodes, where again the answer lies outside of JUST voltron, but it doesnt really make sense to build another giant robot.

it kind of takes away the development the paladins are supposed to go through as well, to work together better and stronger as a team thus opening up more weapons from voltron and learning how to fight in different ways.

idk i think the entire thing was kinda over-thought at the end as they were trying to keep the show going, but missing some of the other storylines they could've gone down, (black paladin lance, lotor redemption arc (which he did seemingly have but all along they planned to throw that in the bin), the team coming together as friends more often developing their bond as voltron but also as people, the team seeing their families again, not killing off shiro's FUCKING CANON BOYFRIEND IN A STUPID FUCKING SHITTY WAY ADAM DIDNT DESERVE TO DIE YALL ARE JUST COWARDS, and also the team kinda reflecting back to how they were jn the beginning and realizing they have grown (i say the team but i mostly mean lance and hunk because the writers just did not give two shits about them they really didnt get the chance to become fully thought out characters, they just had some insecurities and interests that were ignored until convenient then ignored again)).

[im-smart-i-swear]

soooo. anybody remember that old 'kuron is a robot' theory? well. cough.. my brain latched onto that idea a few days ago for reasons that evade me and ive just been a bunch of diffrent takes on the design/concept. enjoy the fruits of my insanity

this first image is me trying to figure out how an au abt this idea could work. i think if i decide to keep this au alive for longer im gonna try n focus on themes of like. what it means to be human and free will and exploring how something thats decidedly Not Human and that functions unlike any living being could still feel and be a person while maintaining the uncanny and unhuman bits that come with android territory. and uhhhh i also drew this

and yes kur0n can, in fact, run doom

[askmeanjudge]

Bonus:

[vldunchartedregions]

UPDATE -- META TALK!

Our team is working SO, so hard on our Uncharted Regions / VLD Season 8 meta (rewatching seasons to the brim, taking notes, finding parallels, collating it all together) and looking at an index, a timeline, and more in the mix thanks to our dedicated team.

This is a BIG project and we’re only human, so we do appreciate your patience. 🤍

We had a really cool package arrive today that will help tremendously and we’re itching to get stuck into it.

Another Update: We've made another discovery yesterday when we were dissecting "The Feud!" and being right never felt so good.

[pidges-lost-robot]

The episode where Lance's Lion gets taken except they take Lance too and he has to get out and for some reason the only plan they have is having Keith in Yellows Mouth as they desperately try to catch up with them and they have to do the scene from The Runaway Bride from Doctor Who cause Lance absolutely does not trust Keith will catch him

And later Hunk yells at him cause he's known Lance a while and there's no way with the trust issues he displayed at the very beginning that he wouldn't have kept his beady eyes trained on Lance so it ended up with Lance having to track Rolo instead and they have to switch up their plan

[adobedragon]

Because I can't figure out what qualifies as artistic nudity and what will get this entire blog flagged as mature, a portion of William Bouguereau's "The Abduction of Psyche," Plance style.

The full version is on my Bluesky.

Of course, since this is Plance, Pidge will definitely not be a passive heroine, but instead take on all of Venus' challenges with singular, ferocious agency, no help needed from any stinkin' gods, thank you very much.