#would LOVE an au where humans are like waist high to the ‘norm’ height in space

[aro-aizawa]

half my draw to voltron and its world has LITERALLY no connection to canon events or plot points but world building in the background. the way that the show presents it seems just so…flat in comparison.

you’re telling me pidge “fuck the government i’m gonna collect evidence” gunderson doesn’t hoard every single scrap of data she can on offline hard drives and carry them w her every chance she gets? (and thus bringing hundreds of terrabytes of data to space w them?)

that the humans wouldn’t get fed up of trying to learn altean writing and just slap handy english labels everywhere they can. the kitchen where they label things like “good food goo” “food goo that tastes of cheese (good)” “goo that tastes of cheese (bad)”. hell even the controls in the pods etc.

the fact that we’re meant to assume that when they’re not freeing planets they’re - what? just chilling out until they get the next distress call? that they’re not at the least bit methodical in their war against an empire??

(do not even talk to me about how voltron was meant to have dismantled the whole empire in the span of a year. a ten thousand year old empire who conquered the whole known galaxy and had almost zero real resistance. a year. yeah.)

what about the things that we’re supposed to think “oh they’re like humans but slightly different culturally wise”. what temperatures do the various species need to be in? humans can live in 10 - 35 degrees celsius (w 23ish being optimal) but what’s the range for alteans? galrans? because it’d be a weird coincidence if these numbers were all the same. and speaking of numbers being the same, what about life span?

because if you look at humans and compare us to other mammals you’ll find varying amounts. the shortest lived mammal is 6 months, the longest is 200 years. the idea that these life spans all are the same throughout the entire galaxy is baffling. not to even go INTO the sizes. every species is coincidentally the same general size as humans. no…? i vehemently disagree with that idea, give me more diversity!!!! yes you can make aliens appear to be different species but if you don’t develop their squishy insides and details my suspension of disbelief is not gonna be sticking around v long.

thinking about how damn difficult it would be for the alteans and humans to coexist on the same ship when irl that’s difficult w other humans bc of how different we’re raised. even when making an effort there’s gonna be times their preferences/needs conflict. dietary needs, atmospheric needs, thermal, sleep, mental, emotional. all of these things you cannot look me in the eye and tell me that two ENTIRELY different species of life would have developed in the exact same way that these align almost perfectly.

[aro-aizawa]

#shut up danni  #voltron  #you’re looking at the person who has a 6k+ word doc listing in depth world building headcanons i have for this series  #this is what has me endlessly fascinated w voltron and keeps drawing me back to it  #every single au and one shot i have in the works for voltron always emphasizes these things and i swear i would LOVE to finish them to post  #would LOVE an au where humans are like waist high to the ‘norm’ height in space  #and i ADORE the idea that it’s more common for sentient species to be herbivores or carnivores so it’s baffling that humans are omnivores  #do NOT even talk to me about my hcs for the various sleep patterns and the makeup of blood  #I HAVE A LOT OF V EXTENSIVE THOUGHTS ABT ALL OF THESE  #bc i am so so so weak for enormous vast networks of life  #so vast that it’s almost impossible to keep up with just how many species exist unless you’ve studied them extensively  #the one thing that space themed media fails at is they always establish a ‘common’ range of species and you know them all  #like a race selector in video games - the character creator in skyrim sticks out to me most  #but if you went to a legit space shopping complex you should not be able to name every single species you see  #nor should the crowd be uniform in looks like for example - google crowd photos ppl generally look similar enough your eyes glaze over  #but then look at the sequence of zootopia where judy walks through the train station it’s just so VARIED to fit every single animals’ needs  #it’s not uniform in the SLIGHTEST  #now THAT is peak design that always ALWAYS gets left out on world building in space themed media  #and it is such a waste!!! you look me in the eye and tell me that these differences are so minor to boil down to ‘wow look that’s so weird’  #and then they move on like it’s a minor convenience???? uhhh noo????  #the only ONLY acceptable theory for this is the galra making the species fit to them  #but then you’ll have to emphasize the strain to conform  #emphasize that these species are walking around with their backs made to bend inwards amd their heads down  #otherwise it just feels shallow and empty. you’re serving a hollow shell instead of a rich and deep world.  #and for these reasons i will NEVER be able to stop thinking about voltron and its surrounding world.  

half my draw to voltron and its world has LITERALLY no connection to canon events or plot points but world building in the background. the way that the show presents it seems just so…flat in comparison.

you’re telling me pidge “fuck the government i’m gonna collect evidence” gunderson doesn’t hoard every single scrap of data she can on offline hard drives and carry them w her every chance she gets? (and thus bringing hundreds of terrabytes of data to space w them?)

that the humans wouldn’t get fed up of trying to learn altean writing and just slap handy english labels everywhere they can. the kitchen where they label things like “good food goo” “food goo that tastes of cheese (good)” “goo that tastes of cheese (bad)”. hell even the controls in the pods etc.

the fact that we’re meant to assume that when they’re not freeing planets they’re - what? just chilling out until they get the next distress call? that they’re not at the least bit methodical in their war against an empire??

(do not even talk to me about how voltron was meant to have dismantled the whole empire in the span of a year. a ten thousand year old empire who conquered the whole known galaxy and had almost zero real resistance. a year. yeah.)

what about the things that we’re supposed to think “oh they’re like humans but slightly different culturally wise”. what temperatures do the various species need to be in? humans can live in 10 - 35 degrees celsius (w 23ish being optimal) but what’s the range for alteans? galrans? because it’d be a weird coincidence if these numbers were all the same. and speaking of numbers being the same, what about life span?

because if you look at humans and compare us to other mammals you’ll find varying amounts. the shortest lived mammal is 6 months, the longest is 200 years. the idea that these life spans all are the same throughout the entire galaxy is baffling. not to even go INTO the sizes. every species is coincidentally the same general size as humans. no…? i vehemently disagree with that idea, give me more diversity!!!! yes you can make aliens appear to be different species but if you don’t develop their squishy insides and details my suspension of disbelief is not gonna be sticking around v long.

thinking about how damn difficult it would be for the alteans and humans to coexist on the same ship when irl that’s difficult w other humans bc of how different we’re raised. even when making an effort there’s gonna be times their preferences/needs conflict. dietary needs, atmospheric needs, thermal, sleep, mental, emotional. all of these things you cannot look me in the eye and tell me that two ENTIRELY different species of life would have developed in the exact same way that these align almost perfectly.