#youll never know i never rbd anything in 2016

[kandulce]

📓 THE ONE VLD IDEA!! GIVE IT TO ME NOW!!!!

so I MAY have gotten a little salty over the last season....... but the short of it is, among (lol) the huge pile of "hopes and theories" for the lore of vld, I had really hoped that the lions would return home in the end.

Their story was, if i remember correctly, that Zarkon had found/created a portal to another dimension, and the metal used to create the Lions was pulled through. or, something similar?

Either way, to be broken into pieces and then reshaped into something completely different without your consent does not sound fun, ngl. Super cool that the lions seemed chill with it and were even kind and open to communication with the general public! but I mean they were sentient beings; they had to have missed home at some point.

which, imo would tie in fairly well with the resolution of the series. Voltron beats the Big Bad, there's a new era of peace that Allura and others have to learn to maintain, but the heavy hitting's pretty much done.

At this point, maybe one or two people in the universe might be attached to the Lions and their symbol of peace. Yknow, the shining beacon of light that freed entire galaxies overnight. I'd bet there'd be a few people who would be anxious over the idea of them, uh, leaving.

now, here's where the salty part comes into play. Lance, favorite character and overall charming people-person extraordinaire, after desperately wanting to be a Pilot since Forever, (don't get me started on Hunk, model Engineer, as a fuckin cook) now lives on a freakin' farm. In reclusivity.

okay. fine. cool. he's sad, he avoids people for a good few years. I can work with that.

while Lance has his third emo phase, pidge goes on to become a prominent researcher and, unavoidably, political figure. Hunk and Keith are in similar situations but within their respective skillsets. Shiro's the same way until he gets sicker and escapes the worst of public scrutiny. Allura's situation is (Alive) exacerbated by about a thousandfold.

they are Tense. they are Anxious. they are middle-aged adults who have had to make sacrifices and are not the same people they were even right after the whole nightmare ended.

Lance is mostly the same. he lived a life avoiding the worst of the worst, but sacrificed nearly all his relationships in doing so.

whether it was worth it is up to him, but ultimately, this leads to the lions going to him and relaying their wishes. They hope mr social recluse can tell these hardcore, war-hardened celebrities that the backbone of Winning Arguments wishes to fuck off back home and away forever. all based off of relationships that died a few decades ago. nice.

it does not Go Well. at first! but the tone of this would be of rediscovery and successful, heartfelt goodbyes. maybe a redeemed lotor can get squeezed in.