Spoilers: So over the last several seasons (wow, we’re already on the 6th season, that’s crazy) I started to notice that there was a sudden change in how Keith treated Shiro after the first couple seasons. Then this season it hit me. Keith and Shiro have always been close. The reason Keith was so surprised to find Shiro in episode one was because Shiro was the one person on the planet that he really trusted, and that person has previously vanished from his life, thought dead. We also know that Keith quit the pilot program, but we never questioned why. Perhaps the reason was because Keith was grieving Shiro’s loss or maybe Keith just slowly lost the motivation to continue without Shiro there.
We glazed over that because Lance comically also wanted to bathe in the glory of saving someone everyone recognized as a hero, but the bottom line is, Keith had a deep friendship with Shiro prior to the series even starting. Then a couple seasons in Keith went through the Blades trial with Shiro was watching, and there was a hint that came up that we the audience didn’t totally understand. Even after Keith pledging to get Shiro back to safety in a harrowing moment at the beginning of the season, there was a moment when their bond expanded. When Keith was going through the deepest torture of the trials, the person he most wanted to see was Shiro–the person he trusted, the only person at that point that he loved. And as the series progressed, that relationship expanded even more. Either as relationship between brothers or a love deeper, we the audience will never really know, but the fact remains, we got to witness something truly beautiful.
I had just found some black food coloring today at the store and wanted to try it out and finally be able to make the black lion since it’s so hard to make black with the other colors.
And I also wanted to try my hand at making rice balls so this was a perfect test for it..
I filled the rice ball with shrimp (I know, How typical right? XD ) so it ended up being a sweet n sour shrimp rice ball not sorry! I love sweet n sour shrimp!
I’m not gonna lie, this was challenging. And dying the different colors for and connecting them to the lion was a bit hard. But well worth it! X3
I painted the red parts on with a chopstick and put on seaweed nori for eyes, nose and mouth.
As you can see, I put on the yellow dyed rice on for the glowing eyes. I felt it made this rice all look more accurate.
I finished my Voltron: Legendary Defender set!! I will have prints available at Fanime and Animazement this weekend! Voltron has become one of my all-time favorite shows and I’ve been really excited to share these with everyone~
If I have leftover prints after this weekend I will put them up on my Etsy.
okay so, if i am understanding the show right, zarkon wanted the black lion back along with the rest of voltron. the black lion, for him, was a weapon he wished to control again. plus, i doubt he wants anyone to able to use the other lions.
then in the ep where the origins of voltron and the OG paladins are explained, we are basically told he wants voltron so he could open up rifts for the quintessence????
yet, what the fuck was he planning to do if he got the black lion? like. the other lions need pilots. the pilots need to vibe to form voltron. he needs a whole ass TEAM if he wants voltron.
like was he going to find a way to pilot voltron all by himself? that’s created by the sentient lions that have OPINIONS? lions that could just. put up a shield and go NO <3??
what was the PLAN HERE
and like this applies to when the voltron crew is running around. like, okay, take the black lion from shiro, okay. then what? beat the shit out of the other lions? then what? not like you can form voltron with lions that are hurt????
somehow get the other paladins to work with you???? like REALLY? or kill the new paladins and then what? try to find new paladins? when at the end of the day, the lions CHOOSE their paladins.
was haggar going to try to do some altean magic on them? to like convince the lions otherwise???
the in they had was the black lion, who very clearly, was no longer a fan of zarkon, old bond or not. sure, he could take control, but that is not a partnership. this would not stop the black lion from giving him trouble or merely making it harder for him to pilot. the lion could deadass go, fuck you actually, and not respond quickly in the heat of battle.
ah the beautiful dumb ass writing of VLD that probably had a point at the beginning but nobody hung on to it long enough to use it later on and just pulled stuff out of their ass instead
so - theories
Voltron CAN be piloted without all the pilots. That’s canon. Alfor and the rest of the pals get Voltron out of the Rift with a dead Zarkon in Voltron’s hand (or something like that, its been a while and I’m not going to rewatch). Anyway, Voltron can be piloted, at least temporarily, without one or possibly more of its paladins even alive. MAYBE Zarkon thought he was mentally strong enough after thousands of years to give it a go.
MAYBE Zarkon was just planning on running through every Galra in his Empire until he found four others that fit. there’s not a lot of indication that the lions are actually moral creatures in the way we understand it. I remember back in the day there was a lot of talk about the lions being - orange morality I think? Anyway, gist of it was that the lions could quite possibly not have black and white morals the way we see them. There was also speculation that they took their moral codes/cues from their paladins. I mean, if we’re being brutal with our interpretation - Black dumped Shiro off in the astral plane the first time, knowing full well that if he died there he died IRL and then kinda sat there while Zarkon did his best to kill him right up UNTIL the point Shiro said ‘no one commands the Black lion’ at which point Black FINALLY showed up and saved Shiro. Brutal interp of that is that the Black lion was willing to let Shiro die and sit in the castle with a corpse in its cockpit rather than fully accept another paladin that was hell bent on controlling it if Shiro failed its test. So while Black might not accept Zarkon again, it COULD be forced into submission and maybe he hoped the other lions could be the same.
My theory is that Zarkon was just obsessed and logic went out the window. He wanted Black because Black denied him and was denied TO him. Someone in absolute control wanted absolute control over the one thing he didn’t have it over. And maybe there was a part of him that missed the bond he’d had with Black as the paladin. And maybe there was a part of him that wanted the ‘Zarkon Hero’ he’d been back, even if just in fake. Maybe all three, maybe a combo of some of those. Canon showed us that Haggar was the sensible one and if he’d taken her advice several times he would have won the day but his obsession with possessing the Black Lion had him making stupid mistakes one would assume the ruler of the known galaxy didn’t make a habit of or he wouldn’t have been ruling that long. By the end, I felt at least that it wasn’t about opening Rifts for Zarkon. It was about having what he’d been denied.
Haggar - now that was the girl with her head on straight (in the early seasons). If she hadn’t been so devoted to Zarkon, she could have wiped the floor with Voltron several times (and I really liked how the early seasons showed that, but also showed how she put Zarkon before herself even when it wasn’t the smart thing to do). To me, Zarkon had a blind spot with Black and it got larger and covered more every time the lion was with Shiro instead. Once Zarkon had Black he might not even have used it. After all, when it ejected Shiro and got beamed aboard the mothership in season one, Zarkon wasn’t in the hanger waiting for it, he was space walking kicking Keith’s ass instead even though he had to have known what was going on with the Black Lion. I think, and its all theories because the show never gave us a good reason, it was the ‘being denied’ that he was obsessed with. Not the logic of what he’d do once he got what he’d been told he couldn’t have.
To add to this:
Voltron is the largest threat to the Galra Empire, basically period. Over 10,000 years they had free reign for their conquest, and it wasn’t until the lions were back together that progress was made in the other direction. This is fact in the show’s universe.
Time and again, we’re shown not only the power of the individual lions, but Voltron as a whole. What the five cannot do, Voltron can. It is greater than the sum of its parts.
But you also need those parts. If you take just Black away, you may have only one lion who may or may not work with you. But you deny the other side not only a powerful ship and one of their best pilots: you deny them Voltron as a whole.
Take or leave the others: the fact that the Galra held onto Red for so long does suggest that they were planning on using it. The fact that it was on Sendak’s ship in particular probably means they thought Sendak could fly that lion - that could be delusion, that could be accurate. We don’t know.
Regardless, it doesn’t matter. Four lions and no Voltron is a losing equation. Zarkon wanted Black because he saw Black as his. But honestly, it didn’t matter which lion. It still shuts down resistance.
The largest of the Voltron lions, the Black Lion forms the torso of the mighty Voltron robot. Piloted by Team Voltron leader Keith, the Black Lion sits on the moat tower of the Castle of Lions, proudly serving as Arus’ first line of defence against King Zarkon’s forces.
Howdy! As you can see by the title, Sheith Positivity Week for 2019 is up and running!!!
The major theme has been pre-decided ( crowd sourced!) and it will be “Just Sheith Things~” or otherwise, well, Sheith things!
The date for the week is currently in decision mode. I’m trying to find the BEST week for everyone involved, so I think a poll on ‘months’ would be the best option- and then to narrow it down from there. After all I do want fan participation lol.
What is Sheith Positivity Week?
Well, if you’re new here or just need a reminder:
Sheith Positivity Week of SPW, is an entire week dedicated to all things Positive Sheith! The week is themed (as seen above) and for a full week fans can participate and share their fresh new works with the community.
This year, the week is very open to interpretation. The prompt should be as non-specific as I could get them while still staying within the Sheith theme (that being Keith & Shiro as both individuals and as a couple).
While the week is for Positive Sheith works, should you find the prompts inspiring you elsewhere then you’re free to write/draw/animate/gif/edit to your hearts content. I only ask that things are tagged accordingly. (This also includes N SFW works)
Rules
All entries should focus on the romantic relationship between Shiro and Keith.
No OT3 that includes Shiro/Keith will be allowed for this week (sorry OT3 fans!)
Entries should focus on positive energy. Please don’t make it too angsty and/or triggering. The prompts ARE open for interpretation, but this is a positivity week!
NSFW entries are okay. Just make sure to tag appropriately and/or put under [read more].
Tag your entries as #sheithpositivityweek and#sheiththingsweek2019 within the first 5 tags of your entry.
If you post on AO3, please post it under sheithpositivityweek collection.
This is a hate-free event. Do not bash or harass other participants.
Have fun and spread the words around ❤♥
The Prompts
The prompts for this years week have already been decided to create a quicker turn out period, lol. So here they are, up for YOUR consideration, with some gentle explanations for the prompts.
This was a personal pick. A more difficult prompt set. The words feel verysheith and give room for either really happy content or really heart wrenching and then everything in between.
Two of the most iconic lines, said by one to the other. A more difficult prompt set meant to be an end of the week deal to give you time to think up ideas.
So!!!! Over the past few months I saw the Sheith Song List take off, and I found that many people have their own favorite song picks for Sheith. This prompt is a happy little nod to the community, so go wild! That song you always play your own mini animatic in your head to? Go for it. If you wanna make a sheith song, that works too!
I only ask that you: Use a lyric from a song to Inspire, Title, of Quote in the work. So basically, if you write a fic insp by it, title it with the lyric/song or use it as a quote, if you draw use it as your caption title or again a quote. ETC. (this is just clarification, please feel free to use the prompt as you please)
Self explanatory!!! Go wild! After that finale there’s been a dip in content on tumblr- and I wanna see all those ideas that have been looking for the write audience!
I have the hope, that this positivity week will bring back fans. We all went though some rocky time with the finale, and we all love this ship. I want everyone to remember whythey love it. I wanna see the art and stories, I wanna see the niche craft content. And I wanna share the opportunity with everyone!!
So please!!! Feel welcome to join us, whether you’re a long time lover of sheith, or you just like it as an aesthetic, or if you’ve only just recently found an interest in it.
