“I didn’t even realize my arm was missing at first. My whole side felt warm, I thought my ribs were broken, or at least bruised - and I felt horribly off balance, like something was constantly pulling me to the left. Just without dizziness, the kind of dizziness I had gotten used to. Mind you, there’re quite a few things that went for humans’ and near-humans’ eardrums first just to disable them, because it’s one of our greatest weaknesses. Honestly, there was no pain at all. It was like my body refused to realize what had happened - I even tried to pick up one of the blades with my right hand twice, and I could feel the movement, I could feel what it should have felt like to take the blade’s hilt, how heavy it should have been in my hand, but there was nothing. Everything from my shoulder down was simply gone. I must’ve passed out from blood loss at some point, but the pain only started after the Druids had me strapped to their goddamn dissection table.”
I’m not even sorry you guys. But I should probably stop writing shit. :D
*crawls back out from under a rock after 500 years*
did someone say semi-realistic shiro
This is rare: I actually like this one. A lot. I had to use references because how the fuck do half-Japanese dudes look (yeah, I headcanon him as half-Japanese, not 100% Asian) but… I actually like it. Maybe the world’s gonna end tomorrow.
Also I may or may not have accidentally slipped into Voltron hell. Deep. Very, very deep.
Sorry, but I felt the need to do this. Because at this point I feel like eating my left shoe and regurgitate it into one of the fridges in our local supermarket whenever I see the words “Adam”, “kl”, “bury your gays” and “queerbaiting” in one post. Like, the fuck… did Adam’s death magically un-gay Shiro or something?
Also: I’m not gonna argue about this. S7 was great and 90% of the idiots screaming about being queerbaited kinda queerbaited themselves. U guys are just mean. You may unfollow me now if you feel offended.
So - I’m seeing some activity on my dash that seems to indicate that Shiro isn’t the Black paladin anymore and I - don’t get where that’s coming from? I mean, I suppose if I squint I could see it but overall I just got a ‘finally set right’ feel for the end of the season. And what made me feel that way?
well - this.
That’s the lions all roaring once Shiro was back amoung them. The OG Shiro. Its a full-throated, full-hearted concert of affirmation and not just from Black but all the lions, all together at once, in unison.
And you know the last time they did that?
Also for Shiro and him taking his place as the rightful paladin of the Black lion, way back in season one, episode one.
They’d done that for no one else - and they’ve done it for Shiro twice now. Only for Shiro. And its not as if other paladins haven’t been lost and then found again (see: Keith)
but - Keith flew Black? Yes. And? That doesn’t make him the Black paladin any more than it makes my little sister me when she borrows my jeep. Keith has been Black’s pilot three times now. To save Shiro from the lizard monsters on pancake planet. To take over because Shiro wasn’t there. And to save Shiro from clone planet. There - might be a pattern there. Yes, I know, Keith was Black Paladin in all other incarnations and he might be End Game. But he might not. I still hold that the writers spent a lot of time bonding paladins and original lions in the first two seasons and Black even went so far as to save her own paladin from death and protect his soul for three seasons. I’m not seeing that Shiro isn’t still Black’s current paladin and I’m not even ready to do that on Shiro being End Game Black Paladin yet. Sure, its possible and oh yes, it’ll break my heart right in two if the writers end on a different note - but they haven’t yet and I’m not going to borrow heartache that might be unnecessary before its time.
but - Shiro doesn’t have an arm! He can’t fly without two arms.
Are you sure? Are you really really sure. So sure those sticks in the floor the paladins all use randomly and without any kind of actual purpose (because we’ve seen utterly no pattern to the way they use them and what happens at all) beyond its dramatic and they seem to need to use them mentally - are necessary to fly a lion? That the paladin that lived inside his lion for so long couldn’t mentally connect enough to fly it, ‘see through its eyes’ and become one with it in flight? You don’t need two arms to be a hero or a leader or a powerful force in life. But - that’s not very dramatic looking for a visual story, so sure - let’s say we want to give Shiro two arms to fly.
Have we seen Shiro use the Black Bayard yet? Even the clone only threw it - it never changed shape for him. We’ve never seen OG Shiro use the bayard beyond its key slot action. So - what would we give the guy on a team with pretty much every other kind of weapon already accounted for to use as a Black gifted, spiritually bonded weapon? Something that he could use easily, without difficulty? Something that suits him and seems to fit his fighting style? Something that could become a part of him? (something that matches leaked pictures?) Hmmm. Let’s see. Whatever could we give the Black Paladin, the Black Lion’s chosen representative, the one whose lion loves him enough to save his life and protect him, that would represent the way being a paladin makes him feel whole?
You can usually tell how deep I am in a fandom by how many different AUs I just start throwing around…
AU where Zarkon has Voltron, Keith is Galran and the Red Paladin, and Kuro Shiro is Zarkon’s personal Champion/Paladin attendant/attack dog.
The Keith pic started off as a vent doodle so the interaction this is based off of involves Keith being probably about 90 degrees LESS of an anger muffin (and maybe Shiro being about 10 degrees less smug), but their relationship probably goes exactly the direction you would expect.
I wanted to upload this yesterday, but Tumblr was broken when I tried!
A Shiro birthday art I had the privilege of creating for @kacielacie‘s birthday cake this past weekend. Her birthday is so close to Shiro’s that she wanted a cake with him on it, and I was very lucky to be part of helping that dream come true. <3 We love you baby!
