#vld s5 spoilers

flusteredkeith:

darkslover:

Let’s start with this:

Zarkon gives a helmet for a young boy to Allura as a gift. 

How come he had such a thing?

The simplest explanation: he and Honerva were to have a child… but then they didn’t. 

That’s why he looks… not happy when giving it to her.

To take it further, consider this: Zarkon and Honerva were trying to concieve for years and they couldn’t. 

Or, Honerva had a miscarriage.

Or… miscarriages. As in, many. (Follow me here)

So, when Alfor, years (decades? What are decaphoebes anyway?) after Allura was born, comes to visit Zarkon and Honerva, he finds Honerva looking like this:

We are led to believe that it’s the research that made her forget herself and waste away, but Honerva loved science before and she never looked like this. 

Maybe it was indeed Quintessence poisoning, but Zarkon was by her side all the time and he wasn’t affected.

…or maybe, the many failures of her body to concieve got her like this. 

We know that she and Zarkon loved each other dearly, it’d be only logical they’d want children. 

And a miscarriage can be soul-wrenching.

Imagine if she had many of them.

Back to the scene, Alfor and Honerva disagree on how to proceed with the research and right when Alfor leaves them…

Honerva collapses. 

It’s natural for us to think that this is Honerva’s obsession getting the best of her. 

But, I believe, that this is the moment they find out that she’s finally, finallypregnant. 

But, once again, the fetus is in danger and Honerva cannot face this again. As Alfor said, “it’s been decaphoebes” since Allura was born. Decaphoebes of failures for Honerva to bring one child to term. Anxiety and desperation get the best of her. 

Zarkon is by her side in her delirium, where we see her muttering about Quintessence. Specifically, not its use as fuel, something Zarkon has been focusing on so far, but…

…in its life-giving qualities.

Honerva and Zarkon have just found out that she’s pregnant and that the child is in danger. Again. 

So, Honerva, pushed to the brim and with all hesitation out of the window for this one chance the fetus may life, gives her solution: use Quintessence, large amounts of it, to save her body and thus the child growing inside her. 

She had already done it successfully with a sick creature itself:

…maybe even as a successful experiment after her first miscarriages, so as to find ways to save someone who is “ill”. Like a fetus. 

That’s why she says this at the end of the scene:

(”The only way to save our child.”)

And if we focus on Zarkon’s stance right next to her…

…he has his hand on her belly. 

He had that particular hand on her cheek right before:

But as she kept on chanting “Voltron, Voltron, Voltron…” he moved it.

And her last line, “it is the only way”, makes him hang his head in defeat next to her:

Zarkon was no scientist. He had no idea of complications or dangers. He simply trusted and followed Honerva’s idea. 

And he wanted to become a father, too.

And so, it happened. They went into the rift…

…and got possessed.

Only there were not just two people who got possessed.

There were three.

They came back to (un)life, the war began and maybe in the aftermath, or during it, it was time for Honerva to give birth.

…and she did it. Finally, finally, their son was born. Lotor.

But, if the creatures possessed Haggar and Zarkon, or at least, affected their minds and their bodies, it makes sense that they did so to Lotor as well. 

So that would make this visual literal and not just metaphorical:

Lotor got possessed while he was not even big enough to swell Honerva’s belly. 

Let’s remember this: Haggar had her normal face in one instance when she remembered her past for the first time.

It means that she can shapeshift. So, Lotor with his eyes not glowing, can be an unconscious shape shifting from his part. He’s still possessed, despite the lack of glowing eyes. 

And here’s the biggest hint: The Black Bayard. 

While Zarkon has it in his zombie/vampire state, it looks like this:

While it normally looks like this:

…just like all the other Bayards when they’re not in use. 

And it makes sense; after all, just like the Lions, the Bayards are made with Quintessence. They would be affected by creatures practically swimming in Quintessence inside the Rift. 

And when Shiro holds it, it looks normal because he’s not possessed/affected.

But, when Lotor holds it:

…it looks exactly like it was when a possessed/poisoned Zarkon holds it.

He’s possessed/affected as well. He was the third person inside the Rift, still in Honerva’s womb.

And speaking of Zarkon, take a look at this:

This is Zarkon’s hand as he’s dying from the wounds Lotor gave him. 

During the whole fight, the Black Bayard was in the “corrupted” form. 

But, right before he dies, the Bayard returns back in its original form. 

Right before he died, the creatures left Zarkon’s body. We didn’t see them because he was wearing a full-body armor, but they did. And for a moment, finally free, Zarkon could hold the Bayard in its normal form.

The creatures left his body because it was dying. For good. They could prevent it from aging, but not from wounds. Zarkon and Honerva became unaging, not unkillable. 

And the fact that Lotor is centuries years old…

…only adds to the proof of that.

One thing is for sure: the Bayard changing its shape has nothing to do with the fact that they’re Galra. Half Galra or full Galra, it doesn’t make any difference. 

Keith is a Galra himself. Enough to awaken his mother’s blade, which requires Galra blood. But, when he used the Bayard…

…it still had its normal form. 

So no, Galra blood in itself does not affect the Black Bayard any differntly than any other kind of blood. 

It’s the Rift Creatures that “corrupt” it. 

And Lotor… does corrupt it.

Because these creatures are inside of him as well.

And maybe, just maybe, that’s why he wants to open the Rift so much: the creature inside of him, screaming in his subcosncious (just like in Zarkon’s and in Haggar’s) to bring the other creatures in this reality.

The Rift Creatures are the bad guys and the Zarkon family are their puppets. 

Or, the creatures bring out the worst part of their character. The exact effect they have on their hosts remains to be seen.

But, if Lotor got possessed from when he was still a fetus… IS there a person called Lotor, son of Honerva and Zarkon at all? 

Is there a Lotor without the creatures holding his mind and body for theirs?

Does Lotor even… exist? 

can i also just add this:

and yet lotor has it, otherwise his cheeks wouldn’t have glowed? could he have been imbued with these abilities bc of the rift??