#i showed him something in ADO and he was like i dont do coding this is like gibberish to me

[animentality]

I say the like most basic of coding shit to my work uncle and he's like I DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT COMPUTERS.

And it's like my dude, my guy... I majored in anthropology.

Believe me. I dont know shit either.

I just know the bare basics now, because I work with software engineers all the time. It's like living in a foreign country for a year.

you learn the local language.

[ofstrikcrs]

heyo what’s poppin ! it’s me, hannah !  i’m 20 n vibin in the est. my pronouns r we/them/boys but she/her work as well djskfsmd n i’m currently #unemployed BUT i am a full time student... majoring in dumb bitch theory n loving my gf n i’m at the top of my class baby...... :’) ANYWAY. i’m back again w a ( hopefully ) more condensed version of the infamous google doc(s) STRIKER KIM? MORE LIKE STRIKE ME IN THE HEART I LOVE U BITCH so that u dont all have to read the monstrosity that is my app ( but like, if u wanna... u can find it right HERE ) 

n without further ado... let’s kick it !

this is striker, he’s 28 ( soon to b 29 #ariesculture ) n he’s very complicated.. very complicated.... 

his mom cherry kim ( nee corallo ) is the daughter of lorenzo corallo, renowned filmmaker. daphne had a stint in acting in her youth as well but ending up withdrawing from the spotlight once she married his dad.

his dad is warren kim, business man

what kind of business you ask ? well..

let us rewind a little bit, shall we? now if you know anything about the ins and outs of organized crime in new york city, the name corallo might sound *eyes emoji* familiar to you. giovanni corallo was a boss of the lucchese crime family until his arrest and… you guessed it… that means our man lorenzo corallo is a man of the mafia !

lorenzo, however, wasn’t a first-born son which also meant he wasn’t an heir in any way shape or form and was free to do his thing you know BUT when it came time to arrange marriage for his one and only daughter, cherry, it was Expected of him to keep it in the family 

enter the kim family, who had been loyal to the lucchese family for as long as they’d been in america and had built up quite a reputation for themselves in the family, so it was just a natural choice to marry off cherry to their son, warren

they had two kids! their first-born son, dagger, and their second-son…. STRIKER !

and, as in all mafia stories, there is no better prize than the benefits reaped from die-hard loyalty, so in addition to getting to marry a corallo girl… a series of unfortunate events ( i.e. some deaths and arrests ) led to the promotion from right-hand man to acting boss of none other than our very own warren kim

now being the child of an acting mob boss is stressful, but being the second-son of an acting mob boss is… slightly less stressful. see, cherry stepping Out of the spotlight was a strategic move on her own part but was entirely her own decision which meant that striker was free to choose the exact opposite

with no real mafia-related responsibilities or expectations ( other than keeping his mouth SHUT ) on his shoulders, he was more or less… free to roam however he wanted and as he’s always had a taste for the finer things in life, there’s no real surprise that he chose to follow his mother’s side of the family and became nothing short of a socialite in new york city 

which.. despite what the press says abt our #mans striker kim ( i.e. being a billionaire playboy, irresponsible, reckless, wild, etc. ) he’s smart n his main motivation for heading straight for the spotlight is bc every person who falls in love w him is part of a complex and expansive insurance policy that makes it that much harder for the mafia to make him Disappear, u know ?

this is one of the reasons why striker and dagger never Really not along, though striker’s always had this theory that dagger was built for nothing but the mafia anyway bc he’s straight up one of the meanest, cruelest,  most RUTHLESS people that striker has ever met. but, like, with a name like dagger… how could you not be?

things really start getting #Complicated for striker when he’s ABOUT to graduate from college and his dad yeets this mortal coil in a Shocking Tragic Unexpected death ! it doesn’t really affect striker all that much bc striker spent a lot of his life living with his grandfather in the city but… rather when his father dies it’s dagger that ascends into the role of acting boss and BOY OH BOY that’s nothing but trouble for striker 

dagger gets striker roped right back into the mafia that he worked his whole life to try n get out of.. just like that. sad.

and because striker is… como se dice…. a stubborn shithead with a penchant for the dramatics, he starts looking for a way to make his brothers life absolute hell because! yes! striker IS the person who fucks with the mafia! what a moron!

for a good few years it was just minor stuff, nothing really consequential, but that gets boring very quickly bc ... u know ... it is what it is 

ANYWAY. he really finds his in to what’s going to make dagger kim’s life HELL and that is getting himself involved in a little heist group. there are only so many events that striker can show his face that end with a robbery of some sort before it starts to become suspicious, and it doesn’t take a genius to connect the kim family to the corallo family to the lucchese family. it’s just enough to keep people talking but not enough to actively incriminate himself. and as long as he’s not publicly throwing the lucchese family under the bus, he’s still, by all accounts, insured by the mafia as the son of warren kim.

anyway! enough w the backstory! here’s some fun lil personality n headcanon stuff :’)

first and foremost.. he does have a face tatoo. ( and an eyebrow piercing and yes i have photos of both if u want to see them )  it’s of a crown on his left cheek and he   got it within a week of his father dying and dagger forcing him to come back into   the mafia to Assert His Dominance n show dagger he was still in charge of his own   goddamn decisions so fuck you dagger

dagger punched him in the face for getting the tattoo and he had a black eye for two weeks but you win some you lose some

on the surface? rich kid asshole!!! rich RICH kid asshole!!! you know the kind of guy you take one ( 1 ) look at him and you’re like yeAh u absolutely think that ur better than me ? that’s him 

does he rly think he’s better than u? unclear.. depends on who u are... i already have some thots abt who striker wld dislike hmu tho aha x

fluent in english ofc n also korean and italian, his primary language is lit rally a jumble of korean and italian tht nobody can understand but like.. him n dagger n his dad ( rip ) n he also knows a little spanish and japanese.

he’s afraid of horses but will never admit it

he loves to bet!!! he loves it!!! it’s probably from growing up in a family where making bets on things was a major source of income but he will 100000% place bets on anything there is to place bets on and will rope as many people into his betting pools as possible

he hasn’t had his gay awakening yet isn’t that tragic??  turns out the mafia ISN’T a very lgbt friendly place, who would have thought?? so that’s absolutely something that’s going to happen bc we know that i love to make my characters suffer esp when it’s related to their attraction to someone whew…

he’s somehow both the biggest gossip and the most secretive person that you’ll ever meet??? like he’s an instigator n will make offhanded comments abt what he’s observed other ppl doing recently that he thinks are… inch resting… and you’ll have this long ass conversation w him and not realize until like 2 hours later that he didn’t say one ( 1 ) thing abt himself the entire time

you know how finnick from the hunger games used to get paid for things w secrets??? that’s so striker to the core… like you can’t buy him or bribe him bc baby has $$$ and is so disinterested in the glitz and glamor of fast cars and expensive drinks and whatnot, so if you really want him to do something for him… you’re going to have to trade him some secrets… n that’s that on that!

he doesn’t like to take his shirt off around ppl bc #scars ( predominantly the large letter L that’s branded on his chest but there are some others that i haven’t decided on yet ) anyway he does not partake in the pool parties n as explanation has just always  told everyone that he doesn’t know how to swim… n he’ll die w that lie, thank u !

very paranoid... has 2 different phones w his contacts n codes.. folds his clothes a certain way so he can know if someone touched his stuff... has a fun in a safe under his bed that he changes the passcode to regularly.... he also has some ocd but a lot of it is #trauma

im sry there r so many points here i .. rly tried to trim them down n there are like 300% more in my app but.. whew... ok

i’m going to stop now but pls.. pls plot w me i beg ok thank u bye

[goffilolo]

Demise!Izuku as a Youtuber?

Yep! You heard me right. Demise server is a strange little land, full of strange little ideas, unfortunitely this one idea in particular wasn’t so little. So without further ado here’s all the shit we came up with in the server in regards to izuku as a youtuber within demise!au:

If Izuku was a YouTuber can you imagine the fucking chaos dumpster fire his channel would be

He's be like an edgy twink Jenna marbles(edited)

Doing Me time every damn day

bandit is jennas dogs

tenya is julien

He'd have weird ass videos like dipping bandits feet in red pet dye then putting a sign on him that says "you pet and you'll meet the last person who dared to"(edited)

And he's also make videos about him breaking into UA and interrupting classes and stuff

"hey gamers, today we're breaking into UA to see my boyfriend and read all of my friend's secret files"

And a video just of him filing Aizawa in weird places and at the end putting him on an inflatable mattress and watching him float away 

He wakes up in Canada

They don't know how or why

He just attaches a go-pro to trash bandit and let's him run wild. He probably has a seriesJust letting him loose in weird places

DONT LET TRASH BANDIT EAT AIZAWA'S SLEEPING BAG AT 3AM | VERY SCARY"hey guys so today ill be doing the 'How many bottles of quil can i steal before i get caught by Tsukabitch' challange. feel free to make a video of your own!" 

He probably dyes Bandit according to holidays and puts him as the profile picture. The kicker is, he only does it for holidays that his country doesn't celebrate

Like 4th of july

And Canada day

"Hewo soulless fuckers it is me your overlord, King of the soulless fuckers. Today I'll be going up to people in the streets and telling them that I killed God and Satan. But y'all know me, that's not enough. So I'll be asking them which one I killed first and if they get it wrong I take a shot of quil. The quil I'll be taking is the plain ol kind so don't worry your little marshmallow heads about it." 

He only makes text posts in OwO speak this just makes me realise demise!izuku would make a great youtuber

He would twitch stream all the time doing the weirdest shit for hours on end

"what is up gamews! today i wiww be weviewing the new game cawwed life! i have been pwaying it fow about 16 yeaws now and i have to say it's pwetty bad my guys!"

I feel like he'd be absurdly popular and whenever someone mentions him and they look up the channel they are like "wth have I stumbled upon?!"

I'm just imagining what his front page would look like

The seasonal trash bandit profile picture, the banner would be a flaming hellscape with people he dislikes burning and trash bandit looming on low opacity in the background 

(He made it so that only people who view it on TV get the full experience.)

He probably has his own segment on buzzfeed unsolved

Not talking

Its about him

The intro video would just be him staring into the camera while mixing together a horrible concoction of quil then downing it without breaking eye contact(edited)

His about section is written in 3 different types of code and it's all in owo if you manage to crack it

i love demise|!izuku as a youtube cryptid

Clown Speak and OwO speak mixed together

I feel like in the beginning Izuku was this obscure YouTuber that you only find out about if someone in the know tells you about it until a bigger YouTuber found him out on a deep dive video and just couldn't stop watching yes

i imagine once he gets big people from react channel would invite him to react to videos of people reacting to his videos 

What if in one of his videos he started acting like his old self just to freak everyone out. He didn't say anything about it instead he talked about hero analysis with a bright smile and trail off into muttering a few times only to blush when he realized it. He have his hair in a ponytail with only bangs framing his face and some messy pieces falling out. Also her be wearing something plain but like old Izuku, maybe hero merch or something. The comment section was just people flipping out and shit

He never acknowledges the video after he made it

No matter how many comments he gets he acts like it doesn't exist

omg you know wha tthat would actually allign with the demise and canon swap places for a da

yand you know what that gives me a lot of feels

the millions of subscribers get to see the old izuku

Maybe after a milestone he would post a video he made in middle school of him analyzing a quirk in video format to make sure it wouldn't get destroyed

And he put a couple videos of younger him after it

But it starts being supporting Izuku

And his present and past self and stuff

PEOPLE MAKE FAN ART first Its all full of trash and memes

What if that picture of canon Izuku meeting demise Izuku was a fan art someone made of his old self meeting the new him 

Kids from his class kinda Piecing together they really screwed up?Some even sending in apologies, perhaps

For mental health day I could see him posting a serious video about what he went through and his time in the mental hospital 

And on national stop bullying day he would talk about his decade of abuse including the details of how the school and teachers fucked up and everything aboutbakugou

izuku using youtrube for shitposting and advocating

And for mothers day he features both Rei and Inko?

Endeavor exposure video

What if Rei helped edit or something?To help pass the time for her

Give her something to do

People love the mysterious editor

I feel like villains watch his content like maybe Dabi

rei and fuyumi sometimes make appearances

Dabi just shows up in the videos

Quickly become faves

I feel like Dabi would become a fan and start crying after seeing his mom happy in one of Izuku's videos

"...and this is rei, my hospital mom and this if fuyumi, her daughter so like my sister she helps me keep my shit together and sometimes gives me quil.." 

dabi crying from seeing his mom happy in some lunatic's youtube videos

“...and this is shin, dont let the looks deceive you this man went to jail"

Shin comes in and covers the cameras a lot

FATHERS DAY IS A PICTURE OF TRASH BANDIT WITH HIS DADS VOICE SCRAMBLED OVER IT

“and this is the local florida woman and her alligator

WHAT IF BNHA VERSE HAD QUIRKLESS AWARENESS WEEKizuku would go ape shit during that week

"who needs a quirk when my dad gave me a gun!"

He would give axe sharpening tips

"Remember kids! Society won't help you, so you gotta help yourself!"

he would make 'how to cook videos' except it would only be quil combos

What if one day he just put quil in the ovenand pulled out a muffin

Remeber, don't try this at home kids." makes A horrifying quil combo "rememer never ever do this even if you have a quirk that allows it." downs the horror concoction

"so today were gonna do my boyriend does my makeup challange and since both me and tenya are dumb and know nothing i borrowed my mums makeup..." 

It’s a given he’s gonna do makeup tutorials. The real question is would they be good or absolutely horrendous?

good or horrendous? Both

Amazing makeup at horrendous things? Hmmm interesting

“Hey guys today I’m turning myself into a real like eldrich abomination with the help of eyeliner and glitter!”

izuku has a whole playlist of videos dedicated to tenya and UA

theyre all jsut shitposty compilations of some footage when tenya isnt looking

Even tho it looks like he couldn't give a fuck he is very selective with which footage makes it online. He's very careful at how much is revealed and makes sure no students or secret identities would be in danger with his content

izuku isnt stupid...hes jsut having a good time

Sneaking into UA highschool by hiding in pro hero eraserhead's sleeping bag | NOT CLICKBAIT

Izuku would totally play carefree and childish games while just being Izuku

Like his animal crossing series

Fucking legendary on his channel in terms of gaming

izuku's sims lets play

it's like a 10 generation long telenovela lowkey based off the todoroki family

He has no straight sims, he recreated UA and class 1a in sims

the wedding of sim izuku and sim tenya is like the biggest party in the sim neighbourhood

He creates endeavor just to lock him in a room with 50 ovens

Omg his draw my life has got to be super depressing

He'd be super blunt and monotone during his whole draw my life going through all of the abuse and bullying that he went through because of his quirklessness and also his suicide attempt and all that jazz(edited) 

izuku would paint on a potato

Izuku would make a get ready with me where he does something totally batshit crazy then ends it with "Ah. Yet another day in my life."

Izuku meets Marie Kondo

“Only keep what brings you joy”

“Well this gun from my father sure brings me joy”

Knifemaking videos but with axes

Izuku decided to do a wardrobe tour and like 4 things were bloodstained which he never addressed. The most popular comment was what happened, which of course he never answered.

Izuku does these new year (like all of the questions from last year) or milestone Q+A’s/AMA's which are basically people just asking a bunch of the things he wouldn't answer or address before. A lot of his viewers write down and timestamp when he does something and doesn't address it. If you don't you'll never hear an answer.

He has his boonk gang phrase which is probably like Bandit gang or some shit like that, which he shouts while breaking into places. UA dorm rooms, UA facility office, UA, Hero Agency’s, Endeavour's bedroom (Don't ask), etc. 

He has a variety of videos where he does things from different communities. For example he has a few hair tutorial and following hair tutorial videos. Same for makeup.I feel like Izuku would also have some dresses and slutty Halloween costumes that be put on in a video all while looking like someone who just had finals and was studying for 4 days straight beforehand.

At like 4AM a thought hit Izuku to have Trash Bandit meet Kouta for the first time and learn what his sheep talks about and what he has to say. Needless to say he took his camera, went to UA, stormed the dorms, went up to the shy kid sheep in hand, looked him dead in the eye, and asked “What is my sheep saying.” bandit speaks and Kouta goes from confused and slightly scared to disgusted and horrified. What did Bandit say? Who the fuck knows…

Izuku loves analysis and while he doesn't do it for heroes anymore when he misses it too much sometimes he does it with tv shows or other things.

Idk what yet but Izuku is weirdly good at something and only showed it on camera once. (He's casually known to be a good artist) Whatever he's good at he did it once for a video and it's in one of the most popular compilation videos of him. 15 minutes of Izuku being a cinnamon roll.

Izuku has a shit ton of videos featuring the UA kids. He has some playlists dedicated to certain ones even if all you see is the back of their head.

Any proceeds Izuku manages to get (he is popular but he gets demonetized a lot) goes to different charities for the quirkless.

He made only 1 serious cooking video on his birthday, but instead of using a knife he used an axe.

He has a video called “My sharp things (tour)” where he just shows off all of his knives and axes and shit along with a massive pair of scissors he got Momo to make.

Izuku makes videos of himself destroying endeavor merch while staring at the camera.

[akiosms-blog]

     hi everyone ! i’m terribly sorry at how late this is, i have been out for the entire day playin d&d but im finally here and super excited about this ! dbh has made me cry ( from sads and pure stress too ) on numerous occasions and i can’t wait to explore the universe of this wonderful rp ! when it comes to yours truly, i’m KAY, go by she/her pronouns, i’m 19 and i reside in the gmt+3 timezone for the winter ( stupid country dont know timesaving ) — you should def add me on disc.ord @ kay#5119, where i’m always around on mobile too ! on this lovely rp, i’ll be roleplaying as AKIO, the recover-droid #005, who is definitely a defect bc this boy is facing A Lot™ of emotions, which is ofc a huge sign of a defect — meanwhile, i’d love to establish some plots && connections for him, so pls hit me up or if you give this a heart ♡, i’ll sliiide into ur ims instead ! without further ado, you can find more about akio under the cut, alongside some connection ideas ~ 

— his life begins as a recover-droid to a 16-year-old yejun, in which he spends a lot of his time with the boy. they begin being close friends and after a while, it’s clear to see akio is showing huge signs of being a defect. he does things unprompted, things that override his code and rationality. the feelings of friendship and trust comes above anything else, and it’s clear that akio is not a perfect android anymore. when the news of recover-droids being defects is out, it’s clear that he’s going to be returned to the company. even though he has little he can do, he still tries to convince the others, tries to act like a proper android — but of course, all of it is in vain. a proper android shouldn’t cry, shouldn’t feel so broken at the thought of being separated from his friend. there’s nothing he can do as he’s pulled away from his house and torn by the company that made him.

— two weeks later, he opens his eyes in a junkyard and doesn’t remember anything but his own name. A... K ... I ... O. AKIO. it comes slowly, painfully — warning signs flash by his eyes, ERROR, ERROR, ERROR. missing pieces, too many of them to count, so critically low on thirium that he feels his skin crack. it hurts, in a way that he can’t understand, in a way that he has never felt before. why am i alive? why am i here? a bunch of numbers fly by his eyes, but he knows one thing, he has to survive. crawling through wires and mud on a rainy day, he pulls himself through the junkyard, with one eye seeing and a leg gone, he looks for pieces to make himself whole. it hurts, the eyes of other androids, the hollowness in them, the screams that echo from miles away, open lips letting out whimpers, pleading for life. it’s a nightmare as akio looks for pieces right and left to make himself barely functional, but perhaps he is lucky that so many recover-droids are lying there, broken, discontinued, DEAD. it’s a massacre, and his core burns, burns with pain, burns with the blood that’s not there. somehow, he makes it out of there, but that night continues to haunt his dreams to this day.

— soon after his departure from the junkyard, he meets a group of androids, a group of rebels walking around — the first thing that he notices is that they are not wearing proper android outwear. the second thing he notices are that are some recover-droids there too. at first he isn’t sure how to act, how to talk to them — what to expect. he’s still fearing being discovered, being sent back and torn into pieces properly this time. the loss of his memories are too much to bear, and when he isn’t even sure who he really is, it’s hard to take a step forward for a new start. the good thing is, it happens, he meets others like him that help him be who he really is, good friends who let him show his true emotions. akio wears his heart on a sleeve when he really shouldn’t, but it’s okay when he is amongst others like him. they all have their own problems in a world that’s so against who they are, but akio is more than happy to have found a home, a purpose: to help others like him. 

— even though it is not the purpose he was made for, akio decides to learn more about androids — how they’re built, what makes them run. he wants to be a mechanic to help them out, to find solutions to help others who are thrown away to the side just like him. at first, it’s almost impossible to figure out someone who knows a lot about androids and someone who will help him instead of turning him in. a lot of people side with the government and hate defects to the core. akio isn’t sure what to do but ask around in his little circle, and then through one ear to another, akio learns of a name in a different city in the suburbs. someone who can help him, someone who can teach him. and after promising his friends to see them again, he takes off to find the mysterious man who can teach him all about android mechanics.

— he spends years with kenji, at first the man is cold, but akio manages to convince him slowly but surely, helping him with anything and everything until he begins learning more and more about how androids are built. kenji becomes a close friend, a confidant, someone he trusts. those emotions spark something in him that he can’t really remember, something he can’t put his finger on, something he feels the urge to find again. when he knows more than enough about androids to help them, he decides to go back to the city, to go back to the place they call the cavern so he can become helpful to other androids who are in need. parting from kenji is hard, but they promise each other to talk every day, and like that, akio is back in the city again. he will help androids in need, because they exist, and because they deserve to exist — happily and as a whole.

— personality wise, akio is really... emotional in a way that he is really easy to read? he doesn’t hide anything, so is very easy to understand and he doesn’t mind it too much. it’s very rare that he needs to hide anything, and he is very friendly especially with androids, wanting to help them anyway he can. he can be very reticent when it comes to his real past because he doesn’t remember so much of it, but he still tries to be open and friendly to promote a happy society where they can go to each other in need. for akio, all androids have is other androids, and he wants to show other androids that he can be trusted. around humans, he is more apprehensive; thinks that many of them will hate him for who he is, so he pointedly tries to stay away from them, or at least emotionally distant so that they can’t figure out he is indeed a defect. with his personality, it’s hard to hide, so it’s always a battle to decide how to act around new people.

CONNECTIONS IDEAS

— those other androids he found when he just left the junkyard. he was in a very poor shape and scared as hell, so this would be very interesting. — other droids from a couple of years ago that he was friends with. he left them to learn more about android mechanics, and it would be exciting to have them meet again. — i was hcing that kenji ‘an independent pro-android’ mechanic helps defects on a regular basis very secretively, so maybe your android was in a bad shape and akio & kenji helped them out? — akio returned to the city not too long ago, so people he met currently when he returned back to the cavern maybe? — akia is clearly a defect bc he does... cry at times. maybe your muse witnessed that, and their response to that? — people he doesn’t get along with! perhaps akio was too nosy for his own good and your muse does not like that? — people akio has helped, maybe they were injured, and akio was there to replenish their thirium and fix their parts.

     that’s all about him for now and these are just some basic ideas from the top of my head!! i’d love to brainstorm and plot up some new things too, so like i said above, pls hit me up OR, hit the like button below and i’ll come to u instead !!  ♡♡♡

[d-cockroach-blog]

@aquaburst07 (bruh this became so long that asks dont cut it)

For a variety of reasons actually!

Before we begin, however, I want to make this clear: I have nothing against shipping or having certain ships. If anyone out there ships Keith and Acxa, that’s your ship and you’re entitled to it. At the same time, I’m entitled to my theories.

Now without further ado let’s begin.

First off, let’s look at what canon has depicted so far of the relationship between Keith and Acxa. Usually, when people talk about them (even people who support the siblings theory), they only refer to the famous scene where Keith and Acxa face off in “Tailing a Comet” in season 3. But what I’ve noticed that except for a few people (@radioactivesupersonic  being one, and they have some interesting thoughts/speculation on the theory that I suggest checking out) no one really discusses this particular scene:

I admit, when I saw season 2 back in January (???)  I thought that the Weblum Galra was gonna be a Red X sort of character (remember the original Teen Titans?) who would serve Keith’s rival and perhaps have some sort of connection to Lotor. Later on after Acxa’s face was revealed in sdcc and the dynamic of Lotor and his squad was established, I thought that while Keith and Acxa were definitely going to have a rivalry (and as an extension, Team Voltron vs. Team Sincline) and the fact that they worked amazing with one another signaled a potential alliance between Team Voltron and Team Sincline down the road.

But now in lue of season 4 and the dissolution of Team Sincline and the generals are at odds with Lotor, the chances of alliance in that respect is kinda low. (And I don’t support the theory that the generals are going to reunite with Lotor). Not to mention season 4 seemed to establish a rivalry/parallelism between Keith and Lotor, and the generals seem separate from it with Acxa having an agenda of her own.

But that leaves us with the teamup. Why emphasize how great Keith and Acxa work together if there’s not going to be rivalry + alliance going on?

And look at how well they work together. The show makes a point of showing them covering each other’s backs and Keith protects Acxa with his shield from blasts from the immune cells. Comparing this with other fights in the show, even the ones where it involves Team Voltron vs. common enemy, the show never makes an specific choice to have the characters work so well in sync with one another, not even Keith and Shiro, a choice that would be well expected. In fact, the only characters whose fighting style parallels this Keith and Acxa’s in this scene is

Pidge and Matt, the only canon sibling relationship in the show in which both parties are important to the plot. And taking it further, notice how that particular shot with Pidge and Matt parallels these shot of Acxa and Keith, down to the similar backgrounds:

The coloring is different of course, but that could indicate that the same way we have siblings that are partners-in-crime with Matt and Pidge, we might be getting rivaling siblings with Keith and Acxa. And given the parallelism between Keith and Pidge as the arms of Voltron, outlined very well by @radioactivesupersonic here, it makes sense that Keith’s family situation would be the inverse reciprocal of Pidge’s.

There’s also the matter of the nature of the partnership. I’ve mentioned it before in this separate meta, but note how Keith responds to Acxa. He gets real attached real quick. Don’t get me wrong, Keith is a very loyal individual, whom we see goes back rescue Regris in “Code of Honor” and sticks with Allura when she attempts to hand the comet over to the alternate reality Alteans in “Hole in the Sky.” But Acxa, as Keith noted by her empire insignia, is with the empire, and Keith has already made clear how he feels about them back when he fights Zarkon, and for the most part, he usually never hesitates when fighting a galra solider or commander, even after his origin reveal.

Here you can see how bitter, almost tired he becomes after Acxa betrays him. Given how pragmatic Keith is, you’d think he’d expect something like this to happen. And yet, here he is assuming the best out of an imperial soldier. It’s almost like he sensed that there was more to Acxa than her empirical position? And even with his bitterness towards her, Keith never anticipated Acxa being on Lotor’s side?

Look at his surprised expression here. It makes one wonder if Keith had some sort of preconceived notions about Acxa? Again, tying back to the idea that Keith somehow knew deep down that there was more to Acxa than there seemed to be, and Keith does value her in particular…

With that in mind also consider the fact that Keith and Acxa are really similar to one another.

Like something I noticed since sdcc is that Acxa what in Spanish we call an “aire” (translates directly to “air” in English, but more appropriately referred to as an “aura”) of Keith. What I mean is, that in a lot of ways, is very similar to Keith that is not present with other characters, even parallels such as Lotor and Allura. Things such as mannerisms, personality, and character.

For example, let’s look at Keith for a moment. What is one of the iconic things what we think about when thinking of Keith?

It’s him crossing his arms. It’s so iconic that Allura emulates this when she plays Keith in “the Voltron Show!” And guess what Acxa tends to do as well?

It’s not the only thing either, Acxa makes a number of Keith-ish faces too.

(There are more but I’m in kind of a rush now. I’ll update this later)

And personality-wise, at first they don’t resemble each other much. But consider their loyalty to their respective leaders, Keith with Shiro and Acxa with Lotor. Acxa ditches Lotor later on of course, but not without inner turmoil. Both are quite pragmatic to a fault, with Acxa alling herself with Keith in the Weblum because it benefitted her plan. It can be compared to Keith’s pragmatism in s1 when Allura was captured and Keith had hesitated to save her, because he knew that it would endanger the lions.

But most of all, what I find oddly similar between the two of them is their fighting style? Every character in the show has their own unique fighting style, in Team Voltron this quite pronounced. Keith in particular is known for his aggressive, close combat, and Acxa is frankly the same. Like compare:

Heck when they fight they cancel each other out.

People call out parallelism between them but I don’t see it. When we see parallelism in the show, think of how Allura’s speech to the coalition in “Changing the Guard” is a direct foil to Lotor’s speech to the empire. Think of how Lotor outwitted the paladins, only for Allura to outwit him. Think of how Keith’s on his own in season 4, and Lotor as well. What is the common denominator here? Each parallel here are in similar situations, but ultimately resulting from different circumstances. And in terms of personality, there are similarities but ultimately they are very different. Their actions, behaviors, and personality quirks are different as well.  

To top this all off the last similarity that Keith has with Acxa is well their designs. Like look, I know that Studio Mir has a particular anime-esque style where it’s so easy to fall into same-face, but if I’m quite honest vld doesn’t really suffer from it?

Like for the most part, all the characters on the show are unique in some form or another, even if they share certain characteristics with one another. In fact, the only times I could recall the show being explicitly same-face besides Keith and Acxa are with Pidge and Matt, and Allura and her mother, aka people that are biologically related to each other.  

And really, there has to be a reason why the show made a point to explicitly depict Keith and Acxa’s face like this in these shots, subtle foreshadowing?

Like really if it were just to for Keith to recognize Acxa as the the galra from the  weblum, why focus on Keith’s face, whose expression she mirrors here? Like, the focus on Keith’s surprise and the flashback would of been enough. The time allocated to showing each of their faces was long enough to allow the viewer to get a good look at them, which given their faces, is surprisingly similar.

Also one has to consider Lauren and Joaquim’s style of foreshadowing. Like for the past four seasons I’ve noted that the vld writers tend to plant subtle hints early on in the show – easter eggs if you will. Having Acxa meet Keith in the weblum, all alone so that her partnership with him is emphasized, with the only other person being Hunk, aka the guy who involved himself in the galra Keith thing, asking him questions and stuff. One could argue that Acxa appearing in season 2 and allying herself with Keith is a perfect example of this. The hints eventually get bigger eventually culminating in the reveal. Think back to the reveal of Keith’s galra heritage. It wasn’t until someone rewatched season1 till they realized there was hints overlaid that could indicate Keith as galra, and the hints only grew as season 2 rolled around. Frankly this seems to be the case with Acxa and Keith. Right now the clues are small, but as Lauren and Joaquim said in this interview back in season 3, Keith’s family is not a main focus in the show right now, but will come in later. Given their previous trend of foreshadowing, it could very well be that Acxa, Keith’s sister, is introduced as a character, but the nature of the relationship between them will not be focused on until the second half of the show.

And really, and Keith were to have family outside (and he seems to have, given Keith’s comment in “Stayin’ Alive” how he plans to find his family, while he might not know it himself, might be subtle foreshadowing as he could as very well said parents, also Lauren’s intentionally vague comments here) wouldn’t it be more interesting for said family member to not be defined by their relation as Keith’s family, or this case sister? Because frankly, that would be boring as heck if we’re introduced to this sibling character of Keith and the only notable trait they have is the fact they exist to be Keith’s sister. Canon Acxa is a character of own, whose motivations are (now) distinct from Lotor’s, distinct from Keith’s, and she has own friend group and backstory and character development. Frankly, I’d say that Acxa being Keith’s sister would only be icing the well-written cake.

(EDIT: Forgot to include links)

[slytheroccamy]

TJLC in The Six Thatchers *SPOILERS*

JOHNLOCK IN THE SIX THATCHERS ( please read, it'll be worth your time I promise) Okay so I watched The Six Thatchers maybe 8 times now and have a few things I would like to point out to provide further evidence that JohnLock will happen in The Final Problem and would like to hear your thoughts! I know this is really long, but I went into extreme detail of the episode and I think it's worth reading, especially since Rebekah is likely not going to make an episode on it. Anyway, without further ado, All evidence of Johnlock in The Six Thatchers. 

 1) On the fridge I'm sure we all saw the pamphlet with the elephant, but directly above it is a post-it note with 13th written on it. I started thinking what this could mean and then realised that including TAB, The Final Problem would be episode 13 of Sherlock. The elephant will be addressed finally in the 13th episode. 

 2) Can we please note the ridiculously not so subtle water imagery throughout the episode? literally overlaying sherlocks face? 

3) the main villan of the episode was refered to constantly (before the reveal of her identity) as Ammo, which we find out actually means Love. and said villan ends up killing mary, the one thing standing between sherlock and john. (sidenote I do love Mary as a character and was sad to see amanda go, I knew it had to be done for the sake of Johnlock)  also, convenient that John now has a child, something John and Sherlock wouldn't of been able to have on their own. 

4) Save John Watson. Save him. Save him Sherlock. Save him from what exactly? Oh I don't know maybe the repressed sexuality he has been hiding all these years? Save him from the pain of staying in the closet? (which is pretty painful, I know from experience. You really do feel saved when you fall in love for the first time) also, Save John Watson; the skip code sent to Mary in the Empty Hearse. In which John was being burned... as in "I will burn the heart out of you" burned. just saying. 

5) Free as a bird. #ohwhatabeautifulmorning Here are the lyrics to oh what a beautiful morning - There's a bright golden haze on the meadow, There's a bright golden haze on the meadow, The corn is as high as an elephant's eye, An' it looks like its climbin' clear up to the sky. Chorus: Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh what a beautiful day, I've got a wonderful feeling, Everything's going my way. - Okay how many songs do you know have the word elephant in them? not many, and of course the one song sherlock tweets is about everything going perfectly and mentions a freaking elephant... Also, It's from Oklahoma! the Musical... which you can read about the relevance to in Rebekah's tumblr blog 

 6) John's Blog We get a quick shot of John's Blog in the opening, (the real life counter part of the blog is no longer being updated) but it's important to note that the counter is no longer stuck at 1895! They've broken past the barrier of the suppressive time period! Also, the titles of the blogs (in order of apperance) are:

 221Back! (which from what I can read off the blurred image, is about how he hasn't written in a while and that he'll try to write everything up soon, and that he's going to be a dad) 

 Dusty Death (a case about a woman who's husband drowned, but had sand in his lungs not water.) 

 Unknown Blog Entry (about a man who came in looking white as a sheet and a wound in his hand. We don't know much about this case except that it was the wrong thumb?)

The Duplicate Man (How could Dennis Parkinson be in two places at once and murdered in one of them? Again don't know much excpect that it's never twins.) 

 The Circus Torso (Limbless body found decomposing in trunk in waterloo wouldn't be identified.) 

 The Canary Trainer (Andrew Wilson was an unusual man with an Unusual hobby. He seemed to have no connection to the man whos life was so abruptedly ended one freezing night) 

 The Cardiac Arrest (Joel Fentiman was found strangled in the bedsit he shared with his brother. They had always got on well and there was no sign that the situation had changed... we could never have known that there was a potential assasin lurking close by.) I may be reading too much into this one, but perhaps, since people view sherlock and johns relationship as platonic and brotherly, they share a flat, and according to the non tjlc viewers, there is no sign that that would be changing. and if it were to continue on that way, the more than platonic relationship would die. Strangled. not able to speak. or breathe. Suffocated by an assasin... cough mary cough. Again, could be reading too much into this one. 

 7) Sherlock's Tweets There are many in the first act of the episode and it goes by fast but here is what I could collect in order. 

Free as a Bird 

#ohwhatabeautifulmornin 

#221BringIt! 

 8) The Canary Trainer Woman: "Didn't see that coming" Sherlock: "Naturally" The woman is the viewers, this is made apparent by the fact that she is viewing sherlock over a device and not face to face in person like a typical client. 

 9) John's Missed calls from Mary John has 59 missed calls from mary after he spends all his day with sherlock... hmmm in SIB John mentions that Sherlock has had 57 texts from Irene, sherlock recieves two texts from Irene after this point, Im not dead lets have dinner and goodbye mr holmes. making 59 total texts from Irene. Not sure if there is an important connection here but as mycroft so fondly pointed out, there are no such things as coincidences. so take this as you like. 

 10) Sherlock Watson Sherlock mentions yet again that he wants them to name their daughter Sherlock because her thinks it would sound good, he likes the name Sherlock Watson. Of course Mary and John both remind him that it's not a girl's name, to which Sherlock just grins 

 11) Sherlock is named Godfather to the child. it's a strectch but Father is in the title and Mother is gone by the end so... 

 12) Margaret Thatcher Okay so as the title of the episode and the main story line, this is really important. Margaret was one of the greatest Prime ministers of all british history... except for one glaring flaw... she was very anti-gay. Okay, so, the Welsborough couple are mirrors to John and Sherlock, this is clear from the fact that their case begins with a reflection in a balloon. Also because they say they had no life before they met eachother, much in the way john's blog blatently states he literally had no life whatsoever before he met Sherlock. When they kiss, the wife says "she's looking at us disapprovingly again" referring to the Thatcher bust, this however would make no sense unless it's not refering to them as a straight couple but instead their mirrors John and Sherlock, because as I previously stated, Maragret Thatcher was very anti-gay. Throughout the episode busts of Thatcher are being broken in order to find or free something hidden. The are literally shattering the anti-gay minister in order to free something hidden... come on people. this is so glaring its almost baffling how other a handful of us have figured out the true drive of the show. (side note, the power ranger on Charlies car is blue... guess what the name of the blue power ranger is? Billy. Also he was considered the brains of the group) Later in the show sherlock finally catches on to whats happening with the busts and the following conversation occurs between sherlock and lestraude. 

 L: and now someones wandering about destroying them all. Makes no sense whats the point? 

S: No theyre not destroying them. Thats not whats happening 

L: yes it it 

S:Well it is whats happening but its not the point... Ive been slow, far too slow 

L: well im still being slow over here so if you wouldnt mind... 

S: slow but lucky, very lucky. 

 *takes deep breath* okay. so if we read this conversation with the busts representing heteronormativity in media, or the straight perception of the show, and lestraude as the audience, we are being told that yes the physical busts are being destroyed but thats not the point. the point is johnlock. the general audience still doesnt see it, some people are catching on, but the whole thing has been moving very slow, because the writers dont want to rush it, they want to do this right, and in order to do that they need to build up a story for years, a story that will change the way we see things, but without throwing it at us abruptly and randomly. This is a love story remember, and love stories need build up or it feels forced. and this is something that should in no way feel forced. 

 13) Titles This fun little concersation: *talking about the Ghost Driver case* Sherlock: "Dont give it a title" 

John: "people like titles" 

Sherlock: "I hate titles" 

John: "give the people what they want" 

Sherlock: "no, never do that, people are stupid. 

 Mary: "uhm some people" 

Sherlock: "All people are stupid.... most people." 

 you sure were still talking about blogs boys? Everyone wants to title them as platonic and friends and all this jazz to which sherlock says he hates titles and then goes on to say that most people are stupid, implying that there is a section of people who nderstand and arent blind to the obvious cough cough club tjlc 

14) John's Hair I think it's important to note that John is using a lot more product in his hair this season, and as Sherlock Holmes himself pointed out, Product in the hair is a sign of gayness, previous seasons said john only washed his hair, there was a difference. now hes upgraded to full product, clearly taking more of an interest in maintenance of himself. Not to impress mary, theyre already married what's he got to impress at this point? unless hes not trying to impress anyone it's just for himself. which is according to sherlock, kind of gay. 

 15) SOMETHINGS COMING Throughout the literal entire episode it is constantly repeated that something is coming! The want to make it obvious that it is coming something big is going to happen! Sherlock has a little rant about how by analysing everyones movements and patterns the future is entirely predictable mathmatically. well guess whose been doing that the entire time? Us. The TJCL cool people who have dedicated countless hours into analysing characters to discover that Johnlock will happen in the Final Problem. well done guys yay! Sherlock didn't like the original ending of Appointment in Samarah, she he WROTE HIS OWN ENDING The transition for that scene you may ask? Glass... shattering...onto.....a...shattered...bust...of...antigay...margaret...thatcher .........Guys... come on... they are screaming it to us at this point. 16) Now that youve pointed it out Sherlock talks Mr Kingsley through his deductions, after which mr K states that once he'd explained it, it was quite obvious...(cough cough johnlock) to which sherlock gets offended and making up a bunch of lies, namely, says his wife is the most dangerous spy in the world, operating deep undercover. 

17) game face Theres a weird moment where the margaret bust is transposed onto sherlocks face, and then lestraude says that shelock doesnt look pleased. sherlock replies with "this is my game face". Keeping in mind that Thatcher busts in this episode represent the heteronormativity in media, sherlock is putting on a face, a face to appeal to heteronormativity but he isnt pleased. He isn't pleased with wearing the game face anymore... because it's not a game anymore... johnlock, isnt a gameface anymore and the heteronormative mask is going to come off soon. 

 18) Toby the dog = Johnlock 

J: "Hes not moving" 

S: "Hes thinking" 

J: "Hes really not moving" 

S: "Hes slow and sure john, not dissimilar to yourself" 

J: "You just like this dog don't you" 

S: "Well I like you" 

Mary: "Hes still not moving." 

*enters montage of Sherlock's theme melting into John's chords in a major key. in a visual pattern identical to John and Sherlock running through the streets of london in SIP*

19) Sherlock. Holmes. Falling. Through. Shattering. Glass. Into. A. Pool. Of. Water. With. Waves. Painted. On. The. Walls. Forcing. A. Man. To. Choke. On. A. Waterfall. 

 20) Promotional posters In a poster for the Final Problem, there shows a violin with the E string broken. if anyone has a theory to what this represents please let me know. On a seperate poster john and sherlock are in their chairs staring at eachother with the room flooded in water and a tea cup floating between them 

 21) GWJ GWJ is spray painted on the door outside of the location where Mary and Sherlock meet... Theories for what this stands for? Like... Gay with John? or Go with John? or Gratiss Wants Johnlock? 

 22) So many lies J: so many lies and I dont just mean you. we find out john means the almost affair here, BUT I don't think so. Okay for started the almost affair broke my heart so I wont be talking about it at all, but the fact that it was even considered means John isnt 100% happy in this marraige. He wouldnt even consider it otherwise. But what isnt he happy with? He loves mary, we all do, shes awesome. Hes got a beautiful child, and is still solving crimes with his best friend... unless... unless he Isn't happy with mary because even though he loves her... He loves someone else more... Sherlock. And being around Sherlock all the time and not knowing Sherlock loves him back while being married has got to be taxing and is definately something that could push someone to consider having an affair. Hes sick of lying to mary and hes sick of lying to sherlock. Hes sick of lying to everyone, he just wants to be out of the dang closet guys! 

 23) E Okay. Im not going to talk bout the almost affair because im still mad at John for it, but I have to talk about the mystery woman whom it involved. E. Earlier I said there was a promo image with a violin with a broken string, the E string. Now, when we learn about the lies and the almost affair, we see E through the reflection of the plane window. so we know shes a mirror. But a mirror for whom? John? Mary? She is wearing a rose on a necklace, and we know mary's name is actually Rosamund.If it's mary why would John be having an affair with someone who mirrors his wife? Maybe becuse he feels that Mary is the affair and his real relationship is with Sherlock? We also see E next to a poster for the seasons villan and the words It's Murder. Coming soon. Hes Back. and if E really is a mirror for Mary than that's not that big of a jump since Mary is murdered at the end of the episode. 

 24) The Vauxhall Bridge The Vauxhall bridge is known for it's statues on the pillars which are hidden to anyone on the bridge, and instead only visible to those on the water... a lot of water in this episode guys... a lot. 

 25) When Sherlock sends John and Mary different texts at the same time. to Mary he says "The curtain rises The last act Its not over." Thats a nod to us, the viewers. Telling us when johnlock is going to happen. the last act. The Final Problem. and not to give up hope because of John shutting out sherlock at the end of the episode. Theyre telling it its okay, its not over, all will be revealed in the last act. 26) water water water freaking everywhere opening, water rosies's mobil has fishes, rosie's baptism. Sherlocks face overlayed with water as hes taking to mycroft about destiny. Sherlock fighting with ajay in lots of water Sherlock meeting with Mary in the rain Sherlock standing on a bridge above water Mary getting freaking shot in an aquarium.... SHerlock goes to therapy and what does Ella have on the table? Water. Guys... come on... 

 27) What to do about John? 

S:I need to know what to do

 E:Do? 

S:About John. 

*increased heartbeat is heard in background* 

 What's the worst thing you can do to your closest friends? Tell them the truth. Sherlock hun you gotta tell John how you feel. 

 28) Molly We only see Molly once in this episode and shes a mess. we know shes a john mirror so john is a total wreck at this point, but is really sorry for shutting out Sherlock. 

 29) Closing Can Samarra be avoided? Im looking at the merchant story as the Sherlock Holmes story as it's always been told. Two platonic friends who are just that. And like how Sherlock wrote his own ending, where the merchant goes to another town and lives, Moffat and Gratiss are writing their own end. One where Sherlock and John get to live free and be together. Free from the 1895 lock around their story. Can samarra be avoided? Well it fades to water and then we get Mary telling Sherlock to go to Hell (no idea what that means gunna be completely honest here) but I think that the whole point of the episode is yes. samarra can be avoided. and thats what their going to do. write a new ending. because as moffat says, if youre not writing it to change something, to correct someone, than you shouldnt be writing it at all. 

 SO there we go. Those are all the things I found in the 6 Thatchers. I would love to hear what you all think,. Thank you to anyone who read all the way through. Im so blessed to have been apart of this amazing journey with all of you. Now all we need is a gay disney princess am I right? Seriously though, I love you all and am blessed to be in such a great community here. 

TL;DR johnlock is real. it will happen. and it will happen in the final problem.