#notmyshiro

[spiftynifty]

I’ve always thought it was a neat character decision to have the core 5 wear civilian clothes that all have a theme of horizontal yellow/orange stripes somewhere; especially because the stripes are symmetrical and divided, reminiscent of the lion eyes. 

And then there’s this Shiro.

hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[wow-what-a-time-to-be-alive]

season 8 trailer really roped us in again huh

[thesacredsage]

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How Keith got kicked out of the Garrison

[the-bonding-moment-blog]

Including me :’)

[yamamawama]

Predator

Lance hurried back up to his feet, and making a run for the red lion’s hanger. His chest heaved, feeling as if someone put an anvil on his chest, and you might as well have. The hand shaped burn on his arm felt like it was going to explode as he looked back to make sure the predator was not going to catch its prey. But then again, who know’s if the predator was running to catch its prey, lance, or was it stalking, waiting for the perfect moment to strike?

It all started out with the training session. It always did. No matter what, something always went down. In Lance’s opinion, they were on a good start. No one was missing their shots or swings, and everyone was in sync. Allura even allowed them a five minute break- one that they had never been allowed before.

Yet, still, it seemed so... off. Lance squinted his eyes, looking around the room, as if waiting for an opponent to pop out of nowhere and kill everyone in the room with no warning. A perfect day like this, just seemed so outlandish to him that he knew something was up.

For some reason, Lance found himself watching Shiro closely. No, it wasn’t because he had a crush on him or anything along the lines of that. But Lance had realized once they had gotten back to training, that the day itself wasn’t off, but more of that Shiro wasn’t off.

There wasn’t any irritation coming off of Shiro, like there normally was when someone made a mistake. As perfect as that training session was, it was impossible not to make a mistake.

Soon enough, though, the training session was over, and everyone was excused to do whatever they wished.

What the paladins were going to do was quite obvious. Hunk would most likely make a snack for the team, Pidge, although Shiro told her to clean up her room some, would mostly likely practice her coding, or find some game from earth to play on her computer. Allura would probably play with her mice, or talk strategies with Lotor. Yet, Lance had the feeling that they weren’t always talking strategy. Sure, seeing those two so close to eachother made Lance extremely jealous; but, as much as he he hated and didn’t trust Lotor, he also wanted Allura to be happy. Shiro would probably go to bond with the black lion. He’d been talking about how their bond was weak after he escaped the galra again.

And Lance? Well, usually he would help Coran around the castle, but Lance wasn’t exactly too keen on cleaning the healing pods again. He’d been suspicious of them ever since he got trapped in it. So instead, he decided to train with his sword.

When Lance first got the sword, after him and Allura had their talk, he told the rest of the team. The reactions were mostly the same, except one.

“You will have to practice that on your own time.”

Of course it was Shiro. Things seemed to be getting more and more tense between Lance and Shiro ever since they were in the astral plane.

To be honest, at this point, Lance wasn’t even sure he should be called Shiro ‘Shiro’ anymore. The Shiro that came back from the galra prison just didn’t seem like their Shiro.

So, Lance switched his bayard from gun to sword and turned back on the training session simulator. He didn’t know what they really called it, so the team just called it something new everytime they went to practice.

Soon enough, Lance was swinging his heart out at everything that came at him. And although he messed up a lot, he soon began to get the hang of it.

“Sweet! I can’t wait to show the team my improvement!” Lance muttered, grinning as he spun the sword in his hand, something he remembered keith doing many times when he was still with the team.

“What do you think you’re doing?”

Lance heard the voice shout from across the room and instantly froze, he turned around, watching Shiro walk towards him in an angry, fast manner. Lance was paralyzed, but he still studied Shiro, his movements, and especially, his eyes. They he could see the glint of someone’s reflection behind them, as if someone was watching him.

Lance sucked in his breath, knowing that all of the suspicions he had towards the leader of the team were right. Or at least, he was 75% sure it was.

“You... you arent our Shiro, are you?”

The smell of burnt flesh and the excruciating pain coming from Lance’s arm shook him out of his brief paralyzation. Shiro didn’t respond to his statement, and was now burning his hand with his arm while eerily staring down at him with a calm, yet somehow angry, face.

Lance threw his bayard at Shiro, hoping for him to be distracted by it and take his burning hand off of Lance, even if it were for a second. And somehow it worked. Lance made sure to thank whoever was out there watching over him for that one.

He took off running, slowed down by the throbbing pain left behind by Shiro on his arm. Lance knew he had no time to lose, he had to get to Red.

Little did Lance know, the predator was one step ahead of him. He always was. Shiro had known all along of Lance’s suspicions. No, it wasn’t Shiro who had known, it was the witch behind it all.

Unaware of the impending doom ahead, he continued running for the hangar, although it would be safer to find Hunk or someone else. Someone who would believe him.

Lance had never been more thankful for the door to Red’s hangar, a door he always dreaded walking in and out of, a constant reminder of the battles he would have to face. Fortunately for Lance, he wouldn’t be having to pass through that door ever again. Lance wouldn’t even pass through it to escape from his predator. His predator had found a shortcur, and was awaiting his arrival.

Just as Lance was about to run through the door, he yelled out a bloodcurdling scream as he felt the strangely familiar burning hot hand wrap around his neck and pull him away from the door. Lance realized to late that he had been caught, that it was over for him.

The predator had caught its prey.

[cthoniccompanion]

“i can’t believe we all used to think shiro was straight”

[justifiedthehomicide]

SOME THINGS I NOTICED IN SEASON 6

its that time again

-SPOILERS FOR VOLTRON SEASON 6-

(obviously)

-first of all *insert high pitched screeching for twenty minutes*

-now that we’ve got that over with

-this was the best season yet, change my mind oh wait you cANT

-where was my homeboi Matt tho

-is lotor reALLY dead? is he rEALLY?

-WAS IT JUST ME OR DID KEITH LOOK REALLY GALRAISH FOR A MINUTE OR SO DURING HIS FIGHT WITH THAT JERK KURON

-SPEAKING OF THAT JERK KURON

-CLONE THEORY CONFIRMED x100, THE WHOLE FANDOM IS SCREAMING “I TOLD YOU SO”

-Keith: shows up to team Voltron fifteen minutes late with abs, his mom, an altean, and a dog

-I want a wolf from a time-warping quantum abyss. I love him he’s so cute and precious ahhhhhhhhh

-lotor is such a meme tbh. freaks out seeing his nanny, literally jumps into the nearest glowing void cuz his girlfriend broke up with him

-is. is shiro gonna try to pilot the black lion again. I feel like my son Keith really established himself as the new leader what is Shiro gonna do wha

-white-haired Shiro is beautiful. beautiful I tell you

-what the heck are the side affects of yknow. dying??? is he gonna be weaker, is he gonna get a new hand, will he still fight with Voltron or will he stay on earth

-Monsters and Mana. what can I say. I’m speechless. The breathe has been taken from my lungs. I can feel nothing but joy upon watching that episode over and over and over and over and

-PIDGE IS SO TALENTED IM SO PROUD OF THEM

-wtheck are the Galra Girls gonna do now?????? imma assumeeee they’re not going back to Hagar. they’re definitely not gonna try and save lotor. but I don’t think they’d wanna go to Voltron either????

-maybe Keith and Axca are finally gonna actually talk to each other cuz they’re either saving each other’s lives or trying to kill each other voltron e x p l a i n t h e m

-what is Texas Kogane’s name. what is it. tell us u cowards

-THE FRICKINGGG,,,, ANIMATION OMIGOSH ITS BEAUTIFUL ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL

-Hunk. Just. Hunk

-CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT FOR LANCE LETS GOOOOOOO MY BOY DESERVES IT even if he’s sad oh no now I’m crying

-THEYREGOINGBACKTOEARTH

-hmmmmmmmmmm

-THAT MEANS HOLT FAMIMY REUNION OMIGOSH

-AND LANCE CAN SEE HIS FAMILY AND RAIN AND THE BEACHHHHH

-AND HUNK GETS TO SEE HIS FAM AGAINNNNNNNN

-SHIRO CAN PROVE HE’S ALIVEEEEEE

-is Keith gonna show Krolia his dads grave

-oh no now I’m crying again

-imagine Iverson’s reaction tho. To Shiro and Voltron and the Alteans and,,, everything,,, even tho technically he knows the full story cuz of the great Sam Holt

-allura’s magic is,,,, best

-ALL OF THE REFERENCES TO OG VOLTRON DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE LIKE “I’m shiro’s twin brother”

-ROMELLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AND SHE LOOKS LIKE OG ALLURAAAAA

-FRICK JUST LOTS OF ALTEANS IN GENERAL

-can we talk about how keith and krolia were on that creature’s back for tWO FRICKIN YEARS LIKE PARDON mE

-yo what if they go back to Arus that would be cool

-sooooooo it wasn’t a Galra mark after all the thing on Keith’s face is a fricking scAR from that fake jerk kURON oMG

-he looks hella hot with it nonetheless so im okay with it

-keitH’S EYES TURNED YELLOW AND HE HAD MEGA FANGS WHEN HE WAS GETTING THE SCAR AND IM FRICKIN S H OO K

-alotta people predicted lotor going crazy for quintessence but nO ONE predicted lotor murdering Alteans for it and I caNNOT gET oVEr tHiS dang show writers always manage to pull one over on us

-IM JUST A BOY FROM CUBAAAAAAAA

-heck man the entire Keith VS Kuron fight. the whole thing. the wh o l e t hi ng everything about it omigosh

-is haggar finally gonna step it up and become the main antagonist she was set up to be or what

-who else cried real tears when the castle of lions died

-rip lotura 2k18. I’ve never seen a ship lose so many fans in so short an amount of time

-yea we saw Sendak like once????? conspiracy

-I like how the black lion didn’t even hesitate to let Keith in. She as like “finally!!! not that awful clone!!!” and just opened right up

-WE FINALLY GOT THE FLASHBACKS WE DESERVE IM SO HAPPY

-BABY KEITH BABY KEITH BABYKEIRHWKBSIBSUSBSISH

-will we see the other paladins as baby children ¿¿!¿

-what hurt me so mych was that in Keith’s flashbacks,,,, we see Mr. Kogane wore the clothes that Shiro wears later on prolly meanign the Keith frickin kEPT HIS DAD’S OLD CLOTHES IM HURT

-is Krolia leaving the BOM???? Im assuming Keith’s staying as a paladin, and Krolia seems very against ever leaving him ever soooooo

-finally ready for team Voltron to be the family they need again like geez louise it’s taken too long. blame kuron

-honestly, when in doubt, always blame kuron

-hey McDonald’s can I get one uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh death please cuz this season murdered me

-welp

-that’s all folks

-for now

-*voltron theme song*

-sayonara my friends

[suterareta]

Me when y'all can't differentiate Kuron and Kuro

LET ME TELL YOU HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE PROPERLY.

Kuron

Literally half of the fandom hates him

Had long hair but instead he got an ugly haircut :'(

His personality seems kind of off maybe?

He's either the real Shiro we love or really a clone. So he's either good or evil.

Kuron means clone in Japanese. It's written as 'クローン' (Katakana)

NO YELLOW EYES. HE HAS GREY EYES (and a really bad haircut but that's okay).

Kuro

Would choke Shiro

He's literally Haggar

Evil

Reminds me of Possessed Dipper from GF

Full of headcanons (Aka: Uncle!Kuro, loves cats, or really bloodthirsty etc)

Appeared for a few seconds in only one episode.

YELLOW EYES.

Kuro means 'Black' in Japanese. Can be written as '黒' (Kanji) or 'くろ' (Hiragana)

KNOW YOUR CLONES CORRECTLY BEFORE KURO ATTACKS YOUR ASS-

[paladins-of-light]

how dare he yell at lance

[storm-driver]

i still prefer real butter, but who knows, maybe it’ll be alright

[dick-grayson-and-above]

Klangst (mostly langst though)

So just imagine- all the crew is together discussing what happened in the final battle of season 4 and someone brings up Keith about to sacrifice himself. Now of course shiro (#notmyshiro) is about to whoop his ass but (to the teams surprise) lance beats him to it. They start arguing, blah blah blah but then this happens...

Keith- you can't tell me what to do! And it's especially hipicritical of you to yell at me for being selfless when you almost got yourself blown up being 'selfless' (Le season 1)

Lance- whatever, that's different!

Keith- What's so different about it?!?!

Lance- it's different because, MY LIFE DOESN'T MATTER LIKE YOURS!!!!!

And cue the waterworks...

[voltronlover]

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He’s not our space dad guys.

[kawaiileafe]

Lance manages to contact shiro again, He only want’s him to return but has to wait longer, for the moment shiro is stuck. 

[screaming-pee]

Saw a punk show with a friend a couple days ago, and this was on the walls among all the graffiti and holes punched in the drywall. Gave me a good laugh.

[opal-fossils-blog]

Sendak and Shiro~ An Intertwined Fate

This is just a little theory I came up with last night before Voltron decided to tweet, please tell me what you think!

Voltron loves having parallels between their characters, Keith and Kroila, the Original and the season 1 paladins and they have created another parallel between Shiro and Sendak. The first blindly obvious one is that they both have robot arms, presumably both created by Haggar, although they are used for different purposes. Secondly we have the fact that they are both puppets of Haggar, in season 5 episode 4 Lotor refers to Sendak as a puppet and earlier on in that season we see Haggar use Kuron/Shiro to spy on the team.

Parallels like these create a connection between two characters and can foreshadow them both embarking on similar arcs. Voltron seasons 1 and 2 were written as one big season, almost all arcs started in season one were concluded in season 2, but Sendak telling Shiro that they are connected was left completely unaddressed, season 6 is the end of the unofficial second season so seasons 7-10 will have one final story and tie up everything, hopefully including this connection. 

Zarkon is dead and Lotor is currently sided with Team Voltron so the Universe needs a new villain, Sendak was Zarkons right hand man and Kuron is the perfect clone of the Champion- together they would make a formidable team.

I can see this connection playing out in two was, or maybe even both, firstly we have Sendak and Kuron teaming up. As I said these two are incredibly powerful and worthy foes of even Zarkon so they would be a fitting threat but what do they have against Team Voltron? Kuron's knowledge of Earth. If they target Earth together the paladins will be forced to take action and we will see a climactic battle between them. One of the first times we see Shiro in the series is when he is being operated on by the Garrison so Kuron may have a slight grudge against them. 

We all know that the Shiro with us is a clone and our beloved Space Dad is trapped in the Astral Plane but I have belief in the power of Team Klance that they'll be able to rescue him and when he comes back he might not want a Lion.I think he'd rather guide from the side lines if Lance or Keith have managed to create a bond with Black so in the final battle he'll need a foe, but who? As I said earlier the relationship between Shiro and Sendak has remained untouched and the General is one of the few people who have managed to mentally attack Shiro, targeting his practically canon PTSD so I think it'd be a great message if Shiro confronted him. Sendak really is one of the darkest futures that Shiro could have had, Haggar gave him a robot arm, she used him as a puppet, she tried to bring him into the darkness but he stayed true to his values and he didn't let the darkness consume him; this also parallels how Zarkon became Zarkon after he was taken over by the rift creatures, Shiro is a survivor and he won't follow in Zarkons path. 

What do you think? Will Kuron ally with Sendak? Will Shiro live up to the title of the Champion? Thanks for reading!

[ptw30]

so you think it's going to be like "holy crap, shiro isn't shiro after all, he's a clone!" "well shucks, i guess that means he can't be black paladin anymore. time to find someone else and get a move on." "don't you want to know where the real shiro is or what happened to him?" "eh, whatever. doesn't matter." because at this point i wouldn't be surprised but i'd be VERY disappointed.

No. Not at all. I’m not sure how it will go down, but more like - 

Big mission coming up. 

Allura going to fly with Lotor in Sincline. 

Kuron, too drained, can’t fly Black anymore but can fly Blue. And Blue lets him cuz - big mission.*

Well, who is going to fly Black?

Keith. **

* Bonds? What bonds?

** Why wasn’t Keith alerted before? Why didn’t he come back? Unless he and Krolia go out looking for Shiro?

In all honestly, I knew Shiro/Kuron would be in Blue eventually. It’s just…the nostalgia train crashes into the station like Silver Streak. And though Shiro might come back by the end of the season - or even be the reason that the team goes into the rift…it’s depressing to think Shiro won’t be in most of this season, either. We still have #NotMyShiro, and I know a lot of people love #AllShiros.

I don’t.