darkspellmaster:

i-love-voltron-stuff:

This theory is really not my own (shoutout to darkspellmaster’s detailed theory here) but I’m really on board with the idea that this mysterious rebel fighter is Princess Romelle. So lets look at the clues that would suggest this…

First off, she is teamed up with the two most forefront and prominent characters of the Rebel Forces: Matt Holt is the one who links Team Voltron to the Rebels. Captain Olia is leader of the Rebels and was presented to be an important character by Lauren Montgomery prior to the release of S4.

Second, she was included in this dramatic reaction shot along with characters that the audience already have a history with.

Third, she is shown to be part of the Rebel Forces yet her outfit is different from their color scheme.

Fourth, her armour looks similar to King Alfor’s and the Paladin’s armour with the black bodysuit underneath and white breastplate, armplates and leg gear. The color accents of yellow and blue is reminiscent of Alfor’s armour and the shape of her helmet is similar to Allura’s. Altean sentries also have the same white, yellow and blue color scheme. In short, her whole look suggests Altean. (FYI, DotU’s Romelle was a distant relative of Allura because their planets Arus and Pollux were sister planets that were at war)

And fifth, she speaks with a computerized voice modulator which gives her a low woman’s voice. In DotU, Romelle spoke with a lower voice to connote that she was more mature (or older?) than Allura. Her low speaking voice was one of her more recognizable character traits. Also, she is given one line of dialogue that proved to be useful to whats going on in the story.

So this mysterious rebel fighter was inserted into the story and given prominence in the key scenes of the story but nothing else is reveled about her. This could mean that we will see more of her in future episodes.

But if this mysterious rebel is Romelle, where are the other Polluxians? What do they look like? Do they look like the Alteans that we’ve already seen? Or do they shapeshift their appearance to hide their Altean heritage?

I love what you did here! Throwing out a few more things I noticed when I was looking back at the scenes. When our strange woman shows up she is clearly working out something for mapping or navigation. 

In the original series Romelle and Sven escape Planet Doom and Romelle is the key flyer of the ship and Sven becomes navigation. It’s interesting that they have her in the seat that would be reserved for Hunk in the first episode. Meaning that she probably is the Team engineer. Matt has clearly been shown to be the spy and the computer expert, which is Pidge’s role on the ship in the very first episode. 

So with that assumption that means she’s doing the work of keeping the ship flying. We can see Matt is navigating as well in this picture, which means she keeping an eye on things inside the ship. There’s also the fact that when you stop to think about it, this lady must be high up in the ranks in regard to how Olia sees her. 

She’s right next to Matt and Olia, while the other two officers are in the background. This normally is visual short hand to say she’s a leader character, at least second or third in charge. Matt clearly is communications here at this point and while we don’t see her on the bridge earlier,

We see her later prominently placed. Given that she came to the bridge to hear things, she had to be seen as needing to hear the message from Keith. Also the fact that Matt listen to her when they are in battle means that he respects her as well. 

Throw in the fact that later she’s not on the ship for the final assault, makes me think that Lotor would have known her if he saw her when he meets with the others, which I think will happen given Olia will have to represent the Rebels in this case with Matt. Olia would leave someone she trusts and who can handle the prisoner galra on the ship.

The easier answer is where the Polluxians are, namely hidden probably from the Galra directly. Remember the Sincline ships were being put together by the drones, not galra soldiers. Lotor’s ship was full of drones as he didn’t trust other people other then his four generals. He mentions a group that made the gate. That could only have been created by the Alteans, meaning that Lotor knows where they are and is probably friends with them. 

More then likely they may shape shift, but I think they’re hidden from most people due to the fact that Lotor didn’t even mention who made the gate to his generals. Looks wise, I would think that they may look more human to give, maybe closer to Lotor’s smaller ears. It’s been 10,000 years so they had to have evolved just a little.