Keith – Page 4 – superheroladies

ilovelocust:

Something interesting I noticed. Back in season 1, when everyone first started theorizing that Keith was half-alien. The popular headcanon was that Keith’s dad was the alien who left his wife and child behind to protect him, and then his mother died tragically young trying to raise him, leaving him to the tender mercies of the foster system. There always seemed to be this undercurrent that Keith’s dad had done him wrong by leaving, and Keith should resent him for it, while seeing his mom as a victim.

Then season 2 came out and we found out mom was the alien who left and dad was the human who stayed behind, but the headcanon rolls didn’t reverse. The popular headcanon became that mom died in battle (thus justify her leaving Keith behind for his safety), and that dad just abandoned his son on earth. Just walked out the door one day, and left him for the foster system to take care of.

It’s very interesting what our assumptions were when we learned Keith was an orphan vs. what ended up being true. Keith’s dad took care of him until he died, possibly, if the fireman theory turns out to be true, died trying to rescue Keith or other people. Just a thought.

It’s fascinating that when a show tries its best to flip gender specific tropes fandom tries to reinforce it. There’s a lack of sympathetic deadbeat moms -or ANY for that matter- so it’s really refreshing. Kinda like how fandom kept shutting down the Haggar is Lotor’s mom theory and claiming it was a fridged little Altean lady that caused Zarkon to go on a manpain quest to kill Alfor. When in reality the man wanted to save his wife and child, who ended up being just as vicious as he is. When the show introduced Lotor’s generals as just that, fandom still continued to call them his harem. It goes on and on. It’s really fascinating how when media tries to move forward, there’s this pushback due to assumptions that the show will follow the standard norm. Voltron has a rare thing where men are emotional and nurturing and motivated by love, but fandom just, does not compute initially.

smolsarcasticraspberry:

parallels: Keith finding the Shiro clones + Romelle finding

Petrulius

in the Colony

He’s always either kidnapped or manhandled. This isn’t even a quarter of it. I love it so much.

alienpaladins:

squad

alienpaladins:

galra blood runs through your veins

voltronic2000:

YEET

I really love how aggressive and personal this fight was for the paladins. Look at them, this is the most bloodthirsty they have ever been! With the culmination of that hyper speed fight and the beautiful movements of the robots and the music as well, it made US fall into that aggressive energy. If Allura did not stop them, they would have torn themselves apart fighting as well. It shows how terrifying the quintessence field is. Anyone, absolutely anyone can be affected, and be so high on the power that they can destroy themselves. I will never shut up about this sequence it had become my favourite fight of the entire show.