I’ve never really made much of a deal bout this but I’ve never been a fan of giving the galra animalistic (usually cat-like) traits such as bleping. To me, that kind of thing doesn’t really go along with how the show presents the galra. They’re not really meant to be space cats, but really, are meant to be space vampires.
The creators themselves compared the Galra Royal family to vampires, which makes sense. Zarkon is almost entirely driven to find Voltron since the beginning to use it to farm quintessence from the rift.
In a sense, it’s very similar to how vampires usually are depicted as entities entirely driven by the search for blood. Much in the same way vampires hunt down people to suck their blood, the galra will go great lengths to acquire quintessence and the resources to obtain quintessence. Hence all the mining colonies we see from the beginning in s1, where as pointed out in the show, the galra took without giving back to the point that the colonies nearly died (like the Balmera). Very much in the same way we’d see vampires suck their victims dry of the blood their victim need.
And we see this most importantly in the designs of the characters themselves. There’s a reason why there’s not really a uniform galra look in the same way all Alteans are space elves. Cause like vampires in history, the galra have a varied look. The only things that define galra are the jaundiced eyes, blue or purple skin (like a corpse), pointy carnivorous teeth, and long talons. All of which are found in vampires across many cultures.
Sorry that I haven’t been posting much art lately. I’ve been trying to get into the habit of posting things to Patreon first, which is a lot harder than it should be given that my first instinct has always been to post stuff to Tumblr.
You should be seeing more from me in the coming weeks now that I’m getting back on track with commissions. Again.
In the meantime, here’s this garbage thing that I was going to do for the Devoir zine that I could just never get around to finishing. The composition was garbo and the poses were all stiff, so it was just really uninspiring.
I really adore how Voltron took the demeaning aspects of OG Allura and gave them to Lotor instead. A nanny with a habit of humiliating and spanking
Constantly kidnapped and manhandled -seriously like once a season-
I love this shot with his head down in shame and defeat. Satisfying.
And objectified
“There goes our bargaining chip”
“Give me my son, Lotor”
“Deliver the package to Honerva”
“We’ll take it from here”
This is, really interesting when you take into account his god complex. He wants, needs to be worshipped and acknowledged as this great leader. But how he is treated is constantly like an object stolen, i.e. “Shiro is escaping with Lotor” “Show me Lotor” “The Shiro that took Lotor” and treated like a possession. I love this so much.
Sendak Week, day 6 and Lotor Appreciation Week, day 3 – AU
The Galra side is built around the mantra that the dead or potentially dead fav is fine. Narti? She just sleeping she’s coming back. Ladnok? We didn’t see her die. Gnov? Didn’t show up after Kral Zera she’s off gathering more Galra. Throk? He’s alive and coming back with a hate boner to mother and son. Trugg? She’s alive with half her face eaten. Sendak? Oh he’s doing great on he’s way to earth. Thace and Ulaz? Married and off somewhere. Antok? A clone or something idk but he’s fine.
superheroladies 