captain-vulture:

radioactivesupersonic:

I feel like this misrepresents the relationship Lotor had with the generals? Like… you don’t usually rank your friends and confidants in hierarchy of “best” to “I don’t care for them.”

Lotor trusts Acxa quite a bit, which is a high compliment from someone who’s nearly paranoid. After all, she was able to approach him with a gun in her hand right after he thought he’d been betrayed already by one of the other generals (Narti) and he completely didn’t react. Before that, we see that she was able to change the settings on Lotor’s personal fighter, with him in it, without him doing anything to give her access in s3e3. And as you say, Acxa’s the leader of the generals.

I will agree that I think Lotor is fond of Zethrid, but I don’t think that’s a sudden shift that “wow, he actually likes Zethrid better than all of the others!” or that he uses his position to assert favoritism over the generals. We’ve never seen much evidence that any of them compete with each other- if anything, just about any time they’re put under pressure their reflex is to hold closer together.

If Lotor was obviously favoring one of them over the others, that would either fuel that kind of competitiveness or it would weaken Lotor’s relationship with the generals. 

Of course Lotor’s fond of Zethrid- why wouldn’t he be? She tends to be incredibly belligerent and aggressive towards even the idea of someone messing with her friends, which, if you’re an anxious person with a lot of enemies, you’re going to be very pleased to have a protective friend.

@radioactivesupersonic

My dude, I’m the one who wrote the post and let me say this – you’re misrepresenting what I said. My original post was about which general Lotor was closest too, not which ones he liked and which ones he hated. He clearly gets along more with Zethrid and Narti and even Ezor over Acxa. And yeah, some people have favorite friends and friends that aren’t that. (And believe me, that does exist, unfortunately…).

Let me say this – just because you trust someone doesn’t mean you’re friends. You make someone your top general and not be buddy buddy with them. It happens. Lotor gave Acxa her position as the leader of the generals cause she’s the most focus and the one that’ll keep the others in place, not cause he liked her more. Lotor’s pragmatic, even if Acxa’s not his bestest friend, he knows he can count on her to complete a mission. He doesn’t have to be real close to her to put her in that position..

And yeah Acxa was able to approach Lotor with a gun and he didn’t expect her betrayal but it’s not every day that your most loyal soldier comes for you and shoots you from behind.

Acxa’s relationship with Lotor is purely professional. There’s never a moment in s3 where we get something equivalent of a friendship between Acxa and Lotor. He’s only teased her (in front of the Puigian leader no less) and yelled at her for failing cause his order failed. that’s not a good relationship, it’s pretty shitty if you asked me.

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