Ahh, I am so happy to have received a reply! and such a long one, too (and the tags are gold, too! Love them, haha XD!) I am glad if I could provide you with an opportunity to remember some good old times.
But yes, never delete those older posts, because they might yet prove extremely good resources for even other fans, should they ever decide to write more fanfiction on Team Sincline themselves (whether they plan do do fanfics closer to canon, or entirely jump the rails and go into self-inserting, like I do). I especially love that you go into their team dynamics and the importance of Narti herself as the social glue that held them all together. Narti is so underappreciated, never even got her own voice actor, never spoke a single line, and yet, her death at Lotor's hands caused him to lose his entire team! Honestly, I believe she deserved better, especially as a disabled character. Her psychic abilities are also interesting, in how she uses touch to control other people temporarily.
I get what you mean with Lotor as a 'self-saboteur', and I think that this is the part about him that resonates with me the most, aside from him having abusive and neglectful, malicious parents. Heck, anyone who was abused probably sees a lot of themselves in him. I know this is a reason as to why I latched on to him and his team way more than the protags of the Voltron Paladins.
And I guess a big part of me wants for Lotor to get out of his self-sabotaging ways, so in my AU, the main question is "what if someone had been there who refuses to let him slide into self-sabotage? What if someone was there for him until the end, even if he thrashes out against everybody like a frightened animal?"
I guess that is the point of my seer/self-insert character. I want to write a 'what if' scenario in which Lotor's self-destruction could be avoided (in this case with the inclusion of a new character to the story) - of course, that would come with great difficulties as well. I love that joke of him shaking his seer like a vending machine XD I think a seer by his side would also greatly unsettle him in a way as well, because the potential is there that someone might see through his carefully crafted walls, especially if they are psychic.
Now I wonder how his self-sabotaging ways would flare up if that seer turns out to be in love with him, and very kind and nurturing. She'd understand him even without her psychic powers because he has trauma responses that she knows from herself. Ooof, the delicious drama of him trying to push her away at first! And of her growing a backbone eventually and refusing to let him kill Narti by stepping in before he can kill her!
What do you think of this? How would Lotor, by your estimation, react to someone like that on his team?
Not to mention how much I love letting my insert loose to befriend Lotor's generals! Narti would be besties with her as a fellow psychic!
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