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cold night for lions

(visiting sven on crydor with some experimental haggarium treatments)

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today i thought “but what if they had space twitter"

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it’s been too long since i last posted voltron force so i might as well reboot with a meme

this is basically the entire show, by the way

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more voltron force memes for the group discord chat

(pidge is keith’s favourite, he raised him himself)

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i drafted a character redesign for pidge way back when i first started watching voltron force, but now i’ve actually finished the series and become (marginally) fonder of the official designs i wanted to try again in a way which better fits the show’s aesthetic (๑꒪▿꒪)*

the real problem for me has always been the disconnection between fluffy, scrappy little DotU pidge and neat-scientific-nerd VF pidge, like he’d been reshaped to fit a stereotypical role, so i built on those older traits to draft something i feel is a bit more organic to the idea of a smart-but-slightly-feral kid being raised by a bunch of teenagers on an alien planet.

he’s fluffier, he’s less constrained and more troublemaking, he’s very easily swayed into shenanigans with the cadets (they tend to treat him like he’s their age, which is brand new to him), he still gets overexcited in battle situations and has a finite threshold of cool which precedes explosive emotion, and he’s infinitely more guarded over his lion since it was the first thing he was given as a child that really felt like his.

he’s got a short-sleeved uniform to match hunk’s since they take care of a lot more messy/practical work on the lions (it makes more sense to not bother having sleeves to roll up), and it’s the slightly more relaxed-looking design to boot. also, keith tried to teach him to drop the contractions and finish his words properly, but lance just taught him twice as much of the opposite and it stuck.

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voltron force keef redesign to go with pidge from the other day

as leader of the team he got a few extra uniform details and there was a lot of debate over which colour to make the trim! red is keith’s classic signature colour but it felt too visually muddled against lance’s red uniform, and the gold trim à la the original black lion uniform both clashed hard with the dark colour scheme and felt muddled against hunk. metallic silver won out, with the added bonus of showing the all-encompassing silver of the voltron pin represents keith just as the other colours represent the remaining four pilots.

- in-universe, keith chose a silver trim to his suit instead of classic gold because sven wore the original black lion uniform, and he didn’t want to encroach on an aesthetic associated with their lost friend. he also boasts a ranking patch on his bicep, since voltron is becoming better recognised as planet arus’ first line of military defense.

- keith gets his longer hair back, up in a loose japanese samurai-style bun to invoke a little more of his japanese heritage. the trendy 80s mullet will be missed, but as he’s an adult now it seemed more appropriate to give him a timeless, low-maintenance style which doesn’t sacrifice the luscious brilliance we all associate with DotU keith’s hair.

- the facial scar is an iffy concept that might get revoked for being too unintentionally close to VLD’s shiro (i swear shiro was in no way used as a basis for this design), but it mirrors lotor’s giant unhealed facial scar and hints at their original “final battle” being equally damaging for the drule army and the voltron force. keith (along with his team) has survived and healed and moved on, but lotor dwells on the defeat and is festering with the desire for revenge.

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voltron force lance redesign to go with keith and pidge ﾍ(=￣∇￣)ﾉ i’m not going to lie, i actually love lance’s VF design, but it doesn’t feel like the same guy from DotU at all and this redesign project is about getting those characters back to their roots!

i consolidated between the two designs as best i could to get lance back to being sleeker and more wiry, with his original skin tone and an ombré tint to his hair between his original brownish-purple and his newer auburn-red. those colours are hell to work with without the tones bleeding into each other and smothering the design; i had the lineart just how i wanted it but it took so long to decide on colours i wanted to cry………

i was messing with giving him facial scars (especially since this is under the assumption lance would have ended up as the black lion pilot, granting him some more “leader traits”), but more of those are going to go to hunk when i get around to his design. lance is more of a pirate than than a cowboy sharpshooter now, which is appropriate with how much time he spends piloting ships.

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voltron force hunk redesign to go with allura, lance, keith and pidge! sven isn’t being left out, but i’m finally through the main team and i’ve been excited to try a new design for hunk!

it’s back to his DotU skin tone, of course, and his damaged eye reflects the giant scar yellow lion has in this particular series, plus incorporating his old bandana. voltron force made hunk super ripped which i guess is to be expected when you’ve been an active duty soldier for twelve years (as opposed to round-bellied DotU hunk who only recently started doing physically strenuous things), so the compromise there is giving him a figure like a weight lifter instead of a bodybuilder - the biology behind maui’s stocky-but-powerful figure in moana for example.

hunk’s giant stature and his huge array of battle scars make him by far the scariest-looking on the team, but in truth he’s a complete angel. pidge is the one to be worried about.

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voltron force sven redesign to go with hunk, allura, lance, keith and pidge! i couldn’t leave out the second blue lion pilot, especially when his story is so interesting!

this design pulls up the elements of sven being a resident of pollux and also a father - instead of his modern-looking arctic gear he gets something a little more in line with the fairytale aesthetics of arus and pollux, combined with a norse/viking feel to elicit sven’s own heritage. the embroidery on his tunic mirrors this set’s redesign for allura, connecting them as blue lion pilots. his general appearance vaguely mirrors king alfor, drawing connections to someone associated with royalty, maturity, strength and bravery; as well as that protective sense of fatherhood allura remembers so fondly.

additionally, the severity of sven’s haggarium infection is enhanced, giving a far more visual explanation for his retreat to crydor with his son (and if it’s unclear, he’s holding the baby in swaddling under his cloak). the white streak in his hair - which mirrors daniel’s once his own haggarium infection takes over - is a further result of the poisoning, but is braided away from his face to minimise negative focus on it.

i’ll probably post all these as a set later on now all the pilots are done! i had a huge amount of fun with these designs and i’d like to draw more sometime if i get the chance, i hope everyone enjoys them! ヽ(･ω･ゞ)

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Certain Things™ are starting to seriously grate on my nerves but I refuse to let the tire fire that is fandom spoil the things I love, specifically Voltron Force and shitposting

the bullshit lives on