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Kuron week day 1:Hero/Villan

This is not a story about a good Shiro, and a bad Shiro.

I know how satisfying such a story might have been for you,

but I am not a bad Shiro.

Just a Shiro who was willing.

A Shrio who does what is needed.

And the Shiro that you are tempted to call good, is it just because you have spent more time with him than you have with me?

But my cause is just as righteous.

(Based on)

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Every day a Shiro is subjected to the worst conditions possible. They suffer from physical abuse, canon neglect, and anti ridicule and many do not survive.

The Save Our Shiros foundation is a non profit organization that serves to make sure that every Shiro, be it clone, hallucination, or alternate reality version, is safe from harm. As members of the SOS foundation we work around the clock to insure that all Shiros are well fed and given as much love as possible.

1 in every 3 Shiros will die every season.

We’re here to to make it stop.

Will you join our fight?

Reblog to show your support/raise awareness for these unfortunate Shiros

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i appreciate (2) men

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i love him.

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Why Kuron was valid and deserved better

Note: In this work I’ll be referring to Shiro’s clone as “Kuron”.

So after today’s episodes most of us hated that goddamn clone and wanted him gone and are now cheering and happy to have our classic Space Dad™️ Shiro back.

And while I am happy to have the real Shiro back and safe, please don’t write off that clone as a villain. Kuron, while only a copy of a person, was in fact a person himself. Let me explain why:

Kuron was designed to be an exact replica of Takashi Shirogane. Not only was he physically reconstructed with Shiro’s features and body type, he was created (programmed?) with all of Shiro’s memories, emotions, and idiosyncrasies. Kuron had everything from the way Shiro presented himself to even something as intamate as the “shoulder touch” Shiro and Keith had. He knew and he was Shiro. The memories he had might not have been Kuron’s, but the feelings and bonds those memories created were.

Kuron had no idea he was a clone either. He truly and wholly believed he was the fun-loving, PTSD ridden, and heroic leader of Voltron. And so whenever he had doubts of that, he lashed out.

Like in this scene here for example:

This was arguably one of the more obvious moments that showed Kuron and Shiro were two separate entities. Kuron was programmed to be the leader of Voltron. In his created memories, everyone did as Shiro had instructed because that was his job.

In this moment, Lance questioned Kuron’s leadership and that triggered Kuron’s agressive nature. Something was happening against Kuron’s protocol and he didn’t know how exactly to respond, so, much like a toddler not knowing what emotion to use when something isn’t going their way, he lashed out. Kuron was also heavily under the influence of Haggar during this time. Haggar’s anger and desire for Lotor’s return to her obviously carried over and made Kuron himself more and more agressive.

In the later episodes Kuron begins to notice his behavior and starts reflecting on himself. He even pulls Lance aside and tells him he’s not, “feeling like himself” which, in Kuron speak, means, “I’m supposed to be Shiro but for some reason I’m not acting like him”.

However, despite these confusing moments, Kuron still believes he’s Shiro. He has moments of humanity and personality. Kuron smiles when he sees Keith— someone Shiro cares about so therefor Kuron cares about them— and laughs and teases the other Paladins. The the DND episode, for example, was all about the team having fun and being alive and being normal. Shiro believed there was nothing more worth living for than protecting and caring about the ones he loved, which is why Kuron so strongly chose to be the plaladin. He was programmed to be the Paladin because that’s who Shiro was.

Shiro also had fun and put his all into everything he did. And so Kuron did too. He had his own emotions just like Shiro did.

In the end of Kuron’s life, he was finally taken over by Haggar and forced to attack those he loved and cared about. Yes, those he, Kuron loved. He lost all consciousness under Haggar and was just a meat puppet for her to use and play with. But the most awful part was that Kuron was awake to see what he had become.

Even though Kuron was just Shiro’s clone he still felt the emotions that Shiro had. Emotions like love for his adoptive baby brother. It was Kuron who flinched when Keith called out to him, and it was Kuron who, in the end, had realized he nearly killed Keith.

This photo right here is Kuron awake and not controlled. It’s only seconds before he dies but in those seconds Kuron realizes the people he cared about were dying because of him. It’s debatable whither or not Kuron knows he’s not Shiro here, but it’s obvious that he cares about these people regardless and he put them in danger. Kuron died doing the exact opposite of what Shiro would do, the person he was supposed to be.

tldr; Kuron may not have been Shiro, but he still was a living breathing person who died believeing that he had just hurt everyone who ever mattered to him.

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Clone shiro: *yells at lance*

Shiro in astral plane watching everything:

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kuron: lance-

shiro in the astral plane:

kuron: -sorry i yelled at you earlier :)

shiro still in the fuckin astral plane:

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Okay so I’ve been thinking about shiro and the clone and I think I’ve got something. Shiro’s nationality is confirmed to be japanese, and while his full name is Takashi Shirogane, literally EVERYONE calls him Shiro. But why did the writers choose this name? For the most part we all just assumed that it was just the name they gave to the character and that was that, and I did too, until I heard about project Kuron. You see if you take the word “shiro” qnd translate it from japanese, you get the word “white”.

I know this doesn’t seem like much on its own, but then, like I said, we come across kuron. Regardless of whether or not Kuron is a clone or just the name of the project of whatever weird stuff they did to Shiro, they once again chose the name Kuron. And Kuron is a rather unusual name that they definitely had to think up, so it’s likely to assume that they had the project in mind when coming up with the name. The word Kuron contains the word “Kuro” which means “black” when translated from japanese.

While it is entirely possible that these two things are mere coincidences, it just doesn’t seem likely when you take into consideration that they both translate from japanese, they are both colors, they are both opposites, and the new Shiro/Kuron’s strange behavior. Shiro being represented by the color white and Kuron being represented by the color black could possibly have something to do with like a “good vs evil” thing. Or maybe it’ll have some more intricate meaning in the future

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Shiro, the Purple Paladin?

Team with Shiro:

Team with Kuron:

Shiro:

Kuron:

Shiro kicking over Black:

Kuron after kicking over Black:

Bonus! Keith kicking over Black:

(Purple-tinted, too, but darker than Shiro.)

Shiro using Black Bayard:

(Side effect - supercharging the rest of the team.)

Kuron using Black Bayard:

Non-Applicable.

Conclusion: Shiro seems to bring a brighter purple tint to the Black Lion’s interior while Kuron has a darker, more subdued color. This could show that Kuron doesn’t have as much quintessence as Shiro, or it could just be the design team wants you feel unnerved by the darker tone of Kuron’s color scheme.

(This could also work with the brainwashed theory, where Shiro’s quinessence was siphoned by the Galra during his second stint as a prisoner, leaving him with less power in S3-5 than he had in S1-2.)

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me? back at it again? defending kuron with memes?? you’d better fuckin believe it my dudes

(of course this also still applies if he doesn’t end up being a clone he still hasn’t done anything wrong)

(also sorry if this has already been done idk if it has but I don’t mean to copy anyone)

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So I heard about the clone shiro theory.

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Here have some concerning Shance memes (Credit to @artlaureli for the 11/10 template)

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aside of all angst deep in my heart i want happy end for them! ( if kuron theory is truth i want him to be alive and kind of shiro new found brother hehe)