VLD Theory: Lotura Endgame and Acxa’s Betrayal
oriandeThere have been a few notes asking how Acxa and Allura fit into the theories I’ve been sharing. As I mentioned before, I think we’ve been seeing Lance’s Bi Arc all series, which will eventually lead us to a Klance Fight that will ultimately lead to two of them getting together.
So, what about Allura and Acxa?
As mentioned before, I think starting in S8 Lance and Allura are an item, if not fully together. In S7’s finale, we see the card and flowers from Lance on Allura’s bed stand and the two of them working together to clean up Earth. Based on the time montage, it’s been months and the Earth is rebuilding around humans and aliens.
We also have the scene where Acxa comes up behind Keith, Krolia, and Kosmo at Keith’s dad’s grave. This scene always struck me as odd because of how they framed it, and this theory finally helped me click it into place.
This reveal of Acxa appearing behind Keith at his father’s Grave?
It’s the exact same set-up from S4 where Pidge was at Matt’s grave when the bounty hunter was following her and eventually attacked her and Matt.
Unlike Lance and Allura, Keith and Acxa’s entire vibe feels off if they were being set up as a true romantic pairing. Not only does Keith show very little romantic interest in Acxa.
But throughout the series we’ve seen a direct mirroring in their characters.
It led to a lot of speculation that perhaps Acxa and Keith were somehow related. However, I think the connection is more about the types of characters they are. Keith is very loyal to Shiro, just as Axca is extremely loyal to Lotor.
In the meta I wrote about Lotor and Acxa’s partnership, the number one thing that Lotor values most is loyalty and there is no one that Lotor trusts more than Acxa.
Even before the time skip, after Lotor jettisoned Ezor and Zethrid from their ships, he hesitates before doing it to Acxa. However, her wanting to severe ties with him during his decent into madness is enough for him to pull the trigger, and lastly she too is ejected.
That’s the last we see of Acxa before the time skip in S7. After she helps the paladins escape and defeat Ezor and Zethrid, Acxa tells them that they’ve been gone for 3 years and in that time there’s been a power vacuum since Lotor disappeared during their fight.
She also makes a point to say that Lotor wasn’t the man she thought he was, even though before their last battle it was revealed that she was working with Lotor after pretending to “betray” him only for her to turn on Honerva the second Lotor gave her the signal.
So why change sides now? Why was she lead directly to Keith - to the point that she was able to find out that Keith and the other Paladins were all being held captive on Ezor and Zethrid’s ship fairly quickly even though they were mssing for 3 Years.
And the answer is simple, because she was looking for Keith. She was tracking him.
Keith is the only Half-Human/Galra being in the entire universe, and with that comes an uncanny sensitivity to Quintessence. It allowed him to acess the Astral Plane to speak with Shiro’s spirt and use this connection to unlock the Black Lion’s wings so he could reach the rest of the team during their battle with Lotor.
The Pure Quintessence that the Blades were tracking led Keith and Krolia directly to Romelle’s Colony. As we learned in S7, the Altean Colony that Keith and Krolia discovered was abandoned when Kolivan and the other Blades arrived.
And S7 ends with the cliffhanger that Robeast Voltron fought on Earth were powered by actual Alteans. Who is the only person with the alchemy skill to develop something like that?
Honerva, who hasn’t been seen in years and has been sending her Druids to do her dirty work, including hunting the Blade of Marmora, and most likely looking for Keith while also wiping out her enemies. She’s already seen what she could do with a human like Shiro with his clone and robotic arm. For someone like Honerva, who is addicted to knowledge about quintessence, Keith is the ultimate experiment.
Season 8, we’ll see Honerva finally get her hands on Keith for her experiments. For that to happen, he’ll have to be brought to her in some way. The Alteans being harvested is a huge story that involves the entire cast, but it’ll also bring in Acxa as she’s currently hanging around Keith.
Even if Keith is not romantically interested in Acxa, she’s still the perfect honeypot to lure Keith right into Honerva’s hands. Acxa is not foolish, and she’s fine with playing the long game if needed - like she did when she pretended to betray Lotor only to align herself with Zarkon so she could have her ears on the ground while Lotor was with the paladins. She’s faced off against Voltron enough times to know that if she brought Keith kicking and screaming to Honerva, she’d have Voltron, half of Earth and the Blade after her. And, to be frank, she’d probably rather they blast Honerva than her.
This leaves us with the next question, why would Acxa work with Honerva at all to bring her Keith? The answer is simple: Honerva has Lotor.
Acxa tells the team that Voltron exited the rift alone before the castle exploded and shifted time around them. In that time, a ship from the Galra fleet came looking for Lotor’s last known whereabouts.
We’re lead to believe that Acxa, Ezor, and Zethrid took over this ship and eventually went their separate ways, as Ezor and Zethrid coupled up and become Warlords while Acxa found her own path.
With Ezor and Zethrid dead, there’s no one to corroborate Acxa’s story, but as we’ve already determined she’s an unreliable narrator. She doesn’t specify how she spent her time during those 3 years - she doesn’t mention rebels or being a mercenary - she simply said she was on her own.
It’s because during that time she working with Honerva to hunt down Keith in exchange for Lotor who Honerva saved from the Quintessence Feld. Simply put, it’s a prisoner exchange. And even though Lotor shot her into space, Acxa’s loyal to his cause because Lotor was always after way more than power or Quintessence.
Lotor has been trying to save the galaxy because the way his father had been mining Quintessence for 10,000 years by destroying planets is unstable. It’s the same problem Lotor told Allura about when they were on Oriande.
It’s the same warning that Alfor gave to Zarkon and Honerva when they were overextracting Quintessence which opened the Rift on Daibazaal. Lotor has studied both Alfor and Honerva’s research for thousands of years, he knows the true crisis that is about to unfold across the universe.
That’s why he was so desperate to have the Sincline Ships be able to collect the Quintessence from the field, it’s why he was trying to protect the refugee Alteans from Hagger because he knew their connection to Quintessence would be harvested. There’s a Quintessence crisis looming and Honerva is making it worse.
It’s what he was trying to explain to Allura but once Romelle accused him of murdering the Alteans from his colony. Specifically referring to Bandor’s line after his ship crashed through the dome. The one thing he manages to tell Romelle is: “Lotor… the other colony… It’s all a lie.” Which tells us exactly nothing, but is the evidence that convinces Romelle she is correct to distrust Lotor, and then pass that same distrust to Allura.
While it’s still unclear exactly what Lotor was doing with the emaciated Alteans, he never openly admits to being the one who did that to them and when Allura demands he tell her how many Alteans were killed, Lotor pauses and very carefully picks his next words.
We’ll find out the true nature of the second Colony in this final season, and with that Lotor’s true intention to help undo the harm his people had done on the universe by draining it on its most precious resource.
Being Lotor’s right-hand person means that unlike Ezor and Zethrid, Acxa was most likely the only other person who knew Lotor’s true plan. It’s why she was able to holistically have his back and understand why he needed the help of Allura to unlock the secrets of Oriande so he could gain the knowledge to help access the rift. It’s also why she’ll work with Honerva to hunt down Keith, someone who she has grown to respect, because she knows the fate of the universe is at hand. It’s the mission before anything, or anyone else. Without Lotor, she can’t stop this far greater danger.
If the fabric of their reality rips due to the excessive Quintessence mining, that paves the way for the Rift Creatures to spill through their realities, as well. Those creatures could be the awful thing that Matt Holt found in that Galra cell.
Because the entire universe is about the suffer the same fate as Daibazaal and only Lotor know how to stop it.
Once Acxa brings Keith to Honerva, there’s likely going to be the similar set-up where Honerva keeps both Keith and Lotor and Acxa is forced to flee and go back to Team Voltron on Earth and tell them everything. It’s then that Allura learns about Lotor’s true intent and Lance will learn that Keith is in danger.
This is where the Lotura and Klance storylines will break off.
Remember the lion scene where Allura tells Lance to go because the Red Lion is calling him and in that same scene the Blue Lion called for Allura? Similarly, Lance and Allura will go to where their hearts truly lie - Lance to Keith, and Allura to Lotor.
As mentioned before, Keith and Lance are long overdo for their Rival Fight, and if Honerva is able to corrupt Keith’s Quintessence, then it’s most likely going to be in the Astral Plane. And the end of this fight will most likely end with some sort of confession.
Meanwhile, Allura will square off against Honerva, about the Quintessence harvesing and slo to save Lotor now that she’s learned that she was wrong about his intentions. We already know that Lotor’s feelings for her were true, as we watched his heart break for her before their final fight.
And Allura’s are as well, since it took a lot for the team to convince Allura to leave Lotor behind in the Quintessence field.
Because Allura and Lotor, despite the odds and what either of them first intended to do when they first met, fell in love with each other.
And it’s together that they’ll save the universe and eventually lead it to a new era of peace and sustainable Quintessence.
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