#billowingwaves

[blackkatmagic]

ahahaha are you planning something in DGM now?

DGM was the...second fandom I ever wrote fic for? And given recent revelations and Neah’s everything, I really would like to get back into it at some point. 

(Also!!! Neah/Cross is something I’ve shipped since Neah was first a thing anD NOW THERE’S BASIS FOR IT. I am in rare pair hell but this submarine is rapidly ascending. :D)

[ganymedesclock]

hey! I love your meta about the paladins and their lions, and most of all Lotor and Lance. but that's besides the point. I just recently read your post about the paladins and their elements. Regarding the recent switching - Lance to flames, Keith to air and then to nothing - and the addition of Lotor to the Coalition, what do you think is the element/alignment of the sixth lion, or perhaps Sincline?

I think it’s fair to presume that Sincline falls to the same elemental typing as Voltron itself. Not only the same elements, but allocated the same way.

I think about this because of a scene that absolutely fascinates me in terms of psychology- s3e6, with the fight between the paladins and the generals.

The generals use a kind of  divide-and-conquer tactic where they attack paladins to keep them occupied. Narti (wood) is the only one to engage her counterpart, Pidge, and she does so while Pidge is tag-teamed with Hunk. Since Lotor isn’t present, it’s four generals fighting five paladins, but Narti is probably the least aggressive of the generals- she’ll strike, drop Pidge off her feet, and then withdraw and observe. She’s more direct with Hunk, which makes me wonder if the reason Narti is fighting her double is playing to Green Paladin virtues- that observation and sense of curiosity.

All of the other generals deliberately set out to avoid fighting their double, and to pit specific elements against specific people. Zethrid snaps up Allura right away and seizes her attention. Narti withdraws as soon as Lance tries to engage her and Acxa steps in, while when Keith intervenes and locks Acxa, Ezor jumps in- and Acxa resumes her attack on Lance as soon as he goes after Ezor.

What this would imply is that the generals are plying their own elements against the paladins’ by switching it up. Keith and Acxa, both fiery in alignment and empowered by fire, cancel each other out- firepower for firepower, they stalemate and can’t get ahead.

Lotor’s team is pretty much playing this like a game of pokemon where they’re pushing to create situations where they have the element advantage and their opponent doesn’t. Ezor (water-aligned, Lance’s counterpart) attacks Keith and trips him up by manipulating the situation towards her strengths of fluidity and adaptability, away from his strengths of intensity and high-energy.

In that sense, the implication raised is that Lotor, as an equal to Shiro, is a sky temperament. And frankly, I think we can look enough at these characters to know that if they were paired with Voltron Lions, which ones they’d align with. Almost everything about how Lotor operates is very Black Paladin. Presumably, this would suggest with a certain amount of finessing, Shiro could connect with the head of Sincline.

[normal-horoscopes]

Let me introduce the em dash to the Lady -- it is most convenient for expressing thought-metaphors and preventing misunderstandings. In other news, your Ladyship is the best thing that's happened to me all week. :)

dash useless word squeeze difficulty

[madame-kiksters]

Takashi the Fortune Teller

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PROMOTE THE SHIP

Could you say it a little louder for all the people in the back who have ideas but won’t share them? lol