#daibazaal

[minzart]

I still laugh at the diferences to this day

[just-jae]

Voltron LD Creative rerwrite

Okay, here we go.

Imma start with some superficial stuff:

All the main characters are adults (ranging 20-45). Tallest to shortest: Hunk and Keith are a close tie, Lance, Allura, Coran, Shiro, Pidge.

Oldest to youngest (ignoring Altean aging and the whole 10000 yr sleep) : Coran, Shiro, Allura, Pidge, Lance, Hunk, Keith

Allura's hair is more of a amber blonde. It's got like a slight rainbow effect (if that's what that's called) but just warm colors.

Alright less superficial stuff.

Keith's mom had a more outgoing and fun personality,. A lot more laid back and adventurous, but also verocious in battle. She can be passionate about what's right and wrong and what's nessecary. Leaving behind Keith wasn't just a testament to her dedication to to the Marmoran cause, but also to how much she trusted Keith's da with her bean

. Keith's dad was an actual cowboy (took care of cattle and the like) and liked to do funky cowboy dances. Maybe a volunteer firefighter though?

Keith also likes to do funky cowboy dances… when no one’s watching.

Keith had a crush on a neighbor who'd come to dance at their ho-down parties, but yaboi shy af tho so they never actually dated. His dad definitely teased him about his "boyfriend".

After Keith's dad's death, Keith became something of a workaholic, pouring himself into training and school, but was socially and emotionally shut down. He never really properly mourned, and had a hard time with intrusive thoughts whenever he was on the ranch, so he left it completely for the Garrison.

Allura and Coran aren't the last Alteans, the remaining ones are scattered throughout the universe just like the Galra (I mean, that was the whole point of destroying Altea-- to get revenge. So the Altaens dont have a homeworld just like like the Galrans, but the goal was never to wipe them out--- also why would they assume every Altean was on Altea. C'mon.

The Galra were originally very war like. It was their technological advancemencents that the Altaens adapted for more altruistic science. The Galra specialize in weapons and battle ships and communications while the Altaens had tech catered more toward medicine, bioengineering, and observation (telescopes, scanners, etc) But had a culture more deeply rooted in magic and mystic arts. Magic was how they initially came into contact.

Daibazaal had nightmare creatures, Altea had nightmare weather.

Zarkon was a Paladin a bit ironically. The Galra were very confrontational and defensive, often escalating conflicts amongst eachother or other planets into full out war, to the point that they were often seen more as predacious creatures than sentient beings.

Altea was one of the first planets to make peace with Daibazaal and, in-short, begin rehabilitating their image as bloodthirsty monsters, by sharing their diplomatic skills with them. This gave rise to leaders like Zarkon, whom could be very passionate and fierce if e felt threatened, but had the patience to observe and investigate a situation and indeed forged a reputation of robust reliability. Zarkon was a great leader, but was always controlling and power hungry,however those traits were used in healthier ways. Before then, those vices were more or less thoughts in the back of his head. Altea and Daibazaal worked together to forge Voltron, but at the time they were both fairly homogenous peoples (not very diverse in their personalities or mindsets) and so members of other species ended up as the other three paladins. The first Green and Blue paladins were both from the Dalterion belt, with Yellow actually being a wanderer alien of no particular planet (was mixed species too cause scifi).

The Fallout happened because of Altean witches being shady on multiple accounts and a domino effect leading to the death of a paladin. Broken trust, grief, and anger-- along with Altens generally tending to deny or trivialize the existence and influence of witches... or any bad thing in general-- escaelated social problems amongst their respective planets, opening old wounds until the destruction of Daibazaal, turns the Galra on the Alteans.

At first the Black Lion willingly participates, not only sharing the pain and distrust, but also being more nieve influenciable, like a child basically, but eventually it becomes conflicted by the killing and Zarkon's blind rage, and indulgence in his controlling tendencies, still emotionally attached, it rejects Zarkon and allows itself to be locked away, not even trusting itself to choose a good paladin to replace Zarkon.

Then history happens and--

Okay so Lance is indeed a sharp shooter. His whole theme is precision and perfection. He's accurate with just about any weapon, and is phenomenal in tight spaces and dynamic, high-speed settings. Personality wise e tends to be impulsive and impatient, nit picky, vain, and superficial, quick to make other's deviations from an "ideal" out to be a flaw to fix. He starts out really annoying at first but he means well, he's just misguided about image and what-not. Also Lance is the cooky, foody one and a snob about it.

Hunk IS AN ENGINEER, and mechanics/physics expert. He's very attentive to the conditions of things, particularly when it comes to problems, and is good at telling real problems from inperfections. He's a good listener who tends to other's internal turmoils and helps the team mesh together by supporting everyone and tending to their needs. Sometimes this can be a bit onesided as Hunk may sometimes feel he has to be strong and invulnerable for everyone else, becoming burned out or neglecting his own care.

Allura grapples with the fact that Altea's allies turned on them and wiped out everything she knew in a blink. I imagine she's got some trust issues and at first is particularly sensitive to infighting. From her perspective the Galra were either lying the entire time or the very idea of an alliance was fragile to begin with. The fact that it seems the entirety of the Galra went along with wiping out her people and then turning on the rest of the universe muddied her optimism and makes her more wary and hesitant to give the benefit of the doubt.

However, these are more subconsious fears that effect her knee-jerk reaction to things. The other paladins, starting out rough to begin with, and being prone to inner conflicts, help Allura to remember how strong and reliable forged bonds can be. She ends up investigating more of Altean and Galran history to try to make sense of what happened to cause the trust formed between them to collapse.

Shiro's backstory is much like the original.... EXCEPT there's no clone shinanigans. Shiro was absorbed into the black Lion and then revived- unlocking the ability to astral project and teleport.

At first, the Black Lion doesn't accept ANYONE, as the new Paladin, as it's too busy dealing with Shiro's soul or whatever. It's basically a scifi fantasy withdrawal/shutdown as he started to reflect on the fact that defeating Zarkon wouldn't end the imperialism of the Galra empire-- it seems like an impossibly endless feat. So the team has to learn to function without a head to Voltron. This is when Allura really steps up to be more involved on the front lines. She ends up spending alot of time with the black lion, empathizing with it, while also mourning Shiro, and she confides in it, especially given that they were both stuck in the castle for 10k yrs just to jump into a universal war.

So- yeah, eventually, Allura becomes the Black Paladin.

Allura is the one who realizes Shiro is IN the black lion, and works on learning some kind of magic finger flittering to revive him.

After Zarkon's defeat, the team start to see more Galra opposing the Empire, not through flat out fighting it, but basically by under-the-table acts like voting against certain moves, conveiniently failing missions, Becoming secret allies to previously conquered planets (especially if they're on the outskirts of the empire and barely get looked at-- especially as generations pass.

Passive aggression. That's what it is. "Fuck imperialism, but also we were born on this conquered planet and the Empire is still pretty brutal, so. :,/"

The Blade of Marmora are considered a suicide squad and necessary evil for opposing the empire on such an intimate level as they often participate in war acts to maintain their cover, but have been vital in weakening the empire from the inside and gaining intelligence through their many moles. The Blade is part of the reason the Galra haven't advanced even further than they have, haven't found the lions, or Altaens and are only just now developing their super juice. It looks like they haven't done much but they have, especially for an organization that only started forming after the twisted intentions of Galra imperialism became apparent.

Shay joins Hunk and helps maintain the castle ship as a mechanic. She also journals to practice writing and reading. She ends up creating her own little scripts bc she finds them easier to use. It takes some time to teach her the ropes, but she helps out however she can. Gets a bad case of homesickness after a few weeks, but, you know who doesn't. Occasionally she goes back home.

Pidge was always a tomboy :'D So infiltrating the Garrison was more a matter of looking like a different person than a different gender :V. Just makes more sense to me that that would work better than just cutting ones hair and wearing a short and pants instead of a dress.

Mat died for real. Idk, I feel like the show made a big mistake punching me the gut and then going "haha just a prank bro". NOPE. Its my headcanon now. Mat's gonna stay in the ground and enjoy the tears I shed.

Maybe Pidge looks into it, in denial at first, and uncovers some journals or records about Mat that confirmed he was dead but also leads Voltron to new allies. I thought it was a nice touch to show the mortality of rebels, and why more people aren't opposing the Galra.

Prince Lotor gets a complete makeover, He looks a lot more like his dad, and is a bit of a mess. Like in the original, he goes through much the same arc, except he's not this brittish mastermind, he's still really smart, but he's a mess...a lot like Keith, and relatively young, like, younger than Keith (20), so like, 18-19 ish in galran ages. Imagine OG Lotor and LD Keith fused.

UUUMM...

Sendak and Haxus, and Throk. They do more. Like, seriously, they were good villains'. They still get taken out, but its more than just, Haxus falling, Keith just surprise attacking, and... idek what happened to Throk.. did he even die? *does research*

Throk goes rogue, full chaotic evil.

Some shipping stuff since its crossing my mind:

Shiro/Allura, they're literally mom and dad.

Hunk and Shay, are literally sweethearts, I think I'd love for them to be platonic friends too. Either works. Like, c'mon they adore eachother. Beasties frfr.

Like I said before, Keith/hometown cowboy crush. Keith feeling like he's already thrown es life away (the life he had on the ranch with his friends and whatnot) is something that makes him progressively more angsty. He becomes a high-functioning angster, longing for the life e had before the Garrison, but always being more afraid of the pain of all those emotions than the feeling of being alone or afloat.

When thy go back to earth Hometown Crush has also joined the Garrison, but as Casualty Control. I initially chose casualty control just bc I felt it was a pretty cool but overlooked specialty--- but for those who know what it is, it ironically also implies certain things about his and Keith's relationship

I'm thinking, for Lance/Pidge, he initially picks on Pidge a lot, but develops a crush on her bc "Pidge is awesome!". Its one of the first times he's actually been interested in someone for reasons other than looks or status. But, Pidge is not into Lance seeing him as a baby (even at 22) bc he's immature, and initially thinks he's only interested cus shes a girl and Allura already rejected him. She realizes later that he's being genuine, but again he's still pretty immature so it's a bit of a slow burn for them. Like literal years of work flirting- mutual work flirting.

Zarkon/Haggar, but, they weren't together before the "war". Heck, they didn't even know eachother. Haggar was practicing dark magic before and appealed her use the the Galran Empire just to save herself, and expand her reasources. Overtime, she gained a following of druids and floated up the ladder of power until she was at Zarkon's ear.

Seeing that she is the very thing that wedged the Galra and Altaens apart, they're a very ironic pair, and they're aware of this. But its been 10K years of being evil assholes, Zarkon doesn't give 2fucs about Altaens or witches anymore. And his relationship with Haggar has been marinating for a long time... and is mostly platonic... mostly.

I think Zarkon might even find it funny that the Empire is now the perfect entity for witches to thrive in.

Lotor initially is infatuated with Allura, but it's just infatuation. He does get a bit snot-nosed about it, thinking Allura couldn't see past his Galran blood and seeing it as an excuse to rip on her vices, but its a learning point for him to not have his insecurities blind him to reality. He gets over it once he accepts that Allura's disinterest isn't amanifestation of shallowness or a personal attack. She also makes him realize more about himself than the mix blood he's always ridiculed for. Allura salvages it pretty well.

Okay.. that's enough shipping stuff.

As far as endgame go. The show is very much a power of friendship theme, about building connections and mutual care. So, I guess, the endgame would be the sympathetic Galrans, the ones who HAVE learned to appreciate freedom and connections, instead of perpetuating the heirarchal chain of dominance and control, create their own web, and "join the fight" so to speak, by disrupting status Quo's left and right, and employing the empire's own robust tech and man power against it. It's like the American Revolution, but in space.

Call me a glutton for grief, but I was legit actually thinking that Earth would be destroyed just like Altea. All the signs wwere there, the Atlas being built, "Carrying the world", all the romancing about Earth and whatnot.

It seemed like they were going to put us in bith altean and Galran shoes and really make us understand what it meant to have yourworld destroyed, coming full circle. Maybe Haggar even straight up replicates the event that destroyed Daibazaal. And it just went to show not only how far removed modern Galra are from their history, but also snapshotting why it's so impactful when we see everything that we associate with ourselfes and our identity, and the place we called home, obliterated.

Or on a happier, more conclusive note, all the allies Voltron makes along the way make their defense of Earth successful, and they beome the first planet the Galran's fail to conqure, where at the end of the first season, Voltron barely made it out alive facing Zarkon alone.

[aro-paladin-pidge]

Literally why did the planets in Voltron look so good?

Like wtf they did not have to go this hard

[lonestarfangirl2014]

Honestly when I listen to the klingon warriors anthem Sung by this guy it gives me galra empire/blade of marmora vibes.

[justmultifandom]

Voltron headcanon

On Altea the weather is colder, even in summer; while on Daibazaal the weather is very hot in every season

[emperorsfoot]

It’s hilarious to me that someone mentioned Lotor as reminding them of Skeleteen. I used to watch Voltron and He-Man both. Once I became aware of Keldor I was convinced that Lotor was what Evil-lyn and Keldor’s kid would grow up to look like. The white hair, pointy ears and skin color. My head canon was that Zarkon had stolen Lotor away from them.

OMG!

THE CROSSOVER FIC I DIDN'T KNOW I NEEDED!!

[lionhearts-proyect]

Conociendo a... Parte 7 - Zarkon

Continuando con los análisis, ahora nos toca analizar al mero mero villanazo de la historia. Ya que sin conflicto no hay historia que contar. Y es esta versión la que nos deja pensativos, ya que, a diferencia de sus versiones anteriores, en esta alguna vez estuvo del bando de los buenos.

A SIMPLE VISTA

Un gran e imponente ser es a quien vemos en primera instancia, enfundado en una armadura rojiza y con brillantes y vacíos ojos violetas. Sabemos al instante que no es una persona buena y que es mejor alejarse lo más rápido posible… o jurarle lealtad eterna si se quiere seguir vivo.

Posee las características básicas de su raza, es decir, la piel violeta (aunque a veces la veo gris, corríjanme si me equivoco), dientes, garras y hasta orejas algo “animales”. Sin el casco se ve que tiene unas como escamas en la cabeza. Es un ser de apariencia intimidante, y sus acciones crueles y nefastas para conseguir poder es las más tenebrosa de sus características.

Sin embargo, la historia nos tiene la sorpresa de que mucho tiempo atrás, Zarkon no solo era un líder idealista y que procuraba a su pueblo, si no que fue el primer Paladín Negro. Lo que pasó después fue una historia de la que hay que aprender, porque en el mundo real, la corrupción de un deseo es más común de lo que pensamos.

Al igual que su mujer, los ojos rojos de Zarkon, los cuales tenían una mirada intensa, valerosa y firme, fueron corrompidos por los deseos de poder y venganza.

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ANTECEDENTES

(Créanlo o no, en tiempos antiguos esto era una apariencia intimidante) 

Anime/Serie 80´s El personaje que sirvió de base para el malvado rey del Planeta Doom es el emperador Daibazaal, un sujeto que aparte de feo, es malvado, sádico, inmisericorde y con un temperamento muy explosivo.

Mucho, muuuuucho tiempo atrás, este “simpático” dictador ascendió al trono, en algún punto de su vida descubrió las flores del planeta Amazon, las cuales le dieron una gran longevidad (y al que pensó en Quintaescencia, pues puede que no esté tan equivocado).

Cual cierto país del continente americano, Daibazaal comenzó a mandar sus tropas a conquistar cuanto planeta se dejara y a usar a los prisioneros como mano de obra barata y otras cositas. No crean que logró todo esto solo, por supuesto que se alió con planetas tan belicosos como el suyo.

Conforme pasa la serie, este monarca se empeña en que si o si habría que destruir al odioso GoLion, usando cualquier cosa: engañando gente, vendiendo falsas esperanzas a habitantes sobrevivientes de la propia Tierra (recuérdese que el planeta valió verch en este cuento), en fin, de todo.

Al final final, Daibazaal es capturado por su propio vástago y forzado a pilotear un mecha a su imagen y semejanza, terminando obviamente destruido por los heroes de la caricatura.

Pues en cuanto a diferencias con DoTU, Zarkon es igual de malo malote malito que su versión original, pero por cuestiones de censura no se miraba cuantas maldades y graciosadas hacía Don Morado. Entre sus alianzas se encuentra la que forma Throk (villano de “Vehículos”) en la película “Fleet of Doom”. Según la wiki, acá no es asesinado, aunque eso ya depende de la pseudosecuela que usted vea.

Tanto en el anime como en la versión americana, el rey no tiene mucha tolerancia, no pasa de ser otro líder político sociópata como tantos otros.

Si bien su apariencia es intimidante, cualquier millenial que lo vea se va a partir de risa (oigan, eran los horribles 80, las cosas eran diferentes. XD) pero demuestra que es un guerrero experimentad y letal.

En mi particular opinión, Daibazaal es una capirotada entre emperador romano, zar terrible y político corrupto, Zarkon es solo una versión Light… pero no por eso menos peligrosa.

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(”hijazo de mi vidaza, cortese el pelo”)

COMIC Sigue siendo el … --- El carismático y benevolente líder de su pueblo, el emperador Zarkon. Todos aman a Zarkon y a su glorioso régimen. Con amor, Patita.

Versión de Dynamite... nope, no quieren ver

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(No se si esto cuente como “imagen curseada”)

The Third Dimension 

En esta simpática pseudpsecuela se menciona que tras su derrota, Zarkon se hace miembro del Consejo Galáctico para redimirse, pero nel, todo era un truco. (háganse de cuenta las alianzas partidistas que andan haciendo aquí en mi México).

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[IMAGEN NO ENCONTRADA]

“Voltron Force” por otra parte, pues acá Lotor ya es considerado rey… creo… algo me dice que Zarkon ya pasó a mejor vida… o se fue de vacaciones con Haggar (digo, hasta la maldad necesita su semana santa ¿No?)

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ACTOR DE DOBLAJE Quien se encargó de darle voz en la versión original fue Kosei Tomita, en inglés por Jack Angel y en español latino por Maynardo Zavala (Jumba, de “Lilo y Stitch”, falleció en el 2008)

Para esta nueva versión, la voz del emperador corre a cargo de Neil Kaplan, mientras que en español es Idzi Dutkiewicz (Tony Stark en el UCM… “¿Vuestra madre sabe que usáis sus cortinas?” XD)

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EL ESTEREOTIPO QUE REPRESENTA Esa es sencilla, es el villano principal... al menos hasta que queda en coma en el final de la primera temporada y luego cuando su vástago se lo tasajea. Pero eh aquí un detalle que a Lotor le va a arder, así como nuestro Príncipe Berenjena resultó ser una figura trágica, su predecesor en este tropo es su propio padre. La de Zarkon es la historia de un sujeto que luchaba contra el mal con fuerza y poder... aunque ahora que me pongo a analizarlo, su raza no era precisamente la más pacifica del universo. Después de todo, los rituales para elegir a líder de chorrocientosmil guerreros consisten en la demostración de la fuerza bruta y el alzamiento del más fuerte.

OK ok, regresando a esto, nuestro buen Zarkon es el ejemplo de la figura trágica, el héroe que se vuelve villano, el Darth Vader de las animaciones. Y al igual que el sith con más prótesis de la galaxia, su maldad no salió así por generación espontanea, aparentemente ya tenía sus pequeñas raíces. 

Ojo, no digo que al mostrarnos una raza que sobrepone la fuerza como lo más importante nos digan que “raza a es mala raza b es buena” (cofcof, ahí te hablan Allura), si no que nuestro Zarkon ya traía muy arraigadas ciertas costumbres de su cultura, y muchos sabrán que es muy difícil deshacerse de ciertas costumbres. Esto, sumado a las cosas extrañas en el campo de quintaescencia, se convirtieron en un excelente coctel para hacer a tu villano promedio.

(¿Se acuerdan de la boda de Zarkon? ¿Cómo olvidarla? Tumbadero de sillas, griterío de señoras, mi tía agarrando a taconazos a un gordo, las tías buscando a mi tío para que no se agarrara a golpes a todos... Ah no, esa fue la boda de mis papás...)

DE SHIPEOS Y COSAS PEORES

Todos sabemos que nuestro buen Zarkon se casó con Honerva, haciendo el Zaggar 100% canon (y por enésima vez, que el shipeo debería llamarse Zanerva... ay olvídenlo). Pero eso no evita que hagamos lo mejor que podemos hacer: SHIPEAR TODO CON TODO ^O^

Zaggar: Sip, 100% canon

Zalfor: (Zarkon x Alfor): VLD no se puede considerar completa si no hay un shipeo yaoi. Y que mejor que emparejar al paladín negro con el paladín rojo. XD

Zeith: (Zarkon x Keith): ... pero nuestro Shiro es el enfermo, ¿Verdad? ¬¬ Aunque por alguna extraña razón este shipeo me recuerda al Steven x Personaje principal en Pokemon Ruby/Safiro/Esmeralda.

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(I want it all/ I want it all/ I want it all/ I want it now (8)) OPINIÓN PERSONAL La principal queja de muchos críticos en Youtube era “mne, villanos del montón”, yo me decía “igual y le ponen que es firme seguidor de un ideal, y ese ideal es malo”. Diiigo, hablamos de los que hicieron “La Leyenda de Korra”, y en esa serie para niños se hablaban de temas un poquito densos.

En cuanto supe del pasado de Zarkon en el bando de los ñoños (no se hagan, es el primer spoiler del que te hablan en las reseñas) me quedé, no muy sorprendida, pero si intrigada, porque las historias de los héroes que caen en desgracia y se vuelven en villanos son muy interesantes.

Y ustedes lo sabían, yo estaba muy atenta a saber que eventos orillaron a que el anterior líder de Voltron se pasara al lado oscuro, hasta tenía mis teorías. Luego resultó que todo fue culpa de la esposa y todo valió ma…

En fin, así es la vida. Me llama mucho la atención que otra de las de Zarkon sea su cuasi-obsesión/terquedad en recuperar al león negro. Desde el punto de vista más simple uno diría “Quiere poder, ese méndigo león era suyo, pues por eso es malo”. No digo que ese no sea el motor, pero según yo esa terquedad viene por querer recuperar quien era.

Recordemos que antes de ser “Don Malo de Malolandia”, Zarkon tenía un pueblo a cual deberse, una esposa que quería mucho y un gato al cual soportar (ahora te comprendo, padre XD). Su último gran sacrificio fue por querer darle el gusto a su vieja y eso detonó en una fisura de realidades que amenazaba no solo comerse al planeta, si no probablemente al Universo. Y dejémoslo así: planeta destruido, esposa literalmente muerta (si, estaba a su lado, pero ni ella recordaba quien era), la probabilidad de que tus viejos amigos te hayan traicionado… porque vamos, en ese tipo de situaciones en que un familiar/amigo/pareja anda mal, vas a hacer cosas que nunca pensaste en hacer, y si no funciona, vas a buscar culpables. Digamos que eso es lo que le pasó a Zarkon, plus las cosas esas negras, la sobreexposición de sustancia probablemente adictiva, y el instinto primitivo de lucha que seguramente todo galra ha de tener. Todo este coctel transformó mágicamente a nuestro antiguo héroe en el villanote que todos aman. Y según yo, el instinto y las cosas bonitas en su vida que ha de tener guardadas en el subconciente (muuuuuuy en el subconciente) han de hacer que tenga esa obsesión en recuperar al león negro, a recuperar lo que él alguna vez fue y tal vez resarcir los errores que afectaron a su gente.

Pero ese mini análisis parece más una teoría, así que resumamos en que Zarkon sufrió el Síndrome de Anakin Skywalker. (aunque por lo menos era más simpático que Hayden Christensen ¬¬)

Para terminar: No odio a Zarkon, pero tampoco “amo” al transfondo de su personaje, aunque como dije antes, me gusta cuando el villano de la serie/temporada tenga un pasado en el que fue “bueno” y tenía ideales nobles. Terminemos los análisis con la frase que el buen Harvey Dent dijo en “El caballero de la noche”: “Mueres siendo un héroe, o vives lo suficiente para volverte el villano”, y según veo, Zarkon ha vivido por un largo tiempo.

[breatheslife]

A piece of concept art I bounced around between both my CGMA Color and Light and Composition classes. The ‘concept’ behind it has to do with my take on the Voltron franchise!