Dark Allura
Creepy thought
From everything we’ve seen about season 3 and the alternate universe Alteans, the pivotal moment was whether or not Allura would be forced into the cryo-chamber.
In other words, there’s potential for VLD-universe Allura to become a potentially genocidal tyrant.
This isn’t an absolute, of course. We have no real idea if this was the first or only deviation. But that Allura has that potential to get so caught up in revenge that she would willingly commit genocide herself makes me… hm. And her legacy is a species of beautiful, arrogant space elves that enslave the minds of all other people that disagree with them.
Without the human Paladins, and hell, we don’t even know if they’ll be enough, Allura has a lot of darkness in her that she hasn’t yet coped with.
I really want to see how that might play out. I’m coming from this as someone who genuinely dislikes the concept of elves and the tropes associated with them, and seeing them subverted as they were in this alternate universe fascinates me.
The Altea we are presented with is meant to be this beautiful utopia. And like all utopias, it is also an illusion. I did like the history episode we are given about the Paladins of Old, but I had problems with it. (Leaders can’t just hare off and leave their own worlds to have adventures with their drinking buddies, yo, they got JOBS and RESPONSIBILITIES and have to ADULT more than what we saw. And don’t get me started on the Blue Paladin flirting with the server. Cute, but fuck that was also bordering on sexual harassment. Dude had a job to do, you are interfering, and he can’t say no you asshole YOU ARE A VISITING FOREIGN POWER) It showed us that Alfor and Zarkon had been friends and allies and while they had differences, they worked things out. I would have loved to see both sides presented as having problems; perhaps the Alteans being frivolous or obsessive, something that, when taken too far, would be a weakness. The highly stratified society of the Galra was shown, but we didn’t get much world building otherwise.
Maybe show Altea as a society that highly valued conformity of thought, valuing the group and social order above individual rights. Something that can be taken too far and be damaging and leads to that. Otherwise we can only surmise it was all Allura’s need for revenge that caused how things went.
This is long and rambling, but, I like the idea of Allura having a dark side we haven’t fully explored yet and I hope we do see the Alteans as more than this sugary image that Allura has of them.