#olkari

[brokenolivejar]

Awkwardly steps on podium Voltron in the big 2025? Yeah… right before my 19th birthday too… whatever… I just wanted to get them out of my system it’s been like way over a year or 2 by this point but I drew them again the only characters I cared about in Voltron (my redesigns /my alters rewrite) Pidge and Keith

Crazy art upgrade too

Unfortunately since it’s out of my system you won’t see them from me for a long while but if you do have questions or any sort of thing u wanna yap about my interpretations and such im open feel free to send an ask or even message me Idm!

[non-plutonian-druid]

the concept for this is "what if voltron aliens were like, a little bit less humanoid." Galra (and alteans, not pictured) get to be the most humanoid because theyre main characters lol

[ID: various voltron aliens redesigned to remove many of their humanoid features. The Galra are largely unchanged; the only difference is that they have six limbs. Keith is demonstrating standing on four limbs; he looks not unlike a centaur, although the "horse" part is just a continuation of his body, not a horse (and is also the same color as his human skin, because it is human skin. sorry not sorry). Kolivan is demonstrating standing on two limbs, and towers over everyone else. Krolia is demonstrating standing on all six limbs, which looks uncomfortable but possible.

There is also an example of an Olkari; whose face is unchanged but now is built similar to a praying mantis; a Puigian, who retains the approximate locations of the face markings and horns but looks more like some kind of deer creature; an Arusian, which is built like a snail; and a mer alien, which now looks like a fish with hands and antennae. The Olkari is based on Ryner, and the mer alien is Plaxum. End ID.]

[aro-paladin-pidge]

Some vague guidelines for the lore changes I’ve made to my No/Yes Blue AUs (yeah I’m calling them that, I can’t find better names ok)

Voltron is definitely older than it is in canon. I really hated that there were only two generations of paladins and Voltron still had this giant legend as the ‘defenders of the universe’. So Alfor didn’t create the Lions, some super-ancient alien species did or smth

Speaking of the Lions, I really want to redesign them-they’re supposed to be the guardian spirits of the elements and beings of pure quintessence, right? (I’m only like 70% sure about that last one, but I think it’s canon) But they just look like robot lions?? No cool glowy quintessence or elements or anything. I think the red Lion should have like a mane of fire or something.

Also I feel like the Black Paladin shouldn’t always be the leader. Each of the paladins could have been (and we actually saw this for Allura, Keith, and Hunk) good leaders, depending on the circumstances. This also allows for Keith to become a leader and Shiro to take a different position as a commander, without the stupid Lion-swap plotline. I’m sorry, but I hated it. So, depending on who was acting as Voltron’s leader/battlefield commander, any of the Lions/paladins could’ve been the head.

Lot less aliens. I hate hate HATE how there’s a few billion different species and they all look the exact same and there’s no exploration of any of their cultures in the slightest. They go to a new planet every episode, meet a new species that looks like humans but slightly to the left, they join the coalition, and then they’re never mentioned again. I want there to be a couple of species, like the Galra, Olkari, and the Balmerans spread out on various planets across the universe, so we actually have room to explore their cultures and histories.

This one’s not really a problem with VLD but I like it so I’m putting it here: The Altean Colony arc we get in canon is scrapped. Instead, there’s a small colony of surviving Alteans on Arus who’ve protected the Castle for millennia, since it doesn’t seem like the Castle can be opened without a Lion. We get Romelle earlier, and Allura and Coran don’t think they’re the last Alteans.

[depressocafe]

Are other extraterrestrials in Voltron composed of animal cells?

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I know at least one race isn't.

Humans, as well as Galra and many other alien races, originated from animals and thus are comprised of animal cells. The Olkari, however, are not and instead their race evolved from plants thus they are comprised of plant cells and have chlorophyll.

This means while they can eat and drink like other species, in rare occasions such as survival situations they can photosynthesize to sustain themselves. In addition they don't breathe in oxygen but rather the opposite that most plants take in, which is Carbon Dioxide and release oxygen. Furthermore their plant-like origins are probably what gives the Olkari a deep connection to their planet and other organic life forms to the point they can manipulate, intergrate, and utilize almost anything they want, thus making them the universe's greatest engineers.

On another note because humans take in oxygen and release Carbon Dioxide and Olkari do the opposite it's possible Humans and Olkari can have a symbiotic relationship

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Post made: 2/20/22

Updated: 3/15/23

[wineaunt420]

why is there absolutely nothing on that one Olkari pirate from s8, I would have thought there would have been so much on him. did he even have a name??

[chibi-pix]

I love the Olkari and I love Ryner. I would have loved to learn more about her and her people and see her with a familial bond towards Pidge. Anyway! For a while, I’ve been wanting to draw Ryner through the years, from a child to the leader we know and love. So. Here I am. And I enjoy this!  Like Pidge, when she bonded with Green more on Olkarion, when we saw the green paladin think of the vines and veins of a leaf and into a grid of a circuit board or something, I had the opposite for Ryner. 

Well, I hope you guys enjoy. Until next time.

[bamboogood]

voltron + klance at a gala on olkarion

there's music, dark green lights, and incredible dresses- like the one worn by allura. it's brown and looks incredible with her white silk hair

lance is with her (coran told him to protect her for the night, she is a princess of course)

and keith is with hunk and shiro as they interact with some olkari

and look- keith hates galas. he hates them. this is what? his twentieth as leader? so yes- he hates them and he hates when shiro pushes him to be social because "keith- we need to form a good alliance"

so keith isn't even listening to hunk as he converses with some olkari guy. he leaves the physical world and imagines him and lance sleepy and in bed because it's what? 12 am? keith is sleepy. and he would like to be in bed with his boyfriend, because again- he hates this

he proceeds to imagine just lance

lovely lovely lance. god he loves lance

he loves his face, he loves his eyes and loves when he blushes

he loves his lips

and it hits him like a kick in the face, this need to kiss lance- because he loves him and, again, he also loves his lips

so he just leaves shiro and hunk. shiro protests however it rests on deaf ears as keith moves across the gala and when he sees lance- sees his lovely face- his need to be with him grows

so he pulls him away to the garden

"keith, baby, what-"

and keith kisses him

it's less loud in the garden and he dies when lance kisses him back because he needed this, needed to be with him

"samuri, did you pull me away just to kiss me?" he says with a grin. he always grins when he's with keith

keith of course says no and blushes this dark red and lance kisses his cheek and says, "you are very adorable"

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lance oversees the princess for the rest of the night and when they go "home", he and keith exchange kisses in bed and keith sleeps like a baby

[askthecadetsquad]

Coran: ...I think everything’s handled fairly well all around.

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