@shakurai @theorangestar I’m gonna address y’all’s together since they’re similar (and theorangestar brings up the stuff that's said in the post shakurai linked to) also, under a read more cause i apparently don’t know how to say things succinctly
(Disclaimer: I’m not trying to shit on this theory. I think that some of the points I’ve seen are interesting/have some merit, I’m just not convinced and have some counter arguments)
I personally don’t put much stock in characters looking vaguely similar? Especially since the only siblings we’ve got in the show are so extremely similar that they can literally pass as the other if they try (except now, maybe, since matt is a lot taller than Pidge lol). And the rest of the people who are related look extremely like at least one of their parents (sans, perhaps, Lotor, who’s just special). I know 1 pair of siblings and a few parent-child designs aren’t much to base off of and that half-siblings could def look very different, BUT I feel like the half sibling theory doesn’t work when you take what we’ve seen of krolia into account. She seems to seriously regret leaving Keith and doesn’t seem to want to ever let him go again. (”I left you once, I’m not leaving you again.”) So why the heck would she just up and abandon her daughter to end up working for the empire? (indirectly? Lotor had a confusing in-between sorta place in that mess, so serving him wasn’t totally against or with the empire, tho now she is working for the empire under haggar) Especially given how it’s heavily implied krolia left Keith to protect him so he wouldn’t be part of the war. So, what? Letting her daughter be a part of the empire is no problem, but god forbid her son even know aliens exist and that he’s not completely human? Idk, I just don’t think it fits, and I don’t think vaguely similar character designs equals related, especially from what we’ve seen from confirmed related characters, who look REALLY similar (Allura and her mom are basically copy and paste versions of each other, Pidge and matt look SO alike that pidge could literally masquerade as her brother and no one could tell the difference between her and the pic of matt).
As for similarities in storylines: I don’t understand how that leads to the conclusion that Keith and Acxa are related. From my experience, similarities in storylines/characters, especially when the character are on different sides of a conflict, usually means they’re meant to foil each other, not that they’re siblings. In fact, secretly related plotlines are usually only used for wacky fun (The Parent Trap), to make things complicated for the hero cause the villain turns out to be a parent/sibling (Star Wars, Agents of SHEILD), OR some weird inc3st-eque nonsense (Star Wars again, Shadowhunters). Like, I’ve never seen a piece of media that took foil characters and used that as reasoning for them to be related. (Maybe I’ve just never seen it, who knows)
As for Acxa turning up right after Keith’s Galra reveal: I don’t know what to tell you there. Honestly, if it turns out that Acxa is Keith’s sister (cause I’m honestly not trying to dismiss the theory, here), then that would make some sense. I mean, before we officially found out Acxa was that Galra, everyone was theorizing that the Weblum Galra was Keith’s mom.
I guess I’m just skeptical cause there haven’t been enough overt signs for me to be convinced. Everything about the theory seems to require a lot of analysis and making assumptions and placing meaning on certain events that might, honestly, not mean anything at all (something vld is guilty of a lot). I know everyone always wants vld to go deeper, to have more meaning, for every frame shown to be purposeful and meaningful, but that just doesn’t seem to be the case, at least from my perspective. It’s chill if people wanna read into stuff and come up with theories based on it, but I honestly don’t think vld is as nuanced and subtle as all of us want it to be, and I mean, that’s fine, that’s what fan theories and headcanons and meta are for, to supplement where canon falls short or doesn’t address things.
