#the second comet

[fusciaguardian]

@midgetmoth I finally did it!

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So you know what’s something I’ve been mulling over for a while?

It’s emphasized a lot that you can’t force yourself on a Lion, that they have to choose you.

Isn’t it really interesting that the first comet- Voltron- slammed down on Daibazaal right when that coalition of five rulers was all gathered there together?

Especially when the implication is that Voltron is able to wander between realities at will- and given they name themselves, and have set personalities that Alfor, the ostensible craftsman of the Lions, was utterly unaware of, they were definitely sentient and aware before then?

I don’t think the comets are just a random grab bag. They pick who they want.

Okay, so that in mind...

Remember how the second comet appeared to have killed everyone on Commodore Trayling’s ship by yanking them halfway into a rift?

Remember how Alfor didn’t have that problem with the original?

Remember how Lotor didn’t have that problem with that specific comet even though he stole it from Voltron and waltzed off with it for his own purposes?

This raises some very interesting things about the psyche of the second comet:

First, it doesn’t seem to have any animosity for Voltron. It let the Green Lion chisel a piece of it off, after all, and later, allowed Voltron to carry it back through realities with no qualms. It’s quite possible that the reason why it never lashed out at Hira and her subordinates after the ship moved out of the rift (and it could have feasibly just gone ‘No!’ a second time and made a new one, or fought the movement of the ship) was because Voltron’s presence soothed it.

However, lashing out indiscriminately at a ship full of people is a rather fearful response. Whatever was happening, and wherever Trayling was taking it, the comet didn’t like this, and didn’t want to go.

Conversely: the comet has already taken a shine to Lotor and his team in a way they didn’t to the Alteans- either in the ‘main’ reality or Sven’s.

So far, I don’t think we’ve seen the comet ship assert itself too much. It’s still incomplete. Seemingly, though, it’s starting to choose people. We can assume that at bare minimum, Narti and Acxa are already bonded to their respective components as we see them piloting the comet ship with ease. It’s ambiguous if Zethrid, Ezor, and Lotor have bonded with their components yet. We don’t even know this entity’s name. 

Which would suggest the other tidbit of, the second comet doesn’t really have any animosity towards Voltron, as said- it’s calm and allows itself to be transported by them- but ultimately it doesn’t like Voltron more than it likes Lotor and his team. It’s perfectly willing to fight Voltron if Acxa and Narti ask that of it.

Makes sense, if again, we’re considering its favoritism of Lotor’s team is because it’s similarly inclined- which would suggest it shares that team’s common thread of dissatisfaction with situations they feel trapped in, and a willingness to try and manipulate situations to escape their situation and take control of it.