VOLTRON REIMAGINED

side blog, voltron reimagined

[voltrons-legendary-defender]

I forgot to make my introduction, hi I'm Voltrons Legendary Defender, I'm working on a rewrite, that's honestly just my interpretation of the show. I appreciate Voltron for what it is, and this isn't being done to make Voltron better. It's just to fend off my boredom, have some fun.

[voltrons-legendary-defender]

Happy 10th anniversary to Voltron Legendary Defender

I wouldn't have celebrated but I started feeling nostalgic. So I'm doing what my 13 year old self would've done and enjoy the moment.

[voltrons-legendary-defender]

On reddit I asked people to give me their best arguments against why Voltron is a bad show. Maybe I just wanted an excuse to glaze the show. Who knows, but it is all harmless fun debate. So if you want to share your grievances please do!

[kittyrossa]

how shiro living changed the keith & lotor dynamic

Joaquim Dos Santos: [Shiro dying] was honestly going to play into the bigger Lotor picture, where Lotor, and he does it to a certain extent here, is able to recognize that this isn’t the same Voltron team that had taken down his father, that they weren’t working as a unit. That theme was going to stretch a little longer, where our crew had to figure out how to put the pieces back together.

Lauren Montgomery: And even um, you know, with the potential absence of Shiro, Keith becoming that leader, Keith being part-Galra and Lotor also being part-Galra, them both having two sides to them, that was going to be kind of a nice duality that unfortunately ended up kind of having to go away a little bit? To make room?

Joaquim Dos Santos: They kind of became — they were able to tell their story but separate from each other. They were going to be way more tied to one another.

Lauren Montgomery: But, you know. When we first got the news that we needed Shiro to be in the show, we definitely brainstormed as you do, because we want the show to be good regardless, so we’re not like, ‘Well, whatever, throw him in!’ We went back, and we put our little thinking caps on, we all did, Tim, Joaquim and I, and we’re pretty happy with the story we came up with and we think we were able to make a really good show. And actually it ended up making some interesting story things that we couldn’t have predicted, by having Shiro back in.

Joaquim Dos Santos: I think that’s the cool thing, that it brings in another dynamic. It allows us to kind of play with the idea that there doesn’t always just have to be one leader of Voltron.

— FORM PODCAST: CHANGING OF THE GUARD (on twitter)

[voltrons-legendary-defender]

It would be an interesting idea if one of the Galras goals is to wipe out species by mix breeding. Then they can have lesser classes of Galran without oppressing their full blooded class.

[californiannostalgia]

Regarding the Blue Lion (More Lion Meta)

It's never explicitly stated what the requirement is to pilot the Blue Lion. But I have my own theory about the lions, based on how much we've seen of the six paladins.

Green and Yellow are pretty straightforward. Green is the keen mind, the flexible strategist, the unflinching heart. Green will keep you on task without losing sight of the consequences.

Yellow is the voice of caution and empathetic connections. Yellow will usually be the first to warn the team away from a threat, and the first to befriend a local. Yellow is often the best diplomat.

Black and Red are a balancing act. Black paladins have a tremendous force of will, and they refuse to give up. But Black can't be without the team, and the team can't be without Black. Black is the indestructible core of Voltron. No matter how fucked up they get, they will not die.

Red is the action-oriented defender. Red is responsible for counterbalancing Black (Alfor & Zarkon, Keith & Shiro, Lance & Keith). If Black is level-headed, Red will be the risk-taker. If Black is impulsive, Red will be the voice of reason. If Black turns dangerous, it's Red's job to take them down.

So what does that make Blue? Blue isn't as fast as Red or Green. Nor does Blue have the heavy armor like Yellow, or the sheer power of Black. So what makes Blue unique?

Blue chooses the hero with a sense of inadequacy. The Blue paladin is the one who thought they'd never get a chance to fly, or fight, but who really wanted to. Blue is the first chance, the first believer.

Blue is also the last goodbye.

Blue isn't built to take hits and survive them, which is ironic because the Blue paladin's way of defense is through life-threatening sacrifice. No matter how many risks Black or Red take, they don't come so close to death as Blue does.

I think Blue takes the loneliest, the most homesick as paladins. For Black, Red, and Green, their anchor is the people they love, and that's all they need. For Yellow, every planet they touch down on has their own beauty. But Blue preserves the memory of a home planet. Blue is the water-logged origin of life (Earth and Altea, both blue).

The Blue Lion picks the unlikely hero who will, one day, have to leave it. Blue is literally the beginning and end of Voltron. But really, that's just how the cycle of water works. Endings, beginnings--this will not be the last story told.

Blue is home.

[klanced]

they’re destroying the ancient texts

[gps924]

Made this for a Voltron rewrite for @voltrons-legendary-defender :)

[voltrons-legendary-defender]

Any deranged souls want to help me with my Voltron rewrite? It's taking so long because I'm indecisive as hell.

[violethowler]

Timekeeping in the Voltron Universe

This post is a guide of all the information that I’ve discovered or calculated over the course of writing my various analysis posts about the VLD story on how the intergalactic timekeeping units that are used throughout the series compare to those of Earth. I've been putting this together for a while as a resource for me and anyone else who intends to write VLD fics so that those who plan on incorporating the differences in time measurements into their stories can have a baseline to build off of.

(I'm aware that others in the fandom have made similar posts, but I haven't seen any that have done the math on some of the time comparisons)

Ticks

Ticks are established early in the show as the equivalent of seconds, and the Let’s Voltron podcast actually timed the team’s little ticks vs seconds comparison from S1E06 Taking Flight and found that a tick is 1.399 seconds.

Dobashes

Dobashes are the equivalent of minutes. How many ticks there are in one dobash is not something than any official sources have provided any indication of.

Vargas

Vargas are the equivalent of hours, and S3E03 The Hunted implies that they are very close in length. When the paladins are pursuing Lotor’s ship at the start of the episode, Pidge says “At our current rate of speed, we’ll be in attack range in an hour.” When we cut to Lotor’s ship barely a minute later, Acxa says “the lions will be on us in one Varga.”

While the number of dobashes in one varga is unknown, it at least gives us an indication that the amount of time elapsed is still about sixty minutes in Earth time.

Quintants

Quintants are the equivalent of days, and the show actually tells us how many Vargas are in one day. In S2E08 The Blade of Marmora, the path to the Blade of Marmora’s base is said to close for two Quintants once Keith and Shiro reach it. When we cut back to the Castle of Lions in the middle of Keith’s trials, it’s been “roughly ten Vargas” according to Coran, and when Allura asks how much longer they have to wait, Lance correctly estimates “thirty more Vargas.”

This means that 2 Quintants is the equivalent of 40 Vargas, meaning that one Quintant is 20 Vargas long.

In Earth time, this means that a Quintant is only about 20 hours compared to the 24-hour days of Earth. Dividing 20 by 24 to find the percentage establishes that 1 Quintant = 0.833 Days

Movements

Movements are the equivalent of weeks, and while it’s never explicitly confirmed, Coran’s mention of the paladins forming Voltron “six times a movement” in S1E02 Some Assembly Required implies that there are 6 Quintants in a Movement.

Since Quintants are only 20 hours, six of them would be the equivalent of five 24-hour Earth days.

Phoebs and Deca-Phoebs

Phoebs are the equivalent of months and Deca-Phoebs are the equivalent of years. The Deca indicates that there are 10 Phoebs in a year, and I actually managed to figure out the comparison to Earth years while crafting my second VLD timeline guide.

When Shiro and Allura are detected during their infiltration of a Galra cruiser in S1E10 Collection and Extraction, the computer identifies Shiro as “Fugitive prisoner 117-9875.”

The format of his prisoner ID number indicates the year on the empire’s calendar that Shiro was captured, meaning that the Galran calendar places the beginning of Season 1 in imperial year 9876, since the discovery of Voltron occurs a year after Shiro’s capture.

Initially, I thought this meant that the references to Altea being destroyed “10,000 years ago” were a generalization and that it wasn’t exactly 10,000 years.

However, Coran’s insistence on correcting Hunk that the Castle of Lions is 10,600 years old in S1E01 indicates that it was indeed exactly 10,000 years between Altea’s destruction and the return of the Blue Lion.

So, dividing 10,000 by 9876 to compare gives me the math of 1 Deca-Phoeb = 0.9876 Years.

Since 1 year on Earth is 365 days, 365 times 0.9876 gives me 360 days in a sincle Deca-Phoeb.

And since there are 10 Phoebs in a Deca-Phoeb, 360 divided by 10 gives us approximately 36 days in 1 Phoeb. Since 1 Quintant is 0.833 days, 1 day is the equivalent of 1.2 Quintants. 1.2 times 36 gives me approximately 43 Quintants in a Phoeb.

This means that there are a total of 7 full Movements (or 5 7-day Earth weeks) in a Phoeb with one extra Quintant at the end, and 1 Deca-Phoeb is approximately 430 Quintants.

Final Time Comparison Chart

1 Tick = 1.399 Seconds

1 Varga = 1 Hour

1 Quintant = 20 Vargas = 20 Hours = 0.833 Days

1 Movement = 6 Quintants = 5 Days

1 Phoeb = 43 Quintants = 7.167 Movements = 36 Days = 5.14 Weeks

1 DecaPhoeb = 430 Quintants = 71.67 Movements = 360 days = 51.4 Weeks

[voltrons-legendary-defender]

Unpopular opinion but I don't hate the Altean Colony plot. It's just another wasted plot line that could've been very interesting.

A lot of people think it ruined Lotors character but I'd argue it didn't. Him not getting a redemption did. The white lion is episode is a perfect depiction of Lotors character.

This is just an opinion, and a poorly done analysis.

Essentially, even if Lotor despises Galran culture/heritage it's clearly had an impact on him. Allura was wrong when she said he's just like his father, Lotor is exactly like his mother.

Lotor shouts at the lion "victory or death" That's all he's been taught. That's how he had to survive too, considering he's an outcast hated by his own father.

(And then Honerva takes her chances with the white lion by killing it too....she was just successful..)

Another thing is, Lotor never had the time to explain the colony to Allura. We never got to see Lotors perspective of this colony. I'm not saying Lotor is a liar, he's meticulous, manipulative but honest when it came to team Voltron and I do think his allegiance go them was true.

So...why the colony? So here's two things.

Some things are earned the hard way. If anyone knows about loss, it should be Allura. In his furious state Lotor threatened to wipe out any enemies in the way of him and his new Altean followers.

His word is true. That may be hard to accept but victory or death. I always found that so interesting about Lotor, how complex things are for him. Had he gained the secrets of Oriande or whatever would he have found another way?

Secondly, all those bodies being used. This is just a theory here because I don't know. But, none of those bodies were disposed of.

And you know what quintessence does? Well I don't know if it has the ability to ressurect but it gives you immortality. Considering the fact that the Altean bodies were still kept, Lotors promise may have been good. He could easily restore their lives, now given with immortality.

On top of that, if the Alteans are immortal, Lotors reign can last forever. That's probably what Lotor wants.

His 'death' or so doesn't make sense because last I heard Lotor had some sort of immunity to the quintessence field...(allegedly) The Altean colony plot gets left behind, Romelle is a useless character, the way his character is set up. It just makes sense honestly for him to be this anti villian. People mistake him for an anti hero. He's not.

Because Lotors reasons are understandable. His redemption arc starts with him realizing it's not always about victory or death. Too bad he died fighting that way.

[batshitcrazee]

Hunk and Lance were all but eleven years old when they met one another. Their first year as middle schoolers, and they both couldn’t be more terrified, for their own reasons.

Lance had grown up in such a large family that all he really wanted was to be seen and heard. He never blamed his parents, of course; it was easy to lose one kid to the crowd if he didn’t make himself known. Middle school would be different; he’d make friends, people would know his face and his name, he’d mean something to someone.

Hunk was someplace new, someplace terrifying. After the accident that had taken his parents’ lives, his brother had taken to raising him. His brother was attending University now, they had to move to be closer to it. The places, the people were all unfamiliar to him. Not only that, but this was a new school. A middle school, which he’d never experienced before.

Lance wasn’t sure what exactly it was about this kid— this shy, clearly uncertain boy— but he was drawn to him. Their bond was near instantaneous. Lance was charismatic (in that awkward preteen sort of way), he was playful and eccentric, and he just wanted a friend. Hunk was the perfect man for the job; he was kind, and gentle, he was a warm hug and fresh baked cookies after a long day personified. Lance had been the first kid to treat him kindly after such a big change, such a big move.

They were an unstoppable pair, the best of friends. Where one went, the other typically followed.

Lance had always dreamt of being a pilot, a fighter pilot, which meant he’d always dreamt of attending the Garrison.

He hadn’t expected Hunk to follow this time; he knew his buddy had no desire to fly, to pilot. He’d always had a hobby of cooking or baking, he liked to build and tinker, but piloting was never on his list of desires or hobbies.

But Hunk felt like he had such a high bar to reach, such big shoes he feared he couldn’t fill. His brother had both raised him and completed university at the same time. He was successful, he was smart, he was kind. He was superhuman, in Hunk’s eyes. He had to do something that could live up to his expectations.

When Lance told him he had submitted his application to the Garrison, the idea came to him. He would follow Lance. He would be a pilot engineer. They could stick together, as buddies always did. It wasn’t his passion, sure, but it would make his brother proud.

It was there that they met their teammate for the simulators: Pidge. This guy was feisty, intelligent (sometimes a bit too much for Lance to follow, but they made do), but most of all, cared way too much, even if they strived not to show it.

Pidge fit into their trio with ease; their presence was natural, like they’d always belonged in their group. They bickered with Lance like siblings, they raved about tech with Hunk. They were secretive, but not in the way that tore their friend group apart. Hunk and Lance could see their hurt that Pidge thought they were hiding so well, and they knew better than to pry.

The three of them were inseparable. It makes sense that the three of them wound up in space together, on the same team once again, doesn’t it?

[corefenarts]

Voltron and Sincline team up

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i’m still thinking abt allura. i feel like all of the characters got downgraded in some way, but she really got demoted during the course of the show. she went from commanding a castle-ship to being a paladin to dying at the end of it all.

even with the dying aside bc it was pretty obvious why that sucked, i wanna talk abt her being the blue paladin. before she was commanding the team and making use of her skills in a way that made sense for her character. she had been shown to have high expectations of the paladins which went with her leadership role and she could use her magic to power the ship. her place on the team made sense

and then she became the blue paladin because why? what character traits of hers fit that lion? did the person she was established to be belong there? did the team dynamics benefit/grow from this change?

and did she ever really get to bond with blue? did blue ever really mean anything to her the way the castle-ship did seeing as it was her home before altea was destroyed? did it further her character? was it what she wanted? was she happy with it? satisfied? could she have been, given that everything that was established about her before didn’t rlly have anything to do with blue anyways? i just think she got ripped off

[voltrons-legendary-defender]

Coran had to be pulling Lance's leg when he said that I rained hot rocks on Altea because later we literally see Altea, that has green land and blue seas.

And if Alteans DONT have water, not sure why they have a water based lion.

[voltrons-legendary-defender]

Voltron could've (and wouldve) benefited from more filler episodes.

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Allura is 100% a science experiment, because there's no reason why she's so powerful.

At least in my version she is a science experiment conducted by Alfor, inspired by the work Honerva was doing. Although nobody knows just how far and wide Alluras abilities can expand, not even her ancestors. It's up to her to figure it out.

The best teacher around is none other than Lotor, who oddly doesn't want to exploit Allura for her gifts. It only inspires him in his conquest to gain control for the universe.

[voltrons-legendary-defender]

To elaborate,

Not much is spoken about the magical properties in Voltron. Allura's abilities off memory are, energy manipulation, teleportation (wormholing), healing, absorbing quintessence, spiritual abilities.

I never liked that there are supposedly less 'magical' alteans. It's not clear on what determines that, so far the only magical Alteans we know of is Honerva and Allura.

Literally no other Altean has been shown to have magical gifts, including Alfor. So I've decided to change that, to any Altean can master alchemy however it takes many years and meditation to master.

Even then, you wouldn't have the ability to wormhole or manipulate mass amounts of energy the way Allura can. (Wormholing doesn't require magic anymore, rather quintessence or some nuclear energy is required to start it)

After finding Voltron, yes finding Voltron. In my rewrite, Voltron is a entity from a higher dimension, Alfor didn't make it. Because 1, where did the inspirations of Lions even come from. 2, Because I said so.

He's communicated with Voltron, studied the properties of quintessence with Honerva and suddenly he had a crazy idea. He needed to develop a way to make it easier for Alteans to practice alchemy, aside from ritualistic practices and years of studying just to do one task.

Alfor experimented on himself with quintessence from Voltron, then on Allura, but after he saw how crazy Honervas experimenting made her he felt inclined to quit. Of course, he never told anyone and then Alfor dies. (By the waaaay, Allura's mom is dead. She's not relevant to the story anyways)

Already, this literally explains how Allura is able to read the traits from the paladins, or even understand the lions. (Or open a rift to the quintessence field) I understands she's probably learned some stuff from her father but, like cmon.

Slightly off topic but Allura and Lotor still do visit Oriande. It's just not in a white hole and no chosen Altean can only enter. It's just a galactic Bible somewhere in a galactic library. Instead the way to get there is to practice a ritual, both Lotor and Allura learn valuable information from their ancestors.

Like I said, this doesn't help with Allura's abilities, instead she has to go to Voltron for that.

In general Alteans have the ability to heal, like small wounds, glow instead of camouflage, nurturing, can control their body temperature. They practice ancestral worship, lucid dreaming and rituals.

[voltrons-legendary-defender]

So quick edit here, um in the first episode Alfor sparks Allura with something and she falls asleep. Also he was mentioned to be an alchemist, but I wasn't alluding to that.

I just mean we don't see Alfor absorbing quintessence or performing 'magic' Except that one time in the first episode....