Babbling About Voltron

I'm a fan of both Ye Olde School Voltron '84 and Voltron Legendary Defender. Talk about it with me if you like, but please don't hate on anything--that's no fun.

[gender-evil-rose]

Kikoru isn't 16, she's at least 18, below the age of being able to drink (which is I believe 20 or 21). Yall just too comfortable with child soldiers in manga/anime.

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Time to break out The Panel(TM) again.

This is the only time the age 16 is mentioned in regard to Kikoru, and it’s about the age she got into the university she attended. Now, I won’t say it’s impossible, but you’ll have a very difficult time convincing me she entered the university and graduated as valedictorian in the same year. I don’t buy it. Two years to graduation is more believable. Still horrendously difficult and no doubt quite stressful, but waaaay more believable. I believe she is at least 18. She’s a bit of a brat, for sure, but trust me, there’s no age cap on that.

[starzxynyanz]

i'm kinda tired of people arguing about kikoru's age and how there'll always be some pest screaming "B-BUT SHE'S 16!!!!!!" To my ears when I mention I ship kikoreno and kikoharu

So arguments from both sides:

People say she's 16 bc it's mentioned in the anime and she only drink soda instead of beer in the third division party

People say she's 18 because the wiki says so and she wouldn't be able to enter a military if she's underage

The former is straight up wrong and the latter is a valid argument yet we can't fully rely on that

She's only mentioned as "graduated at 16" Not "she's currently 16" We can either assume she just graduated and is still 16 when joining the defense force or that she had graduated way before she enters defense force. Also we see reno drink soda too and he's 18, the drinking age in Japan is literally 20

The wiki is fan made so some informations aren't exactly canon, yes a bunch of it are pretty accurate but it's still fan made (plus the wiki's argument that kikoru's not 16 is the same as my point)

But in B-side we see Narumi enters defense force when he's still in the orphanage. Now in Japan sometimes kids didn't fully get out of orphanage when they turn 18, some allows people to stay until 20 or even 22 if they pursue higher education. But the thing is Narumi's B-side story take nine years before the current timeline and if we do the math, if Narumi is 18 then he'll be 27 which is his actual age (or estimated age idk)

It's safe to put the minimum age as 18 because we also see Mina joining at 18 (is it ever mentioned the minimum age requirements? I sort of forgot... I feel embarrassed for yapping so much if it actually is mentioned somewhere)

Now back to kikoru. I feel like she's most likely to be 18 because that's the minimum age requirement

Wow I yapped so much for what 🥹🥹🥹 (so no one can bash me for shipping kikorenoharu)

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Okay, the confusion seems to stem from here and poor reading comprehension, I guess.

Kikoru was accepted into the university at 16 and was the youngest valedictorian graduate, but those almost certainly didn’t happen in the same year. I think at least 18 is reasonable because it is entirely possible to finish a degree in two years, but it would have been incredibly stressful and I wouldn’t recommend it.

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There’s a Kaiju No. 8 reference in the new Dave the Diver DLC, and I don’t think the devs can possibly know how happy it made me!

Two things I enjoy connecting randomly is always a treat.

[doodlecupcake]

Respond with what you think the kn8 would be doing if kaijus didn’t exist.

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I kind of like the idea of them all ending up in one anothers’ orbits anyway, but I’m not sure how that would work.

On that note, though, I have played with the idea of an AU where the 3rd Division all work together at a school.

Mina and Kafka were going to be teachers together, but then for some reason Kafka never finished his degree. Mina is now in school administration and Kafka has been working janitorial and doing night school and finally there’s some openings in the staff coming up. I’m sure he could teach several things, but I’d like to think he winds up teaching biology.

Hoshina is an assistant admin, and he used to teach history. He coaches the kendo club, of course.

Okonogi is either the librarian or teaches science.

Tae strikes me as either literature or a foreign language teacher.

Ikaruga probably teaches math or something.

The other new recruits are student teachers. Ichikawa wants to teach economics. Kikoru’s dad is the Superintendent of the school district, and she could basically teach whatever she wants but can’t quite decide. Haruichi plans to teach computer science instead of taking over his family’s tech company. Aoi had to retire early from the defense force after an injury and plans to teach phys ed. Minase wants to teach health, and Hakua home economics.

There’s some kind of fire or something and they have to merge their school with the 1st Division while the buildings are repaired.

The 1st is probably some kind of fancy magnet school program with a bunch of specialized classes so Narumi can teach something like game design.

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Whoops! Somehow skipped over Iharu. That guy is either teaching physics or chemistry. Throwing stuff and dropping it off of roofs for demonstrations or chemical reactions and (just enough not to get in trouble) controlled explosions. He’s gonna be a cool teacher and his initial rivalry with Reno stems from not understanding why the students like Mr. Ichikawa so much when he teaches something Iharu thinks must be boring.

[doodlecupcake]

Respond with what you think the kn8 would be doing if kaijus didn’t exist.

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I kind of like the idea of them all ending up in one anothers’ orbits anyway, but I’m not sure how that would work.

On that note, though, I have played with the idea of an AU where the 3rd Division all work together at a school.

Mina and Kafka were going to be teachers together, but then for some reason Kafka never finished his degree. Mina is now in school administration and Kafka has been working janitorial and doing night school and finally there’s some openings in the staff coming up. I’m sure he could teach several things, but I’d like to think he winds up teaching biology.

Hoshina is an assistant admin, and he used to teach history. He coaches the kendo club, of course.

Okonogi is either the librarian or teaches science.

Tae strikes me as either literature or a foreign language teacher.

Ikaruga probably teaches math or something.

The other new recruits are student teachers. Ichikawa wants to teach economics. Kikoru’s dad is the Superintendent of the school district, and she could basically teach whatever she wants but can’t quite decide. Haruichi plans to teach computer science instead of taking over his family’s tech company. Aoi had to retire early from the defense force after an injury and plans to teach phys ed. Minase wants to teach health, and Hakua home economics.

There’s some kind of fire or something and they have to merge their school with the 1st Division while the buildings are repaired.

The 1st is probably some kind of fancy magnet school program with a bunch of specialized classes so Narumi can teach something like game design.

[cams-the-human]

Across every universe he's still a mosshead

(no dialogue version + doodle under cut)

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Camouflage, no? It’s totally tactical.

[doodlecupcake]

Hoshikafmina but only two of them are legally married.

Give your opinions on which ones tied the knot.

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I think Mina and Kafka would get married, but more for legal reasons because they’re already living together and sharing everything and for legal reasons, if the worst were to happen to either of them, it would make paperwork easier to deal with.

I see Hoshina as like a feral cat third member of the polycule. He wanders in and out and wants to maintain his own space, but he belongs in their home just as much as the other two.

[cams-the-human]

Deer doodles 🫶

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Dang “reblog now”, I didn’t know that meant no tagging allowed!

Anywho, there’s more! Yay!

[cams-the-human]

Ok but what if the Strawhats turned into reindeer. Go my Chopperlings!!!

(individual pics under the cut)

I made a few doodles with them so hopefully I follow up with that soon!!

(Also I'm about to start Skypiea so my interpretations of them are up to that point)

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They’re all adorable, and I love that they all have slightly different antlers.

[missmetus]

[kokoko-sir]

I'm rewatching Voltron (ha-ha what can go wrong)

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Aww… Cute!

[pickle-jar-ontherocks]

idea where hal is an astronaut

inspired by the artemis ii live mission coverage, which i am listening to rn (an hour and some b4 the launch window)

there was a meet the austronauts segment and one of the crew, reid wisemen, used to be a pilot in the military, the navy, i think. the way he talked abt his journey and flying kinda reminded me of hal jordan

sidenote, the only things i know abt dc canon and stuff is purely thru fandom osmosis, the most i read is fanfic and thats mostly batfam, some batlantern and some other stuff, so i in no way, shape or form know what im talking abt

that aside, whats going on with nasa in the dc universe? anybody knows whatsupp with them? with all the extraterrestrial stuff happening with the superheros and all, nasa gotta be involved somehow, right?

how funny would it be to have a like astrophysicist constantly like tryna contact the justice league abt like space stuff? i dont know nearly enough abt that area of science to come up w questions they would have but they gotta have a lot of

ngl considering the vast number of comics and such, theres probs at least a few addressing nasa in universe

anywayyyy, back to hal going to space the normal way and not just flying about like a green space lightning bug

i do lean towards batlantern, cus i like their dynamic, so it would be fun to read abt them

there are a few ways the au could go:

•both of them being part of the crew, which would mean them going thru training, (did u know that each mission crew gets to design their own mission patches, its a decades old tradition and i find that so cool?)

•hal is an austronaut, bruce is an engineer or some other important job in nasa and thats how they meet

•bruce is still a billionare and a benefactor of the mission/nasa and they meet at like a meet the austronauts event or a gala or smth?

i imagine these aus as no powers/superheros but u can choose to imagine it however u want

sidenote, as i was typing this out, at around L-30minutes, i suddenly hear stanley tuccis voice and apperantley they got some celebs to say a few words to the austronauts which is not that suprising but it came out of left field for me

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If you’ve not read “DC: The New Frontier”, I highly recommend it overall, but also because it includes Hal wanting to be an astronaut. It’s an elseworlds story set in the 50s and 60s.

All the first astronauts were Navy pilots, if I recall. (I haven’t read “The Right Stuff” in years…)

Even today, those that aren’t in space for specifically scientific reasons often have military backgrounds, partly because they have to meet fairly demanding physical standards.

NASA often partners with civilian aerospace companies, so this could be a universe where Wayne Enterprises tilted more in that direction.

Anyway, interesting thoughts, and they did a passable animated adaptation of “The New Frontier” as well, if that might be easier to find.

[tamsywindsup]

Happy Valentine's Day from the kn8 family 🩵

(I've scheduled this for a looooong time 😂 today is finally the day!)

I gave Kafka mountains of chocolates btw—he's got even more than Hoshina honest istg.

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Awww… I’m sure Kafka got some chocolates, but he probably ate them right away before anyone could take a picture.

[viridiansilverr]

i made them cartoons!!

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These are so cute! I live that we get a smiling Mina as well, since it’s so rare.

[caeboa]

Playing some catch up on art for shows I enjoyed over the last while, and Kaiju No. 8 is up there! Love to see a protag in my age range in something like this.

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Such a cool style for fan art!

[lrgoescrazy]

zoro cup zoro cup zoro cup

i'm a beginner on the wheel lol but since this is the first cup i've ever made period i think it's pretty good and i'm also so glad the face/fine details i painted didn't melt and get hella distorted

ok but because i suck at the wheel it's really small that makes it cuter though

my actual serious zoro fanart is coming soon i swear i know it's been literally like over two weeks since i made my wip post

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This is adorable!

[captain-britain]

This was fun!!! I think I'll see if I can come up with more words I can do this with!!

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This is really cool!

How long did you have to stare at the names for this, or did you already have the joining word in mind and worked from there?