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autisticlancemcclain · 3 months

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okay so you just put this in your most recent post so now i’m really curious, what are your thoughts on kuron? what specifically makes you say he’s a good iteration of shiro? /gen

oooou okay thank you for asking. i covered this a little bit in this essay here, but i'll sum up the most important bit from that essay (in relation to this topic):

"Lastly — and this turned out to be less relevant to the essay than I expected, but I do want to go over it a tad — is Shiro’s tie to humanity. I mentioned two important points: Shiro’s connection to mortality makes him the most intimate with his humanity out of all the characters, and he is undoubtedly the flattest character of them all. That is, if you don’t consider his clone to be part of his character.

But I’m begging you to reconsider. Reconsider, perhaps, who the clone is — Haggar had pure access to Shiro for a year, you remember. His thoughts, his dreams, his mannerisms, his priorities, his body. Even him at his most human, his most deranged, his most scared. She had Shiro then. She had Shiro when he had nothing to look forward to. She had Shiro when he hurt his crew to make sure they would live, at direct cost to himself.

She stripped him of his humanity — his connection to his own mortality. She took his illness from him. And who, then, did she return to the team? Who was clone? Shiro, mostly. The clone was happy to play with the team. The clone was clever. The clone believed, fully, that he was Shiro, only he was angrier and meaner, a little, and less capable of shoving down his own pain. Shiro, stripped of his tie to humanity and mortality, stripped of his compulsive need to be strained and stressed and the one everyone else can rely on, the Role rather than the Person, is emotional. He has flaws and outbursts. He can’t manage his own pain. He is is cruelest to the one person on the team — Lance — who canonically reminds him closest of himself.

Shiro, in the purest form that Haggar can make him, is flawed and self-hating. That is where our love for him comes. Not the man who pushes himself down at the same time as he sacrifices his personality to be someone for others, but the man who is struggling and can’t keep it locked down. That’s where it comes from."

so! what does this mean.

shiro, as a character, does not get to choose and form his own identity. first he is the Garrison Poster Boy -- and while he is a pilot, an explorer, and happy to do both of those things, he is uncomfortable with (largely lance's) hero worship. he both a) doesn't believe he deserves it, and b) is not happy in that role. we see it in the "blam blam blam" scene -- he is trapped in the 'hero' role because he is trapped in a role of Perfection, and he is not perfect, and it grates on him. second he is the Champion -- and while he did force himself to be the Champion by injuring the Holts, it is a sacrifice. being a sacrifice is not the same as choosing a role. third, he is the Paladin of the Black Lion (not the Black Paladin, for deeper analysis on my thoughts there please read this essay and maybe this one too honestly) -- he tries to escape that role from the very beginning. i know i keep pushing yall towards the essay but i genuinely do discuss shiro's role in it, but i'll reiterate:

"...from the very beginning, he set up a replacement for himself.

Doesn’t that strike anyone else as odd? I haven’t seen the show in five years, and I don’t plan on rewatching, but I do remember that every moment with Shiro almost had this underlying tension. The closest thing I have to canon off the top of my head is the Handbook (which I had to stop reading because they did everyone SO dirty there, even though some of it was honestly pretty funny), which was released in S2, and even that incredibly early canon talked about Keith replacing Shiro!

From the very beginning, Shiro was planning an out to his role. He knew it was not meant for him. He did the role well, but it was not his to do."

shiro does not want that fucking role. every single second we see him on screen, as Shiro Original, he is shouldering a burden. he is being someone he does not want to be. not to give voltron any credit, but don't you think it's interesting that he, as a character, comes out to the audience as queer when he is...free from those roles? when he is no longer the Garrison Poster Boy (i.e. lance stops the hero worship), no longer the Champion (haggar is defeated), no longer the Paladin of the Black Lion (keith is now the Black Paladin)...we see him come out. we see him, as it is often called, "be true to himself". to me, this signals that he is finally free from playing someone he is not, and interestingly, this came after kuron -- after he maybe got to be something he truly was.

aside from the more abstract analysis, shiro is deeply, deeply traumatized! it is inane to expect him to be the same person he was. why on earth would he have the same patience during/post war as pre-war? he knows now that hesitance gets people killed. if he had hesitated to hurt matt, matt would have died. if he hesitates out on the field, people die. patience yields focus, sure, but he hasn't had time for patience in god knows how long. any patience he has is, if it has not already torn, wearing thin. lance's lightheardness, although important, is bound to make him snap, especially because shiro used to be the lighthearted one -- if he was still the lighthearted one, people would die. on his conscious. his snappiness at lance, while inappropriate and damaging, makes total sense. it comes from a place of a) deep self-hatred/mistrust and b) trauma.

to quote myself again -- "shiro, in the purest form haggar can make him, is flawed and self-hating". take away shiro's roles, take away his masks, take away any of his responsibilities that have shaped his life for him -- who is he? would he be angry (like kuron)? would he be hurting (like kuron)? would he be vulnerable (like kuron)? would he, for the first time, reach out and ask for help (like kuron)?

i think he would.

#in my essay era again #anyways shiro i love you #vld #voltron #shiro #takashi shirogane #kuron #clone shiro #my writing #longpost

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localsaintbernard · 7 days

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Based off a Twitter post

#voltron #voltron fanart #voltron legendary defender #takashi shirogane #vld shiro #shiro #kuron #Voltron kuro #clone shiro

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look-how-they-massacred-them · 5 months

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Ryoma Hoshi submission

Steve Palchuk submission

Kuron submission

#look how they massacred them poll #look how they massacred my boy #ryoma hoshi #danganronpa ryoma #danganronpa #danganronpa v3 #steve palchuk #trollhunters #tales of arcadia #rise of the titans #kuron #vld #voltron #voltron legendary defender

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empty-blog-for-lurking · 3 months

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Thought about Kuron for far too long and started wailing screaming and throwing up blood

#empty thoughts #voltron legendary defender #voltron #kuron #kuron voltron #Kuron vld #vld #vld kuron #voltron kuron #HE DID NOT EVEN KNOW!!!!!#TILL THE END HE BELIEVED HIMSELF TO BE SHIRO!!!!!!#HE WAS A WEAPON CREATED TO BETRAY AND DESTROY HIS FRIENDS AND HE DIDNT EVEN KNOW!!!!!#HE WAS KILLED BY THE ONE WHO HE THOUGHT WAS HIS BROTHER!!!#HIS CREATOR TOOK OVER HIM AND THEN HIS FRIENDS USED HIS BODY TO GET SHIRO BACK!!!#SINCE HIS CREATION HE LOST ANY AND EVERY AGENCY!!!#PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!#DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE AND WRONGED BY THE NARRATIVE!!!#I AM SO SORRY KURON YOU DESERVED BETTER!!!#I need to blast off into the sun

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askmeanjudge · 2 months

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#vld #pidge gunderson #kuron #s5 ep2: blood duel

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diabolik-boys · 3 months

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”Happy Birthday you dork."

"Oh, Kuron... You all have done too much for little ol' me all over again. I can't tell you how happy you all make me. I always cherish any gifts you get for my birthday every year, but... Each year just gets more special."

"I'm so lucky to call you all my family. I grew up with nothing... I came from a terrible place where all I wanted was to hope for a way out, even if that meant I had no future..."

"But I realize now that... I am so happy I never gave up. Because you all are such an important part of my life now. Thank you. I love you all."

#kou mukami #kou #mukami #diabolik boys #diabolik-boys #diabolik lovers #diabolik lovers ask blog #sfw #ask #rp #roleplay #2024 birthday event #kuron mukami #kuron #theshiningidols-koukuron #mukami-kuron-mrsadisticcat

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tricodekus · 3 months

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6 characters getting kisses on valentine's day!! 💝

Original template belongs to @Pinkiemme

#spider man #peter parker #oc #original character #monthly girls' nozaki kun #vld #voltron #keith #kuron #hawks #mha #bnha #art #art meme #valentines day

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zotopilgrim · 7 months

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#13 карт #земля королей #13 cards #the lands of kings #my art #куромаку #kuromaku #пик #peak #курон #kuron #cheese #сыр

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icypantherwrites · 5 months

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New Fanfic: Missing

Summary: Lance isn’t sure he’s ever felt this tired before. It’s not just from the lack of sleep (even though he’s getting plenty of it every night). It’s not just because of the near endless list of chores he does because everyone else has far more important things to do and he should try to pull his weight where he can. And it’s not entirely from the heavy disappointment that seems to emanate from Shiro every time he looks at Lance and has to be reminded of how much Lance doesn’t measure up to Keith when he was the Red Paladin while he struggles to be a Paladin worthy of the title. But all of those things together (although is he missing one? He’s so tired, it’s hard to focus)? They’re heavy and exhausting and Lance is so tired.

So, so tired.

Chapter One snippet:

The bell above the door jingled, interrupting the alien and Hunk poked his head into the shop with a cheerful, “Lance!” but there was a slight crease to his brow and as Lance looked past him he could see Shiro standing outside.

And he did not look happy.

Lance winced.

He’d no doubt spotted Hunk hefting around the groceries by himself and assumed the worst of Lance rather than asking Hunk why Lance wasn’t there. Then again, maybe he had and decided plant buying didn’t rank very high on the list.

He just couldn’t do anything right these days.

“That’s all right,” Lance inclined his head at her, mustering up a smile. “I’m sure it’ll be fine. Just some light and water, yeah?”

“Yup,” she chirped at him. “And,” her grin widened, “be sure to give those flowers when they bloom to your pretty lady friend I can see you were thinking about.”

Lance didn’t quite squeak but Hunk let out a choked snort and Lance glared at him even as his cheeks lit themselves on fire.

They went back to normal pallor though as he exited into the sunshine and to Shiro’s frown where the man was surrounded by grocery bags.

“You were supposed to be assisting Hunk,” Shiro cut right to it. “He informed me it was no issue but you know better, Lance. It’s unfair to your teammate and given the fact our faces are semi known from the Voltron show it’s unsafe to be wandering alone in the event an Empire informant is here.”

Lance lowered his eyes, unable to hold Shiro’s hot stare. “Sorry,” he whispered.

There wasn’t anything else to say.

Read it here