#voltron kuron

[mothmanavenue]

while the black paladins is a brilliant episode of voltron and one of the better ones, frankly i felt cheated that the confrontation came with no resolution between shiro and lance, when it was lance who through the seasons was on the bad end of Kuron’s abuse and rapidly deteriorating temper.

it would’ve been, in my opinion, a more fulfilling conclusion for lance to have been the one to have the final showdown with kuron and bring shiro back home AND it would’ve been the payoff of lance slowly developing as a character in season 4 where it seemed like he was being groomed for the role of black paladin (another voltron storyline with an unsatisfactory ending how did they keep fucking up good premises-)

so here i offer you The Black Paladins, the alternate ending (wherein lotor isn’t the bad guy because seriously what kind of lessons is the abused becomes the abuser) where keith gets back too late to help shiro but in time to step up and protect his friends and team after missing them for years, while lance’s story comes full circle with him, again, rescuing shiro, not as a hero, but as a friend :)

#voltron #voltron legendary defender #voltron fanart #vld #vld fanart #lance mcclain #vld lance #lance fanart #voltron legendary disappointment #lance mcclain fanart #lance voltron #takashi shirogane #shiro voltron #clone shiro #voltron kuron #kuron voltron #platonic shance #shiro and lance #the black paladins #black paladin lance #voltron headcanons #voltron fix it

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

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

[look-how-they-massacred-them]

Preliminary Poll

Kuron (Fandom given)

Submission reason:

He was so very clearly a Person - the villains went to such great lengths to fool HIM - he was given false memories and allowed to escape so that *he'd* think he was the original, and when he was unobserved he chose to help people who had hurt him! And then the writers just reversed that and decided no actually he was only ever a puppet, a monster, a *thing*, a body that the original could be downloaded into for no loss, that he could be overwritten and discarded. They murdered a child and called it a triumph.

He was immediately discarded as an ""Evil clone"" and the rest of the character jumped at the chance of putting the soul of the original in his body. My boy did not get the chance to be his own person. He was controlled since his making and the moment he learned he was a clone he was robbed of his free will and killed to bring the original back.

Propaganda:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14957918

Kuron deserved to have a chance to discover how he was different from his original and what his own wants were but instead he gets mind controlled and his body used by the original killing Kuron in the process.

#look how they massacred them poll #look how they massacred my boy #voltron legendary defender #voltron kuron #kuron #vld #vld kuron #voltron

[helloimamistake]

✨Just a Rant about Shiro's Clone thingy ✨

The potential of kuron (aka shiro's clone) being a LITERAL CHARACTER and can be rename as Ryou (old shiro's actual younger brother on then 80s show) and then have the duo be an adopted found family brothers is sad..

Like idk allura magic her way to find shiro another body thanks to a plot and BOOM two shiros

But it make more sense for shiro to be merged with kuron/ryou ig

But.. I deadass lowkey wished for kuron/ryou/clone shiro to be a character and be shiro's brother like the old show but idk

And then make him find his own identity thay makes him unique from shiro

Since it's canon that ryou have a love interest on the old show there's a literal potential of adding a character name Amue not just for the Ryou/Amue ship but also for ALLURA to have a long distance related or cousin, maybe one of her family survived and throughout the years new generation of that family keep appearing and BOOM amue so that's why their related or some shit

(Lol sorry for adding the Amue and allura distance relative thingy here even though it's supposed to be a Kuron/Ryou post)

(And also for him to be a potential REMAKE of a less bitchy version of shiro's younger brother.. Or just rename him as jiro, kuron, or something else i don't care as long as his a character)

#voltron legendary defender #voltron #voltron kuron #voltron shiro #brogane #voltron rant #but voltron have ended now so imma just be sad because of the wasted potential character ig #voltron ryou #voltron allura #this rant look like ass tho #prob gonna private it soon but who knows

[coolnonsenseworld]

Last two days to use the 20% discount code for prints 👀 And good time to grab the Klalendars linktr.ee/mezzy Currently playing connect the pairs with the same subjects

#klance #voltron legendary defender #i did add shiro twice #we can think one is kuron #imagine having two and leaving one one the back of the frame hidden in shiros shadow... as a joke.... #not like im doing this or smth

[autisticlancemcclain]

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

[localsaintbernard]

Based off a Twitter post

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

[emo-ostrich]

1: why doesn’t anyone talk about how heartbreaking this scene is

2: why doesn’t anyone talk about this episode?!?!

it’s actually very well written and serves as a set up for the much darker twist the show is taking

in this episode we learn:

-pidge would sacrifice a good amount of the universe to save her father. they’re the most logical and analytical on the team, yet all that goes out the window when her family gets involved. there’s an argument in the beginning of the episode that is very reminiscent of when pidge was going to leave voltron in season 1 and keith yells at them.

-honerva remembers that lotor is her son. this is a HUGE set up for season 8. she begins the phase 4 of the kuron project which leads to keith returning and becoming the black paladin. but she does all of this because she knows zarkon will kill lotor. she’s ok with lotor killing zarkon bc zarkon is merely a husk of the man he used to be. that realization definitely leads her down the path of “how can i restore my family” (cut to end of season 8).

-on the topic of project kuron, we see the effects of it with shiro lashing out and not being… very shiro like… but he gives lotor HIS BAYARD in the hostage exchange without telling the rest of the team. honerva calls for the beginning of phase 4, and we can see that phase 3 was the shiro that been with the team since he returned in season 3. he’s been living this jekyll and hyde type life with half kuron controlled by honerva and half real shiro.

-we see lance step up and give orders to the team. lance is the red paladin at this point in the series making him the right hand of voltron and this is one of the first times we see him step into that leadership position. watching him grow into that leadership position and learn to feel valued makes the end of season 8 hurt even worse. plus when shiro realizes they need backup he says “lance we could use a little help.” he already acknowledges lance as his right hand man even if lance doesn’t realize it yet. that’s the shiro part talking. lance gives an order and the team says “copy that” which is how lance normally responds to orders. it’s a very clear role reversal that i think is lovely in lance’s character arc (if only dreamworks actually finished his arc smh)

-lotor killing zarkon is proof he really did want peace. he wants nothing to do with his father, doesn’t want zarkon to be his father, and has no hesitation in killing him. lotor and voltron are fighting for the same thing, but simply have different methods. when they fight lotor, he seems hesitant to fire until allura says he’s like zarkon. that’s what throws him over the edge.

lotor becoming emperor of the galra after zarkon’s death shows that having a galra ally on the throne could be the key to peace (hello keith after season 8) so think about the set back in the war efforts when voltron kills the emperor, a former ally, and then disappears. maybe this is why the galra attacked earth? in the beginning on the series, they’re looking at a star map showing that the galra’s progress in conquering worlds is getting closer to reaching earth but hasn’t quite gotten there yet. so either and conquering has sped up and an insane rate, or earth was specifically targeted by the galra while voltron was gone.

-when zarkon is about to kill lotor, the team saves him. the first lion we see fire is allura implying that j was allura that saved lotor a life. that’s kinda big in her development or maybe she was just firing at zarkon who knows

ok sorry that’s all thanks for coming to my ted talk :)

(this is all about season 5 episode 2: blood duel)

#voltron #voltron legendary defender #lotor #lance mcclain #pidge gunderson #sam holt #shiro #kuron project

[im-smart-i-swear]

snow.

#my art #kuron voltron #kuron vld #clone shiro #vld #jesus. i always get rlly embarassed about tagging stuff w/ the character and/or fandom. #gonna jumpscare random ppl with my hyperspecific almost-but-not-quite-oc art..... #anyway. buddy/kuron spends the first two days of his life almost dying in a frozen wastelad time and time again....... #so yeah. theyre not exactly a huge snow fan #when they eventually experience snow for the first time in years thay just stand there for a minute. in complete silence. #staring at the falling snowflakes in a daze. their mind wandering somewhere far away #shit i forgot to tag the fucking au #my funky guys

[stjern-tg]

guess who rewatched voltron and fell in this hole again

#voltron #vld #vld keith #vld shiro #vld fanart #sheith #vld kuron #oh yes me my boyfriend and my bf's evil clone #i live for the galra keith #galra has some cat vibes so i think they can purr #i mean keith is literally a kitty #i love him #oh my god i love him so much #one shiro is good but two shiro is better #a more evil AND a more hot shiro #i think im losing my mind

[tricodekus]

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

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

Me @ my favourite male characters

#lance mcclain #lance voltron #lance serrano #lance vld #voltron lance #jonathan sims #jon sims #kuron #voltron kuron #kuron voltron #I love doing this genuinely #I know jon with long hair is very common but also the fandom was right #The fandom was very right about this

[look-how-they-massacred-them]

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

[sockdooe]

Felt like drawing some softness

Do not repost my art please :)

#sockdooe’s art #shance #digital art #voltron #lance mcclain #takashi shirogane #ryou voltron #it’s more Ryou than shiro #cat boy Ryou #kuron Voltron #kuro voltron #voltron lance #lance voltron #voltron shiro #shiro voltron #lance is brushing Ryous hair :3 #idk why but cat boy Ryou has been on my mind a lot recently #he’s just precious : #kurance #ryance #lance x Ryou #lance x shiro #uh idk what else to tag #I know it’s a completely different style than my other peace but I swear I drew it #I’m just very inconsistent and I have no idea why #I was drawing long haired Ryou earlier today and all the faces were completely different #one day I’ll have my own style… one day

[mothmanavenue]

that was the last thing that i saw, the fractured glass and its downpour

#voltron #voltron legendary defender #voltron fanart #vld #vld fanart #takashi shirogane #shiro voltron #shiro fanart #takashi shirogane art #shiro voltron art #shiro vld art #clone shiro #kuron voltron #kuron vld #clone shiro art #digital art #song: the last beautiful thing i saw is the thing that blinded me by Paris Paloma

[chibichibisha]

KuroSheith fanart design from "Riftwood" and its sequel by @neyasochi on AO3 Because I fell in love with their dynamic in that fic  (especially between Kuro cause he is such a puppy and Shiro)

Took creative liberties with Kuro's tattoo on the sequel because I loved it <3

Bonus Kuro doodles here!

#Sheith #KuroSheith #vld shiro #vld keith #vld kuron #Shirocest #KuroShiro #Takashi Shirogane #KeithKogane #vld #voltron #voltron legacy defender #voltron au #But this fic my god #what a cute poly relationship with different bonds and degrees with their own meanings #and apparenly this specific KuroShiro is my guilty pleasure right now #I just love them #anyway enough fangirling #my art