#I DONT CARE ABOUT CLONE SHIRO OR WHATEVER THE FUCK THAT WAS

[im-smart-i-swear]

diversity win! your evil clone has pink hair and pronouns now

#vld #kuron vld #vld kuron #clone shiro #everyone look at my favourite stupid dumb guy pretty please #theyre not a man and not a woman and if youd ask for clarification theyd say theyre nonbinary for simplicitys sake #but. in reality i think buddy doesnt really like labelling themself #for them picking a set identity feels way too restricting. theyre just doing whatever #they dont care #they have a fuck ton more importrant things to care about than what label defines their gender best #so like.. they are nonbinary. but also not really???? they dont give a fuck honestly i think #good for them i guess! #my art #my funky guys

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

hiii uh. dunno if this will make any sense, im kinda just throwing my thoughts at you

OKAY. so. been thinking about kuron(again) and the thing im just realising how ALONE he is, at least at the beggining. the people he thought of as his family fucking KILLED him, stole his body, and then basically forgot about him for YEARS. and after being ressurected- like, in the first few days, weeks, months- did kuron had ANY support? anyone to lean on?? to help him adjust to being alive again?

i know he starts to meet new people and make friends, and thats great! but. at the beggining....... lance was in a coma 'n shit, team voltron propably wasnt too enthusistic about helping kuron, and it just hit me that, at least the way i understand it(i might be wrong), he had to figure EVERYTHING out by himself

thats FUCKED dude

Oh god yes!!! To be honest i dont really have like a detailed idea for this part of the story like at best i have this one idea where Veronica is the first one to find him. Like in my head Veronica has been trying to track down Lance cause he ran away/didnt give the address once he moved out, isnt picking up his goddamn phone and literally dropped from the face of the earth and she cant find a trace of him. That was until apparently Lance?? 'Attacked' Shiro?? Like Shiro's fine just fainted and on bedrest and according to Curtis, Lance was saying something about "he is still in there" before apparently using Magic?? Somehow?? And taking something? From Shiro?? Yeah Veronica has no fucking clue. But a lead is a lead and she was able to track down Lance's new home only to find 1) a guy butt fuck naked coming out of a quintessence filled tub like the girl from Shining and who looks a bit like her boss. 2) her brother unconscious. She instinctly about to pull a gun on him except Kuron just slips and hits the floor, so now Veronica has two men she needs to drag to a hospital. Joy.

So like yeah Kuron's first stranger-to-acquintance-to-friend is Veronica. She neither has the history of All That™ the others have with Kuron, knows a bit about the clone situation to not be weirded out by it, but also doesnt really care about the whole Evil Clone thing™, cause i am so sorry but she has seen this man fall on his face first 5 times and counting, cry over a fridge ad that had kittens in it, and try to name himself Frank Shelley, even if he somehow becomes Evil~ Veronica is sure she can just Take him down easily, and like what is she supposed to do? Just leave him? He clearly has even less of an idea what is going on and she cant in good conscience leave him like this.

And thing is that Veronica does want to support Kuron, because he deserves that! It's the right thing to do and he deserves that! But at the start he really is a stranger to her and Lance is more of a priority to her than he is, and he is like one of the only leads that explains what is going on with Lance. And while she wont admit this but Kuron can tell and like logically He Gets That™!! He Gets That™!!! And he wants to help Lance too!! But he's also someone who is used and thrown away by everyone around him and this shit hurts like hell. Like this is a recipe of disaester for both of them and will result in a shouting match but right now Kuron is too high on pain meds and pain of being alive again to truly get into it so.

So like physically he isnt really alone in figuring this out, Veronica is trying to help him as much as she can help him, and the hospital staff she dragged him to are really nice to him as well. Emotionally......well there is effort. Vero is trying! Heck she even defended him when Shiro suggested they should lock him up cause he was a danger to everyone and is evil. She is trying but she also has her own trauma, whatever is going on with Lance, her family having separation anxiety, her job, etc etc and she can only do so much, and like Kuron is also trying but he is also dealing with so much and pushing it into the back burner and my guy is just not having great time at all. So like yeah he did had to figure out so much himself

#Kuron uses what scrapes of emotional intelligence he has to be understanding of Veronica so he can be unapologetic Shiro-Keith-Allura hater #It's like you try to find your lost brother only to come across his freaky necromancy science project and him in coma what do you do? #obviously not abandon him! She has read Frankenstein no thanks #Kuron being adopted by McClain siblings wasnt something i thought of but this idea is starting to be very appealing #Kuron is Lance's Little Guy while he is Veronica's Pathetic Little Meow Meow #This is the only idea i got that would actually make sense but i also am a bit hesitant to use it cause i dont know A lot about Veronica #But i also dont want to do to her what vld did to Pidge #I decided to be a bit nice to Kuron for once and gave him a friend and he decided to have complicated relationship with this one too jfc #Like dude get your shit together #What? You gonna have a beef with that janitor as well? Have a complex intricate relationship with that lovely old nurse too? Come on dude #post s8 au #empty answers #kuron voltron #kuron vld #veronica mcclain #lance mcclain #takashi shirogane #voltron legendary defender #Thank you for the ask!!!

[obliviouskeiths]

the way that voltron really over estimated how important the plot was to us like... the show became so plot driven when the plot its self was so cloudy, overly complicated and not fun to follow...just...

#like bruh ITS SET IN SPACE!!! #EXPLORE THE ALIENS!!! #LIKE S1 & 2 DID #I WANNA SEE MEMORABLE CHRACTERS UNIDUE CULTURES NEW ALIEN DESIGNS PLS!!!!! #I DONT CARE ABOUT THE ATLAS #I DONT CARE ABOUT EART #I DONT CARE ABOUT THE NEW CADETS #I DONT CARE ABOUT CLONE SHIRO OR WHATEVER THE FUCK THAT WAS #I WANNA HAVE CHRACTER DRIVEN STORIES WITH DIFFERENT PLANETS GODDAMMIT #ugh im so...mad #like its been 1year ishould let it go but i just. #im rewatching atla and im Thinking of rewatching v*ltron #then i rembered how much i Hate it #enyways #ew.x #just a ramble #voltron #vld

[lesbianklance]

rewrite au where, sure keith is autistic, but its revealed pidge and hunk are as well, and we get good enough personality from galra to know his weird behavior isn't a galra thing. alsooo, rewrite where the story actually cares about its characters emotions and we see keith deal with his feelings of alienation hes dealt with sense he was young from being an autistic and traumitized, and bonding with fellow characters who are autistic or traumitized, and learning its not a galra thing - aroklance

FUCK YES

should have known that post would have attracted you and your spectacular rewrites😌

honesty blaming his autistic traits on him being galra was so fucking lazy of them but what did we expect huh?

have the boy get some actual support they have him being strong all the time and calm and collected we havent seen him break down and cry once

it might be the angst bitch in me but bro for fucks fucking sake the dude literally:

saw his dead father after a decade of going from orphanage to foster care to group homes. he saw him again the only stable family he ever had that he lost 10 years ago. he wasn't even phased. tbh i havent seen anyone talking about this??? and like??? the dude was allowed to be heartbroken it was a very emotional scene. i get that they wanted to focus on the galra shit but he literally saw his father that he lost which started a series of unfortunate events for him in a vision and then had to leave him behind. didnt even see him talk about it or cry over him

we didnt see how his galra lineage affected him, like at all. he just found out he was half galra and moved on. his entire life must have turned upside down s h o w t h a t

he left his new family and suddenly turned into a robot, living with a bunch of aliens he's never met that put the mission above people's lives

ALMOST FUCKING DIED FOR THE CAUSE but nope of course it never gets addressed, no one even tells him that he is important too and shouldn't do shit like that. ffs the team probably didnt even know about it. how did that affect keith??? he almost died and he just moved on??? he should have been at least in shock???

HE LITERALLY MET HIS MUM THAT ABANDONED HIM FOR 19 FUCKING YEARS AND NEVER YELLS AT HER. youre telling me keith the hothead of the team wouldnt yell or at least sass his mum? sounds fake. she just gives him some bs excuse they spend 2 years on a whale doing bonding or some shit and everything is cool. SHOW US KEITH DEALING WITH HIS TRAUMA THAT WOMAN LITERALLY CAUSED HIS ABANDONMENT ISSUES FFS

those 2 years on the whale must have been really fucking traumatic. they didnt have any food, any clothes, any privacy. he was stuck with the woman that left him, that is a stranger to him. no other human interraction for 2 entire years. leave me in that place for 2 years with my best friend since middle school that I've never faught with? we'd rip each other's heads off, much less my mum that left me. yet its shown as a good thing oh yay it fixed him

and then he's just a bad shiro clone for the rest of the show. just following orders doing whatever tf is good for the universe shown as being better than everyone

and theeen we get the confirmation yes the autistic coded character? the one that always thought there was something wrong with him? the one that always seeked out a family (and btw the whole point of the family trope they were supposed to do was to give him said family with the paladins but nah he left them to go to the BOM)? yeah he left the only family he found fucked off to space because apparently all those thoughts he had all his life were right. yeah kids? if you feel like something is wrong with you and you dont fit in? suck it up and leave. great message there voltron

i got off topic sorry svdkhsjsb

point is: SHOW HIM DEALING WITH HIS TRAUMA CAUSE LORD KNOWS HE'S GOT A LOT OF IT AND REALISING HIM NOT BEING NEUROTYPICAL DOESN'T MAKE HIM WEIRD OR WHATEVER A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NEURODIVERGENT HAVE HIM BOND WITH PIDGE OVER IT UGHHHHH

anyway ive told you before you're the only one i trust with voltron you shall rewrite the show😌✌️

EDIT: i just realised how off topic i went... oops? i mean you covered it perfectly on the autistic coded thing. if they had done what you said he would have been such great rep but we all know how voltron is with that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#ask #leo tag👽 #also leo man you're arokallurance now👀 #im so ready for my mutuals to wake up to my 3 keith smith rants #dem's rants

[applecherry108]

first of all hooooooooolyyyy shiitttt

FUCK tungle. it took like 30 tries to log in on desktop. admittedly, i was using the wrong password at first, BUT, even when i remembered the right one it kept giving me shit. This is what i get for being L337 i guess... -_-

anyways, im only on desktop so i can add a readmore to say:

i just,,,,,hate voltron. okay? It sucked. it fucking sucked. i watched the first season and it was like, okay yeah, this has potential. and then s2 was like, okay yeah not as good but maybe s3 will pick up...

s3 didn’t pick up. it was just one long death spiral by the same idiots who fucked up the atla sequel. i hate their writing, i hate their story plots, i hate how they butcher any good ideas they have, and i especially hate their inability to have good character AND plot development happen at the same time.

I got swept up in storm of klance and that’s about it. i have soft spots for other ships but at the end of the day i don’t care. i just don.t fucking,,, care???

the fandom is a mess, the crew was a mess, everything was a fucking mess from the get go.

Like who tf is this show written for?? it has to be for like, 8-10 year olds. It has to be. Everything is just so....stupid. Nothing is ever properly explained, motivations never really given, everyone is just a 2 dimensional cardboard cutout of a trope. And that pisses me off so much bc like??? other shows aimed at young kids can still have great world building. they can have good world building and characters and overall story and still be cheesy and a lil dumb. cheesy and a lil dumb is completely fine!! but voltron is just so...godammn... BORING!! it’s like i WANT to like the characters but its just so goddamn hard when everybody is so fucking flat. by all rights, i should want to marry allura. shes everything i loved when i was little, from her color pallet to her princesshood to her white fucking hair!! i should LOVE allura but i don’t!! i kind of hate her. why?? i don’t know!! shes so...boring! and flat! and fucking PASSIVE! everything in this show lands so fucking flat holy shit.

pidge at matts “grave”? yikes, that was second hand hard to watch for like.... “oooh this is so serious!” but the buildup wasnt there...it was kind of funny tbh... and HELLA awkward...

don’t get me started on lance and hunk. bolin was my favorite look character for the first few episodes and then he got knocked to Comic Relief and had maybe two (2) importantish moments. he/they may be part of the main cast but they’re not main characters. they feel like background props to the Actual Main characters.

which brings me to keith.

FUCK keith.

that’s my reaction after every! new! season!! is just,, FUCK keith. god the show functioned SO WELL without him. he’s just so...idk. i also don’t care. what was his character arc anyway? it SHOULD have been about learning to love and trust others but we only get that in lip service and speed run character development (i hate the quantum abyss...so much... like yeah, who cares about SHOWING our characters mature, let’s just tell that it happened in afucking montage.) if keith were a properly developed character he shouldve remained PASSIONATE and idk, run support?? that boy SHOULD have piloted red, end of story. period. keith doesn’t need to lead he needs to learn to TRUST others and that insludes trusting other WITH HIS LIFE. i won’t rant about how we should have had black paladin lance, but keith should have never ever been black paladin. even after he “matures” he still sucks at. he’s this awful,,little,, Shiro 2.0. and I hate it. i ahte it and i hate shiro just a little bit. even though he was arguably the most likeable character, he shouldve stayed dead. or missing. or whatever. he didn’t need to come back and they didnt need to make keith a little offbrand clone of him. i ESPECIALLY hate that they aged keith up 2 years for no goddamn reason other than to make him the Adult (tm). keith’s dedication to others was gre4at, but it should have, and im failing for this word here so forgive me, climaxed? cresscendo’d? whatever. /resulted/ in him playing support. not leader. lone wolf keith doesn’t need how to lead his pack, he needed to learn to HELP his pack. to be a TEAM PLAYER. he didn’t want the responsibility of leading bc guess what?? some people hate leading!! there’s nothing wrong with wanting to be support! keith’s entire arc is a huge mess of missed opportunities and a grand illustration that he is lm’s and jds’ favorite, just like fucking mako.

i won’t rant about mako, but just know i fucking hate him and the special treatment he gets, and good LORD does keith take over mako. keith isn’t space zuko he’s space mako and it fucking SHOWS.

okay, i’m losing steam here, but like.... so apple, why tf where u voltron 24/7 if you hated it so much? because homestuck was over and i needed a new hyperfixation. and i really had to force it for vld tbh. and at the end of the day, it wasn’t so much about the show itself as the potential of klance (or sheith, up until s3). between the interviews, the coding, the fucking EVERYTHING--it really felt like it could be canon. i knew in my heart it was queer baiting but i had HOPE dammit. hope that this could be killer representation, hope that these characters would delvelopment into something incredible. again, there was so much POTENTIAL. and all of it was wasted. everything really came to a head during the fucking game show episode. it was like lm and lds giving everyone who likes lance the middle finger, really driving home that “no no, he IS just stupid. he’s the comic releif. there’s nothing deeper about him and no one will stand up for him bc they all think of him as such.” and that just....broke my heart. we were so...SO close to lance actually mattering but nope! bolin’d again! and what was his purpose in s8? why to be an accessory to allura of course!

i’ve seen a lot of people really divorce themselves from canon and live solely for fanon, esp fanon klance but like.... i can’t. i just can’t. it’s so fucking hard to work with these cardboard characters. you can only draw so much depth onto them, you know? until the very last moments they had potential, but then it all got snuffed out. but who cares about canon? why bother with it? because! we don’t have a solid consistent fanon version of them! no one sat down and delivered the ten commandments of “here’s what we agree k and l are actually like” it’s stupid and it sucks because everyone has their own little differences and its so so tiring to basically be interacting with minutely different ocs all the goddamn time. canon matters bc it gives everyone the same base to work with. like a cooking showing with the same basket ingredients, but now it’s like.... ya’ll don’t wanna use the mandatory ingredients (and why would you? those canon ingredients are like, a century egg and spoiled sardines, they’re awful.)

okay, and im at work and just came back to this and dont remember my train of thought so like... what really threw all this into sharp clarity was the recent steven universe episodes. they were so...GOOD. so fucking good. so much plot and foreshadowing coming to a head. it was such a wonderfully satisfying payoff that it made me remember what a GOOD show is like, how vld is so very very /bad/. the difference is fucking striking. where one is an intricately woven tale with excellent character development and clear story AND character arcs, that can progress AT THE SAME TIME, one is a hacked together flaming dumpster firing that constantly falls flat and doesn’t know where its going or why. and it s so BORING! like fight scenes can be amazing! they can be well coreographed and tense! and we as the audience can be anxious about the outcome! and vld just wasn’t that! it was boring repetetive action in the least exciting way. and where su set up a lot of potential, holy shit they DELIVERED on that potential. not just for rep, but for characters! for story! for plain ol simple character interactions! and then, again, two dimensional cardboard cutouts.

and now with this difference in good vs bad show so very clearly highlighted for me, i just.... i can’t, anymore, with vld. it sucks. it sucked and i can’t pretend or force a fixation with it that just isn’t there, and truthfully, probably never was. maybe that’s why i’ve been struggling to finish my fic, struggling ever since i posted the last chapter, ever since s7, which, again, that game show was really the nail in the coffin as far as holding onto any hope that this tire fire would ever pick up. like a physically feel ill trying to finishing this stupid fic bc i don’t care so hard. i don’t care and i just... really want to be over it. im sick of seeing it everywhere, im sick of the drama, of the Discourse. like all fandoms have their issues, but hold fuck does vld fandom have a massive Purity problem. like, god, let people ship whatever. who cares. die mad about it.

like homestuck, idk if i’ll ever fully ween myself off vld but i want to move on. i want to enjoy Other Things without having this lackluster weight on my shoulders. and more than anything, i want to stop feeling like im obligated to like the same shit as i did two years ago, or last year, or hell, last week! feel free to unfollow, but yeah i just.... really needed to let this out in a proper post and not in the misc tags somewhere.

#behold my loathe letter to vld #if you actually enjoyed the show and don't wanna read all my bitching then like...probably pass this post up lmao #apple talks #to the tune of spam

[koganer]

get to know the blogger

So, im birdu. Im 22 and i guess ill try to describe myself via some of the voltron pals

id say im ;keith as in i can come off sort of intimidating. Or so ive been told. Im a loner, im frickin emo and im frickin gay. But i think im different as in im perfectly aware of my mental health issues and i dont act as impulsively.

lance as in my frickin moon is LEO. Im hella insecure and i tend to overcompensate via memes and stupid jokes. I also love deeply, not just my gf but all of my friends. Difference would be at me being quiet about it instead of loud; i dont love pda and i get really really anxious around people

; hunk as in.. I dont know if im anything like hunk i just LOVE him hes so wholesome oh my god

Pidge as in im a frickin virgo. I tend to work and push myself through things, till i fix them, going over all the frickin possibilities and not giving up on the ones i love. i also have a tough time opening up, and i can come off a lil harsh, somewhat ironic or uninterested, but man, do i care. also what is gender and also im gay

allura as in i always feel like i carry a frickin ton weight upon my shoulders. like i had to take care of my frickin self growing up, still have to. absent father, borderline mother and all that, i had to be parent to my own parents, and i tend to feel tons of guilt and responsability and just the urge to solve everyones life. to be perfect. (some issues huh)

shiro as in thats me, im the space dad friend. im just there to give support, and love, and advice. and theres this thing again, hero frickin complex, i swear. i dont have clones tho. i think. u never know

!some other things about me: studyin psychology. having opened my frickin soul to u guys, and possibly let on more mental health issues that i intended to, i preach for wholesomeness and mental health positivity. i dont romanticize pain or suffering. worked my way out of OCD (still am though) and a major depression and i just want to let u know.. its possible.

suffered different forms of abuse. violence (mental, sexual, physical), had to understand by force how power dynamic relationships work and thus the amount of unhealthy in age gap relation ships where as the one much older than the other WILL have power over the other one. thus, im strongly an anti.

i value friendship as much as romantic relation ships. all relation ships are important to me. and i will be conscious of all of them. unhealthy, abusive friendships EXIST, unhealthy abusive dynamics EXIST in friendships and i think this lacks so much awareness it aches

im a trans non binary pal. meaning i was born in a body form which wont represent my mental rep. of myself, but i wouldnt consider myself as the opposite gender because i honestly believe gender is a social construct and i dont fit in with any gender norms, roles or representations.

im queer and A Demisexual tm. i dont just mean ‘cis woman and cis men’, i mean i could be attracted to and love All of u, gender be damned. i dont feel attracted neither romantically nor sexually to cis men, tho. i dont know i just dont.

feminist. i just. this is such a broad subject. im pro choice, pro sexual work, pro do whatever the FRICK you want with ur body as long as it wont hurt others.

BODY POSITIVE. man dont get me started on this. ALL FRICKIN BODIES ARE GREAT BODIES OKAY.

im Argentinian, latinx. third world country. so yea, im very critic of first world countries and problematic circumstances. tired of eurocentrism, and usa centrism, and tired of white centrism and cis centrism. come on man. take responsibility for your privileges. just. please just be aware of them. also means i dont speak english as my native, so yea, bare with me. >

love reading fanfiction, fanart appreciator, love drawing and obviously love evading real life issues with tv series and identifying with fictional characters.

man this was so long. if youve read this thats it, we’re ready to be frens. or not. its okay, ill understand.

TL;DR: trans nb pal, queer, anti, pro do whatever the fuck u want with ur bod, body posi, latinx, dad friend and stuf

#about me #birdu #so yea #hope u still like me

[sol1loqu1st]

alright thats it listen, for the most part i Fucken Hated this season, like idk if my priorities are skewed or what but??? like this season has fucked up the show for probably SEASONS to come and im!!!!! so frustrated!!!!! it feels like the writers got so obsessed with like.......weird callbacks to the original series?? shuffling the ENTIRE crew around to be in their original 80s lions when ALL they had to do was either put allura in black for now (which would MAKE FUCKING SENSE because she is an excellent leader and she ended up in svens lion in the original series ANYWAY) or if we really need keith in black for some reason just PUT ALLURA IN RED (AGAIN IT MAKES SENSE BECAUSE HER FATHER WAS IN RED!!!!) WE DONT NEED TO BRING LANCE INTO THIS GODDAMN IT!!!!! and then we have an ENTIRE episode which i guess exists to introduce the COMPLETELY unforshadowed comet but, more importantly, a one-off au version of shiro who is conveniently 80s voltron sven and then theres LOTOR and i dont even think i wanna go into that but FUCK WE DONT NEED HIM!!!!! WE DONT NEED HIM!!!!!! why not have the main villain in s3 be haggar why cant we explore /her/ powers!!!!! and shiro's disappearance? i thought that was gonna be an actual fucking focus of season 3???? instead we get "ahh keith hed want you to forget about him completely and take over his lion" (which. fair. entirely in character. absolutely what shiro would want. BUT ITS NOT IN CHARACTER FOR THE WHOLE TEAM TO JUST NOT EVEN TRY TO LOOK FOR HIM WHAT THE FUCK) and whether or not kuron!shiro is a clone or robot or whatever (hint: he fucking is) it. feels. cheap. its cheap and poorly written and it felt like deus ex machina and this whole SEASON is poorly written and hunk and pidge's character development were neglected AGAIN and we're STILL not prioritizing FINDING PIDGE'S MISSING BROTHER (and i know we got one scene of her researching or w/e but thats NOT FUCKING ENOUGH) and in ALL HONESTY i literally cared more about the VERY brief scenes with honerva in them than i did ANYTHING ELSE THAT HAPPENED IN THIS SEASON because her motivations were ACTUALLY FUCKING CLEAR but, uh, we got a team of badass and somewhat undercharacterized -- i feel like we shouldve actually got an episode to get to know them if you expect me to care abt them or even think theyre cool or whatever lady galra, i guess thats supposed to make me feel better, haha strong female characters!! woo

#vld spoilers #SORRY im being so critical i just. really like this show and im really disappointed in this season #heres hoping s4 will fix it; tbh i would honestly not be too upset by just a complete retcon lmao

[stringdicks-blog]

okay so I have a few ideas/theorys to prove somewhat that shiro probably isn't a clone, because some people(like a friend of mine, I hope you read all of this) still debate on it.

-if he was and he was transferring info to the galra then the galra would prevent every little fucking thing voltron tried to do, if not, just try to one up and prepare for whatever was coming.

-shiro most likely would have been a bit traumatized from whatever the hell happened to him while he was gone. so it would have affected his decisions, actions, and emotions which can show why some of his ideas would have put them through hell. it can also show why he wasn't able to work with the black lion, because it knew he wasn't ready just yet. it knew he wasn't the same and he needed to take time off or change its paladin because he was unsteady. this show pays a lot of attention to details so it's most likely they paid attention to this too since they already portray his extreme but we'll retrained PTSD before hand from being held captive

-that fucking eyeliner, do you honestly think he had some extra eyeliner on him while he was wherever the fuck he was to keep up his practice on making some nice fancy wings across his protective eye skin shit. no. I doubt it. if I went even a month without drawing I'd loose so much practice and would be horrible at it.

-his hair was different! wow hair changes a lot and very frequently and when he was found with his wonderful long hair which does seem pretty unrealistic since he was only gone for about a month or two(??). although it is a very good way to portray in a cartoon that he hasn't been able to take care of himself for a long time or chose not to cut it but going with what happened, I'm sure it was the first. he wasn't able to maintain his hair because of whatever the fuck happened and kept him from giving himself a good ole trim to the noggin but because of cartoons wonderful consistently of over exaggerating things to show an idea. the long hair was most likely just a way of showing he hasn't been in a luxurious hotel suite while he was gone.

-there's a theory out there that they took his right arm for DNA so they could clone him since he was smart enough to defeat a creature no one else could, but when he was fighting with haggar she could easily make a clone of him with magic, so why would they need an arm if they had magic? was it to fix the eyes? although if she's powerful enough to make a clone, then she's powerful enough to fix his bright yellow eyes. and it's common in cartoons to have some colorful differences to show who is the bad guy. considering this show is technically for kids they couldn't exactly just give him a devilish and face to show he was the bad guy since it would get confusing.

-shiro did get have a hard time escaping the galra the first time he tried to get free, however the second time he didn't have as hard of a time running off. but it's probably because the first time the crew knew he was kinda valuable since he could defeat quite a few things in battle. however the second time they most likely found him because the black lion wouldn't have teleported him into custody of the galra. they don't exactly plaster the paladins of voltrons faces on every inch of all galra ships saying they're bad and worth a bunch. if the crew knew he was a paladin they wouldn't have shrugged it off, they didn't know so they let a "worthless" test subject go. they also would have been saying things like "DONT LET THE PALADIN ESCAPE! " but even if they did do an actual thing on him and figured out he was an old test subject they still had a chance of not knowing he was a paladin, only a prisoner who had an unfinished experiment done on him. you can't exactly assume it was a cloning experiment though, perhaps it was something like testing how well some weird thing worked with people

-okay it's taking me awhile to type this and I'm thinking some more but about the hair thing. there's obviously black holes and white holes that lead to other dimensions and hole that lead to voids(almost, I'm not sure what to call that space) full of powerful quintessence so what says there aren't time loops and pockets where time runs differently then around everything else which could be a possible place the lion would have put shiro and he could have been unconscious for a while just like zarkon. he awoke before zarkon did and they went through the same thing basically sounds why did shirt wake up sooner then him? probably because he was in a pocket where time was much slower and his hair grew out and he recovered from his battle with zarkon over time before being found and getting transported somewhere by aliens who tried to help but got taken over by the galra where he was then held captive once again and experimented on. there's also a thing where his hair could have been affected by whatever they were experimenting on him, along with his mind which could have caused those painful headaches of his

okay that's all I can kinda think of for now but let me know if there is anything I got wrong unless he is cannonly revealed as a clone because I'll find out eventually when I watch whatever episode its in in the possible future. If you have ideas to prove he isn't a clone then feel free to let me know because I'll want to know and add on to this list

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