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#just let queer people ship their queer ships in peace jfc
greaseonmymouth · 4 years
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quality shipping discourse on my dash tonight of the particular kind that's aged like a fine *spits out drink* vinegar
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firelxdykatara · 4 years
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whats crazy is that allura was likely going to end up with keith based on some of the let's voltron podcasts (which makes sense since allura has always ended up with keith in previous iterations and the ships was mildly hinted at) but the popularity of klance had them cutting that whole thing out. people were screaming that keith was "gay coded" and that keith was her "oppressor" so you couldn't ship allura with keith lmao.
......there is so much to unpack here oh my god, i’m dying
first of all, shiro wasn’t even gay coded, and he’s the only character we’re supposed to believe is canonically queer by the end of the show. (well, and curtis i guess, but he barely counts as a cardboard stand-in for a character, so.) so i am almost curious enough to ask what the fuck the fandom thought was so ‘gay coded’ about keith (and, incidentally, i really wish that fandoms would just stop talking about coding until they learn what the fuck it actually means jfc), but i recognize that discretion is the better part of valor, so i’m just gonna be... over here, chuckling in befuddled amusement.
i will note, though, that it has always been terribly interesting to me that allura, in previous incarnations, typically survived the end of the series, was in a romantic relationship with keith who was the leader of voltron, and was very very white..... but in vld, the only version of voltron where allura is not white, she is killed at the end of the series for no real reason, and her romantic relationship is with lance, someone who kept pursuing her despite her marked disinterest for the first six seasons, only for her to turn around and suddenly reciprocate feelings she’d shown no sign of prior, and who was not the leader of voltron (and was, in fact, consistently sidelined because he was off-brand sokka without the good writing to support a half-way decent character arc),
allura was also consistently tormented and demeaned by the narrative (was it really necessary to show her begging the red lion to accept her, sobbing after being rejected, and then being shoved into blue like it was some kinda consolation prize for not being good enough to lead the team??? anyway, my kingdom for black paladin allura [especially because, given the qualities we’re supposed to believe black prized, she absolutely should have been the one to take over in shiro’s absence]), so the fact that she had no agency in her own romantic narrative (kind of like another favorite character of mine after whom my blog is named >.>) is really insult added to injury.
as far as keith being allura’s ‘oppressor’.........what???? i mean, i ship lotura (vld is one of the rare occasions where i multiship, mostly because i wish allura had gotten the love she deserves, and ironically the only person i don’t like her with is lance lmao), so that argument already doesn’t cut it with me (ask me sometime about how beautiful it could have been to see lotor and allura healing the destruction their parents had caused in the universe, the heir to altea and the product of an altean/galran union which caused so much harm coming together in love and peace to make things right and end ten thousand years of pain and suffering) but.... keith??? he didn’t even know he was part-galra. and don’t even get me started on how clumsy allura’s on prejudice arc was handled, because yikes.
but the fact is, keith was not at all part of what happened to allura’s people. nor was his mother! he had no idea he was anything other than human until he found out during the show, and it wasn’t even like their relationship would have had any comparable power imbalance, like. ugh. i don’t get that argument and i probably never will.
anyway, my bottom line is, allura deserved better. and kallura, lotura, or even shallura would have been more fitting relationships that would have meshed better with her overall character arc and given her a happier, healthier ending than what she had in canon, even if she hadn’t been killed off for no damn reason.
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