#kuron

[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

[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

[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

[askmeanjudge]

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

[diabolik-boys]

”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

[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

[icypantherwrites]

Fic Update: Missing, Chapter 11 (FINAL)

Shiro slowly approached his bed, pausing at the foot of it. 

Lance didn’t say anything, heart thumping loudly.

“I owe you an apology.”

Shiro’s words cut into the air as the door closed behind him and Lance tried not to tense at the fact he was alone with Shiro.

Nothing, nothing was going to happen.

“I owe you an apology,” Shiro repeated, slightly softer that time and his eyes — charcoal no longer smoldering, not piercing — seeking out Lance’s. “What, what I said to you earlier… it was inexcusable, Lance. I,” he swallowed, “I thought I was making the best decision for Voltron and for your own safety, but… but I didn’t look beyond what facts I thought I had and I refused to listen. And,” he let out an almost bitter laugh, “even if I had my earlier actions towards you would have made it almost impossible for you to speak up. I was out of line, Lance. And I know that this apology can’t make up or erase what I said or what you felt, but… but I hope it can be a step in the right direction.”

Shiro went silent and Lance stayed the same.

His hands were starting to tremble around the mug and he bit his tongue as a bit of hot tea sloshed over the rim onto his fingers. 

Shiro sounded sincere.

He sounded like he’d realized his mistake.

So then…

Why did he still not feel right?

Why did everything still feel so wrong inside?

Read it here

(posted up through chapter 7 on AO3)

#voltron #vld #lance #langst #hurt lance #lance whump #whump #angst #shiro #kuron #fanfiction #fanfic #Missing #icypanther #icypantherwrites

[zotopilgrim]

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

[coolspacequips]

Lance and Kuron in 1 A please? Kuron deserves hugs 🥺🥺🥺

Happy Valentine's Day to Kuron, Lance will give him as many hugs as he needs <3

shhh they rest... thanks for the req, anon!!!

#shance #kurance #?? #lance mcclain #takashi shirogane #kuron #i love kuron and lance this is not a drill THIS IS NOT A DRILL #voltron #vld #my art #game asks #lance #shiro

[phoenixyfriend]

Tonight is a night for @firebirdeternal and me to have a meltdown in discord groupchat about how completely VLD fucked over Lotor, Allura, and Kuron.

#phoenix talks #voltron #princess allura #prince lotor #kuron

[lyxanislive]

012/366 - What's happening to us?

#shallura #shiro #allura #kuron #lyx24

[look-how-they-massacred-them]

Round 2

Kuron submission

Guardians of Ga'hoole submission

#look how they massacred them poll #look how they massacred my boy #look how they massacred my girl #kuron #vld kuron #voltron legendary defender #legends of the guardians #guardians of ga'hoole #legend of the guardians

[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

[askmeanjudge]

#vld #pidge gunderson #takashi shirogane #s6 ep1: omega shield #kuron

[diabolik-boys]

【You have received a Birthday Package🎁🎉—𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙪 𝙎𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞 】

▶　https://ibb.co/zmRtv6v

——𝙰 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎 𝙰𝚝𝚝𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍 📃:-

Happy Birthday to the youngest member of the noble Sakamaki, Subaru. I hope you managed to spend a quality time with your friends and family on this special day of yours, nonetheless, this is my gift—

I've heard from somewhere that —instead of a bed that you sleep in, you prefer to lay in cozy coffins— not something I find strange coming from a pure blood vampire—Thus why I got you this——

Its a customized black coffin of your choice with silver carven frame crownings, a white rose framed at the top of the coffin lid sealed in a clear case of resin, and finally right below it, a specific stylised letter 'S' was carved at the centre of the coffin lid as customised signature of its ownership—You.

In case you don't wish to switch your current bed to this new gift—you can always treat this simply as just a side decoration of a statement piece in your room—or whatever you'd like to do with it. Afterall, it's now yours to own. You are free to do anything you wish on it

Hope you like the gift.

-Sincerely, from your secret admirer—Jk! It's just your sensei~★ (@mukami-kuron-mrsadisticcat )

“This... looks insanely expensive. The fuck is this showin' up at my doorstep for?”

[Subaru takes a look at the immensely well-thought out design of the coffin, and he feels strange feelings welling in his chest. The crested beautiful symbol of an 'S' right onto the texture of the coffin, let alone the sleek and appealing design of the coffin itself shot right through Subaru's unbeating heart.]

“...”

[After reading the letter attached to the beautiful coffin, Subaru least expected Kuron Mukami of all people to send this well-thought out gift his way. He felt neutral about him and had relatively no opinions of him.]

“Tch, I gotta at least talk t' him after this, this is an insane gift... Not even Reiji goes this far out.”

[Subaru wastes no time forming his familiars to cart the coffin to his room, and then transforming into his bat form, going to fly off to the Mukami manor from his balcony.]

[He knocks on the door of the Mukami manor.]

“Oi, open up! I gotta word with Kuron, and I ain't gonna wait all night!”

#subaru sakamaki #subaru #sakamaki #kuron mukami #kuron #mukami #diabolik boys #diabolik-boys #theshiningidols-koukuron #mukami-kuron-mrsadisticcat #diabolik lovers #diabolik lovers ask blog #sfw #ask #rp #roleplay #2023 birthday event