#this ire of mine; carried through doubt and stoked by distrust ( main | s3 )

[blade-of-marmora-blog]

     Shoulders immediately tense at the sight of the familiar mark of a Galran Empire commander — he’d already been reaching for his blade when he saw the unfamiliar man approach. There were no use for words, he was already prepared to lunge in for the kill, were he to be engaged.

[x] @rxson

#rxson #this ire of mine; carried through doubt and stoked by distrust ( main | s3 ) #hope this is okay?

[blade-of-marmora-blog]

things to note with the s3 verse

angry. really angry for a multitude of reasons.

hostility towards the paladins pretty much increases tenfold, lack of care for trying to be civil anymore

even more difficult to be around

appreciates the alteans more than the humans

absolutely refuses to listen to the paladins

there’s no kindness here at all, he’s pissed all the time and every time, if you don’t have a strong will, don’t interact with him, he will freely insult you and doesn’t care if your feelings were hurt

to go a little more in-depth

he feels as if the blade were thrust into a situation where they had to protect a bunch of children that will more than likely die anyways because of the fact that they’re uncoordinated and pretty damn reckless, so he feels that there isn’t a point in doing so

he’s STILL angry about the alliance being forged in the first place, still pissed to hell and back that their location was divulged to a bunch of kids, hates the fact that they’re so out in the open. they’re exposed, vulnerable if they don’t watch their backs. they’re galra, someone could easily get too ambitious and kill one of them if they aren’t constantly watching their backs

it’s a dangerous situation for all of them, and he hates that they have to spend their time protecting the paladins from getting killed and forging political alliances with races that would be taken over by the galra empire regardless. he is so unbelievably angry about everything and he isolates himself further away from the paladins as much as he can, because he knows he’s going to snap and lash out at one of them if they remotely said something wrong to him

he trusts the paladins so much less here, if they asked him to do something, he wouldn’t listen and think it was absolutely dumb. the only exception is if one of the alteans were to try and garner his favor because he pretty much thinks that they’re smarter than the humans, but bound to the fact that the humans are their paladins. as such, they can’t get rid of them. but even so, it would be a bit of a stretch to get him on their side

he’s tried to see the good in having the paladins around, tried to see the good in the alliance... but his expectations of them are pretty much shot to shit and he just gave up on it

now, for a couple of verse ideas (which i’m sticking under the cut)

i’ve mentioned before that kolivan is the only person tethering him to the paladins he’s only remaining there because his priorities are kolivan’s safety and the integrity of the blade if he died, then antok’s situation would go a couple of ways

the first way is the idea that the blade agree with the paladins and want to be left under their care to be led around. that would be the biggest insult to antok. everything he’s known for centuries, the cause of the blade, only to be stuck guarding paladins that are reckless anyways. he would ultimately leave. he’d declare the blade’s cause as dead and leave. the empire knows of them anyways, but even so, he would rather die than divulge information to them he’ll defect from the blade and go into hiding, far away from them and the empire, holes up on some remote planet and does his own thing to keep himself occupied even if it kills him

the second way is that the blade doesn’t agree with the paladins, and even though antok doesn’t see himself fit to lead, he would take charge, take the blade, and leave to preserve whatever secrecy they have left. he’d move everything around and change it, put down more strict policies concerning their secrecy and whatnot, strengthen security, and pretty much make an order to kill anything on sight that makes an attempt to get in, paladin or not. he’ll inform the paladins of this anyways (’if you come to us again, know that we will kill you.’) and take his leave. he wants nothing to do with them, and if he’s going to have to step up in kolivan’s stead, he’s not going to let the paladins take control

the third way is a mix of the first two in a way, except only like a handful or so of the blade that believe in him leave with him and they go way into hiding. they’re out of contact and no one can reach them. like with the first way, they’d be holed up on a remote planet, and probably conduct their own organization that would likely center around the dirtier parts of the blade that not many people, aside from antok, is willing to do. he’d basically train them to abandon whatever compassion they would have towards people, teach them to react coldly in the face of an empire soldier trying to pull a sob story, have no mercy when interrogating or killing witnesses to preserve their secrecy.

he’ll be pretty dangerous and pretty much bordering on ‘evil’ to the paladins. of course if kolivan is alive then this doesn’t happen but BOY is he still really angry

#to know your enemy; you must get under his skin ( headcanon ) #this ire of mine; carried through doubt and stoked by distrust ( main | s3 ) #this is my chance to get dark and dirty with the big guy #i don't know what brought these up but #i'll make them into official verses.... and have more coherent thoughts soon #i'll probably drop the other verses of mine i had for him for now because... let's be real #i didn't use those at all #and the way they're written sucks ass so maybe i'll rewrite them; maybe not. we'll see

[blade-of-marmora-blog]

“You should have known that the Black Lion would not have accepted you at this current point in time. You are still young, and your mind remains elsewhere.”

It wasn’t as if it wasn’t true. He made a point, and it was a bit amusing that Pidge tried to get the Black Lion to activate for her despite these facts. But, then again, anything would have been better than the current Paladin. Even if it was a small child with a one-track mind. “I would suggest to do a bit of growing first before you tried again, but we do not have time for that. Clearly.”

[x] @techspecialistofvoltron

#techspecialistofvoltron #this ire of mine; carried through doubt and stoked by distrust ( main | s3 ) #it is almost hilariously disgusting how blatantly obvious his favoritism is here

[blade-of-marmora-blog]

For a moment, disgust boils his blood when he sees the Blade that decided it would have been a grand idea to directly disobey orders given by Kolivan regarding remaining within the Empire and gathering information. He remained with the Paladins, but now that they were physically with the Blade of Marmora meant that Ulaz couldn’t avoid their prying eyes for longer.

Antok, in particular, was already quite frustrated that he was there, only for that frustration to maximize after the events happened.

“We need Voltron, do we? Even if its current leader nearly got all of them killed within the span of an hour of being the leader?”

[x] @voiidlost

#voiidlost #this ire of mine; carried through doubt and stoked by distrust ( main | s3 ) #practically mocking him tbh

[blade-of-marmora-blog]

“Are you completely insane, or just a moron?”

Antok spits the words out, as if he were finally fed up with being around the Paladins, and watching their actions cause their team to fall apart at the seams and nearly get them killed on several occasions. This was only made worse by the Red Paladin’s action and lack thereof.

“You are going to get your team killed, and no one is going to save your fucking asses in the end. If you wish for Zarkon to obtain Voltron as fast as possible, then you’re on the right path.”

[x] @redbonded

#redbonded #this ire of mine; carried through doubt and stoked by distrust ( main | s3 ) #(me sitting back and eating popcorn) fight fight fight fight fi #i'm pretty sure it's safe to say that he is livid :3c

[blade-of-marmora-blog]

“You’ve an affinity for being captured, Black Paladin.”

The remark was made rather bluntly, as he cast a glance at Shiro from over his shoulder. There was an uncaring undertone in his voice, even as he returns his gaze forward with a flick of his tail. “Admittedly, things are less chaotic when you’ve gotten leadership. Your precious Red Paladin has nearly gotten the lot of them killed.

Several times, I should say.”

[x] @silentconfliction

#silentconfliction #this ire of mine; carried through doubt and stoked by distrust ( main | s3 ) #(antok voice) that was a shitty idea and you should be ashamed of yourself.