“i need you to be straight with me” / [muffled laughter]
“i love you” / shiro: WHAT / “sorry i was talking to ur biceps lol”
the rest of the paladins forming a Leave Shiro Alone squad (complete with pidge making loud siren noises & a stop-sign that keith procures out of nowhere)
[shiro getting singled out by the galra] LEAVE SHIRO ALONE
[shiro gettin’ his ass beat] LEAVE SHIRO ALONE
[shiro being self-deprecating] LEAVE SHIRO ALONE
“does this make me look smexy?” / “what does the m stand for” / pidge, from across the castle: SLOPE
lance: [talking to the back of keith’s hair like it’s a person]
“dtf means down to fight right?” / “………….keep him safe”
“WHY ARE U TEXTIN G MY LION FROM UR LION WE HAVE A COMMS UNIT”
[2 people standing in the same room] / (yelling): SAVE ROOM FOR JESUS
lance: [opens his mouth] / pidge: wow i just got a really bad migraine
“shiro why is ur eyeliner so perfect” / “it’s bc i’m a raging homosexual” / “yeah that sounds- wait what”
[hunk using his bayard to summon that huge-ass voltron gun] / pidge, screaming: PULL THE TRIGGER PIGLET!!!!!!
[someone fucks up] “OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS”
[halfway through battle] / [points at alien] / “need me a freak like that”
hunk is the only one who’s safe from the memes. it’s bc he’s too good and loving and kind. he can’t be touched. he’s unmemeable.
shiro: “please stop playing the history of japan video okay im jAPANESE I KNOW-” / “-HOW BOUTI DO IT ANYWAY”
constantly quoting hamilton songs
“i demand you to tell me where you’re from” / “…unimportant there’s a million things i haven’t done”
“pidge…don’t you think those are enough bombs for the-” / “I WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED”
[abandoned settlement] / “…..it’s quiet uptown”
[allura walks in] / “HERE comes the GENERAL”
allura having the body temperature of an ice cube and exploiting it on a daily basis
“big eraser for big mistakes” / “give it here” / “why?” / “i’m gonna use it to get rid of lance”
[grand entrance into enemy base] / “squad”
pidge/shiro/keith tying up their bangs when training
purposely talking about Earth Things in front of coran so he’ll ask about them
coran: what’s a “lap dance”? / “shiro can show u” / shiro: WHAT
coran: how do you “drop the bass”?
coran: what is whipping? isn’t it painful?
(lmao he’s like an old grandma, bless him)
[gets stabbed] “yikes”
alternatively: [gets stabbed] “can i keep this?”
keith is disproportionately good at making noodles and it really bothers everybody
[forms cheerleader pyramid] / pidge, while climbing over everybody’s asses: u know when i said this would be a fun team bonding exercise, i didn’t mean it literally
[keith struggling to get his helmet off] / “free him”
[lion malfunctions] / “get up bitch ur fine”
shiro starts using the clapping meme to give orders. but like,..,, with actual clapping (via @spaceshiro)
lance: [rickrolls someone] / “tHIS IS A VERBAL CONVERSATION”
the valor/mystic/instinct discourse
[alien makes eye contact with shiro] / lance: [sings “every time we touch” by cascada]
sroloc--elbisivni asked: WE CAN ALL AGREE ON LANCE AND KEITH also have you seen the galra!keith theories yet
GLAD TO HEAR IT.
And yes I have, and on the one hand I’m not sure if I think the people making the show have that level of forethought going on here (look, I am very skeptical of TV producers, I just am), but on the other I would be ALL THE FUCK OVER THAT. Like. It would combine all my favorite tropes, especially if Kieth doesn’t know he’s Galra at the time of the first season. Weird messed up identity issues! ‘He’s our friend but he’s the enemy’ issues! ‘Oh wow what if I start to turn purple’ issues!
I am Here For It, is the point here. And if that happens I expect some Pain. It would be glorious.
(caps credited to @xtokyoshinjuu, except for one kinda shitty one of Shiro’s hand taken by me)
so something that’s been bothering me for ages is why on earth takashi shirogane, who was a prisoner of the galra, has such an incredibly badass weapon installed as a limb by his captors.
More specifically: why is he able to use this arm against the Galra at all?
We don’t know much about Shiro’s arm, as Shiro himself doesn’t remember its installation or what it’s even capable of until most of the way through the first episode. What we do know is:
it’s the work of the druids, which seem to be the Galra magicians, of which Haggar is one
it has incredible cutting force, to the tune of cutting holes into ship hulls that are six inches thick
it can act as a power source for galra tech
it grants shiro access to lots of galra information and passage through locked doors
This is a ridiculously powerful weapon.
there’s a lot fan theories floating around about him being intended as a double-agent, about his being brainwashed into being a galra soldier, etc etc - and these are all really great theories with a lot of canon evidence to back it up. Haggar outright states he ‘could have been [the Galra’s] greatest weapon’, so he was never meant to just be gladiator entertainment. How far that ended up going, we just don’t know.
But let’s rewind for a second. Even if Shiro was brainwashed or mind-controlled into being a force of evil for the Galra, did they seriously gift an unknown alien with this incredibly powerful weapon installed into his body and just trust him to never use it against them? Because it’s obvious throughout the series that the Galra have no way to stop Shiro from using his arm as he pleases. He faces off directly with Sendak and Haggar and neither of them have any way to remotely or otherwise turn off his arm (and it’s implied that Haggar is the one that gave it to him).
the short answer is: no, of course they didn’t.
The long answer is: Shiro’s arm was probably granted a lot of cool shit in exchange for doubling as a shock collar - but something lets Shiro overpower its effect in episode 1.
The first time Shiro’s arm does the Glowy Thing is most of the way through episode 1, when Shiro and Pidge are about to fight some Galra soldiers.
Which is a total (unpleasant) surprise to Shiro, because it causes him so much pain that he falls to his knees.
(save him! D:)
okay, but take a look at that weird black-purple energy around his hand. What the hell is that?
Well: we don’t know. Shiro fights it for a few upsetting seconds and then he seems to get control and straighten his hand; the black stuff dissipates.
And Shiro gets up and kicks Galra android ass.
(and back to where this post started.)
This never happens again. Shiro is able to activate it at will from this point onwards, and it never appears to hurt him to do so. Importantly, it also never activates against Shiro’s will.
This first time is an aberration:
his arm activates without Shiro actively willing it and
it hurts him when it does.
I think we’re seeing the arm’s secondary function in action: specifically, it’s acting as a shock collar. When Shiro goes to fight his Galra captors, the arm activates on its own and causes him pain, incapacitating him and leaving Shiro defenseless against being subdued.
However, whatever was causing the arm to activate against Shiro’s will is something Shiro is able to fight against and, in this moment, finally break (as represented by the black energy around his hand). Also, the delightful irony is that if the arm did not have this shock collar effect, Shiro might not have ever realized what his arm was capable of. His memories are still largely fragmented.
In conclusion: In ep 1, I think Shiro broke the safety lock on his Galra arm, and the Galra spend all of season 1 paying for it.
(also we should all appreciate that Shiro was prepared to go up against several galra android soldiers with nothing but his bare fists, as he had no idea about his Extra Features. What a guy.)
