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radioactivesupersonic:

Like yes hello you don’t have to like Lotor as a character in the slightest but,

• The one interaction we’ve seen between him and Haggar involves her fearlessly violating his boundaries and acting like she’s completely in the right to do so and Lotor suggesting this isn’t new, either.
  
  
• One of the writers, talking about Lotor’s voice direction, literally describes Lotor as someone who has experienced a lot of things he doesn’t want to talk about.
  
  
• The four people Lotor relates to are minority women, one of whom is disabled, and all of whom are derided and looked down upon by the main empire.
  
  
• And outside of those four people (and one cat) Lotor trusts absolutely nothing and no one, is constantly reevaluating his environment and rapidly becomes unhappy every time something doesn’t make sense even if it seems to not make sense in his favor.
  
  
• His fighting style is built heavily around evasion.
  
  
• His position on the cruiser, which he’s in for most of his screentime, puts his back to a wall.
  
  
• He’s profoundly scornful of excessive aggression.
  
  
• The one time Lotor’s father is mentioned to him without him bringing it up first he immediately snaps at the person that he’s not his father.
  
  
• He was exiled. 
  
  
• The only reason he was allowed out of exile is because Haggar wanted him to be a puppet ruler while Zarkon recovered. When he’s pursuing his own agenda she acts like he’s being irresponsible.
  
  
• He was introduced posing as a gladiator when all of the gladiators we’ve seen have been slaves.
  
  

TL;DR Lotor has been abused, at bare minimum by Haggar while Zarkon ignored it, and most likely by both of them.