‘I mean this means nothing they still buried their gays’
wow i guess youre right lets just throw the whole thing away because apparently having a gay person (one. a minor character and not our only representation) die in a war that devastated the earth while the other is the literal hero they didnt want to kill off to avoid that very trope is worse than if we had no representation at all.
they should have just let dreamworks no-homo it instead and deny kids the chance of
having the concept of a gay relationship portrayed to them so naturally and casually because it wasnt perfect. deny them what we never got.
“A relationship that strong and that far along, you don’t just stop having those feelings,” voice actor Josh Keaton, who plays Shiro, tells Inverse. “Even if there are circumstances in life that make it impossible to be together, you still love them. And [Shiro’s] doubt is, ‘Did I make the right choice? Should I have stayed home and made a life there?’ That eats away at Shiro the entire time he’s been gone.”
But Shiro almost didn’t have an Adam to get back to. As it turns out, some unknown decisions behind the scenes nearly forced Shiro’s personal life to be more vague than the explicit reveal of Adam as Shiro’s fiancé.
“I don’t really know all of the going-ons behind the scenes,” Keaton carefully makes clear to Inverse, “but it almost wasn’t going to happen.” Alternate takes of Shiro and Adam talking to each other were recorded that were way less explicit about their relationship. “We had to record other stuff to make it more vague,” Keaton says.
But the cast and crew of Voltron never gave up, knowing full well what it meant to have a character like Shiro be gay in an all-ages, action-adventure cartoon. “All of us were really clamoring for it,” he says. “We were like, this is important, we can’t just water it down. I was really upset about it. Bex [Taylor-Klaus] was really upset about it.”
Luckily, things turned around. “Everybody came together because it was something all of us felt was important to see and to have. Even the PR people at DreamWorks helped a lot. Everybody was on the same page.”
‘so dreamworks lied about meeting adam in season 7′ well i mean. we met him. his character was introduced and it was pretty much explicitly stated that shiro and he were dating HE JUST WASNT A MAIN CHARACTER IN THE STORY AND THE
CREW *WARNED* YOU YALL PLAYED YOURSELVES IF YOU BUILT HIM UP
Allura’s gonna be so happy,, she used to be so terrified of being one of the last Alteans and now they’re just…launching them out of the sky…she’s gonna have so many friends,,
if there was queerbaiting in this season i fucking missed it because im watching my boy shiro, a men-loving-man, kick ass return from space represent the human race and doing his damn best in a war that barely gave him a chance to breathe
its so fucking wild that lance stans keep getting more and more mad about how hes treated but i started out like allura an being somewhat frustrated by him and am loving him more and more by the season
