Red and Blue make Purple

Anonymous asked:

Personally, I support that season 3 Shiro is a clone, but can you give me personality traits that clone Shiro is exhibiting that proves he is not the real Shiro?

*vaults over a desk* WELL….

listen my dude my buddy…..that shiro is fake as shit and i’m betting all my money on it. i have a whole “clone!shiro” tag with a lot of theories and stuff in it, so feel free to check that out. but here’s just a compilation of a bunch of evidence:

- tbh i’ve always kinda lowkey suspected Something about shiro being and/or having a clone….there’s that whole “you could have been our greatest weapon” speech that haggar gives at the end of s1, plus that whole hallucination of shiro being strangled by his like Dark OC Self so uhhh foreshadow anyone??

- it’s also like super suspicious that we still barely know anything about the experimentation that was done on shiro during his time in captivity. like…we saw him in the gladiator ring and we saw him escape but like literally nothing in between. so, in that time it doesn’t seem out of the question that they could’ve collected his DNA to make a clone (or…several…who fucking knows).
- probably the most damning evidence is…everything in s3e5, but especially at the beginning, we hear a few bizarre references to shiro being “ready” for something called “project kuron” and uhhhh

i’m just gonna….leave that there…
- idk how much time has passed but his hair growing that long in a relatively short amount of time??? unrealistic. (listen i can suspend my disbelief about sentient robot cats & aliens but NOT THIS.)
- also at the beginning of that same episode he literally sees…himself?? lookin pretty….dead…or in a coma. could potentially be the Real Shiro.

- i know we’ve all been joking about shiro’s new weird hair/outfit but honestly like?? i’m p sure this was an intentional choice so that in the future we can differentiate between the two shiros. shiro could have easily just gone back to his regular haircut/outfit but the fact that he has a whole new Look™ suggests to me that we need to be able to physically tell the difference between New Shiro and Actual Shiro.
- oh yeah he also casually mentions having a “weird headache” which absolutely screams “i have a mind-controlling brain chip” or some shit so uh!!!

- plus black rejects shiro which sets off all kinds of alarms. yeah they can conveniently be like “oh well keith is black paladin now” but?? i highly doubt it’s that simple. s2 made a point of showing how strong the bond was between black and shiro, i really don’t think she’d choose to reject him. i think she Knows.

but okay you asked about personality traits so i should probably actually address that. So!!!!

- yeah there’s definitely something….off about this new version of shiro. i’m gonna say off the bat that i really don’t think he knows he’s a clone (i got another ask specifically about that so i’ll go into more depth on it later). he defo somehow has shiro’s memories but…he feels just kinda like a copy of shiro that has some half-assed version of shiro’s personality downloaded into his brain.
- one thing that kinda tipped me off is that this shiro seems more focused on voltron than he does on like…his friends.
- he keeps repeating like “i’m shiro and i’m a paladin of voltron” which feels kinda…robotic??
- when he sees voltron he’s like “VOLTRON!!” instead of like, you know, calling out his friends’ names or something.
- maybe it’s just me but his interactions with keith in particular feel really “off” somehow. first of all their reunion is kinda brushed over which could just be for time’s sake, but it does feel a little anticlimactic considering how torn up keith was about shiro being gone. like….we know they are very close, keith canonically sees shiro as his big bro, and that’s pretty evident in the first two seasons––but if you ask me their s3 convos feel a little forced and weird?
- this scene in particular feels really…..odd imo:

like what? is this??? first off shiro’s dialogue sounds kinda stilted, like….if he is a clone with shiro’s memories, he probably at least knows that keith is like a little brother to him, and this feels like an attempt to acknowledge that somehow. but something about it feels like he’s just kinda going through the motions rather than actually saying this from the heart, if that makes sense.
- but keith’s reaction is really what throws me off like…i know he’s stressed out about his new responsibilities, but for him to have literally no reaction to what shiro said doesn’t feel right. like, he values shiro’s opinion and i would think he would at least thank him or something, but he just….looks really upset and immediately looks away? i dunno, i feel like the boy knows at the back of his mind that something fishy may be going on.

there’s probably a lot more but i’m running on like literally zero hours of sleep…hopefully that kind of answers your question though!