Headcanon Meme: Thousand Swords

[ninthfeather]

 smartass-telepath said: Not a character but Thousand Swords headcanons? Or: ELS Zarkon headcanons >:D

I’m opting for ELS Zarkon, because I find this meme easier to do with a character than a whole AU. 

For anyone unfamiliar, ELS Zarkon hails from @smartass-telepath‘s A Thousand Swords that Shine with Hate AU, which crosses over Gundam 00 and Voltron. Go read his comics and then come back and read the headcanons, ok?

Also, while I am avoiding S5 spoilers, S3 spoilers abound. 

 

Headcanon A:  realistic

 

The enormity of how Setsuna changed him didn’t set in for Setsuna for quite some time. The pure rush of realizing that he was still alive overwhelmed everything else, and distracted him from processing the fact that he was no longer quite Galra in the strictest sense.

 

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

 

Zarkon is a wartime leader, and a politician, and a warrior.  He leaves the science to his lovely wife.  Which means he doesn’t really understand the first few times that Setsuna goes through the science.  “But…am I a plant now? Have you been a plant for all this time, old friend?”

 

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

 

As an ELS, Zarkon knew he would have a lifespan of similar terrifying length to Setsuna’s. It doesn’t take him that long to realize that his options are turning his wife into the same kind of creature he is, the same thing that Setsuna is so sorry to have made him, or outliving her by thousands of years. 

 

And then they find quintessence, and two things change: 1) this new energy source has the potential to extend her life to the point where it could match Zarkon’s, and 2) it’ warping them both so much that neither of them care anymore.

 

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

 

If the Thousand Swords timeline ever went to later points in the show, Lotor would be not be Galra at all, but half-ELS and half-Altean, and probably very good at appearing fully Galra, since both sides of his heritage are shapeshifters.