u/Red_Anzo

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(Note: when I say end of the world, I don't mean the world explodes or humanity goes extinct. I more mean current world order, societies, nations, cultures etc.)

I've been thinking on this for a while, and something I have noticed with the post apocolyptic/end of the world scenarios. Mostly (not all) they tend to go for the result of a nuclear war or conflict (the biggest ones being Fallout, STALKER and METRO), A few dedicated to viruses (Children of Men being the best example), a war between man and machine in the Terminator series and I like these scenarios.

But I wanna do something a bit more. Kinda like with Mad Max in which it isn't just one singular event but a series of events that all built up to the inevitable, or like with Command and Conquer Tiberium in which the disaster is more echological than something by man (yes GDI and NOD are still around and form semi governments but the majority of the world is either somewhat inhabitable or utterly uninhabitable).

I wanna try to do something similar. But I wonder is there are any other and more interesting ways in which the world would/could collapse into a somewhat post apocolyptic state. Some that creators haven't really considered before.

And how one could take overused end of the world/post apocolyptic scenarios and do something more interesting with them?

Well given by popular demand, I am currently starting work on reimagining the Voltron Coalition. Won't lie, finding any sort of info about what was ready pre-established was hard for some reason, but hey it also provides a huge amount of opperunity.

Though one thing, and something I'd like for peeps to recommend to me would be the various groups that would make up the coaltion.

Not groups like the Blade of Marmora or anything pre-established, I more mean just groups that peeps make up on their own, or recommendations for areas of research to flesh out the Coalition.

Anywho, I'm still progressing on the Coalition's reimagining and fleshing out. I can't wait to show my progress with you lot!

Stay tuned!!!

Welp, the concensus was very clear from you guys. I thank everyone who voted in the poll. Looks like I'll be going schizo in reimagining the world of VLD, Characters, Geopolitics and getting other creatives to join the project if anyone is interested.

As Worldbuilding is my main focus of the project, I'll be starting with that, and I think it would be best to flesh out one of the major factions firstly before anything else.

I'mma let you lot decide this one, so out of these three, which one would you like to see first?

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For a while, I’ve been wanting to do a project which essentially reimagines some parts of VLD. I just wanna do it, I did like how the show was presented (although there was some iffy moments) as it was, it’s just out of personal curiosity and wanting to test my creative skills. Though part of me is a bit unsure about doing it, mainly as I fear I may change too much and it becomes too less like what the show was and what people liked about it.

Mainly as I would want to rethink of how it made its factions, world-building and so on. But I fear that if I do it more like Clone Wars (which was able to showcase serious topics while still being appropriate for a young audience) it’ll ruin what people liked about VLD (flaws aside) and Voltron as a whole.

(It also doesn’t help that this is tied to a personal project which mushes an original project I am working on with VLD, though for this it’ll just be for VLD and VLD alone)

What I would mostly be wanting to do it this:

- Worldbuilding: Flesh out the worldbuilding a tiny bit more, what we got in the series was fine and pretty good though I would wanna push it and take a look at how the internal politics of the empire works, what’s happening on earth since and before the Kerberos Mission (it’s geopolitics and where the Garrison fits into that) and how the rest of the galaxy has been affected by the disappearance (or massacre) of the Alteans.

- Factions: Like with the worldbuilding would wanna flesh out the factions a bit more. What policies does the Galran government implement, how does the Garrison work with astro exploration and being a military faction and which nations of earth is apart of it (international relations and politics aside) and what do the various groups of the Voltron Coalition seek to achieve with the defeat of the empire. As well as other points and so on. And possibly creating other factions and sub-factions if they fit into what VLD showcased.

- Characters: Not really gonna change too much about the characters, what we got was pretty good in my opinion. Though perhaps give more arcs and stories to some characters that didn’t get quite a lot (like explore more into Lance feeling homesick and his place in the team, make him more than just the group clown). I wouldn’t be looking into ships, this is mostly as it’s clear the community got a bit TOO obsessed with which ship was better and it just ruined the fun for a lot of people.

- Fun: Again the whole thing is just for fun, and if peeps wanted they can contribute ideas and suggestions to help flesh out the idea even more.

(Note: I did try to do this before on an old account, but sadly I lost it, only much I got with it was making ranks for the Galran Army and Navy. And after that the project just fell apart, I wanna give it another shot though so yeee).

So, that’s my presentation to you lot, now I put it to you lot if you’d like to see this?

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This maybe me overthinking and being all schizo. But the druids of the empire, are they essentially the Galran's secret police? Like akin to the KGB or Gestapo?

So I'm thinking on doing a fan fic thingy for VLD. Mostly for my own amusement and to experiment with some ocs that are inspired by Voltron for my own writing skills and to lay the groundwork for their own story project.

There are many questions on my mind but the one I wanna ask is this.

I wanted to add some royal guard units that were also put in the pods alongside Coran and Allura. Not to diminish Allura and Coran's abilities, but I felt it a bit odd that the last member of the Altean royal family would have been left alone in a castle for centuries without any sort of protection, I may have it that the Castle activates automated soldiers when someone steps in, but wondering if that would make any sense? Or am I just overthinking things for what is just a fun project for myself.

How possible is it for a nation to go from something where it's government to not have anything akin to royalty (think republic) to then suddenly having one man or woman to gain so much power to either reestablish a monarchy if the nation already had one, or establish a new monarchy starting from them?

How viable is that? As from the sentiment I get, monarchies are very unpopular and in the real world are mostly being phased to figurehead positions.

I could be wrong. But I'm curious about this, and I've often wondered how and why monarchies form and then wonder if they could still form in the future, either here on earth or in the vast political voids of space.

I'm working on a little project, which mostly pins on this idea, if the Leveller faction of the Parliamentarians in the Civil War, how would this change the course of both British history and global history.

I'm mostly looking into the initial rule of the Levellers, their relations with other nations and if certain conflicts, like the Anglo-Scottish War, conquest of Ireland, Seven Years War would still occur as they did in our time.

This maybe due to me playing way too much Red Alert 2 and the mod Mental Omega, but I would love to see a Voltron RTS game. Or similar to Attack on Titan 2 with tje ability to make your own character or something like that.

I should be sleeping but damnit I needed to ask this xD

I have often heard that the war lasts at most 2 years. It may just be me, but I never really found that satisfying.

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It mostly stems from a dislike of a trope I have often seen in which you have a world war but it's over in seconds (and I am not talking about nuclear war, a conventional war), but to throw in SOME realism I doubt this alternate second world war would last two years, even with the technology. But that could just be me.

I'm currently working on a cyberpunk like story and world. Though one where it's 50% cyberpunk 2077, Neuromancer, Blade Runner, DREADD and Virtual Light, yet with influences of Helltaker and Ultrakill by including demons and angels. I've coined this along the lines of "Occult Cyberpunk" and taken elements from the few "Tolkein meets Blade Runner". Magic and cybernetics.

Is there anything I should consider aside from the obvious when fleshing out and crafting a cyberpunk world?

I'm currently working on a cyberpunk like story and world. Though one where it's 50% cyberpunk 2077, Neuromancer, Blade Runner, DREADD and Virtual Light, yet with influences of Helltaker and Ultrakill by including demons and angels. I've coined this along the lines of "Occult Cyberpunk" and taken elements from the few "Tolkein meets Blade Runner". Magic and cybernetics.

Is there anything I should consider aside from the obvious when fleshing out and crafting a cyberpunk world?

I was playing some TF2C with a friend... and, I got competative and began to not enjoy my time, especially as they got more kills than me and I was getting frustrated by it. And when I left, they messaged me (gonna paraphrase as I don't remember fully) "good game" and I just responded with "yeah bye" then added "good game..." and they just responded with "thx" and somehow that annoyed me.

It's silly to be acting such a way over a game, I get that, and I'm annoyed at myself for even getting too into the game and just wanting to at least do equal/better than my friend. But games are meant to be fun, a friendly competition here and there but... and this person has said that we are friends and when I asked if he wanted to play on Friday he said yes, but he likes to respond in simple responses. Peeps have told me not to take it personally, and I try I really do, but sometimes it feels like they don't care, like tonight with that response, and yet they messaged me in the game saying "please don't be so negative" (reading that back makes me hate myself).

I'm at a weird point in my life. And I've been reflecting on things.

A thing I am not good at (or too good at) is knowing when I am wrong. I have autism, not saying that as an excuse but to explain how I think but it's relevant. My parents, whether they'd admit it or not have mollycoggled me too much and hasn't always trusted my opinion, I get it was hard on them to raise me, but although I have autism I am still capable, I even feel to this day they treat me like a child. What didn't help is in my family there was always a "rule for some, rule for others" thing going on. I won't lie as I have gotten older, I resent and hate my family as it just seemed I was expected to admit my flaws and faults but never anyone else, if I did, they'd get angry and if I got angry when they did it to me, they'd get angry at me getting angry.

My family isn't abusive. They have their flaws yes, but physically they have never hit me, mentally they have't tormented me in extreme ways. There are good qualities to them, but it seems those moments are rare and I wish they'd show more often.

But lets just say, I never want to admit if something is wrong with me. Mainly as for most of my life it seems that's just always the case, people see my flaws while shielding their own, and I hate it, so much so that I shield my flaws and never let anyone in apart from friends. I love my friends more than my own family at times, and in a way my friends are a family that I can go to, I can talk about these things and instead of disregarding it, they empathise and talk to me, they actually understand me and don't try to deflect what I am feeling.

And if I have done something wrong, I want them to tell me even if I'll hate hearing it, I would rather like to be told I only have a day to live than give some sentimental cock and bull story. Ik this is a bit of an extreme example but I hope my point gets across.

I still wanna be friends with this guy, and I do just want to play TF2C with him not caring how many points we have and have a friendly challenge without getting all angry. I love him, and it hurts that I could be horrible and mean to one of my friends.

(There is more to this. But I feel like this is enough for now, I'll be happy to provide more if asked for.)