young blackquill and young athena have secret codes to try and find each other in the giant space center like simon will get worried about where athena is and he’ll just go “caw caw” or some sort of hawk noise and then. down the hall a tiny voice echos “peep peep” and he just smiles cause that means athena’s there somewhere and safe and they have this baby bird and mama bird thing that they do to keep tabs on each other
Lauren Montgomery said in an interview once that the episode where Allura died in 80s Voltron traumatized her when she watched it as a child because she was a strong female character she could look up to, and then rebooted the show, made a Black Princess for little girls to look up to, and then up and killed her off, fully knowing it would be traumatizing to them. that’s not just carelessness on the writers’ part. that is downright purposefully violent and sadistic.
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