smolsarcasticraspberry:so… is Zarkon dying? i mean i feel like Haggar was preparing to transfer Zark
smolsarcasticraspberry:so… is Zarkon dying? i mean i feel like Haggar was preparing to transfer Zarkon’s consciousness from his body into some sort of robeast set-up (with the whole “I see no other way” line and the fact she’s done that before to other characters). but then she doesn’t because her memories come back and she remembers this is her husband, not just her Emperor.it also seems like Zarkon has gone from “this quintessence gives me so much power” to “i need to get actively pumped with quintessence to survive” and his armour has gone from “tastefully dramatic” to “literally just Purple Turtle Darth Vader at this point”. he’s got those big cylinders like the Warden of Beta Traz uses to juice up but they seem to just be keeping him running rather than giving him extra powers.so like… what changed? somehow the quintessence isn’t working any more… because he no longer has the Black Lion’s bayard? or a link to the Lion? was the Lion keeping him alive…somehow? he was draining Black’s energy to survive? i mean his obsession with the Black Lion and her obvious reluctance to be around him (especially on the astral plane) might take on a different hue if the Lion is literally what’s kept him alive all these years. there was something in the VLD marketing at one point about how the Black Lion “requires the most energy from its pilot” but could Zarkon have somehow reversed that flow? pulled some of the energy back?idk man it’s midnight and VLD’s cryptic marketing has kicked into overdrive and i’m 8 conspiracy boards deep at this point but Zarkon has been alive for 10,000 years and we saw those purple quintessence zombies bring him back from the literal actual dead but now he’s… struggling so like. what changed, man? why does he need the Darth Vader get up now? WHAT THE FUCKETH IS GOING ON? -- source link