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Quick disclaimer:



I have been cutting myself off from most online media because I have so very much in my head I want to get out before reading others’ theories. I don’t want to be influenced, derailed or discouraged by others’ ideas, or mistakenly plagiarize from someone else. So if it looks like I am putting something here that you have seen elsewhere, it is entirely due to two great minds having similar trains of thought. This is 98% my own work and thoughts, and where it is not I credit the originator.

That said, much thanks to Crystal Rebellion, Emperor Lotor, and the awesome people at the Lotura Discord for their own contributions and allowing me to bounce my crazy ideas off them. =D

Now to the fun:

Who is Romelle and what might that mean for S8?

To truly understand how a character and their actions influence a plot, we need to get a cold, hard look at who they are and what their motivations are. There have been a lot of metas written for most of the main characters in VLD, and so I will leave them be. I am working on one for Lotor, but he is so complex as to take up more than one and at least one of them is being written in collaboration.

In the meantime, as an addendum to my last meta, here, and also because this will lead into my next ones, (including the ones on Lotor), I thought now would be a great time to analyze Romelle’s Character.

You might ask how can we do that when we have seen so little of her so far. Well, forgetting entirely how very much information the creators manage to pack into just a few episodes, right down to character expressions, we can get a really good start simply by looking at the original Romelle.

VLD is a remake of an earlier show from 1984: Voltron Defender of the Universe. While the writers have re-worked and re-imagined all of the main characters, (and the story itself), to fit a far more modern audience and more mature societal sensibilities, they have still managed to keep the core personalities and motivations behind each of them.

You don’t believe me? Well let’s get a quick look at all the main characters so far and the core traits that they have kept in common with their predecessors:

Allura, a young, altruistic diplomat and leader of a once powerful and advanced people and civilization. Also one of the few survivors of its near complete destruction by a Warlord King, and depending on which iteration of the story you watch, potentially aslo witness to that destruction. She has a warrior’s heart and reserves of strength and power as yet untapped.

Keith, jaded, at times emo, do-gooder-to-a-fault with trust issues and a long memory. He lost his family young in both series – though in different ways in each – leading to a dark, hard-headed and at times almost vindictive streak in his personality. He is a true fighter, with a warrior’s instinct which he often denies at his core. While in the original he is a strong leader, we watch him grow into that role in VLD.

Lance, the con-man/lady’s man type with the heart of gold, who deeply understands and reads others more than he understands himself, and would give everything of himself including his life for those he truly cares for – a rare and true gift when he does give his love and loyalty.

Pidge, the lost child, family having been stolen from them at some point during the show, though they do find their brother later in both. Also, a technological wiz and geek extraordinaire with any kind of computer system.

Hunk, lover of food, friends and good times. Generally good tempered but quite dangerous when riled – which is far harder to do with the VLD character – he will act as a human shield for all those he cares for, putting himself bodily between them and danger. He is also a voice of reason along the lines of the wise fool, speaking far more deep truth than he realizes at times, and spreading good down-home calm and reason at others. He is also a brilliant engineer.

Shiro, the quiet, focused, strong, controlled and methodical leader who motivates and gives soft spoken guidance and wisdom whenever needed. In GoLion, his team name was literally “Quiet”.

Zarkon, the ruler greedy for resources who spreads his kingdom/empire across known space in an effort to spread influence/power and siphon as many resources as possible, destroying whole planets and civilizations as he goes and not caring one whit.

Honerva/Haggar, who was so deeply in love with Zarkon she sacrificed not only her great beauty but her very self to please him and gain the power to remain useful and thus close to him.

Lotor, the broken and abused Prince, whose life has been a failed effort to mold him in his father’s image, but whose mother’s heritage and early influence allows some amount of love and good to live in his heart, making him not all bad and potentially redeemable. Particularly through his love for Allura.





While VLD Romelle is fairly new and we haven’t seen a whole lot of her aside from when she was blowing up the Alliance, (leading to the destabilization of both the Empire and the Coalition, and from what we have been shown loss of life to the resulting power vacuum on a scale potentially equal to what Zarkon and Honerva were doing when in power… but that’s probably another meta. Or two…), we can and should take a look back at who she was in order to get a better sense of who she is now.

A quick note. I am talking here specifically about Princess Romelle from DotU, not Princess Amue from Beast King GoLion. The two characters share several similarities, but in the end they are very different in some of their key experiences throughout their respective shows. VLD is mostly based on DotU, by the writers’ own assertion. While they do throw in nods to GoLion, they have only very rarely built directly from it in any way, as they do from DotU and with some of the concepts from the comics. Thus, when doing an analysis, really only DotU and sometimes the comics, are worth consideration.





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So, let’s begin from the beginning:

Who was Romelle in DotU?

Romelle makes her debut in DotU Season 1, Ep 17, “My Brother is a Robeast”.

(The title itself seems to hold some foreshadowing for S8, now that we’ve seen the end of S7, doesn’t it?)





Romelle is the Princess of a planet named Pollux. She is a distant cousin of Allura’s, and also practically her twin.

Generations ago, the first planet-wide King of Arus (Altea) had two sons. One preferred peace and one preferred war. They fought and the warrior Prince was exiled. He set up his own reign on planet Pollux, which has been an enemy of Arus (Altea) ever since.

This is key.

Romelle’s family and people are Warriors and a Warrior Nation/Planet. They are allied with the Drule Empire, and support Zarkon – well, as much as any of these warlords support each other anyway. You know, until they get a chance to stab each other in the back.

Romelle, at the start of Ep 17, has a Father and two Bothers: King Koba, Prince Avok and Prince Bandor, respectively.

King Koba has a plan to defeat Voltron and thus conquer their age old enemy, Arus. His eldest son, Avok, has been training hard to become one of the greatest fighters in the Denubian Galaxy so that he might volunteer to become a Robeast and fight Voltron. This is his idea, he wants to do it.

The Polluxian Royal Family go to petition Zarkon to accept their assistance and plan, and let Haggar change Avok.





(Please forgive the frankly hilarious subtitles. It should say “Haggar will turn… … my son, Prince Avok into…” But auto subtitles are terrible with scifi and anime names.)

Zarkon and Lotor are both deeply skeptical of Avok’s abilities. They decide to test the boy by having him fight the Robeast Champion in the Arena. Neither Koba nor Avok are at all worried.





Avok wins of course, but feeling he was just lucky Lotor challenges him next. Lotor almost wins but then he sees Romelle, who of course came along with her family in solidarity for their plan and her Brother.

Being the silly eggplant he is, Lotor becomes distracted by the pretty face who happens to look so much like Allura, and Avok takes advantage, disarming Lotor. Avok declares he will spare Lotor if he supports and helps him with his plan. So, Lotor agrees. Avok is taken by Haggar to become a Robeast.

This is Romelle’s reaction to her Brother’s success

(Bandor has just expressed his excitement that Avok will become a Robeast):





She is entirely complicit, and excited.

Lotor introduces himself and asks to show her around. She smiles and takes his hand and happily runs off with him.

Avok becomes an incredibly powerful Robeast, the most powerful Haggar has yet made. This apparently is because he not only volunteered, but wanted it so badly.

Zarkon plans to kill King Koba and take Pollux once Avok succeeds, but that’s no surprise. It’s Zarkon, we expect that. What is a surprise is that likewise, part of Koba’s plan all along is that once Avok has done away with Voltron, he will then dispose of Zarkon – after all, if Zarkon cannot defeat Voltron, how can he stand against Voltron’s destroyer?

Koba’s plan is no secret among his council or family, btw. And we learn this because Lotor and Haggar spy on them before the big battle.

Because this is a black-and-white show, in the end as always Evil loses and Voltron wins. Romelle refuses Lotor and so becomes a political hostage – though for a while he still seems to hope to win her.

But what is very interesting and is quite often overlooked, is this is when Romelle suddenly changes the entire narrative of what happened.

She begins to lie about everything, denying any kind of collusion with Zarkon by her family, that the plan was theirs, and her Brother Avok’s willingness and desire to become a Robeast. She denies that she ever supported any of this, and she blames everything squarely on Zarkon and Lotor.

This begins in Episode 21, “It’ll Be a Cold Day”, and this becomes her story going forward:

“We were happy on Planet Pollux. Until Lotor came and turned my older brother into a Robeast. When my Father, the King, lost his mind from it all, they made my little brother, Prince Bandor, the ruler. I remember how startled I was when Princess Allura came to our planet to help us, and I saw her for the first time. It was like looking into a mirror for both of us. I felt it was the beginning of a strong, new alliance. But then Lotor shattered our world again! His guards stormed our palace and carried me away, to be used as a pawn in his evil plans to conquer both our planets! Bandor tried so hard to save me, but…” (image of Bandor being stunned by a Drule guard)

Almost nothing of this story is actually a true representation of what happened in the original episode. Romelle, unable to cope with the failure of her family’s gamble, loss, and the resulting consequences of their decisions – each and every one of them – has completely retconned it all in her mind.

She claims, from here on out, to be an advocate for peace. However, the moment she gets away from captivity, she cannot hide or suppress the warrior blood and nature of her heritage. While speaking words of peace, she and Sven create a lead a Guerilla Army – a very successful one - in the catacombs and wastelands of Doom, to harry Zarkon and Lotor from inside their seat of power.

Indeed their Army becomes instrumental in the final assault on Doom at the end of Season 1, and many on both sides die in her strategies and attacks.

In short, in DotU, Romelle is the Princess of a warrior planet and people who are aligned with Doom and plot against Allura and Voltron. When they fail she basically is unable to handle it and does a 180 so complete, she rewrites history in her own mind. However she is not really able to suppress her own warrior nature and, while speaking words of peace and unity she wages Guerilla warfare against Zarkon, sacrificing easily as many slave lives as she takes from the Drule forces in her attacks.





So how can we apply this to Romelle in VLD?

As I showed in the preamble above, we see that the writers, while reworking characters for a modern age and a new take on the story, still keep the core of the characters’ personalities and motivations every time. If the core characters of all the main characters taken from the original have indeed remained the same, then we can assume Romelle’s has too.

And indeed, if we look at some of her core character traits, she is indeed very similar. Let’s look at how her character is laid out for us from the moment Keith and Krolia find her, and what we know about her so far.

1. The Teller of the False Narrative:

We know that much like her lies after “It’ll Be A Cold Day” in DotU, most of what VLD Romelle has told the Paladins thus far is a lie. Please see my earlier meta: The Shady As Hell Whistleblower for more on how we can see the lies and holes in her story, as she tells it.

She has, in all likelihood, retconned almost completely what really happened. The only question is, how much of the lie does she actually believe and how much does she know is a lie?

We know the Dome is not the First Colony, as she claims. And she does make that claim. For instance, in the scene below she blatantly misrepresents the Dome as the First Colony, where thousands of Alteans are actively living.





Though for the reasons I explained in my last meta, it most definitely is NOT the first colony and Romelle is pretty clearly alone there in the Dome.

So, how did she end up on that planet in that Dome? It is something she clearly avoids explaining, Was she possibly exiled?

She certainly portrays herself immediately as a Damsel In Distress who is trapped, cannot help herself, and needs to be rescued. Her very first words to them as she is found are “You must help me!”



Romelle in DotU suffered a type of exile when she was left in the Pit of Skulls to die after she outlived her usefulness. This is how she found Sven and started the Guerilla Army among other survivors there.

It seems unlikely though that in the current timeline and story Romelle might start a Guerilla rebellion. She is not on the Colony Planet or hiding among the Galra, there is no Sven, and Shiro is gay and in mourning so is unlikely to go for her. So, that aspect of her original character is probably not going to happen. Though it can be argued that she is clearly a rebel to her own people’s sensibilities and beliefs.

It seems unlikely, in light of the scene above, that she is exiled either. For all her claims of being trapped and in need of help, she has full access to at least one ship, (her speech indicates there are more), which itself actually doesn’t appear all that dusty for not having been flown for generations.

Think about it. We see full well later on that she is no helpess little thing. If she were truly desperate to get out, get away, to flee or find help or evidence or whatever… Don’t you think she might try to learn how to fly it? I mean, logically, in her position, if you had spent your life “trapped” and watching your family be taken from you, your brother dying in your arms… Wouldn’t YOU start trying to learn to fly the ships you have open access to?

What kind of “trap” leaves ships open to the prisoners, anyway?

So, she is very likely not abandoned or exiled. Nor is she a Damsel, but we will get to that in a moment.





Here’s another point to consider from the moment she is introduced, and I have to thank Emperor Lotor for this one:





As I mentioned elsewhere, Romelle being discovered by a river is suspicious first due to the old Voltron trope of the false Damsel found by the river who actually becomes a threat or danger.

However, there is something else as well. Romelle washing her laundry in the only clean water source despite having working technology, was something that has bothered me since I saw it, why ever would she be doing that? It seemed so contrived, so set-up.

Then one day it was pointed out by Emperor Lotor, that there is an old Italian literary saying:

“Sciacquare i panni in Arno” literally, “Washing clothes in the river Arno”

Translation: “To refine or re-write a story to your own purpose.”

Knowing what we do of the original Romelle’s penchant for doing exactly that, and knowing what we do so far through S7 about Romelle, is it probably safe to say the writers are making a direct reference to that saying with this scene.





2. The False Damsel

We see from the moment she lands on the Castle ship that she is no Damsel after all.

One step off the pod and she immediately starts hurling assertive accusations to these people she doesn’t know, before even telling her story. This is how she greets her potential new allies for the first time.

This is not the face of an Innocent Damsel trapped for her whole life and happy or grateful to meet new friends who can help her for the first time, looking to ask them for their aid. No, this is an angry Warrior looking for retribution.





And shortly after telling her she is giving orders to fire on the Sincline ship. Already knowing their leader is on there too.







We might give benefit of the doubt that maybe she is just stressed and doesn’t want to actually confront a live Lotor… though a gentle girl as she first presents herself is unlikely to be so trigger happy or bloodthirsty, it might be plausible.

Until we see her continued combat skills and aggressive nature in other contexts. For instance:





That is one hell of a punch to the helmet to a Galra Warrior that sends him flying all the way from the entrance to Blue’s cockpit to slump back in his cockpit on the other side of Blue’s mouth. Knocked out cold, despite wearing a helmet.

No one hits like this if they aren’t trained.

Which brings us to:





3. The Quiet Warrior

Upon exiting Blue’s Cockpit to KO the Galra pilot and see what she can do about the stuck jaw, she is confronted with fiery wreckage. She immediately and calmly assesses the situation, pinpoints the problem, and knows exactly what to do, with the skill and focus of a trained and experienced soldier.

For instance, put any of the Paladins in her place in this moment. Of all the Paladins, only Keith and possibly Allura would have acted with such cool efficiency. Yet Romelle supposedly has far less training and experience than any of the Paladins - as in none, by her own claim - and she has no problems.

After clearing the wreckage so blue’s mouth can open, this sweet innocent girl watches the soldier fall screaming to his death. Kind of cold-blooded unless one has seen training and battle. But then the kicker… This is the look she casts back to Allura in the cockpit before re-entering Blue:





Remember: as per LM, all expressions are meaningful, they don’t waste frames but instead do things consciously. Especially in such a limited run show.

This is not the expression of a sweet innocent. Much like the original Romelle, what we have here is a Warrior. One who sleeps just fine after watching a sentient being die at her own hand.

And let’s not lose sight here that what Romelle just did, when she could have taken him prisoner and locked him in a cargo hold a-la Coran, is actually against the mores of the so-altruistic Voltron Force and Allura.

Here’s more evidence of her experience in Combat:





This also indicates her having far more experience outside of the colony and in space than she has told anyone to date.

I want someone to please explain to me, logically and convincingly, how Romelle has any idea what Lotor’s Fleet looks like in comparison to the general Galra fleet. She has been stuck on a colony her whole life and can’t fly anything by her own recounting. This? Just exposes her bullshit even more.

She is also very curious and expressive. For instance trying to figure out how to fly Red, or playing the Video Game:





She seems awful familiar with a ship’s heads-up controls, and with the Lions’ weapons in such a very short time with them, in this scene. Though perhaps it’s just because she can read Altean.

Then again she is super unimpressed that the Lion is a “dangerous War Machine” as Lance puts it, as if that’s old hat to her, not something she didn’t consider. Or as if it is old hat, thank-you-very-much and she doesn’t need to be told.





Her aptitude and combat skill is actually a little scary when you think about it logically.





4. The Good Actor

Romelle is very expressive!. In face, almost over-the-top expressive in cases where she may be being watched or is putting on the Sweet Damsel act again.





Howver, the moment she is not being watched, and doesn’t need to be a sweet little thing, her act drops. she is still very expressive, but in a very different way.

This will become more important in a moment, but for new, here are a few examples:

She always seems to be very genuinely expressive. She occasionally puts on a good Damsel act, but when not called for, she is still easily expressive and we can read her quite easily.

There we have it. The core of Romelle from both DotU and VLD, indeed the same.

Her family was allied with and helped Lotor. Not such a bad thing in VLD, especially if either of my theories about what really happened are true.

Unable to cope with losing her family, however willing they were, she is clearly re-writing history to suit her own means in order to appear helpless and manipulate people to her own purposes.



A warrior hiding behind the mask of a Damsel – aka the “Ass-kicker disguised as a false Damsel” trope.

A warrior with some experience and training, who has good tactical presence to look at an urgent situation and fix it, and who has little problem killing her enemies and watching their deaths.

A person who can put on a good act when necessary but is also not overly practiced at hiding their feelings so is easy to read in any situation, if you look.





So what does that mean for S8?

There are going to be a lot of moving parts and loose ends for the Production Team to tie up in S8. It will all come together in one over-arching plot, obviously, and I am super excited to see what they do.

That said, I have a few theories. Most revolve around the idea that Romelle is not entirely who she says she is. My strongest theory is that she is working with Honerva. Why?

Well, the main part of my reason for this will be set up in my next Meta, but here are a few reasons that fit perfectly into this one and coincidentally make a very good closing statement for this one and my last one.

Let’s look back at the Dome where Romelle was found again. At the opening scene inside the dome, we are shown a vision of a field of flowers before a mountain range, and blue skies. Clearly a hologram, as the door from outside opens:





Yes, both of the above are from the episode, “The Colony”.

Does this scenery remind you of anything?

How about this:





The Juniberry fields outside Altea’s Capitol, as replicated on Allura’s Holodeck on the Castle of Lions.

Right. Down. To. The. Mountain. Ranges.





Now where do you suppose Romelle found a program for an exact replica of those fields and mountains for that Dome?

Thinking about it, is that even something Lotor could realistically have programmed?

Very likely not. Altea was probably gone before he was born, never mind old enough to see anything like that.

So who could have programmed that so exactly? Who is the only other living Altean, technologically inclined, who would remember such a scene from Altea?

And then there’s Honerva’s response to seeing Romelle on the Lion Ship.

According to Zarkon in S1, when she first feels Allura’s energy re-awaken, he had thought they had hunted down ‘every last one of that stinking race’ or something along those lines, and Haggar agrees. Those Alteans who were off planet, we learn, did indeed go into hiding as they were in fact being hunted down.

Haggar/Honerva supposedly thinks/knows that all or almost all Alteans are dead. She was surprised and half expected Allura might be finally dead when here energy re-awakened. And yet, when she sees Romelle on the Castle of Lions, she does not bat an eyelash.

Honerva/Haggar is also shown to be expressive. For instance, when she saw Lotor was building ships from Comet ore in S4 Ep3?





So why no reaction to seeing a living Altean?





Right at the very beginning. No reaction at all. Not even a modicum of surprise, like we saw with Allura’s awakening.

In fact, she seems to be waiting for the team to reject Lotor after Romelle’s story and Lotor’s return. She is watching patiently, knowing what to expect, and has zero reaction to any of Romelle’s story. She has the General s waiting in the wings, ready for her command, and is biding her time to take possession of Kuron – all at exactly the right time.

In fact, it is all timed. She knows Romelle is there and would break up the trust in the new Alliance because that is the plan and she was placed where she was found in order to do just that.

The stability that Lotor’s and the Alliance’s success would generate, and the strength it would give him wouldn’t serve her and her plans. The first thing she has to do is destabilize it and break it up. And she has been plotting this for some time.

This whole sequence, from the moment Keith and Krolia found Romelle to when Allura yeeted Lotor and Honerva triggered the retrieval was all her plan.

There’s also the matter of the missing capsules of “Harvested” Alteans from the facility that Keith and Krolia think they found.

Keith asks Kolivan if he sent a team to the coordinates for the Colony. You know Kolivan would have sent someone immediately. And indeed he says he did.

“Just an empty facility. They were all gone.”

I have said before I think there was nothing there to begin with and why.

I have also pointed out that Lotor was shocked to see Romelle. He would have had no time at all to clear out any evidence, and honestly, his character is such that once caught I don’t think he would have seen the point in doing so.

But you know who could have? Assuming there were any pods there to begin with?

Honerva.

If this is all her plan, and there was something there, now is the time she would start having them removed – or, if she could somehow learn Romelle had made contact and was traveling (the little communicator maybe?) she might have started clearing things then.

Again, if there was anything there to begin with, and I am not convinced there was.

But all of this aside… Romelle was right there when Kolivan said that. But she had no reaction. Nothing. Her beloved people, who she was so desperate to save and get help for from the Paladins, that she begged for help for, are missing. Like they were never there. And here is her reaction:





Allura and Coran at least look confused and concerned in that scene.

Romelle though is completely dispassionate, much as she was watching the Galra Pirate falling to his death. Why? Perhaps because she knew they wouldn’t be there? Knows the lie?

And considering how Romelle has acted on the topic up to this point, you would expect her to bring up her missing people at least once after, if not now. But it isn’t. Not once. Not even by anyone else – as if they have forgotten it.

I wonder why that would be? Could it be more mind control? Easy enough to take their minds off it to another track since they have so much going on at the moment and an injured Kolivan to help, after all.

There is so very much that points to Romelle being an imposter, a mole, with a story that has just enough of a grain of truth to it, and is so emotional that it would raise issues of mistrust and prejudice fast, especially with a bit of a mental and emotional push – which we know Haggar/Honerva can do so another Alchemist potentially could too, especially if trained by her.

In fact it is interesting that pretty much the only times we do see Romelle in S7 or S6 are times which reinforce this possibility. Other times, when Romelle could simply be her or helpful just because she’s a member of the group and traveling with them now? She isn’t in scene.

Speaking of Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing trope… I recently edited my previous meta to include a point I had forgotten at the time. In case you missed the edit, here it is again, and this time with pictures.

I had forgotten to point out before, but it remains true: with any such Mole or Imposter, there is always a tell. Something that gives the disguise or seeming innocence away, be it Aunt Orla hating mice, or the impostor Romelle’s hand not being able to be disguised and so resembling Haggar’s claws.

There is nothing so obvious here, as Romelle herself is likely not wearing any actual disguise. However, there is still a tell – one beyond the hologram of Altea’s fields outside the Capitol anyway.

Romelle’s tunic.

Not one other Altean shown in the many images we have from any season wears a tunic cut in that same two-tailed shape. There are several patterns, repeated many times over in variations. But…







However, there IS one person who wears that cut of robe. ONE other.

Who?





It IS subtle. But then it would have to be. And like I said, there is literally no other Altean that wears a cut anything like it. Paired with all the other evidence and with the hologram… can this possibly be a coincidence?

I sincerely doubt it.

What probably is a coincidence, but may not be is her boot are also exactly the same as Honerva’s before she became corrupt. Go back and look. I think this could be coincidence though because Alfor also wears the same boots, so that style may well be stock.





So, while there are other possibilities, it looks to me like the evidence is pointing to Romelle being a tool, a mole to help Honerva break of the stability of what Voltron and the Coalition were building with Lotor.

Her story points to it. Her Character points to it. Her reactions point to it.

The question is, exactly how complicit is she? How much of her lie does she actually believe? That will directly relate to how much she believed she was doing good by helping Honerva and breaking the Alliance at such a heavy cost, or how much she is less a tool and more a full ally to Honerva.

In S8 we will just have to see.

I have several more metas brewing, the next one almost complete is a breakdown of Monsters and Mana as foreshadowing of the final S8 Battle. Hopefully that will be out soon. I am planning a few others as well. I hope to have them out before S8… LOL, we’ll see.

I want to thank Crystal Rebellion again, Emperor Lotor, and all the great people at the Lotura Discord. And Lastly my sweet beloved Bear. Without all of you I wouldn’t have the guts or the support to orgaize my crazy thoughts like this and put it out there. Thank you!

Again, please keep in mind I have pretty much cut off my access to media because I don’t want to be influenced in my logic trains until I get these out. So 98% of this is my own thoughts and work. If someone else has written a meta or put something out along a similar vein, my apologies, I haven’t seen it, so I am not being influenced by them or plagiarizing. I would say though that I love you for having a similar thought process to me!

For much of the reason above, and because a have a ton more writing to do and so little time to do it in, I haven’t responded to notes or even really looked at them. I plan to soon, and I am sorry I haven’t to anyone waiting on a response from me. Thank you for your patience and interest. Unless of course you’re an anti spewing hate…. In which case I don’t care what you think, go away.