Romance in ThunderCats/Should Lion-O have a love interest?

Romanticide · June 19, 2012, 9:48pm

I did a little math, and I figured that Lion-O and Pumyra couldn’t have known each other for little more than a week. A day in The Pit, two days to get to Mount Plundarr, a day spent in Mount Plundarr freeing the slaves and dealing with the Sword of Plundarr, about three days to deal with Mumm-Ra and getting back to Dog City, a day to deal with the Soul Sever, and about a couple days to rebuild the Feliner and get up to Avista. That’s about ten days or so for them to get as close as they did. Make what you will of that.

I’m still going to support Lion/Pumyra, but of course I’m not expecting it to come easy. Here’s what I think could happen: Lion-O’s going to keep holding out for Pumyra despite her cruel betrayal. He’ll be in denial that she’s all evil, but he’ll also deny that he’s still in love with her. There will come a moment where he has a chance to attack or kill her, but hesitates and allows her to get away or cause some damage. The other Cats might call Lion-O out on his feelings for her getting in the way, and he has to accept that Pumyra is evil. Lion-O vows to not show Pumyra any mercy next time they meet.

But then it will be revealed to the audience that Pumyra really is under some kind of spell, and she almost broke out of it when Lion-O did show her mercy. The next time they meet, Pumyra and Lion-O have an epic showdown, and Lion-O keeps to his promise to not hold back, defeating her.

Lion-O gets his chance to end Pumyra once and for all, but the Sword of Omens stops obeying him before he can do so. Lion-O uses Sight Beyond Sight to see the spell Pumyra is under (maybe as chains wrapped around her or puppet strings or something cool like that). The Spirit Stone begins to respond, and he uses it to enter Pumyra’s soul. Lion-O finds the damage done to her and does his best to heal it, maybe by talking to Pumyra’s soul itself.

However, Lion-O is attacked by the ASOE, and his soul is put into jeopardy. But Pumyra can see into Lion-O’s soul as well, able to see how sincere he was about everything he said to her, and how much he still loves her despite vowing to stop her for good. Pumyra breaks free and saves Lion-O from having his soul devoured by the spirits, and the power of their love is able to drive the ASOE out of their souls. With Pumyra now free and cured, she and Lion-O decide to try to start over and rekindle their relationship.

That’s just my little future fan fic thing.

That sounds awesome. I’d love to read it. :pumyrahappy:

hammy0924 · June 19, 2012, 10:03pm

Great, now I have to change my fanfic now.

19Tabularasa94 · June 19, 2012, 11:06pm

I did a little math, and I figured that Lion-O and Pumyra couldn’t have known each other for little more than a week. A day in The Pit, two days to get to Mount Plundarr, a day spent in Mount Plundarr freeing the slaves and dealing with the Sword of Plundarr, about three days to deal with Mumm-Ra and getting back to Dog City, a day to deal with the Soul Sever, and about a couple days to rebuild the Feliner and get up to Avista. That’s about ten days or so for them to get as close as they did. Make what you will of that.

I’m still going to support Lion/Pumyra, but of course I’m not expecting it to come easy. Here’s what I think could happen: Lion-O’s going to keep holding out for Pumyra despite her cruel betrayal. He’ll be in denial that she’s all evil, but he’ll also deny that he’s still in love with her. There will come a moment where he has a chance to attack or kill her, but hesitates and allows her to get away or cause some damage. The other Cats might call Lion-O out on his feelings for her getting in the way, and he has to accept that Pumyra is evil. Lion-O vows to not show Pumyra any mercy next time they meet.

But then it will be revealed to the audience that Pumyra really is under some kind of spell, and she almost broke out of it when Lion-O did show her mercy. The next time they meet, Pumyra and Lion-O have an epic showdown, and Lion-O keeps to his promise to not hold back, defeating her.

Lion-O gets his chance to end Pumyra once and for all, but the Sword of Omens stops obeying him before he can do so. Lion-O uses Sight Beyond Sight to see the spell Pumyra is under (maybe as chains wrapped around her or puppet strings or something cool like that). The Spirit Stone begins to respond, and he uses it to enter Pumyra’s soul. Lion-O finds the damage done to her and does his best to heal it, maybe by talking to Pumyra’s soul itself.

However, Lion-O is attacked by the ASOE, and his soul is put into jeopardy. But Pumyra can see into Lion-O’s soul as well, able to see how sincere he was about everything he said to her, and how much he still loves her despite vowing to stop her for good. Pumyra breaks free and saves Lion-O from having his soul devoured by the spirits, and the power of their love is able to drive the ASOE out of their souls. With Pumyra now free and cured, she and Lion-O decide to try to start over and rekindle their relationship.

That’s just my little future fan fic thing.

That’s actually quite a good theory. And I also have a feeling the writers got inspired by the comics again. WilyKat temporarily goes corrupt in ‘The Return’ cos he thinks he’s doing the right thing for him and his sister, but after running away and being presumed dead for a long time, he makes an emotional comeback in ‘Dogs of War’, where he apologizes for all he did and is forgiven.

MarianaTCdreams · June 20, 2012, 1:27am

Gold Lion, your estimated time period for Pumyra and Lion-O’s encounter is interesting to me. If your idea holds, then it makes fans’ reactions very interesting because quite a few of fans were rooting for Lion-O and Pumyra’s relationship when they met each other not long ago, according to you.

whiskers_D · June 20, 2012, 2:36am

what do you guys think of this ship LOL!
http://browse.deviantart.com/?order=5&q=thundercats#/d54770x

hammy0924 · June 20, 2012, 2:36am

Ehhhhhh, nope.

whiskers_D · June 20, 2012, 2:39am

I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw this! Sorry Disney Princesses not in this universe.

Felinious_Monk · June 20, 2012, 3:11am

That is a big “no” in every human and reasonably translatable alien language.

19Tabularasa94 · June 20, 2012, 3:26am

Holy Grail!:duh: (Been watching too much DaVinci Code).

MarianaTCdreams · June 20, 2012, 3:50am

It looks like the original poster/artist wanted to ship Lion-O with a Mary Sue. I have to say, “No,” to this shipping. runs the other direction

19Tabularasa94 · June 20, 2012, 3:56am

Hell yeah! Heads for the clifftop of Mt Plun-Darr

DrkStrikex105 · June 20, 2012, 1:46pm

Hhhmmm… Why would you even post that? That just will wrong. lol

WapoPuma · June 22, 2012, 3:34am

Even though this is nothing to brag about, I feel like there have been worse thing ships you can find. sigh oh the power of the internet…

By the way, not to toot my own horn -100th post! It’s barely been a month and I thought for sure it would take me longer to reach this (seriously everyone just steals my thoughts to the point that I just can’t say anything:p. but thanks for the welcome everyone!)

hammy0924 · June 22, 2012, 3:38am

I’m pretty sure stuff in the Avatar (not the James Cameron movie) universe has MUCH worse “shipment” than this show.
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That’s what it was like for me at first. Even though it says I started on the forum this February I actually started posting in April, so 2 months=2500+ posts. Trust me, you’ll get there!

19Tabularasa94 · June 22, 2012, 3:44am

Digital high five!!

whiskers_D · June 22, 2012, 6:18am

Congratulations!

Sir_Sapphire · June 22, 2012, 12:26pm

I was wondering, would it really be so terrible for Lion-O to meet a girl who immediately likes him and wants to “make his sword work” so-to-speak? Just so the poor guy could know that someone likes him and he’s not completely defective.

Night_Song · June 22, 2012, 12:36pm

It would be great for his self-esteem, but even if he meets a girl who genuinely and immediately likes him, he won’t believe she’s interested in him and he would probably think she might have an agenda (like Pumyra) or is simply flirtatious or being a good friend (Cheetara). When you’re deeply entrenched in your own beliefs, it becomes really hard to stop believing in them.

hammy0924 · June 22, 2012, 2:47pm

It would be nice. I think they’d have to bring in a new character to do so, however. Maybe someone exclusive to the comics?

AirMuseServalia · June 22, 2012, 3:13pm

I think Lion-O needs to do this: Fix himself (maturity, which is what he is doing already) save the world along side the supportive female that’s purpose isn’t to just be the love interest, and THEN get the girl. Saving the world is a tall order for anyone, facing your giants is an even taller one when it’s a civil war inside.