“ | You think your words mean anything to me? I've lived multiple lifetimes and all of them filled with pain and loss. If I cannot experience the simple joys of life, why should anyone else? | „ |
~ Honerva. |
Haggar (formerly known as Empress Honerva) is one of the secondary antagonists of Voltron: Legendary Defender.
She is arch-nemesis of Princess Allura and Shiro and acting as the second archenemy of Voltron Paladins. Having lived for over 10,000 years, she is a powerful sorceress, who serves as the advisor to Emperor Zarkon and leads the Druids of the Galra Empire, until Zarkon's death at the hands of her own son. Years after, she became more malevolent and more powerful than ever, and engineered a plot to destroy all realities, by destroying the Realm Of Existence. She was finally defeated at the hands at Voltron, thus saving the realities altogether.
She is voiced by Cree Summer as Haggar and by Lily Rabe as Honerva, the latter having also portrayed Shelby Miller, Aileen Wuornos, and The Devil from American Horror Story.
Biography[]
Ten Thousand Years Prior[]
Honerva was one of the best alchemists on Altea, and came, on the request of King Alfor, to the Galra home planet Daibaazal to investigate the rift that was left by the dimensional reality comet that crashed onto the planet. It was here that she met Daibaazal's king, Zarkon, who became smitten with her.
For many years, Honerva would remain on Daibaazal investigating the rift and marry Zarkon during that time.
One day, Alfor comes to check up on her research, and when asked about the dark creature, Honerva explained that she sent signals into the other reality and the creature answered. Alfor reminds her that she was supposed to exercise caution on acts like this, but Honerva insists that they must keep pushing the boundaries in the pursuit of knowledge. When the dark creature summons more of its kind through the rift, she and Alfor were able to contain them in a particle barrier, but it won't be able to hold the creatures for long. The dark creatures were soon defeated by Alfor's creation, Voltron, but despite Alfor's insistance on sealing the rift, Zarkon keeps it opened, and Honerva continued her experiments with the rift.
Some time has passed when Alfor visits again, and finds that Honerva used Quintessence from the rift on her cat, Kova, when he became ill which lengthened his normal lifespan. Not only that, but the prolong exposure to Quintessence has taken a toll on Honerva mental and physical health, to the point that she ends up fainting after Alfor leaves.
Fatally ill and losing her mind, Honerva rambles about going into the rift using Voltron, and Zarkon tricks Alfor and the other Voltron Paladins into doing just that. Inside the rift, Zarkon exposes Honerva to pure Quintessence when they are then swarmed by the dark creatures that attacked Daibazaal. Voltron is able to rescue Zarkon and Honerva, only to find that they have both died from overexposure. As the further opening of the rift had further destabilized Daibazaal, Alfor evacuated the planet destroyed it in order to close the rift forever. After being held a funeral, the two are revealed to be alive and corrupted by the Quintessence, with Honerva losing all of her memories and becoming Haggar.
Appearance[]
Honerva seems to be a petite, slim humanoid lady with long white hair, dark blue skin, and yellow eyes, yet she is partly hidden by a purple and yellow cloak and carries herself with a slumped stance. Haggar's eyes have no irises or pupils behind her hood, and on either side of her face are long crimson smudges that go from her angular cheekbones through her lips and almost to her chin. Probably distorted Altean markings are seen here. Haggar has an angular face and a nose that is clearly convex. Her hair is tied back in a bun and is long enough to fall across her chest as it hangs over her shoulders. Compared to other known Alteans, she has larger, more pointed ears.
In addition to her cloak, Haggar is dressed in a black and yellow dress with a high neck, long sleeves, and a tattered skirt. Purple and yellow robes with a winged design are placed over the dress.
Honerva was a thin Altean lady with light brown complexion and pale purple hair before she was transformed. She had little red scars in the shape of sickles on her cheekbones, just below each of her gold eyes, and being an Altean, her ears were pointed at the top rather than rounded. Her eyes had a distinct lavender hue in the middle of the pupils. With her bangs brushed to the right of her face and a collection of long strands drooping in front of her ears, Honerva kept her hair pulled back into a bun.Honerva's red facial marks changed and lengthened over time as she was influenced by Quintessence, and her ears got more prominent. Honerva was initially dressed with a gray utility belt with a single pouch, gray leggings, and gray boots. Her white and blue Altean tunic was accentuated with teal. Honerva donned gray and maroon robes over gray leggings and boots when she was crowned the Galran empress, with black, yellow, and vivid red accents. She appears in Zarkon's recollections dressed in a purple and white wedding gown with yellow and red accents, along with a white veil and a yellow and red headpiece.
Personality[]
Haggar is a cruel and mad sorceress who cares for no one but Zarkon and harvesting all of the Quintessence in the galaxy. This cruelty is especially shown in her experimentation and torturing of prisoners. Her thousand years of experience and high intellect make her highly confident in dealing with anyone until she inadvertantly unlocked Allura's magical abilities and the Altean princess uses it against Haggar does the witch become terrified to the point of retreating. Though she loses her memory of being Zarkon's wife, the love that her previous life as Honerva has for him shows through in Haggar as she faithfully serves Zarkon and worries about his unhealthy obsession with recapturing Voltron. This also extends to preserving his rule over the empire as she summoned Lotor to rule as Emperor Pro Tem to hold the empire together. Though she would later revive Zarkon when Lotor was not performing his job.
In contrast to Zarkon who reduced into irredeemable malevolent tyrant who remained evil to the end, Haggar still retain traces of her old self Honerva. However, it all rendered dormant by very corruption that change her physically and mentally until they resurfaced when she caught vision of her past life as she attempted to revive comatose Zarkon. Wary at first, she began to understood the recollection the more she use quintessence, allowing her old self Honerva to slowly resurface for the first time in thousands of years but keep the truth about her past and change a secret from everyone. This become apparent upon receiving more visions via. quintessence which revealed that Lotor is her and Zarkon's son, something which made Haggar shocked and devastated (as the said visions also revealed that baby Lotor was lonely due to what his parents had become). These ultimately shattered her loyalty to her now-monstrous husband where she plotted against him to ensure his defeat, Lotor's survival, and her son's ascension to the throne with Sendak and Shiro.
While she regained her memories and true identity as Honerva, she continued her dark pursuits, as she, despite being deemed worthy of the Altean legend of Oriande, defiled and perverted its knowledge and power for her own uses, and, after a long and futile search for her son Lotor before finally accepting he had died, approached the Altean coloy Lotor had saved (and exploited) and twisted the truths and facts to manipulate them, claiming Lotor had been betrayed by the Paladins of Voltron and swayed them to join her as her loyal acolytes to "avenge" their fallen savior and restore Altean civilization. However, in truth, Honerva cared nothing for the Alteans she had manipulated and implanted into them the "dark entities" of the Quintessence Field in order to completely control them or eliminate them if they became a liability.
As she continued her schemes and continued to take and destroy, Honerva eventually attempted to find another universe where she could be with her husband and son without regard for the dangers she risked upon the multiverse, and just when it seemed she had found her perfect reality it was soured when the Lotor of that reality denied her, somehow knowing she was not truly his mother. This final rejection pushed Honerva over the edge and drove her insane with rage, heartbreak, and spite, that she attempted to destroy the multiverse and all of reality, until the Paladins of Voltron managed to stop her before it was too late.
At first, she refused to relent, bitter that she was denied happiness and peace, feeling that existence was ultimately pointless and painful. But the Paladins managed to convince Honerva that it's because of the flaws of the universe are what makes living worthwhile. Finally understanding that preserving life is what brings happiness, Honerva changed and willingly sacrificed herself alongside Allura in order to restore the universes she had destroyed, and she was finally reunited with her husband and son, at long last allowing them to be the family they never got to be before, giving Honerva the peace and happiness she had sought.
Powers and Skills[]
Haggar was originally Honerva, an Altean alchemist who was corrupted by dark entities like Zarkon, turning her into the dark witch Haggar and losing all memory of her former self. She has dark magical abilities in contrast to Altean life-giving magic and does not age or need sustenance aside from quintessence to survive, having lived for more than 10,000 years.
While having no fighting skills, her magic allows her to manipulate dark energy to attack with energy blasts, defend with shields, teleport herself, steal life energy, manipulate minds, levitate objects, and conjure magic circles for witchcraft at wider range. She can also cloud minds with dark illusions and has magical senses to detect lies, ancient energy, and events across the universe. Haggar can also control living beings by infusing dark entities linked to her within them, allowing her to see and hear what they do, control their actions, induce and wake them from comas at will, etc. The witch also uses dark crystals and magic amplifier devices to perform witchcraft on larger scales that can affect Voltron, wormholes, or entire planets. Upon gaining the secrets of Oriande, she restored her original self as Honerva and has become even more powerful and dangerous, capable of vaporizing a large group of Galra and controlling the Sincline mech.
Haggar's greatest skill lies in her intellect, having served as Zarkon's advisor for millennia. As an expert scientist and alchemist, she and her Druids experiment with sorcery and mechanics to create powerful weapons, machines, and doomsday devices used by the Galra Empire, notably the Robeast mechs that fight Voltron, Shiro and Sendak's robotic arms, magical amplifier devices, and the Komar device which extracts quintessence from entire planets. With Oriande's knowledge, she is capable of building wormhole generators, Komar Robeasts, and her own personal Robeast mech that uses Komar wing blades to steal quintessence, view other realities, and open destructive portals between them.
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See also[]
- Honerva, her original counterpart in Beast King GoLion.
- Haggar (Voltron: Defender of the Universe), her counterpart in the original Voltron: Defender of the Universe series.
- Mother of Prince Lotor Loosely Based On Sarah, Honerva, Haggar, Prince Sincline, Emperor Daibazaal, and Prince Sincline's Mother.
External Links[]
- Haggar on the Voltron Wiki.
- Haggar on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki.
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