Sincline's Mother

Sincline's mother in Honerva's memories

Sincline's Mother was an unnamed Altean woman captured by Emperor Daibazaal, made into his concubine and the mother of his heir, Sincline.

In Voltron: Defender of the Universe, she is not her own character, but rather an image of Princess Allura seen in both her own and Lotor's dreams.

Fiction

Beast King GoLion

Sincline's mother only appears in Sincline's nightmares and Honerva's flashback.

In Sincline's nightmares, he sees his own mother calling out his name and being pulled away by demonic hands that resembles those of his father. Sincline states that these dreams are recurring and he sees Fala's face in place of his mother's. This is to show that Fala bears a striking resemblance to his mother, and that Sincline's obsession with Fala is rooted in an oedipal complex.

Information about his mother is withheld from Sincline by both Daibazaal and Honerva, in order to prevent Sincline from realizing his Altean heritage. Honerva confided with Sincline to confirm that his mother did resemble Fala, but refused to reveal her Altean origin and fate. In a flashback, it was shown that she was begging Daibazaal to spare the lives of other Altean captives, and was murdered by him for opposing his stance. When Sincline officially learns the whole story from Honerva at the very end, he goes completely mad and violently kills her.

Trivia

Lora's appearance in the Robotech/Voltron crossover comic

• In the non-canon crossover, Robotech/Voltron, the character Lora is an homage to Sincline's mother and appears in Lotor's memories. She is explicitly said to be Zarkon's Royal Consort, looks exactly like the character she was based from, and her fate in the comic is much like her fate in Beast King GoLion: she is killed by Zarkon for begging him to stop taking innocent Arusian lives.
• In Voltron: Defender of the Universe, all scenes depicting Sincline's mother were localized into Lotor dreaming about Allura at a more mature looking age.
• Curiously, the exact scene depicting Sincline's mother's death is not cut out of Voltron: Defender of the Universe, but rather has its dialogues changed to erase her relationship to Lotor. Instead, Haggar recalls how an unnamed Arusian woman captured by Zarkon first pleaded for mercy towards her fellow prisoners. When Zarkon didn't pay heed to her please she defiantly told him that Arus would never yield to Planet Doom, which is what gets her killed.