>>1022882101. yes that was him.
2. Shiro's illness reveal was basically "retroactive character growth," if you go back and look at a lot of his scenes and development with the fact that the thought he had limited time left it adds a new layer of depth to his character
3. nothing really implies they were dead, you just see the parents because they were the ones taken to the work camps
4. no it's not explicitly confirmed, just implied by him and the clone merging. I think the more important thing is that it's not implied he DOESN'T have those memories, i.e. he never mentions a gap in knowledge or that he needs to be filled in on shit that happened
5. magic bullshit but magic bullshit with precedence, Voltron was build the exact same way. Alfor constructed the lions but had no idea they could combine.