#AU Zarkon

[jiveyuncle]

I don't normally post my traditional stuff, but I wanna hype up authors when I can. This scene has been stuck in my head since I read it. Happy to finally get it down.

Fic: Take On Me by infinitesongbird on AO3

You can read the fic here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51343888/chapters/129737761

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Okay! So!

Part one of my MHA VoltronLD thing uhhhh yeah.

Life Force: Allura is able to use the surrounding energy of life to heal, shield, and attack, usually in the form of a light-whip or spear (her bayard form and staff). The life energy can be hot if too concentrated, causing burns. Excessive usage causes regular quirk drawbacks like exhaustion and headaches.

Likes: Organization, Pink, and her uncle Coran

Dislikes: The current hero system, mutation quirks, and excessive flirting

Allura’s father, Alfor, used to be the HPSC President before Zarkon took over. Allura still got her position, but is suspicious of Zarkon’s plans for the HPSC. She is especially worried about Honerva’s “Young Heroes Program” and what that could be. Coran, bless his soul, has backed Allura for every decision, but things are getting tense. Allura fears her uncle could get fired if he continues to speak out in her name. That’s not even to mention the secretive work of Lotor…

The markings on her face, wrists, collar, and ankles are from her quirk. Her father had similar marks, but only on his face as he did not have nearly as powerful a quirk as her. Her ears are a small mutation from her mother’s side. Mutations are complicated to her, as she has a few herself, but her coworkers (Zarkon, Honerva, Lotor, etc.) are all rather… dismissive, snide, and rude with her, making it difficult to see that not all mutant quirked people are so short coming.

[cozycringe]

Been developing my Voltron/Wings of Fire AU some more and finally came up with some more designs

Started getting lazy after Allura, but I managed to fit most the characters I wanted to design before my hand got tired.

Since the paladins are phyrrian dragons, it made sense for the aliens to be pantalan dragons to me because they��re on a different continent n stuff.

Allura and Coran are both silkwings and also the supposed last of their kind

Zarkon is a beetlewing, they’re canonically extinct but he’s like a gajillion years old so I think him being an extinct dragon race is pretty fitting. Haggar is a silkwing but it’s not very apparent with her hood, so most dragons assume she’s a hivewing (the galra are hivewings in this AU). Lotor is a hive and or beetle/silk hybrid, he’s just a silly guy fr.

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The lions for my Voltron AU

‘Lion battle cruiser Chōwa’

[discordiansamba]

Akira's internal reactions to meeting all of the paladins for the 'first' time (at least in this timeline) is very amusing to me. Like, meeting Shiro is just surreal because the last time he saw him, he was very much in his final season eight form with all that entailed and now he is very much the same guy who picked him out from a crowd and recruited him even though he stole his car.

(Except Keith doesn't do that in this timeline. Shame. It added a unique flavor to their relationship... but also in hindsight, probably made it more likely for Shiro to believe he had in fact, stolen that blade when they went to make an alliance with Kolivan.)

It's just so surreal. Shiro is so young. And he's- he's older than Shiro. Oh god, he's older than Shiro. That can't be right? And yet. He's older than Shiro. What the fuck. He needs to go lie down for awhile.

Lance, Hunk, and Pidge are somewhat less surreal. He's used to being older than them, especially after his time in the quantum abyss. But wow, Pidge is even smaller than he remembered her being. And Allura? He just feels this weird drive to keep her safe.

Actually, he feels this way about all of the paladins- Keith included. Is this how Shiro felt all the time? How the hell did he handle all of this stress? This sucks actually. He's not sure he's ready to be the adult in this situation even though he is quite literally in his early thirties now.

Also, would it kill Keith to stop being reckless FOR FIVE SECONDS!?

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i genuinely love characters never forgiving each other so much! Especially if the other is redeemed or sympathetic or even a good person who fucked up. Like yes sweetie stay a petty bitter bitch, sometimes healing includes a dash of Resent and Remember

[galraluver]

Haxus: *Screams*

Throk: *Screams louder*

Haxus: *Screams even louder*

Throk: *Screeches his voice box into dust*

Haxus: *Continues screaming*

Zarkon: WHAT THE QUIZNAK ARE YOU DOING? THIS IS A WAR ZONE NOT A QUIZNAKING SINGING CONTEST??!?

Regris: *Uses the resonance blaster*

Everyone: ...

Haxus: (begrudgingly) Okay you win-

[princealienelffish22]

Love is blind

my Voltron oc Timur and Alkumi from my Voltron sequel au when they first meet

[voltron-interstellar-uprising]

The future of online learning

[liloskull343]

I DIDN'T UPLOAD THE PAGES SO HERES A REPOST

Welcome Home Prince (comic)

I remember the White Diamond meeting Steven scene and this fits perfectly for my au lore and I had to redraw the scene with Keith and Emperor Zarkon-

In case y'all didn't know Emperor Zarkon stole Keith when he was a baby as well as killing his father, Keith ran away as a child when seeing Emperor Zarkon brutally murder innocent lives.

[angstandhappiness]

LMAO YES

Talk shit! Get wrecked Zarkon in the Astral Plane!

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Voltron AU drawing

[discordiansamba]

@a-deadly-lullaby replied to your post “spitballing some more ideas for the oops! all...”:

First odd, I LOVE the sibling vibes between Keith and Allura. They need more solidarity. Second, I saw the "big sister" Allura, now all I can imagine is Keith and Allura taking one look at Lotor and approaching him like a little brother. That whole situation with Lotor could go in any direction though.

​Lotor would definitely be interesting in this AU!

Both Keith and Allura would have known Zarkon and Honerva pre-corruption. That goes without saying, really. They both would have known that Honerva was pregnant, and it's easy to imagine it catching both of their interest. They were both excited to meet the child- particularly Keith, who was also half-Galra, half-Altean.

They both assumed the child died with Honerva.

Lotor would naturally have an interest in them both, given that they're both old Alteans. Allura's alchemical abilities would still catch his eye the most like in canon, but he can't deny that he's curious about the only other half-Galra, half-Altean he's ever met. But he's also... disappointed in Keith. He clearly leans more towards his Galra half, which Lotor cannot understand. He was raised on Altea. Yet if it were not for his markings and colored pupils, he might assume he was just like any other Galra.

To someone who hold's his mother's people to such an impossibly high standard, it would be baffling to Lotor.

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Like just single dad space cowboy Lance au, that keeps rotating in my head, absolute bullshit but just know it is inspired by Smokin Joe Rudeboy by Tom Cardy

[ethereance]

*Goes feral over these tags*

-yeah! For the memories it really could go any way. Pouring all of one’s memories of the deceased into their newly transmuted body, in turn forgetting them, leaving a shadow in Lance’s memories which he cannot compare to this new person because he simply does not know them. Yet, yet he feels like he should, that seeing them like this should kill him. But they are both living

-or, or it could be seen as an exchange as the transmuted body creates new memories, he loses some of his. Another way of losing oneself in the process of bringing back the dead. It’s the struggle for everyone else around him, knowing they could lose Lance because of this, and the only way to bring him back is too—

-oooo, I was thinking the hollow route, which starts with him thinking that the transmuted person is off, but the more he talks with other people, the more he realises it was him. He’s the one that’s off. He gave up much more than he realised. The spark, the drive that led him to commit human transmutation in the first place just isn’t there. Maybe it’s relief, that the other person is back, and yet, he hardly even feels that.

-But I very much like the possibility of it leading to a shortened life span. Without his soul, he’s running out of time, running on the fumes of his extinguished soul.

-and all this sacrifice for someone who hates his guts. He could live with it if they were themselves (knowing they hate him, but at least they’re alive!!! Alive to hate him!! It’s better than dead), but the more time spent around said person, the more he can see the cracks in the facade. It seems too good to be true at first for Lance, but the longer spent around them, the more it feels like an act, to them, to him. Maybe he’ll turn a blind eye, a gut feeling telling him not to, but this is them. It has to be. Has to because then what was it all for? But they’re too much like his memories of them, and in the eyes of others, they do not match up to how they perceived them. That’s the thing, this person is going off of how others (Lance) remembered them, they do not have an idea of who they are themselves. They hate this idea of them, this identity that has been forced upon them, but it is all they know. It is everything he gave to them, and yet they struggle to meet it. It’s a walking identity crisis of a person, and the first real thought they have to themselves is that they never asked for this, the second is that they’ll do anything and everything to break against this mould.

They are not themselves.

Any longer blind to it, and it could cost everything.

‘It’s all his fault and he must fix it even if it kills him (a part of him hoping it does)’ <<<< This!!!! He’d feel a duty to his mistakes, to make things right. This is a person (or a monster? Or is it easier to see them as one? See them as a foe wearing the face of a loved one like a meat suit?). A person he moulded to outfit his grief, a person he moulded to fill a void shaped like them. But they don’t fit the mould, and yet they still exist. His doing. Anyone they hurt, he’d probably feel like it was on him, the consequences of his actions. They’re sullying their memory, making it rotten and more people are being dragged into grief.

A part of him wants to hope there’s a part of them still in there. Another part doesn’t.

Because he knows what he has to do, and if it really is them, he’d be losing them all over again.

And as long as part of him thinks this, that there’s still hope they’re them, the longer this goes on. The longer their memory hurts and hurts and hurts, and the more people who will push to let them go. Their soul is long gone from this world.

(He feels their second death would kill him) (and so let it, Lance thinks.)

Thoughts on an au where Earth also has alchemy but it's kinda like one in fma and Lance did the Human Transmutation?? (I don't think kid!Lance would initially be interested in studying nerd shit alchemy but if it's to bring someone he loves? Then yeah. This guy was in show equivalent of nasa/stem program so he can be a pilot, I believe in him)

Very very very much like where you’re going with this Anon. Because oh boy does this give one the opportunity to test Lance to his limits *insert one evil cackle here.* (As someone who loves fmab, but especially fma03 and what that particular version did with its homunculus, *fma spoilers here* and their relationship with identity, and the identity imposed upon them, the very essence of ‘came back wrong’ this could lead to a horrible no good very bad time for Lance should I start writing anything remotely like this. Which I’ve now begun. Whoops.)

I have many thoughts :))) Probably focused way too much on the fma alchemy part, but brace yourself.

So. Humans have alchemy. Maybe they’re naturally born with this ability, perhaps many years ago ancient Alteans arrived in hiding and brought the practice of alchemy with them. It’s just a thing that’s always existed.

Pidge and Matt are the obvious to go for if you follow the fma storyline. They’re the kid geniuses and honestly that sounds like an interesting fic following the pair of them resurrecting their Dad (or perhaps Pidge trying to and Matt only catches on far too late). But. But. But Lance going f*** it we ball and messing around with those mystic mumbo jumbo dark forces he doesn’t get, learning to understand them because he cannot handle a reality where this dead person isn’t around? Yes please. I write self indulgently.

You get it! Lance got into fighter pilot class because there was a spot, meaning he would probably have been the top of cargo class, and you don’t get there without at least trying. Yeah, he’d call it ‘nerdy’, but this guy will put in the effort if it comes to it, and who’s he fooling, he was very much enjoying himself in that M&m episode.

So, if the situation arises, if he loses someone he cares about, and he’s in a world where the solution is there seemingly in the palm of his hand (human transmutation)? Yeah, he’ll put in the hard work, and wouldn’t think twice about the repercussions on him if it means whoever he’s doing this for will be okay. Is it selfish? Is it selfless? Who can say? Lance cares so much for his family, something happening to them would devastate him, so in this kind of au they’ll probably be at the top of the list of resurrection. So I’m thinking:

-His mother (his family is in shambles and a kid Lance wants things to go back to normal). Totally not ripping off fma with this suggestion.

-Rachel (they’re the closest in age, she has a matching jacket with him/has worn a spare version of his jacket so I’m gonna use what little breadcrumbs I have to presume she’s the sibling closest to him. I also like the probably refuted by canon headcanon of them being twins, and how upon returning to earth those two would deal with this new 3 year age gap between them. The ramifications of that time skip and Lance trying to find his own place in his family again just seems interesting to explore but I digress).

-Veronica (have more of a feel for her personality as opposed to characters like Rachel, Marco, and Luis. And Lance was pretty protective of her, despite Veronica being older than him).

-Hunk (could even go the childhood friends route with them). There’s nothing Lance wouldn’t do for his friends, he values them so much.

-Allura if it’s set around the same time as canon is (I’m an allurancer at heart and can’t help adding her to the list. Besides, allura has healed/resurrected him in canon during omega shield. Lance would want to give back, and would probably rationalise it as something she would do, sacrificing herself for someone else. Mr I can’t imagine this world without you is going to great lengths to get her the heck back, even at the cost of himself aka the fic I’m currently writing now Anon what have you done).

-or to pull plots up from canon, it could be Shiro and this is how Kuron (homunculus Shiro) is born, but I kinda see Keith being the one more likely to pull off the human transmutation for this. Maybe they work together on this? It would mean that Shiro and Lance would have to have a stronger bond than they did in canon, but anything is possible in an au (not that they didn’t have small moments, but they weren’t a focus like Keith and Shiro were).

Of course, it doesn’t go to plan at all. Whatsoever.

To what lengths would he go for sacrifice?

It’s all about that equivalent exchange.

-an arm and a leg because this gives him the perfect coping with humour ™ opportunity to say it only cost him an arm and a leg. Plus, perhaps Lance brought this person back out of guilt, ‘if I had been fast enough—‘. His inaction to save them the first time now leaves him without an arm, or without a leg. Or both (he’s not tethering anyone’s soul to armour here, just depends on how much flesh is taken from him to recreate the deceased’s body). Also, also. It correlates to his two positions on Voltron. The very same arm he was, the very same leg.

Also. It’s about those parallels of being just that little bit more like his hero (Shiro) but knowing that the loss of his arm was self inflicted, making him feel like a false hero, a presense, and he couldn’t feel further away from Shiro. He failed to save this person.

-memories of him in the mind of people he cares about (If you’re feeling super mean).

-His memories of the deceased. Now he wants to know why exactly he risked so much to bring back this unknown person back. What do they mean to him?

-him unknowingly giving up his soul so they can have one. And they’re fine and Lance feels like he was the one who came back wrong ™ there is something missing in him and he doesn’t get it.

And then whoever it is comes back.

They get thrown in a healing pod. Lance probably gets berated by whoever is there (Shiro, his mother, Coran) for doing so reckless, so risky without telling anyone. He knew they’d talk him out of this, but it all worked out right? Right?

But this person isn’t right.

Something about their skin is like a reanimated corpse’. It’s a little too pale. And their eyes are a little too dead. But it can all go by the wayside, they can ignore it. Being gone for so long can’t have been easy.

Said person resents who Lance made them be.

He didn’t bring them back at all.

And so we go the route of them having been brought back but is it really them? Or someone else who has been left with Lance’s memory of who they’re meant to be?

A small part of this person cares for Lance as they did, as a son/friend/sibling/significant other, and they hate that.

Maybe they require quintessence to keep them alive. And oh no. Not this again.

Just. Lance learning alchemy for the purpose of saving someone only he doesn’t save them at all. He risks it all to create a person that never asked to exist, that never asked to be who he wants them to be.

He didn’t make them right.

[galraluver]

Zarkon x Red Paladin Fem, part 4?

I didn't think that this was going to be so popular, so here's another part 🖤

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Almost a deca-phoeb passed since Zarkon captured (Y/n) and she'd come to terms that she wasn't ever going to see her friends again nor was she going to regain true freedom. Living in galra central command wasn't exactly the worst thing in the universe, although she kind of had to be careful around Zarkon because he had some rather obvious anger issues; in a way, she felt like Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Zarkon granted her free roam of central command and status in the empire, at some point she began to fall in love with him a little bit despite knowing she might have had a little Stockholm syndrome. There were times when hints of his previous self showed up in his behavior and that's when (Y/n) devised a plan to help Zarkon return to his previous self instead of continuing to be a quintessence hungry zombie. She was between a rock and a hard place by that point in time, conflicted about whether she should attempt to escape or stay put.

Zarkon wasn't too conflicted about how he felt about (Y/n); she could be a powerful ally, all he had to do was turn her against the paladins if he ran out of plans to get a hold of Voltron, otherwise he wouldn't do it because he needed her to trust him. There were times when he felt somewhat in love with her, he just wasn't good at showing it except for the times when his personality shifted to what it used to be before the incident ten thousand years prior. He didn't mind comforting her when she needed it and he certainly found her attractive, and as time went by she'd managed to earn his trust. One day in particular when Zarkon didn't have anything better to do he decided to visit (Y/n) in her habsuite where he knew she would be, she still preferred the comforts of her new little home because she still missed her freedom. He personally made a snack for (Y/n) using some of the food from his own personal kitchen, but first he made sure everything was edible for humans; he gently knocked on the door when he made it to her habsuite, patiently waiting for her to reply.

“It's unlocked.” (Y/n) called out when she heard a knock on her front door, already knowing who it was; and, as expected, Zarkon walked into her habsuite after the door slid open.

“I've brought you something to eat.” Zarkon spoke with a gentle tone as he walked over to the couch, sitting down and offering the plate to her.

“Thank you.” (Y/n) replied shyly before she took the plate from him, still feeling a little anxious.

Zarkon felt his heart flutter in his chest when (Y/n) accepted the food he gave her, it was a sensation that he hadn't felt in a very long time. He was ancient, he'd been alive for longer than Earth's existence, and yet the young human woman he'd captured made him feel slightly flustered in a good way. One of his main reasons for visiting (Y/n) was because he wanted to take her out shopping at some point, he figured that a day away from central command would do her some good. (Y/n) sat there and quietly ate, feeling a little better after she tasted how good the food was; Zarkon never starved her, she simply hadn't eaten since breakfast and it was almost lunch time. She glanced up at him for a second and saw that he was deep in thought, she couldn't help but wonder what he had on his mind.

“I would like to take you out in a few days to what used to be the largest Unilu swap moon.” Zarkon told her after a few minutes, gazing down at her with a slight smile.

“The old- You mean the space mall?” (Y/n) inquired before she put two and two together, her expression brightening up when she realized that he actually meant the mall; she loved the mall back when she went with some of the paladins, she never thought she would ever get to see it again.

“Yes, I intend to take you to the ‘space mall’ as you put it.” Zarkon answered, his tone a little more chipper than usual.

(Y/n) put the plate down so she could surge forward and hug Zarkon, thanking him for offering to take her to the space mall again. A lot of possibilities rushed through her mind about what she might find at the mall; she would obviously want to go to the Earth store to see what was in stock, she really hoped there would be some books or other things she liked in stock. She hoped that she could find her favorite snack there, the martian usually kept snacks from Earth in stock for anyone who liked them. Zarkon was a little surprised when (Y/n) hugged him out of the blue, he'd never seen her act in such a way and he liked it for some odd reason. For a moment part of his old personality showed itself for a few seconds until they stopped hugging each other.

“Why now? Why are you offering to take me out to the mall all of a sudden?” (Y/n) questioned with a nervous tone, hoping that she wasn't overstepping any boundaries.

“Can I not treat you to a day out whenever I please? I'm not expecting anything in return, if that's what you're concerned about.” Zarkon inquired, feeling slightly awkward all of a sudden, and yet he hid it well.

“I- W-well, yes, you can. I just wasn't sure why, that's all.” (Y/n) answered in embarrassment, feeling stupid for questioning him in the first place.

Zarkon assured her that it was alright; he wasn't offended by (Y/n) asking him why he was taking her out to the mall, in fact he kind of expected it. He watched as she began eating again, not missing the blush that suddenly appeared on her face. He hadn't personally been to the space mall since his time as the black paladin, he wondered exactly how much it had changed since then. Zarkon rarely left central command at all; the only times he did go somewhere was when he had to check in with certain planets, he otherwise never saw the need to go anywhere else. He genuinely felt kind of excited to go out with the former red paladin, although he would have to give her a disguise in order to prevent anyone from recognizing her, but until then he would just go on with life until the day of their trip came.