#and maybe Coran?

[lehdenlaulu]

Now that I'm finally here...

Minsc has little shrines for Mazzy, Keldorn, Aerie and Jan! 🥹🥺😭

[klanced]

lance: yeah so this is earth. it’s kind of lame but like also very wonderous. there’s something to be said about finding beauty in the smaller moments-

pidge: do you guys want to go to build-a-bear?

coran: build a WHAT?

pidge: .. honestly did not think it would warrant that kind of response

coran: do you promise.

pidge: ?

allura: oh that sounds like fun! 

coran: can we go.

pidge: yeah sure!!!

(later)

coran: (sulking on the ship)

lance: .. coran, what did you think build-a-bear meant-

coran: i don’t want to talk about it.

[featherlight-whispers]

i should make a post assigning cars to the vld cast actually

[autisticlancemcclain]

okay so i was writing more for the fic i just posted right...thats what i was intending to do last night but...yall i went insane. this was supposed to be so much less serious than it has become. ive been on theoi.com for hours. my greedy greedy hands have been scooping from the bowl of symbolism with all five fingers. incoming later tonight but u are all going to be hearing about this au for a While

[notllorstel]

Followed you for your VLD work and have been enjoying your work ever since. Every once in a while I get back into it and I have to go through your old VLD work each time because your Shiro and Coran fanart is still my absolute favorite.

Sometimes I miss drawing the lads, they were fun! Perhaps in future will get some of the wips I still got lying around done so✌️✌️✌️

[sword--wings]

What if one (1) earth year equaled ten (10) altean years....

[ethereance]

Headcanon time: Coran has made a travel guide, Coran’s compendium, detailing the best tourist spots to visit on many of the planets he has visited.

[shroomyart404]

Is the Voltron fandom still kicking? If so, I need to make them aware of my 4K dream I had which forced me to focus on this

Context below

So, last night, I had a dream which was the clearest dream I’ve had in YEARS and for some reason it was Voltron?? But with the production quality of a show like the Mandolorian

The basis of what happened was the team had landed on a desolate planet in search of idk something like a rock, however the Enemy were also searching for it. So, with the power of old Altaen tech, Coran and Allura simulate a crash to make it look like no one survived. Like this was a really high stakes mission. Allura and Coran kept going on about how the tech was old and the simulation wouldn’t look or feel believable, plus they don’t know how human bodies work, etc etc.

But uh it was scarily accurate by the teams standards, sent a shiver down Shiro’s spine for sure.

And so the team go off and start searching, splitting up to cover more ground. Managing to get out of sight just before the Enemy arrives. Accompanying the enemy is keiths alien girlfriend, the red lady in the top left of the drawing, who currently is spying on the enemy from the inside. She insists on checking the bodies to “check they’re well and fully dead” as she knows the most about human biology. What she’s infact doing is checking for a specific engraving on Keith’s spacesuit, and when it’s not there, she knows they aren’t actually dead.

I’ve already started coming up with headcanons and other bits and bobs, but like…bare in mind I’ve not watched Voltron in YEARS

[monpixi]

because im going through vld brainrot and i cant possibly enjoy something without bringing up kpop here's the main characters and which kpop groups i think they'd stan

shiro - shinee

keith - stray kids and ateez

lance - twice

pidge - iz*one and she would support all their careers after iz*one

hunk - saturday and gidle

allura - girls generation

coran - 100%

[funforahermit]

okay here goes

my girlfriend told me to love what i love, so i'm going to say it

i think voltron was great

all of it

please don't hurt me

[klanced]

spreading out the lance answers to distribute the results, i see? lance behaviour if i’ve ever seen any/j

nahhhhhhh can we please be fr. lance does not know how to cheat and sabotage like me.

[turbent]

I wish. In another universe maybe…

They lived happily ever after, the end :)

[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

absolutely unrelated to me rewatching it, but if there was a voltron AU for fable, who do you think would be who?

[swagging-back-to]

lollll wait adventure time voltron au???

[bluemantics]

If Keith and Lance were going to fall together at any moment, it would’ve been when Keith was the black paladin.

Keith had successfully kept his walls up until then; battles left him mostly unfazed, team bonding barely nicked his armor, and even Hunk’s cooking wasn’t able to pry him open. 

Then, Shiro vanished, and everything changed. Keith suddenly was tasked with leading the team intended to save the universe. 

All his previous failings and outbursts piled up in his mind at once, nausea rolling through his body constantly. How was he supposed to do this? He was a dropout with anger and authority issues, a wild warrior without aim. Keith wasn’t meant to be anything more than a tamed beast. Even worse, if he wasgoing to step up eventually, to become something greater, he was supposed to do it with Shiro. Instead, a gaping hole had been left behind at the helm. Keith was too young. Too inexperienced. And worst of all, he was entirely alone. 

For the first time in a long time, he was vulnerable, and his aching edges were exposed to anyone brave enough to look. 

The team noticed when he started to crack, exposing his pain and his fear. 

Hunk tried to help, in his own unique way. He noticed the pale hue of the black paladin’s skin and resolved to feed him, maybe help him talk over food. However, that hardly worked, since Keith stopped eating regularly with the team. 

Even Pidge tried to relate through their unique bond. She teased him about the old stories they used to muse over together, but anecdotes about their brothers were still raw for Keith, and he lashed out. That caused Pidge to retreat quickly, her concealed hurt only worsening Keith’s guilt.  

Allura spoke to him in soothing tones that only riled him up more. It was the worst with her, even though she tried her best. Somehow, her gentle tone only reminded him of the wild thing he was. When he would respond in anger, she wasn’t afraid to rise to meet him, and instances where the whole team witnessed them clash only embarrassed him. 

But then there was Lance. That was always how it had gone since their journey started. Lance, appearing to help carry Keith’s brother. Lance, badgering him into a fight. Lance, constantly standing just to his right, prepared to offer unwanted commentary. And now he was the red paladin. 

For the first few days after the lion switch, Lance merely observed how Keith interacted with everyone silently. It made him uncomfortable. He was restless under Lance’s piercing gaze, his eyes that tracked his every choice, his normally discerning tongue that for once chose to still. 

The moment that caused Keith to snap occurred during training. He’d been staying up late every night, working extra with the bots to get better with the new black bayard. Logically, it was just as perfectly balanced as his old sword. Keith just wasn’t able to shake the feeling that the weight of it wasn’t suited to his hand.

So, he trained with it. Again and again. 

Which meant that team training during the daytime… well, it suffered. He was exhausted. Coran, watching over them, admonished Keith for it, but he could barely hear the royal advisor over the sound of his blood rushing past his ears and the clanging of his teammates moving their bayards and the bright lights shining into his pupils and the bruises settling painfully under his ribs and the pressure of his new black armor against his sternum and, worst of all, Lance’s unrelenting stare. 

He snapped back into himself, realizing the team was awaiting his reaction. Their eyes looked round and worried. Keith narrowed in on one person who was standing just at his elbow. 

“Why do you keep looking at me like that?” he hissed.

There was a pause after his words. Lance’s expression remained careful, his hand coming up to rest on Keith’s shoulder, forcing a breath out of his lungs. The lights seemed to dim. 

“Let’s take a break,” Lance suggested to everyone. Marvelously, they nodded, Hunk exchanging murmurs with Allura as they both put down their weapons and began to walk toward the door. Pidge scampered up the stairs to Coran. Keith looked at Lance in bewilderment after noticing they were alone.

Lance just grinned, and it released something in Keith that had been knotted up.

“So, Samurai, I think we need to talk.” 

Lance quietly spoke to him about the team’s unease. That they all wanted to help him, but he’d regressed back to a place that was painful to see. Lance spoke of a small desert shack, a place that could be a shelter, but could also be confining in its limitations. A place to hide from the watchful stars. A place of anger, regret, and desperation.

Grief. 

Lance’s words carved out an image of a loner fulfilling his own self-destructive prophecy. It made Keith bristle. Then, however, he reminded him of other images, scenes from the recent past he’d rejected in his mourning. 

Helping Hunk perfect a recipe late at night, even if he didn’t know much about cooking besides canned beans and rice. 

Sorting Pidge’s small pieces of machinery as she ranted about a planet they’d visited. 

Allura laughing when he made a dry comment about a foreign diplomat, and then immediately failing to cover it up when said official turned around, making Keith smile as well. 

Lifting Lance off a bloody battlefield, the harsh sounds raging in the background as he carried him into Red and saved his life.

“You’re not alone.” Lance’s hands stretched out, beseeching. 

“Why did you wait so long to talk to me?” Keith breathed, as if he knew, deep down, that this talk was going to come the entire time. “Why were you so quiet?”

And Lance’s face fell. Keith regretted asking near instantly. 

“Well, you’re not the only one trying to fill in for a strong presence. I had to get used to some things, too, y’know? Convince myself that I can be right for this job.” He points between himself and the black paladin. 

It’s ridiculous. Keith wants to open his mouth, to assure Lance that he’s not just excelling, that he’s perf—

“You need to start showing up to team dinners. Stop working yourself to death at night— that was fine when you were number two, but now you gotta lead us in training,” Lance started to list off as he put a finger up for each point. “Talk to Pidge about Shiro, since she misses him too, not just you. Reassure Allura that you’re happy to lead alongside her. Just… chill the F out, dude.” Keith blinks, owlish in the face of a literal itemized list of things to fix. 

So, he tries to chill the F out. 

It isn’t easy. He still feels inadequate, out of place in every room he steps into, especially when his friends all look to him for answers. Keith often trembles with the weight of the universe. Thank god for Lance, always standing just to his right. Slowly, they open the door of that desert shack together, and he learns how to share his burden. He learns a lot of things. 

Like how Lance is deceptively smart when it comes to strategizing. Or that Lance’s empathy is a weapon, able to prevent a battle with a few well-placed words. He especially enjoys learning that Lance has curly hair, he thinks Keith is funny when no one else does, and he has a fondness for young kids due to his family. 

Lance is his right-hand man and co-leader in every sense of both terms. Their call-and-response has never been better. Oftentimes, before thinking about what Shiro might do, Keith begins to consider what Lance might do. 

And isn’t that frightening? 

They fell together after the lion switch in ways no one could have predicted. Keith feels a wild thing settle in his chest at the thought, his eyes turned toward the stars that watch him in return. 

He stays standing among the sand. He ignores the urge to retreat to shelter. Keith embraces the sky and its promise of warm, fresh rainfall. 

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

@shiroganetakashi

First of all- i love the idea of Lions being in a pocket dimension and can just appear when they are needed. The image you described would be a really cool and genuinely the funniest thing ever. (Read more cause it got too long)

Like imagine you are on this planet that has been occupied by the Galra and then this tiny ramshackle of a spacecraft appears in front of you and these 7 random people just get out and they are like "We are voltron! We are here to help you!" And you are pretty sure voltron is supposed to be 1) a myth 2) a very VERY big robot.

But you are like fine i guess, if they want to fight the goddamn galra in their tin can of a spaceship then fine their funeral. But then out of nowhere five very hi tech gigantic lions come out like literally out of nowhere and all of them are much bigger than that rust bucket. These lions combine into an even bigger robot and fight happens and you are apparently free now? But more importantly the Lions just fucking disappear and one of them is like "We were happy to help! Here's a thingy you need to call us with in case you need any help :D!" And then they just pile back in their shitty junk of a spaceship and you are pretty sure it was smoking despite it being nowhere near the battlefield and you wonder if you hallucinated all of it but no you still have the thingy in your hand and your planet is free apparently so now you have to live with this.

Second of all- you are absolutely right about that but also i kinda get Alfor's thought process? Like logically a smaller ship would definately be safer but i imagine that Alfor being like "ok we are being attacked right now but my daughter is safe inside a cryopod which is attached to the gigantic castle ship with black lion in the basement....ok not ideal but this can be saved. The castleship can be wormholed away, i will distract Zarkon, it has shields and weapons in case someone tries to attack it. For the time being it should be safe." Like i think Alfor may have just assumed they'll ditch the castle when they find new paladins and couldnt have predicted that it would take 10,000 years for voltron to be found or he may have not even have thought That far at all (cause we know he is bit impulsive and runs into dangers, the idea of using a smaller craft may not have even come to him at that very high stressed situation he was in).

But yeah in the long run the castleship really was rather risky cause Zarkon would have recognized it. That being said that he wasnt able to find it or any of the lions sans one in 10,000 years makes it even funnier cause like Hunk made a tracker to find a lion in a single day in his free time while most likely using whatever tech he had in his pocket and Keith might have in his shack. Like?? Galra are supposed to be way advance in their tech than the humans they should not be having this many problems. Like Zarkon/Galra might be just really bad at their job lmao

Reason #7632891 why it is a good thing that i was not a writer on vld- if i had been one the Castle of Lions would have been a much much later development and the first spacecraft all the paladins and Coran and Allura would be living in would be spacecraft equivalent of a shitty two storeyed house. Also lions can shrink in size to fit in