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ultimate-marysue · 4 years ago

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So, about Bi Caleb

Warning: very long post, discussing bi representation and biphobia.

*Sorry for spelling errors, English ain’t my firts language.

I can’t believe I have to tell you guys, but anyways: Caleb is bi whether he ends with a male character, a female character on a non binary character. That’s what bi people do, you know? they experience atraction for all genders. Saying that a bi character that ends with someone of the opposite gender is straight and queerbaiting is incredibly biphobic.

Yes, Vax was bisexual. Yes, he ended up with Kiki. Get fucking over it.

Now, I can understand why LGBT+ fans may feel disappointed when they tease a “gay couple” but the “straigth” couple ends up being endgame. Notice the quotation marks because there’s not such thing as a straight or gay couple for a bi person. They are bisexual in both situations, but I can see where the problem comes from. I’ve been queerbaited to hell and back by a lot of shows and it really hurts. It feels like they are laughting at you for caring. But I want those fans (whose feelings are totally valid, don’t get me wrong) to consider a few things when it comes to Critical Role, the first one being: it’s a D&D game.

Let me explain, because I know a lot of CR fans haven’t experienced what D&D is like in real life (and that’s absolutely valid, you don’t need to play D&D to enjoy CR). This is an improvisation game, not an scripted TV show. In a Tv show you can plan ahead of time what ship is going to be endgame, what themes are gonna come up for each character and it’s easier to deeply explore sexuality and gender as different planned arcs. In D&D you character’s sexuality may or may not come up depending on how you play it. Take for instance how other CR character’s have stated their sexuality:

Beau: overtly. Very *In your face* kind of lesbian. Marisha said “fuck it, I really just want to romance girls and be bad ass”

Yasha: openly, but not as in your face. Ashley Jhonson wanted to drink from that WLW cup while also being a shy disaster. Seafood market is her favored terrain.

Caduceus: Our Ace king has never hidden his sexuality, and yet he didn’t mention anything about it until chapter 114. He didn’t had the need to either hide it or state it. He was simply vibing.

I think Liam is going that route with Caleb. He’s flustered by Essek and Edwulf (Come on you guys, he always asks Matthew if he’s still hot). He also had/has a thing for Astrid and a think he might have feels for our favorite Tiefling gal. I know we are all too used to characters being teased as gay/bi only to have execs pull a “haha jk they be straight”. But this is not Sherlock or Supernatural. This is a show that not only has queer rep, but also supports queer organizations and creators. Hell, I’m sure some of the cast members are LGBT (but I’m not here to speculate on real people’s sexuality). If Caleb shows attraction to men he is not just queerbaiting, doing it for fanservicing or tricking the fans in any way shape or form: he’s just portraying a bi character. The thing is, since this is not a TV show, he is not doing it por woke points or to send a message. He’s doing it because he wants to play a bi wizard with depression.

So maybe there will be a point in which he can explores his sexuality more deeply, but remember he is playing a game. And his character is one that has a lot of trouble opening up to his feelings. Caleb is not someone that makes sexual jokes or flirty remarks. He is shy, awkward and has developed a really fucked up sense of love that he is now slowly fixing. Hell, in the same Talks episode Liam explained that Caleb was trained on Honey-pot tactics. Which, for those of you who can’t stand Bond films, means seducing your enemy/target to get information, manipulate them or assassinate them. WHICH IS A REALLY FUCKED UP THING! Let’s remember how he was the one to push Fjord to sleep with Advantica so they could spy on her. That boy has Issues when it comes to relationships. So if we don’t see him being as overtly gay as Beau, Molly or Yasha, well maybe it’s because that’s the way Caleb is. Bi people don’t owe you flamboyance, or dating both guys and gals for your approval. I wouldn’t make a post if it was only that, because I do feel the people who are aching for good bi rep and would love some more explicit confirmation. But Vax exists, so I know we can’t have good things down here.

VAX EXPLICITELY SHOWED ATTRACTION TO GILMORE. AS EXPLICIT AS IT GETS. HE FUCKING KISSED HIM. THEY WERE PRACTICALLY DATING. AND YET SOME OF YOU FUCKERS CALL HIM QUEERBAITING. AND I SAY: NOT ON MY WATCH! NOT ON MY FUCKING WATCH!!

How come a character can have canonically kissed another character in a romantic/sensual context and still be called straight? I know fucking Sherlock traumaticed y’all into having trust issues but believe me when I tell you: I’ts not that deep. This is not a “Haha I love u but in a no homo way bro”. It’s a “full homo darling, but also we’re gonna break up because I like someone else”. This is the opposite of queerbaiting. Instead of keeping a charade he was honest with Gilmore because he valued his feelings and realized that he couldn’t reciprocate them at that moment. And if you try to tell me that Vaxleth was forced and didn’t have a reason to exist except queerbaiting, let me tell you: you are wrong.

Vax saw Gilmore once or twice monthly while he spent a heck ton of time with Kiki. Sure, they didn’t had the kind of camera chemistry Gilmore and Vax had because Keyleth is not charismatic. She’s really awkward, and her relationship with Vax was more on the adorable and dorky side of things. I bring this up because I’m predicting something similar may happen to Shadowgast.

Trust me, I ship the hot wizards as much as any other critter (even though I’m a multishipper). But they haven’t talked to Essek in centuries. I think it may have been almost a month in rol and quite a few outside. And you have to take into account out-rol time to because they are humans (except Tal) playing a game and they forget about stuff (except Marisha and Matt). So Shadowgast may not happen because sure, they had really good chemistry for a month a month ago. People have crushes that die down over time All The Time. So maybe don’t be so butthurt about your ship not being canon that you accuse an ally of homophobia.

The cast of CR put forward such an amazing representation for the LGBT+ community and it really hurts me that you gets stuck on the one thing that isn’t canon. Matt has created a world in which coming out is not necessary because no one assumes your sexuality. A world in which people respect pronouns and orientations (except Tary’s father, who is a villain). A world in which Cad or Caleb don’t need to explicitly say “I’m ace/bi” unless it comes up in conversation. A world in which his friends can be whatever they want to be without pressure or reprecusions. A world in which they get to explore different gender identities and sexual orientations with full freedom. Let’s not interfere with that (unless there’s missrepresentation), and let them play their game. If you really need mlm or wlw canon couples or more outwardly LGBT+ people you have plenty examples among NPCs and other cast members (Allura and kima, Yasha, Beau, Dairon, Keg, Reani, Tary, Molly and Vax among others).

There’s way worst shows taking LGBT+ cred for barely doing nothing. Fucking Supernatural is the most recent example! Critical Role works towards showing an honest portrayal of LGBT+ folk and accepts valid criticism from their fans on the subject (when they changed J’Mon Sa Ord pronouns from it to they/them). They don’t owe you making your ship canon or portraying their characters the way you want them to (again, unless when it’s constructive criticism). Stop being so Fucking entitled and enjoy the show for what it is

,Respectfully~

*Edit: I´m tagging Caleb’s ships into the post because most hate comes from shipping wars. Most Shadowgast fans are respectful of the cast’s decisions, even if it disappoints them. But since I’ve already seen people accusing Liam of biphobia in that tag and since I’ve already seen this shit with Vaxmore I’m tagging the ship. If you want to read my long ass post do it, if not, ignore it. I’m not forcing you to read it. I’ve also tagged it with biphobia so people can avoid it if it’s triggering. I’m sorry if it makes you mad that your ship is not canon, but that’s not an excuse to be toxic to the cast. Those of you getting mad are the ones that need to read this the most. Like I’ve said in the post: you’re allowed to be disappointed, you are allowed to want more, but you can’t force the cast to give you exactly what you want. And most certainly, you can’t accuse them of some very serious stuff like biphobia and queerbaiting when it’s not the case..

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ofsavior · 4 years ago

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ship bias list:

Note that this is not an entirely comprehensive list, because I’m always open to ideas (especially in the context of development). I’m a chemistry-based shipper, but if anyone needs a starting point these ships are ones that I have ideas for and would be interested in exploring.

All ships can be platonic or familial, but romantic ships will be specified.

P = Platonic ; R = Romantic ; F = Familial ; E = Enemies

BNHA

Shouto & Momo // P and/or R Bakugou & Momo // P and/or R Iida & Momo // P and/or R Denki & Momo // P and/or R Jirou & Momo // P and/or R Kendou & Momo //P and/or R Shinsou & Momo // P and/or R Tokoyami & Momo // P and/or R Any of the other Class A students // P; potential for romance Any of the Class B students // P; potential for romance Aizawa & Momo // father figure Tamaki & Momo // brother figure

Monoma & Any Class B characters or Bakugou for the lol’s // mostly P Ochako & Monoma // P and/or R Tsuyu & Monoma // P and/or R Momo & Monoma // P and/or R Shinsou & Monoma // P and/or R Eri & Monoma // sister figure

Servamp

Tsurugi & Mikuni // P and/or R Tsurugi & Yumikage // P and/or R Tsurugi & Mahiru // F Tsurugi & literally anyone who makes him happy

Ophelia & Lawless // R Licht & Lawless // P and/or R open to ideas.

Noragami

Bishamon & Kazuma // R, slowburn Bishamon & Yato // P and/or R; potential for Enemies Bishamon & Kofuku // P and/or R Bishamon & Older!Ebisu // P and/or R Bishamon & Younger!Ebisu // F

ZnT

Nine & Twelve // P and/or R Lisa & Twelve // P and/or R Twelve has two hands... so both Nine and Lisa open to crossovers.

Avatar: the LA

Ty Lee/Azula // P and/or R Jet/Azula // Idk what this dynamic would be... but it would be interesting obviously open to all other dynamics too, but only Ty Lee for romance.

Fairy Tail

Mirajane & Erza // P and/or R Mirajane & Cana // P and/or R Mirajane & Minerva // P and/or R Mirajane & Jenny // P and/or R Mirajane & Juvia // P and/or R Mirajane & Evergreen // P and/or R Mirajane & Laxus // P and/or R Mirajane & Gajeel // P and/or R Strauss siblings and Yukino family dynamics pls

Loke & Lucy // P and/or R Loke & Gray // P and/or R Loke & Cana // P with potential for R Loke & Mira // P with potential for R Loke & Yukino // P Loke & Gray & Cana // P and/or R

Erza & Jellal // P and/or R Erza & Gray // P and/or R ; possibly one-sided on Gray’s part Erza & Lucy // P and/or R Erza & Laxus // P and/or R Erza & Juvia // P and/or R Erza & Minerva // P and/or R Erza & Gajeel // P, (maybe) R?, and potential for rivals Erza & Sting // P ; big sis vibes; maybe one-sided on Sting’s end? Erza & Rogue // P

Sting & Yukino // P and/or R Sting & Rogue // P and/or R Sting & Minerva // P and/or R

Gray & Juvia // P and/or R ; slightly picky with romance here Gray & Cana // P and/or R Gray & Lucy // P and/or R Gray & Wendy // spare little sis???? Gray & Rogue // P and/or R Gray & Jellal // P and/or R ; one-sided on Gray’s part Gray & Sting // P and/or R ; they would be a great buddy comedy Gray & Rufus // partnership! partnership! Gray & Yukino // P and/or R Gray & Minerva // P and/or R ; he’d probably be into her but in a lowkey ‘too cool for this’ way Gray & Lyon // gib brothers Gray & Ultear // gib siblings Gray & Meredy // P and/or R Gray & Laxus // two bros sittin in a hottub -; would like to see them be closer

Edens Zero

Weisz & Rebecca // R and/or R Weisz & Shiki // P and/or R Weisz & Hermit // P and/or R Weisz & Laguna // P and/or R Weisz & Homura // P and/or R

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Kashima & Hori // R and/or P Kashima & Mikorin // R and/or P Kashima & Chiyo // R and/or P

K Project

Saruhiko & Misaki // P and/or Romantic Saruhiko & Hidaka // P and/or Romantic Saruhiko & Anna // P Saruhiko & Reisi // F

Izumo & Seri // P (rivalry) and/or R Izumo & Mikoto // P and/or R Izumo & Tatara // P (potential for R)

VLD

Keith & Lance // P and/or R James & Lance // P and/or R Allura & Lance // P and/or R Pidge & Lance // P and/or R

DC Comics

Kori & Jason // P and/or R Kori & Dick // P and/or R Kori & Victor // P and/or R Kori & Roy // P and/or R Kori & Rachel // F; potential for R if chemistry is there.

Roy & Donna // P and/or R (exes too) Roy & Jason // P and/or R Roy & Wally // P and/or R Roy & Dick // P and/or R Roy & Garther // P and/or potentially R Roy & Hal // F Roy & Dinah // F

Your Turn to Die

Joe & Sara // P and/or R Joe & Ryoko // P and/or R

Arcane

Jayce & Viktor // P and/or R Jayce & Mel // P and/or R Jayce & Caitlyn // P and/or F

Caitlyn & Vi // P and/or R Caitlyn & Jinx // Enemies, potential to explore more

#( ship bias list. )#( Haha ... /sweats )#( This got Super Duper long )#supreme lean meme machine ( ooc. )#( long post. )

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halfhappyhooligan · 5 years ago

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a voltron au? in 2020? it’s more likely than you think

look. LOOK. i know that voltron is stupid and we hate it but lets be honest: everything up until season 3 was pretty good and had lots of potential !!

today i was rewatching voltron and a thought struck me: what if, instead of shiro being cloned, he was chipped and turned to the side of the galra?

so here it is, i did not blink since i thought of this

(warning, i have not seen voltron in a while and this is just knowledge i have stored in my moss brain and stuff i know from rewatching the first season)

au where shiro goes evil bc of what happens @ end of season one instead of the clone thing bc 1) haggar rly could not have made thousands of shiros after bumping into team voltron like what twice? its hella improbable and 2) just… weird

so instead they insert a chip in him that helps them spy and control him just like kuron (the clone) did minus the unlikely storytelling

eventually after the convo with sendak when he was in the pod trying to temp shirp, he does have thoughts about helping zarkon

(“im already infiltrated with the arm, i could just speed up the process by leaving now. save the team the trouble of investing in a leader that’s doomed to fail from the strart.”)

shiro ends up leaving team voltron in season 2 after zarkon goes crazy w the black lion n stuff

^^ this adds to Keith’s reasoning of joining the Blade of Marmora (shiro is his main stability and one of the main reasons he even stuck around with team voltron, so with shiro gone and keith questioning his place as the leader and paladin of the black lion, he decides the BoM is just.. what’s best for him)

obviously lance isn’t happy with this (“you just told me that i’m a valuable member, now you don’t think YOU are? what logic is that?”)

ofc keith goes anyways

lance becomes paladin of the black lion

allura takes on the red lion

who has blue lion? ...idk this isn’t that thought out (maybe matt after pidge finds her family) (which will happen earlier in the plot since we can forget about the miniplot of black no longer responding to shiro)

enter lotor only this time he has a sidekick and what omg its shiro wow

shiro has that bigger version of his arm that was once offered to him

he’s stronger and scary, but his eyes aren’t the same, he has the strength of a galra but lacks the passion

in the fight between lotor and zarkon, (and after, of course lots of self doubt and questioning) shiro comes between them and convinces lotor NOT to kill zarkon

then zarkon kills lotor

everyones like oh shit bc surely someone who’s life was just spared wouldn’t kill the person who seems to have the most power

but he did. bc he’s zarkon. and he’s fckn crazy.

shiro doesn’t go back to team voltron bc its too much too easily

instead he takes the place of lotor in the group of gals

he convinces them all to rebel against the galra

eventually they teach him all about quintessence and all the shit lotor had planned that they can’t do anymore

(lotor wasn’t harvesting alteans in this universe bc what the heck even was that subplot that had little to no relevance to the main storyline?

instead he was trying to find a way to technologically bring back alteans (kinda like how allure’s dad was originally preserved in s1)

i know nothing about How Stuff Works and i dont remember much about quintessence n shit but the basic idea is that when tying in some of a persons artifacts with technology stuff and some quintessence then boom. a weird route from astral projection land to the team is created and ppl can come back or smth idfk

but lotor was never able to get the comet so shiro decides he and the gals will get that comet and try to bring back as many alteans as they can

^ all this while infiltrating as many galra fleets as possible + saving planets under galra empire

they personally visit every planet that lotor was in charge of and release them from galra control

they are able to bring back an altean (its romelle) and she talks abt her friend who lives on the balmera and they go to the balmera and its revealed that it was shay’s great grandmother so romelle asks where shay is and shay’s family is like with team voltron of course

they take her

obviously team voltron, the BoM and the Rebels r very hesitant to make contact but they decide to try it out

keith refuses to meet, instead he’s on the team that stands guard

reunions !!

romelle and shay hit it off and hunk makes a dinner much like roselle’s past (allura and coran also hang out and they all vibe)

lance talks to shiro abt everything to do with keith and shiro is like dude do u??? like him?

and lance is like what? no ofc not—oh shit.

and keith ✨overhears ✨

pidge matt and shiro catch up n shit

meanwhile keith is like Hey Lance Uhhhhhh What The Fuck

they end up being like hey since we’re all here and we hate zarkon what if we make a plan to end the galra’s reign Right Now

so they do

and y’all.. it’s hella baller plan

except something is going wrong and in the middle of an attack zarkon is able to get the upper hand

due to haggar’s magic and lance’s mental and emotional instability, zarkon is able to get in his head

everyone is trying to talk him down but they’re all under a lot of pressure

allura is also conflicted bc she wanted to be black lion bc she wanted to rub it in to zarkon’s face that she was stronger than he and that she could beat him at his own game

but the negativity and instability feeds into zarkon’s power and makes him and haggar stronger as they pull in voltron to finally take over the team and regain their status as the most powerful alien race

hunk realizes this and is like okay can y’all stop being negative? its clearly affecting them in a good way and it makes us an easier target

and pidge is like im literally a child pls i don’t wanna die i just got my family back it can’t end like this

shiro realizes what’s going on and he goes to save them

he uses all his energy, pulling in the positive memories (everything: first learning about space, becoming a teacher, meeting adam, meeting keith, first making team voltron, his friends and family--all of it) to push back zarkon and haggar’s powers and battle once more in the astral realm

in defeating zarkon, shiro loses his life

afterwards keith enters the ship in a hurry and is like where the fuck is shiro where’s my brother what did you do what happened

and team voltron is like hey man.. we are so so sorry

and keith cries because the last thing he ever said to shiro was mean

lance feels like its all his fault since he was supposed to be a good leader

they talk about separately while hunk pidge and allura discuss

krolia is like keith we, ur family, are here for u

and axca is there and shes like um?? hey?? sry for trying to kill u bro

and he’s like i absolutely do not wanna talk i just lost my closest friend

they talk about it later

axca tells keith abt shiro finishing lotor’s work and abt bringing people back and well..

they use the methods to help keith visit shiro in the astral realm

shiro is like oh uh hey i was just having a drink w adam we r happy

and keith is like shiro u fuckhead why would u sacrifice urself

shiro sighs bc cmon keith you KNOW why “remember what i always said? we can’t focus on what went wrong..”

“we’ve got to figure out how to make it right” keith finishes

keith breaks tf down crying and screams apologizing

“i love u shiro. ur a like a big brother to me.”

and shiro is like yeah i know and ilyt but hey. everyone’s safe and happy. im safe and happy. & you deserve to be too. you don’t need me anymore.

so the galra rule is over and everyone goes to their respected planets

romelle and the other alteans as well as some galra babes hang in earth

romelle and shay r in an apartment together and have a garden

allura realizes she may not have been the strongest leader for voltron, and couldn’t stop zarkon on her own but that physical strength doesn’t define her as a whole

her heart is strong enough to care for everyone, so thats what she does

allura starts running an inn for alteans filled with painted sceneries like altea in case anyone ever needs a reminder of home

when lance reunites with his family its a real tearjerker

rachel finally gets her jacket back and veronica is like So.. Axca 👀

the McClain’s host a huge party for everyone and it’s filled with lots of hugs and loud music and even tho lance was way too tired, he danced all night

he wouldn’t trade his family for the world—genetic and chosen

when hunk reunites with his parents they don’t let him out the house for hours, he tells them all about his new best friend shay as well as hundreds of his favorites stories from space

they are so, so proud of him

hunk spends the next days playing minecraft and animal crossing with pidge, giving their brains a rest from being on hyperdrive for 3 yrs straight

when pidge gets home she finally gets grounded by her mom, only being allowed to leave the house to see her old teammates

(same for matt and her dad)

(her mother cries so hard when they opened the door to the home)

the holt family holds movie nights filled with popcorn, cuddles, and tears

keith moves in with the holt family, and finally accepts that he has a home as well as a family

he often goes on trips with the BoM but mostly just stays on earth

after a Team Voltron sleepover in the altea inn keith and lance decide to get an apartment together and live their lives in love and in peace

everyone gets together once a year in celebration of shiro and the sacrifice he made for them

they use the ship to visit Astral Shiro and once they even met adam

everyone laughs and catches up and just... live their lives

everyone is happy

pls ignore any and all errors lmao

again, just a thought !! maybe i’ll write a fic abt it idk for sure but yeah

feel free to add anything <3

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dfsgasad · 4 years ago

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Voltron Fic Recs

(From what I had on my chrome bookmarks)

First of all, most of this is pretty long and not all is complete, and I think all of them are mainly Lance centric. Also, I'm going to put both the summary (and probably some tags, but always check for triggers, squicks and stuff), and something about why I like the fic, my stuff might have spoilers, be warned.

(Once I'm on a computer, I'll add a cut here, in the meantime, sorry for the incredibly long post)

Just a Little Death, by phoenixyfriend

200k, Rated M, allurance and klance (kind of) , Incubus Lance, no smut. (Complete)

AKA: The Incubus AU Where There Isn't Actually Any Smut

In which Lance is half incubus, hiding it, and possibly spending most of his time low-key panicking that someone's going to find out.

At least Hunk is a good bro that's helping him keep his secret.

I should probably start with this one, because if I think about Voltron, this has to be the one I remember the most. Honestly, I really love this one. It follows canon pretty closely at first, with the main difference being that Lance needs blood to survive and then it just turns into a modern fantasy work with magic and deals with the fae in space. Also, there's no actual smut nor romantic relationships, and it deals with a lot of sensitive subjects really well (like the sexualization that Lance has always faced as an incubus, and how the whole supernatural element brings a bunch of new stereotypes and misconceptions, which I think it's great and well explored)

The main warning I'd give is both the fact that it deals with a lot of sexual stuff and that it has no smut whatsoever, so, Lance has sex with a lot of people, including a pretty regular arrangement with both Allura and Keith, but none of this is explicit. I really loved it, but a friend of mine was really frustrated, so you decide.

Familiar by achievingelysium

100k, Rated T, gen, Altean Lance (Complete)

The only one who remembers the fall of Altea, Lance struggles to find a place in a band of misfits he will never fully trust. Secrets aren't the only thing on the rise; on the other side of the battlefield is Zarkon, someone Lance once saw as a brother and now his greatest enemy. But Voltron has always protected the universe, and the Blue Paladin won't stop now.

I remember a moment when you couldn't open ao3 or tumblr without finding an Altean!Lance au. This one has Lance as the original Blue Paladin and how he learns to trust himself and other people again after Zarkon's betrayal, I think it's really great, and while the second part of the series is abandoned with 6 chapters, the first one, that goes through the first season, is complete.

The sunflower you lost by peachii

50k, Rated T, Klance, Lancelot, Matt/Shiro, Altean Lance, angst (incomplete, last updated december 2017)

There was a short pause, and then he took a step closer, cupping Lance’s cheek with his hand in a soft embrace. “Tell me…Is there anything you would not do for your father? For your people?”

Lance swallowed, lost in those bisque orbs. “…Of course not. I am loyal to my blood.”

In which Lance is the original blue paladin, but only remembers in a sunflower field in his dreams.

This one also deals with Lance as the original blue paladin, but unlike Familiar, Lance doesn't really remember much of his life before (until he does). It starts after season 2 (so Shiro is still missing), and it deals with Lance coming to terms with an entire new life, Lotor in general, a lot of self esteem issues, and his crush on Keith (some of those more successfully than others). It has a lot of flashbacks, I personally like how they are written and they add a lot to the story because it merges what Lance is living now and what he lived before, but I know that they're not everyone's cup of tea.

As I put it, there's both Keith/Lance and Lotor/Lance explored in this fic, so if you don't like love triangles this is not the fic for you. (Also, you already read the 'orbs' as a reference for eyes in the summary, so be mindful of that...)

You're not falling - You're just flying down (Till air will leave your lungs then you hit the ground) by Maegalkarven

70k, Rated T, Klance, Matt/Shiro/Allura, mutual pining (Complete)

In which Lance sees strange dreams about people and places he has never seen, Shiro is missing and travelling through universes isn't as enjoyable as sci fi made it look.

Something alike to reincarnation AU where Lance was an altean prince once and now past tentatively reminds him of itself.

So... I'm seeing a pattern here... as you can imagine, this is yet another Lance was the old blue paladin fic, because I'm easily entertained.

This one has a lot more pining and a lot more Klance, also, Lance has a lot of self esteem issues, because I love to see him suffer.

Boom Crash the Sound of My Ship by maychorian

40k, Rated G, Shiro&Lance, whump, sickfic, PTSD (Complete)

After a Galra attack splits Voltron, the blue lion is damaged and falls toward the jungle planet below. Shiro follows, and now he and Lance are stranded in hostile territory, fighting to survive. Lance is injured, Shiro is having flashbacks, and help is far away. And the Galra just...keep coming.

This one, is just beautiful. It's part of a series (the first 8 works are complete, the ninth hasn't been updated since 2018) and it just focuses on the team becoming a family, it has a lot of angst and a lot of hurt/comfort, I cried with this one (tbh I cry really easily, but still). It deals with a lot of the trauma that this kids go through, and has a lot of bonding, this one is mainly Lance and Shiro, but the others have their moments to shine in the rest of the series, and I am weak for good platonic relationships.

This was taking too long, because I wanted to read the fics (or part of them to remember, at least) to give an opinion, and they're all very long fics (I didn't want to rec a 3k abandoned fix from 2016), so I'm going to cut it here. Also I know that three of these have kind of the same idea, because just like the rest of us, Altean Lance was my weakness (or just BAMF Lance in any way), so sorry for the lack of variety, I'll probably do another part later when I read some more, maybe I'll even read some shorter fics, because this ones are all really long...

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myssyx · 4 years ago

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notes on my bp lance and general au in most “canon” settings

general canon details:

1) Shiro was not gone for months. shiro was only gone for 3 weeks

2) not really related but the time Keith spends on the whale is only 2-3 months. i REFUSE to believe he was there for 2 yrs what the fuck

bp lance and context:

1) when Shiro was recovering he kept trying to say he was fine and get to flying again but he discovers his weak connection to black bc so he can’t pilot it anymore

2) everyone panics and Lance and Allura immediately try to become BP but to no success, Keith stays away from black and doesn’t want to be the leader at all

3) Shiro keeps pushing for Keith to become leader and he hates it but he still goes to black to try and see if it’ll work. it doesn’t work because he clearly doesn’t want it at all.

4) Keith feels down that he can’t seem to fill the shoes that he’s given and Lance does as well bc they both don’t think they’re worthy in different ways, Keith with falling short of what Shiro believes he can be/is and Lance with general insecurities esp to deal with technical abilities (im going to sock iverson in his dick)

5) Keith and Lance have a deep convo about it and Lance comes to realise that Keith never wanted this leader role that the team keep trying to push him into and releases his resentment towards Keith in that aspect

6) Keith realises that Lance isn’t this just glory and bare minimum person and being rejected by black actually hurt him a lot, not just surface level ego pain

7) Keith is like to Lance, “but you keep us together. You keep us laughing and you talk to people and they always brighten up and we trust you. I trust you,” and Lance is ofc speechless

8) but this allows him to realise that maybe he does actually have leader potential? maybe he actually can do it.

9) he approaches black, expecting a rejection yet again but hoping that he’ll be accepted as paladin. black doesn’t really fuck around with things and prefers intentions to be clean cut and serves all people, just like a leader should be, so Lance doesn’t hesitate.

10) he squares his shoulders even tho he’s secretly terrified and he walks with his chin up to black. “I know that I’m probably not what you wanted. But I believe I am what you need. I might not be ready right now, but I will get there. I understand the responsibilities. Please accept me as your paladin, Black lion.”

11) the eyes glow blue.

12) when he delivers the news, first to Keith, they celebrate, share a Moment, and then he’s petrified of what the team will say.

13) what if they reject him? what if they don’t think he’s worth it? especially shiro, oh my god, what if he hates me because it’s not what he wanted?

14) when he tells the team, let’s be honest, Pidge probably had a right laugh about it. it makes them both feel like shit esp when Pidge realises that it wasn’t a joke. Hunk has a lot of questions and worries but in the end he’s like “I’m super proud of you. I love you and I know you can do this,” and Lance cries a bit. but Hunk cries more.

15) Shiro just does the bro hug thing idk he’s like a brick and says that he didnt mean for Lance to ever feel like he wasn’t worthy of this position. he will support him fully. and later on Shiro apologises to Keith for pressuring him so much

16) Allura is silent through it all. when Lance looks at her expectedly, she simply talks about the purpose of black. to serve. to lead. and she looks Lance straight in the eye and says,

17) “If I’m being completely honest right now, this isn’t what I expected. But I trust the lion’s decision. If it’s what Black says it will be, then it will be. I look forward to you as our leader,” and wow. even more waterworks.

18) Pidge stands up abruptly and then just tackles him into a hug. they apologise, of course. they’re sorry for taking these jokes so far all the time. she doesn’t mean it but that doesn’t mean it doesnt hurt. she really does believe in him, and knows that he’ll do a great job. Lance is still a tad upset but he forgives her

19) Keith is just standing to the side with like the biggest warm, proud, happy expression ever

20) it takes a shit ton of adjusting, Allura moves into blue and all that but in the end we have suave BP Lance with his team

if i think of anymore i’ll add but in the meantime yeah!!!

#black paladin lance #kl #myssy memo #vld #shiro #keith #pidge #hunk #allura #lance

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dammitadolfnomorecake · 4 years ago

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Once Bitten, Twice Stupid prt 185

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Having Hunk pick him up, Keith knew things could go terribly wrong. He didn’t like loud noises or crowds at the best of times, and now he was going shopping with guaranteed exposure to both. Leaving Lance a note, he told himself he was being stupid for worrying. This wasn’t his first trip into Garrison, but it was his first trip into Garrison since his accident.

Hunk was happy to help. He didn’t question Keith wearing glasses, or why the headphones covering his ears weren’t playing music. Trying to make him feel at easy, his friend chatted about how things had been at garage, with the parts they’d been waiting on finally coming in. Hunk’s dad had been pretty worried about him, Keith didn’t know he’d made so much of an impression.

Garrison seemed so different now. Maybe because it was blurry, but it also carried a different feel about it. The drive seemed shorter too, less bumpy, though Lance needed to get in touch with the shire about fixing the dip in his driveway. Hunk hitting it a little too hard and making them both lurch. Parking in front of the general store, Keith’s anxiety skyrocketed at the task ahead of him.

“Uh, Keith. Are you okay? If it’s too much, I don’t mind going in”

Glancing to his hands, his nails were a little longer than they should be. Hunk had every right to be concerned

“I’m kind of... freaking out now where here”

Honesty seemed to be the theme of the day

“Man, we can totally take it as slowly as you need”

Was he doing the right thing? Coming here without Lance, he hoped to surprise him in a good way

“I know... Hunk, can I ask you something?”

“Sure thing, man. You can ask me anything”

“Is Lance going to be mad?”

Hunk hummed

“Not the way you think. I think he’ll be shocked he wasn’t here, but I don’t think he’ll be mad. Unless you do something super bad”

Like wolfed out in the middle of the store? He hated the paranoia that he would

“I... um... had a talk with Coran. About this ego thing. He said it’d help to do nice things with Lance... and... um... I guess I’m worried about that. I don’t know how to tell him that I want to do this for him, and that it’ll help my ego, without upsetting him”

“Dude, you’ve always been doing nice things for Lance”

“But I feel like this is using him to calm myself down”

“That’s one way to look at it. The other way to look at is that you both deserve something nice. You guys don’t exactly have a normal life. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but you know...”

His ego was pleased to hear that he and Lance deserved niceness. Keith still felt guilty

“I don’t want him to think I’m using him”

“Maybe you could tell him? He’d understand”

Lance kept being so understanding that it had to weigh so heavily on his shoulders. The vampire his carer, his stability, and growing their twins. The burden seemed more than unfair

“He’s been too understanding as it is. I just... don’t like feeling like there’s two mes in here. I don’t like the idea of doing something that I know he’ll love, but doing it because it also benefits me”

Hunk patted Keith’s knee

“Bud, you really should tell him. But for now, if you’re going to wolf out, can you please aim for Miss Lee in the bakery department? She’s committed crimes against humanity with her croissants. You could use them for a hammer”

“Sounds about as good as what I’d make...”

“I’ll give you a crash course this afternoon, Bud. It’ll all be okay”

The feeling of this being a horrible mistake grew with Keith’s first breath in the store. He should have worn a mask. Everything was... smelly. The lights seemed way too bright, and his stomach rumbled at the scent of meat department. Not that they really had departments, they just had staff that hovered in certain areas. Retail could only suck as a job. People sucked. His opinion there hadn’t changed much when it came to strangers. Grabbing a trolley, Hunk came to his side

“You okay? We totally don’t have to do this if you aren’t up to it”

Overwhelmed, Keith growled

“What kind of a mate would I be if I can’t provide for my partner?”

Hunk ignoring his growl, staying by his side

“Alright then, we’re going to ignore what happened. Do you have a list?”

Lists were for normal people, they were winging it from here on out

“Not really. I want to get things Lance likes”

Hunk cuffed a hand on his shoulder, gesturing ahead to the rows in front of them as if it was some kind of wonderland

“That I can help you. Just let your best buddy guide you”

Hunk guiding him was an experience. Keith had a hard time keeping his control. The local rumour mill was in overdrive. Lots of busybodies whispering about how since he’d come to town Lance had been seen less and less. Whispers of concern about what kind of person he was hurt. A few had some very unkind things to say about the kind of relationship he was in with Lance. Keith ready to blow a fuse. They knew nothing about him or Lance. Not the true versions of themselves or their relationship. Lance would doing everything he used to be doing if he hadn’t gotten his boyfriend pregnant. He knew his boyfriend missed breakfasts at Sal’s, and normality of running his household as he had. They had no right to be spreading baseless rumours. Unexpectedly, Shiro came to mind. “Patience yields focus”. If he was patient for a little while longer he could focus once they got home.

Shopping the way Lance had driven into him and Shiro, Keith shopped in bulk. Gradually a plan came to mind, but he was going to seriously need Hunk’s help to pull it off. The first meal he’d mostly cooked alone for the both of them was pizza. He’d made a mess of things, yet Lance still complimented him in his own way

“Hunk, I’ve... um... got an idea”

Hunk placed back the bag of onions he’d been staring at

“Shoot away”

“Can you show me how to make pizza from scratch?”

“Pizza? I thought you wanted to spoil Lance?”

Hunk made it sound awful, yet Lance loved cheesy things... He have to save that and use that... cheesy pizza for a cheesy vampire

“I... um... it was one of the first things we made together”

Had this been a cartoon, Hunk would have had love hearts in his eyes

“Oh, bro! I’ve totally got you. We’ll make him the best pizza ever!”

Hunk loved love as much as Lance. He knew he could count on him, but Keith wasn’t sure his own efforts would be up to scratch

“I’m not sure that’s possible”

Hunk snorted at him, picking up another bag of onions to start scrutinising

“Pfft. You’re getting the Hunk crash course. Nothing will go wrong”

As Keith watched the way Hunk stared at the onions, he realised he hadn’t asked the man a very important question

“Hunk, are you okay?”

The bag of onions went back, Hunk picking up another one. Keith wasn’t seeing whatever Hunk was seeing, but he didn’t know the signs or symptoms of a bad onion like Hunk did

“Hmm?”

“I don’t seem to remember a lot of that day... but... I haven’t asked you how you’re going. With... all of this. It’s a lot for anyone”

“You and Lance...”

Keith shook his head. This wasn’t about him and Lance. Hunk and Pidge were humans... he’d been human, but he had a whole other set of skills and years of experience

“That’s not what I’m asking. I know you came to visit me... you and Pidge. I’m sorry I didn’t wake up”

Hunk shifted his weight, free hand coming up to scratch the back of his neck

“Dude, you were in a coma... you have an excuse”

That wasn’t it. He’d failed this hard. A blush in his cheeks as his ego grew annoyed at him

“It’s because of you and Pidge that Shiro escaped and Lance got help. You guys really helped. I know it’s not the same as a fighting a demon, but, um... What I’m trying to say is, it’s okay to not be okay. If you feel like you were useless, you weren’t. Watching on the sidelines is hard. We really would have been screwed without you guys”

Placing the bag of onions in the shopping trolley, Hunk let out a long sigh

“It was rough buddy. Lance tried really har to be okay when we came to visit. But he wasn’t. Then Shiro and Lance weren’t talking. We didn’t want to pick sides, and Lance told us not to, but he was crushed. We felt useless. The two of you were prepared to face a demon. We couldn’t do anything like that”

He’d known it. Being unable to act fucking sucked, but he and Lance couldn’t techno-babble like Hunk and Pidge could. They’d have only hindered things

“You don’t have to. And I don’t want you to. You’re important to me. Both you guys”

“None of got it. You were like... fine. Then next thing you’re in surgery and won’t wake up. We thought we’d lose you forever, Bud”

“Do you hate what I’ve become?”

Hunk shook his head, his eyes watery. Hunk really was sunshine in their lives

“No. No, you’re still you. A bit different but a lot the same. Shiro was really torn up. His arm was a mess, Curtis was in and out of it, but he lost it at the thought of you not waking. He blamed himself. He didn’t exactly help things either. I got it out of Allura, but she says that he said he’d take care of Lance. Like in your place if you didn’t wake up. Not boyfriend’s, but you know, like financially. Lance was pissed”

“If there’s one thing Lance hates, it’s being treated like a damsel in distress”

“We were really worried for him. We didn’t know he didn’t know about your condition and they kicked us out because we upset him”

“He cares too much”

Hunk huffed at him

“Dude, we all care too much. We’re family. You’re our family. And like... we didn’t know what to do if you didn’t wake up. He lost Mami... and I know it’s selfish but I prayed you’d wake up so we wouldn’t lose him too”

Lance would be broken if anything happened to any of them

“It’s not selfish. I would have been wishing for the same thing. He loves you guys. I didn’t get it. How he could love and trust. But he just has a way about him. The people he likes, he really likes. He was probably a nightmare to deal with”

“Man, you have no idea. Pidge upset him by saying she was on his side. We couldn’t even... We let him down”

“Hunk, I’m sure that’s not true”

“He came out to tell us you’d woken up... and he... we were so upset that we didn’t move to comfort him. Allura did what we couldn’t”

You never knew how you were going to react to grief or bad news. Hunk and Pidge weren’t used to it. They hadn’t seen what he had, and Allura had

“She is like a sister to him. Thank you for being there for him”

Never shy of a hug, Hunk wrapped his arms around him, lifting Keith off the ground then setting him back down

“Sorry, man! Was that too much?”

A little. Definitely when people were already talking about him...

“Nah. You sure you got the right bag of onions?”

Hunk took a moment, before looking to the bag

“Oh, yeah. Gotta be careful not to get the ones with a rotten onion”

“How can you tell?”

“If they’re brown, or grey, and squashy, they don’t want to come home with you”

But the onions had skin and the skin was brown?

“Onions are brown?”

“My man, for the sake of our friendship, I’m going to pretend you didn’t just say that”

Keith wrinkled his nose at the bag

“It’s not my fault I don’t know the difference. They smell...”

Hunk didn’t miss a beat

“Yep. They smell delicious with a little bit of olive oil and garlic in a pan”

With three wolves to consider, the shopping trolley ended up overfilled. Matt and Rieva getting minimal treats due to the ongoing saga of the rice. Hunk had helped him find the “self care” part of the isle, Keith grabbing two of each face mask, which sounded more impressive if you didn’t take into account the fact there was only three types to choose from. Hunk also pointed out Lance’s preferred wax for doing his eyebrows, and the hand cream Lance found worked best. With the amount of mating his body wanted to do, Keith stocked up on lube and condoms, then wet wipes for afterwards. After all, Lance didn’t like being crusty. The large half-Samoan a godsend, especially when Keith got caught staring at the meat blood in the bottom of a tray of mince. The blood would probably be worse for Lance than the bags he drank.

Keith hadn’t realised he probably looked weird examining the tray. Yet it wasn’t simply the blood issue that had him staring. He wanted to bury his face in the mince and eat raw, which totally grossed him out. Hunk pulling the tray away from him, giving him such a concerned look that Keith couldn’t not tell him that Coran wanted Lance drinking fresh blood. A little grossed out, but with a truck load of courage, Hunk volunteered his own blood. Lance had drunk his blood before. It’d solve more than one issue... His ego instantly hated the idea. If Lance was to feed off of everyone, it should be him. He was his mate. So turning Hunk down felt both right and wrong at the same time. He hated these conflicted feelings.

Things were going well until they finally reached the queue for the checkout. Having a stranger bump into him, his fingernails turned to claws as he barely kept from body slamming the person down. Realising how close he’d come, Keith was filled with horror. A scratch or a bite and he’d have turned them. Too much rage and he would have mauled them. Who would have stopped him? Hunk? Hunk would be the first casualty after the altercation. His loving ways would have made him blind... or maybe he would have tried to save the victim’s life as Keith tore both of them to shreds... He’d tried so hard to keep his temper. He’d chewed up the inside of his mouth to keep his rage from escaping. The humming of the fluorescent lights above left an unscratchable itch beneath his skin. Fumbling his phone and his wallet out his hoodie, he shoved them both into Hunk’s hands, fleeing before his friend could question if he was okay or not.

Carried by momentum, and the need to be somewhere so many people weren’t, Keith nearly managed to get himself hit as he stepped off the pavement in front of a car that was parking. Darting past them, he didn’t want to be in town in more. He wanted Lance. Too scared of himself to care about the consequences of leaving Hunk behind. He’d been stupid to come to town. To think he would blend in. To think that he had some semblance of control over his ego. Before he knew it, he’d cut through the park in the centre of town, his rushing turning to running. Everyone left him. No one would want to stay with him. Not when he couldn’t control himself.

Lance had spent the better half an hour driving around Garrison in the search for his boyfriend, before he finally found Keith. He’d woken when he’d heard Hunk pull up, the slamming of the passenger door startling out of his sleep. Listening to Keith and Hunk making plans to go shopping, Lance worried for Keith, yet knew if Keith wanted to go he shouldn’t stick his nose in.

Wracking his brains, Lance didn’t know the route Keith too when he’d gone with Matt and Rieva. If Keith was avoiding people, then he wouldn’t be headed to Platt. If anything had gotten too much, he’d want to go where no one went, yet somewhere he knew enough to get home from. Looping through Garrison, Lance hit up all the places they’d visited in their past, each crossed off the list as he cursed himself for his stupidity. People. No people. Hunk had been panicked when he’d called, apologising over and over, Lance sending him to the house to wait with the promise Hunk would call if Keith showed up. Then he remembered. The cemetery. No one was there. And if Keith was feeling down, it was logical, to him at least, he’d go somewhere they’d made good memories to overthink things.

Parking at the front of the cemetery, Keith was sitting sadly on the closest bench. Having to slide out his bronco as he tried to suck his stomach in, it really wasn’t made for a heavily pregnant man to be driving around

“Keith?”

Snapping his head up, tears were running down Keith’s face. In his hands were the pair of glasses Lance had lent him, smashed beyond repair. Going to stand, Keith slumped back down as he let out a sob. Lance’s heart breaking at the sight. He should have just gotten up and stuck his nose in.

Waddling to his boyfriend, Keith looked away, Lance sitting down next to him. No matter how much his little anger loaf was angsting, he wasn’t about to leave Keith to his misery. His boyfriend had terrified him by taking off. He’d been scared to begin with, when Keith hadn’t taken off. He was good at that... but then, so was Lance

“Hey, you”

“What do you want?”

“Me? Oh, just thought I’d come hang out with the other stiffs when I saw this super handsome guy sitting here”

Keith snorted wetly at him. His whole body curling in. Whatever Keith was thinking, he’d well and truly overthought it

“Babe, want to tell me what happened?”

“Why? You already know”

Biting down a sigh, Lance wrapped his arm around Keith, pulling him against him

“Ego or overstimulation?”

Bitterly Keith muttered

“I’m a fucking monster”

“It was your first shopping trip”

“It’s not that! It’s everything! You don’t get it!”

Hurling the broken pair of glasses away, they hit the side of the Bronco. A pretty good throw as far as Lance was concerned

“Then tell me. Hunk said a stranger bumped into you and you freaked out. I’ve spent the last half hour trying to find you”

“You should have left me lost. I’m such a fuck up that it’s not even funny”

This time Lance did sigh

“You are not a fuck up. I know you’re angry right now, but I’m here because I want to be. Tell me what happened?”

Keith huffed as he shoved him off. Getting to his feet, his boyfriend threw his hands up

“What didn’t fucking happen?! I fucked you! I didn’t want to stop fucking you! Coran said that my ego wants to please you! I’m supposed to do nice things for you! I don’t know how to do nice things! Everything feels like I’m fucking using you! I tried to go shopping with Hunk and everyone was rude as fuck! Some fucking arsehole bumped into me and I wanted to tear his fucking throat out! Why don’t you leave me already?! Everyone one else does! What makes you so fucking special?!”

All of it came out as yelled word vomit, Keith trying to get every thought out at once so they were all halted when it came to explanation. How did he untangle this? Keith was mad they had sex? Okay. He could work this out. Keith was feeling what he felt whenever his damn heat hit, or symptoms decided to creep up like the unwanted bastards they were. Keith didn’t like his ego... He knew that. As for people in his personal space, he wasn’t immune to it

“Keith, come sit down”

“Why should I? I wanted to hurt that guy and I don’t even know them!”

Lance looked at “Keith’s Scary Face”. Fangs, yellowing eyes... still handsome and the man he loved. He’d definitely drawn the short straw when it came to scary faces

“You don’t think I haven’t the same? That I welcome people in my space? Someone gets close to you and I want to hurt them. Someone bumps into me and my ego instantly sees them a threat. The fact you didn’t turn, that’s a good sign. It was your first time and you’re not going to get everything perfect on the first try”

“What if I’d lost it? What if hurt Hunk?! You don’t...”

Not this shit again. No. Nope. Noooo. He’d had enough of hearing it. Keith was freaking the fuck out... like he’d never seen Lance freak the fuck out over the same kind of things... His anger loaf needed to be smacked

“I couldn’t possibly get it, could I? I’m well aware. You’ve been repeatedly telling me. The fact you haven’t run off must mean you’re willing to talk, at least with me. Hunk’s at home. You’re making more sense than you think you are, and there’s no one else going to come find us here. Now sit down and start from the start”

Keith scowled at him before sighing heavily and throwing himself back down next to Lance. Taking Keith’s hand in his, he interlaced their fingers so Keith couldn’t go escaping again, his boyfriend shaking his head as he looked to his feet

“I think I’m going crazy”

“Tell me what happened?”

“You. You happened. I felt like I used you yesterday and last night because I was horny and couldn’t calm down. When I rang Coran, he wasn’t much help. He said it’s my ego and it’s probably trying to make it up to you for not spending the moon with you. I know I like doing nice things for you, but he said if I did it’d also help with my ego and I felt like I was using you all over again. I don’t want to do nice things because my ego tells me to. I want to do nice things because I love you”

Lance’s ego damn near swooned. Keith was so sincere in his worry

“Is that why you went to town with Hunk?”

“Coran mentioned that grooming was a thing we could do and I have no idea how to make a face mask or what to do. So I thought I’d get a few things and do some shopping, but it was horrible. Everyone kept whispering about us. The lights were too bright... and there were so many smells”

“Oh, babe. Hey, you can’t help being overwhelmed”

“But... I... I really wanted to do this. And do this right. Hunk helped me out picking things out. Then when that guy bumped into me...”

Lance pulled Keith firmly against him as his boyfriend shook with a fresh wave of tears

“You got scared because of the sudden burst of anger...”

“I don’t know what I was thinking... I’m a monster. I wanted to...”

“Babe. No. Hey. You are not a monster. That was your ego. You couldn’t help it. You should be proud you tried. It took Mami months to coax me into coming places with her. It’s not easy. You see too much. You hear too much. Things smell way too much”

“But you...”

Kissing Keith’s hair, he couldn’t fix this for is boyfriend. He wished like heck he could

“I’ve been a vampire for a very long time. Scents, people, lights, they all still get to me. Especially being pregnant. The paranoia of people staring. People judging. It sucks. It really really sucks. But you know what, they don’t know me. They aren’t my friends so I’m not going to worry about them”

“I hate this. I don’t want to pick fights...”

“I know. Small towns are horrendous when it comes to rumours. And I know you hate what they say as much as I do, but we can work on things to help you get used to everything again”

“We shouldn’t have to. If I’d never had this brain bleed... you wouldn’t have to babysit me”

“Is it still babysitting the person when you love them? Babe, how many times have you told me it’s okay when my heats play up? How many times have we had sex where I’m sorry for forcing my messed up body on you? Every single time you tell me it’s okay. It’s okay that you’re feeling them too. It’s okay to want me. I don’t hate you and I don’t feel used because this is something we’re working through together. Think about all the inappropriate times and places it’s happened. You stood up for me and defended me. You protected me when I couldn’t look after myself. You pushed yourself out of your comfort zone to be with me. Both our egos have issues. You’re not using me. I want to do nice things with you. I want to do things that make you and your ego feel good too. I know you love me and respect me”

Keith raised his head

“You’ve been so tired lately. I felt like I pushed you too much”

If anything Lance was sleeping more because of his pregnancy, not stressing over Keith because he’d been doing that for months now

“I’m tired because I have to get up and pee like 10 times a night. These two seem to think my bladder is their personal trampoline”

“Coran says you need fresh blood... I don’t know if I can give you my blood or if it’s going to hurt the twins”

With how much blood had passed between them, and the biting and the scratching, if anything bad was going to happen to the twins it probably would have happened all ready

“We’ll work something out. You’re taking so much on. Trying to be perfect with everything the first time around. Life doesn’t work like that. I know you’ve been comparing yourself to Matt. Thinking you must be weak because he’s calm, but think about when we first met? Think about how we had to fight to settle both our egos. I’ve been thinking about this just now and I think I’ve worked something out. Coran said to do things to help your ego settle. Matt and Rieva do things too. Rieva takes pride in her appearance and she loves her books. Matt is a tech genius and a tinkerer. That’s probably what they do to soothe theirs. They play on your strengths”

Keith’s head dropped

“What if I don’t have any strengths?”

“You do. You’re kind. You help people. You save lives. But I know you’re not working right now, so maybe you can concentrate on the strength of our feelings for each other? On our family? Vampires don’t take mates, but I already knew I wanted to be with you forever before this. Plus... it’s... kind of nice that you want me, even when I look like this. You make me feel so loved. I just wish you’d see that it’s a two way street. I adore you. You’ve seen me lose it to my ego when you’ve been hurt or threatened. Egos aren’t tameable over night. I know you don’t like taking it slow, but I’ll be right beside you”

“What if I can never go shopping again?”

“You didn’t love it that much in the first place, babe. Never is a strong word. Next time I’ll be with you”

“You can’t always be with me”

“No. But baby steps, babe. I love you. I’m proud to be your boyfriend. That hasn’t changed. This set back, doesn’t change anything. You told me time and time again that I’m not a monster. If you really were a monster, you wouldn’t feel as bad as you do”

Keith chuckled at him

“Have I ever told you how annoying it is that your right most of the time?”

Lance kissed Keith’s hair again. His anger loaf was so sweet

“Yep. You really worry too much. Yes, I’m exhausted, but I’m nervous and terrified too. Every day is a day closer to giving to birth. I’m so scared about being a bad dad, but I know I have the best partner in the world to help me through it. We’ve got time. Let’s not rush it”

“I scared Hunk”

“Maybe, but when we explain and talk things out, he’ll understand. He’s not going to stop being your friend because you’re going through a rough time”

“I got freaked thinking I’d hurt him”

Lance remembered that feeling. He’d never consciously physically harm their friends, yet he could remember every single time he’d scared them

“Tell him that. You helped me be more honest with him and Pidge. You refused to let me give up hope that we’d be friends again after Pidge found out my true nature. You’re my rock. I would love to do things with you. And I love the things we do. I don’t think you know, but I love snuggling into you when we’re watching a movie. We don’t have to be talking. Just having you alive and beside me, it makes me really stupidly happy. You make me happy”

Keith finally moved to hug him properly, raising his head his boyfriend pressed a kiss to his lips. Lance would happily take every single kiss from Keith until they were old and wrinkled... if he got old and wrinkled...

“You make me happy too. I’m sorry about the accident...”

“It was freak thing”

“I feel like I should known the lingering headache wasn’t a good thing”

“You didn’t know. I’ve replayed that over and over in my head. How one incident could nearly take you away. All I can come up with is that you’re not as thick headed as you like people to think”

“At least it’s... um... confirmed I have a brain”

“You have a very nice brain. And a very nice rest of you”

Tentatively, Keith joked back

“You’re not too bad for a corpse”

“And you’re not too bad for a dog”

Keith huffed, ego ruffled

“I’m a wolf”

The more Keith said, the more comfortable he’d be. Lance prepared to start googling good werewolf jokes for the future, but for now he was happy Keith was smiling

“And a very charming one at that. You’re quite beautiful as a wolf in a scary kind of way”

“What do I look like?”

“You’re big and black... and clumsy. You’re a bit like Kosmo, your paws are massive, but you’re still very soft”

“Coran said I came to find when I’d turned”

“You did. You sat outside and cried and cried. You were so clumsy that I thought you were hurt”

“I couldn’t have been that bed”

“Think of Kosmo when he had his thermometer up his butt. He was all stiff legged and looked like he’d never recover”

Keith groaned

“I can’t even be a manly werewolf”

“Nope. Still, you got there. I’ll have to take a photo next time... maybe I can try grooming you too?”

Keith rolled his eyes

“I’m not a dog, babe”

“Excuse you. I’ll have you know I’m an excellent groomer. We can put a bow in your hair... I wonder if they make onesies for wolves...”

Keith frowned with a pout. Lance stealing a kiss. If the Blades didn’t want their agents teased they should have thought about that before assigning them all onesies to wear. The realisation hit him, a giggle escaping. Arching an eyebrow at him, Keith didn’t seem amused

“What?”

“Kolivan. Babe, all these years... Kolivan has been running around in a onesie!”

Personally Lance found it hilarious. Stoic, somewhat scary, straight-laced Kolivan... in a onesie. Covering his mouth, Lance’s giggle turned to laughter. Keith tried to resist the urge, but obviously now the thought was in his head and he couldn’t get it out

“That’s terrible! Babe... noooo”

“It’s still true! Oh my god... I wonder if they know?”

“It’s not a onesie, it’s a suit”

Kolivan in a onesie that looked like a suit... Lance shook with laughter... shit, now he needed to pee. Fanning his face, he tried to suck down a breath

“Time out! Time out... oh god... I have to pee”

“You did it to yourself”

“I know. Okay, I’m sorry, but unless you want me to pee right here, we’re going home”

“You could pee on the side of the road?”

“And I could pee on your foot. You can drive. My car hates me”

“What did it do?”

“It’s too much like effort to get behind the steering wheel... I don’t need something else trying to make me pee”

“So I shouldn’t tell you I wanted to make pizza for dinner? A cheesy pizza for a cheesy vampire”

That was sweet rather than funny. Keith was very sweet to him.

#once bitten twice stupid #oncebittentwicestupid #ashratherose #pregnant lance #mpreg #werewolf keith #vampire lance #klance #laith

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applechausson · 4 years ago

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what do u think about canon

YOU HAVE OPENED THE CAN OF WORMS *bangs pots and pans*

short answer is: it had a lot of potential. this is in terms of character development, story arcs, relationships (with each other and themselves), and queer/bipoc representation but it fell extremely flat. now, i don't know how and why it suddenly did because it was doing so well in the first few seasons, i believe but everything just fell apart....

some examples that i can think of on the top of my head is under the cut

- lance's character: he's one of the most well-set-up characters I've seen in media in a LONG time. he's so complex and so human that it would've been worth exploring the ins and outs of his character but NAH they wasted a perfectly good character/story arc/etc just to make him the butt of a joke in every episode which makes me cringe and angry on his behalf (i'd say more but maybe in a different post)

- changing the lion color thingy: lions are sentient beings with centries old souls which is a fascinating and, frankly, cool concept that could've played so well but they fricken messed it up with shiro's disappearance and keith's decision to join the blades. what's all that bonding for???? like if you're gonna give some fricken cool lore, then stick to it????

- keith's decision to join the blades: look, i get it. i honestly think it was necessary (to some extent) for him to join the blades to get to know his galra side better and eventually to meet his mom and stuff but he was gone for a long time narratively and as a writer, that sucks?? he's a well-loved character and a main character at that so it makes no sense for him to decrease in screentime so dramatically. i think he could've joined the blades for a hot sec but come back for narrative purposes only. also the direction it took made keith seem like this asshole who doesn't care about team voltron which he's not!! it's so ooc!!! but they just had to because they didn't want to bother developing him more!!!!! it was RIGHT THERE BRO

- allura could've been more of a badass but dr**mworks are cowards: this might be a controversial take, but i'm disappointed in the way they wrote her character. i know that allura is a teenager at heart and mind and she already has so much shit she's dealing with (and some, she already dealt with with badassery!!!) but they treated her like this... "prize" that could be won and that's so gross and she deserves better

- clearly queercoded characters with amazing chemistry but boooo cowards again: sure, we, the fandom, headcanon the characters' sexualities and gender but keith and lance are so very not straight??? i mean, i guess dr**mworks didn't make them explicitly straight or anything but there was a wonderful opportunity to put two very queercoded characters who care very deeply about each other in a blossoming relationship but nah, they nipped that right at the bud

- canon!allurance: just want to preface this by saying that every ship (except for sh@ladins and pidge x p@ladins, duh) are valid but i just hated how canon treated allurance. this is just from an objective pov and not because i ship klance. like i said, allura was treated as a prize to be won, her boundaries were consistently crossed (which is super ooc for lance because he's a considerate boy but nah, dr**mworks made him be this douche just to push this relationship), etc. allura deserves better than canon!lance. on the other hand, lance was always her second choice. he was never truly heard by her and always felt the need to wear even more of a mask around her. lance deserves better than canon!allura. canon!allurance failed immensely because the way the characters were portrayed canonically didn't allow for allurance to happen healthily.

#kae answers #pleasechokemekeith #mutuals!!#this also.... turned out vv long #i apologize LOL #but this is actually so fun

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delaneytveit · 5 years ago

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University AU - Lance!Baseball

So earlier I made a post about Lance being a baseball player, and I decided to ignore all of my responsibilities and instead just write this full fledged fic based on that post. Honestly I love the university au and I think I might do more, and have them all like connect. But only time will tell. So without further ado, please enjoy my little baseball au.

(Also if you were wondering, everything in this that is baseball related is correct, I’m from a baseball family and have spent years scorekeeping for my little bro’s games, ironically this fic got a little away from me because I got so caught up in the baseball aspect of it. I'd apologize but honestly, I miss baseball so much and this gave me the dopamine I needed, so guess you’ll just have to deal with it. *insert Arianna meme about “what about it” here*)

Lance getting a spot on the team was the second best thing that could have ever happened to him. Lance getting a starting spot on the team, that was the absolute best thing that could happen to him. Every practice, every skirmish, every drill just made him grateful for being a part of the team.

Yeah, the school’s baseball team wasn’t their prize sport, that fell on the football team. But that didn’t mean that it was any easier to get on, and even harder to get play time. So when Lance found out that he wasn’t going to spend his entire first season on the bench, let’s just say the boy saw God.

He just wished his friends were as excited as he was. When he first broke the news he got a few “wow, that’s cool.” or even “nice job Lance” but that was it. There was no genuine surprise or enthusiasm. It hurt, but knowing his friends, he couldn’t fault them. Not when Shiro was literally the starting Running Back for the football team, Hunk being the starting Offensive line, and Allura the starting forward on the girls soccer team. Pidge winning as many science awards as humanly possible, and Keith kicking ass in all his classes. Why would anyone care about some dumb baseball team?

Still he invited them to his first game, and though he hid how much it hurt when they didn’t show he still did extremely well. He made plays like they were second nature, which considering the 10+ years he’s been playing the sport, they basically were.

The longer the season went on, the less it hurt when they didn’t show. His mom, and some of his siblings would, and that’s what really matters. Some of his friends from class did, and that was nice. And his team was always there to keep his head in the game. He was grateful to have become close to so many of them.

Everything was going great, at least he thought they were.

They were having one of their study sessions in Shiro’s room, Keith and Lance studying chemistry while Shiro, Matt and Allura were studying for their Calculus 3 exam, and pidge and hunk doing some lab report for their molecular biology class. Keith was having trouble with one of the problems, huffing loudly every time he got stuck.

“You okay, man?” Lance asked, looking up from his notes.

Keith huffed again, “Yeah, I just can’t get past this fucking thing, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.”

Lance leaned over to look at the problem, the lightbulb in his head lighting up full force when he recognized the question. He spent the next few minutes explaining to Keith how to approach the problem and walking him through it before Pidge interrupted.

“I thought you sucked at Chem!”

Lance laughed, “I do, but I had the same trouble with it, and my tutor taught me how to do it.”

“Since when did you get a tutor? I thought they were all too expensive?” Keith asked

“Um...the baseball team pays for a tutor for whatever class you need.”

“Wait,” it was Shiro this time, “You’re on the baseball team?” the entire room looked at Lance with a mixture of confusion and shock.

Lance reached up and rubbed the back of his neck before sighing, “Yeah, I told you guys the day the list came out.” he said simply, he didn’t know why, but he was starting to feel a little embarrassed about the situation. So he kept his eyes from looking directly at anyone. “I..um...even invited you guys to a few games at the start of the season…”

Pidge broke out into a fit of laughter, “What? No you didn’t!”

He didn’t mean to wince at her outburst, but he couldn’t help it. It hurt. And he was ashamed that he was able to show it so easily in front of his friends.

“Yeah, I did. You said something along the lines of ‘but it's literally soooo boring’” Lance let his shoulders sag before pulling his phone out of his sweater pocket and checking the time. “Honestly, its no big deal, but I do have to go. Got practice before the game tonight.” he quickly packed up his stuff and made a hasty retreat from Shiro’s room, mumbling his goodbyes.

The group sat in the silence for a few too many seconds. Their eyes trained on the door that their friend all but ran out of. How did none of them realize it? How did they not know? Lance, the guy who literally never stops talking, who’s so excited to share his most recent life update. If what he said was true, then what kind of friends were they?

Lance went to as many football and soccer games as he could to support his friends. Was always up for celebrating Pidge’s success, and never failed to congratulate Keith on his recent exam score.

Matt was the first one to speak, “Anyone else get the feeling that we’ve royally fucked up?”

“What do we do?” his sister asked, it was clear that she was the one who felt the most guilty, she remembered saying just that to Lance. She didn’t mean anything with it, she was just talking, and it was true, she didn’t really like baseball. But he seemed so hurt by it.

Shiro got up and took his phone off of the charger that sat on the other side of his bed.

“Shiro?”

“I’m checking the game schedule.” He said, typing into his phone. “He has a game in two hours.”

Everyone took that as the deciding factor. They were going to continue studying for another hour before heading down to the baseball field. They were finally going to watch their friend play.

It was much too easy for Lance to forget everything that had happened in his friend’s room once practice started. He went through the drills and ran his laps with a clear head, his teammates joking along with him.

He was way too engrossed in practice that he didn’t even notice his friends make their way to some seats behind home plate, snacks in hand.

They watched him through practice, none of them really knowing what was happening.

“They all look the same.” Keith grumbled, “Which one is he?”

Hunk looked at the program he had managed to grab on their way in, “Number 15, damn, apparently he’s starting short stop and plays 2nd and Left field!”

“I’m going to be honest, Hunk” Shiro laughed, “But 90% of us don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Hunk joined in on the laugher, taking a bite out of his warm pretzel which definitely needed more salt “All you guys need to know is he’s really good.”

Hunk was right, once the game started, it was clear that Lance was insanely good. The times that a ball was hit to him, you could count on that guy getting out. He never dropped a catch, all of his throws were precise and even from where they sat, they could hear the power the ball held once it hit the target glove.

“Coming up to the plate, Straight from Varadero Cuba, Shortstop and Second Baseman, #15 Leandro Serrano!”

Hunk leans forward, his attentiveness surging everyone else to do the same as they watched Lance swing his bat a few times before stepping into the box. He swings his bat a few more times keeping his eyes on the pitcher as he finally settles into his stance.

The first pitch was much too low, Lance knew it the moment it left the pitcher’s hands. “Ball” he heard the umpire behind him. He waited patiently, the guy wasn’t throwing hard, and honestly if he wasn’t so focused he probably would have smiled. If the guy were to throw at the right height, he’d have no problem launching the ball out into the outfield bringing in one, maybe even two runs and leaving him on second.

The next pitch was a little outside, but he knew if he were to skip this one it would be counted as a strike anyways. He watched as his bat tipped it and sent the ball flying to the left, never crossing the foul line. He took a step back to shake it off, loosen up his muscles before reentering the box and taking his stance back up. He heard the count, 1-1 as he did so.

Somehow, he knew the next pitch was his. Something in his stomach just told him that no matter what, he had to swing. So he did, timing it perfectly he watched the ball make contact and fly off of his bat. The second it did so, he dropped the bat and ran to first, looking up as he rounded the base just in time to watch the ball completely clear the back fence. He never stopped running as he kissed the necklace that hung around his neck and pointed a number one up to the sky, the stands erupting into complete joyous chaos as player after player crossed home plate safely.

No one was expecting to see something like that. To say that the group of teens were surprised was an understatement. They cheered and remained in awe of their friend, who seemed so in his element on the field. The first two pitches made them anxious, but the third, man the third sent all of them out of their seats as they joined the rest of the stands to celebrate what the announcer stated as a three run homerun.

As the game progressed, it became evident that Lance was one hell of a player, catching three fly balls, starting three double plays, and launching a throw from left field all the way to home, just in the nick of time to get the runner out.

In the end, Altea U won with a score of 8 while University of Galran made out with a measly 2.

The group of friends waited outside the locker rooms, still jittery from the excitement of the game.

“Who was it that said that baseball was boring?” Keith joked, poking the clearly excited Pidge in her side.

“Hey! All I know of baseball comes from the few times I would walk in on my grandpa watching it on TV, and it was definitely boring then!”

A few minutes later, the team exited the locker rooms, still dressed in their uniforms, but in a much more casual way. They quickly spotted Lance, his jersey unbuttoned and showing his light blue undershirt, shouldering his bag, with a bat in hand. He was joking with some other guys as they walked before he heard his name.

“Lance! Lance!”

“Yoooo, you guys came?” He walked over to them, no one missed the way his eyes held a different, happier kind of light.

Everyone took their turns hugging him and congratulating him on his game, and he'd be lying if he said he didn’t feel like crying of happiness right now. His friends were here, they had seen his game, they sat in the stands and watched him play. It was such an unreal feeling.

“Dude, how come you never told us you were a fucking beast?” Matt all but yelled, pulling Lance into a tight hug.

“No wonder you guys are undefeated, they had no chance!” Shiro exclaimed, clamping his hand on Lance’s shoulder.

In the end, they decided to go out for some cheeseburgers in honor of Lance’s win. Everyone hopped into Shiro’s car, and those who didn’t - Keith, went with Lance. They had walked to the car in silence, not completely awkward, but one that Keith at least thought was a little unsettling. But whenever he looked up at Lance, that stupid beaming smile of his, it pushed the uneasiness away.

“...You know...that first hit...that was awesome” He said, sliding into the passenger seat as Lance put his bag in the trunk. He almost thought the boy did hear him- almost. Lance quickly slid into the driver’s seat, buckled his seat belt and started the car before turning to Keith.

“Thanks man, honestly I’m so glad you guys got to see that!”

The burger place they chose wasn’t too far, and soon they were all taking a seat at a table, laughing and joking. Lance being his goofball self. He had just told the most obnoxious yet hilarious joke that had the entire table keeling over in laughter when the cashier called his order number. Keith watched as Lance got up and walked to the counter, he hadn’t even noticed what he was doing until Pidge elbowed him in the ribcage.

“Baseball pants, right?” She asked jokingly, sending the entire table into another laughing frenzy and Keith’s cheeks an embarrassing red.

#lance serrano #lance mcclain #vld lance #baseball au #I love two blue bois and lance is one of them #my boy #honestly this was just me missing baseball #like I've been following it on twitter but #its not the same #my boy be looking good is them baseball pants though #Keith agrees #if you didn't listen to I don't dance from hsm2 while reading #did you even read it right?#also lance's walk up song is shellshock if y'all were wondering #its just a perfect walk up song #university au

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shiroallura · 6 years ago

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so let me get this straight:

only shiro and lotor both have moments alone with allura telling her it’s important she gets some rest that also includes a hand touch

only shiro and lance carry physical reminders of allura for the rest of their lives, both given to them by her (lance’s altean markings, and shiro’s white hair and arm with allura’s crystal)

only hunk and shiro both have plotlines where a character who’s important to them (shay, allura) is captured and they have to stage a rescue mission to save the other

only allura’s fractured relationships with shiro and lotor are ever discussed with lance

only shiro and zarkon are brought back to life by altean alchemists in season finales, after each fell in the battle against each other

only shiro and lotor create secondary voltrons using allura’s alchemic powers that she gave to them

only shiro and lotor help her down by offering her a hand

only shiro has his soul carried in allura’s body

only shiro loses allura three times (1x10, 2x13, 8x13)

only shiro comforted allura when she was saying goodbye, by telling her she’d done enough: “you never have to thank me for anything”

only allura trusted shiro in 2x03, even though everyone else - including keith - agreed that trusting ulaz was too risky

only shiro and lotor fought zarkon and won

only shiro comforts her about her father

only shiro’s relationship with allura in vld heavily parallels keith and allura’s dynamic in 80s voltron

only shiro and allura say “we are always stronger together”

only shallura and keith’s parents feature scarred boys with injuries on their left sides who help alien ladies with cheek markings and shocked hand touches

only shiro and allura say “we’re the universe’s only hope”

only shiro and zarkon are the black paladins who risk voltron and the universe to save allura and haggar, altean alchemists, respectively

only shiro and allura don’t have any blood family on earth

only allura couldn’t watch ‘shiro’ walk away after their fight in 5x04

only shiro and allura get their hearts broken by earlier love interests

only shiro was in uniform

and i’m supposed to believe they weren’t supposed to end up together??

this shit haunts me bro

fucking

haunts

#shallura #vld critical #there are very Very few times when shallura not being canon is what i'm bitter about in regards to vld just bc there is So Much else #that takes precedent but GOD!! IF I'M NOT FEELING BITTER TONIGHT!!#shallura parallels #text post #reference #otp: you brought me back to life #otp: the best thing that ever happened to me #lotura #allurance #i guess?? if u squint

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tiny-opal-essence · 5 years ago

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Pocket Paladin Chpt 12

Bumbling

Lance could hear his friends’ muffled voices as they walked through the space mall. Each step of Hunk’s shook the utility belt pocket that Lance had snuck into.

In hindsight, maybe I shouldn’t have done this. Why did I think this was a good idea? Wait, how did I get here anyway? Why are we at the space mall? Pidge and Hunk got everything they needed from the Olkari.

Another step and Lance was thrown into the side of the pocket once more, throwing him off that train of thought.

You’d think he would have noticed I’m in here.

It was dark in the pocket, which was causing Lance to become a bit panicky.

Ok. Deep breaths. In. Out. In. Out.

The shaking came to a stop and Lance heard a new voice. It sounded like there was some sort of performance going on in the mall.

If I could just get the zipper open a little bit, I could watch the show too.

He tried to push the zipper, but it refused to budge.

Stupid zipper. Stupid pocket. Stupid me.

He fell over as the pocket suddenly moved once more.

Geeze, Hunk. Warn a guy next time.

The ride was rougher than before, causing Lance to bump into all the sides of the pocket. Lucky for him, the pocket was made of a soft material. Unluckily for him, it seemed he wasn’t going to slow down for a while. He could almost feel the fabric wrapping around him.

Wonder what happened that made everyone leave the performance so fast. Was it that bad? Hunk loves watching performances, even if they aren’t that good. He always says that he wants to support the performers, cause they put a lot of hard work into it. Maybe there was an emergency and they’re going to see if they can help?

After a few minutes of being jostled around, he came to a stop.

Finally!

The pocket was suddenly dropped on a hard surface.

Ow. What gives? Are we back on the castleship already?

Lance heard two unfamiliar voices talking.

“I see you’ve improved in your thievery.”

“It helps when there’s a distraction. The rest of the crew put on a good show if you’ll pardon the pun.”

“It might have been a bit on the nose having them perform Pirates of Peloponesia. There better be something good in here.”

Lance could hear things shifting around him as the two space pirates commented on what they found. He felt the pocket he was in lurch upwards and heard a zipper being pulled, but he was still in the dark.

“Nothing in this pocket. Check the other one.”

Quiznak. This does not bode well for Lancey-Lance.

Light suddenly burst into the pocket as the zipper was pulled open.

“Look what we have here.” The leader pirate quickly grabbed Lance. “I don’t believe I’ve ever seen anything quite like this before.”

“Let me go!” Lance tried to break his hold on him, but if anything, it only grew tighter.

“You’re quite the little fighter, aren’t you?”

“What a pretty little pet. You’ll be worth quite the pretty penny at the swap moon.” Her smile reminded Lance of a shark’s.

“Or, you could just bring me back to my friends? Maybe you’ve heard of them? Team Voltron?” Lance tried to hide the shakiness in his voice.

The two pirates burst into laughter.

“Now why would we do something like that when we can get so much more for you at the swap moon?” the leader said.

“I doubt Voltron would even know you. Why would they bother with something as insignificant as you?” the accomplice added on.

“Maybe because he’s our friend.” Hunk and the rest of team Voltron stood in the doorway in their paladin armor

How did they change into those so fast?

“What, this little pipsqueak?” Lance winced as the grip on him grew tighter. “I don’t think he’s worth it.”

“Give him back and we promise you’ll leave this place unharmed,” Shiro promised. “You have my word as the leader of Voltron.”

“Face it, you’re outnumbered.” Keith and the others took a step closer.

“You’re mistaken. You’re the ones who are outnumbered. I have a crew that will take you down.” The leader stated.

“Oh, you mean the crew that’s tied up in the main atrium of the mall? That crew?” Allura said with a smirk on her face.

“Tied up? You’re bluffing.” Doubt crept into the accomplice’s voice.

“Are we?” Keith asked as the team took another step closer to the pirates.

“Varkon was happy to help us stop some space pirates. Once we saw the security tapes, well, it was only too easy to track you down.” Pidge responded.

“Be smart about this. Surrender, and you’re free to go. You won’t get as nice an offer from Varkon.” Shiro once again offered.

The pirates took a moment to decide.

“You want your friend so badly? Fine, have him.” And with that, the hand that was holding Lance let go and he was in freefall.

Lance couldn’t even let out a scream. He closed his eyes and hoped it would be quick.

He didn’t hit the ground.

The surface beneath him was warm to the touch and gave a little when he pushed himself up to his hands and knees. He took deep breaths and saw a hint of red out of the corner of his eye.

Keith.

As he looked around, Lance realized just how close of a call it was.

Holy cheese. I almost…

“Are you ok?” Keith asked.

Lance nodded. “Yeah. Nice catch by the way.”

“Thanks.” Keith stood up, keeping a steady hand so Lance didn’t fall.

Lance could see that the others had tied up the pirates.

“We’ve got to get you out of here without anyone else seeing you. Are you ok going back in my jacket pocket?”

“Sure.”

Keith put him in the pocket. Lance could feel his eyelids growing heavy as the pocket rocked him.

Must be from all the excitement.

Slowly he began drifting…drifting…

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Keith woke up to a rustling sound coming from his nightstand. He looked over and saw that Lance was struggling with the bandana blanket and getting tangled up in it. As he reached over to try to help, Lance fearfully mumbled out.

“Let me go!”

Lance was writhing all over his bed. Keith was afraid that he might hurt himself since the bed was right on the edge of the dollhouse. That was the moment that Lance rolled too far in one direction and fell out of the bed and over the edge.

Keith hated to think of what might have happened if his reflexes weren’t so fast.

That was close.

“Lance,” Keith whispered. “Are you ok?”

Lance somehow had managed to sleep through all of that and even stopped fidgeting. His breathing relaxed as he curled up and nuzzled his face into Keith’s palm.

What do I do now? Every time I’ve tried to put him down while he’s asleep he wakes up. I don’t want to wake him up.

Keith looked over at the clock glowing on the wall.

It’s still another varga till breakfast. I can just wait for him to wake up.

Keith kept a steady hand as he lied back down, resting his hands on his chest. Lance didn’t even stir.

He must be tired. We were up pretty late playing Smash Bros. I’m still tired.

Keith fought the urge to yawn. A few minutes passed, and he started drifting off once more.

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Lance felt a lot warmer than he was used to. Whatever was over him felt heavier than the bandana he had been using as a blanket the past few days. He half-heartedly tried to push it away, but it didn’t budge. He could feel the ground rising and falling beneath him.

Last I checked, beds don’t do that. Where am I?

The *bu-bump* sound in his ear was a bit loud to hear first thing in the morning. He let out a slight *groan* as he started stretching as much as what was on top of him would let him. He heard a much louder *groan* somewhere above him as both what was holding him down and the ground itself began shifting.

“Whoa!”

Lance started rolling down the incline before he heard Keith exclaim, “Shit, Lance!”

That’s when Lance realized that the mysterious object that had been holding him down had been Keith’s hand.

Why was Keith holding me in his sleep? I mean, I’m not complaining, but it’s still a bit weird. Did he grab me in his sleep or something? He usually doesn’t move at all in his sleep. Wait, is it weird that I know that?

“Are you ok?” Keith had a slightly worried look on his face as he looked down at Lance sitting in his hands.

“Yeah, a bit disoriented though. I remember falling asleep in my bed, so why did I wake up…not in my bed?” Lance didn’t want to make Keith feel awkward, so he decided to indirectly refer to where he woke up.

“Um, well, that’s because you fell out of bed.”

“Wouldn’t I have just woken up on the floor then?”

“You fell out of bed and over the edge of the dollhouse.”

“Oh.”

“I caught you, and every other time I’ve tried putting you down, you’ve woken up and I didn’t want a repeat of that, so I thought I’d just lie down and wait for you to wake up since it was still a varga until breakfast. Guess I was still pretty tired.” Keith sheepishly responded. “I didn’t hurt you, did I?”

“Nah, you’re good. I’m just a little shaken, but that’s my new normal, right?”

“It shouldn’t be.”

“Yeah, but there’s really nothing we can do until Allura’s learned enough to reverse the spell. She’s been working hard at it so you won’t have to worry about me rooming with you for too much longer.”

“I don’t mind. It’s not like you take up a lot of space.” Keith laughed nervously at his bad joke.

“*gasp* Keith, how could you say something like that? I thought we were friends.” Lance said overdramatically before laughing a bit.

“Sorry, that was bad.”

“No, it was actually pretty good. You’re funny, but in a Drax way.”

“Drax?”

“You know, Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy? He’s hilarious without ever trying to be, especially in the sequel. I wonder if Pidge has those on her laptop. We should watch them for our next movie night!”

“We’ll have to check with Pidge on that. In the meantime, it’s almost time for breakfast so we should get ready.” Keith brought Lance back over to the dollhouse so they both could do just that.

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“I still think you two cheated last night.” Pidge bitterly took a bite of her pancakes.

“You’re just jealous cause we got mad skills.” Lance taunted back.

“Come on, Pidge. We lost fair and square. There’s always next time.” Hunk stated.

“At least you beat Shiro and Allura,” Keith added.

“In my defense, it’s been a while since I played,” Shiro said.

“That’s hardly an excuse. You played Smash Bros. all the time with Matt.” Pidge responded.

“And he wiped the floor with me every time.”

“You two cleaned the floor when you were done?” Coran had a perplexed look on his face.

“It’s another Earth phrase. Wiping the floor with someone means that you beat them at something with little effort.” Hunk explained.

“Like how I beat all of you in training?” Allura said with a smile.

“Exactly,” Lance responded.

“Just you wait until training today. I’m going to wipe the floor with you this time.” Pidge confidently declared.

“I look forward to the challenge,” Allura responded.

“Could someone pass th-” Hunk started to say before an alert popped up on the screen.

*ALERT! INCOMING TRANSMISSION!*

Keith tried to silently apologize to Lance before quickly grabbing him and dropping him in his jacket pocket so he was out of sight.

Lance had barely managed to grasp what was happening before he got whisked away. He landed in a heap in the pocket, heart pounding as he tried to catch his breath.

Ok, that…that was terrifying. I think my stomach got left behind. Uggh, my head hurts.

‘That’s your brain trying to comprehend its own stupidity.’

Now’s not the time for quoting That 70s Show. I could have whiplash or maybe a concussion. You could at least show a little sympathy.

Lance focused on keeping still so attention wouldn’t be drawn to him in the pocket as he heard the message.

“Voltron, I am Commander Schurke.” The Galra on the screen said. “I cannot say that this is unexpected, but your arrival is most unwelcome. I will give you one chance to go back the way you came without a fight.”

“I wouldn’t trust you as far as I could throw you,” Pidge responded.

“What happens if we do not agree with your request?” Allura stood up and faced the screen after giving a side eye to Pidge.

“If you refuse to cooperate, then you will be forced to leave. I have been given the order from Lotor himself to stop you from continuing your pursuit.”

“You must understand that is something we cannot allow.” Allura put her hands behind her back so the commander couldn’t see the signal she gave to Coran.

“My sentries are surrounding your ship as we speak. You do not have a choice.”

“There’s always a choice,” Shiro stated.

“Then you have chosen wrong, Champion. I hope they remember you, and how easily Voltron fell to the Galra Empire.” Schurke spoke before ending the transmission.

Coran pushed the button on the remote in his pocket and activated the particle barrier just a moment before the first shots hit it, reverberating through the castleship.

“Paladins to your stations!” Shiro commanded before grabbing Keith by the shoulder. “Aren’t you forgetting something?”

“No.”

“Lance should stay here on the castleship, where it’s safe. It would be too risky out there for him. Coran and the space mice can make sure he stays out of trouble while we’re gone.”

“Oh, right.” Keith had been so focused on the situation at hand, he had momentarily forgotten about Lance being in his pocket. He grabbed Lance and handed him to Coran.

“Good luck!” Lance called out as everyone ran to their zip lines to their lions. Lance’s face fell once the others were out of sight.

This is the first mission I’m not allowed to go on. I thought I would be fixed before that happened. I mean, I know there’s not much I can do like this, but I still want to help.

“Don’t worry, my boy. You can help me and the space mice with air support.”

“Thanks, Coran.”

“Let’s get to the bridge.” Coran brought Lance to the floating tray, where the space mice were already waiting for their ride.

“Coran, we need you to open the barrier for us to get out,” Allura said through the comms.

“One moment, Princess.” Coran pressed a different button on the remote.

“We’re out. Go ahead and close it.” Keith told Coran, who pressed the button once more.

“That’s pretty handy.” Lance flew the tray next to Coran as they raced towards the bridge.

“Yes, it is. Slav designed it after complaining about how the only place we could activate the particle barrier from was the bridge. It does help in situations like this. Plus it has the option of just opening a part of the barrier to let someone in or out without compromising the defenses everywhere.”

“Cool.”

“There’s a lot of these guys.” Hunk said.

“How much longer till we get air support?” Pidge asked.

“Hold on a tic. We’re almost there.” Coran responded through the comms as he ran towards the door to the bridge. It opened automatically and he and Lance rushed in. “Lance, bring the space mice over to the main console over there.” Coran pointed. “They know what to do.”

When Lance landed the floating tray, the four space mice all ran to different sections of the console and began pushing buttons and flipping switches. The area around them in space was filled with lasers.

“What should I do?”

“Help the space mice.”

Lance, take the controls. But does anyone ask if I know how?

‘Is now really the best time for Justice League references?’

Shut up. I’ll figure it out.

‘Don’t forget, lives are at stake here. One slip up, and they’re as good as dead.’

Not helping.

The space mice were all *squeaking* to each other and quickly going between different buttons and switches. Lance would try to approach one of them to ask what he could do to help, but he just seemed to be getting in their way. They would shoo him out of the way and before they had a chance to try and tell him what he could do, they were called away by one of the other space mice. This happened a few times with each of them.

I guess it makes sense that they’ve got this down. They’ve been doing this during all of our missions. And we’ve had a lot of missions. But there still has to be something that I can do. I just feel like I’m in the way here.

“Is there anything that I can do specifically?”

“Umm.” Coran looked over at the other console for a split second before looking back at his own. “You can flip the charge switch for the cannon.”

“Ok. What one is it?” Lance looked around at the vast assortment of switches.

“That one in the middle.” Coran pointed.

Lance saw two switches technically in the middle where Coran had pointed. They were labeled, but in Altean.

I knew I should have taken Allura up on her deal to learn more Altean. Should I ask someone to translate it? There’s not really time for that and I mean, if it’s the wrong one I’ll just do the other. What could go wrong?

Lance pulled the switch down. There was a low and drawn out *booooooooop* sound before everything went dark. The castleship was hit by one of the ion cannons after the particle barrier fell.

That’s not what’s supposed to happen.

Lance quickly pushed the switch back up and the lights came back on along with the particle barrier. He quickly flipped the correct switch.

“Sorry, Coran,” Lance called out.

“Coran, what happened?” Keith asked.

“Are you guys ok? The castle got hit when it went dark.” Hunk added.

“We’re all fine on this end. Uhhh, it seems that the upgrades to the particle barrier just temporarily overloaded the system, but it should be good now.” Coran covered for Lance. “How are things going on your end?”

“These guys just don’t know when to quit,” Shiro said.

“Well, neither do we.” Lance could hear the smirk in Pidge’s voice.

“Is there anything else I can do to help?” Lance asked Coran.

“Um, no. It might be best if you don’t do anything with the console since you’re not as familiar with it as the space mice and I are.” Coran hesitatingly responded. “Perhaps you could serve as a lookout and let us know if you see any targets we miss?”

“Yeah, I can do that.” Lance hopped back on the floating tray and flew it to a good viewpoint.

I don’t know what good it’ll do though. The targeting system’s automatic. There’s no way any of the shots would miss.

‘He just feels sorry for you. He’s putting you in a useless position because that’s what you are. Useless.’

Well, maybe something will go wrong and actually overload the system so it won’t automatically target and I’ll get to prove myself once again as the sharpshooter of the team.

‘You can’t even flip the right switch. What makes you think you would be able to do that?’

I just…I want to feel like I’m still able to do something for the team.

Lance was glad that with his new position the others couldn’t see his face fall.

“Where are all of these guys coming from? Every time we hit one down, two more take its place.” Pidge said over the comms.

“They seem to be coming from a nearby planet. Aha! Planet Stolpern, an uninhabited ball of ice.” Coran pulled up some information on the planet. “There must be a stronghold of sorts there.”

“That would explain the endless fighter jets.” Hunk commented.

“If we take down that stronghold, we should be able to defeat Schurke and continue tracking Lotor,” Shiro stated.

“Let’s go then.” Keith sounded all too eager to bring the fight to Schurke.

“Not so fast, Keith.” Coran cautioned. “Given how low the temperatures are planet-side, only the blue lion can go. The other lions would be frozen instantly.”

“Alright, the rest of us will provide a distraction so Allura can get closer and take down the stronghold.” Shiro declared.

“Sounds good.” Allura and the others voiced their agreement.

It’s nice having Shiro back in charge. Not saying that Keith didn’t do a good job, cause he did, but Shiro’s slightly better at coming up with plans.

Coran pulled up the video feed from the blue lion so they could see what Allura was seeing on Stolpern.

It looks like Hoth from Star Wars. Weird.

“I see the building. It looks pretty well fortified. Oh, Blue’s telling me something.” Allura commented.

Blue’s weapon made short work of the defenses of the stronghold.

How did Allura unlock that ability so soon? She’s only been doing this for 3 months. It took me almost 6 to unlock that!

‘Don’t you see how much stronger Allura’s connection is with Blue? She was always meant to be the blue paladin. You were just a placeholder. Blue never really cared about you.’

She does care about me!

‘She cut you off without a word. That’s not what someone who cares about you would do, though why would anyone care about you at all?’

Lance tried to ignore the thoughts swirling in his head. He saw that Allura had managed to singlehandedly destroy the stronghold and was flying back towards the rest of the team.

“Well done, Allura!” Coran praised her. “Alfor would be so proud of how far you’ve come as a paladin.”

“Thank you, Coran.”

“Alright team, let’s finish this. Form Voltron!” Shiro yelled.

Once Voltron was formed, they were able to take down the remaining sentries in the fighter jets before Commander Schurke escaped into deep space.

‘Look how much smoother everything is running without you. There wasn’t any hesitation in forming Voltron or finishing the fight. They’re better off without you.’

“Excellent work, paladins. Let’s get everyone back in the castleship and go finish up breakfast.” Coran turned off the particle barrier.

“I have to confer with Coran first, but I will see you all in the dining room shortly,” Allura said

“Last one there’s a rotten egg!” Pidge exclaimed through the comms.

“That’s not fair! You know my lion’s not as fast as yours.” Hunk responded.

Lance lowered the floating tray down so the space mice could climb on before zooming down the hall back to breakfast. When he got to the room, Keith and Shiro were already there. As he and the space mice took their seats, Pidge burst into the room, closely followed by Hunk.

“Haha! Beat ya!” Pidge yelled.

“I’m not the last one here, though. It’s going to be either Coran or Allura.” Hunk pointed out the two last members of the team. “I can warm up everyone’s food while we wait for them.”

“Sounds good,” Keith commented.

“Lance, where’s your helmet?” Shiro noticed that Lance didn’t have it with him.

“Oh! I must have left it on the bridge. I’ll be back in a few.”

Lance flew back down the hallway to the bridge before stopping outside the closed doors and listened in on Coran and Allura talking.

I don’t want to interrupt their conversation if it’s something important.

“Coran, why would you not say what really happened? I had to hear what Lance did from the space mice.” Allura said incredulously.

“Lance has been through enough as is. I didn’t want him to blame himself for this when it wasn’t entirely his fault. He reminds me so much of Roland sometimes that I forget he doesn’t know everything he did.”

Who’s Roland?

“*sigh* I know how hard it is to lose someone, but you still must allow Lance to learn from his mistakes. He put the entire team in jeopardy. What if the power hadn’t come back on at all? He could have killed us all.”

“I understand that. I can teach him more about the consoles so that this doesn’t happen again.”

“Good.”

I think I’ve heard enough. This is a good time to go in.

Lance pressed the button on the floating tray to open the door.

“Oh, Lance. What brings you back up here, my boy?”

“I think I left my helmet in here. Guess I was in such a hurry to beat the others to the dining room, I forgot it. Heh heh.” Lance said sheepishly.

“Lance, you know you’re supposed to keep your helmet with you when you’re on the floating tray.” Allura chided.

“I know. Won’t happen again, I promise.” He responded as he flew over to the console and retrieved his helmet. “What were you guys talking about anyway? More battle strategies?”

“Something like that,” Allura responded.

“Cool. See you guys in the dining room!”

Lance’s thoughts got the better of him as he flew back down the hall.

I’m glad Coran stood up for me, but I really wish the space mice hadn’t told Allura what actually happened. I didn’t mean to do anything wrong. It’s not my fault I don’t know Altean.

‘Except it kind of is.’

Yeah, well…Coran said it wasn’t entirely my fault, so there!

‘Not entirely means partially’

No one asked you! And Coran’s going to teach me more about the stuff so this won’t happen again.

‘And what’s to stop you from putting your friends in danger again?’

Well, there’s not really too much I can do in that department while I’m only 3 inches tall. At least the others don’t know the truth. I trust Allura and Coran to not tell anyone else and I can bribe the space mice with the treats I have in my room.

“Lance, you’re just in time.” Hunk said. “Your food’s ready.”

“Thanks, Hunk.” Lance hid his feelings behind a smile as he once again took his seat with the space mice.

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“Let’s grab him while they’re out of their ship!” Zethrid said.

“Not yet,” Lotor stated.

“Why not? Their team’s out of their ship, it’s the perfect opportunity.” Ezor questioned.

“But look at the video feed.” Axha pointed. “He’s still being closely monitored. We need to wait for him to be alone before we act.”

*meow* Kova was once again sitting on Narti’s shoulder as she pointed to another feed on the screen.

“Excellent point, Narti. There’s still the particle barrier to get through.” Lotor added.

“I could always sneak on their ship again and clone the source code on that remote the mustache man has,” Ezor mentioned.

“Could you steal some more of those treat things when you go, babe?” Zethrid asked.

“Anything for you.”

“I don’t believe that will be necessary,” Lotor stated. “If all goes according to plan, we’ll have them walking right into our trap in less than a movement. There are just a few other planets they’ll need to visit first. Is everything ready on Gefahr?”

“It should be within the next quintant,” Axha answered.

“Good. Let’s make sure Voltron gets the message.”

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“Thanks again for making these swords for us, Hunk.” Lance and the space mice held up their respective swords.

“Oh, it was nothing. I just figured that if you can make a knife out of a railroad tie in shop class, then why not make mini swords for you guys out of nails in the forge.”

“Hey, don’t sell yourself…short!” Lance did finger guns at Hunk.

“Oh my God, Lance. That was terrible. Why are we friends again?” Hunk said jokingly.

“Come on, Hunk. You know you love me.” Lance sing-songed.

“I don’t know, maybe I just need someone to be my taste tester.” Hunk continued to joke.

“Could we please focus back on the training session, you two?” Allura looked over at Hunk and Lance.

“Sorry, Allura.” They chorused.

With that, Hunk went back over with the others while Keith, Lance, and the space mice got back to work. Keith was the one in charge of teaching Lance and the space mice how to use their swords. They had only had the metal swords for a few sessions of training but had learned quickly.

“You’ve all improved a lot since the last session,” Keith observed.

“Well, we have a good teacher.” Lance complimented Keith.

Keith didn’t understand why Lance complimenting him made him feel so…weird inside. It was that good kind of weird again, but he still didn’t know what it meant.

“Uh, thanks.”

They continued training. Lance and the space mice fought one on one, with Lance winning the most rounds out of them.

“Woo hoo! I won again!”

“We need to figure out something that will give you more of a challenge,” Keith commented.

“A challenge you say?” Pidge appeared next to them with a glint in her eyes.

“Ahh! Where did you come from!” Lance exclaimed.

“Over there with the others. I couldn’t help but hear your predicament. Hunk and I have been working on something that might be able to help.”

“What is it?” Keith asked.

“You’ll see.” With that, Pidge ran out of the training deck.

“Any idea what it is?” Lance asked Keith.

“Nope. Keep practicing with each other. I have to talk to Shiro about something.” Keith walked over to the others while Lance and the space mice trained. Lance noticed that the others were all grouped together with their helmets on.

Wonder what they’re talking about. They’re being really secretive. Maybe they’re planning another surprise for me!

‘Doubt.’

A few minutes later, the conversation ended and Keith came back over.

“What was that about?” Lance asked.

“Nothing. Just…wondering what I would have to do to catch up on training with the others.”

That’s right. Keith having to train me is taking time out of his training. That’s not really fair to him.

‘Yes, how selfish you are. You’re just holding him back.’

Maybe there’s something I can do to help.

‘Again, doubt.’

Stop memeing!

Pidge burst back into the room with something clutched in her hand. “Got it!”

“Got what?” Lance asked as Pidge walked over to where he was.

“A challenger.” Pidge put what she was holding down on the platform in front of Lance. As she unwrapped her hand from around it, everyone saw what it was.

“A mini gladiator-bot?” Lance questioned.

“Mhmm.” Pidge nodded. “That way, you’ll be able to improve in your training while you’re like this.”

“But what about what happened with the gladiator last time?” Lance reminded the team.

“We thought of that.” Hunk said. “This one has a kill switch. Other than that and its height, it’s the same as the regular gladiator-bot.”

“The level of difficulty for this one can be changed using the same remote the kill switch is on, so whoever’s watching you can vary it during training.” Pidge pointed out on the remote.

So someone still has to be taken away from their training to babysit me.

“Thanks, guys. This is really going to help.” Lance said.

“No problem, Lance. We want to make sure that you’re prepared in case you actually have to use the sword.” Hunk responded.

“Plus, this helps you get ready for when you’re back to normal,” Shiro commented.

“Watch out, Keith. When I’m back to normal, I’m going to wipe the floor with you!” Lance exclaimed.

“Why wait till then?” Pidge said with a smirk. “We could do a contest between you two right now. The gladiator-bots are the same save for height and a kill switch. It would be an even playing field.”

“I don’t know…” Lance said hesitatingly.

“I’m in,” Keith responded.

Not wanting to look like a chicken in front of his crush, Lance changed his answer to “Me too.”

“Alright. Rules are simple. We’ll start the gladiator bots at the easiest level and gradually increase their difficulty over time. If their sword touches you, you’re out. Whoever lasts the longest wins.”

“What do they win?” Allura asked.

“You mean, what am I going to win, right?” Lance smugly responded.

“Whoever wins gets to make the loser do whatever they want,” Pidge answered.

“As long as it’s appropriate.” Shiro looked at Lance as he spoke.

“Why would you assume I would make Keith do something inappropriate?”

“Because we know you, Lance,” Hunk responded.

“Fine, I’ll keep it PG.”

Not gonna lie, little hurt they think I would do that. I would never make someone do anything they were uncomfortable with. I might push someone’s boundaries on occasion, but I won’t go past them. That’s just rude.

Keith and Lance got in position and waited for the countdown. Lance made sure that his stance, as well as his grip on the sword, were good. When the countdown ended, Lance launched himself at the mini gladiator. The *ding* of him and the mini gladiator clashing blades was drowned out by the *clang* of Keith and his respective gladiator doing the same. As the contest went on, Lance could feel the gladiator getting stronger, though it didn’t seem to be by much. After a few more minutes he looked over at Keith and saw that he was breathing heavily as he barely managed to push his gladiator away.

Wow, I’m actually doing better than Keith! He’s really going at it and I haven’t even broken a sweat!

‘Isn’t that a bit suspicious?’

Nope. I’m just that good. Maybe.

It wasn’t too long until a buzzer went off, meaning someone had been hit.

“Lance is the winner,” Coran said as Hunk hit the kill switch for the mini gladiator.

“Woo hoo! Take that, Keith!” Lance exclaimed.

“Yeah, yeah.” Keith panted out. “What are you going to make me do?”

“Remember, it has to be appropriate,” Shiro stated.

“I know, Shiro. I’m just gonna make Keith do a face mask.”

“That’s it?” Keith questioned.

“Yep. That’s it.” Lance replied. “Unless you’d rather do something else? I’ve got a few other ideas…”

“No. Face mask’s good.”

“Great! I’ll go get the stuff and bring it back here.” Lance climbed back on his floating tray and flew down the hallway.

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As Lance flew back down the hallway towards the training deck, he heard something that made him stop outside the door.

“Wait, so it wasn’t a power surge?” Pidge said incredulously.

“No, it wasn’t,” Allura confirmed.

“Princess, is this really necessary?” Coran wanted to keep what had happened under wraps to spare Lance’s feelings.

“They need to know. Lance’s actions could have had dire consequences.”

Wow. So much for them not telling.

‘What would you expect? You endangered your team.’

Well, at least Coran didn’t want to tell the truth. Wait. That makes it sound like a bad thing.

“Ok. How do we prevent that from happening again?” Shiro thought out loud. “I’d feel a bit mean saying that he’s not allowed to do anything, even if it is for the best.”

“I’m planning on teaching him some more of the controls on the console so that he won’t make the same mistake again,” Coran explained.

“Sounds good,” Keith commented.

“Why was there a switch that would shut off all the power anyway? That seems like a design flaw.” Hunk questioned.

“That’s why all of the switches are clearly labeled. If Lance would have just learned Altean, he wouldn’t have made that mistake.” Allura answered.

Ouch. Yeah, that’s kind of on me.

“He was very upset at making that mistake. I believe it would be in his best interest to not let him know that we all know. He’s had a rough day.” Coran added on.

“Is that the same reason we’re not going to tell him that the contest was rigged?” Pidge asked.

“I feel bad lying to him about that. He’s my best friend.” Hunk said.

“Lance really needed a win today,” Shiro responded. “Having him beat Keith was the best way to do that. Thanks for agreeing to do that, Keith.”

“No problem.”

“That was smart to only increase the difficulty of the mini gladiator by a little and the normal one by a lot.” Allura complimented Hunk and Pidge on their tech.

“Yeah, well, I think we all know Keith wouldn’t be able to actually throw the contest and have it be realistic, so we just put his on one of the higher difficulties,” Pidge explained their method.

“I wonder how far Lance would have actually gotten if we had made it an even playing field.” Hunk thought out loud.

“Probably not too far, since he’s still learning,” Pidge answered. The others murmured in agreement.

So none of them thought I could do it on my own? Do they really think so little of me that they had to cheat the system so I could win? I don’t want to win like that.

‘Of course they think little of you. That’s what you are. Little Lance. Not even able to beat the gladiator on your own.’

“Is it just me, or is Lance taking a long time?” Pidge said.

“Maybe he needs help grabbing some of the stuff.” Hunk suggested.

“I’ll go check.” Lance could hear Keith coming towards the door.

I’d better go in now so they don’t realize I was listening in.

Lance took a breath and put a smile on his face before he pressed the button to open the door.

“Hey guys! Sorry I took so long. These things aren’t as easy to grab when you’re 3 inches tall.” Lance gestured to the various trial size products on the tray.

“Lance, if you need help, you know you can just ask,” Shiro said.

“I know, Space Dad, but I can handle it. I mean, I beat Keith today, so I’m feeling pretty good.”

Gotta make sure they don’t know that I know that they rigged the contest.

“What even are all of these anyways?” Pidge asked as she looked at the variety of products Lance had brought.

“These are all of the things you need for a face mask. Each of them does something different to help your skin.” Lance went through all of the products and what they specifically did as he told Keith how to apply them. Lance also did a face mask himself. The others left to get ready for bed after a few minutes, but not before Pidge snapped a photo of Keith and Lance’s faces covered in goop.

“How much longer do I need to keep this stuff on?” Keith asked as he poked at his face mask.

“Just a few more minutes. And stop poking at it!”

“It feels weird.”

“That’s just cause your skin’s not used to it.”

“How do you do this every day? It just seems like a lot of work.”

“I don’t do this every day. It would dry out my skin.”

“But you always put something on your face at night?”

“Yeah, moisturizer. Not a face mask.”

“Oh.”

“Don’t worry,” Lance patted Keith’s much larger hand reassuringly, “you’ll learn.”

“What if I don’t want to learn?”

“Then I’ll just have to beat you again and make you do another face mask.” That got Lance thinking. “What would you have made me do if you’d won?”

I mean, he should have won. I’m curious to know. Please don’t let it be anything too bad.

“I don’t know.” Keith paused. “Maybe it’s a good thing you won. I’m not really good at thinking of things like that.”

“Come on, Keith. You’ve got to have some idea.”

“You being quiet for an hour? Or maybe doing more training?” Keith said uncertainly.

“That’s the best you can come up with?” Lance said with a small laugh.

“I told you I’m not good at this.” Keith poked at his face mask again. “Is it supposed to crack when you talk?”

“That means it’s time to take it off. Just wait till you feel how soft your skin is!”

Keith did just that and was amazed at the difference. “That’s amazing.”

“I know, right? Let me feel!”

Keith brought his face down close to Lance.

“How’s it feel?”

“Much improved. Your pores aren’t dying anymore.” Lance answered.

“Can I feel yours?”

“Sure, though I don’t think you’ll feel much since I’m, well, like this.” Lance gestured to himself.

Keith slowly brought his pointer finger to Lance’s cheek to feel for himself. Lance had to brace himself as he did that.

It’s just Keith. He’s not going to hurt you. You’re ok. It’s just a finger the size of you coming closer and closer. Nothing to worry about. You’re ok.

Keith noticed that Lance seemed to flinch slightly as his finger came closer to him but didn’t move away. He gently felt Lance’s cheek.

“I can actually feel a difference.”

“How?” Lance asked. “You don’t know what it felt like before.”

“Actually, I do. When you fell out of bed this morning, you kind of nuzzled your face into my hand.”

Oh my God.

‘How embarrassing.’

“I am so sorry. I’ll push my bed to the inside wall of the dollhouse so I won’t fall over the edge again.”

“That’s a good idea,” Keith commented. “And Lance? If you ever want to do another face mask with me, I’d be ok with it. They’re not that bad.”

“High praise coming from you. Maybe we could get everyone else to do one too. That’d be fun.”

*mhmm* Keith agreed. “Do you need any help cleaning this up?”

“Nah, I’ve got it. I’ll meet you in your room in a few minutes.”

“Alright. Night, Lance.”

“Night, Keith.”

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Kacxa Week 2019 Day 6: Free Day - Halloween

Just your typical Halloween fluff. Lots of ships! All aboard!!!!

"Hey Acxa have you seen my Paladin suit?"

From down the hall he hears her shout, "uhhh no." He swore under his breath as he dug through all his clothes. "But you're not seriously going to wear your Paladin suit for Halloween. That's just dumb," Acxa added as she walked into the room.

Keith eyed her suspiciously. "Fine. I'll just wear my blade suit." Suddenly the back of his head was hit by a balled up shirt.

"Absolutely not. You will not be wearing your work clothes to my first ever Halloween party."

He playfully rolled his eyes. "you're the boss," he said, pulling her in for a kiss. He was so relieved that he was finally as tall as her. Three years into their relationship.

"Damn straight. Now you better figure out what you're going to be." Acxa booped his nose before heading off to the bathroom to shower.

"Well what about you? You shot down the couple's costume idea I wanted us," he pouted.

"Well I'm sorry that I don't know what the point of dressing up as salt and pepper would be," she teased before closing the door and starting the shower. "Now remember I'm going to meet Romelle so you can go ahead and help the McClain's and Holt's with party decorations."

"Yeah alright." He yelled through the door.

"And get a better costume!"

So Keith found himself alone, buying a 12 pack of beer and a cheap Halloween vampire kit. He'll be Dracula, and Acxa would think it's incredible because she'd have no idea what the hell he was. But hey, it was better than nothing. The costume kit came with cheap plastic teeth, a cape, and fake blood, it was perfect for what Keith was going for. And for $10 how could he say no.

When he returned, Acxa was gone. He assumed she went to Romelle's like she said she was going to. So Keith quickly changed into his cheap Dracula costume and headed to Lance and Katie's house.

He was pleasantly greeted by a very enthusiastic Mario. "Keith! You're here early!" Pidge exclaimed, pulling him into a hug. "It's been too quiznacking long. I've missed you."

Keith smiled as he returned her hug, it had been a little over a year since he had seen her. "I've missed you too Pidge."

"Easy there mullet. Don't get to clingy with my lady," Luigi shouted at him jokingly.

Keith glared Lance down and lifted Pidge into the air and spun her around. He and Pidge always had a special relationship, being that they knew each other far before Voltron. "Okay, okay, you can put me down Keith. Lance is going to pop a blood vessel," she teased. He obliged and set her down beside Lance.

Smirking, Keith greeted Lance with a quick "bro hug" before giving him a hard time about Pidge. "She's really grown up hasn't she?"

Despite the fake, overly large mustache, Keith could still see Lance blush. The two have been living together since they stopped being Paladins. Everyone had a bet as to when they were finally going to stop pussyfooting around each other and date.

It's been nearly five years since Allura's sacrifice, and things finally felt normal. Or as normal as their lives could be.

Suddenly Keith was tackled by Wario. "Keith buddy!"

As much as he pretended to be annoyed, he loved Hunk's hugs. "Good to see you too bud." Hunk put him down and eyed his outfit.

"Dracula huh? Not too bad."

"Yeah, you're really not giving up on the whole "goth loner" schtick any time soon huh?" Lance teased causing Keith to shoot him a death glare.

Pidge was laughing uncontrollably. "Leave him alone Lance. I think he makes a very nice shitty Dracula."

Keith missed this.

Slowly every single one of his good friends had shown up accept for Acxa and Romelle.

Shiro and Adam showed up as Tarzan and Jane, or in their case, Tarzan and Jenson.

Shay showed up as Belle from Beauty and the Beast. She was a little bit peeved at Hunk for not being her beast. Keith wished he didn't hear Hunk promise to show her his inner beast later.

Matt and Nyma were Jack Skelilngton and Sally.

Veronica and the MFE pilots were the power rangers.

A few more rebels and blades showed up. Sam and Colleen Holt even showed showed up. Sam was dressed in a suit that was covered in clocks, while Colleen was in a green dress covered with leaves, sticks, and flowers. Claiming to be father time and mother nature respectively.

Ezor and Zethrid showed up dressed as Captain Hook and Peter Pan. It was cute because when they showed up everyone asked Ezor why she wasn't captain Hook. She already had the eye patch. So within minutes of showing up, the two vanished and returned with each other's costumes on. Hence Ezor in a pirate outfit that was one size too big, and Zethrid in a Peter Pan outfit one size too small. Adorable.

An hour into the party, and he hadn't seen his girlfriend or his pseudo sister. Keith didn't know how or why, but he was always somehow surrounded by amazing women. Allura, Pidge, Acxa, Romelle, Ezor, Zethrid, his mom, Colleen, Nyma, and dozens of other blades and rebels that he's come across.

He was alone at the kitchen counter talking to a girl that just joined the blades, Aria. She was telling him about her life and how her parents kicked her out because she was gay. For most of her adolescence she was homeless until now. The Blades gave her a home and she thanked him. He only just met this young Galra girl, but he vowed that if anything happened to her, he would kill everyone in the room then himself. Eventually, he ended up being about five or six beers deep when he heard all his close friends laughing.

Aria also seemed to notice the growing laughter as both of them made their way to the dining room, aka the dance floor. His friends parted for him and his jaw dropped at the sight, his fake teeth almost falling out.

Acxa had finally arrived. She had dyed her hair jet black. She had given herself a black scar on her right cheek. But most importantly she was dressed in his Paladin armour, carrying around a stuffed black panther. Apparently there were no black lions available.

She noticed his stupid face. "You like?"

He closed his mouth and checked her out. She was supposed to be him, yet he doubted he ever looked that good. "Oh you're so dead," he teased before giving chase. Acxa squealed with glee as he chased her. Eventually he finally caught her as Aria may or may not have gotten in her way by accident.

He brought the two of them to the bar and made introductions as he made his girlfriend and new friend a drink. "... So I'm just really thankful for the opportunity to have a place." He heard Aria say as he returned with their drinks.

"So… where's Romelle?" He was asking when a blade in uniform walked passed. Keith shot Acxa a glance mouthing "not fair" causing her to just laugh. The blade he was checking out ended up being tackled by Kosmo.

His eyes widened. He had no idea how Kosmo got here. Keith made his way to the blade that was being mauled, and for the second time his jaw nearly hit the floor. "Romelle?"

The blonde altean was giggling uncontrollably as Kosmo licked her face. "Oh heya Keith."

Kosmo stopped his attack and allowed Romelle to stand up. Acxa was suddenly by his side with a handkerchief, handing it to Romelle. He turned and gave his girlfriend another death glare. "I guess that's why I couldn't find my blade uniform either."

Romelle answered since Acxa pretended not to hear him and take a sip of her drink. "You'd be correct," she teased. "So what do ya think?" She asked doing a quick twirl. Keith could've sworn he heard Aria gasp slightly.

He took his chance to check her out as she spun. For being his blade uniform, he was shocked by how it highlighted her curves. Despite her being basically his sister, he had to admit that she looked hot. And he could tell he wasn't the only one that thought so as he caught Aria blushing. "Hey Romelle have you met Aria? She just recently joined the Blades."

Romelle stopped her twirling and introduced herself, claiming that she wasn't a blade jus stealing his uniform. But it did give him the idea to maybe start allowing non-galra to join. "I love your outfit. What is it?"

"Oh," Aria said looking down at her outfit realizing just how much skin she was showing. She had on hiking boots, a grappler, skimpy hiking shorts, fake bandages wrapped around her arm and thigh, and a tank top which helped show off her… assets. "well… it's one of my favorite female warriors in Terran fiction, Lara Croft: The Tomb Raider."

"I don't think I've heard of her, but I bet she's hot," and Keith caught her whisper, "like you."

The four of them sat around and drank before Acxa vanished to converse, or most likely make fun of Ezor and Zethrid.

Keith was explaining to Aria about how her and Romelle met when two fist slammed on the table interrupting them. He looked up to see his girlfriend. "You owe me twenty bucks."

He raised a single eyebrow, "uhhh why?"

"Cus unless I'm mistaken," she stepped aside to show what she was talking about. "Mario and Luigi are making out."

"Finally!" Romelle shouted causing Aria to look at all three of them with a confused look.

Keith gave her a reassuring look, "It's a long story."

#keith x acxa #kacxa week 2019 #kacxa #vld kacxa #all the ships

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ladyemberswrites · 5 years ago

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"A Touch Is All I Ask"

Summary: Basically, an Au of Au wherein an accident Lotor ends up traveling through the rift only for him to met and fall in love with Allura from another reality, but because life refuses to give him a break the rift creatures destroy both that Allura and her reality along with her leaving Lotor to travel the rift for centuries trying to find his way back home. Fortunately, he ends of being saved the Princess Allura from his reality. Which makes things all the more awkward as Lotor has to force himself to differentiate between this Allura and the Allura he had loved. The plot only thickens once Allura starts to develop feelings for him as she nurses him back to health.

Rating: T and Up

Words: 2k

Chapters: 1/?

He had lost everything in a single fleeting moment. A breath, a heartbeat, and soon nothingness consumed him. It ate away at the flesh and the bone, and pierced his dreaded, cold heart. His fingers reached for nothing, tiny cosmos, stars that have already long passed, and they bleed through his fingers. His fingers, these hands that have done nothing but bring about horrors, that only bring about destruction. Perhaps they were right, he is a curse. A blight on the world, a filthy obstruction. He felt the world around him drown, his body as heavy as lead and as weightless as a cloud. In space-time is obsolete. His mind and memories fragmented, and the voices that haunt him whisper in his ears in continual repeat.

The rift is relentless, a cruel, twisted mistress. An abomination, an unknown horror and they like a siren singing sailors to their deaths upon the steep rocks sing to him too as he wanders, and he drifts to nowhere. Howling, and lulling sweet tunes that fill the silence of his travels where there is nowhere and no one, and as the presumed days go by they fill the aching silence. He‘s long tuned them out-but-

~Lotor~ their eyes are amber like hers. Their hair a dark silver like hers had once been. Though, he had never heard her voice, he assumes that must have been what she sounded like. But, he knows that they aren’t his mother. Their image of her is picture perfect, not a single detail missed, but he knows. He’s no fool. He knows their games he knows their lies. They hiss when he pays the cheap imitation no mind, growling, and sneering.

~How dare you!~ they screech in union, a kaleidoscope of dissonant voices. His ears run red when the shrieking refuses to come to an end, but again he disregards them and simply keeps going, he keeps moving because he does not know when to give up. Because death is too easy, no matter how tempting it is to just collapse and sleep an endless dream. But, dreams offer him no repute, no reprieve instead they are nothing more than a reflection-a mirror world-a gateway to his own insanity. There is no peace. So, he must walk even though there is nothing.

“That's absolutely disgusting, Lance!” Pidge grimaces, her nose wrinkles as she spat out her tongue.

“Yeah, well, try actually being there and seeing it in person" he leans into her, his shoulder, bony and sharp, cuts into her side "let me tell ya, that changes a man"

“Just because you experienced it, doesn't mean I want to hear it” Pidge mutters into her palm "and can't you sit on your side of the ship?" she shoves him.

He brushes aside her last comment making himself comfortable “I thought we were friends, Pidge? Besides you who else do I have in this big lonely castle?"

"Why can't you bother, Hunk for a change" the girl surfs her screens in boredom.

"I would, but he's been too busy with his new girl-friend" he emphasizes his point by making quotation marks with his fingers "to hang out anymore-I mean whatever happened to the bro-code!?"

Pidge rolls her eyes "so, what? He can become a lonely, desperate misogynist, womanizing jerkhole?"

"I prefer the term lover man, Pidge"

"I think you missed the entire point of that statement..nevermind-the point being is that there are other men on the ship you could socialize with"

"I rather get stabbed in the spleen again than hang out with Keith out of my own volition"

"I wasn't talking about, Keith."

"Shiro's way too serious to do anything fun with. It's all Lance stop. Lance your drinking way too much. Lance you can't spike people's drinks. Shiro's awesome and all, but he doesn't have a single fun bone in his body"

"I don't think perpetuating liver damage is something I would personally consider fun"

"It's not about the drinks, the drinks are just secondary, where there's alcohol there's hot women, come on get with the program Pidge"

"Shiro's gay"

"I was gonna hook him up"

"With a dude?" She rose a dry brow.

"Of course a dude, unless he goes both ways, I can get him both"

"...Y'know it's a wonder why your single?"

"Is that sarcasm?"

"What about Coran" she dodges the question " he's a guy"

"Coran's fun-until he goes overboard. Y'know like the time he nearly killed us"

"That was your own fault y'know"

"How was I supposed to know pot would drive him into a murderous rampage-" The hiss and beep of the bridge door interrupts him. Hunched and bleary eyed, Allura wanders onboard in a complete daze, her heels clicking against the paneled walkway. Her characteristic bun hung lopsidedly off the side of her head, her ends frazzled and uncombed. Her eyes sunken with dark bruises and her favorite white jacket hangs haphazardly off her one shoulder.

Lance whistled “Boy, you look awful, Princess-or is that a new look your aiming for”

Allura snaps her head towards him with lethal speed, barely restraining the urge to strangle him

“I’m far too tired to deal with your nonsense this morning, so please do shut up unless you’d like be placed on toilet duty again”

The threat hangs in the air for a few minutes before Lance snorts, brushing her off awhile tugging at the hem of his turtleneck sweater in a nervous bout “Y-yeah, but no thanks, Princess, I've cleaned enough toilets and vomit to last me a lifetime"

Allura didn’t bother to comment but casts him one last warning glare before turning back to the teleduv, reaching out she taps it lightly bringing the ship's screens to life. The skies were all clear except for a bach of asteroids floating in the distance, but to her relief so far no enemy ships or anything remotely suspicious, as they travel the cosmos to Planet Greta off hidden on another less known side of the galaxy.

Even so, she didn't wish to take any chances and made sure to double check her assessment, while ignoring Pidge and Lance's continued conversation Bits and pieces dribble into the forefront of her thoughts here and there, but there's nothing she can make sense of being that the topic relates back to Earth.

Her checks repeat nothing new-Sighing, she cuts the feed to rub her face in annoyance. Everything hurt. Her body aches in a way that's more aggravating than truly painful. But, sleep has been hard to come by lately, the moment she closes her eyes-the nightmares began again. Her father’s blood upon her hands, splattered upon the blue silk of her gown, the sight of his mangled corpse lying at Zarkon’s iron boots. His face darkened, indistinguishable from the other bodies that littered the marble floors-

She clenches her fingers listlessly fearing that if she didn’t pay attention she’d find his blood on them again. Her skin burned, having spent the night trying to scrub the red away. Now, they just itch, the skin of her hands rubbed raw and dry. And yet, there's that lingering feeling of wetness that she just can't shake, despite knowing that it isn't there. Yet, she kept scratching her wrist as she stared out over the bridge watching nothing but stars pass them by.

“Lura?” she didn’t hear Pidge pace up to her. She turns in the girl's direction “you okay there? You’ve got that dead look in your eyes again?”

“I’m fine, Pidge. Don’t worry” she wonders if her voice always sounded hoarse, or is it just her, and she’s hearing things again. Whatever the case she just shakes her head attempting to ignore it. That and the throbbing headache that pounds at the back of her skull.

“If you say so….” Pidge didn't know what else to say or do other than offer the woman her space, and awkwardly returns to her seat.

"What's her problem?" Lance whispers.

"....I don't know. She looks sick-"

"She's not going to pass out again is she because-"

Perhaps, it’s time to give up and ask Doctor Alibhe for some sleep aid? Her nose wrinkles at the prospect, but what else can she do. She's tried everything: training until she's exhausted to the bone. Meditation only abandons her to her own traitorous thoughts which only leads to exasperation and a wish to lobotomize herself. So, no that was a no go. She's tried tea, acupuncture, oil massage. Worse case scenario, well, partially out of desperation a chiropractor who only charged her an exuberant amount of money and a nasty crick in her neck that took weeks to go away. Trial or error aside, she can't continue like this; people will notice, people are already noticing, if it keeps going the questions will never end. Pressing a fist to her brow, she huffs-if only the night didn't dreg up past horrors-

*Ping*

Her temples throb, cracking her eyes back open Allura finds herself thrown from her musings back to reality. The pinging of the teleduv continues causing her to pause and blink for a moment flicking the scanners back on.

"What?” out of bloody nowhere something pops up upon the monitors signaling a disturbance in the area. Brows tightly pinched together, she didn't see any ships-

“Enemy ship?” Lance asks in a brief moment of seriousness. Both his and Pidge's eyes dart from her to the screens above, bracing themselves for impact.

“It’s-" she squints "no” she shakes her head

“whatever it is-it’s far too small to be a ship-it’s-oh,

no” her heart plummets to the pit of her stomach.

“Oh, no what?”

“It’s another rift opening….”

“Well, that's just flipping fantastic!” Lance barks “More rift creatures! Is it bad that I rather deal with Sendak, heck even Zarkon himself any day over dealing with those walking-talking living embodiments of nightmare fuel!”

Allura swallows dryly. A lovely start to already dreary day-oh, stars, she's not sure how much more she can take of this insanity.

“Maybe we’ve been blessed by the Altean space gods!” Lance cries to the heavens “because I don’t see a single thing or y’know I'm not vomiting up my own entrails”

“Not if you don’t jinx us” Keith snaps. As quickly as it had come the rift had immediately snapped shut. Yet, no creatures of the rift made it out through the small opening. No horrifying illusions or imagery, just nothing. Just dead-end silence that did little to comfort her as she stares out among the stars and the blackness of space.

In their rush they took their respective lions on ahead with Allura placing Head Commander Hira at the helm and with the ship on high alert. When nothing assaulted them, Shiro suggested they take a look around by hand. Jetpacks loaded with full and pistols set on lethal everyone disembarked only to greeted by nothing.

Allura worries her bottom lip out of nervousness, she’s only glad that she hadn’t eaten anything for breakfast or else she would have vomited in her own helmet. Holding her pistol close, she prepares herself for anything by as the minutes trickle on by, besides the cluster of asteroids, nothing bizarre happens. An hour of searching and checking and rechecking the area's clear of any potential danger.

“I’m starting to think it was a false alarm, Princess” Keith calls out to her.

“Yeah, I’ve got nothing. Nada , zilch” Hunk tapped his scanner “besides the glitchy connection, I don’t see anything out of the ordinary”

“Me neither” Pidge mutters “it’s all just empty space as far as the eye can see.”

“Same here” Shiro adds, perplexed.

“Same with my end” Matt floats back to them “looked all over those asteroids over there, but like Hunk said zilch. Nada.”

“Perhaps, something was trying to get out, but couldn’t” Hunk states with an uneasy hitch in his voice.

It isn't unlikely, and it's probably the case, too. Though that does beg the question-if something were trying to claw its way out the rift what stopped it? Allura isn’t sure if she wants to find out.

“Hunk’s probably right” Allura agrees quietly, holstering her pistol “we should probably head back to the Lions. Oxygen's running low.” They weren't that far from the castle ship, but it's still a pretty good distance even with the lions.

"About time! This place gives me the creeps"

"Second that-"

“...more like it was a waste of time…” everyone moves on ahead of her as she can't help but linger, taking one more glance over her shoulder she scans her surroundings. It's times like these that remind her how vast the galaxy is. Enormous and all consuming like a sea with no bottom, no end. Left could right, and right, left. Shoving down the existential dread, she moves to to turn and head back until a twinkling light catches the corner of her eye. Stopping, she swivels back to look again-this time the twinkling is hard to miss, she squints, it isn't a star, as the source of the glittering is a top an asteroid closest to her. With bated breath she slowly, carefully maneuvers herself over to it. It's rocky texture is rough, the cold seeping through her gloves. With a grunt she heaves herself upwards, her thoughts oddly quiet as she focuses on climbing and hauling her weight until she reaches the top. Heaving enough to cloud the glass of her helmet, she stills to inhale a deep breath before she decides to lift her head up and freezes-

A massive body is collapsed upon the mountainous structure.

It-can't be-

Galra?

Hesitantly, she crawls towards him on all fours both curiosity and fear churning in her gut. Carefully, she reached over to quickly tap his shoulder to snap it away fearing a swipe of his large hand. Or a lunge. Squeezing her eyes shut she expects the worst, but when nothing came she instead hears a low, pained groan.So, low that if it weren't for her being so close she probably wouldn't have heard him. Placing a hand to calm her erratic heart, Allura steadies herself before gently extending both her hands to flip him on to his back, however it isn't without some difficulty. He's super heavy. With a grunt she manages and once he's on his back she's met with a rather gorgeous face, but unfortunately one she did not recognize. Examining his body, his armor is old. Eroded with rust and dented all over with the color of it faded. His face as handsome as it is, is marred with bruises painted black and dark blue, and dried blood dribbles down his obviously split lip. Yet, strangely enough she didn't find anything indicating his rank. No badge or medallion, no even a family crest holding his cape together. There's a satchel hung around his waist, but it wouldn't be wise to open it out here. He definitely looks the part of a high ranking galra general, but that begs the question, if he is, what is a seemingly distinguished general doing out here in the middle of an asteroid field? Did someone dump him out here?

Frantically her eyes dart around- but, she was so sure she hadn't detected a galra ship in the area-

Breathing heavily, she only finds emptiness.

-unless-

Her eyes fall back to him-the rift. Her eyes widen as she eyed him closer now noticing the markings on his face, a telltale sign of quintessence exposure. They weren't too bad, but it isn't something that can be ignored without consequence. Frightened out of her mind, she shouts back to her team over her shoulder.

“I found something!” drawing all eyes to her. I've definitely found something; she whispers to herself.

#Voltron #oldtron #lotura #lollura #redemption universe

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sugar--pie · 6 years ago

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Originally when I found out about the DW thing regarding this new season, and sooner came to discover the tweets from Barlee. I became really upset. I’m still upset.

Keith and Lance and their dynamic, has been one of the best things I loved about Voltron. But I know for a fact it was initially meant t happen. There’s way too much proof, even in season 7. Even if others didn’t see it.

So finding out that it might’ve just been tossed away because DreamWorks didn’t want it... or didn’t give permission... really hit hard.

But as I lay here, with my pillow being soaked with tears... I thought about Barlees tweets again.

Being fair, they couldn’t say all that much, so it’s very much obscure towards what it could mean. But I ... might be able to give some hope towards this. Even if I could be wrong.

First off, Barlee acknowledges that the situation isn’t good and that we have a right to be upset. And from OUR POINT OF VIEW it doesn’t look good. But there is more to the story.

Now I feel like some people are maybe taking her words of “they’re allowed to feel upset by the end result...” a little out of context.

I will dive more into this in a second, but I just want to quickly point out Barlee is being very clear in that the people who also work on Voltron, do care about proper rep and did want what was best for us.

This is where the idea of being Queerbaited came from. Overall Marketing and Netflix had minds of their own, and that’s where the “official videos being tagged Klance” and the obscure tweets by Netflix originally came into play, when they weren’t meant to. This is where the posters Netflix(?) made of Shiro with Adam behind him, and the Keith poster with Lance being behind him, came into action. They only watched the show like the rest of us, so assumed that was the direction as well. They probably had minimal insight into what’s going on, so If any queerbait was involved it was ultametly just the marketing team. Not the show runners themselves who didn’t have any say in what gets shown, tagged or previewed.

Now getting back into this, and why “they’re allowed to be upset with the final result” stands out to me.

A lot of people are saying that “patching up” the “incomplete story” is referring to making Allura and Lance endgame. Lance was promised one, so that’s what their doing. But in all honesty that doesn’t line up for me.

DreamWorks is believed to have not been allowing the team to go through with their original rep and storyline in the first place. It’s rumoured that Shadam and Klance were fought for, but were never allowed... until a certain point, that as Barlee says here, she didn’t even know about until right before the sdcc premier.

This here implies, that they were given permission for rep at some point in time, and not everyone who worked on Voltron were given this insight.

Now this could easily just be making Shiro the only rep, but when you consider them “patching up” after finally being allowed to put in rep, implies they are still fixing up a lot to include the rep, but what else would they need to patch up, if Shiro and Adam had nothing happen, nor did Shiro point out there’s more to him then we saw. That’s why so much changed easily just by allowing the rep to happen. That’s probably why Shiro was thrown in so quickly to being gay rep, and why there wasn’t any Adam and Shiro except a new recording.

I would like to remind you all, that there was another few recordings done for Shiro and Adam, and I believe an actual scene that was suppose to happen. (Don’t take my word for it). So they may have had scenes and audio ready, it maybe never got a chance to use them as they had to change things.

This is where the whole improvisation comes in. They had to improvise to make Shiro as gay. It’s not what we wanted nor was hyped up to be. They just fit it in cause they were only allowed to recently.

Coming back to this tweet. Barlee says that because of the improvisation, much of the rest of the creators didnt get to do everything THE WAY they planned. This is where I think Klance might still be happening.

“They did what they could to patch it up.”

Barlee never once in any of the tweets implies that they are pulling through with Allura being Lance’s endgame just cause it was promised he’d get one.

The Voltron showrunners were given permission for the rep. It may not be how it was originally planned, so that’s what they’re patching up.

That’s why this season doesnt make sense in terms of all the Keith and Lance interactions that demonstrated them being exactly what they were meant to be, a good team, and most importantly, together. There was more scenes of Keith and Lance, (and even one or two scenes heavily implying Lance where he is feeling something towards Keith), compared to the one or two Allura and Lance scenes implying a romance between them.

“They didn’t get to do everything the way THEY PLANNED.” Implying they’re still doing everything they originally wanted... but not in the way that they saw was more fitting. Combine this with the fact they were given permission for rep... I don’t think Shiro is the only rep allowed. Also combine that with the Keith and Lance heavily implied development this season ... both original planned reps were probably given...

Bro. I’ve stopped crying.

“I think they tried to patch it up as best they could once they were allowed to.”

This. Tweet. Right here. No where does it sound like Barlee is implying Lance isn’t getting an endgame with Keith. This is starting to look more like :

“Originally, what was planned was Keith and Lance from season 1-3. However it wasn’t allowed after that and they had to improvise. Eventually rep was allowed, and now they had to not only improvize but patch up anything to try and make sense of it again.”

I’d also like to include that Seaosn 8 isn’t finished yet, most likely BECAUSE they have to “patch things up.”

It isn’t going to feel satisfying because everything is so rushed, since they only got the okay to do it now. It’s not being made the way it was originally planned. So yes, Keith and Lance are still most likely going to happen. But it won’t be the way they originally wanted for the show or for us. That’s why everything is so quick and bumpy, and why Acxa (a side character who all of a sudden is brought in) and Allura (someone who just had their heart horrifically broken) are probably being implied as Romantic towards the two, Keith and Lance respectively.

I wouldn’t be surprised in Seaosn 8 if they pulled the lame use of Jealousy or pining to bring Keith and Lance together. It initially was meant to be slowburn — These two coming together throughout the story. But they had to, again, IMPROVISE.

Allura and Acxa are mostly likely a part of this “patching up” situation. And the ending won’t be satisfying because not only will these two probably be thrown somewhat under the bus... (hopefully respectfully), they will also make Allura realize feelings for Lance and him coming to realize, no, you’re not the one for me. They’ll also probably use Acxa as a segue to make Lance maybe jealous? Or realize his feelings as he assumes something is happening between her and Keith.

I of course do not like this sort of scenario at all. But that’s the only logical way I can see Acxa being brought into this and being implied to have a crush on Keith, and Allura suddenly has feelings for Lance. If they just wanted to have Lance end up with someone cause it was promised, they would’ve left Acxa out. Keith wasn’t promised an endgame. Throwing her in wouldn’t make sense, unless it was for this purpose.

“It won’t be satisfying to a lot of ppl, and I certainly do not fault them for that.if they had gotten to do what was originally planned, people would feel better about the season.”

So many people were disappointed that not only Lance and Allura being implied to be getting together even after Allura’s heartbreak (besides some of the actual shippers which, y’know, ship them), but also Acxa and Keith out of nowhere, on top of Adam dying without seeing Shiro. This isnt what was suppose to happen. But again, they’re patching up what they can.

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“...they’re allowed to feel upset by the end result...”

I’m bringing this back down, to tie all of this together. From everything I’ve gathered. Klance... is still pretty much happening. Or at least, 95% happening as this is sheer speculation on my part.

But to sum up, the showrunners wanted an actual LGBT based plot line, following Keith and Lance. That was initially the slowburn. And it still somewhat counts as slowburn, since they’ve kept the previous development and brought in more interactions and development for them, including the subtleties within Season 4, and end of Season 6 - more than I originally expected to see compared to Allura and Lance. It will feel rushed, but they had to improvise and patchup what they could because they only got permission to go through with it recently, and everything they wanted originally isn’t being done they way they planned.

Allura and Acxa may get thrown under the bus next season, but hopefully it’s not a disservice to their characters. And in terms of Adam and Shiro, people have a right to be upset about it. Ultametly, fans were queerbaited, but not by showrunners, they were baited by the marketing team who exploited not only the LGBT, but also the largest portion of the fandom, the Klance ship.

BUT THAT WAS NOT THE SHOWRUNNERS FAULT. They cared about Rep and they’ve always been advocates. They couldn’t give what they wanted from the beginning because they didn’t have a choice. And now they have permission, and have to do what they can to work back to what they originally planned in a short amount of time, and try to make sense do things again, even though it’ll be rushed and won’t be as satisfying as it should’ve been.

And they know we have a right to be upset with an unsatifying result. Even if it ends with Klance.

So. Did I manage to somehow restore faith for myself? Oh yes. But knowing the posts I make, this will get like 2 notes. But please! BOOST THIS. I think people need to think of this a little better.

And once again be patient. Patience yields focus.

Edit: So I have discovered that these did not refer to Klance. I admit I even took these out of context, HOWEVAH! I still made a post, and gUYS I HAD AN EPIPHANY TODAY AND I REALLY THINK YOU ALL NEED TO READ IT! Please!!! Because, even if it does not happen on canon, which seems like it might not, even though please consider reading!

Keith and Lance have had major roles in each other arcs, even if they weren’t romantic ones! But they have definitely grown into best friends at least, and that’s still a beautiful, beautiful thing! And they’ll be by eachothers sides even after the series ends.

Because that’s what Klance is. Keith and Lance, back to back.

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