#hangst? hunkgst?

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Voltron Crossed AU

Sorry I’ve literally been thinking about this all day so here are some thoughts on it (which may or may not include notes I wrote during class, jfc im in college what the fuck)

v unpleasant topics below you have been warned

Shiro loses his arm after the outbreak

Good news: the gang found this old abandoned research facility early on and fortify it

Bad news: Lance gets crossed

they kind of pull a Fido and capture/secure him

Katie is hellbent on creating a cure, possibly a vaccine too

Lance TORMENTS them until Hunk finally figures to get a muzzle on him

before that he messed with Keith real bad

Hunk apparently walked in on something but he and Keith won’t tell the others what happened, just that Keith never wants to be near Lance again (or at least till he’s cured if he’s cured)

Lance said “Fuck her right in the pussy” at least once and Hunk was physically incapable of keep himself from laughing. He felt terrible but goddamn you take good times where you can

Taking care of Lance is not. pretty nor pleasant

Shiro was pretty good at handling it but he, Keith, and Hunk left to gather more supplies and info for a couple of months, leaving Katie to it

Bad news: it fucking sucked

Good news: it was proper motivation to build something that would secure him more thoroughly

he was originally being kept in a cell Hunk and Katie fashioned from a shower and bulletproof glass

thank god they chose a shower

Katie makes this complicated system involving magnets, a helmet, a muzzle, a feeding tube, a heart monitor, a neck brace, wrist and ankle cuffs, a gauntlet, and a toy helicopter remote while the gang’s away

their jaws drop when they get back, like Katie how did you pull this futuristic shit out of your ass

so not only is Lance secure now, he’s also Mobile (convenient for take your demon-possessed-friend to work day)

when Katie thinks she nailed a vaccine, Shiro offers to take it, but Hunk Volunteers as Tribute bc they’d be losing a lot more if Shiro took it and it failed (i.e. where my Hangst at)

“Hunk... I hope you know that you’re a valuable part of our team. If this doesn’t work, we’ll miss you while you’re gone.” Hunk isn’t wallowing in self-hatred but he does have his doubts, so it’s good to hear

Hunk is strapped down in case it goes wrong (1: the vaccine itself infects him 2: the vaccine doesn’t stop the virus)

he takes it and thinks the vaccine infected him but turns out he was just having a panic attack (Shiro can spot one a mile away)

Katie feels so guilty that she offers to take the vaccine and continue to phase 2 (infecting) herself

Shiro convinces her that she is too important to lose (shes making the fucking vaccines)

It works so they all take it and travel to spread the Good News

some scandal pops up about the vaccines (probably due to snake oil salesman claiming to be hers, or people with immune deficiencies taking it and getting infected) and she dons the alias Pidge Gunderson

when/if Lance is cured, he’s so overcome with guilt, not only for what he did and said but the things he thought about

the gang hoped he wouldn’t remember his time as a crossed but he did

he goes as far as to say it’s better to kill the crossed then cure them, bc the guilt they’d be left with is almost worse than death. he probably couldn't go on if it hadn’t been for his friends saying how they missed and forgave him

his cross scabs over and scars

Staring

Katie “I’M NOT A MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST” Holt

Hunk “I care about this family, damnit” Garret

Keith “I’m not gay” Kogane

Takashi “i didn’t sign up for this” Shirogane

and

Lance “red shirt” McClain

might edit/add to this