#puigian

[koritea]

[Next Gen AU] Introducing the next generation of the Paladins of Voltron!

Under the tutelage of now-retired Paladin and Captain of the IGF-Atlas, Takashi Shirogane, five brave souls from all corners of the known (and unknown) universe come together to form the protector of the universe, and to continue the great work of the warriors before them.

Rummitz - Paladin of the Green Lion, She/He

A resourceful tactician of questionable origins. Initially discovered her bond with the Green Lion on the planet Olkarion during a support drop-off by now-retired Paladin Pidge Holt.

Rummitz's connection to the Green Lion sparked a three year long expedition to find and train the next Paladins of Voltron.

Taya - Paladin of the Yellow Lion, He/They

Hailing from the peaceful planet of Puig, Taya is known for their courage and tenacity. His bond with the Yellow Lion was discovered during a short stop at Puig, where the a festival was held in Voltron's honor.

Xyzy - Paladin of the Red Lion, She/They

Calm, calculating but quick to strike, Xyzy was rescued from a Galra prison ship where she was arrested after being found to have given crucial information about one of Emperor Zarkon's experiments to the Blade of Marmora. They were later taken in by the Garrison and made their connection with Keith Kogane, and subsequently the Red Lion.

Aries - Paladin of the Blue Lion, She/Her

Less of a sharp shooter, more of a pound-into-dust sort of gal, but don't take that to mean she's dull - a sharp wit and an even sharper glare might make you want to stay on your toes.

Aries made her connection with the Blue Lion after an accident at the Garrison that injured her right leg. She spent the months healing in the aircraft hangers talking to pilots and dreaming she'd one day get to be one herself.

Yohe - Paladin of the Black Lion, It/They

Unexplained and inexplicable, this eerily quiet bundle of quintessence is certain they're the last of their kind, but it doesn't remember anything before the time it woke up from it's pod that crash landed onto Earth.

It's connection with the Black Lion is fuzzy at best. Something blocks the two from truly connecting, which causes problems for the team when they're in a tight spot and could really use the full power of Voltron.

[non-plutonian-druid]

the concept for this is "what if voltron aliens were like, a little bit less humanoid." Galra (and alteans, not pictured) get to be the most humanoid because theyre main characters lol

[ID: various voltron aliens redesigned to remove many of their humanoid features. The Galra are largely unchanged; the only difference is that they have six limbs. Keith is demonstrating standing on four limbs; he looks not unlike a centaur, although the "horse" part is just a continuation of his body, not a horse (and is also the same color as his human skin, because it is human skin. sorry not sorry). Kolivan is demonstrating standing on two limbs, and towers over everyone else. Krolia is demonstrating standing on all six limbs, which looks uncomfortable but possible.

There is also an example of an Olkari; whose face is unchanged but now is built similar to a praying mantis; a Puigian, who retains the approximate locations of the face markings and horns but looks more like some kind of deer creature; an Arusian, which is built like a snail; and a mer alien, which now looks like a fish with hands and antennae. The Olkari is based on Ryner, and the mer alien is Plaxum. End ID.]

[discordiansamba]

some more spitballing about that AU but in a new post since that one was getting kind of long:

From Coran, Allura figures out that it may be possible to get someone's memory of the previous reality to return by having them come in contact with a specific trigger. For Coran, it was his control panel on the Castle of Lions.

Which means... she just has to figure out what each paladin's trigger is. Clearly it is not their lions. Keith is proof enough of that. But maybe she can even use it to disrupt Honerva's brainwashing.

Speaking of Keith, it is... deeply weird to see him as an Altean. But also fortunate, because it seems he has a spark of alchemical talent! Which means they can move the Castle of Lions, as soon as they get it in order.

Keith and Romelle are just confused. Why do these two- what did they call themselves again? Humans? Know so much about this ancient Altean ship?

Allura only sort of lies. She tells them she has memories from a past life, as does Coran. Technically very true! She has lived nineteen years as a human. It does make her life as an Altean princess feel a bit like a 'past life'.

Keith's a little wary, but Kosmo seems to trust them, so he decides to trust them both.

local half-Galra turned local Altean born with a lingering sense of something being off, but unable to determine what. He grows up wary and naturally suspicious. except for Romelle. he trusts Romelle implicitly.

(ironically, it was this same wariness that prompted him to never be around whenever Honerva visited. he was under her nose the entire time, and she never knew)

Keith and Romelle out on their own in the universe. What will they do? (acquire a cosmic wolf, an ancient Altean superweapon, and stumble upon an ancient Altean castle. they're keeping themselves busy.)

Pidge is Olkari and Hunk is Balmeran. These are obvious. If we had confirmation that the merpeople could get legs, I would make Lance one of them, but we don't so I feel like he's Puigian? I think Shiro's just Galra again. He gets to be fuzzy this time.

Coran gets to speedrun the sense of strangeness that Allura has lived with all her life, of being one thing and then suddenly another. It's fun!

(Allura overhears Keith and Romelle whispering to each other about their 'weird ears'. oh. now she knows how Lance felt.)

Allura is going to have to somehow teach Keith at least the fundamentals of Altean alchemy without being able to do it herself. That... shouldn't be hard, right?

(it very much is)

Their luck runs out eventually, and Honerva becomes aware that the Castle of Lions is active again. And onboard is a human girl who resembles Princess Allura far too closely for her comfort...

[ethereance]

Screw it. *Genderfluids your Lance* Post s8. Fix it.

Lance thought his Altean markings were cosmetic. Nothing more. Nothing less. A gift from Allura, leaving a piece of her with him, to look back and remember with fondness her company. As if he could ever forget a girl as incredible as her.

It’s not until much later he realises it’s something more. That maybe Allura gave a portion more than he expected. He stares, face to face with his mirror. Something off. Something strange. Something that grabs his attention before he really knows what he’s looking at.

His ears slowly shift back to human. But they were there long enough. He saw the Altean ears.

“Incredible,” Coran says when Lance broaches this to him, and after multiple attempts at trying at failing at repeating what happened in the mirror. At last he succeeds. “You’re shifting just like an Altean.”

“I’m not turning Altean, am I?” he panics. He’s pretty attached to being a human and all.

“Haha! Don’t be ridiculous number three, you can’t just ‘turn Altean.’ Good one! Turn Altean, he says. That’s one to remember for an open mike.” Then Coran takes one look at his genuine distress and sobers. “Rest assured, my boy, you’re one hundred percent earthling, ears and all. Allura wouldn’t change you so completely when she loved you the way you are. It just seems she passed our chameleon-like abilities over to you. I can’t say I’ve ever heard anything like this ever documented before, but Allura…”

“Has a way of accomplishing the possible,” Lance offers when Coran’s eyes grow distant, bittersweet.

“Yes,” agrees Coran. Something proud, something sombre, “That she did.”

***

Lance practices often, following Coran’s guidance. Even Romelle drops by at Coran’s request, eager to show someone the ropes.

“In the colony, we had little need to shift as our ancestors had. Our only home had been there, tucked away in a corner of the universe. We understood little of the outside world except what Lotor brought us. Even so, it was an ability we never lost. When you have mastered it, it’s like walking. It becomes natural. To some more than others,” she says, a surprisingly patient teacher. He wonders where this side of her was when she was trying to get him to teach her to pilot. “You may be the ‘others’! But that okay. My… my brother Bandor was the same.”

For such a bright supernova of a person, it is easy to forget that, like Coran, Romelle has been touched by grief. And grief again.

“You strike me as an adaptable person, pointy chin. Like rivers and oceans, it has made you you. I have full confidence in your abilities. And if Allura were here.” She smiles, and it is pain, but beauty. A flower unfurling in the wake of a storm. “I know she would say the same.”

***

He finds himself slipping into other forms like a glove. It becomes easier, a swifter motion just as Romelle had said.

It’s freeing, in a way. To walk as something so slightly adjacent to him. A Lance of another life. Altean, balmeran, olkari, puigian, anything he can think of.

He loves being Plaxum’s species the most. A mer. Beneath the waves, it feels like coming home. He’s a missile underwater, swimming loops around coral.

Dreams really do come true.

***

There’s something about transforming that pulls him that much closer to Allura. Her quintessence sings to him, and his skin dances. He feels alive as he hasn’t in a long time.

Happier maybe. Or that much closer to it.

He wishes he could take a photo of Keith the second he catches sight of Lance, a good extra foot on him, and purple as a plum.

“So this is a… thing,” says Keith eventually. And what an observation that is. Lance explains.

“Don’t let Hunk catch you like this,” is Keith’s response, a hint of tired amusement, “He’ll call you Galra Lance and never stop.”

***

It starts with him shifting into an unilu. He needs the extra hands. Lance doesn’t realise the gender he’d chosen until Coran points it out offhandedly. Now, Lance knows that not every species is going to be quite so clear cut as biologically male or female. Some have more some have less. Some won’t even know what the word gender means. He has experienced a taste of the universe. He knows how vast and diverse it is. When shapeshifting into a species like that, it makes sense his gender isn’t something he’d retain.

Female. He’d made himself into a female unilu. It was a matter of size and facial shape. Nothing too strange, no stranger than his body shifting into a skin it wasn’t born into, but noticeable enough.

And isn’t that something.

***

It’s out of curiosity he tries the same as a human. Curiosity and nothing more. Just because he can. Really. Honest.

Lance half expects his girl!sona would just be a carbon copy of Rachel with the added blue scales residing beneath his eyes. But that isn’t who he sees in the mirror.

He sees. Well, he sees himself.

Herself.

She looks, feels, kind of pretty. Which makes sense. She’s Lance. Of course she looks great. Goes without saying.

Lance’s lip twitches.

***

So. So maybe he throws on the form again. And again. And again. Maybe a little more than he does with any alien species. But can you blame him? He’s just found out he has a free trial at being a girl so quiznack if he isn’t going to try it out.

Her hair is long. Her hair is short. She pulls off both looks well, she thinks. Being a girl is kind of awesome, actually.

It’s not always the case. Sometimes it just isn’t right. But others? Sometimes he finds himself slipping into her without realising it. It’s just what feels right to her in the moment.

There’s something nice about strangers using ‘she’ and ‘her’ and they don’t know. They don’t know. Something in her bubbles, giddy, they don’t know.

But Lance’s family do. Pidge does.

They look at Lance—now once again a boy—and hum, thoughtful, considering.

“Are you are girl?” they ask. Pidge does not beat around the bush. It throws Lance through enough loops to put him in a spiral.

“No”, says Lance. But for some reason that doesn’t sound quite right. “I mean. I’m not always. But—”

“You are sometimes?”

“I guess. But it’s just shapeshifting. I’m not actually—” Lance trails off, lost. “Am I?”

“Do you want to be?” Pidge asks, and huh. Does he want to be? Is it really that simple? He’s always seen himself as a guy, and had no problems with that. But.

Well.

“… Maybe. Maybe sometimes.”

Pidge grins, wild and victorious. “Welcome to the club.”

(Something in his chest feels lighter. There’s a cavern, because it has made its mark and stayed. That has not changed. But this is this.

How wonderful it is to find the answers to secrets within oneself. He could have lived his whole life without knowing, a part locked away without him ever knowing there was a lock. But now, how could he?

It’s like he’s no longer holding in a breath.)

***

Pidge later tells him it’s criminally unfair he can change his body on a whim. They are fine with she, they are, but they are them. Sometimes she is just too much she to match their they.

Lance wonders how much Allura managed to see him. He remembers how close they became, how she became someone he’d call a best friend, then a lover. How she perceived him better than most throughout it all. Looked to him and saw greatness where he, despite wanting to be so much more, only saw failure. He wishes he knew what she saw when she looked at him. The person he was. Is. Lance.

If she knew what these markings have done for him. Did she know?

She can’t have done. Lance didn’t even know.

(But if she had—

It’s not like Lance can ask.)

***

Allura comes back.

She descends like a shooting star, the blinding light of an angel’s fall. She falls home and it is at home she stays. Days are bliss. A dream Lance dare not wake from.

“You’re not dreaming,” she tells him, soft, and kind, but aching, “I’m here. I won’t leave again. My duty to revive the universe is fulfilled. I’m here to live. And I chose to live with you.”

He kisses the words from her lips, blissfully sweet. She more than happily complies.

“I never meant to hurt you this much.”

“You’re here now,” Lance says, and it sounds so beautiful spoken out loud like this. How long he’s dreamed for such a moment. “That’s all that matters. We can move forwards together.”

This is their start.

***

It takes a while. But she tells Allura.

Allura kisses her senselessly. Lance loves it.

“Though I can’t take credit for this being my intention, I’m glad you learned more of yourself.” Allura’s fondness is an ocean she could drown in. “I love the person you are.”

“Yeah?”

Allura’s hand trails Lance’s ear. “Yes. Very much so. It’s an added bonus that I managed fix your ears. You have tried an Altean form, right?”

Lance jolts. “Allura!” she protests, a little put out. “What’s wrong with my ears?”

“Nothing,“ she says, warm and amused. “Nothing at all. I find that they have grown on me greatly. They’re cute. Just like the rest of my girlfriend.”

Oh. Girlfriend.

Her heart is full.

[themagicmerci]

Alright- alright

I know this isn't exactly a *drawing* I'm posting, but I'm going to say this...also yes, more voltron au/fic stuff :D

Anyways! Little AU/fic dump

Lights burning out AU [Till the lights burn out Fic]

[DESCRIP]

After Voltrons disappearance, the pressure upon the Rebels begins to stir once more, especially once two of their planets are destroyed in retaliation to Voltron's efforts. After several months pass on with no word from Voltron or it's paladins a proposition is brought up by one of them.

The only problem to their solution: it was a mere legend.

-----

Alternate universe (Season 2/3 major changes and other tidbits))

Where the Blade of Marmora has Keith in their arms after he parts Voltron once the Red Lion takes Lance as her own paladin and Allura moves to take the Blue Lion as her own.

Shiro isn't missing and continues to lead Voltron, though he is plagued with an odd and strong headache.

The rebels have yet to encounter Voltron or her paladins, only hearing word of its return after a few had joined the rebels and the Puigians are freed.

[minor changes and non-spoiling]

Texas (Krolia may have misheard him) lives. Simple as that...yep.

Antok, Ulaz, and Thace live.

Neptionis a hub for the rebels, and they do have a bit of a town/city under its surface due to how long they have been stationed there.

Kraydah is Te-osh's main base along with Ozar. Olia and Matt visit and base there often. ((Cold planet))

Narti lives

that's about it...yep!

[formderptron]

Y E E T

[blood-starved-beast]

I think bout how canonically Acxa’s a terrible conversationalist. Someone asks her something maybe about herself, you know, to get a conversation flowing and she gives vague or very close-ended answers and otherwise leaves them dead in the water. Maybe shocking them in the process. Part of it’s cause she’s a war veteran/war child/child soldier (choose your pick) and part of it is that she’s a very awkward nerd who for fun clearly memorizing academic literature and nothing else.

[voltronlegendarysnaps]

[languid-world]

Y’all forgot about this real quick

[bovivinator]

No crisis is unmanageable with refreshments available.

[koritea]

reviving my love of character design by making Voltron ocs

[galraluver]

Regris Masterlist

~ Scenarios ~

~ Regris Guilty Wank

~ Regris' Fem! Human S/o comforting him after he has a nightmare (scenario)

~ Regris saving a blind Fem! Puigian Reader who shows her appreciation (scenario)

~ Regris having a strong reaction to an aphrodisiac after eating it (scenario)

~ Regris' Fem! Human S/o bound and gagged while he teases her with his tail (scenario)

~ Headcanons ~

~ Regris A-Z Fluff Headcanons

~ Regris A-Z NSFW Headcanons

~ How the Galra felt during their first kiss with you/first time being romantic with you/first time sleeping in the same bed as you and having sex with you (headcanons)

~ How the Galra would attract you, their love interest (headcanons)

~ What date you would take the Galra on (headcanons)

~ How the Galra would confess their feelings for you (headcanons)

~ How the Galra feel about having kids/being a parent with you (headcanons)

~ How the Galra would react to you being pregnant/what gender they're hoping for/how many they're hoping for/their plans for their and your children in the future and how they would take care of you during your pregnancy (headcanons)

~ Regris, Sniv, Hepta and Sendak's reaction to meeting Zarkon's daughter after she beats them in a fight (headcanons)

~ Lahn, Thace and Regris having sex with their Fem! Human S/o + aftercare (headcanons)

~ Bogh, Lotor, Antok and Regris with a sick/fragile Fem! Human S/o who's very gentle but never think twice to face danger for their Galran lover (headcanons)

~ Trugg, Regris, Lotor and Throk trying on one of their Fem! Human S/o's pads (headcanons)

~ Regris, Pidge and their GN! Human Bff (headcanons)

~ Blaytz, Sniv, Regris and Hepta with a busty Fem! Human S/o (headcanons)

~ How Ulaz, Regris, Morvok and Sniv would impress their Fem! Human S/o (headcanons)

~ How Branko, Sniv, (young) Sendak and Regris would handle No Nut November (headcanons)

[omegawizardposting]

With Lotor’s arc at its conclusion, here are my final thoughts:

I still feel, personally, that the overall narrative would have been better served by his survival than it was by his death.

Lotor is shown to be manipulative and willing to sacrifice others to get what he wants early on, but the two examples we’re given prior to S6E4, Throk and Narti, were a bloodthirsty Galra whose life was ultimately spared, and one of Lotor’s own generals who was being controlled by Haggar. His betrayal of them was warranted.

You can, of course, argue that Narti was innocent, but her death showcases Lotor’s willingness to sacrifice the few to save the many--a decision real-world leaders must sometimes make themselves, especially during wartime. In this way, we are shown that Lotor is a true leader, who understands the necessity of sacrifice.

That said, Lotor sacrifices when necessary, not without good cause. Even during his scouting of Team Voltron, while attempting to determine their worth as allies, he does not harm the Puigians; he gives his generals an explicit command to kill no one. Thus, at the same time we are shown his skill in manipulation, we are shown his commitment to non-violence whenever possible.

Knowing both of these things about him, I stand by my previous stance regarding his treatment of the Altaens at the colony. He founded the Altaen colony out of a genuine desire to preserve their (and his) culture, and while he is an extremely driven individual, I feel that he would do whatever he could to find an alternative to harvesting them for their quintessence. He has gone out of his way to preserve life before, when ending it would have been more efficient.

Given the Altaens’ loyalty to Lotor, it is entirely possible that they would have volunteered themselves for his projects. Working together, they more than likely could have come up with a solution that preserved as many Altaen lives as possible, and those who did perish would have done so willingly, with full knowledge of what they were giving their lives for.

This could still have led to a confrontation between Lotor and Team Voltron, but one that could have eventually been worked through. I feel that this would have better showcased the differences in their morals, as well as exploring the darker side of warfare, in which sacrifices must be made, without stripping Lotor of any chance at redemption.

As a final note regarding Lotor’s characterization, his abrupt descent into madness goes entirely against his character. At this point, he has not entered the quintessence field and become corrupted by it. All Allura says is that he is more like Zarkon than she ever could have imagined, and suddenly he can’t be reasoned with. He goes from diplomacy to murder in an instant, when he had never been shown to be so unstable.

Additionally, his desire to rule, as his father once did, is equally abrupt. I believe by the time he starts ranting about universal domination, he has already been in the quintessence field at least once during his battle with the Lions, so it’s possible this was the quintessence talking. His exposure must have been quite mild, however, so I can’t say one way or another if this is bad characterization or the quintessence’s corrupting agent at play.

Here’s an unpopular opinion, but Canon!Lotor had a good point: he sacrificed a few hundred Altaens in order to save billions of lives all across the universe. While “Cool Motive, Still Murder” does apply, it doesn’t necessarily mean that his reasoning was flawed. A leader must be willing to make tough calls. Sometimes those calls cost a few people their lives, but save many more.

Does that make him a hero? No, absolutely not. At the end of the day, murder is murder, and even if it is committed in pursuit of a better world, you cannot wash that blood off of your hands. It does make sense, though, and is, frankly, a more realistic approach to ending the Galra Empire than Team Voltron’s insistence on saving every life.

I still think that this course of action, no matter how sensible, does not suit the character Lotor was shown to be.

I could go on and on about Lotor’s characterization and how his final few episodes fly in the face of every single bit of it, but I’d be here all day. Suffice it to say, I do not agree with how his story ended, and genuinely believe that he should have been a redeemable character. As a redeemable character, he was compelling; as a villain, he was not.

Now it’s time for me to dive into the final two seasons, neither of which I have seen more than maybe a single episode of! Wish me luck!

[fufie-doop]

Click here to read from the Beginning! / Click here to read Chapter 79: The Games of Cats and Mice!

New chapter finally! I forgot to post my Sheithlentines piece as well, so expect that in a few days. I’ve been pretty shit lately with existing and writing, but finally got this chapter finished and I feel really happy. 

While Sendak picks up with Commander Yazkar, Ulaz and Shiro are escaping through a sewer system. Hepta, meanwhile, has been tasked to go to Shiro and Ulaz’s last known location where he meets a VERY polite Puigian who’s also pretty strange.

I hope you enjoy!

[formderptron]

[eldunea]

🧝‍♀️ - ciel ( at least he was human once ) , juuzou & ferid ( also at least he was human once.... ) :3 hope this is okay I narrowed them down at least xD - @tobisden​ 

23andme, alien edition (accepting!)

CIEL.

      "many humans have close altean relatives without even knowing it. you’re no exception. the results here demonstrate that your father is fae elvish altean!” he gestures to the sheet in excitement. “many fae hate or are shunned by the society they come from, and so it’s not uncommon for them to assimilate into human society in response to that. or perhaps your parent was a changeling--an altean child swapped for a human one at birth.” no need to tell him the twisted reason why those babies were swapped--that was a revelation for another time. “now, as for the admixture that comes from your human heritage, you are predominantly snow elvish with ancestry from altea’s glaseas mountains and northwestern lakes, and sun elvish from the nomadic nzariel desert clans and the people of the injiri plateau. you should travel there someday--it’s one of the treasures of the sun elvish world. the plateau’s rock art is at least 500,000 years old!”

FERID.

      "oh, this one’s easy. i knew you had close ancestry somewhere as soon as i saw your ears,” he teases. “indeed, your results seem to show that you have one atlantian altean grandparent, making you 47.5% altean instead of the usual 30% altean that most people with human origins are. the atlantians’ city certainly is nowhere near either hungary or japan, but a huge part of atlantian culture is exploration, so your grandparent could have reached either one of those countries with ease.” he raises an eyebrow. “anyhow, for the remainder, 13% of your ancestry is from the moon elvish green lion clan, which happens to be my clan as well. 5% comes from cavern elves, who live underground right inside altea’s body and have produced many renowned religious leaders, and the final 4.5% comes from the plain elvish wolfdrake riders. you should read more about all of them. i’ve written several books that you may find illuminating.”

JUUZOU.

      "juuzou suzuya has undergone DNA testing to determine genetic ancestry…” he muses as he looks over the results on his pad. “your 30% altean heritage is split into four different sea elvish groups. you come from the reef people of their homeworld’s southwestern sea, the people of the ice at the northern pole, the people of the dragonfish in the southeast, and the lake-dwelling people of the equatorial islands. you also happen to be 0.1% olkari and 0.2% puigian, making you the first person i’ve tested today that shows traces of alien heritage. well,” he jokes, “i suppose everyone i’ve tested today has had alien ancestry, since every species is an alien to everyone else!”