#was stuck on allura

[torveiglyart]

The voltron crew as quotes I saw on bags while on vacation:

I always carry a knife in my purse. You know, in case of cheesecake or something. -Keith

Taking off my makeup at the end of the day is always bittersweet. Like goodbye fierce and confident bitch, hello bitch who can rub her eyes. -Lance

Parenting hacks 101. There are none. Good luck. -Shiro

High maintenance 🍃. -Pidge

If a glass of wine is good for you, imagine what the whole bottle can do. -Coran

My vacation budget and a seagull flew away with my fries. -Hunk

Take me and you get a free ride in a police car. -Allura

[aetsiv]

vld s9 where it's one episode and confirms that nothing is s8 actually happened and allura is actually alive and lance isn't a farmer and is with keith

[kreeeeeez]

[aiendeeay]

okay real question, was anyone actually happy that lance ended up with allura???

[saltwife]

When it's Lotura Week but you're kind of stuck on bears... If I accomplish nothing else this year at least I made this, the Bear AU no one asked for. :V It's Bearllura and Beartor, the rulers of Alaskaltea! I guess??!

@loturaweek2023

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[angstandhappiness]

LMAO YES

I was trying to design casual outfits for Human Allura and Coran and then thought what mysteries could be under the jacket, then I imagined and I laughed.

If I ever get stuck in space, I want to be wearing that shirt.

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

Ough ship of theseus au........ Im so fascinated by this concept of the world slowly changing loop by loop, its so horryfying<33 is it known what exactly caused the loop? Also, im wondering, how far off the deep end does lance go? You said he starts Doing Things, does he do stuff to try to break the loop, to try and save his friends, does he slowly go mad? Some combination of these? Something else entirely? Either way this au sounds epic as fuck🔥🔥🔥

I am so glad you like it!!!! As for what caused the loop, I have few options-

Unintended consequences of Haggar destroying the multiverse and her and Allura being unable to fix it correctly. So instead the universe's timeline just keeps repeating itself, like a broken record

2) Unintended consequences of 10,000 years of destruction caused by the Galran empire. It fucked up their specific reality SO MUCH, that the literally the only way to preserve any life on said reality was to coil it onto itself creating a loop repeating itself like recorded videos on repeat and hope for the best.

3) things having been Always Been Like This™. Nobody knows when the time loops started or why it was started because the universe has changed so much and to the point that what was 'original' reality and the main perpetrators and the circumstances that made them begin the time loop is all but gone. The timeline that was the shows canon was simply one of the thousands Or even millions of loops these characters had gone through and didn't even know. The only difference being that this timeline ended up creating conditions (such as trans-dimensional travel and Lance's altean marks) which enabled team voltron to remember and ultimately Lance getting kicked out

4) Lance did this through quintessence fuckery. He wanted to save Allura, and when he managed to save her (and Kuron) through time travel he was Kicked Out™ of the timeline which got stuck in a loop

Either way there's a loop, and no one is there to control it Or end it. Lance remembers and tries to save people for several loops until eventually it causes him to be erased from the timeline for a bit. Think gaster from undertale. Just got put in a little timeout box beyond reality, time and existence itself no biggie he can still watch his friends and family go through same/similar shit over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Only much later that he realizes that the loops are also changing. At first he blamed his own faulty memory but later he realized that no it is changing. The fucking genre is in fact changing

I imagine this was not a pleasant realization.

Lance also goes through various moods, at first he's trying to save people (first time he realized he was in a time loop he saved Allura and Kuron but then Hunk died, so he tried to save Hunk in next loop but then his family died and so on so forth until finally where everyone else is saved but he is erased)

After which he kinda had a long depression period, followed by a period of frustration and rage when he kills a God (most likely Bob) so he can do more in the universe

I also think his opinion on time loop keeps on swinging cause on one hand it's literal fucking torture, on the other hand it offers familiarity and assurance that no matter what atleast they'll stay alive (right up until he realizes that there is a very real chance of time loop changes can erase them as well and unlike him most of them (aside from Allura and maybe Shiro) don't have that specific cocktail of quintessence fuckery to keep them alive)

Overall i making this up as i go man

[ethereance]

Lance: Well diddly darn, the Galra Empire are being total buttheads. This is so Not crack-a lackin. Just absolute fiddlesticks. Allura: Lonce, honey I love you, but please just say fuck

Asrtyfdguigfg

Galra empire should be quaking in their boots right now. Truly the most language to ever

[faeryton]

having a vld specific blog is. more difficult than i thought it'd be??? like i can't post my writing or art bc yk. rejection. but i can't reblog anything bc even looking at one (1) headcanon gets me overstimulated. sighs

[jiveyuncle]

Hunk snickers, Pidge attacks Lance, Shiro lets it happen, and Keith, Allura, and Coran are all confused. Sorry, I’m forever stuck in the 00’s, so they are too lmao

[Inspired by a “bish” prompt I received on insta]

[bluemantics]

do you think when lance first stepped into red, he saw pieces of the former red paladin left behind? felt the imprints of his hands in the controls? do you think he noticed the snacks keith hid under the console, the sticker pidge gifted him stuck on his chair, the faint smell of whiskey-musk spray that he bought to clear out the scent of blood after rougher battles?

lance thought that red's cockpit would be empty and cold. he didn't think keith was one for comfort or sentimentality, based on his empty room and his plain outfits. but... here it was. evidence of keith, littering the inside of a lion clearly well-maintained.

with trepidation, lance put his hand on the controls and felt the way each of his fingers fit in the grooves left behind. his hands were slightly too slender.

he wondered how allura would react to the traces he'd left. a pillow and a pair of extra socks, and maybe an alien comic magazine.

more achingly, he pictured keith, trying to fit his smaller frame in a large, black seat. lance hoped in vain that shiro left fewer traces. he knew keith would see shiro in every little shadow, every slight trace anyways. 

that was the thing about chasing after someone you admire for so long.

attempting to push past the coil of emotion in his throat, lance walked back out of red, prepared to soothe his tense, cornered leader.

[ghostgetter]

klance wip:

“I’m sorry for yelling at you,” Lance breaks the silence, mouth brushing against his now-worn slacks, kneecaps showing.

Keith grunts, staring forward into the crisp night. “It’s fine.”

“And I’m sorry for punching you in the face.”

Keith hums in acknowledgement.

Lance shrinks further into the tight cocoon he’s concocted for himself. He chews at his lip, leg bouncing up into his mouth. “And I’m sorry for not giving you an answer.”

“It’s fine,” Keith repeats quickly. “I didn’t expect one.”

Lance drums his forefingers into his kneecaps, shifting on the cobblestone steps. He hears Keith rustle, sighing next to him. Back inside where the party continues, he hears the faint and familiar sounds of ABBA and the clinks of glasses. He feels like a child, again, not allowed back into the extravagant fun until he’s settled things between him and his notorious rival. He doesn’t even blame Keith for this. It’s his fault he’s been unable to emotionally process anything since the war. How Keith got better at it than him is beyond anything he can comprehend.

The question cements itself into the air and though the anger is gone, the confusion remains. Though his persona says otherwise, Lance never truly thought he was someone that would experience the fierce loyalty that Keith has shown, Keith has shared, Keith has stated to him, until now. “Why?”

“‘Why’ what?”

“Why me?” Lance finally turns to look at Keith, and sees Keith brushing a gloved finger under his now-dry nose. The blood stays caked above his lip, and Lance feels even worse. Lance probably broke it, and Keith’ll have to reset it before they head back into the party. “Why do you love me?”

Keith stops his ministrations, cocking his head lightly to the side. Lance watches Keith process his words, thick eyebrows crinkling downwards, and it’s quiet for a moment. Lance nearly backtracks his question until Keith meets his gaze fiercely, and Lance feels his breath hitch. “I didn’t think I needed a reason to,” he answers, like that’s all there is to it. Nothing more, nothing less. “I just love you.”

“Okay,” Lance drawls, lips pursing. He’s not satisfied with the ‘just because’ of the answer, which pretty cements the entire statement as a non-answer. Keith could be dodging the question entirely, but Lance sees the ferocity of his eyes and thinks back to the past few months and determines that no, he probably isn’t. It could just be it for him. “What’s it feel like?”

“What?”

Lance turns his wrist over and over, gesturing onward. “Like, what’s loving me feel like?”

“Are you genuinely curious, or are we feeding your ego?”

Lance glares and pouts, but he sees Keith smirking back at him, so he takes it as a step in the right direction. “No, geez. Like,” Lance purses his lips and thinks back to his days in Voltron. He thinks of silver hair and blue eyes, and juniberry flowers. “Like when I loved Allura, I felt giddy. Like my stomach was in knots. Sometimes, it was like my heart would stop. Even when I was sad, I felt like I always needed to chase the feeling.”

Keith nods back at him, silent, and Lance quietly wonders if Keith’s love is similar to what Lance felt back in those days. Or if he’s judging him for such an immature way of looking at love.

Lance has learned, both in space and on Earth, that love has many forms. He’s still learning. ‘Amar es ser’ as his mamá preached on the steps under the porch light, when his tears would finally dry up after planting rows upon rows of juniberry flowers. To be sad, to be lonely, to grieve. No one love is the same, he knows that. And love never truly leaves. In these two years following the end of the war, all he’s known is grief and heartache, and has believed that’s all love could be. He sees Curtis and Shiro, Hunk and Shay, and just knows he’s never going to have that again. That giddy feeling in his stomach. He’s stuck, grounded.

“Like flying,” Keith finally answers. “Loving you feels like flying.”

“Like flying?”

“Like it’s second nature,” Keith laments. “I don’t really think about it, I just do it. And when I do have to think about it, like if there’s an asteroid field to get through, or I dunno, ‘this,’” he gestured between the two of them, banished from Shiro’s party in trashed clothing stained with dirt, “it’s exhilarating,” Keith exhales sharply from his mouth, a cloud of air puffing out into the chilly night. “It’s my favorite thing in the universe.”

“Oh.”

Keith nods once at him, “Yeah.”

Lance nods back, mouth agape, and attempts a shaky, deep breath. He turns back to his anxiety-tapping, bouncing his knees. Even though he’s the recipient of Keith’s affections, he finds himself envious. Jealous that the love Keith has found seems so much brighter than what Lance has had. It’s funny, too, that while Lance just feels empty, Keith just told him loving him is his favorite thing in the universe.

[catsushinyakajima]

Voltron characters as algebraic expressions/distributions:

PIDGE: the binomial distribution

Binomial distributions display probabilities for a set number of binary trials (only two choices) within an experiment. I feel like this represents her because of her experimental nature as well as the two choices she was faced with in s1: saving the universe or leaving to save matt and her dad.

LANCE: sine function

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE WAVES!! Bro is smooth and bro swings both ways. Also, a sine wave is a periodic function, meaning it repeats the same pattern again and again. This can represent how while Lance is moving forward, he feels like is isn't growing or isn't more, but is rather stuck, bouncing between highs and lows.

KEITH: cosecant function

cosecant functions are the reciprocals of sin function (csc=1/sin), so this shows how Keith "reflects" or mirrors Lance. Additionally, the periods of csc functions start at positive or negative infinity and then stray towards the origin, but never quite reach it. This represents how Keith is so far away, and how everytime he comes back he leaves again, and how "home" always feels out of reach for him (csc function approaches horizontal asymptote but never truly gets there)

ALLURA: exponential function

The exponential function starts at an infintessimally small value that is nearly zero, and then rises drastically. The "flatter" values of the graph represent her comatose, and the sudden increase of values reflect her increased power, fight, and drive. It continues to increase forever, which I think can represent her death in canon. She transcends a barrier that the others cannot reach.

CORAN: uniform distribution

MY BOY Coran is the most unwavering support ever. The key aspect of a uniform distribution is that it is always the same value wherever it exists. It doesn't change or shift, just like how Coran has always, ALWAYS been able to constantly be there for the team and the universe.

HUNK: step function

While canon does him dirty, Hunk rises in both confidence and skill throughout the show. He's very methodic and is also a backbone to the team, which is why I gave him a function that's broken so evenly and is still rising. He is the type of character who climbs up. Also, I first used step functions in an engineering class!

SHIRO: hyperbolic function

OMG YALL ALR KNOW!! Not all hyperbolic functions map this way fyi, but THESE particular ones are sooooo Shiro. There is two parts of the graph, one positive and one negative. They never touch but they mirror each other identically and they're mapped by the same function. This represents Kuron and Shiro. They're both made from the same DNA, appear identical, but they have different minds and goals (the same way both parts of this function approach different values as x approaches infinity!)

[coranfucker94]

cork94's fic recs 4/21 - 4/27

last week's fic recs here!

when all this is over, where do we stand by perfchan

klance, rated T, 84k words, follows canon pretty closely. this is quite honestly one of my favorite fics of all time!! it expands on canon events and does a lot of keith character study and it’s FANTASTIC. this fic singlehandedly convinced me that allurance could’ve been good. the characterization is incredible. i am going to be thinking about this fic for the rest of my life. voltron if it was good <3

life is simple in the moonlight by asterikamay / @catsushinyakajima

klance, not rated, 5k words, pre-relationship, set after keith returns from the blade. keith gets drunk at a party and they talk about their feelings & clear up some misunderstandings! it isn't very romantic (only a little bit at the end!) and they're not that good at talking. but they're figuring it out!!!

seeing in the dark by write4love

klance, rated G, 9k words, canon universe on the way back to earth. this one is a very good mix of serious conversations and fluff and humor!!! featuring kosmo, sharing a bed, and a fair amount of paladin silliness <33

found you in my head again by @existwound

klance, rated M, 13k words, canon universe, keith and lance get stuck with a mental bond whenever they touch. I LOVE THIS FIC. it's so fucking funny oh my god. the bickering is SOO good. they're completely ridiculous and i'm obsessed with it.

can i be candid with you? by breeeliss

allurance, rated E, 9k words, post season 7 (set at the garrison). this one is so cute oh my god. allura’s neighbors are being extremely loud and she goes wandering in search of a more quite place to rest and runs into lance! they joke about past sexual experience and laugh and flirt and its SOO good. i am absolutely enamored with their dynamic here, it’s so sweet. 

[vldunchartedregions]

I see all these comments and notes about changes with Allura and Lotor and Keith and Lance, but where's Shiro in all this? One of my biggest grievances about s7-8 was how they seemed to strip him of his personality and turn him into a bland leader, and it was thought that they might've cut some of his more personal interactions with the team. Does this have any basis in reality?

Hello! Thank you for the question.

This question... is a loaded one and more complicated than one realises.

If you're unaware, Shiro has an complicated history in the corporate realm of developing Voltron: Legendary Defender.

He was meant to die after Season 2.

He was the mentor character; a vehicle to progress a leadership narrative for Keith. That's why he talks about dying in various moments throughout VLD.

Very Gurren Lagann (Simon & Kamina, anyone?)

It didn't happen due to him being the most popular character and they needed to sell more toys.

They even made a joke about it in S4E4: The Voltron Show.

Coran freaks out and tells him they're never letting him go. He's the most popular character.

So TL;DR: They tried to kill him again post Season 6. He truly had no purpose originally past Season 7. The many arcs he had (including the Kuron arc) were resolved already.

He was literally in a coffin in S7E1: A Little Adventure, while the gang tried to find a way to get him to wake up after his Clone body starts to disagree with him.

In one of the drafts apparently as spoken to on the Afterbuzz TV Podcast, the Showrunners wanted to see Allura progress into his commandeering position once Earth and the Atlas came into play. Shiro's current role from S7-8.

Nope. Not allowed.

So, they were able to integrate him in a very impactful way into Season 7 in the final battle, were able to give him a greater purpose in order to save Earth, and we did have some sweet moments in Season 8; Clear Day being one of them.

He played a quintessential role in Season 8 at the commander of the ATLAS, but he did have another core purpose, and of course, this was a mentor role.

Someone to guide the way for others.

Boom.

He was a vehicle for another subplot: The Love Triangle™

Claudia is a character from Macross / Robotech, who lost their Fiancé; a fighter pilot.

Claudia comforts Hikaru, who was just broken up with by Macross Idol, Lynn Minmay, and is currently stuck in a love triangle between her and her childhood friend now supervisor, Misa?

Time to blow your mind.

Both photos were taken by a Beezer equivalent robot, same beep and boop sounds.

Don't believe me? Watch here from 10:20

Sound familiar?

The VAs even mentioned there was a scene between Lance and Shiro that made everyone in the booth cry. We don't ever see this scene as far as we're aware.

The love triangle subplot was cut for the most part, so the mentorship scenes he was meant to have purpose and intent for? The sole reason they instilled the Adam storyline and his death in the first place?

All cut.

TL;DR: He did have a greater purpose to the plot of Season 8, however it was for the most part cut. Boo.

Thank you for the question.

[bluemanticism]

i love writing young allura as this scrappy messy adventurous girl with leaves stuck in her hair it heals something in me but im not sure what