Project: Cosmic Dust

This is our Voltron: Legendary Defender rewrite! This is a current work in progress with 160 chapters, and we do have another rewrite currently ongoing. For our main author, this has been a passion project for over 3 years now. We are mainly using this blog to get it out there, and recruiting betas once we get closer to actually writing.

Our major themes that we will be addressing throughout the series will be identity, choice, teamwork, and the consequences and effects of war from multiple different perspectives. We are not currently on Ao3, but will be when we get to that point of our process.

Our major author is Sol (@packcoventhing), who uses it/he pronouns. He loves character interactions, development, and personality showcases. He’s also a digital artist, and if there are any digital images in this that are not cited, they likely come from his art app! He’s 19 years old and absolutely insane about Doctor Who and Voltron (obviously. why else would we be here).

Our co-author is Lief (@sfhppjmc), who uses they/it pronouns. They like evolutions of relationships, culture, influences of anything around them, and adding in representation of all kinds. They are 18 years old and loves Doctor Who, recently recruited to hell. They only recently finished watching VLD after being dragged.

We are contactable through tumblr if you have any questions.

The major list of things we are changing/including are listed below:

This is an equally fun take! I took the opposite direction because in the experiences of my friends who actually have weight in the conversation (since I'm about the whitest kid you can find), the struggle with their genders often goes pretty hand-in-hand with their racial struggles. It was less about what canon did, and more that the struggles with gender add to the overall theme of identity that is Keith Kogane.

With Lance he definitely is that way to an extent! But I think overall with what we're doing with him (his core character themes are confidence and family), his transness ties less into the core theme of his character and more into just who he is. If that makes any sense?

YES!

3/5 of the paladins are older teens, Lance and Hunk starting at 17 and Keith at 18, but that doesn't mean they're fully developed and realized adults lmao. Pidge starts at a cool 14 years old, and that makes it a very fun process to show her going through puberty in real time.

Keith also, on top of 18 not being fully developed (I stand by this), has his Galra Puberty. Since Galra aging works differently, it started later, and is really only just setting in when we start the series. So Keith gets to embody moody teen lmao.

Pidge is genderfluid! Although in practice they don't actually care what pronouns you use for him.

YES the castle will have a dedicated farming area! Keith and Hunk are the main two to work in it actually, with occasional appearances from Pidge and Lance.

Pidge was never really into their mom's gardening, so they didn't retain a lot of it, but still. Sometimes it's nice to walk around in the farms and be reminded of her mom's old projects. After the Olkari arc he spends a lot more time here, having a better understanding of nature.

Lance did come from a farming family, and he would totally help around the farm more! He's used to the chores, animal and plant related alike, but frankly the way Keith glares at him when he gets near Kaltenecker turns him away for a long while. Lmao.

Hunk, when he still lived in Samoa that is, would grow some of his own vegetables. Taking that knowledge, mixing it with what the others knew, and applying it to alien life actually gave him a pretty nice hobby for when he probably shouldn't be cooking fifteen times a day.