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voltron wlw week day 1: Space

Masterlist of the first seven days of Sapphic September =)

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Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 |

Day 1: First Meeting (gone right or gone wrong) or “You’re an idiot, why do I love you?”. Acxa/Veronica (Veracxa) Worth a Shot (628 words, Teen) Summary: Acxa is at a party thrown by the paladins when a bold human approaches her.

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Day 2: Best Friends to Lovers or Enemies to Lovers Acxa/Allura (Alluracxa) Alone for Long Enough (254 words, Mature) Summary: After arriving on Earth, Acxa makes her interest in Allura known.

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Day 3: “Come back to bed.” or “Why did you have to leave me all alone?” Allura/Romelle (Romura) Don’t Mention the Robots (525 words, Mature) Summary: Allura has things to do, she can't lay about in bed all day. Romelle tries to change her mind.

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Day 4: Pirate!AU or “Look, I might be evil but even I have standards.” Acxa/Allura (Alluracxa) Wondering (456 words, Teen) Summary: Allura has never thought too hard about her lack of interest in the men who approach her, but a casual comment from Acxa makes her wonder.

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Day 5: Soulmate!AU or Autumn. Acxa/Veronica (Veracxa) Yours, Always (721, Teen) Summary: Veronica will never forget the way Acxa introduced herself.

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Day 6: Fanon Pairing or “Everyone keeps telling me you’re the bad guy.” Acxa/Veronica (Veracxa) The Bad Guy (406 words, Teen) Summary: Acxa is getting good at derailing Veronica's bad moods.

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Day 7: Witch!AU or Cat Acxa/Veronica (Veracxa) Misplaced Focus (435 words, Teen) Summary: Veronica came into her magic late in life and is still trying to master the basics while juggling her Garrison responsibilities.

in this world, allura doesn’t go into the rift. maybe the timing works differently, and they bring shiro back before the fight with lotor. maybe she got badly injured in kuron’s haggar induced attack and put in a cryopod. either way, when the team goes into the rift and the rest of the universe goes on for three years, allura and coran go on with it.

the castleship’s virus makes it almost unsalvageable without more help. they are able to drift to the closest occupied planet when they finally have to give up on waiting for the paladins to emerge.

(maybe kuron is in the cryopod too. maybe he’s not. but regardless, allura still loves takashi shirogane and lotor is a blight on her heart.)

the generals are waiting, unknown to either party, for them. allura takes off ezor’s leg and blinds zethrid’s eye when they kill romelle and coran in the fight.

(acxa has the chance to take her out afterwards, the princess distracted, but she can’t bring herself to fire the gun. she’d recognized the heartbreak under allura’s anger at lotor. she knows all too well what that feels like). 

allura steals a ship, stows coran’s brooch and the bloodied chip of coordinates romelle had passed her before closing her eyes for the last time in a safe pocket of her suit, and escapes alongside krolia.

she goes to the blade of mamora and it’s acxa’s idea to go to the druids. haggar hasn’t been sighted in ages and the druids will never turn down two (or three) willing participants for experiments.

allura can shapeshift. she dresses like a blade, goes on missions. she can’t face the coalition and all their questions about voltron and the paladins and lets kolivan do it for her. she lets herself be selfish, hidden away. hasn’t she lost enough? she lets the galaxy turn her into a martyr.

she bends her circlet into a necklace and turns the jewel pink. she will never wear paladin armour again.

(somewhere in all this, early on, she follows romelle’s coordinates, and finds nothing. haggar has already gotten there. it hurts to lose one more thing she didn’t think she could.)

she thinks, deeper down, that she will never love again. lotor had been conniving. shiro had been taken from her too soon, a thousand times over.

and then acxa comes along.

the former general sees her when she’s snuck in to plant bombs on a galra cruiser. her mask gets blown off in a fight with a sentry, and allura thinks she had changed her features enough to not be recognizable, but acxa’s shocked expression makes it clear that they’re not.

when shit hits the fan, acxa helps her escape, and it takes a long time of them slumped over against opposite walls of their escape pod, waiting for the rush of adrenaline to die down, before they speak.

when they do, it’s not much. their faces are ragged and their hearts are weary, and allura sees the same expression on acxa’s face that she sees on her own every time (on the rare occasion) she looks in a mirror.

she and acxa have an understanding. and after that, a partnership.

allura gets used to letting someone watch her back, to patching acxa up with alchemy after a fierce battle. they talk about altea. they talk about the war.

the first night they talk about lotor, axca kisses her and they both taste like bitterness. the first night they talk about shiro, they make love and it makes allura feel a little bit less empty.

i loved him and i never told him.

acxa runs her fingers through her hair. 

at first it’s soothing, and then it becomes a casual comfort. they talk about their losses. allura asks acxa about her home planet, a galran colony lightyears away. they share a marmora suit and mask when only one can carry out a deed. allura is the one to cut acxa’s hair, and then she gets acxa to cut hers, too.

they press sloppy kisses to each other’s mouths after missions, desperate and aching and injured, fingers tangled in hair, skidding across skin, craving

it makes them feel something. it also makes them fall in love.

allura knows, in spite of all the odds, they’ll survive the war. they have something worth fighting for, again.