#avok

Author Note: This is Nat/Avok.

"Paperwork"

Avok fought the urge to groan. Why was there so much paperwork involved in running a kingdom? Did his cousin, Princess Allura, have the same issue or did she have help with the paperwork from her commander? Either way, it didn't matter. He stood up from his desk and walked over to the window that oversaw the garden, which had been a passion project for his sister and her fiancée.

When Romelle told Avok that she was dating Sven, he took the man aside and threatened him with bodily harm if he harmed his sister (as was his right). When they got engaged, Avok was tempted to sharpen his axe. However, it seemed like Sven was a good guy and doted on his sister (as she deserved).

As Avok looked out the window, he saw his sister in her distinctive light blue dress wandering the path, enjoying the serene atmosphere, but another color caught his attention. The dark purple meant that Nat was guarding his sister.

Avok smiled at Nat, even though she didn't see him at that moment. He absolutely loved his siblings' bodyguard, and she was more than just a bodyguard. She was their confidant as well. Anyone who saw them together knew that the soon to be reigning monarch was smitten with the brunette, so it came as no surprise when Avok privately proposed to Nat.

As Avok watched Nat, a thought crossed his mind. Even though it would likely cause more paperwork, he wouldn't mind adding another title to Nat's list, his wife.

Fin

I uh.... I made a mistake? It had been on my mind a few times, but last night it definitely sparked. An AU where Avok exists as Bandor and Romelle’s older brother and he is in love with Tavo.  It’s definitely a cute idea. I’m loving this.  Dammit...

Zarkon is referred to as Malvor in some of the pages of “The Princess Joins Up” script, suggesting this may have possibly been the originally intended name for him.

The script for “Yurak Gets His Pink Slip” refers to Lotor as an Orkan. Whether this is a description of his race is unclear. 

Prince Avok, Romelle and Bandor’s older brother, was originally named Gil.

King Kova, Romelle and Bandor’s father, was originally named Dane.

The music used in the unaired pilot episode of Lion Voltron was not used in the series itself. This is because the show’s producers didn’t like it, deeming it too Eastern. They then hired another composer, John Petersen, to come up with a new score more in tune with Western tastes. 

the altean colony is an empty warehouse because haggar found them and took all of them away. 

the altean woman in that eva-like robot is just one part of haggar’s project to create an army of such weapons. 

haggar found a way to perfect the extraction of quintessence from alteans, which was enough to power such a vessel. 

we are in for a ride next season if this is the case. 

in 80′s voltron, romelle’s older brother, avok, volunteered to become a robeast, and was defeated by voltron, never to be heard from again (in golion, he was killed, of course). 

 After the dust has somewhat settled, more people were talking about the Altean pilot and I decided to hop onto that theory (after ranting to my friends after we watched the season together). Most of these are shots in the dark, and for fun.

 1) Merla (DoTU)

 I am seriously holding out that this could be Merla reimagined differently (they reinvented Nanny as a Galra governess who looked after Lotor, why not Merla as an Altean from the hidden farm? Also, I just really wanna see her.) While I would be sad that she wouldn’t be a queen in this version of Voltron, it will still hold up to some of her origins. Red hair, kind of on Lotor’s side (although this was because she was in an arranged marriage with him) and a powerful sorceress in her own right (here it could just be an Altean with a lot of quintessence). Maybe in this version, she could be the leader of the few who were “chosen” to become “pilots” for the mechs, instead of the queen.

 According to some posts, she was a fanatic follower of Lotor’s in some reincarnations, which seem to be the comics (although my fave is her Go Lion/DoTU counterpart because she’s always roasting Lotor), and in DoTU she didn’t really appear until towards the end of the series if I remember correctly.

 If this is Merla remade as an Altean, I wonder if she would be able to do more than just be an Altean battery for mech. In the original series, she was supposed to be a pretty powerful sorceress/scientist (?) and some people said that she was testing different ways to open portals to different realities.

 2) Larmina (Voltron Force)

 Larmina seems to check off some things for the pilot, while she had orange hair, it may be due to the dark lighting of the Altean mech and area in general that her hair looks red. Also, she was a pilot for Vehicle Voltron, so it wouldn’t be hard to see her being a pilot for the Altean mech.

 According to the wiki, it states that her character was, “combat-ready (and somewhat arrogant)”, and if she’s going to be different in this version, growing up with Lotor as their messiah and living on the Altean colony, I think with her high level of quintessence, this kind of attitude seems to suit someone who would put their life down for others who they respect/care for. Thus, she would probably the first to volunteer to pilot the mech that Haggar created.

  It would also be interesting to see someone abrasive and arrogant clash with Team Voltron personalities, especially Allura who would want to do things peacefully (I will talk about this in another post). 

 Larmina was also Allura’s niece in Vehicle Voltron (for some reason???), so like Romelle, they can still connect her to Allura in some way, but make their own spin.

3) A totally new character  While I personally feel that putting in an important OC at this point of the story is really thinning the line of how many characters we need to know (for me personally), I can see other ways it can work.

 If this is a totally new person not from any of the original Voltron reincarnations, we won’t know anything about her and be able to guess what her personality would be based off of previous  versions of a certain character. Nor would we be able to pin down their real intentions or how they truly feel until a little later in the final season (or we find out in a few episodes at the beginning). It would feel a little less like they connect to the overall story and characters, but then we’d be able to see an entirely different POV from a character who’s going against the paladins.  

 Finally, my favorite crack theory

 4) Avok, gender-swapped (DoTU) 

 Some people have pointed how similar Bandor looks to this Altean, even though he and Romelle have light blue markings, whereas this Altean has red markings on their cheeks. Still, I found it strange that in VLD, there’s no mention of Avok, since Romelle had two siblings in Go Lion, her little brother Bandor, and older brother Avok.

 It would be funny if it were because, 1) he got turned into a Robeast by Haggar 2) he was a traitor and helped the Empire. People are already not sure if Romelle is telling the whole story, and if this Altean is truly someone from her colony, especially a family member that she never mentioned beyond Bandor, her story is going to sound even more suspicious to the paladins, especially if this new character is going to divulge information that either conflicts with Romelle’s story, or becomes a bearer of bad news for the paladins on the things Haggar/Lotor are up to (if you’re into the theory that Romelle is a double agent or something).

 I’m also going to delve into how the pilot might react in the next season while taking these characters personalities into consideration.

 Extra:

 I know the mech weapons doesn’t immediately= that’s the weapons they would use in an actual fight. But how cool would it be if the Altean pilot actually dual wields? (I’m weak for this kind of thing)