#griffance

Griffin had known he wanted space and the garrison his entire life. He kept his record clean and his head low, had done everything possible to make sure he had the best shot at becoming a pilot. And then Keith Kogane had swept in having done none of the work that Griffin did and got the attention of Griffin’s hero. 

It’s easy to hate Keith Kogane. 

It should be easy to hate Lance McClain too. Lance might not excel the way Keith did, but he spits in the face of everything Griffin has worked for in the same way that Keith does. He’s too loud, too arrogant. 

But...Lance McClain is hard to hate. 

Lance does not get everything easily the way Keith Kogane does. Instead he works for it with a single-minded focus that Griffin can’t help but admire. Lance is a better pilot than any of them, there’s a reason he was at the top of the cargo pilots, but he’s an entire year behind the rest of them in training. And yet, despite his inexperience, he takes risks and tries moves that would save his crew if he could just figure out how to pull them off. His strategies and tactics are sound, are good, but Lance doesn’t have the experience to pull them off just yet. But it’s obvious to anyone that pays attention that Lance is going to pass them all one day. Even Iverson knows it - compares Lance to Keith in a way that he never compares the rest of them and pushes Lance because Lance needs to be able to handle anything if he’s going to become the pilot he should be. 

Lance’s loudness should be off-putting, but instead it’s magnetic. He’s friendly and kind and charismatic. His pick-up lines are terrible for flirting, but their great for making someone feel better. They laugh and they tease, because their teenagers, but the entire cargo class and half the fighter class is pulled into him And Lance is loyal, almost to a fault. He should’ve gotten a completely new team when he moved into fighter class, but instead he refused to train without Hunk Garrett as his mechanic and only let their communications officer go when he said he didn’t want to work on a fighter. 

Lance is hard to hate. 

He’s easy to love. 

Griffin nursed a crush on him throughout their first year, watching the cargo pilot from across the cafeteria. Back then it was just a crush, an admiration for Lance’s gorgeous eyes and the soft beauty of his skin and the way he made lanky somehow look elegant. 

It becomes much, much more when Keith gets kicked out and Lance moves into Fighter class. Once their in the same class, Griffin is directly exposed to Lance’s charm. Lance flirts with him endlessly and Griffin knows he isn’t special, knows that Lance flirts with everyone, but it’s easy to fall for pretty brown eyes and a soft smile. It’s easy to fall for the boy who always seems to notice when Griffin is too caught up in his head, too focused on his dreams and frustrated they seem so far away, and always sits and talks to him despite Griffin being snappy and bad company. It’s easy to fall for a boy like Lance, so Griffin falls fast and hard. 

And Griffin, much like Lance, has never been afraid to work for what he wants so he goes for it. And when Lance says yes to a date, he throws himself into planning for it. 

It ends up being kind of a disaster - the bus to the city is an hour late, so they miss their movie, and then try agree to eat early but it was the middle of the rush hour and the restaurant they agreed on was packed. The whole thing sucks and Griffin is convinced that he’s not getting a second date out of it. But then Lance takes his hand, laughing about everything, and picks up the pieces. He pulls Griffin to the Aquarium across the city and Griffin spends the hours admiring the way Lance looks when he’s smiling at sharks, face highlighted by the blue glow emanating from the tanks.

He gets his second date. 

And a third and a fourth. 

And before he knows it, a year has passed by since Lance joined the fighter program and the two of them have been together almost half of that time.

Then, one morning, Griffin goes to the room Lance shares with his teammates, because he always wakes up before Lance and he picks up coffee for the two of them from the cafeteria than walks to class with Lance, only to find that none of them are there. It’s not strange for Lance to sneak out without Griffin, usually they go together but sometimes Griffin is too stuck in his head to be much fun and Lance and Hunk go without him, but it’s strange that Lance left without telling him and even stranger that Lance isn’t back yet. 

He waits, for a while, but part of him is hoping that Lance just got up early and forgot to tell him so he goes to class. Lance is not in class. 

Lance doesn’t show up for class at all that week and he doesn’t answer any of Griffin’s text messages or phone calls. 

That weekend the Garrison announces that three of it’s students are missing - Hunk Garret, Pidge Gunderson, and Lance McClain.

Setting is similar to the Alternative Reality that Empress Allura defeats the Galra, but she forms a truce by marrying Prince Lotor after he kills his father. Together they do maintain the Altean-Galra empire and find Honerva who has disappeared.

Shiro still gets captured and turned into a gladiator in an illegal Galran fighting pit. He remains undefeated and when the Alteans rescued him, they saw his potential and trained him to become one of their generals.

Lotor followed his mother's footsteps and started working with quintessence, under the super vigilant eyes of his Alpha... But he still able keep a few secret experiments from her. Lotor became fascinated by earth and humans when Shiro, the gladiator turned General, started manifesting Alpha traits after a few chemical enhancements to assist his training and rehabilitation. After reading the results, Humans might be another species capable of having a/b/o characteristics other than Alteans and the Galra.

Lance and a few Garrison pilots are sent out to space when they received a distress signal not dissimilar to the last message from the failed Kerberos mission. When they reached the point of origin of the signal, it was a trap made by Lotor in an attempt to capture a human and test them.

Lance sacrificed himself and got himself captured. The rest of his team was able to return to earth.

After a few invasive experiments and procedures, Lance presents as an omega. Empress Allura finds out about her husband's activities and is furious. As an apology, Lotor gives Lance as a gift to his wife.

It is revealed that Lance is an Omega Queen, a rarity and a few are born once a Millenium. The last Omega Queen of Altea was King Alfor, Allura's father.

*** some other stuff happens whatever, like The Alteans will add Earth into their Empire that's how a few Garrison characters get added into the Royal Guards.

I would like to explore more this a/b/o au where it is the omegas who hold the power and are higher in ranking.

This is basically a Lance's Harem fic.

Sounds neat!!

I like the idea of Lance and James not really being much at the beginning, but falling into each other over post-sex conversations. I like the idea of them falling into each other because Lance draws patterns on James’ skin while talking about home, because carding his hands through Lance’s hair reminds James of his mother doing the same to him as a child and he can’t help talking about her when she’s on his mind like that, because it’s hard for both of them to be quiet and they just can’t keep their mouths shut when their loose and satisfied. 

SO GLAD YOU ASKED. BECAUSE I DEFINITELY HAVE MORE. 

So continuing off this post from earlier: 

Lance is gone and Griffin kinda falls apart for a while because yeah they’d only been together for six months but the fact of the matter is that he was kind of stupidly in love with Lance already. It was easy to love Lance, after all. 

- And somewhere in the universe, Coran is saying “And now the most important part of Paladin training is being able to meld your minds and focus on one thing: Voltron. Everything else has to fade away. This technique will be essential every time you form Voltron.” And Lance sees two images - the two things he’s been missing the most -  his family laid out in front of him and then, for just a moment, the image of Griffin leaning in for a kiss. “Come on, everyone, clear everything. Now, focus on forming your lion.” The image flickers and fades. 

So Griffin isn’t doing so hot for a few months, but eventually he dries his tears and squares his shoulders. Because Lance might be gone, but Griffin is here and if Lance can’t become the pilot that he was meant to be than Griffin is damn sure going to become that pilot. 

- And somewhere in the universe, Hunk is hearing that Lance has been handcuffed to a pole after taking an alien for a ride in Blue. And when they have a moment to themselves, Hunk looks at him, soft but confused, and asks, “What about Griffin?” because this is more than harmless flirting with an alien princess and Lance’s eyes go sad, go dark, and he murmurs, “I thought it would hurt less if I stopped thinking about him.” And Hunk asks, softness tainting with sad understanding, “Did it work?” And Lance shakes his head. Instead of a proper answer, he says, “Blue would blow Griffin’s mind.”

Griffin has always been dedicated to school, but now he throws himself into it with an all new kind of intensity. He rockets through the ranks, tops the fighter course before anyone else knows what’s going on. He’d always been near the top, but now he blows most of them away in a way that he never did before. It’s easy now that he doesn’t go to town anymore, too afraid of wandering near the Aquarium and remembering a boy who loved the sea. 

- And somewhere in the universe, Lance is fishing through a fountain in a space mall and trying not to think about earth malls. He’s trying not to think dragging Griffin around the mall, trying not to think about a boy who wears a serious face at school but who softens outside of the military constrains, trying not to think of a warm hand in his and a quiet laughter in his ear. 

A year goes by. 

Griffin graduates. He’s chosen by Iverson, along with three others, for a special position. He makes himself at home with them, learns to handle Kinkade’s silence and Rizavi’s smiling teases and the way that Leifsdottir recites things at all of them without a second thought.

- And somewhere in the universe, Lance defeats the monsters that alien boys and girls fear. He misses his family fiercely, but he makes a family of his own with four humans, two aliens, and five mechanical lions. 

No one asks him about Lance, despite them having been in school with them and everyone in school having known about Griffin and Lance. He’s thankful for it. Because Griffin knows it’s stupid to wait for a boy that’s been missing as long as Lance has, but he can’t stop. Because Lance was everything Griffin wanted and Griffin has never known how to give up on what he wants. 

- And somewhere in the universe, Lance is surrounded by people who don’t know that he had a relationship on earth. Oh, Pidge and Hunk do, having roomed with Lance and benefited from Griffin’s coffee runs more than once. But Pidge is too concerned with finding her family and Lance runs from any conversations Hunk tries to start. He lets them all attack him for flirting his way through the galaxies, never tells them that his flirting his harmless because Lance is homesick for his family and heartsick for Griffin. 

Then Samuel Holt comes back to Earth. Griffin doesn’t know who the paladins of Voltron are, not until after Samuel Holt has already seen the ships that the Garrison wants Griffin and his crew to fly and they all crowd together for a debrief. And Griffin, who has been the picture of military excellence since Lance’s disappearance, hears that the missing garrison students are the paladins and breaks protocol, says without prompting, “All of them?”

He feels his team look at him, all understanding what this means to him. 

And Samuel Holt looks at him, confused, and says, “Yes. Hunk Garrett, Lance McClain, and my daughter Katie, who was using the alias Pidge Gunderson, are all paladins of Voltron.”

And Griffin breaths out, relieved and shaken and happier than he thought he could ever be, “Lance is alive.”

- And somewhere in the Universe, Lance is being told that they’re going to back to Earth. And he thinks about his family about seeing his brothers and sister and nieces and nephews and his mother and father. And then he thinks, Griffin. I’ll get to see Griffin again.