#langst idea

Of course! 

Think about it, Lance always wanted to find The One™, the one person he could call his, the one he could pull close at night and kiss their forehead before falling back to sleep. He kept his options opened and resorted to flirting as a way to meet as many people as he could so he could meet that special someone. 

Flirting is harmless, even in space, so that didn’t stop Lance from going rusty on his skills, after all he could meet the one in space. Yet one accidental and Lance is being informed that he must marry the fair girl he just ofter a bright orange flower too.

That morning Lance was just a boy from Cuba and now he's being forced to marry a girl that isn’t the one for him.  

So everyone's talking about how Shiro coming back and bringing Matt with him will make Lance feel like he's going to get replaced as the blue paladin and/or how Lance feels like Matt would be a better blue paladin

What if Matt actually brings Lance's confidence down a tad bit when he first arrives, but quickly picks Lance up again after they actually start talking// get to know each other?

Also in my head Matt is like the leader of the rebellion group// is in second command (like a deputy of some sort)

When he first arrives with Shiro, Pidge is the first one to just run up to them and squeeze the living shit out of Matt, and they just have this long ass bro hug (even though Matt is basically getting suffocated). After, Matt meets everyone else on the team (except Lance) and gets along with literally everyone (Slav included).

Both Matt and Keith constantly look after Shiro, and literally baby him 24/7. Matt even teaches// practices hand to hand combat with Keith. They also are sometimes lone wolves and follow their instincts most times during a mission (but Matt knows how to back down// knows when to listen to his team most times) Also they both have fuzzy hair

Apparently Matt was once an engineer of some kind back at the Garrison, and loves eating anything Hunk gives him. Matt joins Hunk and Pidge's group, helping them out with mechanics and stuff, (since he was most likely a higher rank then both of them at the Garrison), sometimes even correcting Pidge when they're doing a separate project of some sort.

Allura talks to Matt about plans of sorts, and loves his ideas// adjustments to some of her original plans for a mission, and Matt started studying Altean with the help of Coran when he tries pronouncing the words and when he has problems understanding the rules of the language

The only person he hasn't really talked to// met yet is Lance. The main reason why is because Lance doesn't want to ruin his relationship with Matt the same way he thinks he messed up with Allura when they got to know each other.

Everyone just adores Matt and constantly puts the spotlight on him. He's even better then Keith with most things, which is astonishing to Lance, but it hurts more knowing that he has spent his whole Garrison year trying to beat Keith at basically everything, and impress both Keith and Shiro but never gets a praise out of anything.

He has a hard time thinking what his special talent// what he contributes to the team. In his mind, his only talent right now is being extremely annoying.

Lance doesn't hate himself. He has his insecurities sure, but he doesn't hate himself. He just hasn't found what he's good at yet. It used to be taking care of his family and comforting them when they had a bad day, but that doesn't seem to end the case anymore. Sure he was there for everyone else when Shiro went missing (I'll probably write another post about it later)

Also, Hunk doesn't upright ignore//forget about him. He still talks to Lance and he kind of knows about Lance's attention needs, but with all the missions and projects with Pidge, it's hard being one person. They're still friends, but they just aren't as close as they used to be.

Lance is the kind of person that doesn't tell anyone anything unless you confront him about it because he thinks he's just being a burden to everyone. He knows that he has to stop bottling his feelings, but it's hard when the people you consider to be your family is busy dealing with they're own problems .

He would talk to Coran, but he's trying to be there for Allura whenever she needs him, since they're still mourning over Altea

There's Shiro, but they aren't exactly 'close'. At all. Shiro is still trying to recover from his one year as a Galran prisoner. It's harder for him to move on since one of his arms was removed and replaced with a metal one after being experimented on.

Pidge is still looking for her father, and Keith is still adjusting to the fact that he has Galra blood inside of him, and is also looking for his family.

Slav isn't exactly helpful with emotional stuff, and Kolivan is a rebellion leader leading a large group of followers

Lance can't just break down in his room. People would hear him, and he'd probably get scolded for not telling anyone about all his problems and his attention needs .

That's where Matt comes in. So let's say that Lance is hanging out at the front of the ship one night when everyone else is sleeping, just watching the stars and thinking about his family, maybe even messing with the star map

Matt couldn't exactly sleep that night because he was wondering where his dad was, or/ and how his mother was coping with the loss of her family. He gets out of bed and makes his way to the training deck (something he picked up from Keith), only to be stopped when he sees the glow of the star map in the front of the ship. Thinking its Pidge for the hundredth time that week, he walks in ready to scold the fuck out of her.

When he sees Lance just sitting on the floor of the ship, a blanket over his shoulders, and still wearing his usual outfit instead of his pajamas, Matt gets a little worried. He actually scares the fuck out of Lance when he asks him what he was doing, and Lance starts cursing in Spanish, since he was born in Cuba. Matt apologizes for startling him, then asks if Lance is alright.

Lance just gives him a shrug, before zooming back into one of the planets in the star map. Curious, as to what the paladin was looking at, Matt takes a peak over Lance's shoulder. It's Earth that Lance is looking at. The sudden realization that Lance is homesick is enough for Matt to sit down besides the paladin and put an arm around his back in support.

Matt let's Lance vent on and on about his family and how fucking much he misses them and how much he just wants to tell them that he's okay and that he's coming back as soon as he can, and how much he's kept his feelings in because he never had a chance to talk to anyone about it. Matt just listens to him, not even interrupting him once throughout the whole thing, and rubs his back often when Lance looks like he's about to cry.

When Lance is done, Matt admits that he's homesick as well, but only because his mother has basically been abandoned by her family, and once in a while he feels guilty for not trying to get back home and instead is joined a rebellion group, but he knows he's doing it for his mom's sake, and for the Earth and all the other planets are safe.

And they just talk, except it's extremely awkward because this is the first time they've actually TALKED to each other since Matt arrived, and in the Earth calendar Pidge has, it's been months.

But they do talk (finally), and most of the things they talk about is either about Pidge being a dork or how they miss their families, maybe even some weird/goofy stuff, like how Slav actually does calculations stuff or how many planets there actually was using some mathematical bullshit methods, and by messing around with the star map.

Then Lance accidentally brings up how awesome Matt is and how he should be the Blue paladin and not him because to his team Lance is just an annoying try hard// joker

So Matt quickly throws that thought out the fucking window, and tells Lance how much the team cares about him and how much Pidge has said about him and how brotherly// awesome he is and how he's an amazing sharp shooter, while Matt is just some dude that used to be a coward most of the time

So they just talk about how amazing the other is and they keep talking throughout the night (until they fall asleep on one another)

In which Lance mistakes his own anxiety// depressing thoughts as the Red Lion’s mind link. Like when he’s on some sort of mission with the rest of his team, these random thoughts just pop into his head, telling him that he’s a failure, and that he should just give his new lion up.

The Blue Lion gets mad at Lance for not letting out his homesickness and his insecurities to the team, so she locks him and everyone else out with the particle barrier until Lance stops bottling all his feelings up.

The team gets upset with Lance about it and asks what he did to his lion. Lance tells them she wants him to do something that’s stupid. Allura asks him what she wants, but Lance doesn’t respond.

The team loses the ability to form Voltron for a couple days, and Lance feels like he’s even more useless than before. He either stays in the castle with Allura and Coran, trying to talk Blue out of her ‘fit’, or he joins one of the other paladins in their lion for missions. But when he has free time, he locks himself in his room.

When the team finally has enough of Blue’s fit, they order Lance to just do what she wanted. Lance starts to panic a bit, and says he can’t do it//it’s impossible and that’s it’s extremely stupid.

Blue gets annoyed, and finally decides to actually help Lance a bit by sending about fifteen or so video//audio files of Lance talking to either Blue or past missions to the castle itself.

They all go to the front of the ship, since they have no idea what the fuck the files are. So when they play the first audio recording, Lance freaks the fuck out as he realizes what it really is, and tries to go to leave, but is stopped by Allura as the files start to play, most of them about how Lance doesn’t feel like he contributes much to the team, and how he thinks he’s a burden// is weighing the team down because he doesn’t know what his special skill is,

Others are how Keith is doing so much better at everything and is everyone’s favorite paladin because he does so much for the team, or how he feels distant from the team, including Hunk, and that he feels like he’s completely ignored by all of the team, especially Allura and Shiro because they only see him as annoying and immature.

The final ones is about how homesick he is, and how lost he feels in space. He misses his family and the company of lots of people, and the love he used to feel.

When the files stop playing, the team is fucking shocked that Lance feels like that because they all thought he was over confident with himself, and Lance is just standing there with knots in his stomach, thinking the team hates him now.

It takes a moment, but eventually everyone just runs up to him and squeeze the fuck out of him with this giant group hug, and they all tell Lance they love him and that they’re sorry that they didn’t give him enough attention, and that he is an amazing paladin and he’s amazing at lots of things.