Lotige Soulmate AU idea pt 1
Lotor’s original soulmate or at least the first time he found his soulmate was with the leader of the planet he was sent to conquer. (We’ll call her Orianna) Upon their first meeting, both of their cheek marks begin to glow symbolizing they are soulmates by Altean standards. Orianna is very confused by this phenomenon, Lotor keeping the meaning to himself and assures her that he will explain later. This amazing discovery further pushes his agenda to create a meaningful and sustainable alliance Orianna and her people. He spends as much time as he can with Orianna, discovering how brilliant she truly is, due to her intelligence she was able to help her people thrive and create advancements that many could never imagine given the limited resources she had to work with and couldn’t previously gain any help from other species or planets due to Galra Empires restrictions. Orianna never viewing those limitations as a blockade for her inventing but as a challenge to her creativity. That moment starts the first spark of his love for Orianna. To Lotor’s pleasant surprise even Kova takes a quick liking to Orianna, Kova at this point being the only other living being Lotor’s ever had an emotional connection to. Lotor works side by side with Orianna, to figure out ways to harvest quintessence at the same rate it replenishes even finding ways to produce more quintessence. All while he gradually learns her people’s customs and ways, being very respectful to her people and always treats her as an equal. Slowly Orianna finds herself falling for Lotor, but as a leader, she feels confessing her feelings wouldn’t be proper and kept them to herself. She’s also smart enough to figure out that the way their marks sometimes glow when they share a tender moment, or the spark of inspiration strikes them both. Mean something bigger, is a symbol of a grander connection that binds her and Lotor. Even though the stubborn prince has never elaborated on the glow’s meaning, she trusts that he has his reasons and leaves it at that. Lotor doing so fearful of what his father may do if he discovers that he has a soulmate as it’s an Altean. In slight retaliation, Orianna starts calling him Atem when they are alone, which means beloved in a more ancient form of her peoples’ language. So whenever Lotor tries to ask the meaning of the nickname she just tells him she’ll explain it to him another time much in the same way he replies when she asks about their glowing marks. During the night before Emperor Zarkon’s arrival, Orianna deep down knows things won’t end well, not even close to how Lotor hopes or imagines it will go. So Orianna makes Lotor promise that no matter what happens with Emperor Zarkon that he will not blame himself. He tries to assure her nothing will happen, calling her Ammi which is a female word for beloved to her people. This causing Orianna to become flustered, and questions how he learned that word. Lotor smirks at her and simply says he asked around, and assures her that he is honored to be her Atem. Caressing her cheek, Orianna leaning into his touch before the couple unknowingly shares their first and last kiss together. The next day Emperor Zarkon and Haggar arrive, things went even worst than Orianna had originally feared. So when Lotor is knocked out, Orianna forgets her place and rushes to Lotor’s side, both their cheek marks glowing as she feels his pain. Zarkon sees her mark and is furious, as Haggar gasps about the girl being Prince Lotor’s soulmate. Orianna only discovering what the glowing marks mean moments before Zarkon strikes her down. Zarkon ordering the destruction of the entire planet to assure Lotor’s soulmate can never reincarnate. When Lotor wakes up to the site and horror of his soulmates planet in absolute ruins. Zarkon tells Lotor that a soulmate would have only made him weaker, leaving no doubt as to the reason why Lotor’s father destroyed his beloved and her world. Lotor tries to retaliate anger and grief fulling his actions, but Zarkon stops him with ease before ordering his banishment. Lotor spends his banishment training and planing, for he will get revenge on Zarkon for taking his soulmate’s life, and find a way to build an empire in which he once imagined him and Orianna ruling, one that she would be proud of to honour her soul and memory. Thousands of years past and Pidge (or I should say Katie) is born with Orianna’s soul. And I will continue this in Part Two cause this is long enough as it is.
