#psychalchemist

I firmly believe Hunk would be terrified beforehand and sleepy afterwards. He’d be hard to wake and hard to convince to move, because his body feels like it’s not moving the way it should, it all feels kind of disconnected. A few days later, he’d probably be grumpy as hell, because his face hurts and he doesn’t like the gauze in his mouth and he hates that he’s talking a little weird because of the gauze, but he’d be easy to please by Lance and Pidge putting on a movie and Lance dramatically draping himself across Hunk’s lap.

Lance would be the kind of person that gets all existential. Lots of “Why are we here” and “Who am I” questions. He would want smoothies. Lots of smoothies. Too many smoothies, Lance. Please chill. He’d be whiny, because his face hurts and his jaw feels weird and it’s giving him a headache. He’d be clingy and super dramatic about it, and probably push one of the others into losing their minds entirely.

Pidge is the kind of person that you’d say something to her and IMMEDIATELY she’d try to prove you wrong. Even if you were right. Even if what you said made no sense. Even if the words she’s saying and the theories she’s quoting are barely even English. Even if you’d just commented on how blue the sky looked and she’d gone off about the distance between Earth and Mars and how long it would take to get there, along with gravitational factors and God only knows what else, because even the Castle’s translator can’t handle that. And then a few days later, she’d be dead to the world. Just asleep. Only waking up for jello.

Keith hides. He nearly makes it out of getting them out, just by stalling long enough that he thinks he’ll miss the appointment, but Shiro and Pidge team up and get him out of his hiding spot. Afterwards, he’s, as always, 100% down to fight everyone. He’s barely standing straight, so they don’t take his threats seriously. Yes, Keith, we know you could kick the ass of every single surgeon in this room, but that’s illegal and you’re drugged, so how about we not do that, yeah? And then he gets quiet. He’s quiet and broody. And irritated. He is offended by the existence of jello. Pudding, though, that’s more his speed.

Well. I mean Animorphs takes place in the 90s, and as far as I’m aware Voltron (at least the current one) takes place in the future. BUT, just for argument’s sake, let’s say our favorite nerd paladins were around the same time as the Animorph kids. There’s a high chance Ax and the Andalites would have heard of Voltron before, probably in the same way Ax knew of the Ellimist: a deity, a campfire story told to children. And, much like the Ellimist, it would prove to be real.

(Sidenote: this has probably happened to Ax more than once and he probably hates it.)

I’d say the Andalites and the Alteans probably wouldn’t get along all that. Mostly because of how goddamn pretentious the Andalites are and come on, they wouldn’t stand for the ‘tech’ that goes into Voltron being kept a secret. I’d bet good money that Visser Three has definitely tried in the past to acquire the DNA of the lions, or maybe King Alfor. MAN, I bet he would have been a huge target of the Yeerks’. Probably Allura and Coran, too. If the Yeerks didn’t have some Controllers in the Altean Empire I’d be surprised. They’re sneaky asshole slugs, those Yeerks.

That said, after Allura and Coran’s 10,000 year sleep, if they had prior knowledge to the Yeerks’ plans, they’d probably try to catch up on that. Let’s be honest, Pidge probably picked up some Yeerk chatter on her scanner and went, ‘I KNEW IT.’ She’d mention it and Allura and Coran would go, ‘WAIT STOP WHAT.’

Cue the Paladins, freaking out because hello that’s our planet we were being invaded and we didn’t even know it (Keith and Pidge in the background: ‘WE TOTALLY CALLED IT’). Shiro’s heard rumors that he barely remembers - the Yeerks and the Galra do not get along, it’s nothing personal, it’s just a thing that happens when you’re two different evil empires trying to rule the universe. So there were Yeerk prisoners on the Galra ships - you could always tell who was a Controller, because they went through Kandrona starvation and then, usually, their host once they’re free just shuts down. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, you know. There’s probably Galra Controllers, though probably not many.

Now, imagine the many effed up things we know about the universe in Animorphs. The fate of the Pemalites and the Chee, the Hork-Bajir, the worlds that we probably don’t even know about, because the Animorphs universe and Voltron universe have several things in common but my favorite is that there’s so much we don’t know, so much world-building in there that we as fans can just run away with.

God, I love sci-fi.

But also? Imagine Pidge finding Matt and Commander Holt. Now imagine they’re Controllers. Imagine Shiro finding out that he can’t remember what happened to Matt because shortly after the last time he saw him, he’d been taken in a Yeerk raid and made a Controller. Imagine Lance and Hunk both worrying about their families, because how do they know that their families aren’t Controllers? How do they know their lives are actually untouched by this?

Slightly happier imagines: Imagine Pidge and Hunk being incredibly excited by the idea of morphing tech and Z-space and all of the tech that the Andalites and Yeerks have created throughout the years. Lance would love to have morphing abilities, he’d totally want to be a dolphin or what if he was a lion just like Blue how awesome would that be?

When they finally get back to Earth, they hear about the Animorphs and the Yeerks hear about them, and I want to see Lance and Marco in the same room. Allura and Coran would be thrilled to see that Pemalites’ spirits live on in dogs, the Yeerks would be furious that Voltron is still a thing and those damn Paladins bringing the Galra with them, they’re not invited to this party, they can’t sit with us, go away. Hunk would love the Hork-Bajir colony. He’d love them. He’d become best friends with them. I still want to see Lance and Marco go head to head. Marco can turn into a gorilla, but Lance has a giant lion. And they both have the same horrible sense of humor. Seriously I want this so bad.

There’s no way I’d bet against that. I’d lose. I’d cry immediately. Too late, I’m already crying.

But yeah no we’re all going to cry it’s inevitable.