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Shotor Week Day 7: Hero/Villain

Inktober 2018! Day 1: Poisonous

I need y’all to imagine Lotor as this post.

(This is an edited form of a conversation I had in the Lotor discord. Most of the commentary was by @myhyperfixations and @la-regina-scrive.)

Pidge is the smallest and I have a weakness for that friendship so like... Lotor just getting into a Mood, and aggressively cuddling her and refusing to let her be hurt by anyone.

Confusion abounds.

He's sitting cross-legged on the ground, Pidge in his lap, hands folded together on top of her head and glaring at anyone who comes nearby.

Pidge's eyes are wide, she still hasn't fixed her glasses, her position is getting awkward because she's been too confused since ending up in this situation to MOVE.

IDK what triggers this situation but we could just go the usual route and say it's some weird Galra mating cycle. I think PMS makes some IRL folk extra maternal? So... when in doubt, aliens.

The vibe is very “This is my child now, I’m their parent.” He kinda just glares at everyone that comes by, probably just playing out on the castleship.

The paladins gather round and like... try to figure out what's going on? Without causing a scene? At first it’s because they're worried Pidge might get hurt and then because they're just too damn confused.

Matt shows up and just "Uh... can I have my little sister back?"

Lotor: [hissing noise] Matt: I'll take that as a no. Pidge: I need to go to the bathroom, this is really awkward, GUYS.

(She is mildly surprised that Lotor doesn't try to escort her there.)

(He kind of wanders off.)

(And then languishes in Kaltenecker's room for a while?)

(Everyone is still really confused.)

It’s possible that Lotor is just as confused as they are. He hasn’t exactly had a lot of Small And Cuddly friends.

Unless.

HE DID THIS ON THE ALTEAN COLONY.

“Oh, you have... small Alteans."

"Yes, we had some children a few decafoebs back!"

[three days later]

"Should we--"

"Maybe just watch? It's Lotor, we can trust him, right? They'll be okay."

"He hissed at--"

"I know. I know."

(The boy be hissy.)

"Lotor's throwing a hissy fit," has an entirely different meaning than for anyone else. Just... for the record. He just straight-up actually hisses at people like an angry house cat.

When Pidge is unavailable, the nearest Smol Paladin fills the space.

(At one point, much later, someone mentions this to the Gals.)

("Yeah," Zethrid says. "He used to do that to Acxa and Ezor. Then we just started giving him Kova.")

(Zethrid does not mention that she has done this to every single one of her teammates herself, including Lotor.)

(Narti just sits nearby when Lotor gets Kova. Sometimes Kova and Lotor hiss at people simultaneously, and she is the lone exception.)

At some point...

Krolia: Has anyone seen my son? Lance: Yeah, so, Lotor's having a hissy fit and we threw Keith at him. Give it a few hours. Krolia: He's... what? Lance: Keith is getting cuddles, that's all you need to-- Krolia: EXPLAIN USING REAL WORDS

Just imagine Keith sitting in Lotor’s lap with his arms crossed, looking like he’s gonna murder someone as soon as this is over. You're the egg now, Keith.

Lotor in a mood will grab anyone developmentally younger than him and small enough to cuddle and just be like This Is My Child for a few hoursThe only ones that get out of it are Coran (old), Shiro/Kuron (good at escaping and also Adult Enough To Not Count), Allura (trips the wrong switches), and mostly Matt (he's never there).

Matt still gets caught once, though.

I was going to say that Hunk gets out of it because he's too big to cuddle like a child, but like... Lotor's, what, seven feet tall? Eight? Lotor doesn't give a shit, Hunk gets cuddles.

Of course, any mating cycle in fiction is bound to have a porny side and that's where Kuron comes in and that's not going to involve anyone getting the You Are Now My Child cuddles.

Like... eventually, when Lotor gets hissy, instead of throwing the next person in line at him (no way, Pidge, I did it last time, it’s your turn), they just tell Ryou to take care of his purple space-cat of a boyfriend.

Three days of Lotor cuddling the nearest not-quite-adult and then he and Ryou just disappear for a day.

You may be thinking that this means that Galra fathers are supposed to to be protective and affectionate and making yourself sad.

BUT

WE'RE GOING TO IGNORE ALL ZARKON-RELATED INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS HEADCANON

MIGHT I INSTEAD INTREST YOU IN VARIOUS BLADES, INCLUDING KOLIVAN, CUDDLING KEITH ON THEIR CYCLE DAYS SINCE HE'S PHYSICALLY HUMAN IN APPEARANCE AND THUS FUN-SIZED BY GALRA STANDARDS.

Imagine Kolivan and the other Blades cuddling the shit out of Keith. Imagine one of them doing it to LOTOR.

If Zarkon won't cuddle Lotor, then all the new friends will.

Someone in the Lotor discord brought up Dayak, and... I personally do not believe Dayak has a cuddly bone in her body. I mean, I suppose she MIGHT have, at one point.

But she's pretty much the peak example of "Galra will stamp out any and all weaknesses, even if they're natural, through childhood pain,” so I imagine she might have trained herself out of it?

Whereas Lotor's biggest issue is that he was rarely around children enough to actually feel the brooding urge, so he never actually had the CHANCE to train himself out of that one.

KuronWeek Day7: AUday

An AU where Kuron/Ryou and Shiro are twins. Both have the same disease (the canon disease of Shiro) but Shiro gets the chance to cure at Hispital Altea (the most prestigious in the country). Ryou isn’t so lucky and, to recover, in the end he has to go into an experiment of the Galran Pharmaceutical Corp. There he meets Lotor, a patient for life and son of the owners, and they fall in love beetween tests and hospital rooms.

Given our recent conversation, and your own previous soulmate AU in the Voltron Universe, I realized that this would be a cool thing to prompt you with for some headcanons: in the context of the soulmate AU that you developed for Love and Other Questions, how would the Clone Theory factor in, especially with the context of the ship that we were discussing?

‘‘‘Headcanons’‘‘

Right.

This has grown entirely out of hand and it’s all your fault. *flings self into the sun*

Chapter one is up now. No promises on when the other two (?) chapters will happen, but they’re for sure coming.

Broken Souls

Words: 5929 Ships: Ryou/Lotor, Ryou & Lance, Lotor & Acxa. (Background Shatt, Klance, Keith & Shiro, Keith & Pidge, Lance & everyone) Rating: T (language and canon-typical violence) Warnings: Dissociation (including depersonalization and derealization), existential crises, non-graphic panic attacks

Summary: When Shiro escapes the Galra for the second time, everything is wrong. His bonds with Matt and Keith no longer work, and the new bonds that develop only drive a wedge into the team. He begins to wonder if he's broken, or if he even exists at all.

A spiritual sequel to Love and Other Questions that picks up in the middle of season 3 with Kuron/Ryou's introduction. Ryou- and Lotor-centric. A series of snapshots covering seasons 3-5 and beyond.

Excerpt:

Shiro's stomach turns as he looks back at the weeping wound on his leg, and he hesitates again, knowing this will probably all be for nothing in the end. He'll just die of infection instead of blood loss, and Keith will feel it all the while.

But he has to take the chance. Keith will understand.

With one last breath to steel himself, Shiro presses his hand to the wound, his screams echoing back to him through the night.

Shotor Week Day 5: Nightmares

Shotor Week Day 6: Trust/Betrayal

"Was any of it even real?"