Voltron au where Lance dies in few skirmishes with the Galra/Haggar/Lotor, Is revived by another radical magical group but only colder, edgier and filled with vengeance full Jason Todd style
Yooooo! Anon I freaking love this idea so much. Like you have no idea how much I had to restrain myself from answering this at work. Not to mention the fact that I am skipping proof reading/fixing my Halloween fic to reply to this. (While also not trying to turn this into a fic...because this needs to be a fic...and let's all not be surprised when I like write it this weekend) Anyway...here we go...
Part of me does kind of want it to be an au where Lance dies from the explosion in the Castle. (Because feels) But, I like the idea of it being more sort of like Jason Todd's death (cause that is more feels).
Meaning at somepoint Lance got separated and captured by the Galra on a mission to free a planet. And for the hell of it, let's make it be Sendak, because well if anyone other Shiro deserved to kill Sendak it is Lance. (Literally every time the Paladins fought him, Lance basically almost died/actually died. So yeah!) So Lance is captured and beaten to an inch of his life. The whole time it is happening, the Paladins are desperately trying to find and save him. But Sendak kills him in an explosion, just before they get to him. Which honestly messes everyone up emotionally for a while.
(To add to the feels of everyones guilt and loss, when Allura becomes the Blue Paladin shortly after, she her armor has a stirpe of blue to honor Lance. And the others each make a something to wear to honor him as well.)
The people of the planet they were on, convince the Paladins to bury Lance there. The Paladins don't want to, but fear offending the people of the planet. So they have the funeral, see Lance buried, and then leave.
Only completely unknown to them Lance is never really buried. Rather taken by the planet people, who are totally like a radical sect of the planets culture. And they bring Lance back completely from the dead. Planning to use him as a weapon to take down the Galra so they can raise to power.
At first Lance is complete erratic, hostile, and all over the place, once he is returned to life. Making him somewhat hard for the aliens to control and they have to do like a ritual to reconnect his soul and body again to calm him the hell down. He doesn't really have memories of his life, or much of a mind. He slowly gets it back after the ritual, and the aliens work in their influences, to turn Lance against Voltron and basically everyone but them. But even then Lance never came back completely sane anyway. It doesn't in the end totally work out in their favor, because Lance ends up killing then all brutally when he realizes their game plan is to take over the Galra basically. Making them no better than the Galra in his mind.
From there he goes out on his own.
For a while he is not too much of in issue. He takes on the Galra, and he shows no mercy, but Lance is just sort of acquiring stuff. Like weapons and a good suit. Sort of figuring out a persona to be, and figuring out what everyone (Galra and Voltron) is doing. (He does not take the realization that he has been replaced by Allura very well, despite figuring it was a logical move...and it doesn't get better when he finds out it was almost immediate). But once that is done, Lance goes.
He goes after like everyone. And he is this mysterious nightmare for the Galra and Voltron. He is just chaos. Able to take down Galra ships by himself, and he doesn't really show mercy (well he does, but like only to like prisoners). But at the time he keeps the Galra ships and is creating like a mini fleet, and he's over run tactical spying bases of both the rebels and the Blades. So no one knows whose side he is on.
(For the most part for Lance is just trying to get to Sendak to kill him. But he wants to do it in front of Voltron. His side is his side.)
The first time the Paladins rerun into Lance, they have no clue who he is. He's just a figure in a dark suit, blue helmet, and a ton of hidden weapons. He also totally screws up their mission majorly on the planet. They run into him a few mores after that. Sometimes he screws them over, other times he helps (because he actually doesn't want to hurt the Paladins) and its really confusing for everyone. Because he has this uncaring cold nature, but he'll also be rather familiar with them, knows how they move in a fight.
But then the next time Lance runs into the Paladins, Blue Lion is there. And Blue immediately recognizes her dead/revived Paladin, which completely freaks her out. (Because that's what happened with Zarakon..., which in turn also freaks out Black Lion with the similarities) Of course Allura picks up on it, and realizes Blue is really scared of the figure, but she doesn't know why. While the others can feel their lions getting very very uneasy about something, and demanding they flee and they share little.
At somepoint, I imagine Lance sneaking onto the Castleship. The lions alert everyone to his presence. And its then were Lance's identity is confronted more. Not revealed but confronted. Mostly because mentally he kind of snapped a bit, so he goes in kind of unstable. So Lance reveals more than he planned to. But it is Allura who asks him who he is and why Blue is scared if him, point blank when he fights her. He only answers her by attacking her, before he flees.
From there the Paladins focus more on investing who he is. All of them have this irking feeling it's Lance, based on stuff he said, and none of them like it. But they eventually discovered the plot the aliens had, and set out to just get Lance back.
At that point though, Lance has gone straight for Sendak and captured him. With a plan to lure Voltron to witness it, as well as to reveal himself to them.
But stuff doesn't go to plan. Because the Paladins try to talk him out of killing Sendak point blank. And just to come back with them so they could fix thing. While at the same time Sendak is egging Lance on, which is making Lance sort of unstable. And in the end Sendak manages to escape and so does Lance.
But eventually he would come around.
Also, can I say, I picture Lance wielding two pistol weapons as his go to. And he had like twelve knifes on him. I MEAN COME ON!!!
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