oh, could I maybe get some headcanons of what the paladins would do together when they’re back on earth, and don’t have to fight anymore? 👀
YESSS OMG THIS IS SO PRECIOUS
☆ okay, i’m going to start this off the bat and say that S8 DIDN’T HAPPEN THE WAY IT DID FOR THIS MAN. adam is alive and well, the voltron team found him out in space after he got away from the galra and tried to attack them on his own but he was captured and eventually freed by the rebel fighters. that’s how i look at it
☆ so yes, basically you can see where i’m going with this: the two hang out together as happy boyfriends and get married and maybe adopt a couple kids along the way!! definitely!! oh, and let’s not forget the fact that they’d likely also have a dog and/or a cat as well!!
☆ okay, outside of his personal life, he probably did go back to teaching at the garrison. he decided he needed a break from flying and fighting and just went back to course instruction. he’s not necessarily retired because he’s only like...28?? i think??? but talking about astronomy and quantum physics are where he truly thrives.
☆ THIS 👏 MAN 👏 ALSO 👏 FINALLY 👏 GETS 👏 SOME 👏 GODDAMN 👏 THERAPY. i mean we’ve ALL seen how his PTSD has affected him all throughout the show, so now that the war’s over he finally has the time and energy to find a therapist and psychiatrist and get the help he definitely needs!!!
☆ he probably writes a series of blog posts or even a whole ass book about his experiences as a galra prisoner and about his adventures with voltron. honestly he kind of just wants to get his story out there for the world to see and enjoy.
☆ again, i don’t really want to go with the canon ending regarding allura’s death, because in this universe she’s alive, HOWEVER. the two of them don’t actually end up getting together but staying very close friends. but in regards to the war, it becomes obvious more every day how his experiences have affected him. he still has a playful air about him, but his bouncy and troublemaking sides are effectively gone.
☆ i do like the idea of him becoming almost like an earth mentor on planet altea and kind of like another one of allura’s royal advisors with coran? i mean of course he still travels and farms a lot on earth with his family, but he does spend a majority of the time working with the youngsters on altea.
☆ for some reason he got bored one night and decided to start messaging keith? and he responded?? and something within him made his heart absolutely bounce up and down??
☆ he was probably all like “hey man i miss you” and keith was like “yeah i’ve been thinking a lot about you as well” and, of course, with lance being lance, had to say something like “what, you don’t miss me?” and keith, embarrassed, fessed up over text, but it made his heart melt.
☆ they definitely met up somewhere at some point after this texting event and just. reconciled about old times. but of course, like i said, with lance being lance, had to just jump right in and fess up and say “i’ve missed you a lot”. he probably let out an “i like you” involuntary and keith just stared at him for a good solid three minutes before bursting out into laughter.
☆ like lance, he also finds it hard to stay on earth. his time as a voltron paladin really made him love the feeling of space travel, and his instincts keep him from sitting in one place for too long.
☆ i do like canon’s idea of having him work as a relief organizer, i think something like that is incredibly important. but i also kind of see him as like...also a traveler? someone who likes to explore on his own a lot? he’s definitely traveled farther than even planet altea, to places he’s never seen before, and even gave some new planets their own names.
☆ of course he likes to go and visit his mom and kolivan on daibazaal from time to time, but he keeps finding himself coming and going back to planet altea...and after that texting shenanigan he had with lance he just had to see him again.
☆ of course, like i said, their moment together on altea was somewhat like a first date, but shortly after keith left, he didn’t really want to stay away from lance for too long. after a few more relief missions he returned to altea and decided that he wanted to stay with lance, just for a little while.
☆ i do think that the two of them, joined by matt and pidge, did attempt to find the lions again and where they went, even attempting to enter oriande to see if they went there. their efforts however weren’t entirely successful, but keith figured that it was all right if he could stay with lance and try to move on from his memories of the black lion.
☆ this man would absolutely use this new opportunity to spread happiness through his cooking across the galactic coalition. not only would he introduce earth food to aliens who had never seen anything like it, he’d make meals that were cultural blends from different planets.
☆ he does enjoy visiting altea and daibazaal from time to time as well, not only because he has friends there but finds the food there exquisite and very fun to cook. he also offered to take his family, but they were afraid they’d slow him down since they’d had no training.
☆ he probably also teach a cooking class at the galaxy garrison and arrive as a guest speaker on specific days so he could entertain the students about his time as a student at the garrison as well as his time as a paladin of voltron. he probably also picked up a part time job, working with the holt family as a mechanic before he decided to take to the skies once again.
☆ he’s probably also joined lance during one of his guidance episodes or training on planet altea. he loves being there for the alien youth and telling his story, and he finds it especially fun if he has a friend to joke around and reminisce of old times with.
☆ he’s probably the most freeter-like of all of the paladins, besides keith. i can see him doing the most frequent space traveling of all of the paladins. he’s probably also started an intergalactic cooking show as well!
☆ she, matt, and the rest of her family continued to help the garrison advance their tech and introduced ways to infuse altean magic and earth technology together. they helped to advance the beginning of loads of new ships being built for the garrison and perhaps even for militaries worldwide.
☆ she probably sees shiro the most often out of all the paladins. she stays on earth along with him and often passes him in the hallway when they’re working at the garrison.
☆ she probably pranked her brother by building an entire miniature army of N-7′s just to see if he’d be able to pick out the original. however he got her back by hiding her laptop and moving her stuff behind her back when she was looking for it or needed it while she was building something.
☆ she probably ended up wanting to teach at the garrison, something to do with engineering or technology. she probably began as a teacher assistant to someone like shiro or adam before taking on the job herself.
☆ she and her family are usually the ones who put together the return parties and celebrations whenever her fellow paladins come back to earth. these parties usually happen once every few months, but she’s always happy to see that her friends are alive and well. they usually begin with reminiscing about their days as paladins and end with one or two (maybe three) of them drunk or high, whichever happens first.
