Lance is actually a bookworm HC
I donāt know it just came to me while I was thinking about what new book I should read. I didnāt mean to make this long, but here we are. Have fun my friends (damn this hiatus)Ā
His father would go work at the docks and one day he found The Little Prince at this tiny bookstore and gave it to his sonĀ
Lance was upset because he wanted an action figure, but then he sees the beautiful cover and he is convinced
His dad brings him copies of whatever books he can find in that small bookstore at the dock (Lanceās family has a restaurant nearby so a book is always coming home when there is enough money)
So he ends up reading Wuthering Heights at like age 10 and he loves it so so much
Which leads him to wanting to learn English
So he begs his dad to get him a book in English
His dad gets him a freaking astronomy book in English because they donāt have a lot of money for a real English book, but the astronomy book was for sale during Christmas. (they had to go all the way to Havana)
So Lance starts to learn English with the help of the computer labs near his house
He falls in love with the idea of being a pilot and actually studying astronomy, and when he sees that the Garrison is accepting applications, of course he applies
His parents are scared because their son is going to America (Their cousins had been a part of the āFreedom flightsā back in 1965 and of course they are petrified)
But Lance applies anyway, and when gets in, he tells his parents
What else can they do but let their son go.Ā
They donāt have enough money to afford to send him with a lot of stuff, but he takes one book
And then another (Wuthering Heights)
And he almost leaves but he goes back because he canāt leave The Little Prince
And then he just says fuck it and ends up taking ten books in this small (so incredibly small) carry on backpack and he has to leave some of his clothes because books are more important, and there are malls at the Garrison, right?
He says goodbye to his family in August and he promises to be back next summer
So fast foward to him and Hunk becoming friends and meeting Pidge while she reads Harry Potter and Lance just sits down and says, you know that Neville is using the wrong wand the whole time, right?
Pidge looks up surprised because why would flirty Lance know about Harry Potter??? How does he know about the fan theories?
After that Pidge respects Lance a lot more and whenever someone calls him stupid
Pidge will not hesitate to put the bullyās social security number on the internet
Lance and Pidge also talk a lot more about YA novels than is socially acceptable after thatĀ
Then fast forward, fast forward to the Voltron team on a mission, and landing on planet with something the resembles the space mall they once went to
BUT this one has a library and Lance disappears
Keith notices that he isnāt in the game shop like the rest of the space nerds so he starts to look for him
Then he sees him talking to some green skinned girl in the library and he instantly gets annoyed because of course he wouldnāt go there to read (or maybe its because the girl just put her hand on Lanceās chest, but you know whatever)
So Keith storms over to where they are and he abruptly stops because Lance is just plain furious
āWhat do YOU MEAN that Hamlet is better than OTHELLO?āĀ
So Keith just stand there as Lance goes into a whole explanation about how Hamlet is overrated and Macbeth and Othello are definitely just WAY better than Emo boi Hamlet.
The girl looks annoyed and she grumbles about Hamlet being the literal story of her lifeĀ
Lance laughs and says āHey everyone wants to dieāĀ and the girl smiles and gives him the book he was buying
Keith smiles because this is the most wholesome thing heās seen all day
Lance sees Keith and he blushes (embarrassed perhaps), but goes to him
They leave and Keith doesnāt say anything about it, and neither does Lance but they both know
(Keith goes back and buys him a āThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareāĀ box for his birthday)
Letās not mention the little quotes he says from books
Or the theories he makes with Pidge and Hunk and the late night talks about themĀ
Or when he and Keith start dating and the little romantic things heāll say just make Keith a blushing mess
(And the wedding vows are literally the nerdiest most eloquent thing ever written by Lance because you know he quoted Bronte, Shakespeare, and Rick Riordan) Ā Ā
You know just nerdy bookworm Lance is the bestĀ
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