I wanted to talk about Allura, Lance and Sven as their own respective Blue Paladins. Each Lion responds to an element, and Blue is water. I think each of them represent their own bits of it.
For reference, I am using V:LD Allura and Lance. Sven is my own basis based on this blog, which takes a bit of GoLions canon and his cameo in V:LD to kind of blend into one character.
We’ll start with Allura, who represents the calmest aspects of water in my eyes. She is reliable as an ally and unwavering. Allura remains serious and on task, often brushing off unwanted distractions from the paladins (see; Lance) with an annoyed look before going right back to her task. Training as a diplomat and as a princess have clearly stuck with her. However, there’s also an edge to her that we see come out most often when Altea or her own friends are in the line of fire, like when she first saw Romelle and heard her explain what Lotor had done. She turned against him in an instant, as she should of, and was horrified. One of her most memorable and emotional lines was when she told Lotor, “You’re more like Zarkon than I could have ever imagined.”
Next, onto Lance, who I feel is best placed as water’s fluidity, both physically and personality wise. I mean seriously, that boy can BEND. That one episode where he was ribbon dancing? He’s pretty graceful when it comes down to it. Then there’s the way he acts. Lance is very present in the moment from the first episode, not really thinking ahead. He’s the catalyst for the most important events of the episode. His orders cause the situation to fail, which allows us to see Pidge’s outburst about the Kerberos mission and establish her personal link to it, he decides he and Hunk are going to sneak out to go into town, he changes his objective to following Pidge immediately upon seeing her and is the one who decides they’re saving Shiro (keeping in mind Pidge was definitely thinking about it herself). From episode one, we see that he’s reacting second to second, moment by moment, changing as soon as the situation does. While you can argue most people do this, and you’d be right, it isn’t as quickly as Lance does. Hunk and Pidge, for example, seem to stick to one goal throughout the entire episode, with Hunk’s to try and rein Lance in (try being the key word there) and Pidge to uncover more about the Kerberos mission, alien transmissions, etc..
Finally, onto Sven. With Allura and Lance, I’ve been explaining them as water in its liquid state, but Sven I see as the icy part of it. Putting aside the fact he’s a literal Norseman, which is pretty low hanging fruit, you’ll get quite a few jokes out of him, but only once you’ve gotten to know him. I imagine he almost seemed to have his guard lowered in the episode with the comet around the V:LD Paladins because they were counterparts to his own teammates, the same reason he was so quick to throw himself in front of Lance and take a shot for him. Much like how they momentarily saw him as Shiro when they first saw his face, Sven associated them with those he was friends with previously. It’s frustrating to try to describe, but he is both stoic and like the man we see in that one episode. He’s quiet, but when he does speak, it’s usually either a joke or something he feels needs to be said. There’s not really any small talk with Sven. That’s not to say he’s uninterested in interacting with other people, he just keeps it to himself. It’s the colder, harder to reach aspects of water that Sven represents.
I’ll probably rewrite this once I’ve organized my thoughts a bit more, but for now here’s the draft. If you’re curious about my Sven muse or want to rp with me, feel free to DM. I’ll do platonic or romantic pairings, depending, with pretty much any Voltron character.
