I didn't plan on doing anything for Paper Skin on Halloween this year, but considering it came about because of last Halloween? I feel like I should do a little something. So here's a headcanon/list format of what the Paper Skin AU kiddos did for Halloween during the 'gap year' I skipped over:
(Huge credit to @thetolkiengeek for Klance Stormpilot inspiration!!)
Once again, Allura plans a [mandatory] group costume for the Village Halloween parade which she marches in every year bc Halloween is her FAVORITE American holiday.
Once again, only three of them are exempt from participating:
Hunk, because he does theme costumes with his little sisters.
Keith, because he hates attention and has legit anxiety about it.
Lance, because he's super lazy about Halloween and uses Keith as an excuse… at first.
Allura decides on Star Wars as a theme, and Lance immediately screams "I AM POE DAMERON!!" from across the room and has to deal with Keith giving him a death glare
Keith: "YOU PROMISED ME WE COULD STAY IN AND WATCH 'WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS' AND MAKE OUT"
Lance: "But… Poe Dameron! Oscar Isaac! LIP BITING!!"
Keith: "LKJFSHDKJFH I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS IS A THING? YOU CAN BITE MY LIPS!!"
Lance alleviates his anxious vampire boyfriend's fears when he shows him the post-battle Stormtrooper!Finn costume he can hide in.
He promises Keith can keep the helmet on all night and that the bloodstains on the armor can be real if he wants (and if he gets hungry).
Allura is Rey. Hands down boots.
(I didn't brew this tea, I'm just reading the leaves.)
Shiro is C-3PO after he realizes he can use it as an excuse to ask… someone… to give him a red prosthetic for the night.
(aka it's an excuse to see Adam. He misses him.)
Shiro is an hour late to the parade but it's NYC, nothing starts on time, and Allura is only a little annoyed.
After hearing about the Star Wars theme, Hunk gets the twins on board as adorable little Jedis from the cartoons
(Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee so they can play fight).
Hunk goes as Han Solo and Shay as Leia.
Coran dons a Lando costume and delivers all the famous lines with his inexplicable New Zealand accent. It's a trip.
Pidge builds a damn R2D2 costume from scratch and ignores Matt's goading.
Matt: "Just turn into a Porg, you know you're gonna be sweating to death in there."
Pidge: "JEALOUSY IS AN UGLY EMOTION, MATTHEW. BEHOLD MY GENIUS!!"
Matt is forced into Kylo Ren instead of Luke or Darth (as punishment for almost betraying Allura last year).
Shiro disappears after the march with a suspiciously familiar looking man dressed as Dr. Orpheus from the Venture Brothers…
They have a good night. :3
Pidge does get too hot, eventually abandoning her costume and shifts into a Porg on Allura's shoulder for the rest of the night.
Matt demands everyone pay him $20 even though there was no official bet.
Han!Hunk and Shay!Leia also have to depart early to get the twins home.
There's a party for the staff at Jé-Rouges which everyone else ends up at.
When the werewolves there realize Coran is The Butcher™ that has been supplying them, he literally becomes the most popular guy in the room and goes home with many phone numbers, cards, etc.
(He erroneously thinks they're all new clients and adds them to his ancient hand-written rolodex).
Keith takes the helmet off finally. He declares he's hideous, sweaty and pale and gross, so everyone needs to delete any photos of him without it on.
Lance however sees nothing but AN ANGEL and steals him away to fool around in the break room.
They return and try to play it cool until Pidge points out that Keith's armor is missing from his backside and Lance's costume has the bloodstains from Keith's rubbed off.
The end of the night is Keith, Lance, Matt, Pidge and Allura sitting around a table, playing cards and laughing and joking, trading stories and drinking (beer, blood or soda depending on the individual).
Keith finally admits maybe it was more fun than WWDITS and cuddling.
(However next year that is ALL THEY DO. They're tired after everything they've been through, damn it.)
omg I like your art that I've seen so I looked at your blog and I didn't know you were desi, that's awesome! me too!! :D i especially love how you draw shay. actually I headcanon human shay as indian like me :)
Hi!! Im Indian too!! Listen I’m joining you on the Indian Shay train. Hope you don’t mind it’s just *clenches fists* so good...
A small scene from Waters of Red and Blue featuring Keith and Shay (There’s a reason his design is different here than in the one picture I drew of him as a mer, that’ll be addressed in the story in later chapters)
Human Shay because I wanted to draw her for the longest time (I did a doodle of her with Hunk last summer then totally forgot about it)
I feel she probably would be an art student.
She would be the type of girl who were already 1 feet taller than everybody back in middle school and that mean people would want to bully because of her “manly appearence” (tall, square shoulders, muscular..) but that would never happen because Shay is adorable and have good friends and a distrustful big brother who always made sure she could smile without a worry every day ♥ I think that’s the type of childhood she would have had.
