#lance character study

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Color Study: Lance McClain

So, in my everyday life I’ve seen a lot of colors. Yes, riveting content, I know, but there’s a point to this. Anyway, colors mean many things, ranging from emotion to stability to what people think when they see them. Different colors are associated with different emotions, and different emotions are associated with different colors. The two go hand in hand. 

Colors can also be used to paint an accurate description of a character. Have you ever wondered why Superman’s color scheme is so eye bleeding? Well, look no further! His color scheme was specifically designed to be that way to paint a description of his character. But, since he’s not the focus of this post, we’ll just glide past him. 

So, since colors mean things and I’m at a roadblock right now with writing, I’ve decided to do a little color study on Lance McClain from Voltron. Let’s see how close his color scheme can get to his actual, canon character, shall we?

So, right off the bat, we can see he’s heavy on the blue. He’s got blue jeans, blue accents, blue eyes, and his paladin suit is- you guessed it, Blue. Of course, this is because he’s the Blue paladin, but for the sake of this we’ll ignore that for a moment. 

Let’s start with Lance’s jacket. The hood is white. White is associated with goodness, innocence, purity, and perfection. It has a positive atmosphere and can be associated with faith and hope. So, we can glean that Lance is a good, faithful person who has a positive atmosphere. 

Lance’s jacket is mainly an olive green. Olive green is the traditional color of peace. Therefore, Lance is a person who hopes for peace. 

Lance’s jacket also has grey accents on it. Grey is known to be a neutral color, symbolizing quiet, reserved, and subdued. It is associated with depression. But this doesn’t seem like Lance, right? Well, remember the episode Beta Traz, from season 2? In one of the scenes, we are given a sneak peak into Lance’s deeper thoughts, ones that revolve around his worth to the team. These emotions are almost never seen outside of that one scene (except when Shiro praises him), which shows that he is keeping these emotions to himself. Grey is also associated with RESERVED FEELINGS, AKA EMOTIONS PEOPLE KEEP TO THEMSELVES. 

His shirt and shoes are also grey, which leads us to realize that while Lance is a hopeful, faithful person, he has some emotions he’d rather keep to himself. 

Finally, his jacket has orange accents on the sleeves. Orange is a color combination, which combines the energy of red with the happiness of yellow. Orange is associated with enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, and determination. Therefore, we can glean that Lance is a creative, energetic, enthusiastic person who can borderline on comical. However, he is still quite determined. 

(And while this technically isn’t one of his clothing colors, Lance’s hair is brown. Brown is associated with stability, but it ‘denotes masculinity’. This shows that Lance is more in tune with the so called ‘feminine side’ of life.) 

Finally, we get to the blue. Lance’s eyes are blue. Lance’s jeans are blue. His shirt and shoes have blue accents. His paladin suit is blue. Blue is associated with depth, and stability, as well as trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, and faith. It can also mean calmness, sincerity, and consciousness. This shows that Lance is a very stable person, loyal and trustful, confident and sincere. 

Technically, his paladin suit is a lighter blue, which is associated with health, healing, tranquility, understanding, and softness. So Lance is a soft boy. 

SO, to conclude, let’s recap. From what we have discerned from his color palette, Lance is a good person, faithful and enthusiastic. He is trustful and loyal, confident and sincere, but is also deeper than most people give him credit for. While he is silly and comical at times, he has more reserved emotions that he keeps close to his heart, while he wears his more outgoing (and friendly) characteristics ‘on his sleeve’ (lmao, jacket joke). He’s more in touch with his feminine side than others, but is also balanced by blue, which is known to be a more masculine color. 

All in all, he’s a well rounded, comical character with a deeper side that most people overlook. 

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So, did I get his character right? While I’ve already watched Voltron, I tried to put my knowledge of his character behind me and draw a conclusion blind. So, please leave a note or something to tell me if I got it right. 

This was actually really fun, and I’d like to do it again. If you would be so kind, please leave a note if you’d like me to do it again. I might regardless, but it’s always good to get some opinions first. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this! :D

-DappledPetals 

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: No Romantic Relationship(s), minor lance/OC, Lance & Voltron Paladins, Lance/angst Characters: Lance (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Coran (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Allura (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Keith (Voltron) Additional Tags: Self-Harm, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Depression, Langst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, not so much hurt/comfort tbh, Homesick Lance (Voltron), a planet i made up named vitalez made up of pretty ladies, Insecure Lance (Voltron), Character Study, Bisexual Lance (Voltron), Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Mental Anguish, voltron took over my life so of course i wanted to cause Lance pain, Ambiguous/Open Ending, ambiguous but inferred as a happy ending, dont judge me my smol child is fucked up, only a little tho, hes too precious for this world, Canon Compliant Summary:

The first time Lance had ever picked up a razor and put it to his own skin with mal-intentions, he’d been thirteen.

(or, Lance struggles with cutting as a coping mechanism, and he wonders if he'll ever be strong enough to go without it) A Lance character study