#queuedest couples

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Is everyone just ignoring the fact the Pidge literally comes between Allura and Lance in this picture? Idk that just seems significant to me

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Name: Rosalina Mattea McClain

Goes by: Rosie (or Rosa with Lance’s family)

Parentage: Pidge and Lance

Age: 15

Lion: Green

The second Lion Cub, Rosie is the oldest of Lance and Pidge’s three children, as well as their only daughter. There are more characters to come, and I promise I’ll get around to starting the fic series soon! As with Alex, this lovely drawing was a commission by @twindoodle.

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Name: Alfor Akira Rex Kogane

Goes by: Alex

Parentage: Allura and Keith

Age: 16

Lion: Black

Alex is the first of a set of second-generation VLD OCs whom I refer to as the Lion Cubs, who take center stage in a series of ficus I’m planning.  I commissioned this beautiful drawing from the amazing @twindoodle.

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Some Holt headcanons

With the possible exception of Sam, I see the Holts as a very musical family. Colleen - teaches voice and piano lessons, probably played the flute or violin at some point Matt - doesn’t play any instruments but is a hardcore choir and musical theatre nerd Katie - pianist.  As in, like, a virtuoso.  I mean, we’ve all seen her type — you can’t convince me those fingers aren’t every bit as nimble on a piano keyboard as on a computer keyboard.

That said, I am now going to totally change the subject.  It’ll tie back in, I promise.

I hc Sam as being extremely into old black-and-white movies.  One of his particular favorites is Little Shop of Horrors.  It became a lowkey family favorite... and then, at some point in middle school/junior high, Matt found out it was also a musical and became OBSESSED.  As in, singing all the songs nonstop, never mind that none of them were in his voice range.  As in, convincing his kid sister who’s already something of a prodigy to learn the songs on the piano.  As in, dragging all his friends, including that one shy, brilliant, slightly dorky boy who everyone says is ‘going places’ and who he may or may not have a crush on, into Little Shop of Horrors hell.

Now, fast-forward a few years.  Katie, now known as Pidge, the Green Paladin of Voltron, is exploring the Castle of Lions and discovers a locked closet opening off the grand ballroom.  Curious, she convinces Coran to open it and finds an odd-looking but strangely familiar device with eighty-eight keys in yellow and blue — Alteans created their own version of the piano.  Pidge is ecstatic, but also a little sad because it brings back memories of good times with her whole family there.

Not too long thereafter, Katie and Matt finally, finally reunite.  Pidge shows her only slightly awestruck brother around the Castle, and they end up in the ballroom, where nobody has bothered to put the Altean piano back in the closet.  They play/sing some old favorites from musicals Matt has been in or just really likes.  Shiro, who had been letting them have some sibling alone time, hears the music and wanders in, and the moment he does, Matt’s face lights up.  Just like in the old days, he calls, “Shiro!  Do the narration!”

And Shiro sighs as if exasperated with this foolishness, though he actually loves it, and not just because his crush loves it, the way it was at first.  And Pidge hits the first chord.  And Shiro begins: “On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own...”

And before you know it, they’re all singing and laughing and together and happy for the first time in way too long.

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Okay but imagine a reality where Lance ends up with Allura, and Pidge, never having been brave enough to tell Lance how she feels, sings this song.

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Behold the Acxalotl

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A thought about Lance’s vlog

I’ve heard some people complaining about it perpetuating the “latin lover” trope.  It cannot be denied that there is an aspect of that to his personality, especially after his vlog; however, I would argue that that is not how the show’s writers want us to see Lance, but how Lance sees himself.  While it would be preferable for the trope to be excluded altogether, I am of the opinion that that is not what his character is actually meant to be in any way other than his own perception of himself.