Title: Marvelous
Fandom: “Voltron: Legendary Defender”
Summary: Shiro screws up a fairly simple task, and it falls to Allura to cover for his mistake in front of some new potential allies.
Ships: Shallura
Warnings: N/A
Author’s Notes: Day 1 of Shallura Holiday Month 2017! The prompt was "Princess/Arurahime," so I decided to have Allura be as princess-ly as possible!
Oh, and this is more like an anthology series. There's not a continuous story through all of them, like I did with Shalluraweek this year; I'm just putting them in a series to keep them all together for my own personal organizational happiness.
Teaser below the cut
(2,161 words - on AO3)
Coran had gone over the princess’s required formal introduction about a dozen times, and they’d even practiced it to get their spots exactly right. The paladins took up positions near the staircase, with Shiro standing in the center. You could draw a semi-circle from one of them to the next, and they faced the crowd initially, standing as the royal guard they were expected to be (and, in effect, were).
Coran announced, loud and proud and full of pomp, “Princess Allura of Altea.” Shiro counted the ticks; she was supposed to come out and stand at the top of the stairs. He had to wait until she was in place, and they’d timed this during practice. …three… four… five. The paladins turned with proper martial precision to face the princess and drop to their knees – the sign that everyone else here should do likewise.
...starts TOMORROW and Illidan is right: I am not prepared.
I’m working on catching up!! I want to try to write something for every day if I can, but that’s already looking like it won’t happen.
Some days (like tomorrow) will have proper fics; some days will just have thought pieces. But, if nothing else, I have quite a few Shallura goodies to share with you all in December.
