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Stand and fight Under the lights on the high stage

It’s the same thing all over and by now they know what’s knowing to happen. First it’s the opening ceremony; past champions stand in a circle while facing the spectators that bought tickets to the Arena tournament. Then Zarkon gives a speech, the champions greet the crowd then leave.

There's a power that's underneath And you can't see it 'til you believe On the edge of infinity

The first fight is always the same. It’s always them against Kuro. Perhaps the higher ups are quite aware of how close they are and thus why they are always pitted against one another. Perhaps they just enjoy their show of skills a bit too much.

Some root for Pidge while others for Kuro. It’s always a close battle, neither backing down and letting the other win although there still is something-- they still make sure to not mortally injure the other one.

A part of your life it can take away Just like the blood running through your veins

However this time it’s different. This is the very first match of the tournament and not only just a demonstration. Whoever wins gets to go to the second round and so on and so forth. It’s a change neither is aware until a voice booms over when the ex-paladin stops short of digging their clawed hand in the clone’s neck.

There's only two options Win or die, win or die Win or die, die, die, die, die

It’s do or die. One of them is going to live while the other has to die. They can’t leave the Arena unless one of them is killed by the other.

The Galra have it planned from the beginning and now it’s too late.

It went from a spark to an open flame Now destiny's calling out your name So ignite, so ignite

Oh, they are going to give them all a spectacle nobody will be able to forget.

And so they fight and fight. Hauntingly purple glowing arms clash as they go for one another until they end up in a stalemate; Pidge has their arm poised to strike through Kuro’s stomach while Kuro has his inches away from their face.

Golden orbs clash with honey-amber ones before they nod and exchange bittersweet smiles, going through with their plan.

I f   t h e y   h a d   t o   d i e   t h e n   s o   b e   i t.

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A pained grunt was drawn out of them when they felt something hit the back of their head. With a whirring noise the battle simulation came to a stop and gave them a chance to breath. They had been training for a while.

Since they had started they couldn’t keep their focus long enough to complete even the easiest level. Something was nagging them at the back of their mind, something they couldn’t put their finger on. Yet.

With a sinking realization they turned the simulator off altogether, choosing to relax in their room for a bit before trying again.

As Pidge made their way down the corridor, they couldn’t help, but stop by the briefing room where the commanders were discussing about the paladins.

Colour them surprised when their heart skipped a beat when they reached Lance’s segment. The Galras where analyzing Blue and the paladin’s Bayard, but all the soldier could hear was his name over and over again.

Why was it having such an effect on them? They were enemies for crying out loud!

Shaking their head they headed the rest of the way to their quarters, immediately flopping down on their bed. This was such a mess.

“Meow?”

Soft paws prodded at their head, making them look at the green three eyed and double tailed cat. A small smile tilted their lips upwards as they nuzzled her.

“Hey, Chess.” Pidge sighed, burying their face in her fur. “I think- I’m in love, Chess. Can you believe it?”

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Send a Song: Keep Me Breathing by Ashes Remain

Send me a song and I will write a drabble, headcanon, or AU/Verse inspired by it!Song here Borrowing @blackpaladinshadow , hope ya don’t mind B3

It was the night of the tournament. As always, Pidge and Kuro were thrown against one another as to demonstrate what was expected of the ones participating in it. The two hated each other’s guts as much as the Galras were concerned, but the fighting duo knew better. They had to put on a good show otherwise there were going to be consequences.

The battle was nothing short of amazing. The two were almost perfectly parrying and countering their hits, neither of them backing down or slowing down. It was one of the few times they could have fun without worrying about anything.

We get upWe get knocked downWe get lost behind the crowdLooking for a new way outIt’s hard to stand but we won’t bow tonightWe won’t bow tonight

Everything was going well until Kuro seemed to miscalculate his steps and missed Pidge completely. The landing looked painful if the red scratches on his face and the way he was now holding himself were any hints about it. But they couldn’t stop. They had to keep fighting lest things went even more downhill. They couldn’t slow down.

After the match was done the ex-paladin ran along the Druids taking Kuro back. They refused to leave his side, hissing and screaming at the others to fix him until they felt their voice leave them, only a dull pain in their throat remaining as proof of their yells.

My mind’s a loaded gunNo one can hear me screamingAnother night that comes undoneYou’re the one that keeps me breathingKeep me breathingWon’t you keep me breathing

“You better recover, you hear me! You better recover, goddammit! … you can’t leave me!”

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[ I’ve been talking about game AUs (Portal 2 and Deus Ex) so this time I’m gonna talk about AUs that are definitely gonna be part of this blog and not something that I made up bc I was inspired. Under a read more bc I rambled as usual.

v: stone cold commander

Following the events of this thread, in this verse Sendak is dead which leaves Pidge in control of training the new recruits just as Sendak trained them. The death of the commander affected them deeply (after all he referred to them as his son and he was the closest they had to family besides Matt) as seen by the way they become even colder and work focused. Trying to talk to them rarely receives more of a grunt in response unless they are feeling good for some reason that particular day.

They were already hard on themselves about training, but now it’s even worse. The poor souls who end up under their command don’t have it easy, but they do end up among the best soldiers of the Galra Empire’s fleet once they are done w/ them.

v: shadow of an once great warrior

What if somebody did manage to bring them back on Voltron’s side? Pidge is shaken, quiet and jumpy. Stripped of their Galra tech on which they had been relying, they feel weak and powerless.

A thousand questions run through their mind. What will happen to Matt now? Were they going to punish him for their betrayal? Were they going to send him to retrieve them from the Castle of Lions?

Suffice to say Pidge avoids Shiro like the plague and is wary of the others.

Feel free to bug any of them! Just specify the verse you are asking otherwise I’m gonna assume it’s mainverse! ]

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[ I have no excuse for this other than the fact that I love the Portal games. :’) Also, listen to this while reading. You won’t regret it, I assure you.

This is mostly Portal 2 bc I can’t remember a damn thing from the first game.

This is a mess of ideas and what ifs so take it as you want. I’d love to discuss this w/ people tho!

Contains spoilers so read at your own discretion!

Anybody who has played through Portal 2 or at least watched a playthrough on YouTube, must be aware that there are at least two portal guns (one which Chell/P-bot use and one which Atlas uses) which allows for at least a duo to complete the test chamber.

This at first made me think of throwing Lance and Keith together in. I assure you that these two won’t move past the first test chamber for at least 20ish minutes bc they keep bickering about God knows what.

On the other hand Shiro and Pidge would be a cute choice as well. Have Pidge solve the harder puzzles and Shiro help them reach places they can’t bc they are so short or just generally looking after them.

Or even Matt and Pidge for some siblings action. Just imagine them pacing about the test chambers and figuring stuff out in record time.

I think that Matt would be out of the question tho. Like, stick him in as GLaDOS bc it fits the whole thing w/ ‘you killed me!’ w/ the fact that Shiro left him on the Galra ship in canon (this means that the team is consisted of Pidge and Shiro) so Matt would have a reason to take revenge and torture them like that.

Or maybe even have Allura as GLaDOS? The whole being asleep for years and years thingy could work bc GLaDOS herself has been asleep for years after her destruction in the first game.

I’m also thinking of Wheatly and the Cores and... I’m thinking of Pidge as the Fact Core, Hunk as the Space Core and Lance as the Adventure Core. This leaves us w/ Shiro and Keith as the humans/the ones testing the chambers. Who’d be Wheatly tho? Could be Kuro trying to pose as Shiro. Hmm...

Thinking about it, having Matt as GLaDOS makes the part where she becomes a potato basically all the more bittersweet bc then Shiro has to carry him around like that. Imagine how many times Matt must have yelled at Shiro things like ‘YOU MADE ME THIS WAY!’ and ‘KILL THAT BIRD ALREADY, OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!’. Fun times. 

In short:

The human team: Shiro & Keith

Wheatly: Kuro

The Space Cores: Pidge (Fact Core), Hunk (Space Core) & Lance (Adventure Core)

GLaDOS: Matt

Oh man, this is such a mess of an AU, but I already love it.  ]

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[ Verse making is going to be the end of me. Does that mean that I will stop? Hell no.

Okay, but. A Deus Ex verse. It’s all set in the modern times, a few hundred years in the future when technology has become such a big part of everybody’s lives that it’s pretty much impossible to live w/o it.

To be noted that I’ve played two hours of Deus Ex: Human revolution and watched Tear play Mankind Divided so while I have ideas and such I’m not exactly sure of the details. May contain spoilers.

The squad starts out as a small team operating from somewhere in the city. It’s nothing big, just hacking, stealing information and anything that seems useful for them.

Shiro as Adam Jensen; he already is modified in the canon so it seemed the best choice Pidge as the hacker who gets all the needed information for Shiro Hunk as the one who knows everything about augmentation and fixes Shiro up Keith accompanies Shiro on his missions every now and then Lance is the one who always cheers the team up after especially hard missions, his humour seems to be endless; he’s also a weapons experts and takes care of Shiro’s guns

And it’s going fine and dandy for the first few years, but things get harder and more dangerous. Shiro and Keith return w/ worse wounds every time, Pidge finds it increasingly difficult to hack into computers, Hunk’s running low on materials to patch Shiro up w/, Lance runs out of ammo and ways of acquiring it.

It reaches a point where they can’t risk going out anymore and so they disappear. Something a la The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse between the Now You See Me and Now You See Me 2 movies.

Of course that later on they come together again, reform the team for old time’s sake, but w/ a new addition: Matt, Pidge’s brother. He’s stealthy and downright deadly w/ just a dagger and the element of surprise.

Did I say for old time’s sake? Oops, nope. They are all being hunted down as is anybody else w/ (very) advanced augmentations. They are not safe on their own anymore.

They can do so much until it becomes impossible to continue on. That is the moment when Kuro, the owner of the equivalent of Sarif Industries before it went downhill, approaches them one day. He wants the team to work for him in exchange of protecting them from the authorities.

W/ no other choice they accept it. It’s better than to be forever on the run. ]

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“What if” + What if Will and Eta had never run away from the Labs?

Send me “What if” + a prompt and I’ll write a drabble based off of it.

Yawning could be heard from the duo followed by groaning and the sound of pen scribbling on paper. They had been working late into the night for the past few days and were in dire need of a break, but of course that the scientists were having none of it.

“Theeetaaa... I can feel my eyes closing, I can’t stay awake anymore.”

The whine was met with a grunt followed by yet another yawn. Theta sighed, flipped the page in the clipboard over and resumed writing things down.

“The coffee machine is still functional, Eta. Grab my card if you don’t have anymore credits on yours and buy yourself one.”

More grumbling followed although Eta did leave to grab the coffee, returning with two cups instead of only one.

“Do you think they are going to let us rest once we are done with this thing?” The blond asked, handing one of the cups to the other one. “We’ve been working on this for months now.”

“I hope so otherwise we are going to collapse and pass out. I don’t fancy any of that.”

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Flashback with Parv?

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Parv. Alex Parvis.

Will had heard this name enough times to know that this guy was somebody important; at least in regards to his own condition and whatever plans Xephos had for him.

There weren’t many moments in which he was allowed to leave the laboratories he was allowed to wander in and work, but when he did have these small moments he almost always went in search of him.

They hadn’t spoken much, barely meeting each other for five minutes for a quick hello and nothing more.

Xephos mentioned the man’s name a few times when he was rambling about Notch knew what; something along the lines of an assistant? But why?

William never found out, that was for sure. He made a break for it, escaped the cursed Labs before the madman who created him could put his plan in action.