Multi-Reality AU: Rosa
WELL, I wanted to re-draw these kids forever (I know, I haven't even finished the original ones, but whatever)! I'll probably delete the old ones, as these are the most up-to-date ones, both design and informationwise!
Just to note: Her first armor is her field commander armor, the second one is her paladin armor (obviously).
Name: Rosalie „Rosa” McClain-Kogane Age: 30 Gender: Female Species: ¾ Human, ¼ Galra Parents: Lance McClain, Keith Kogane Rank: Field Commander, future Red Paladin
History:
Rosa and her twin brother Ace were born a few years after Voltron saved Earth and went back to space to rebuild the Volton Coalition. They were an accident so to speak, at the time Keith didn’t know he could get pregnant due to being half-Galra. They were pretty early in their relationship and they had drunken sex one night after a Coalition Gala and Keith ended up pregnant with the twins. Rosa was named after Lance’s Mom (because Dirty Laundry was a classic, fight me) and she was always close with her parents, specially with Keith, she always wanted to be like him, a great warrior and a leader. However as more of her siblings were born Keith and Lance grew more distant from her, which she didn’t take well. She started to push herself to do more and be better to gian her parents’ attention but in result she became a maximalist and kind of a control freak. She quickly became one of the best fighters as she grew up, passing every test with flying colors, she was only surpassed by her twin brother. In the end she became a field commander of the Coalition Army, however she still feels like she could do more, that she should be more and better. It’s going to take her some time to accept and learn that she doesn’t have to be THE leader, she doesn’t have to be at the top or be like Keith in order to be important and valuable.
Personality: Rosa has always been headstrong and ambitious ever since she was a little kid. She’s very strict, specially with herself, when she sets a goal she always sees is through and only expects the best from herself, as well as others. She has an intense need to prove herself and be the best there is and when that’s not the case or she doesn’t get the required results she becomes easily frustated and tends to close herself off. She may come off as gruff and cold but she’s actually quite sweet and warm with those she cares about. She also tends to be awkward in everyday social situations, where she also tends to come off as grumpy. Growing up in a time of constant military conflict, she’s more used to official businesses and diplomatic meetings, however when it comes to everyday civillian interactions she loses her footing a little bit. She also tends to be pretty untrusting, so she likes to keep her distance from strangers and be on the observing end of things for a while.
Strengths/Abilities/Weapons: Her main strengths are her great combat skills and strategic thinking. She’s a very effective strategist and plan maker. Her stubborness could be considered a weakness however she mostly knows how far to push things or when to step back and think things through.
Her weapon of choice is Gladiator-Bot type of staff, that can change in size and shock, and her bayard also turns into a more advanced staff.
Weaknesses/Fears: Her main weakness is that she tends to overthink things, and doesn’t trust her gut enough, sometimes she has difficulty making decisions on the spot, something that she works on everyday. She’s also easily frustated which causes her to close off and distance herself from others. She doesn’t know how to relax and she usually pushes herself to near collapsing.
Relationships:
Keith and Lance:
They had their bumps while she was growing up, since she felt neglected by her parents as they focused on her younger siblings, but as an adult they have a pretty solid relationship. She still looks up to her parents and idolises them in a way, specially Keith, that kind of gets in her way of being of her own person, but otherwise there are really no problems between them. They confide and trust in eachother both in everyday life and in the heat of battle.
Siblings:
She has a pretty solid relationship with all her siblings. However she’s pretty protective and control-freakish over her youngest three (Akira, Claire, and Chuck) siblings which, specially Claire sees as condescending and bossiness. With her older younger siblings she has a playful and close relationship, they make a really good proffesional team out in the field too.
Thace „Ace”:
Whenever they fight together, Ace and Rosa make a truly fearsome duo, they’re eachother’s better halves, they compliment eachother in the best of ways. They always know when how to help and support the other and always there for eachother. For some time Rosa was conflicted over Ace being so naturally better than her, but with time she learnt that it’s not a competition, specially not with Ace.
Clarisse „Claire”:
She’s the one she has the most difficult relationship with out of all her siblings, she sees a lot of herself in Claire, who also constantly wants to prove herself and be at the top of everything, and she wants to protect her. Despite of things she knows her way of handling things isn’t really good and she wants to keep Claire from going down that path, but her youngest sister sees that as Rosa trying to hold her back and bossing her around. This causes constant tension between them, until eventually Claire will realise they have more in common than she thinks and Rosa will let her do her own thing as well.
Prince Alfor Jr.:
In search of her siblins (and parents), Rosa was the first one to accidentally enter the Shallura Reality, where she met Prince Alfor Jr., Queen Allura and King Shiro’s firstborn son. At first she treated him with professional distance, she didn’t exactly trust him but gave him the benefit of the doubt, since he was the son of her two old mentors, just in another reality. However with time she became baffled with the way he looks at his life and treats his responsibilities, which lead them to conflict on more than one occasion. However with time they grew closer, and in the end they make almost as good, if not, better team than Ace and Rosa ever did. They’re truly eachother’s other halves and force the best out of eachother. Not only Rosa teching Alfor Jr. the meaning of true resonsibility, but also him teaching her to finally chill out once in her life.
Fun Facts: - Rosa is the only one of her siblings who’s eyes can shift to Galra in distressing situations, much like Keith’s. - She has a rather lame sense of humor and doesn’t always get jokes, but she LOVES puns. - Even if she tends to fight more on the ground, she really found a peace of mind while flying Red, flying with Red became one of her favourite pasttimes. That's probably all for now, maybe I'll re-visit this tomorrow with an overview, but so far I'm pretty proud of how this turned out!
Art by @mexcraziness
Multi-Reality AU and Rosa belongs to @mexcraziness
Voltron belongs to Dreamworks