#vld ryou

[harukamitsuki]

Hello, I’m the anon that apologized for implying that Keith was “spoiled”

I wanted to come back and talk to you because I wanted to discuss some points!

I made my Keith statements without really explaining what I meant and I wanted to try again.

I don’t want Lance to be the black paladin and I just need to state that now. However, I also didn’t want Keith to reside as the permanent black paladin.

I know that his color palate and clothing have black in them but shiro is also all black. In my opinion I would’ve preferred Keith to be the substitute black paladin.

Ryou (the clone) should’ve never been able to pilot the black lion because he’s just a copy of shiros face not him. Making Keith stay within the team and allura going to red (because I really don’t know how they thought allura in blue was a good idea, love her but what?)

(I want Keith to stay with the team and not go to the blades as I would prefer the paladins sticking together)

(Also because the plot line for the altean colony is ridiculous)

I would’ve loved to see ryou find out he’s a clone along with the paladins and not just kill him off. I think it would’ve also brought some realization into Keith about shiro and such.

The way I think of the paladins and their relationship to the lions is that the lions physically created the paladins.

The reason why it took 10,000 years is because earth doesn’t have quintestance, so the lions had to basically build their paladins from the ground up by creating generations of humans with it.

Because earth doesn’t have it, it takes a long time until there’s finally enough for the paladins now!

Which is why I don’t think Keith should continue to be the black paladin. Because he belongs with red just as Lance in blue, pidge in green, hunk in yellow, and shiro in black.

and because Shiro never gets to go back to being the black paladin his character gets reduced to cardboard.

which is the reasoning for my initial comments that I couldn’t describe clearly.

I didn’t mean to come off as a black paladin Lance supporter or that Lance was the best option. Because he isn’t.

There are things with lances character that I feel as though could’ve been worked so much better. (I saw a previous post of yours discuss lances having altean markings and your so correct, honestly they feel like fan service since the fandom goes nuts with altean Lance and honestly I can’t understand why)

I’m far more a shiro fan. In all honesty he has done a lot for me. I don’t like that he was just meant to be thrown away.

I mean the writers created an entirely new character for crying out loud!! Shiro didn’t exist in the other versions. Technically he is sven but sven was always the blue paladin.

Shiro has obvious PTSD and has a genetic disease that needs his arm forcefully removed from him. He fights so hard for his lion and his teammates.

My feelings on Keith are in fact very biased but it feels like a lot of Keith’s character completely erases all of shiros.

With ryou and the paladins finding out that shiro is in the black lion i would’ve loved to see them search desperately to find where the clones were made to see if they could bring Shiro back.

My thoughts are a little all over the place I apologize for that.

Hello again!

This is a bit awkward because I basically agree with almost everything here so there's not much for me to dissect haha.

If anyone's been reading my past, PAST, posts, you'll have probably seen my post as to why Lance never should have went to Red, and why it should have been Allura. I can understand why Allura is Blue and Lance is Red in the ORIGINAL series, but this is a rewrite where the characters are basically completely different.

Which also means that, no, I will not be using the original series to back-up my belief that Keith is a great Black Paladin.

Like I said, I basically agree with everything you wrote, except that I didn't personally care for Ryou. I felt sorry for him and was kinda shocked when they just used his body for Shiro's soul, but I didn't care about him.

I do think it would have been interesting to see Ryou be a little stinker and try to manipulate everyone, due to him being a sleeper agent. Like, in canon, when Ryou apologised to Keith, he says "I'm sorry I had to step in there" instead of "for stepping in there". He's still putting the blame on Keith. He says sorry without truly saying it, if you get what I mean.

Then, one day, he goes a little too far. Like, I dunno, he calls Lance useless or Hunk cowardly or something, and Keith immediately goes: wait. That's not right. Suddenly, Keith's a lot less willing to take Ryou's 'advice' to heart and things pile up until he realises Ryou is a clone.

I think that kind of story line is much more interesting that what we got. Of course, if you care about Ryou and are horrified at his death, there are others ways. Ryou slowly learning he's a clone and hating himself until the paladins make him realise that it's not his fault and he can choose to be his own person. Heck, he kind of already is.

Of course, another option is just to not kill Shiro off? Like, put him in a coma or reveal that Haggar yoinked him from Black with quintessence magic and he's been captive this whole time. Keith would still have to pilot Black but, because Shiro isn't a clone, when he gets back Black opens up immediately.

The thing is, Shiro and Keith's style of leadership is different. Very different, meaning that they're suited to lead different kinds of things, with varying efficiency. What I think would have been cool to see is them changing the roster (Shiro leads, Keith in Red/Keith leads, Allura in red) depending on the mission. Which can mean that, if you decide to keep season eight for some reason, Shiro or Keith can lead them into the final battle. Shiro leading them might make more sense.

I've heard a lot of people say that Shiro is boring and it's like– why do you think that? I kind of wanted to see more of his character arc, wanted to see Keith, Coran and Allura take care of him when he's too high strung. I wanted to see him be there, actually there, when Pidge saves Matt. I wanted to see him accept that he may have been hurt, but he is not broken.

I think that those people who think Shiro is boring just weren't watching the same show, or only remeber him from season 7-8 where he does basically nothing. Season 1-2 Shiro are great. He feels so human, scared of the world but pushing himself through for the sake of others and to not seem weak. He makes bad gun noises, immediately denies Coran trying to feed him like a baby with "no. Just– no.", displays some dark humour when he's alone with Keith and bleeding out. He's terrified of being seen as broken, because that's exactly what he thinks of himself.

So. Yeah.

Either make Ryou more interesting or don't kill Shiro off. It would still let Keith become his own Black Paladin, and it would let the group change members depending on the situation, which would make it less jarring if Allura was the one to pilot the Atlus, as was originally planned.

I can understand why you believe Keith's character erases Shiro's. Because, in all honesty, it kind of does. Of course, that is mostly DreamWorks' fault because they just can't give Shiro any sort of happiness? Like, Keith has also been hurt over and over again, but at least Keith has his mother.

Shiro was supposed to gain the ability to teleport. HE WAS REPLACED BY KOSMO - HE WAS REPLACED BY A DOG. Shiro didn't even get to end Sendak! Even if I adore Keith, I was so baffled when Keith made the finish blow, because that was Shiro's fight! Shiro has nobody to go home to, only returning to find that his ex-fiancé is dead, and it's just– I know that gay characters tend to suffer the most, but come on DreamWorks! Give him SOMETHING!

From my perspective, I've always noticed the difference between Keith and Shiro's leadership styles, and just in general. But DreamWorks is so allergic to giving any of them anything, so they wrote in the Broganes bond, tore it apart, then played a darts game to decide their traits after Shiro's death. It makes it especially worse when they decide to make Keith go through development off-screen, so he comes back when he's become more mature like Shiro, but it gets no explanation so it feels like he was just given more of Shiro's traits.

Alas, we get no explanation, so it is jarring. Which is another reason why making Ryou unable to pilot Black, or Shiro still being alive, would have been much better. Keith had a point about leaving, but Shiro, the real Shiro, never would have let him leave, and Keith wouldn't leave if Ryou couldn't pilot Black.

I would still make it so that Keith stayed with BoM just for the sake of meeting Krolia, but nothing else much.

So. Yeah.

I do agree with basically all of this, only I wouldn't have Keith be just a sub for Black. I think he and Shiro should have used it interchangeably, or at least provide an explanation for why the real Shiro, the one who bonded with Black the most, couldn't pilot her.

AND SCREW KOSMO– GIVE SHIRO HE TELEPORTATION BACK! GIVE HIM HIS RELEVANCE BACK!!

(Sorry if there's any mistakes, I just woke up haha)

(Also, Keith's colour scheme fits Black more than Shiro's did, mostly because of the accent colours that Keith had. Other than that, yeah. I agree.)

[mizu-writes-kumo]

Au with Lance and Shiro clones and it's like that one episode of young Justice with Bowhunter security (the one where Dick, Will, Jim, and Roy need to deliver some videogames)

I will admit I haven't actually seen that episode (I haven't watched any YJ past season two because I haven't sat down to do a rewatch S1 and S2 to catch up) But I have seen enough stuff to know a bit of what happens. And it makes me giggle.

On because I could imagine Lance just rolling up to Ryou's and Shiro's shared house, and before he can even open his mouth, both of them know what he's going to ask. They try to tell him no, but Lance asks so nicely and promises nothing bad will happen, and like gives them such puppy dog eyes, that they agree. And then Lance is like "Cool, also Kuro's going to help up."

And Ryou and Shiro both really try to not let things descend into complete chaos, but like...it's almost unavoidable. And they both curse Lance and his dazzling smiles, and the friendship they all share together. While Lance is just like "It's just like old times." completely living for every chaotic moment of it all.

In the end, everything is a success, but both Ryou and Shiro are going to think twice before agreeing to do anything Lance asks them too.

[infinitesheith]

Shiro and Kuron, aka Ryou!

please don’t remove my caption

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[roaringwingstofly]

Twinganes Childhood HC’s

Just some general headcanons of Shiro and Ryou’s childhood because I just wanted to relieve stress.

Takashi is older by 12 minutes.  

Their father came from a very traditional family, so both learned early about discipline and responsibility.

Though Takashi adhered to them more than Ryou.

As a child, Takashi would’ve used the personal pronoun “boku” (ぼく).  Ryou, meanwhile, would’ve used “ore” (おれ) when not around their parents or adults.  Otherwise, he also used “boku” . 

Ryou uses “ore” to make himself look tougher.  Especially when other kids picked on Takashi.

There was a time when Ryou thought he was the older brother.   

He was watching one of his father’s old samurai films about two brothers and saw that the strong and tough older one was protecting the younger one.  

Takashi was quite frail as a child and got easily sick.  Ryou would insist on helping his mother look after him.

Ryou was really boisterous as a child and filled with energy.  The type of kid who’d run around the house and roll around on the grass.

He’d drag Takashi around with him on whatever bizarre adventure he could think of.

Takashi would be the voice of reason and try to talk his brother out of things that’d get them in trouble. 

He’d still give in to Ryou’s pleading.

Takashi was a really soft, quiet, polite, and bright kid.  Teachers utterly adored him. 

Definitely a teacher’s pet.

Generally a cinnamon roll but he still had times when he showed a cheeky side to him.

Ryou did do his work and he listened but he was just a ball of energy that got easily bored in a classroom environment.

Definitely a cheeky little monkey.

Both of the Shirogane twins are curious little beans.  However, their curiosity manifests in different ways.

Takashi would be filled with questions, but he’s sometimes too polite or too shy to ask.  You’d have to make the first move before he’ll ask you a question.

Is an astonishingly articulate little boy.

"But...why don’t the cherry blossoms burn up from the sun, then?”

Ryou’s curiosity manifests in one simple word: “Why?” Expect him to continuously ask you this until he’s either satisfied or gets bored or annoyed because your answers don’t satisfy him.

Takashi was always intrigued with the night sky and the stars.  Yes, they looked pretty, but he always wondered if there were other people out there.

He really liked visiting the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima.

Wants to get this huge telescope for his birthday.

Definitely always wanted to be an astronaut when he was a kid.  

Ryou isn’t that much into space - preferring to keep his feet planted on Earth.

To him, space just looked really pretty.  

But he prefers Earth’s natural beauty.  Especially forests and waterfalls.

He didn’t really care much about the idea of what else was out there.

When they were really young (about 4-5), little Ryou would tackle little Takashi over and just start wrestling with him.  Of course, when little Takashi started crying, Ryou immediately got off of him and apologized.

There were a few times they’ve done a twin switch as children.

Or at least, tried.

Ryou was pretty good at pretending to be quiet and obedient but Takashi?

It was tiring trying to be Ryou.

Whenever there’s a summer festival, you can also differentiate the twins by their dress.  Ryou would be wearing a brown jinbei while Takashi is in a purple yukata.

Little Takashi had a tendency to hide behind Ryou.

He’d also clutch at his arm when he’s nervous.

Ryou didn’t mind when they were really young and actually liked that his brother depended on him.  But when they reached around ten, he started to get annoyed and pretty self-conscious from it.

During Children’s Day (kodomo no hi “ こどもの日“), the siblings would be really excited about putting out the carp flags (koinobori “ 鯉のぼり ”).  

Takashi was always intrigued by the big black carp - which symbolizes the father of the household.

There was something so strong, noble, and dignified about it.  Just like dad.

Ryou just thought that all the carps looked really pretty together.

The twins seldom fought as children but when it happened? 

Ryou would yell at Takashi, and while Takashi yelled back, he’d also start crying, prompting Ryou to yell at him to quit being a cry-baby because it’s embarrassing and annoying.  

Then, their mother would come in to see what happened and separate the two.

Depending on what they were fighting over, it’d take thirty minutes to about two hours before the two are giggling and laughing together again.

Whenever mama Shirogane is cooking, the twins are eager to help her.

The twins particularly like rolling onigiri (rice balls).

Ryou is extremely ticklish and will laugh and giggle if you so much as poke his sides.  Takashi? Not as much.  You’d have to aim at specific spots.

Under his arms and his feet.

There were times little Takashi tried mimicking papa Shirogane.  

He’d straighten his posture, hold his head high, and try to emulate his serious steely gaze.  He also tried to walk like him and tried to mimic his speech pattern and tone of voice.

He just wound up looking really adorable.

Ryou would tease him to no tomorrow.

Takashi would cling onto Ryou a lot, feeling more secure with him around.  

Also cried really easily.  

He started to cry less easily when he was eight, but he was still pretty shy, tender, and got easily scared (like a frightened little rabbit), so he did cling onto Ryou some more.

Stopped clinging onto him when he was about ten.

Didn’t want to be seen as weak anymore, nor did he want to depend on Ryou for the rest of his life.

Ryou would get beaten up whenever he’d step in when the older and bigger kids picked on Takashi.  Takashi would patch him up afterward, and always feel really bad at this.  

Takashi started standing up for himself when they were ten since Ryou was getting embarrassed with him clinging to him.

Again, also because he didn’t want to be seen as weak anymore.

Also, because he believed that as the actual older brother, it’s supposed to be his duty to protect Ryou, not the other way around.

[justmenoworries]

Kintsugi

A/N: Watch me write a dozen fics where Kuron survives and gets to be more than just ‘the evil clone’ purely out of spite. Baby Clone was precious and deserved better, so if the writers won’t give him a happy ending, I will.

“Transfer successful. Vital signs stabilizing.”

“So this is it? That’s the clone now?”

“Don’t call him that Lance.”

“Geez, sorry. I’m just telling it like I’m seeing it.”

Loud.

Why was everything so loud?

Sound usually didn’t travel that fast in the astral plane. He knew.

It just got swallowed by the all surrounding darkness, until merely faint echoes remained.

But those voices weren’t echoes.

They were as clear as could be.

Weird.

He groaned at the sound attacking his sensitive ears.

“Is he really alright?” someone asked. There was genuine concern in that one.

“His body and mind have been under a lot of stress. If all goes according to our calculations, he’ll awaken in a few ticks. Though it might take him some time to get used to the....circumstances.”

Allura.

The one who’d said that was Allura.

Slowly but steadily it came back to him.

The two voices he’d heard first were Keith and Lance.

And the one who had asked about him being alright was...

A feeling of dread and confusion washed over him.

That had been his voice.

How...?

“Let’s leave him to  come to for a while. There is nothing more we can do at the moment.” he heard Allura say.

“If you say so, princess.”

Again that voice that was his and wasn’t at the same time.

He was dreaming.

Or hallucinating.

It was the only explanation.

The isolation had finally caught up to him.

He felt so heavy all of a sudden. What little awareness he had of his surroundings was slowly drifting away.

The last thing he heard was Keiths voice saying “Don’t worry Shiro. He’ll pull through. You did, remember?”

And he was gone again.

The next time consciousness finds him, he actually manages to open his eyes.

There is glass above him and a grey-white ceiling.

It feels familiar and yet he can’t help the uneasiness the sight of it automatically brings up. It’s all still barely a blurr.

Something is wrong and he doesn’t know what.

He can hear voices again, coming from the under side of whatever the contraption he’s lying in is.

They sound light-hearted, yet stressed, relieved, yet on edge.

Having fought an intergalactic war can cause such interesting dualities, he muses.

Even when there’s no one to be fought, you still find yourself having one hand constantly hovering over the nearest weapon.

He’d always hoped he’d remain the only one out of the Paladins who’d know what that felt like.

His vision finally sets back into focus and he can see clearly. And it takes him roughly half a minute to realize he’s in the black lion again.

He shoots up, only to whack his head on the still closed glass panel of the pod he’s in and lets out a pained groan, clutching his forehead in his hand.

“What was that?”, comes the voice that should belong to him from where he presumes the cockpit is.

A couple of hurried footsteps.

“Shiro! He’s awake!”

He blinks, unsure whether that’s relief or fear he hears in Keith’s voice. And the next thing he knows Keith is standing right above him, bayard in one hand. The red bayard, he notices.

“How is he?” comes the voice from the cockpit again.

Keith frowns and it occurs to him he should probably say something, so they know he’s not brain damaged or anything like that.

“Where am I?” he croaks.

“He’s talking.” Keith answers the voice’s question, completely ignoring him. “What do we do with him?”

Silence. Hesitance? Or just thinking about how to get rid of him best?

“We’ll be on Olkari soon,” the voice finally says. “I....I think we should put him under until then. Just...just to be safe.”

“Wait-!”

But Keith has already pressed a button on the outside of the pod and he can feel his body shut down as it suddenly grows cold around him. The last thing he sees is a look of conflict and pity in Keith’s eyes.

He awakens in an Olkarian jail cell, a plate of food standing near the door. It takes time to get used to eating with one arm, but he manages.

After the meal, he just sits on the mattress and stares at the closed door for a while, not really seeing it. The longer he sits there in silence, the more comes back to him.

Excruciating, sudden pain. The witch’s voice in his head, telling him to give in. That he is hers. And then his body isn’t his anymore. More and more images keep flooding him, each one more horrifying than the last. He sees himself fighting Keith in a place he does not know but he does. Keith is a worthy opponent, but his arm has received a few upgrades and he’s not holding back.

He hears Keith screaming that he loves him and he stops mid-movement. A little bit of the old him manages to break through after that. It’s just enough for Keith to cut off his arm. He is finally in control again, looking up at Keith, trying to explain, voice pleading.

“Keith....”

I never wanted to, It wasn’t me, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry-

And then everything goes black.

His whole body is shaking. He whimpers and curls in on himself, as if that could protect him from the horror of realization.

He is not Takashi Shirogane.

He is not the Black Paladin.

Heck, he isn’t even a person. He’s a thing, an experiment, a walking talking puppet made by the Galra to tear Voltron apart from the inside. The strange voice that sounded so much like him was the real Shiro, returned to his team at last.

After he almost murdered them.

The tears start falling without him realizing it. He doesn’t have the strength or the will to stop them anymore.

Days go by without anyone coming to see him.

Apart from the guards who routinely shove a tray of food into his cell, he has no contact with the outside world. No way of knowing what they’re going to do to him. Once he makes the mistake of asking how the Paladins of Voltron are doing. All he gets are distrustful glares and silence.

He doesn’t blame them. It’s a miracle they even let him live after all he did.

Still, there is a tiny, stubborn part of him that thinks it’s just not....fair.

He never asked to be turned into a living weapon. He never wanted to attack everyone he knew and loved. He never asked to be made.

He knows thinking like this isn’t helpful in any way. But knowing that you deserve to die doesn’t make the thought of actual death easier.

It’s about noon he deduces, looking at the tiny strip of orange light coming from a small window in his jail cell. He isn’t really hungry for dinner. Constantly waiting for your date of execution to be announced will do that. He hears the tell-tale whirr of the prison tracts doors and stands up to receive his meal.

Only to freeze mid-motion.

He’s looking right into a mirror.

Shiro - the real one - is standing right in front of his cell, a tray of food in each hand.

“Um. Hey,” Shiro says, smiling awkwardly. “I,um...convinced the guards to let me bring your rations this time. Mind if I eat with you?”

Does he? He honestly has no idea. On one hand, having company that isn’t constantly giving him the evil eye could be nice. But on the other hand.....

His eyes wander down to the plate on the tray. Could it be poisoned? Is this some sort of mercy - last meal? He immediately dismisses the idea again. Shiro would never do that to someone who is in no position to fight back. He should know. He’s unknowingly pretended to be the guy for months, after all.

Noticing that Shiro is still waiting for an answer, he finally nods slowly. What other option does he have, if he wants clarity about his fate?

Shiro’s gives a relieved smile and hands him the plate through the little trap door-like installation in the cell door.

For a while they just sit there, eating in silence and occasionally throwing glances at each other.

He can’t help but note how different Shiro actually is from him. Not just because of the undercut and the clothing. It’s the way he slumps just a little when he scoops up another spoon of Olkarian porridge, or how relaxed he looks sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of the person who basically replaced him, while said person himself is stiff as a rod. They really aren’t the same.

Inevitably, they both reach the bottom of their plates at almost the same time and if the situation was any different, he would have found that funny. It is not, so he doesn’t.

The silence is slowly getting unbearable.

Just as he’s about to say something, anything, Shiro speaks first.

“You know, it’s funny,” he says, looking down on his empty plate. “When I came down here, I had a whole speech laid out in my head. What I was gonna say to you, how I was gonna say it and in what tone....but right now? I can’t remember it at all. Weird, right?”

He supposes it is. Telling a guy you’re going to axe him off doesn’t take so many words, does it?

“I...I guess I’ll just make do then. What....what I wanted to say to you was...” Shiro stops for a second and takes a deep breath, closing his eyes. When he opens them again, he lifts his head and looks him right in the eyes. “I’m sorry.”

He might as well have set off a bomb. He stares at him, blinking somewhat dumbfounded. That is...certainly not what he’d expected the guy who’s identity he stole to say to him at their first meeting.

“What are you sorry for?” he blurts out. He can’t stop himself.

Shiro shrugs and gives a lop-sided smirk that is filled to the brim with remorse.

“Everything, basically. You..you didn’t know what...who you were. You’re as much as a victim in this as all of us. And all I’ve been doing so far is treat you like you were the enemy. I....I called you “evil”, a ‘thing’!” At that Shiro looks honestly disgusted with himself for a moment. But he snaps out of it and looks at him with sad eyes. “I of all people should know what it’s like to be turned into a weapon by the Galra without knowing it. And yet here I am, blaming you for something you had absolutely no control over. Back there in the pod when you woke up for the first time, I should have just let you out, I should have talked to you or at least see if you were alright or something. Instead I just....” He sighs, rubbing his forehead. “So, yeah. I came here to tell you just how wrong I was to do that to you. And I hope you can forgive me, but if you can’t, that’s completely understandable.”

He doesn’t answer. He just sits there, staring, trying to digest what’s just happened.

“You’re asking me,” he finally says, “to forgive you? Are you quiznaking serious right now?” Shiro seems taken aback by this sudden outburst, but the floodgates have already been opened and he can’t hold himself back anymore. “It’s like you said: I’m a thing! A creature made by the Galra to destroy you and everyone you love! I infiltrated your team! I stole the Black Lion from you, I, I almost got them all killed on Narxela and let’s not forget the time when I almost blew them up! If anything, I should be apologizing to you! You shouldn’t even be here talking to me like, like I’m human or something. What do you get from that? Why haven’t you killed me yet? What do you want from me???”

He’s breathing heavily. During the time he’s talked he’s been getting closer and closer to the cell door and now Shiro and him are standing right in front of each other. There’s something in Shiro’s eyes he can’t quite place. Something like...shock? Pity? Understanding? All of that?

“Do you remember that time you had to defend a convoy of supply ships and Keith wasn’t there?”, Shiro says suddenly, taking him slightly aback.

“Y-yeah?”

“Well, it’s a little hard to explain, but...when you came to the Black Lion that day...I was there. Kinda.” Shiro pauses, looking hesitant, but then continues: “At first, I was...wary of you. I didn’t know who you were, what your plan was, what you wanted. But...then you actually talked to Black. You were asking her, no, begging her to help you. You sincerely wanted to get out there, you wanted to help the team save lives!” He shakes his head at that as if he still can’t believe it. “I was surprised to say the least. But I could feel you meant everything you said to Black. That’s why we let you pilot in the first place. And that’s why I’m here.” Shiro gives him a warm smile. “You’re not a thing, or a creature. You’re a person. And a pretty great one at that. You watched over them, when I couldn’t. You lead them to the best of your abilities, through good and bad. And you never stopped trying to protect them, even when that witch took over you. You deserve a second chance. Just like I did, when I was in your shoes. And I’m sorry it took me so long to realize that. So....if you still want to help us win this war...” Shiro puts his hand on a panel on the cell’s outside and the door deactivates.

He watches the door slowly retreat until there is nothing separating the two of them. He looks up again to see Shiro’s hand extended to him.

“I could really use a co-pilot. A lot of things have happened since we got to Olkari. Only if you want to, of course.”

He stares at Shiro’s hand, not saying a word. What is he supposed to say? Does he have to say anything? His head is a mess and he’s pretty sure Haggar has nothing to do with it this time. Here he was, expecting to be axed off soon and instead Shiro himself is standing right here, in front of him, giving him freedom and, if he wants to, so much more. And he definitely wants to. He wants to so bad. And yet.... “How do you know you can trust me?” he whispers. “What if the witch just...takes over and uses me to hurt you or he others again?”

“She won’t,” Shiro answers, holding his gaze. “We’ll do everything in our power to make sure she’ll never be able to do that to you again. I promise.”

He thinks about that for a while. Then he takes a deep breath-and takes Shiro’s hand, giving it a shake.

“I’m in.” He gives a smirk. “But don’t expect me to take over for you during long, boring political meetings again.”

Shiro laughs. “Noted.”

They walk through the prison’s corridors together and he can’t help but think how great the experience of being able to walk more than a few feet without running into a wall really is.

“Hey, I can’t believe I’m only asking this now,” Shiro says,” but what’s your name?”

“My name?”

He tries to remember a time when he wasn’t Shiro. He remembers having flash-backs of Galra scientists, speaking of “Operation Kuron” which he assumes is him, but he comes to the conclusion that that is not what he wants to be called. That’s not who he is anymore.

“If it’s not too forward,” Shiro’s says, tearing him out of his thoughts, “I’ve got an idea for one. Want to hear it?”

He shrugs. “Sure.”

“What do you think of Ryou?”

[ririchanva]

"Oh! You're talking about my big brother. No, no, I'm the younger and better looking Shirogane. Nice to meet you~!"

//When you remembered the 80s Voltron in the Japanese Dub, Shiro had a twin brother named Ryou.

So, when I saw this little extra nobody in Season 7, I called him my own.

BASICALLY, he's pulling a Pidge here. He came to the Garrison to find his big brother that was lost in space. And I figured, considering Matt was supposed to be 'Chip', twin brother of Pidge from the 80s Voltron, I figured Ryou would be the little brother here :D It's...not technically OC, considering there are others juggling this idea but...

Heh, decided why not, I wanted to draw another Shirogane >3>

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[anidragon]

Would there be any interest in a Kuron shipping event? (Like a Big Bang or Reverse Big Bang?)

I've just notice that in a lot of bangs for Shiro ships, Kuron is excluded since he's considered a different character. And while I get it, it also makes me kinda sad, because there aren't really any Kuron focused events to fill in that gap, you know? (This would include Kuron, Kuro, Sven, and Ryou, since they're all equally excluded from Shiro shipping events)