when i say vol, you say tron
lance mcclain. paladin of voltron.
[ indie lance from voltron: legendary defender. written by maddie. tracks thalassvphile. read pages before interacting. ]
Lance and Spanish soap operas. Your thoughts? Does he like him? Does he think they're ridiculous? Does he make his friends watch them? This is very important information, clearly.
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i. dont think lance is all that interested in them? whenever they were on he’d be outside doing something. he was more interested in swimming/soccer/baseball than whatever novella was on tv. nowadays, he does the whole [ gasps in spanish ] meme but other than that it’s not really a big thing to him.
if anything, his mom and sisters would sometimes make him watch and he’d complain the whole time
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[ another day, another mission. the days are all blurring together now, and every day a little part of him yearns to go home. he misses the beach, he misses his world, and most of all misses his parents and his siblings. what he wouldn’t give to see them again... ]
[ it’s another prisoner rescue today, apparently. the galra seem to have no end to the cells on their ships, and the fact that some of the prisoners kept around are nothing more than experiments makes lance’s blood boil. the sooner the galra empire is destroyed, the better. ]
[ he grips his bayard firmly, firing off a couple of blasts at the locking mechanism for another cell. he slips in once the door opens, lowering his bayard to show he’s a friendly. it’s then that he catches sight of who is here. ]
[ lance would know that face anywhere. eyepatch or no, that is without a doubt his mother. ]
[ his bayard dissolves into the smaller version, his arms dropping to his sides. he swallows thickly, clearly confused. ] ...Mamá?
;; hey hi please tell me all about your thoughts/headcanons surrounding lance's insecurities, how he handles them, and what kinds of things sort of set them off
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yeLLS okay this is gonna be an essay so under a cut it goes
so, my lance is a middle child. the third of six. he’s kind of already at a disadvantage in that he kind of struggles to get attention or privacy sometimes. his family is very loving, though, so it’s nothing like getting ignored/neglected, but lance has definitely felt like he’s in renata’s (his eldest sister’s) and javier’s (his eldest brother) shadows. he loves them, yes, but he does feel a bit inferior. they’re both incredible, and he feels like he pales in comparison.
he went to the garrison because, for whatever reason, he’s always felt drawn to being a pilot--this is because his connection with blue was already there, and she was calling to him. he fought tooth and nail to get into the fighter pilot class, only to be told to his face that he wasn’t good enough. that did wonders for his self esteem--HA wait no it didn’t. he probably felt like a failure, honestly. here he was, studying his ass off to get into the fighter pilot program, to fulfill whatever dreams he had, and the door was closed right into his face.
it didn’t get better after keith flunked out. he was top of the cargo pilot class, so he was a shoe-in for the open position, but i got the impression that commander iverson always took the chance to rub that in lance’s face. i was watching/screenshotting for icons from the pilot, and honestly iverson talking down to lance so harshly doesn’t seem like the first time he’s done it. lance probably acted out a lot or at least a reasonable amount, so iverson probably shoved the knowledge that he could kick lance right back out again at any time. so, yeah. that sucks.
and lance actually felt great when he was the one that the blue lion opened up to. it was one of the first times he actually got to be the one that everyone followed, the one that everyone was in awe of. he was still happy even once all the lions were found (though keith being named the best pilot right off the bat was kind of twisting a knife). but then he starts feeling homesick, and then second guessing himself after the first battle with zarkon.
and then, the whole fifth/seventh wheel thing. lance’s insecurities must sometimes get the best of him, make him perceive things incorrectly, because he is one part of a wheel--and if he got taken out, that wheel wouldn’t work right anymore. i have anxiety issues myself, and often feel pretty useless/worthless, so i suspect lance has similar feelings sometimes. shiro reassuring him about his place as the sharpshooter helped bring him back out of that, though. bless you space dad.
this isn’t even TOUCHING keith. lance has a Thing in regards to keith. he feels super, super inferior. keith is the better pilot. keith is the better fighter. keith is the special one. keith has so much that lance feels he doesn’t. lance’s “rivalry” probably stems (at least partially) from lance kind of trying to show that keith isn’t best at everything. that lance isn’t second best to keith (not that he is in the first place, but lance has issues that keep him from seeing that their strengths lie in different places).
depending on how s3 goes, lance is probably going to react Very Badly. no matter what, if keith says shiro wanted keith to lead voltron, lance is going to explode, probably bring up that no one else heard this supposed conversation, and refuse to accept keith as their replacement leader. he will react even worse if they tell him he’s going to have to pilot red in the meantime. lance is very, very connected to blue, and feels to an extent that blue is one of the few things he can hold on to right now. (i actually have this hc that if all of this happens, lance might actually steal blue and try to fly her back to earth, allura being able to track blue be damned).
anyway. that’s kind of the rundown of some of the insecurities i think lance has got. onto how he handles them.
lance internalizes. a lot. he’s from a very big, very loud family--half the time he wasn’t heard. so he learned to keep it all in, to find a way to let it out without letting anybody he doesn’t trust know. hunk is one of like. four people who lance is okay opening up to, just fyi.
this is also why he’s so connected/attached to blue. lance escapes to her as often as he can, telling her all about his family, all these stories from his childhood, and all the things he keeps quiet about. and he speaks to her in spanish, so if there’s like. any way for someone to hear him they probably can’t understand anyway.
otherwise, i think lance would explode, like i said before. he wouldn’t touch on why he’s so bothered, but he’d go off and maybe even try to throw a punch even if he’s got a bad case of noodle arms (he has muscles but they’re not big) and will get his ass kick ten ways to tuesday. and then he’d just start stewing on whatever the problem was and then things would be even worse.
im not entirely sure what sets it off, honestly? i think if he just gets pushed a little too much, or if he’s reminded too much about what he’s insecure about, it starts really eating at him.
...this is a lot longer than i thought it would end up being but. thats. kind of the jist of it? i havent thought much on how he handles it or what sets it off yet.
Keith resists trying to touch his face, knowing that touching it isn’t going to
make it better, but his impulsive nature isn’t making it any easier to
accomplish. It hurts, a lot more than he’d like to admit, and he knows he’s
going to have to have it at least looked at.
“Yeah…I know,” he mutters, knowing for a fact that, depending on the
severity, they might just want him to take it easy, but Keith isn’t still. He
doesn’t know how to be still. “Hopefully it’s nothing bad. It’s probably just a
bruise.”
I mean...I think you’d know if it was worse. [ but he has to admit, it wouldn’t be good at all if it was more severe. ] We’ll get you checked out once we’re back.
[ it’s not a long flight, thankfully. lance loves flying around in blue, but today isn’t one he’d like to spend piloting more than he has to. they split up to get back into their respective hangars. lance hops out of his lion quickly, already jogging off. ] Hey, gonna see what I can scrounge up--cryo chamber might have something for your face. I’ll meet you at Red’s hangar?
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CURRENTLY PLAYING:
klavier gavin (ace attorney) (kinda on hiatus for him atm)
lance mcclain (voltron: legendary defender)
shigure (fire emblem fates) (but he’s on hiatus too)
WANT TO/WILL BE PLAYING:
chrom (fire emblem: awakening)
viktor nikiforov (yuri on ice)
elliot spencer (leverage)
yukine (noragami)
anyone from rwby? i love pyrrha...but qrow is my jam rn
kellyn (pokemon ranger: shadows of almia)
HAVE PLAYED:
UGLY LAUGHING these are in order from blogs on tumblr, in forums (italicized), or just in private rps (starred) (there are. so many from the same fandom im sorry)
trucy wright (ace attorney)
clay terran (ace attorney)
mia fey (ace attorney)
constance courte (ace attorney)
jove justice (ace attorney)
manov mistree (ace attorney)
inigo/laslow (fire emblem)
tadashi hamada (big hero six)
peggy carter (marvel)
tails (sonic)
link (the legend of zelda: wind waker/spirit tracks)
david/prince charming (once upon a time)
canon divergent red (pokemon special manga)
yellow of the viridian forest (pokemon special manga)
candice, gym leader in sinnoh (pokemon)
sugawara koushi (haikyuu!!)
koujaku (dmmd)
rouge (professor layton v ace attorney)
clive dove (professor layton)
erza scarlet (fairytail)
ur milkovitch (fairytail)
*percy jackson (percy jackson boks)
nico di angelo (the percy jackson books)
hazel levesque (the percy jackson books)
*steve rogers (marvel)
*tony stark (marvel)
*bruce banner (marvel)
*clint barton (marvel)
*you know what just put down all the avengers
*peter burke (white collar)
*phoenix wright (ace attorney)
*miles edgeworth (ace attorney)
*most of the percy jackson book characters
*killian jones (once upon a time)
WILL/WOULD PLAY AGAIN:
i would love to revisit suga? also clay. also im having a resurgence of percy jackson muses so probably percy, i loved being him. also steve is fun?
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