Pidge & Lance friendship/sibling dynamic headcanons?
hi! thank you sm for asking this!! i didn't think I'd be able to come up with anything but it was surprisingly super fun to do, I really liked writing this. I'm sorry it took so long to get out tho, I've had to spend like 90% of my time on the yearbook recently and i couldnt really do much else :/. but the yearbook is now finished and so is this hc list! i hope you enjoy it :)
let us begin
Lance and Pidge!
they didn't actually become friends until after the whole voltron debacle started
we saw that lance had tried to befriend pidge back at the garrison, but (obviously) she had never been interested
like, at all
so lance just kind of assumed she didn't like him and gave up after a while
they're mostly, like, acquaintances, for the first few weeks of joining voltron - it takes pidge a little while to warm up to lance bc she thinks he's just an annoying party-boy, and lance thinks pidge is kind of full of herself
once they realise how much they have in common, though…
all hell breaks loose. more or less.
they play a lot of video games together
at first they only have killbot phantasm one, so they give themselves new rules and "multitask levels" to make it more interesting after they both inevitably master the game
this usually involves having to defeat levels by themselves while the other person throws things at them
the two of them also make sure to spend at least an hour every space mall-visit searching for new games, and pidge likes to code things for them to play when they run out
lance has a list of nicknames for all of their teammates, but he makes a point to have some variety in his pidge names for the different occasions that he uses them in
this list includes but is not limited to: pidgey/pidgeon (self explanatory), pea (short joke and green joke wrapped in one), birdie (for when he's trying to be nice), and stripe (after the evil gremlin in the movie gremlins)
pidge isn't a big fan of music, but she hates to work in silence, so lance will come hang out with her while she works and just talk about whatever
she doesn't fully listen most of the time, but lance doesn't mind because he never really talks about anything important
their other teammates aren't exactly used to this dynamic, tho
keith, staring at lance as he explains in detail the "sith lord jar jar binks" theory: how do you… focus? with him doing this?
pidge: it's kinda like a white noise machine. I just tune him out
lance: first of all, racist, second of all-
pidge also uses lance as her main source of ideas for low-stakes projects to work on on the side
she even lets him help her make them, a privilege gifted to absolutely no one else (except hunk, but lance maintains that he doesn't count bc he's an engineer and makes stuff anyways)
so far, they have made a (semi) functioning hoverboard, lightsabers (they can't hurt people, tho, much to pidge's disappointment), and a grappling hook
their most recent project is trying to figure out how to recreate spider-man's web shooters
lance: i need to be spider-man, pidge. i was born to be spider-man. i can feel it.
pidge: y'know lance that's actually super interesting, because I distinctly remember that spider-man actually made his own web shooters, he didn't just sit on the counter and watch as his friend did all the work
lance: …
pidge's laptop has a bunch of kinds of entertainment downloaded onto it - music, movies, like three tv shows - and once lance learns this he refuses to let it go until he gets her to agree to watch something with him
one of the shows she has just so happens to be criminal minds. lance clings to this like his life depends on it
lance, over comms: hey baby girl i need you to work me some magic
pidge, trying to hack into a galra base: leandro martin mcclain I swear to god I am going to release your location to every sentry on this ship and I am going to watch them kill you over these security cameras and I am going to laugh
needless to say, they make fun of eachother a lot
every day. about everything.
lance, dropping a spoon on the floor at breakfast: :/
pidge: lmao look at you. outstanding coordination. they really should've taught you how to juggle at clown school
lance: first of all fuck you, second of all it was called performer's camp and i bet they wouldn't even let you in
in true sibling fashion, they never let eachother forget anything embarrassing. no matter what.
pidge: (is quiet for more than three minutes)
lance: hey remember that time at the garrison when a pretty girl asked if she could borrow a pencil and you panicked and said you didn't have any because you can't spell
pidge: I'm telling shiro on you that was one time-
however, despite all of their teasing, they really do care about each other a lot
pidge is the first to hug lance when he steps out of the healing pods, and lance will bend over backwards to cheer pidge up on a bad day
sometimes literally. never tell your found family siblings that you're a trained acrobat, kids.
lance organises little sleepovers with allura for days when pidge is feeling particularly dysphoric, so they can do traditionally "girly" things like paint their nails and put on makeup
pidge doesn't usually do that sort of thing on a regular day, so it's kind of like a nice reminder that she's allowed to be feminine if she wants to be
originally a rule of these sleepovers was that everyone had to do one thing that pidge asked for before the night ended, but they had to scrap that rule after… complications, in one of lance's dares
(in defense of allura, it had been over 10,000 years since she had her ears pierced, and it's not like she could see what the (professional) beautician was doing at the time, so really the fact lance ended up in a healing pod with an ear infection wasn't even her fault. the piercings do suit him, tho, so she maintains she did a very good job regardless)
the three of them usually end up cuddling in a little pile when they finally go to sleep
lance has a sixth sense about knowing which bodily function pidge is neglecting at any given time
he calls it his Big Brother Eye, and only realised he had inadvertently made a book reference when shiro praised him for his culture
lance: big brother sees everything, pidgeon
shiro: oh, you've read 1984, lance?
lance: um. is that like an album or something.
anyways, lance tends to make frequent stops to pidge's room and/or lab to remind her to eat, drink, sleep, etc. sometimes all three at once but only in emergencies.
pidge rarely actually wants to take a break, tho, so lance channels his best "my sister had kids when i was ten and i have been bargaining with small children for almost a decade" voice to convince her to leave
lance: okay birdie, i know the coffee tastes good, but y'know what would taste even better? a sandwich. maybe even some ice cream. you feel like ice cream today kiddo?
pidge, hopped up on three days of no sleep and expired space coffee coran thought it would be safe to give her: (stares directly into lance's eyes) where are you
lance and pidge both get the most homesick out of the team, so sometimes they'll just chill together in silence for a while. lance reminds pidge of her brother, and pidge reminds lance of one of his sisters, so their company is like an extra bit of comfort. they help each other a lot when it gets really difficult
my askbox is still very much open for requests, btw, so if anyone has any ideas feel free to send them in!
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PLANCE TEEN WOLF AU
Pidge is Stiles and Lance is Scott (guess what I ship?)
Pidge drags Lance out into the woods in the middle of the night looking for cryptids
Detective Colleen Holt finds Pidge in the woods and drags her ass back home, leaving Lance to get bit. Pidge finds him wandering around the next morning
(Btw she drives an old motorcycle that used to be her mother’s and it needs fixing all the time)
Her dad is dead and her brother is a military engineer deployed overseas, so she’s super protective of her mom and her best friend
Lance suddenly gets way better at basketball and his senses are constantly overwhelmed at school
He’s a forward and Pidge is a shooting guard, but she’s on the bench a lot because she annoys the coach
Lance lends the new guy Keith a pen, having overheard him saying he’d forgotten to bring one with his freaky new hearing ability
They meet again in the locker rooms after Keith tries out for the basketball team and start arguing a lot
Everyone chokes on the sexual tension between them
When she discovers Lance got turned into a werewolf, Pidge geeks out so fuckin’ hard because she’s best friends with a real-life cryptid omg
She helps him navigate all this new supernatural stuff because he’s kind of a dumbass
After he says something dumb: “I seriously don’t understand how you survive without me sometimes.”
After he does something dumb: “I’m always right and you should listen to everything I have to say and never disagree ever for the sake of you wolvelihood.”
Since he’s got a big family Pidge chains him to a cast iron, claw foot bathtub in her house during the full moon
Honerva is the alpha who bit Lance
Allura’s basically Derek, except friendlier and both Pidge and Lance are low-key hot for her for a while
Even still, Lance gets together with Keith and they have a short-lived but passionate relationship
Keith figures it out real damn quick because he’s the only one more of a conspiracy theorist than Pidge
Pidge gets suspicious of Keith and stalks him, and discovers his family has been werewolf hunters for generations
She straight up threatens to kill him if he so much as scratches Lance and Keith points out he’s the one keeping his folks off Lance’s scent
He continues to do so even after they break up
The first time Honerva almost kills Lance, Pidge realizes she miiiiight be a tiny bit in love with her best friend
She squashes down that shit immediately
Allura gives Lance good guidance on being a werewolf
But she also keeps pressuring him to help her take down Honerva and he just wants no part in that fight.
Until Pidge gets caught in the crossfire, now it’s personal and that alpha’s gotta go DOWN
Lance and Pidge have keys to each other’s houses, but half the time they just climb in through a window
Colleen has seriously considered claiming Lance on her taxes, he’s around so much
Once they start showing up, other werewolves get very unnerved by Pidge
Like she’s tiny and human but they get this vibe that fucking with her would not end well
Allura hides out in Pidge’s room when she gets discovered by the hunters
Pidge spends the whole time grilling her for werewolf trivia and taking notes
Lance makes a lot of dumb jokes but Pidge is the queen of sarcasm
“Are you familiar with the word sarcasm, McClain?” “Very.”
Pidge starts flirting with Lance in her own weird way but he always thinks it’s a joke
They’ve definitely been mistaken for a couple before because of the casual way they touch
Also they’re joined at the hip. Where one is, so’s the other
“Hey, testicle left and right.”
I haven’t been able to think of more so I’m just posting this now
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