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discordiansamba · 2 months

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the thing about cosmic dust is that Pidge and Keith did not, in fact, set out to be space pirates and just sort of accidentally fell into it (though they did not put up much resistance) but literally no one believes them. Even the people who know them well. Especially the people who know them well.

#cosmic dust #keith: what is it about us that makes them think we're lying?#pidge: I have no idea.

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nothatsmi · 1 year

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Imagine starting Voltron in 2023

#klance #voltron #keith kogane #lance mcclain #i swear theyre canon #drawing galaxies and weird planets is actually so fun #theres probably a monster nearby and they have no idea #except pidge #pidge would know about the monster #pidge knows it all #i love them a normal amount

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miraculousbumbble · 3 months

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Voltron but the Castle automatically connects to its visitors minds. But like room wise.

First night in the castle, none of the paladins noticed anything spectacular about their rooms. They were exhausted and had no reason to go looking around. But gradually, they noticed changes. Lance and Keith were probably the most drastic of said changes.

On the paladin's second day aboard the castle of lions, Lance woke up... feeling like everything was a dream. And for a moment, he almost thought the past year had been a dream. His bed felt soft and plush, his entire body was quite literally melting into the mattress, and the blanket he was using (which he swore was paper thin last night) was now heavy and soft and resembled the quilt his abuela had given him only three years prior.

His walls were the same walls he fell asleep surrounded by the night before except, one of them was no longer a wall but it wasn't a window either. It was a video of the Varadero beach from back home. The waves, God he could hear them, almost smell them. (Think the hotel Katniss was staying in from the first hunger games. It's literally that window but it's a wall.) When he sat up from the bed and his feet hit the floor it was weird how it was no longer the cold metal it had been last night, but was now the same wooden flooring that was used on his own bedroom from back home. And for a small moment, lance wanted to cry. Because he knew this wasn't real, his rug wasn't here and that wasn't a window to the beach (even if it was the beach was a 37 minute drive from his house.) His bed wasn't an uncomfortable twin XL bunk bed and even though there was a desk and closet, none of his things were in either of them. It was a fucked up illusion and lance almost wanted to be mad.

Keith on the other hand, it took his room time and effort to change around him. It was as if the longer it took for him to connect with Red and the other paladins, the longer his room took to understand what he wanted and needed. The Galra genes were easy, the Castle detected it when he first walked in and got scanned. Changing the shape of his bed and the general atmosphere of the room was easy, it was genetics. But when it came to wants, the castle had to learn alongside everyone else what Keith wanted.

The first really major thing was the blankets and pillows that seemingly came out of nowhere. Sometimes pillows would even change overnight if the castle felt that his sleep patterns were irregular. The next thing that changed was the flooring that resembled Shiro's apartment. It was weird, a miniscule thing Keith didn't think would ever bring up emotions, but that stupid flooring from Adam and Shiro's apartment nearly brought Keith to his knees. But Keith's favorite addition to the room? The ceiling. Somehow the castle was able to detect day night cycles of Texas and perfectly replicate it. During the day he could see clouds and sometimes if it rained the floor would create these fake puddles, a hologram almost, and at night he could see the constellations. (The other Paladins secretly loved Keith's room. His bed was large and nest-like, taking up the majority of the room, and you could move the ceiling around to look and point out the different constellations)

#voltron headcanons #keith voltron #voltron #lance mcclain #vld lance #vld keith #vld #I feel like lance would look at his room and think thats its cheap illusion #but as he collects things it would start to turn into a place he actually loves #keiths room bring decked out to his own personal wants and needs makes the idea that he spends most of his time in his room more plausable #meanwhile pidge doesnt spend a lof of time in their room #they move a lot #if pidge could somehow get her tech to orbit around her like plants ehile she walked around she probably would #but at the same time I think her room would have some personal touches of home

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very-burnt-toast · 4 months

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Hear me out. Platonic Kidge. Not in a romantic kinda way just in the way that Keith will sit there and listen to Pidge talk about different kinds of tech and how they work and he'll be hella confused but Pidge seems happy talking about it. And maybe he even picks up a thing or two and surprises one of the other paladins when they ask about it. And then Pidge introduces Keith to some of their favourite videogames and once Keith gets the hang of it he actually proves to be quite a challenge to go up against and then they start a game tournament with the rest of the paladins and Keith nearly thrashes everyone except Pidge and everyone's having fun.

#i don't ship kidge but i love the idea of them bonding over stuff like this #so platonic kidge for the win #like imagine them all laughing and having fun playing games togther #bonding moment!!#vld #voltron legendary defender #voltron #vld keith #keith vld #keith kogane #keith voltron #voltron keith #pidge vld #vld pidge #pidge gunderson #pidge holt #pidge voltron #voltron pidge

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vee-is-a-clown · 11 months

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All the paladins have Twitter but Keith "refuses to get it". He has an account but it's secret and only Pidge knows because they helped him make it. It's where he "thirst posts" (the best way I can describe it).

Problem is one day, Lance stumbles upon this account and can't tell it's Keith. Keith decides to fuck with him and pretend to be a random civilian who doesn't know who Lance is. The conversation goes pretty much like this:

K.K. Slider:

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, HE SEWS! Can he stop being attractive for 3 goddamn seconds?

Paladin Lance:

Omg I sew! Lol.

K.K. Slider:

Paladin?? Like from DnD? Are you one of those people who has a roleplay account for their DnD character?

Paladin Lance:

What? No, I'm a paladin of Voltron.

K.K. Slider:

Oh, so "Voltron" is your god?

Paladin Lance:

No, Voltron is a giant human shaped mech made out of 5 robot lions.

K.K. Slider:

Points for creativity, I guess. Also points for not breaking character.

Paladin Lance:

It's not a character! I'm really a paladin of Voltron!

And it goes on like that and nobody is willing to back Lance up because they think Lance trying to convince a "random person" that he drives a giant blue, robot lion and fights an intergalactic war is really funny.

Keith never does admit that he was fucking with him.

#I have a slight idea of how Twitter works #Pidge and Keith are laughing their asses off #voltron #keith voltron #vld keith #keith kogane #klance #lance voltron #vld lance #lance mcclain

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tdutb · 5 months

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haii, d'you think you can draw pidge from voltron with a trans flag :] ?

i don't know anything about Voltron, but i hope you like it!!!

#my art #ms paint #voltron #pidge voltron #i have no idea how to tag this please help

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non-plutonian-druid · 6 months

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heres a treat for the three of you that follow me for voltron. remember that gravity falls au from a million years ago? probably not but here you are anyway!!

[ID: A six panel comic, drawn in a loose sketchy style that could resemble the Gravity Falls style if it were finished. The backgrounds are traced from shots of the gift shop of the Mystery Shack.

Panel 1: Lance leans over the register and hooks an arm around Pidge to see what book she's reading. Pidge looks disgruntled. Lance says, "Oh, Mothman? Are you into that cryptid hunting stuff?"

Panel 2: Lance squashes Pidge a bit so that he can make a frame with both his hands. Pidge protests "HEY". Lance continues, "Have you thought about investigating Keith?"

Panel 3: Through Lance's hand frame, we see Keith, who is stocking shelves and not paying attention. Lance says, "I swear that guy's not human."

Panel 4: The same image as before, except now Keith is looking at Lance and flipping him the bird. Lance says, "I mean, just look at that mull-" but is cut off when Shiro says "Lance."

Panel 5: Shiro, who is also stocking shelves, looks very tired. He has a box of gnome statues tucked under his missing arm, and is holding one of the statues in his other arm. He says, "Just. Why."

Panel 6: Lance lifts his arms and smiles, saying, "Sorry Shiro!" He is still leaned most of the way across the register, but Pidge has escaped his grasp. She is frowning at him and holding her book protectively to her chest. End ID.]

#vld #lance mcclain #keith kogane #pidge gunderson #takashi shirogane #pidge holt #??? is that the one thats more popular???? i guess its more TRUE but its always pidge gunderson to me #no hunk sorry hunk #my art #was the tag for this just #gravity falls au #i have no idea its been so long #anyway im experimenting with actually formatting comics for scrolling on tumblr #i tend to format my comics as if they were pages but. they are not. so that sucks for people actually reading them #im actually pretty pleased with the dialogue #i feel like i hit the rhythms of the banter right. its got references to the show. its got dramatic irony

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pidges-lost-robot · 10 months

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me going through any sort of obstacle or lesson in life: wow…. this is such good inspo for the characters im obsessed with

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kaayeniine · 1 month

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4 more voltron aus

WOOOOO yay

AU!Angel Keith - Keith is a seraphim with a human like form (but with ram legs/eyes on his body and a long white mullet/white eyelashes) who his crazy interested in humans, talking about them for hours and getting judged by other angels (He also sees lance from earth and gets all embarrassed by seeing him, that’s the main reason he goes down to earth in his “human form)

AU! 80’s Keith and 2000’s lance - Keith is from the 80’s (AND HAS A MORE FLUFFY MULLET OH MY GOD) and Lance is from the 2000’s (he’s a big fan of Beyoncé too), but accidentally get teleported to the 90’s together and meet, they’re judging each other hardcore for what music they listen to + their outfits (Walkman VS iPod..)

AU!Sweeney Todd - Keith is Sweeney Todd, while lance is Ms Lovett, Pidge is Tobias/toby!! Big fan of this one because I’ve had it since I’ve watched the broadway version and the movie, love the soundtrack too

AU!RENT - Keith is Roger, Lance is Mimi, Lotor is Benjamin, Hunk and pidge is Angel and Tom (and sadly they’re shipped together erm), Romelle and allura are Joanne and Maureen, Shiro is Roger (Keith’s) ex (but in this au; he’s his brother, not his girlfriend like in the musical) and one of my galra ocs is Mark!! Technically, mark would’ve been lance cause he dated allura, but then again.. klance..

and these are all in my mind baybee, WOO

oh and also my skinwalker au but we don’t talk about that (mostly cause lance gets fucking killed by one and Keith goes insane but shhh..)

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chibi-pix · 6 months

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Heyo, lovelies! Any of you remember this old piece from 2020? It came to my mind again one night and I just had to revisit it with new thoughts for siblingverse stuff. But. I wanted it updated and changed. Including Katie's pose as she's suspended in that tank and barely waking up.

It actually took a bit to figure out, especially trying to alter Katie's pose. The front view and just "standing" there seemed kinda boring. But curled up like this? I actually got Mewtwo vibes because I remember him suspended and curled up. Was that right? Anyway, I finally got Katie's pose figured out and got her drawn and ready for this update. Perfection.

Anyway! I hope y'all enjoy this one! Until next time!

#Katie Holt #Pidge #Pidge Gunderson #VLD #voltron legendary defender #VLD Pidge #because some ideas from the original musings have changed #I don't fully know what AU this is anymore #siblingverse thoughts come to mind though

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autisticlancemcclain · 2 years

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Pidge is a naturally observant person. She’s also naturally curious (her mother would say ‘nosy’, but her mom’s not here, so. Potato potahto). This means that while Keith and Lance may have everyone else believing they’re just close friends, Pidge isn’t fooled. She’s the smartest person on the castle for a reason. Nothing escapes her sharp eyes and sharper intuition.

Yeah, okay, she walked in on them making out in the kitchen a couple weeks ago. Whatever. She can cite her observation skills in her own brain if she so desires. Fuck off.

Point is that Pidge knows they’re knockin’ booties. Doing the devil’s tango. The beast with two backs, et cetera et cetera. Are they dating? In a relationship? Possibly. She’s not sure. They’re down bad for each other, that much she knows, but she’s not positive they’ve made the step towards mutual exclusivity and monogamy. But either way, there’s one thing Pidge knows: Lance’s brothers and sisters and parents may not be here to give Keith an old-fashioned shovel talk, but she is. And she’s happy to do it.

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Pidge decides to be nice and knock on Keith’s door instead of overriding the lockpad. Just to give him some time to prepare. Not that he knows what he’s preparing for, but whatever. She’s gracious and benevolent, is the point.

“Oh, hey, Pidge,” Keith greets, opening the door and stepping to the side. She follows him inside, glaring at the wall. Of course the jackass is kind and welcoming, despite the hour of the night and the glower on her face. The audacity of this fool, to be his regular, good-hearted self. Why can’t he be a dick so Pidge can threaten him guilt-free?

“So…” he says awkwardly, and without looking Pidge knows he’s rocking back on his heels and picking at his nails, like he does when he has to do something social and doesn’t know the protocol. “Not to be a dick, but, uh. What do you need?”

Pidge turns around and squints at him. He looks back with wide eyes. She considers letting him stew in the silence for a bit, to really make him sweat, but honestly she wants to get to the threatening part.

“Pidge?” he asks worriedly.

“If you hurt my brother I’ll kill you dead.”

Keith blinks in shock before tilting his head in confusion. “Pidge, Matt could kick my ass any day of the week. With relative ease, honestly. What the hell are you talking about?”

She narrows her eyes at him. Is he being intentionally obtuse? “I’m not talking about Matt.”

They stare at each other for several minutes, Keith in bewilderment and Pidge in protective stubbornness. Then, understanding dawns on Keith.

“Oh. Oh! You mean Lance. Okay, I get it now.”

Pidge nods tersely. “I’m serious. You break his heart, I break your face, and then I tell Hunk so he can break your face, and he’s scarier than I am.”

“Pidge,” Keith says, softening. Pidge scowls. Dammit. Why isn’t he quaking in terror? She’s scary! She knows she’s scary!

“Don’t ‘Pidge’ me,” she snaps. “I’m serious!”

“I know you’re serious,” he assures gently. “I am trying to tell you that I’m also serious about Lance.”

…Oh.

“…Oh,” she says. “So you’re not just fooling around? Because that’ll break his heart. He loves you.”

Keith smiles, mushy and smitten. “I know. I love him, too. So much, Pidge. I love him desperately and wholly. Promise.”

Pidge stares at the ground, tears pricking at her eyes. On some level, she knew that. She knows Keith. She loves Keith, he’s one of her best friends.

But Lance is her brother. And she’s watched him get beaten down over and over again, get his heart stomped on, and still look at people with a watery smile and an assurance he’ll take care of it. She hates it. She hates that Lance has been hurt enough that he thinks that it’s expected or normal, that he’s responsible for other people’s shitty and jealous behaviour (looking at you, Iverson. You fuckin’ dick).

“I just want him to be safe,” she chokes out, and the tears start to fall.

“Oh, Pidge,” Keith breathes, and pulls her into a firm hug.

Pidge cries into his chest, hands clenched in his shirt, until she loses track of time. She cries for every time Lance put his heart on his sleeve and someone took advantage. She cries for every time he took his hurt with a smile and a flippant hand, only to feel that pain later.

She cries a little for Matt, too. For the hurt he had to handle all on his own. She cries for her brothers, her goofy boys with hearts of gold. The boys who think of other’s first and foremost, who sacrifice everything, and make everyone else smile as they do it. Her brothers.

Keith holds her through it, steadfast and strong. She cries for him, too, and how many times the universe has hurt him.

Eventually her tears subside, and she pulls away.

“Sorry for saying I was gonna break your face,” she sniffles.

Keith laughs. “No, you’re not.”

She smiles wryly, wiping her eyes. “You’re right.” He smiles again, punching her gently on the shoulder.

“I meant it, Pidge. I love him. I have always loved him, even when I hated him. I’ll love him forever, Pidge. I mean. It’s kind of hard not to.”

“I know,” she whispers. She sniffles one more time, turning to the door.

“Um, that’s really all I came for,” she says awkwardly. Keith grins.

“Just the threat.”

She smiles sheepishly. “Yeah. Sorry.”

“Don’t be,” he laughs, and she grins at him again before heading out the door.

“And, Pidge?” he calls, just as she steps out.

“Yeah?”

“If by some freak of nature I do break Lance’s heart, he’s gonna beat my ass himself. It certainly won’t be his first time.”

She snorts, remembering the tongue-lashing Keith got last time he ignored Lance on a mission.

Yeah. Her brother will be fine.

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bosspigeon · 6 months

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one of my friends adores Gale and one of my friends hates him and i had both of them at my apartment tonight and i sat in between them while they argued about him and played both sides bc i like to cause problems

#pidge speaks #i also got to play a couple hours of bg3!!!#had a lil friendsgiving get together and my cousin broughtbher ps5 #once she sends me the lyre screenshots I will post him #finally got a decent reference i can use to draw him!#ofc he looks different bc i am limited by the cc but!!!#i like having an at least lore friendly u kno???#like i want to be able to have him in game without chewing on the controller in rage that hes not close enough #so i had a vague idea but struggled to draq him

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larsmina · 1 year

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Pidge: I have very high standers and expectations.

Pidge, pointing at Lance while he’s trying to beat Daniel at ‘Just Dance’: And he meets ALL of them.

#vf #vforce11 #voltron force 2011 #voltron #voltron force #incorrect quote #can you tell I have no idea what to post?#vf lance #vf pidge #vf daniel #vf plance

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empty-blog-for-lurking · 11 months

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hiii uh. dunno if this will make any sense, im kinda just throwing my thoughts at you

OKAY. so. been thinking about kuron(again) and the thing im just realising how ALONE he is, at least at the beggining. the people he thought of as his family fucking KILLED him, stole his body, and then basically forgot about him for YEARS. and after being ressurected- like, in the first few days, weeks, months- did kuron had ANY support? anyone to lean on?? to help him adjust to being alive again?

i know he starts to meet new people and make friends, and thats great! but. at the beggining....... lance was in a coma 'n shit, team voltron propably wasnt too enthusistic about helping kuron, and it just hit me that, at least the way i understand it(i might be wrong), he had to figure EVERYTHING out by himself

thats FUCKED dude

Oh god yes!!! To be honest i dont really have like a detailed idea for this part of the story like at best i have this one idea where Veronica is the first one to find him. Like in my head Veronica has been trying to track down Lance cause he ran away/didnt give the address once he moved out, isnt picking up his goddamn phone and literally dropped from the face of the earth and she cant find a trace of him. That was until apparently Lance?? 'Attacked' Shiro?? Like Shiro's fine just fainted and on bedrest and according to Curtis, Lance was saying something about "he is still in there" before apparently using Magic?? Somehow?? And taking something? From Shiro?? Yeah Veronica has no fucking clue. But a lead is a lead and she was able to track down Lance's new home only to find 1) a guy butt fuck naked coming out of a quintessence filled tub like the girl from Shining and who looks a bit like her boss. 2) her brother unconscious. She instinctly about to pull a gun on him except Kuron just slips and hits the floor, so now Veronica has two men she needs to drag to a hospital. Joy.

So like yeah Kuron's first stranger-to-acquintance-to-friend is Veronica. She neither has the history of All That™ the others have with Kuron, knows a bit about the clone situation to not be weirded out by it, but also doesnt really care about the whole Evil Clone thing™, cause i am so sorry but she has seen this man fall on his face first 5 times and counting, cry over a fridge ad that had kittens in it, and try to name himself Frank Shelley, even if he somehow becomes Evil~ Veronica is sure she can just Take him down easily, and like what is she supposed to do? Just leave him? He clearly has even less of an idea what is going on and she cant in good conscience leave him like this.

And thing is that Veronica does want to support Kuron, because he deserves that! It's the right thing to do and he deserves that! But at the start he really is a stranger to her and Lance is more of a priority to her than he is, and he is like one of the only leads that explains what is going on with Lance. And while she wont admit this but Kuron can tell and like logically He Gets That™!! He Gets That™!!! And he wants to help Lance too!! But he's also someone who is used and thrown away by everyone around him and this shit hurts like hell. Like this is a recipe of disaester for both of them and will result in a shouting match but right now Kuron is too high on pain meds and pain of being alive again to truly get into it so.

So like physically he isnt really alone in figuring this out, Veronica is trying to help him as much as she can help him, and the hospital staff she dragged him to are really nice to him as well. Emotionally......well there is effort. Vero is trying! Heck she even defended him when Shiro suggested they should lock him up cause he was a danger to everyone and is evil. She is trying but she also has her own trauma, whatever is going on with Lance, her family having separation anxiety, her job, etc etc and she can only do so much, and like Kuron is also trying but he is also dealing with so much and pushing it into the back burner and my guy is just not having great time at all. So like yeah he did had to figure out so much himself

#Kuron uses what scrapes of emotional intelligence he has to be understanding of Veronica so he can be unapologetic Shiro-Keith-Allura hater #It's like you try to find your lost brother only to come across his freaky necromancy science project and him in coma what do you do?#obviously not abandon him! She has read Frankenstein no thanks #Kuron being adopted by McClain siblings wasnt something i thought of but this idea is starting to be very appealing #Kuron is Lance's Little Guy while he is Veronica's Pathetic Little Meow Meow #This is the only idea i got that would actually make sense but i also am a bit hesitant to use it cause i dont know A lot about Veronica #But i also dont want to do to her what vld did to Pidge #I decided to be a bit nice to Kuron for once and gave him a friend and he decided to have complicated relationship with this one too jfc #Like dude get your shit together #What? You gonna have a beef with that janitor as well? Have a complex intricate relationship with that lovely old nurse too? Come on dude #post s8 au #empty answers #kuron voltron #kuron vld #veronica mcclain #lance mcclain #takashi shirogane #voltron legendary defender #Thank you for the ask!!!

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piedoesnotequalpi · 4 months

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well i cant NOT ask about garbage can ft bikes - @pigeonwit

(WIP ask game!)

Congratulations! You have hit the one non-Newsies document!

Okay, so imagine it's 2022 and the gay pirate show is taking the interwebs by storm. I was new to writing fanfiction, and was very embarrassed by this fact, so all my documents/folder names had a reference to me being a garbage man in a garbage can (...I've grown).

Somewhere in all of this, I saw a post talking about how OFMD would lend itself well to an AU where Ed and Stede are in rival biker gangs, which then led to someone drawing a little comic where Ed and Stede were both stopped at a light, and Stede was riding a road bike and wearing a matching chamois and jersey, and Ed was on a motorcycle. I am an occasional mountain biker, so this gave me ideas.

Basically, Stede and his crew are all road bikers (roadies) together, and while some of them are strong roadies individually, they are very bad at doing group roadie activities, like pace lines and pelotons (not the overpriced stationery bikes). Stede is very excited about all his fun little outfits, Black Pete is whining about how this isn't as cool as mountain biking, Jim and Oluwande are vaguely competent, etc. etc. etc.

Meanwhile, Ed and co. are all mountain bikers, specifically downhill mountain bikers. They're also very into the aesthetic, but they're all in plain black gear, flat shoes (nothing that looks like a clipless pedal roadie shoe because being a roadie is for nerds, obviously), and of course Pit Viper sunglasses. They pretty much only do cross-country mountain biking when they have to; they have season passes to the local ski-area-turned-bike-park, probably because at least one of them works there. One day, Ed decides that it would be a good idea to start doing more cross-country biking (i.e. actually pedaling uphill) so he can get stronger and improve his downhill skills, but Izzy thinks that's a stupid idea.

I was a little fuzzy on how Ed and Stede would actually meet, but the possibilities were:

Ed goes off without Izzy, decides to bike to his local trail network instead of driving his bike over, and encounters Stede and co. on the road and nearly rides into traffic because he's so distracted by this ridiculous turquoise man. He decides he'll get his contact information through Black Pete, since he recognizes Pete in the group.

Pete convinces Stede to try mountain biking, and they happen to try it out at the same time Ed, Ivan, and Fang are doing some cross-country biking.

I don't have a super strong grasp on speech patterns/characterization for the OFMD crew, and I am also not super familiar with how roadies are as people, so between that and all the Newsies stuff I never got around to writing this. But I think it's a fun concept!

#isabel.tex #asks #pidge!#wip game #our flag means death #i have no idea if you watch the gay pirate show but i hope you enjoy this

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feyravenchatter · 2 years

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Keith Kogane, Snake Whisperer

"How far back does this cave system go-ohhh shit, what is that?!" Lance had started halfway between an actual question mixed with complaining about how long they'd been in the caves. He'd ended with an inhuman screech.

Hunk, Pidge, and Shiro froze in place at the sight of the very large snake tucked into the recess next to the next turn in the underground cavern. Keith, however, relaxed, a slight smile on his face as he looked it over, head cocked to one side.

"Looks like a western ribbon snake, just, y'know, not," he said calmly.

"Howthefuckareyousocalm?" Lance asked, his volume far lower, but still pitched at a level that would gain the attention of every dog in a five block radius.

Hunk, Pidge, and even Shiro turned to silently stare when Keith chuckled.

"If this one's anything like the ribbon snakes I grew up around, we're fine. This guy's bigger than the ones in Texas, but it hasn't done anything, so I don't think they're that different."

The snake in question was about 6-7 feet long, and instead of the green body and orange and yellow stripes of an actual western ribbon snake, this one was a slightly iridescent deep aqua, a purple stripe running along the center of its back, two cerulean stripes on either side of it. It watched the paladins with interest, but wasn't aggressive or shying away from them. It was either Keith's impulsive nature or confidence in the snake's resemblance to an earth reptile that made him slowly approach it, ignoring the shocked gasps from his friends.

"We can't hurt anything down here!" Pidge whisper-yelled.

"Not gonna. 'S not movin' either, so think 'm safe," Keith answered, a bit of his Texas accent coming through in his concentration.

When he was a full arm's length away, he reached out slowly, the snake's tarnished gold tongue darting out, tasting the air. It stayed where it was, waiting to see what this strange creature would do. When Keith stopped, hand outstretched but not touching, the snake bridged the gap, bumping Keith with the end of its snout. When he didn't react, the snake risked getting closer, inching its body from where it had coiled on the geothermically warmed stone. While Keith didn't resemble its prey at all, he was also warm, and seemed like something it could suitably climb for a nap. The snake scaled the creature, wrapping itself around ribs and shoulders, its head resting on a coil of its own body draped over Keith's shoulder. The only reaction it got was a puff of a laugh and...head pats? This was not something the snake had ever encountered before, but decided it was not unwelcome, butting its head into Keith's hand when he stopped.

"What the fuck," Shiro whispered.

Keith turned around, his new friend settled comfortably. "Think he likes me," he said, his tone amused.

"Let's just hope it's not for dinner," Hunk said nervously.

"Nah," Keith answered, " 'M too big. Little guy like this won't hurt me."

Pidge had gone back to furiously researching on their tablet. "You're shitting me," they said, typing halted.

"What?"

"Well, for one, the artifact is in the cavern after the next one, but also, that snake is a Vurian Crystal Snake. They're rare in the wild, but 'if found and befriended, the Crystal Snake will imprint on the Vurian, the two becoming companions for life' - that's what the info I dug up says anyway."

"Huh," Keith said in an amused laugh at the same time as Lance whisper-screeched again, "Nofuckingway!"

"Y'not like snakes?" Keith asked, but then he looked up from his new scaled friend, and saw the kid-on-Christmas-morning look on Lance's face.

"They're after sharks, naturally, but I actually do," he said, calmer now that he knew the snake was friendly.

"Well, let's go get that artifact then."

~~*~~

The artifact - an ancient stone idol worshiped by the Vurians' ancestors - was easy enough to find and recover with the paladins' jet-packs, and they brought it safely back to their hosts and potential allies. The Crystal Snake, who had been identified as female and named Nyx in the hour and a half between retrieving the artifact and making it back to the capital, was still comfortably draped across Keith's shoulders when they entered the main hall to present the idol to the Archsage.

Allura was more than a little surprised to see the snake, but her reaction paled in comparison to the Vurians around them. Astonished whispers echoed through the open stone hall, soft reptilian hissing mixing with the soft rustle of their plant-like scales as they all seemed to be saying more or less the same thing.

The Archsage descended from the dais at the far end of the hall, approaching the paladins carefully. "Paladin, do you know what that creature is?" he asked, a reverence in his voice as he watched Nyx butt Keith's neck with the top of her head for pats.

He indulged her as he answered. "We believe that this is a Crystal Snake. We found her in the caves. I did approach her first, but didn't touch her until she climbed me." He glanced over at the snake with a fond smile. "She hasn't moved since."

"You are correct, that is a Crystal Snake. To find one in the wild... You have done us a great favor in retrieving our ancestral artifact, for which you have earned our gratitude and trust. But it appears that our home itself has chosen you as friends." He turned to face Allura and the rest of the hall. "Princess Allura, we asked that the paladins save one of our oldest artifacts from decay as a show of cooperation and trust. Befriending one of our most beautiful and precious creatures rises above that. We agree to join your Coalition and ask that you remain as our guests until terms can be fully decided."

"Thank you, Archsage. We would be happy to stay for as long as is needed."

The Archsage returned to the dais, discussing details of their stay with Allura. A silent signal was given to staff to show the paladins to the dignitaries' guest house, and Lance leaned in as he walked beside Keith.

"Looks like we're going to have to share our room with a snake now."

"That a problem?"

"Nah, she's too pretty." He redirected his attention to her. "And, Nyx, I'm sorry I freaked out at you at first."

Nyx raised her head, looking exactly like she was contemplating what Lance had said, before stretching in his direction. He and Keith shared a startled laugh, and he reached out, giving her the pats she'd so quickly discovered she liked, nudging her head into his hand as if to say "you're forgiven".

Allura and the paladins ended up staying an entire week. By the end, a full agreement had been reached with the Archsage of Vuria, and when they left, it was with a new ally and member of the Coalition as well as a data stick full with every possible shred of information the Vurians had on Crystal Snakes.

Nyx became something of a mascot for Team Voltron, and Pidge reprogrammed the door sensors to allow her almost total free reign of the castle. She was found mostly in the common areas, coiled on a warm surface, or burrowed under the blankets on Lance and Keith's bed. She did have to have it explained to her that the mice were not a viable food source, and she understood after investigating them thoroughly. Later, after Keith returned from the Quantum Abyss with Kosmo - she was not happy about being separated from her bonded companion - she made friends with the cosmic wolf as well, the two of them curling up together wherever they wanted.

Nyx hated the dry heat of Texas from the moment they landed at the Garrison, but when she was brought to warm, humid Cuba? Well, it was a good thing Lance and Keith had decided to settle there anyway.

#I literally have no idea where this came from #I just got this idea of Keith learning about the snakes native to Texas as a kid #and then making friends with as many of them as possible #the ending kinda sucks but it's 230am fight me #my writing #keith kogane #lance mcclain #pidge holt #hunk garrett #takashi shirogane #princess allura #keith x lance #klance #vld #voltron #voltron legendary defender

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