1 DAY UNTIL VLD SEASON 8

New headcanon:

Alfor was not prepared to be a father.

When he finds out his wife is going to have a baby, he panics and runs to the only person he’s friends with that actually has kids: Gyrgan. He’s not at all surprised that his friend is freaking out. Gyrgan manages to calm Alfor down and assure him that he had plenty of time to prepare and that he would be a fine father.

Coran finds out before Gyrgan, actually- he is witness to the immediate panic when Alfor finds out, and quick to reassure Fala that, yes, Alfor is happy, this is a good thing, he just needs time to realise he won’t somehow mess up his son or daughter from early childhood. He’s completely ready to fill in the role of favourite uncle.

When Alfor and Fala tell the rest of the alliance, they’re varying degrees of thrilled. Trigel is actually super excited, and she starts researching right away so she can a) help Fala through her pregnancy and b) know everything she needs to know to babysit the Altean baby. Zarkon actually panics a lot like Alfor did- something along the lines of “Wait, I’m not ready to be an uncle!”- and it’s actually quite touching, really. Blaytz decides immediately that it’s the best thing to ever happen; he starts badgering them to find out how long it will be before the baby gets there, when can he babysit the baby, the baby’s going to love Nalquod, he’ll take it swimming- no one is completely sure if he actually knows how babies work.

When Allura is born, Alfor has another mini-panic-attack, but someone shoves the baby into his arms and he just freezes and stares at her. She makes a cute noise, and Alfor just melts. 

Coran meets her next, very soon after she is born. He too melts and thinks she’s just the cutest creature in the entire universe. He doesn’t even want to give her back to Alfor, protesting that his friend is clumsy and will probably drop her and really Coran should hold her a bit longer, just so she’s safe. It’s a rather amusing sight.

As soon as Blaytz gets the news of Allura’s birth, he drops everything and comes straight to Altea. Alfor explains that he would have brought Allura to Nalquod when she was old enough to be travelling that far, but Blaytz kind of gives him an offended, “You would make me wait that long to see the baby?” He thinks she’s adorable, and tells Alfor that he could start teaching her how to swim- Alfor has to explain to him that Altean babies cannot swim at this age, and, in fact, he’s pretty sure Nalquodian babies can’t either.

Gyrgan brings his kids to Altea to meet the new princess. Every single one of them falls in love with her automatically. Gyrgan sits Alfor (by this point a very sleep-deprived and frazzled father to a two-month-old) down and gives him some more much needed fatherhood advice, and offers to watch the baby if Alfor and Fala ever need a break.

Alfor ends up taking baby Allura to visit Trigel in the Dalterion Belt. Trigel has procured a bunch of baby supplies and baby toys for her, all “scientifically proven to help with Altean children’s early development.” She talks all formally to Allura, who understand absolutely nothing and is more fascinated by Trigel’s ears (she seems to choose something on everyone to be fascinated by and tug at, be it Alfor’s beard, Coran’s mustache, or Blaytz’s fins).

Zarkon, when he finally meets her, is somewhat amazed by how small and squishy and fragile the baby is. Allura steals his “cold emperor heart” (to quote probably Blaytz) right away, and it’s probably right after meeting her that he starts asking Honerva, “When can we have one? Will it be this cute? You do want one, yes?” Alfor decides not to even bother warning him about the less adorable and cheerful sides of parenting- Zarkon can figure those out for himself.

New headcanon:

In the early days of their marriage, Honerva would often shift to try to look more Galra, as there were many Galrans unhappy that their emperor had married and Altean. Zarkon eventually told her that she needn’t change herself for anyone, that he liked her just the way she was, and that if anyone argued he would fight them to the death.

(Though touched, Honerva thought he was kidding. He wasn’t. Alfor had had to hold him back from death matches for reasons akin to this many, many times.)

role swap au part 2!

coran -> alluras role!

• one of my personal favourites ngl
• young hot coran
• the prince - however his father is not alfor, ill get to that
• a little less eccentric and coran-like, a little more stressed and attempting diplomacy

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allura -> corans role!

• another fav
• royal advisor
• alfor was her son, he died along with all the other alteans, and the king (Corans father in this au and someone we dont know :/) also died
• a little more eccentric but looks after coran like her son or nephew

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zarkon -> lotors role!

• wayward son
• rebellious prince of the galra
• crafty little bitch
• subtler in his universe-domination attempts like our lotor

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lotor -> zarkons role!

• ruthless leader of the galra
• still got great hair tho
• not much else to say
• was an original paladin
• corrupted by quintessence

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haggar -> axcas role!

• still zarkons right hand lady
• actually honerva - was never corrupted by the quintessence
• boss ass bitch

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axca -> haggars role!

• corrupted by quintessence
• technically lotors wife :/
• potentially altean? i believe we’re undecided but its doubtful

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ezor, zethrid and narti -> druids’ roles!

• we did the girls dirty we know
• theyre still important!
• magic powers oooo

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thats all i can think of so uhhh hope you like our au, as you can probably tell the aliens are less developed than the paladins, but ya thats p much it! outties

JUST SO MORE PEOPLE CAN SEE THIS:

This person on YouTube found smth pRETTY IMPORTANT

SO IF YOU GO TO NETFLIX AND GO TO THE TRAILER & MORE ON VOLTRON, YOU WILL SEE THE SEASON 8 TRAILER BUT THERE IS EXTRA FOOTAGE ADDED ON IN THE LAST FEW SECONDS

OH? HERE IS A PHOTO OF THE SHIP WE SEE

IDK WHOS SHIP THAT IS BUT OOF ATLAS GOING UP AGAINST SOMETHIN BIG, PROBABLY THE SHIP BEHIND HAGGAR HERE

I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THIS FOOTAGE UNTIL NOW SO JUST IN CASE OTHERS HAVENT EITHER HERE YOU GO

(Still holding out hope Lotor is there somewhere ;^;)

December 9th: Galra Appreciation Day!

The Galra may be a force of evil in the universe, but let’s still take a moment to appreciate their actors for making sure we have some awesome villains! We’ve got Zarkon (voiced by @NeKap), Haggar/Honerva (voiced by @IAmCreeSummer), and Lotor (voiced by @AJLoCascio)!