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:

Alfor told dad jokes. All. The. Time. Oftentimes they were the corniest dad jokes there are.

It used to annoy the heck out of Allura, but now that he’s gone she finds she really misses his dorky sense of humour.

kosmo-mckogane:

i just think that allura’s mosters and mana character (pls like/rb and give credit if using for icons!!)

klance-daydreams:

romellura for the soul

HI so how about an au in which allura is this arthurian figure in altean folklore (legendary princess destined to return in time of altea’s greatest need) who romelle has had a fascination with since childhood, and then one day she meets this girl who claims to be the princess from those stories, and who asks for romelle’s help in finding the new paladins (reborn rather than just returned like allura) and from there its all adventures of this super powerful, magical princess with a fate that has been written in the stars for ten thousand years struggling to navigate completely mundane things in this unfamiliar modern world and wondering how she can possibly help anyone when she’s so lost and alone here but also finding a new family in romelle and the paladins and learning how to operate a dishwasher

Season 8 thoughts

Since I’m sure everyone else is doing it, why not add my stupid fucking opinions too.

Well done, Voltron, for making me cry (again). A feat that has only ever been accomplished by a scene of a horse movie when I was younger. I’m so fucking upset that it’s over, I love this show so fucking much and the thought that there’ll never be another season is just sksksksk

Allurance was… a thing

“Lance will end up with someone different from the beginning” or whatever it was was complete and utter bullshit. I don’t hate Allurance but it wasn’t set up properly in my opinion. They could have like,,, NOT said that and then it wouldn’t be such a let down. He’s been going after her since episode 1, and it still feels so fucking strange to have her suddenly feel the same as of season 7. Not to mention, he didn’t even seem too happy when he went out on a date with her. Why did he turn around and do that, and then have those reactions completely gone later on. Not to mention; way to fucking kill off Allura. If you don’t want to deal with the backlash, write! Your! Romances! Better!!!! Especially the ones who will be endgame!!

I’m still not sure what to think of Shiro’s new man, I like that it’s at least in there, but once again, wasn’t handled the best. Our best lgbt+ rep was a couple a’ galra gals who didn’t even actually kiss like shiro and whoever the fuck his new dude is. Give us a name PLEASE.

The animation, as always, was Fucking GORGEOUS, I will always kiss the feet of the animators, because animation is fucking hard and to make HAND DRAWN things look that good, especially combat, is basically the fucking work of gods in my eyes. I’m still fucking NUTTING over how pretty everything is

The!!!! Old!!!! Paladins!!!! I LOVE how they came into play, it really sells the idea that Voltron is one of the most powerful, mysterious thing in the universe with how, through adead bitchllura they could purify the Paladins Of Old, even fucking evil emperor Zarkon himself!!! That’s the fucking universe’s Defender babey!!!!!

Oh fuck, right, “Keith will see Lance’s sword” where??????? Stick to your fucking PROMISES PLEASE. I have mixed feelings and these inconsistencies are playing into it. If there’s any reason I’m glad Voltron is over, it’s because we don’t have to second guess every fucking thing the Voltron team says. I’m also super Fucking upset that the leaks were real, mainly because of the legal reasons. Whoever released them, fuck you

I think that’ll be it for now, I need to sleep and maybe cry more. Take care voltron community, it’s been an honour flying with you all.

she just wanted something sparkly