New headcanon:

Zarkon was very nearly late to his own wedding because Zarkon, warrior emperor of Daibazaal, panicked.

He was just fine until he started overthinking things. Blaytz was little to no help, but Alfor, having gone through this, was alright.

“What if she changes her mind?”

“Heh, sucks for you.”

“Blaytz, stop. Zarkon, she isn’t going to change her mind.”

“Does she want kids? Can we have kids? WHAT IF SHE WANTS KIDS?”

“Heavens, please no, mini Zarkons?”

“Blaytz, stop. Zarkon, don’t worry about that right now, it’s fine, okay?”

“Maybe this is a bad idea.”

“Well, maybe-”

“BLAYTZ, STOP. Zarkon. It is going to be fine.”

Things turned out alright in the end, but Alfor and Blaytz will never ever let him live his panicking down.

Happy New Year!

As a gift to ring in 2018, have some Modern AU headcanons of the OG Paladins on New Year’s!

Alfor is the most excited and optimistic for the new year. He and his wife are sickeningly sweet and all hugs and kisses as the clock strikes twelve. He’s the one that raises a super sappy toast to friendship and the new year.

Blaytz brought the alcohol, of course. If he’s dating (the Galra servant) then he will be super romantic. Otherwise he’ll be around flirting, but also happy to spend time with his friends.

Zarkon and Honerva are pretty awkward but also somewhat cutely romantic? He ends up saying something formal yet oddly sappy as well, much to Alfor’s delight.

Gyrgan has one of those noise-makers and he uses it for sure. He brought his kids (and the small grandchildren) to celebrate with them. He made the food, and he also ends up mixing drinks most likely.

Trigel is the one that actually led the countdown, don’t let her fool you. She is also the one to insist that everyone share resolution.

All in all they’d be a huge big lovely family celebrating the new year.

Happy New Year everyone! ❤

New headcanon:

If something went wrong, it was usually Alfor, Blaytz, or Zarkon’s fault, or some combination of the three. It typically wasn’t purposeful (though the potential for intergalactic wars started by an insulted Zarkon was always there) and it typically needed Trigel and Gyrgan to do a whole lot of damage control.

The time they scared an entire solar system into thinking the apocalypse was being heralded by the arrival of Voltron was blamed totally on Alfor - they were his lions, and Trigel had to explain that they weren’t ancient deities there to punish them while Alfor almost just went with it. The war Blaytz nearly started with his flirting got him banned from the planet not by the leaders but by an annoyed and exasperated Gyrgan. Zarkon had to be physically held back from challenging people to duels almost regularly.

It all came with the paladin gig.

New headcanon:

Zarkon is the original Space Dad.

Really, that’s only to say that he’s the constantly exasperated “Dad” of Blaytz and Alfor, particularly Alfor. If you organise all of them as a family, Alfor is the baby of the family and probably always needs a babysitter if they want to guarantee he won’t die. Blaytz is the cool older brother who is also a bit of a disaster. Trigel is basically Space Mom, but she doesn’t so much as work with Zarkon to parent the two youngest as parent all three of them. Gyrgan is the cool Space Granddad, even if he’d really resent that because, as he insists, he’s not that old. He’s super snarky, too, but he keeps an eye on all of them if he can. 

And, of course, Coran is still there and basically part of the family, but instead of the cool Space Uncle he is to the modern paladins, he’s basically Alfor’s equally disastrous twin.

New headcanon:

Alfor and Coran play Monsters and Mana all the time. Alfor comes up with the most outlandish backstories just to see if Coran can make them work. Eventually, the other paladins start joining in. Let’s just say that Shiro isn’t the only Black Paladin to always insist on being a paladin in-game, and it drives Coran mad every time.

New headcanon:

Out of all of the old paladins, Alfor and Blaytz were by far the most touchy-feely. I mean, yeah, Gyrgan likes hugs and offers them whenever, but Alfor and Blaytz are a whole different level.

Finding a moment where Blaytz isn’t physically attached to at least one of the others is incredibly rare. He’s pretty much always got an arm slung over someone’s shoulders or something similar.

Alfor will just randomly surprise people by latching onto them with no warning or reason. Also, if there isn’t somewhere to sit (and even if there is sometimes), he’ll just sit on someone (typically Blaytz honestly). The first time he did this to Zarkon, the emperor literally threw him across the room.

That didn’t actually stop Alfor, of course, but it was pretty amusing.

Texas is there chilling with the aliens

Sketch requests for @basedongalra who asked for Blaytz! I decided to draw him with Zarkon, because… I like Zarkon.