#quintenssence

[halexxsam]

in my mind, swiss decided to go back to the abbey to save phantom.

The abbey was falling apart, and poor aether and cumulus just couldn’t keep up. They needed someone else, they needed another quintessence ghoul. aether bit the bullet and told Frater about it, who immediately phoned the pack.

they were all silent after they hung up. they would be losing another ghoul. phantom stood up on shaky legs, heading back to his bunk, starting to shove things into his small rugsack.

“wow, bug. hold on, now” mountain stated

phantom sniffles, “who else would it be? i’m the newest member, only fair”

“we still need to talk about it. you have a say”

poor phantom started crying, the telltale of a wobbly lip making all the ghouls coo at him.

perpetua sat at the front of the bus, giving the ghouls space but still present if they needed him. He had thought they all went to sleep with how quiet they had gotten.

“i’ll go” swiss whispered, looking up to meet the eyes of his pack

“what?” dew shrieked out

swiss shrugged. “i’m one of the oldest, and i’m strong with my quintenssence. it’s not fair, i know. but someone has to go. bug is doing so well this tour, i can’t take that away from him”

a tear trailed down mountains cheek, dead flowers and leaves falling from his horns.

swiss smiles softly, a hand coming up to cup his cheek. “it’ll be okay, big guy. i’ll be waiting for you guys when the tour is over, hm?”

everyone was quiet that night. they all cuddled together, limbs and tails tied together. perpetua let them be, taking his brothers advice and not trying to wake them up.

in the morning, the ghouls woke up and swiss was gone.

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read this post from @miasmaghoul and immediately had to write this. that sound you hear is me bawling in a corner.

[mayogee]

Varigo is not klance, varigo is lotura bc betrayal and revenge and the backstories of their parents.

Varian: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’VE BEEN HARVESTING QUINTENSSENCE FROM THE BAYANGORIANS??

Hugo: Listen, I can explain--

Varian: I can’t believe you, Hugo. I trusted you --

Hugo: Varian pls-

Varian: --to be smarter than this. Ingvarrians have higher quintessence running in their blood, why would you waste precious resources youre so fucking stupid

[notllorstel]

Why is coran the black paladin and also i love ur altean shiro. Do you have ideas behind the au? Tell us an au story pleaseeee 💕

Because Coran looks good in black~ 

It’s kind of a mash up role swap au between Allura and Coran to Hunk and Shiro. 

Like, Hunk is the Altean Prince and pilots the yellow lion and Human Allura gets to pilot the castleship. Human Coran is a veteran instructor at the Garrison, Altean Shiro crashes to earth when escaping from the Glaran empire and takes up the role as bodyguard/adviser when reunited with Prince Hunk. 

no change to Lance and Pidge, they stay human in this au.

Keith gets raised by the blade of mamora and goes uncover on Earth when he discovers he’s also human.

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[houseofhades101]

Last OC Alert for today!

Her name is Estrella Mcclain. Her backstory is so confusing I’m not going to bore you all with it. She is a Voltron OC half sister to Lance and Lotor. She is 25% Altean, 25% Human, and 50% Galran. She the Empress at the end and she is co-pilot to whatever lion Keith has. She may or may not have the hots for a certain MFE pilot that has a ”wonderful” personality. Plus after a quintensse incident her dark brown hair ombres to white and she has purple altean marks.

[ruvatia]

MaintenLance III

Pairing: Lance x Reader Word count: 2,8k Context: You wake him up in the middle of the night because you appreciate space rocks. (lowkey doesn’t really work anymore because this was all written during season 2-3 but that’s ok) Pt1 (xxx) Pt2 (xxx)

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BEEP.

BEEP.

BEEP BEEP BEEP.

The girl woke up in a flash, looking at the universe hologram that had   suddenly summoned itself in the room. She hurriedly got up and threw her blanket aside, Lance slowly waking the moment she pressed the “dismiss alarm” button.

“What’s up?” he asked groggily.

“There’s a Kromerran nearby! We have to go get some of its metal!” the girl said, practically jumping into her clothes. “Come on, Lance!”

“Urgh, god, please no. Remember how we almost lost the ship last time?”

“Come on, this metal is half-titanium and half-rune! There’s almost nothing like these wonderful creatures!”

“Finnneeee.”

You’re so lucky I have this gigantic crush on you I swear.

After what seemed like an eternity to her, she grabbed him by the hand and dragged him all the way to the main control room. There they both did the usual route towards Blue and set off for the closest Kromerran.

During the past two months since her awakening, it’s happened three times where Lance would be awaken in the middle of the night or disturbed while he was relaxing to go hunting for rare or special metal with her. Not that he hated it, seeing her excited and hearing her talk about what she loved (also he got to learn about new things which wasn’t unwelcome when she was teaching him) but it did get a little tiring to always be there for the rock-loving dork.

“After this one, I’m not escorting you unless it’ll really be useful.” he said with a big yawn, more cranky due to his lack of sleep. He just knew that when he was going to get back on the ship, he wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep, and neither would she.

“Okay. Promise I’ll tone it down a little bit after this one.” she grinned as they approached the planet.

Lance raised his eyebrow at her. “A little bit?”

“Everything is very useful if you know how to use them properly.”

“And you know how to use everything?”

“I like to think that I do.” she giggled, making him sigh as he looked at the planet they were approaching.

Lance noticed that it looked a little bit like a Balmera from afar and questioned about it.

“You’ve been to a Balmera already? That’s incredible!”

“Is it? I was only there for a short while though.”

“A Balmera is a great grand beast that can produce quintessence crystals, while a Kromerran is one that can produce quintenssence-compatible metal. Sure, quintenssence can be found a little everywhere, but the metal from these creatures just have a better, uhm, flow for it?”

“Soooo, Kromerrans are like Balmeras’ sisters or something like that?”

“I guess so! That’s a very nice way to put it, actually.”

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Lance let the lion land on the planet, the two stepping out of the beast with their arms linked. She seemed to know an awful lot about Kromerrans, but she couldn’t lie: it was her first time seeing one. And as luck would have it, it was a Kromerran untouched by Galra claws.

It was breathtaking. The creature was stunning upon further exploration, and the caves seemed to all link to the core, that, again, resembled a Balmera’s. It was less colorful, since what the creature had to offer was metal but everything still had the same vibe. Mysterious and most definitely alive.

“So uh, do you think we’re gonna have to do a ceremony thingy to be able to extract the metal?” he asked, looking up at the gigantic core with her. Now that he thought about it, the one he saw on the Balmera was smaller. Does that mean that this creature is healthy?

Lance turned to the girl, only to see her staring at her own reflection with wide eyes. There was a huuuuuge crystal that stretched just a little above her head. It rivaled the size of the core, but it wasn’t as shiny. Lance noticed this, and wondered why she was looking at herself.

“Hey, you listening?”

“Y-yes!” she said, turning to him in quick motion. “What is it?”

“Ceremony thingy to extract the metal?” he shrugged.

“Yes, r-right. We’re a little short-handed so we’ll have to manage with just the both of us. We don’t need that much. Blue can only carry so much after all.” she said, brushing some of her hair to the side. Didn’t help much.

“Hey, Blue can do anything he needs you to do. Trust.” he said, a smug grin coming on his face.

“Of course, Lance.” she grinned back, making his heart skip a beat.

Even though he was pretty cranky about half an hour ago, her smile always managed to instantly wake him up. Honestly he was scared that he would grow used to seeing it and thus lose his way to wake up so easily in the morning, but at the same time, the thought of her smiling more, at his side was really, really nice.

“If only the bunk beds were a little wider…”

“Did you say something?”

“UHM, NO. IT’S OKAY.” he answered in a robotic voice, his shoulders immediately hugging his neck. “I UH, UH, RIGHT. DID YOU SPOT A GOOD ONE?”

The girl grinned at him. “Yup! I think I saw a good one while we walked on the surface.”

She slowly let her fingers wrap around his wrist, pulling him away from the core’s room. “Come on, I’ll show you.”

Oh wow she was touching him and he wasn’t ready for that.

The girl dragged him back up to the surface, making sure that he was always either beside or behind him. Lance realized that he liked it better when he was beside her, but he wasn’t going to say anything about it yet.

“A little more time.” he thought to himself. “Just a little more time.”

The moment the blue lion was in sight again, the girl stopped and turned to him. “It was around here, I believe.”

Recently it’s been like this. She would touch him gently and there would be a lingering warmth that always made him crave more. Her fingers were a little rough, but he expected that since she was working with big parts, screws bolts and magical stones or whatnot.

Lance looked around him as their hands refused to separate. Most of these resembled the castle’s crystal, but smaller, and… Darker. He was staring at their reflection in a bigger one, until he let out a yelp as he was pulled from the front.

“Here! This one!”

“T-this one?”

“Yeah! It’s a peculiar shape, don’t you think?”

“Peculiar, you say.”

It looks like half a deformed butt is coming out of the ground.

“It’s unique.”

“Of course it is.” she said, finally letting his hand go. “Come, I’ll prepare to take it with us.”

Lance let his hand hang in the air before it returned to his side. “Right. Be right there.”

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“Heave-ho!” She let out with a big huff.

Lance pulled the best he could, the girl pushing what had come out of the ground. At first the crystal seemed to become smaller, but then it decided to become bigger again. This form was complex, compared to others, or maybe it was bigger than they thought it was and had many more bumps like this to come. Thankfully however, the shape popped out thanks to their relentless effort.

“Whoa!”

It fell at Lance’s side, the ground immediately closing after the stone had separated with the creature. Lance and the engineer looked at what had come out, a familiar shape coming to mind.

“Hey, it..” the girl started, gently caressing the stone.

“It looks like a heart. Well, sort of.” the brunette shrugged.

The girl nod, slowly lifting the stone with slight difficulty. “I’ll shape it when we get back to the ship. Oh, right! Take the small one too.”

“The small one?”

“It seems the Kromerran gave us this one and another small shard.” she said, gesturing the smaller piece with her chin.

Lance saw it a few feet from him, and picked it up. He had nowhere to put it for now, so he left it in the palm of his hand as he helped the girl carry the bigger one back to Blue.

Back on the ship, she immediately got to work. She sanded the smaller one first, and then grabbed one of the smallest drills she had. Curious, Lance peeked over her shoulder and approached his face to her cheek.

“What are you doing?” he asked over the drill.

To answer, she stopped the device to look up at him.

“It’s a secret.”

“What? Come on, don’t be like that.”

“It’s no fun if you know what I’m doing with this one! Run along, wait downstairs!”

Pouting, Lance retreated down the ladder that led to her workshop and dragged his feet to Blue.

“How rude, am I right buddy?”

He received a silence from the lion, but imagined him talking back and nodding.

“Women.” he would say.

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After thirty minutes, the girl came back down with the smaller shard now spherical, with odd carvings here and there. Lance pointed at it with a raised eyebrow.

“What’s all that?”

“Drawings. I had one of my machines laser them all on it.”

“L-laser?” he repeated, reminding him of tech from his world. Guess some things are just universal. Lasers being one of them.

“Mhm. Come on, let’s lay down.”

“Lay down?”

“I drilled a hole under to let me place a light there. I sanded the sphere so that it’s thin enough to let most of the light pass in some places. It’ll act like a projector.” she explained, Lance following him across the hangar.

“A-and you did all that… In the span of thirty minutes?” he asked, blinking quickly.

“Oh Lance, who do you think I am?”

“The craftiest person in the universe right now, why?”

A giggle escaped the mechanic as she placed the little projector on the ground. It was connected to a small button by a wire that Lance figured to be the on/off switch.

“Come, let’s close the lights.” she said, taking his hand again.

“But of course.” he answered in his usual flirty manner.

The girl laughed, turning her head. She hoped that he didn’t noticed how red the tip of her ears were turning red.

Before turning the lights off, she brought out a flashlight from one of her pockets.

“Wouldn’t want to trip out way back here, would we.” she grinned, Lance mimicking her expression.

She pushed the button, and the room turned dark. She switched the flashlight on, and lead Lance to the device she had left on the ground earlier. He was a little impressed that she had remembered exactly where she left it. The mechanic didn’t even need to wave the light around to make sure of where it was.

“Lay down, I’ll go get some blankets from upstairs.”

“Blankets?”

She nod. “I found them as I was working earlier. Wait here.”

His eyes followed the only source of light up and down the stairs, looking at the blankets that she had brought back.

“Are you planning on sleeping here?”

“No. I’m planning on laying here.” she said, spreading the bigger one across the ground. She sat on it and then stretched her legs before Lance sat down beside her, flinching when she suddenly closed her flashlight.

“Whoa, it is really dark.”

“Hold on, I’ll fix that…” she said, reaching for the switch.

The room lit up with clouds, mountains, rivers and the sea. There were two sceneries, one being the sea and what seemed to be under it and the other was a field with mountains in the background. It was something that you’d see Van Gogh painting, since the machine didn’t have the best accuracy on a metal such as this one. The lines on the images seemed nervous and tense, but calculated and exactly where they needed to be.

The mountain seemed to resemble a volcano a little more, with the top being pretty flat and all, but the field was something that Lance hadn’t seen in a long time. He had seen many clouds here and there upon many planets during their travels, but none compared to the fluffy ones they found back home. To his mind came along the image of Pidge geeking out at the clouds that were made of pure acid or metal or whatever else.

The other side of the room, representing the depths of the sea showed mostly dinosaurs, and other creatures that were extinct. He couldn’t recognize much of what he could usually see in textbooks. Same with the flora in the image. He didn’t know that many plants, but none of these seemed like modern plants. It looked more like something he would find in a prehistoric picture book.

A complicated emotion came over his features, but the only thing she could clearly see on his face was a small smile.

“Huh, pretty close to the real thing.” he said softly.

“Is it?”

“Yeah. It’s not all that realistic, but I can make most of these out… Sort of.”

“These are images I’ve taken from the Blue Lion. Ten thousand years in the crust of your planet, after all.” she chuckled.

“Yeah. Most of the creatures from the ocean side are extinct though, probably.”

“Extinct? They couldn’t move to other ocean to live there?”

“I mean, yes but no? Our planet’s surface is 70% water, just like our human bodies, but the water isn’t the same everywhere. We don’t have technology to travel to other galaxies like you guys either. We already have a lot of trouble getting to the end of ours.”

The Kerberos mission flashes into his mind for a second, but that seems so far away now. Lance looked away from the lights momentarily, but then focused on them again as he continued.

“The creatures on this side existed waaay before humans ever did. We call them dinosaurs. They dissapeared because their surroundings weren’t livable anymore or a meteor killed them all. But everyone doubts that it’s the second one.”

“Well, if there was a small amount of them…”

“I don’t think so, we’ve found too many remains for there to be a few.”

“Remains? From such a long time ago?”

“Yep. Just bones though. Scattered here and there around the world.”

“On land? Even though these dinosaurs are aquatic?”

“Oh, we had some that live on land too. Come to think of it, the animals that live in the oceans and lands of earth today are all their descendants. Either that or they’re weird hybrids because earth is constantly changing.”

The girl turned on her side, looking up at Lance.

“Will you… Tell me about it?”

“About… Our planet’s animals?” he said, looking back at her.

She nod with her eyes shining, which he found hard to refuse. But he did anyways, averting his eyes and scratching his chin lightly.

“I… I don’t know that much about them. I didn’t really study up about those kind of things. Pidge would be a better person to--”

“Just tell me what you know about your planet then.”

He turned back at her. “H-huh?”

“You can just tell me what you know. It doesn’t have to be detailed or planned or smart. I just…”

She bit her lips before she continued, he didn’t miss that.

“I just want to know what it’s like… What it was like for you before you became a paladin.”

He felt his heart stop. She… Wanted to know more about him. She was curious about his life and what he went through. He didn’t know what to start with though. It always started with someone talking about themselves, be it him or them, and it just came out. No one’s really asked for him to talk about himself.

“Will I… Hear about you then?” he asked, turning to his side to face her.

“I don’t… Have much to say about myself.”

RIGHT, SHE HASN’T REGAINED HER MEMORY YET.

Lance felt a very strong blush come to his face was he was getting ready to roll around in embarrassment, but she spoke up before he could even move.

“But the moment I remember something, I promise you’ll be the one I tell first.”

He felt his blush deepen.

You’ll be the one.

That hit him hard. Too hard.

“Okay.” He managed to squeak out.

Until she fell asleep, Lance spoke of everything he knew of earth to her. Eventually, she scooted closer and closer to be able to hear him better. Sleep was getting the best of her and she couldn’t hear him all that well because he was getting tired too. Eventually, they ended up close enough so that they were nestling against each other. Eventually, Lance pulled the blanket above her shoulder to make sure she wasn’t too cold. Eventually, her eyelids became too heavy.

Before she fell asleep, she could’ve sworn that he had whispered goodnight.

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[drawn-with-passion]

Sheith headcanon...

This is just a random thought that came into my mind today... ...being a human/Galra hybrid, what if Keith's lifespan is going to be cut short naturally? Maybe he'll die at the age of 20 cuz I'm pretty sure Galra genes are more stronger than that of humans, and it would probably overwhelm him. Knowing how much Keith meant to him, Shiro won't let him die and believes that the only way to save him is to: treat him with quintenssence. Perhaps Zarkon finds out about Shiro's motive and tries to stop him from doing so because he doesn't want Shiro and Keith to end up like him and Honerva, thus repeating history. Idk...just something that's kinda cuckoo-crazy, may delete later.

[dent-de-leon]

Yeah, I do think Keith is going to be the one dealing with quintenssence. He was the first one to have physically contact with druid and that yellowy thing, and I think that was foreshadowing.

I’m so ready for druid Keith or inter-dimensional traveler Keith or anything really as long as it explains his quintessence affinity 

[historioddity]

VLD Season 6 Ep4

Well, that was quite the plot twist.

Also, the answer to the time skip thing. Not the answer I wanted (we don’t know how long it was for Voltron versus Keith and Krolia) but really the answer I should have expected. I wonder if that’s going to come back to play in the end. I also really want to know if the time changes in that area of space affect how long the Alteans have been in hiding according to how many generations there are versus how long its been in the rest of space.

Of course, I can’t say I didn’t know that Shiro thing was coming - I imagine we all did by the start of this season. I do find it interesting that Shiro was clearly (unconciously?) fighting Haggar this entire time. It says a lot about the clone (assuming we’re still right about the clones).

I haven’t trusted Lotor since he started giving them information and I don’t know how I feel about this particular reveal. He never lied, in that he really was protecting Altean history and culture and he did save actual Alteans from being hunted down and killed by the Galra. Obviously, nothing he brought up would have come close to hinting to his quintenssence thing. So far its being played (or maybe its the truth) that he thought he was doing things for the greater good - and with the way the Galra operate (which is definitely the culture he is best steeped in) I can see exactly how he got there (assuming there isn’t more to come)

That said? Still totally disappointed. I can’t tell if its just that Lotor was playing it just so well that you get that kind of disappointment or if its the fact that we got the obvious Allura and Lotor attraction that hit the cliche kiss right before the reveal. I really don’t know. Some part of me still wishes for redemption for him, or that there is truly more to this story, but I’m trusting that we’re going to go forward from here and not go back to rewrite it at any point. As I finish out the season, maybe I’ll feel differently about this episode.

But holy shit, living Alteans! They better go save them now or we’re going to have a possible dead colony if Lotor wakes up before they get there. Assuming we don’t have a straight continuation for the rest of the season, I could see that happening.

[historioddity]

VLD Season 6 ep. 1

Well that felt like a good intro to the season.

(also hey, you remember this? Because I have no one to talk to? Have fun with another season of these!)

I like that we’re jumping back into things though I really wanted to see more of Lotor’s reaction to Allura making it through when he failed the White Lion’s trial. But hopefully that hasn’t been omitted for too terrible a reveal later.

I’m interested in seeing how well Lotor can keep his priorities in line with Voltron this season, because there’s little real probability that they’re just going to stop saving people. Allura can’t be there to work on your ship all the time!

Also I love that Hunk is/was making an effort to learn about the Galra, that’s going to be needed so badly. I mean it was demonstrated in this episode alone.They’re going to have to actually learn about the Galra to work with them.

I can’t wait until we learn more about what Allura learned because jfc she kind of seems to have brought Lance back to life here. Also Lance is a huge dope, did you see that dopey smile on his face while they left?

And lastly, Shiro and Haggar. We’ve definitely know that connect is there and strong now. I wonder if Shiro will continue to be affected by what Haggar is doing or if going to Oriande was just too big of a trigger for whatever kind of bond they seem to possess. Also, holy hell, what has the White Lion done for Haggar? Is she going back to pre-quintenssence or is something else up? I’m super excited to see where that’s going to go because I had to say, I was not expecting this particular shift in the story-line. Maybe others were, but I’m suprised. Its also going to be hell on Lotor.