#Older Paladins

[nortedwayfinder]

when you're so yolked you have a team attack with yourself

[juls-art]

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[lena-in-a-red-dress]

For those of y'all newer folks who don't know who Paladin is.... Intro, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 8b, Part 9, Part 10, Part 10b, Extra

[keldae]

Be amazed that it's taken me this long to decide "oh, you know what? I should roll up my SWTOR legacy in BG3!". ;) Now to decide on classes and romances...

Xaja: Fighter/Rogue multiclass, maybe. Probably gonna romance Karlach. (And oh, the temptation to roll her as a halfling for the lulz...)

Korin: Rogue/??? Bard, maybe? And he might need the polyamory mod. ;) If I don't do that mod... Astarion? Shadowheart?

Sorand: Sorc/Wizard multiclass, and he'll definitely be romancing Wyll, I think. (Also, he'll be my resist!Durge instead of a Tav.) (And if I do make him something other than a human... drow, maybe?)

Reanden: ????? Monk, maybe, for the unarmoured combat? Romancing ????? (gaaah, why is the cranky old bastard so hard to figure out?)

Shara: ???? Barbarian/Fighter, maybe? Or a paladin? NO idea who she'll get with.

And, because I WILL need an embrace!Durge at some point...

Maglion: Fighter/oath of vengeance Paladin? Not sure if he'd romance anyone, or if anyone would romance HIM. I mean, dude is more toxic than all of Quesh...

Xalia: Rogue/sorc maybe? Maybe romancing Minthara or Lae'zel?

[ethereance]

Au where post canon Allura gets sent back in time to s1. Or so she thinks at first. But because she has no body in her own reality, her quintessence latches onto the closest alternative the second she can return to the universe. The differences are subtle. But as time progresses they grow more apparent. Her ‘future’ knowledge isn’t quite so handy after all.

[vodka-and-ocs]

Campaign: L'Oeil de la Tempête

☀️ Ada, high elf paladin and chivalrous knight, currently located in the city of Armentières, Ambray ☀️

[silverskye13]

I think one of the kindest things about T Kingfisher's writing is how old the protagonists are. Maybe it's just me getting old (coughs dust into the air) but it's so refreshing to hear banter like:

"I'm not a young man, I'm 37."

"And I'm 62, so shut up child."

Instead of, like, normal fantasy where the banter leans towards:

"He was an older man, late 20s, maybe even 30s--"

[outeremissary]

Blacklistable tag update: in the next few days I will probably put up one or two original posts related to BG3, one of which will be art (assuming I finish my shit at a reasonable time). I will likely be posting these under "emi plays bg3" and not "bg3"; large fandoms make me nervous. I wanted to be sure I was clear so that folks could filter things out. I will try to be more consistent henceforth with using that or the normal fandom tags on posts. If you are looking to catch my characters from that and a recent PF campaign (I know I often don't fandom tag asks), "kasander" and "asperia" should cover your bases.

I will try to reblog this a few times at some more decent hours.

[discordiansamba]

If there are Shiro clones in canon, are there Matt clones in this AU?

Matt clones... Pidge's worst nightmare.

But also. This is a very interesting idea. Because Matt dodges the 'die in the astral plane' bullet that Shiro didn't avoid. Which means there's no need for a clone to replace him. Except... Haggar notices something very interesting about him while she has him in her clutches. There's a strange irregularity with his memories- it's almost like he has a second set of them, overlaid with the rest, ones that even she cannot seem to access. His memories are normal up until that point.

Very curious.

When Matt becomes black paladin, she ponders if she can use this to sow chaos among the paladins. What she can see is that after the point where his memories become irregular, his sister the green paladin seems to regard him with some suspicion. As if there was a marked change after that point. In that case...

She begins to arrange events in her favor. She sends a fake distress signal from a planet that houses a race of shapeshifters and telepaths that even the Empire avoids. If they kill the paladins, that works for her. If they don't... well, that would be the first phase in her plan. To sow a seed of doubt.

Pidge is on her own when she picks up on a distress signal. She finds a damaged craft, and soon finds its pilot.

It's Matt.

To be more exact, it's Matt like he used to be, before he joined the Garrison. Before he started to get really weird. He stares at her like she's a mirage at first, and then tenses up, asks if she's really Katie. If this is just another trick. She's confused. Who else would she be? And how can Matt be here, if she just saw him on the Castle not even several hours ago?

This Matt looks up at her in horror.

"Katie," he says, "-that thing isn't me."

[blujayonthewing]

okay I'm normal now [on my knees face in my hands crying about playlist songs for the character I actually am playing tonight]

[hand-of-devotion]

This whole thing being Calamity levels of bad truly speaks to ME. Guy who has an internal conspiracy about the Luxon having been discovered by Aeor and seemingly displaying ‘illogical’ power through Zerxus as well as having been rediscovered by the Krynn Dynasty and displaying ‘illogical’ power through Ashton

[yourbustedkneecaps]

hc: it’s roughly 2130 during voltron, therefore shiro was raised two generations after gen alpha, making my favorite music considered The Oldies^2

[nikomedes]

writing about men kissing will literally have u googling the various charges and devices painted on knight's shields. writing about men wanting each other carnally will have u learning what an escutcheon is

[ima-ghost-art]

I’ve just realised no one on here realises how badly I am Voltron trash!

(even when the fandoms been dead for ages now!!)

It was my first fandom for little ol baby me back in 2016, who hadn’t yet realised that they were about to collect the

 “pretty boy/ goofball comic relief character thats always there for the others, who the creators kinda just beat up for jokes even tho they almost definitely are severely traumatized and also probably Neurodivergent/ dyslexic/ bisexual (that ends up in almost definitely loveless/non-compatible relationships bc no gay??) but no one in the show acknowledges it” 

the very moment my eyes were set upon Lance!

i also survived the shipping war by hc Keith as ace (lances 2nd platonic soulmate after hunk, bc bonding moment) and lance dating matt bc latte has my heart bc goofy meme bisexual bfs who decided to get married so lance is legally pidges brother????

YES PLEASE??????

honestly matt/lance or matt&lance has taken over my Voltron brain like their ship name is so cute as well!?!? i love latte!!

alsooooo matt should have become the blue paladin and lance should have become the black paladin and if i ever get a chance at working on a Voltron reboot, you bet this last bit will be fucking cannon!!!

(Allura can be the red paladin after getting some actually GOOD character development and growing to realise she doesn’t need romance to be happy after like some really random love square involving her lotor, lance, and matt! also, lotor redemption where he wasn’t actually killing altaens  and it was hagger or something)

ALSO also ADAM FUCKING LIVES AND HES LANCES OLDER BROTHER (veronicas twin!!)

idky im posting this i just needed to get the voltron brain rot to disapper for a bit so i can actually get to finishing my stranger things fics!!

[royposting]

ive loved all of my bg3 characters but the current one he is just so special. what a sweet mild mannered boy. so kind and gentle he doesnt even need to be evil to impress astarion. i LOVE him

[scattered-winter]

You know, back in season, during season 1, they way Allura talked about Voltron implied it had been around for a very long time even before the lions were put into hiding for 10,000 years.

It’s really jarring that Voltron had apparently only been created during Allura’s life time and was only operational for a few decades before being locked away. If Voltron had been defending the universe for generations, I would be understanding of them being surprised that the universe had forgotten about Voltron.

Also, how than the Bayard be the “traditional” weapon of the Paladins if there had only been one other generation of Paladins.

you've actually touched on something I've thought a LOT about !! one of the big differences I'm doing for the rewrite vs the show is that I'm going super deep into the worldbuilding for voltron and the lions specifically, and I never liked how the lions were Built by someone and then just. magically had the ability to become voltron. this is gonna get kinda long so I'll break it up but this is basically gonna be a worldbuilding infodump :]

so first I have to start this by explaining quintessence. we weren't given a lot of information in the show, but from what I could gather, quintessence is the energy of life that imbues every living thing, and there are 5 different colors that have some effect on the personalities/nature of the living things. some things that I added, however, make quintessence into the literal lifeblood of the universe. every single thing, both living and inanimate, contains quintessence, from the grains of sand on the beach to the water to fire to animals to the literal void of space itself. the 5 colors all work together to keep the universe balanced out. additionally, quintessence is kind of. Sentient. ish. it's a force of nature like gravity, but it also kind of functions as Fate. it ties things together and sets the pieces on the board, but the pieces can make their own choices and shit so its not like quintessence is Controlling anyone. its just kinda. setting the stage so that certain things can play out.

for instance, five people who all happen to complete a full set of voltron paladins that just happen to stumble into each other on the same night, and just happen to discover the blue lion together.

with all this in mind, and with the additional fact that the lions of voltron each represent every color of quintessence, respectively, the lions themselves are kind of. the physical embodiment of this Supernatural Slightly Sentient Force Of Fate. they were born at the beginning of the universe itself, and their entire purpose is to uphold the quintessential balance of nature (similar to avatar the last airbender, how the avatar's duty is to uphold the balance of the 4 elements/nations). because of this, there have been hundreds of thousands of paladins since the beginning of time, thus the legend of voltron being so widely known. it's literally fundamental ancient mythology for most of the universe, so of course everyone knows about it!

zarkon, alfor, and the other paladins in that group were the last ones before the lions were scattered for 10 thousand years, making that the longest stretch of time where the lions had no paladins. so the fact that 5 humans who had very little knowledge (or none at all) of the Wider Universe just happened to be able to find and bond to all 5 lions in a pretty short amount of time can be chalked up to quintessence (fate) setting up the board for them. the beginning of voltron, with the finding of the lions, is fate and destiny, but its the paladins and allura and coran themselves who win the battles from there. because, like I said, fate sets the stage, but doesn't have any influence on what people do on that stage.