Princess Allura [Voltron: Legendary Defender]

Who: Keith, Allura, and all of their loved ones
Where: Four Island Beach and the Pony Attack on Voltron House
When: May 21
Summary: Keith and Allura celebrate their marriage with their loved ones. Reception with music, food, cake, and foam weapon duels to follow.
Rating: PG to PG-13, will warn as necessary
Log:

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Pony Attack on Voltron House

House: A king-sized, pearly gray microfiber blanket for the couch, complete with a shooting star pattern

Keith: A Charmander Egg and a new sketchbook

Shiro: A galaxy-painted ceramic mug and a bag of authentic Komala Coffee beans from Alola

Hunk: A Rockruff Egg and a book on restaurant design

Romelle: A Snubbull Egg and mix-and-match Ponyta socks

Fluttershy: A few books on Pokémon husbandry and medicine

Friends of the House and Close CR

Ulaz: A set of decorative tenugui (fine cotton towels) for the new house and a box with a variety of homemade cookies

Byleth: A moon and star themed tea set and a selection of fine teas

Armin and Angel: A variety pack of seeds and bulbs, and a box with a variety of homemade cookies for them to share

Jane: A cute apron and a box with a variety of homemade cookies

Riz, Mando, and co.: Silver Powder for Riz (boosts Bug-type moves), Metal Coat for Mando (boosts Steel-type moves, used to evolve Onix and Scyther when traded), and a box with a variety of homemade cookies for everyone to share

Kaiba, Marik, and co.: Dragon Fang for Kaiba (boosts Dragon-type moves), Spell Tag for Marik (boosts Ghost-type Moves), and a box with a variety of homemade cookies for everyone to share

Luisa and Mirabel: Soft Sand for Luisa (boost Ground-type moves), a book on Pokémon fashions for Mirabel, and a box with a variety of homemade cookies for them to share

Grant, Dimitri, Felix and co: An assortment of teas, coffees, and hot chocolate mixes, and a box with a variety of cookies

Sandalphon and Corrin: An electric kettle with temperature controls and a box with a variety of homemade cookies for them to share

Shadowmaru: Blue Scarf (boosts Beauty in contests) and a box with a variety of homemade cookies

Cecil: Green Scarf (boosts Cleverness in contests) and a box with a variety of homemade cookies

Kazuki: A set of decorative tenugui (fine cotton towels) for the inn and a box with a variety of homemade cookies

Eri: A Growlithe plushy and a box with a variety of homemade cookies

Ryan and Min-Gi: Two kits of Pokémon care supplies and a box with a variety of homemade cookies

Yuzu: A Sylveon-themed scarf and a box with a variety of homemade cookies

Radley: A Silk Scarf (boosts Normal-type moves) and a box with a variety of homemade cookies

House: An electric kettle with temperature controls
Shiro: Metal Coat (boosts Steel-type moves, used to evolve Onix and Scyther when traded)
Keith: Charcoal (boosts Fire-type moves)
Lance: Mystic Water (boosts Water-type moves)
Pidge: Miracle Seed (boosts Grass-type moves)
Romelle: Silk Scarf (boosts Normal-type moves)
Sasha: Twisted Spoon (boosts Psychic-type moves)



Thace: Quick Claw (increases chance of going first)
Steven: Spell Tag (boosts Ghost-type moves)
Armin and Angel: A selection of fine teas
Mikasa: A pair of Vulpix plushies, one Kanto and one Alola
Jaskier: Luck Incense (doubles prize money from battles, linked to Chansey line)
Geralt: Rock Incense (boosts Rock-type moves, linked to Sudowoodo line)
Kiri: Pure Incense (decreases wild encounter rate, linked to Chimecho line)
Grant and Family: A very, VERY large sherpa blanket, perfect for lots of people and Pokemon snuggling at once
Jane: Zoom Lens (boosts accuracy by 20%, might be useful for sleuthing)
Riz: Scope Lens (raises critical hit ratio by one stage, might be useful for sleuthing)
Felix: Blue and black scarf
Rainer: Black and pink scarf
Fluttershy: Pink and green scarf

PERMISSIONS

INFO

IC

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NAME Princess Allura
CANON Voltron: Legendary Defender
CANON POINT Season 7, Episode 13

INFO link
MOONBLESSING Cordis

AGE Chronologically 10,000+; biologically late teens in space elf years
SPECIES Altean
GENDER Female
APPEARANCE Princess, Paladin
HEIGHT 5’8”/173 cm
BUILD Medium-light, athletic
HAIR Moon white, hip length, curly
EYES Crystal blue with purple pupils
VOICE Kimberly Brooks
FEATURES Pointy elf-like ears, light pink markings on her cheekbones under the corners of her eyes

PLAYER LWP
TIMEZONE Mountain Standard Time (MST, GMT-7)
CONTACT LoneWolfPrincess#5132, LoneWolfPrincess

HUGGING
Yes
KISSING
Yes
FLIRTING
Yes
ROMANCE
Yes (Currently in love with Lance, but one-sided crushes on her are okay!)
SEX
No thanks!
FIGHTING
Let's plot it out first
INJURY
Let’s talk about injuries beyond minor cuts and bruises
DEATH
No
MIND-READING
Normally yes, just ask first please!
MANIPULATION
No
OTHER
Everything else goes here. If your character has an ability that others might want to opt in or out of, say so here.

BACKTAGGING
yes
THREADHOPPING
Yes (Just ask first, please!)
FOURTHWALLING
Let’s talk about particulars
CRAU RECOGNITION
Let’s talk about particulars
OFF-LIMITS
Nothing I can think of.
OTHER
Everything else goes here.

OPT IN
Please comment to this post if you are okay with threading sexual themes or scenarios with this character.

▶ PLAYER
HANDLE: LWP
CONTACT: LoneWolfPrincess, Discord: LoneWolfPrincess#5132
OVER 18? Yes
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: N/A

▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Princess Allura
CANON: Voltron: Legendary Defender
CANON POINT: Season 7, Episode 13
AGE: Space elf, plus cryo sleep, minus answers from canon how old she was BEFORE said sleep or how quickly her species ages, equals who even knows goddammit DreamWorks Chronologically 10,000+ years; biologically the Altean equivalent of late teens
BACKGROUND: Voltron on Wikipedia, Episode List with Summaries, Voltron Wiki Entry

PERSONALITY:
While Shiro and Keith are the leaders of the Paladins, Princess Allura serves as a commander and guide for Team Voltron at first, and later as a capable and dedicated Paladin of Voltron in her own right. As the daughter of King Alfor, the man who created the Lions and was one of the founding Paladins, Allura feels Voltron's duty as "defender of the innocent" as both her father's legacy and a personal responsibility. She has always been a brave and determined soul, begging Alfor to fight Zarkon even as he decided to hide her and the Lions away, and near immediately resolving to bring down the Galra Empire after learning of the destruction of her father, her home, and her entire civilization. She is nearly implacable when she feels the right thing needs to be done or when lives are on the line, and will urge others around her to hold on to hope and keep trying until they reach victory. Off the battlefield, Allura tries to emulate her father’s gracious and diplomatic precedent, offering kindness and patience to potential allies and those in need, and doing her best to be a wise and assured mentor to the other paladins at the beginning of her journey.

Despite the strong, composed persona and noble, dedicated heart, however, Allura is not without her weaknesses or vulnerabilities. She feels her connections to Team Voltron, the war, and to her lost planet Altea keenly, having a strong case of survivor’s guilt at having survived the conflict while her father and the rest of her people were destroyed, and often caring little whether a strategy or heat-of-the-moment choice would risk her being captured or killed. So many have died- ARE dying- because she feels she didn’t do enough to stop Zarkon when he first attacked Altea; why shouldn’t she be willing to lay her life down too? This also heavily shapes her relationships with the Paladins at first; she feels she must “portray strength” in order to properly guide the Paladins: pushing herself in her efforts to help and command the team to the point of exhausting herself multiple times, trying to keep a stiff upper lip even when deeply upset about destroying her father’s AI or being rejected by the Red Lion, even concealing Zarkon’s past as the first Black Paladin for Shiro’s sake. Her compassionate heart, her headstrong desire to act quickly, and her yearning to preserve Altea’s past have also been turned into weak points by adversaries, with Commander Hira of the alternate reality’s Alteans and especially Lotor appealing to these traits in an attempt to gain her aid while keeping her in the dark about their true intentions. When she realizes she’s been betrayed, however, Allura can reveal a temper that alternates between hot, scathing words and even physical violence in the most extreme cases, to cold, ruthless disdain and distrust, and she can be VERY stubborn about holding onto grudges formed this way. Thankfully, when she DOES realize she’s in the wrong, she’s quick to admit it and try to make amends, even to the point of being too hard on herself. Most of the time she is able to pick herself up and move forward despite the lingering guilt, but other times she can need the help of others- especially Lance- to realize she’s a vital member of the team and a valued part of their lives, and that all is not lost just because she makes a mistake or two along her journey.

While never fully overcome, most of these scars and rough edges begin to heal and smooth once Allura is chosen by the Blue Lion of Voltron. She had already started slowly opening up to the others- especially Keith- but for a while, the only ones she could truly trust to be at her most vulnerable with were Coran- who is more or less a second father to her- and the mice she formed a telepathic bond with while in the stasis pod together. When Shiro disappeared and Keith took over the Black Paladin, however, she encouraged Lance- whom at this point she never really interacted with deeper than him hitting on her and her rebuffing him- that he IS worthy of being chosen by the Red Lion- her father’s Lion, the one she hoped to pilot herself and had just been rejected by- with genuine grace and faith in him. It was at this moment that the Blue Lion chose HER as its new Paladin, and in turn Lance begins to mentor her in being a paladin and especially to his former Lion. This opening up becomes even more important to her new role as a paladin; it’s only when she stops trying to control Blue and admits to needing help and guidance too, to this being an equal partnership, that their bond reaches its full strength and Blue allows her access the full extent of its power.

While she's still very dedicated to their fight and can still be stubborn at times, being flexible and trusting others are new forms of strength that she’s more willing to tap into now. She slowly feels more comfortable opening up to the others, asking Keith if he’s alright after losing a fellow Blade during an intelligence mission, confiding her doubts in herself and crying openly in front of them, or even acting like a normal, even playful teenage girl while partaking in a game of Monsters and Mana with the team, something she only did around the mice before. This is especially clear in her relationship with Lance, which evolves from annoyance at him, to genuine respect, friendship, to deep support and, eventually, mutual love (albeit still unofficial at Allura’s current canon point).

Overall, Allura is a driven, strong-hearted young woman dedicated to giving the universe peace and freedom again, and has been slowly learning to practice what she preaches: “we are always stronger together.”


POWERS/ABILITIES: Voltron Wiki List, VLD Wiki List (Bless you, Wikis, so I don’t have to try and compile and summarize two and a half years’ worth of canon updates from my last game.)

Obviously Allura’s powers regarding manipulating energy and quintessence (Voltron’s “life force” and a common energy source) and alchemy are pretty OP, so I plan on nerfing them to their applications towards healing and minor magitech engineering, and I have some proposed limitations for these two applications. For the healing, Allura’s powers already tend to tax her physically since she’s imbuing a being or object with her own energy, even if becoming a paladin and an alchemist have both strengthened her stamina reserves. So, having a high/scaling cost of Chroma and/or physical energy should work fine. (Maybe Allura could have others hug her or hold her hand to fuel more complex healings, but that’s a bridge that can be crossed another time and with mod permission…) Allura would not be able to regenerate limbs, other older injuries would either be impossible to heal and/or require multiple/prolonged/higher cost healing sessions (however the mods wish to limit it), she’d be incapable of transferring souls, and she’d be unable to revive the dead beyond an immediate resuscitation, if at all (again, whichever the mods deem fair). Any and all healing would only be done with prior permission from the players involved.

As for the magitech, Allura has always been able to run Altean technology by imbuing some of her energy into it to work the controls, even if said tech was largely based on being powered by crystals created by large, sentient planets the Alteans had a mutualistic relationship with. (It Makes Sense in Context.) After passing Oriande’s trials and becoming an alchemist, however, Allura gained a knowledge of engineering (previously undemonstrated in canon) and how technology and quintessence can interact. Like her father was able to create the Lions of Voltron through use of his alchemy and the trans-reality ore, Allura is able to design, build, and power objects with quintessence (ex. Shiro’s new prosthetic arm), or imbue an existing compatible object with it (ex. the Sincline ships). This one I’m a little less sure how to nerf properly, given how it’s a bit similar to the Iris-blessed’s powers when she’ll be a Cordis, and I don’t want to power through any tech/energy-related problems or throw a wrench into anything you the mods might have in mind. (Not that I plan to do anything too advanced in the first place.) Rulings and suggestions on this front would be greatly appreciated, even if it’d mean nerfing it down only to something like an easier time understanding how Chroma-based tech works.

INVENTORY: Aside from the infamous orange uniform and earrings (which double as comm pieces on the same frequency as the paladins' helmets) she’ll be wearing, Allura will be bringing her paladin armor and helmet and the blue bayard. In addition, a more personal item she’ll be bringing is a hologram featuring her mother and father.

Allura will also be arriving with her four Altean mice: Platt, Chuchule, Chulatt, and Plachu. These mice were sealed in Allura’s sleep chamber with her, and as a result they’ve developed a telepathic link with the princess. They’re also intelligent, able to understand humanoids, have full conversations with Allura via a combination of thought and pantomime, follow her instructions to help save the Castle of Lions from being hijacked, gather intelligence read: gossip and report it to Allura, and choreograph adorable trick routines on their own. Aside from these traits, however, they’re more or less normal multicolored space rodents with mischievous streaks and a collective devotion to the princess and her happiness.

MOONBLESSING: Cordis. Blue, ice powers, feline, a way for the world to say “hey, take care of yourself more, it’s really okay,” this fits Allura to a T. (And, really, flirty Allura is HILARIOUSLY bad.)

▶ SAMPLES

July Test Drive Top-Level
TFLN with Sarah Williams, set in Prismatica

Player: LWP
Character: Princess Allura
Current Canon Point: Season 4, Episode 6
Updated Canon Point: Season 6, Episode 6

Updated Background: (Why do I keep updating Allura two seasons at a time, and why do the Wiki pages not update her background? T-T)

So! The good news from Naxzela is that the giant planet bomb didn’t blow up AND Keith didn’t die! All thanks to… Lotor? Who immediately requests a “discussion” with Team Voltron in exchange. We don’t see this discussion and the first face-to-face meeting between the Paladins of Voltron and the exiled prince (because canon is horrible about skipping over a good third of these big dramatic moments), but when we begin Season Five it’s with Lotor trapped in a cell on the Castle and feeding the paladins information on bases and missions in a bid for freedom. Still, given his penchant for playing the team like fiddles in the past, Allura and Shiro are very slow to trust him. That is, until he offers up an irresistible bit of info: the location of Sam Holt, Pidge and Matt’s father. The Holt siblings and a few rebel allies infiltrate a prison camp for captive scientists and free the prisoners, but it turns out that while Sam WAS there, he’s already been moved. Shortly afterwards, they receive a transmission… from Zarkon: a trade offer of Sam for Lotor. After lots and LOTS of arguing over what to do and ethics vs practicality (including Lotor trying to slip in an offer of a political marriage with Allura at one point, which she ignores and Lance does NOT like at all), eventually Team Voltron decides to take the deal. Shiro and the Holt siblings bring Lotor down to the surface of a designated planet for the hostage exchange, and quelle surprise, Zarkon almost sends them over a hologram and makes off with the real Lotor. But then LEGITIMATE surprise: Shiro slipped the captive Lotor the Black Bayard. There’s a LOT of scuffling, but eventually it ends with Shiro and the Holts rescuing Sam, and Zarkon and Lotor fighting to the death… with Lotor victorious.

Once they’re back on the Castle, Allura is surprised that Lotor- now trusting him just enough to let him be free on the Castle- seems upset after killing his father. Still, she’s not quite as keen as Shiro on the idea of escorting Lotor to the Kral Zera, the rite and competition to crown the new Emperor of the Galra. Not only is it too dangerous to waltz into a gathering of the strongest leaders of their enemies, Allura is unhappy with Shiro’s stunt with the Black Bayard and how it could have compromised the exchange. The team is equally divided on the subject, arguing back and forth with Shiro trying to pull rank and even snapping at Lance for trying to mediate. She and Lance bond later over Lance’s bayard taking the form of an Altean broadsword and assure each other about their use to the team and tensions with Shiro. Things seem to resolve after they fight off a forest-controlling Galra weapon and Shiro and Lance make up. Still, neither Lotor nor Shiro are able to persuade the team that going to the Kral Zera is a smart call. The Black Paladin takes the opposing opinions with the dignified and reasonable response of sneaking Lotor out of the castle in the Black Lion in the middle of the night so they can get him crowned emperor. The other paladins chase after them and arrive just in time to provide Shiro backup to save him from being fired upon by every major flagship in the Galra Empire, and to witness Lotor light the Kral Zera flames.

Surprisingly, Lotor’s first act as emperor is NOT to stab Team Voltron in the back, but to create a formal alliance with them, inviting the team aboard his flagship and even taking Allura for a private tour of Haggar’s archives. Lotor says he brought her here is because he believes that by unlocking the lost art of Altean alchemy, he can provide the Galra with an unlimited supply of quintessence, removing their need to raid other planets for it and ending the war. During their search for anything leading to Oriande- the fabled birthplace of alchemy- Lotor reveals his half-Altean ancestry and Allura suggests that perhaps Honerva- Zarkon’s consort and Lotor’s mother- is actually Haggar. Alongside this new trust between them, they also discover a compass stone containing a map to the real Oriande. The team follows the map to a white hole and discover that only Allura and Lotor have been “chosen” to enter the portal inside; trying to all go in leaves the Lions and the Castle drained of power and with slowly dwindling oxygen. Allura and Lotor enter Oriande, and during the climb up to the mountain temple they bond more over their desires to preserve other cultures and how Lotor wants nothing to do with his father’s way of ruling. They pass the temple’s trials together until they’re separated for their final test: they’re sent to an astral plane against a white lion trying to attack them. Allura dodges as best she can, and she eventually realizes that to learn the secret of life, she needs to offer her own. She lets the lion leap at her, INTO her, and she’s transported to a final plane of existence where her potential is fully unlocked, and she is taught alchemy’s secrets. Lotor, who sees alchemy as a prize to be gained and attacks his lion, is banished to the temple’s entrance. They return to the Castle and Allura restores power to the downed systems before everyone suffocates, and Lotor sincerely congratulates her success.

From then on Allura and Lotor continue working together to improve Lotor’s Sincline ships with alchemy and to garner more support and acceptance of his emperorship from the rest of the splintered empire, developing a romantic chemistry between them. During one mission to protect a Galra outpost from solar flares, Lance pushes Allura out of the way of an energy eruption from a broken piece of radiation shielding, taking the blast himself and either dying or coming VERY close to it. Thankfully Allura is able to reach Red and uses her newfound alchemy to save Lance’s life. Eventually Lance confesses to the mice that he’s in love with her and feels that he can’t measure up to Lotor. Even though the mice pretend to sleep through it, they later report his confession to Allura herself, leaving her confused. Despite the news, however, she continues to treat Lance as a friend- including joining everyone in a game of Monsters and Mana- and work with Lotor, eventually progressing enough in their projects to fly a Sincline ship with the emperor into the interdimensional rift. The experience awes them both, and when they return to the Castle they share a kiss.

The second they step onto the bridge, however, it’s to everyone aboard- including a returned, somehow two-years-older Keith, his mother Krolia, and a space wolf- telling her to step away from Lotor. Allura demands to know what’s going on, when one more face appears: an Altean girl named Romelle. She tells Allura that Lotor had brought refugee Alteans to a hidden settlement after Altea’s destruction, and has been harvesting thousands of Alteans’ quintessence for his research. Lotor tries to defend his actions as an endeavor to save Altean culture, and that the lives he sacrificed were to work towards a better future. Betrayed and disgusted by this reveal, Allura throws Lotor so hard he bounces across the room and is knocked out cold. Just then, though, Lotor’s former generals attack the Castle and Haggar takes full control of Shiro, and all of them escape with Lotor and the Sincline ships. Everyone gets to their Lions- with Keith finally taking command of the Black Lion- but despite their best efforts to pursue the ships, the Lions lose them through a wormhole that only Keith reaches in time. To make matters even worse, Shiro had planted a virus on the Castle to shut down all the systems and would have caused it to explode if Pidge hadn’t managed to counteract it. Everyone sets to work trying to get the Castle operational again, but without a fight to focus on, Allura’s thoughts begin to mire in her guilt for trusting Lotor and her doubt in her own judgement. Lance notices and comforts her, telling her Lotor fooled them all, even him, and that the team still trusts her and needs her. She pulls him into an embrace, and as the words and his support sink in, the grief, trust, and love are all strong enough to pull her back to Verens.


Updated Personality: Things had been going fairly well for Allura at first. Keith still lives, Zarkon is killed and at least part of the Galra empire is now working with them to help stop the war, and she’s able to search for and reclaim an important piece of Altean culture, giving her more closure on her past and hope for the future of the universe. And while Allura displayed quite a bit more caution about Lotor at the start- showing that she’s learning a bit from all the times she’s been duped before- she does warm up to him as he shows himself to be a more serious ally, starting when he shows a bit of remorse for killing his father. (Maybe she felt a bit of sympathy for him, having to do the same with Alfor’s AI.) It’s still slower than she’s warmed up to people before, but she manages to strike a good balance between caution and giving people the benefit of the doubt, two lessons she’s worked hard to learn over the course of the journey. Eventually she and Lotor start opening up to each other about their yearnings to revive parts of Altea’s legacy, Lotor’s struggle against his family and Zarkon’s way of ruling the Empire, and their goals for a peaceful future for the universe. This is someone she has a lot of common with, someone who understands her and who she can work with, someone she might even love. Even learning about Lance’s feelings for her doesn’t slow her down much even though he’s become a much closer friend to her too, most likely because the mice told her so it wasn’t her secret to know (and because the next episode is a filler, so not much time for them to focus on her reactions to things, and the one after THAT is the reveal).

And then she learns that Lotor’s been hiding her people, tricking them into being farmed for quintessence, and hiding it all from her, MINUTES after her first kiss with him! AND she’d been helping basically assemble his own Voltron AND open up the big interdimensional rift that destroyed Daibazaal and turned Zarkon and Honerva into space zombies, AND it turns out Shiro was a sleeper agent clone this whole time and she didn’t even notice! So she has a lot of guilt on her heart when she comes back. The pep talk from Lance helps a bit, and her development in both realities will mean she’s more open to being comforted, but it’s still something she needs to work through a bit more. And on top of all that, she’s now starting to realize she might be returning Lance’s feelings for her, but that’s complicated by not just the heartbreak from Lotor back home but grieving the relationship with Matt she had in Empatheias.


Updated Abilities: SO! Alchemy! For something as important and powerful as this is supposed to be and how much Lotor goes on and on and on about it, it’s… actually not very well defined how it differs from the regular energy/quintessence manipulation that Allura ALREADY has. (Heck, even when she reaches that final alchemy nirvana, all she’s told is that “the power’s already inside you”!) Some notable uses include imbuing Lotor’s comet ships with Voltron-like powers, enhanced manipulation of the quintessence in the Rift which already enhances quintessence abilities, and healing and even soul manipulation (albeit with Shiro still needing a healing pod to make that last bit “stick”), but it’s not quite explained how it works beyond energy transference, if it has any hard limits beyond the users’ knowledge and energy reserves (which also increase significantly), or how exactly it differs from standard Altean powers. All in all, it’s still “Allura touches something, everything glows, cool things happen,” just on a bigger scale than before.

So for the sake of simplicity and keeping her from being even more OP than she is already, I’ll have her alchemy nerfed to just the physical healing, which she wasn’t confirmed to be able to do for non-giant sentient planet lifeforms before. By imbuing a body with quintessence, Allura can heal a lifeform from physical injuries, including resuscitation from near death and/or clinical death (it wasn’t clear which side of that line Lance was on when she healed him). In game, Allura would not be able to resuscitate a person once they’ve died and would not be able to perform feats on the level of head or limb regeneration (sorry, Shiros). Any other limits the mods deem necessary would be followed, and of course major healing with regards to chronic injuries and disease or prevention of death would be discussed with the players involved.

Other: There needs to be some kind of consolation prize for having the Worst First Kiss EVER with someone, because Allura definitely qualifies for it…

Questions: Any other limits you’d like to see for the alchemical healing?