Princess Allura [Voltron: Legendary Defender]

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?

Player: LoneWolfPrincess
Character: Princess Allura
Current Canon Point: Season 2, Episode 13
Updated Canon Point: Season 4, Episode 6

Updated Background: Since defeating Zarkon and Shiro disappearing, Team Voltron’s been busy freeing more planets and building the Voltron Coalition, with Allura handling the diplomatic side of things by holding talks to form new alliances. Unfortunately, everyone’s confidence is a bit shaky since, well, Voltron can’t be formed anymore. The leaders of the planets being courted for the coalition are especially hesitant, no matter how tempting Hunk’s pizza rolls are. After a LOT of intense discussion and arguing, everyone agrees that they should find a new paladin for the Black Lion and start the search from within. Keith is chosen by the Black Lion (much to his upset), and there’s JUST barely enough time for Allura to be rejected by the Red Lion (which stings not just because of her distress at others risking their lives for the war, but because it was King Alfor’s Lion) before Voltron gets a distress call from one of the newly freed planets. Keith, Hunk, and Pidge fly off into a trap set by new acting emperor Prince Lotor to analyze the Lions and their pilots, while Lance struggles to convince Blue to let him in after she suddenly puts up her particle barrier. Allura goes down to the hangar to help him out, and it turns out it’s because the Red Lion has chosen him now. After a quick pep talk from the princess, Lance rushes off to join the others in Red... and then the Blue Lion lowers the barrier for Allura. She takes control and joins the others and the sight “scares” Lotor and his forces away. Allura becomes the new Blue Paladin, donning new pink armor and Lance passing the blue bayard onto her.

During the fight, Keith had placed a tracker on Lotor’s ship, and orders the guys to get to their Lions right away so they can follow him. Buuut in a shocking turn of events, it turns out chasing after an enemy with only two pilots knowing how their Lions work- none of which are the leader- is not the best idea. Allura especially struggles to control Blue and keep up during chases, getting frustrated that the Lion won’t respond to her exactly how she wants like the Castle would. Even worse, Lotor was counting on the inexperience and leads them to a planet with a highly combustible atmosphere AND a magnetic field crazy enough to render their navigation and coms useless. The team ends up separated and lost on the planet’s surface, and not only does Allura have to deal with being alone and not communicating well with her Lion, but with being pursued by Lotor. In a moment of frustration, she admits that no matter how hard she tries and how much depends on her, she can’t control everything and that she needs Blue’s help. It’s this admission that allows Blue to truly open up to her and their bond to properly form, just in time to turn the tables back on Lotor. Hope you like frozen wings, purple Loki! (Okay, she didn’t actually say that, Lance still needs to teach her to trash talk.) She finds the other paladins, leads them off the planet, and- with a team rallying speech from Keith- they’re FINALLY able to form Voltron again. (Allura’s a leg now!)

A little while after this, the Castle picks up a distress signal... from an Altean ship. Hopeful for survivors, Allura immediately sets course for the signal and find an Altean exploration ship stuck halfway through a strange, glowing portal. The team investigates the ship and goes through the portal with Voltron. The team finds themselves in a whole other reality, where Altea was able to defeat the Galra Empire during the initial onslaught under “Empress” Allura’s command, and Slav and Sven (aka 80s dub!Shiro) are enemies of Altea. Altean Commander Hira allows them to analyze a comet with the same reality-phasing molecular structure as Voltron the abandoned ship had found, and persuades Allura to bring the ship fully to the Alteans’ side of the portal so they can take the comet and help spread peace throughout every reality. Unfortunately, this method of “spreading peace” is turning races they deem violent into mind-controlled slaves, and once this comes to light, Allura refuses to help Hira further. With Sven and Slav’s help, the paladins escape the ship and take the comet back to their reality, out of Hira’s reach. Unfortunately, this was all yet ANOTHER of Lotor’s plans, and he literally yanks the comet out of Voltron’s hands before flying off, leaving Allura kicking herself for letting her attachment to Altea blind her.

After this, though, miracle of miracles, they find Shiro! While he recovers from his time in Galra captivity and escape, Allura does her best to improve as a paladin in her Lion and in ground fights, although it does make Lance and Keith wonder how they’re going to fit six paladins in five lions. Eventually Shiro is well enough to participate again, and the team finds Lotor raiding a Galra outpost for a lost lens from the giant teludav from Season Two. Despite Keith sitting out so Shiro can pilot the Black Lion again, it won’t respond to him and Keith still has to fly it. Unfortunately, even on the bridge Shiro’s commands to Keith and the rest of the team clash with and undermine Keith’s leadership, with Voltron barely able to keep the lens out of Lotor's hands, but letting Lotor escape in a new, comet-built ship before they can take it out.

During the next month after this (but not before a backstory drop from Coran), Keith begins distancing himself from the team and their efforts to build the Voltron Coalition, instead spending more time with the Blade of Marmora. Allura tries to tell Keith that the team can’t survive without him, but the words seem to fall on stony ground. Eventually this creates a situation in which Keith is absent when the team receives a distress call, leaving only four Lions and no way to form Voltron while under very heavy fire. This leads to Shiro reconnecting with the Black Lion, but the team is still sore at Keith for not being there when they needed their leader. Keith takes the moment to officially step down as a paladin to work with the Blades on a long-term mission. Everyone is sad to see him go, but they give him their blessing (and a group hug, which Allura actually joins for once!).

Pidge finally tracks down and reunites with her brother space Brock Matt, and after bringing him back to the Castle, the Holt siblings and Hunk create a real-time tracking system for the entire Galra empire and stumble upon a secret Galra frequency... and through it Team Voltron learns that a. Zarkon is still alive, and b. he’s hunting down Lotor for what they assume is a power struggle. Yay? Oh, and Allura and Coran learn where cow’s milk comes from!

And then The Voltron Show! happens, which can be summarized thusly!

With the help of the tracking system, the team realizes that there’s only one planet in a line of freed ones that’s still under Galra control, and if they liberate that one they can cut off a third of the Empire from central command, making them much easier targets. Shiro lays down a plan to take control of two powerful cannons and distract the remaining forces while Voltron takes control of Naxzela. Voltron’s attack goes well despite a hiccup here and there, when suddenly pillars rise from Naxzela’s core to generate a planet-wide force field. The gravitational forces become much, MUCH stronger, with Voltron not powerful enough to fly them out. (But somehow it doesn’t squish the paladins from the inside out, yay sci-fi physics!) They find out that Haggar is powering Naxzela’s defense systems from afar with her magic, and the increasing pressure combined with Naxzela’s explosive soil makes the whole planet a bomb large enough to destroy several solar systems and take out all of the Voltron coalition. Voltron tries to escape again but the gravity is too strong... until Lance tells Allura that she might be able to help them escape. With his encouragement, Allura uses her energy and her connection to Voltron to create a shielding blue aura around it, allowing them to fly out and burst through Naxzela’s force field. The hope, trust, and relief she feels in that moment of success are so strong that they bring Allura back to Empatheias.

Updated Personality: While a lot of her core personality remains the same, becoming the blue paladin brought forth a LOT of emotional growth for Allura in her world. One of the Blue Lion’s first and most important lessons for Allura has been to let go and to not shoulder everything herself. Even before Allura was chosen, she needed to let go of her desire to be the red paladin. Just like Lance had to let go of the idea of being Voltron’s leader for glory, Allura had to let go of the idea of following in her father’s footsteps and “risking her life.” Trusting Lance with an honor that means a LOT to her is what allowed her to be chosen by Blue and to follow her own path. And while being pursued by Lotor, 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.

That new willingness to trust others, as well as simply being a full part of the team instead of mission control and a self-set pillar of strength, also allows Allura to develop deeper bonds with the other paladins, being more willing to spend time with them even outside of missions and training. (Not nearly as much as her development in Empatheias, but baby steps in the middle of a war are still better than nothing.) She shows a more direct concern for the paladins’ emotional well-being, asking Keith if he’s alright after losing a fellow Blade during an intelligence mission, and even allows herself to show a little more emotion around them instead of trying to be a calm, strong, supportive leader all the time. This has especially strengthened her relationship with Lance. Before, their interactions outside of the simple princess/paladin professional relationship mostly consisted of Lance flirting with her and Allura rebuffing him. Now they have a respect and even friendship with each other through their connection to the Blue Lion, supporting each other through moments of doubt and Lance even serving as a sort of mentor for blue paladin-hood.

Updated Abilities: Along with keeping her previous abilities, as the new Blue Paladin Allura now has a bond with the Blue Lion of Voltron. This allows her to pilot and communicate more deeply with Blue, activate its freeze ray and sonic cannon abilities, and form the right leg of Voltron when in sync with the other four Lions and their paladins. She now wields the blue bayard, a weapon that can change forms depending on the user and their thoughts, with Allura’s preferred mode being that of an energy chainsword/whip. The bayards can also be used to unlock hidden abilities within Voltron, but so far neither Lance nor Allura have been able to use the blue bayard in this manner so it's unknown what, if any, of those hidden abilities are yet. (And it's unlikely that Voltron will be formed in game anyway.) Her time as a paladin has also honed her ability to fight alongside a team and improved her physical stamina, able to fight on the ground for long periods of time and no longer collapsing after using large amounts of her energy to power things.

(Also, since I brought it up when I first apped her, apparently playing around too much with quintessence directly is like the equivalent of bloodbending/the Dark Side in that it’s very powerful but also addictive and mentally and physically changes a person, and it’s what made Haggar jump off the deep end and take Zarkon with her. And we STILL don’t know how quintessence magic actually WORKS, darnit! Sooo yeah looks like there’s an IC reason Allura hasn’t used it during her time in Empatheias after all.)

Other: Allura will be arriving in full paladin armor, and with the blue bayard in her... little hammerspace holster thingy.

Questions: Since Allura’s mice are here as well, would they be disappearing to update with her, staying behind, or is it up to me?

⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: LoneWolfPrincess
Contact: Journal PM/LoneWolfPrincess
Age: 26
Current Characters: N/A


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Princess Allura
Age: Chronogically 10,000+ years old (thank you, stasis sleep); biologically a young Altean adult
Canon: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Canon Point: End of Season Two, Episode 13

Background:
Voltron Wiki Entry

Personality:
While Shiro is the leader of the Paladins, Princess Allura serves as a commander and guide for Team Voltron. As the daughter of King Alfor, the man who created Voltron, 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 King Alfor to fight Zarkon even as he surrendered and hid 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. Allura's lost more than enough to Emperor Zarkon, and she'll do everything can to make sure others never have to know that feeling.

Off the battlefield, Allura is calm, polite, and always willing to offer kindness. She treats Klaizap, the bravest of Arus's warriors (even though only knee-high to her, outnumbered, and VERY under-armed) with courteous respect and patience, and insists that the team divert course in order to answer a distress beacon. With the Paladins, she's an encouraging but serious teacher and leader as they master their lions and begin engaging the Galra empire. Although at first balancing these traits was a challenge; her driven nature, a strict teaching style, a grueling training regiment (especially by human standards), and a need to have the Paladins combat ready as soon as possible led to a day of her acting like a particularly forceful drill sergeant. Fortunately, food fights are magical.

In battle, she can quickly assess the situation and start issuing commands. And whether it's going down to a planet's surface to evacuate its natives, revitalizing said planet at the potential cost of her own life, or insisting she infiltrate a Galra ship despite others' protests, Allura's never been afraid to throw herself into a fray. She also won't hesitate to take on Robeasts or Galra battle ships with the Castle of Lions' hundreds of lasers. (Or use them on the paladins, see "drill sergeant phase." Won't happen again. Probably.)

That's not to say she's all business, however. In the very few breaks between saving the universe, she's revealed a relaxed, even friendly and playful manner, usually with the aid of the mice. She eagerly engages in gossip with the mice at a victory party, and whenever the paladins and Coran can't take her along for a minor mission, she can be found racing her hover chair like a bumper car through the castle halls or letting the mice style her hair. It's rare that she allows this side to show around the paladins and Coran- given the near constant nature of their mission and her status as their commander- but it's been known to happen on occasion. She's allowed and even participated in a food fight in order to let the paladins bond and practice teamwork, approached and tried to gain Pidge's friendly confidence in order to make the Green Paladin admit to a particularly juicy secret, and even tried to charm Coran into taking her to a space pirate market by saying she "wanted to buy something sparkly."

And even if she can't always afford to show it on a more affectionate level, Allura deeply cares about Coran and the Paladins and would do anything for their sake. An AI created from King Alfor's memories had been a source of comfort and wisdom for her since waking up and starting their mission, but when the AI becomes corrupted and is about to send the Castle and all its inhabitants into a sun, despite crying and grieving losing him a second time, she only pauses to give her father one last hug goodbye before destroying his memories to keep everyone safe.

Despite her many virtues, Allura is not without flaws. She can be stubborn about making sure a goal is achieved, especially if the lives of others are at stake. This can lead her to expend her energies towards her mission to the point of fatigue or even facing the possibility of self-sacrifice, such as offering her physical energy to revive the dying planet-being of Balmera, or to power a massive wormhole generator. In addition, the loss of her people left her with a strong hatred for the Galra and a blanket belief the whole race is untrustworthy, even though this clashed with her own self-stated belief that Voltron is the defender of all the innocent. This leads her to coldly dismissing a Galra rebel sacrificing his life to save the Team from a Robeast, nearly rejecting vital help from the Blade of Marmora resistance cell, and treating Keith with disdain when it's revealed he has Galra ancestry. It's not until Keith volunteers for a mission which may result in his death- yet another potential loss after facing so many- that she realizes how much he means to her as both a paladin and a companion. She apologizes, figuratively and literally embraces him, and asks him to come back alive before he departs. After this, she also becomes much more appreciative of her Galra allies, treating them with respect and willingly fighting alongside them during the assault on Zarkon's battleship.

All in all, Allura's heart is dedicated to doing what's right and protecting and helping those around her. She, Coran, and the Paladins of Voltron have a long road to freeing the universe, but there's no doubt she'll put her all into every step.

Abilities:
As the heir to the Altean throne, Allura is well trained in a number of skills, which have been further honed during her time alongside Team Voltron: diplomacy, etiquette, armed and unarmed melee combat, firearms training (even if she sometimes holds unfamiliar weapons backwards), and military strategy. She's also the pilot of the Castle of Lions, and extremely skilled at operating its navigation, weapon, shield, and wormhole generation systems.

Her Altean biology also lends her several superhuman abilities, such as superior physical strength (enough to ram an enemy combatant hard enough to embed his helmet in a metal wall) and minor shape shifting. Allura has been seen able to increase her height and change the color of her skin to infiltrate a Galra ship as a guard. She cannot change more defining features, though, such as her facial/body structure, hair, eyes, or voice, and needed a helmet to disguise the upper half of her face for the infiltration. Given her skin can only be one color at a time, she can also not turn invisible or camouflage herself this way. Per the game's rules, Allura would not be able to increase her height beyond the cap of eight feet tall.

Allura is an empathic person by nature. Along with her link to the space mice, Allura's energies are also linked to the lions of Voltron. This allows her to locate them using the Castle's navigation systems after they'd been hidden for 10,000 years, match them perfectly with new paladins after only knowing the humans a short time, and to receive a beacon from the Green Lion while trapped in an unstable wormhole. She's also able to communicate with and through the living planet of Balmera, asking the Balmera to provide energy-supplying crystals, assure and give hope of escape to all the Balmerans at one, and to perform a revitalization ceremony. At the cost of her own energy, performing the ceremony was able to help restore the Balmera's life force from the brink of death to flourishing on a global scale, allowing it to spread new vegetation and grow new crystals. (Obviously she'll have to settle for amulet telepathy and healing this world through emotion drops while in game, though.)

Shortly before arriving, Allura also learned she can control Quintessence, a powerful form of life energy present in all things. In her battle with Haggar, Allura was able to withstand multiple Quintessence blasts from the witch until Allura manifested a protective pink aura, after which she was able to resist and push back Haggar's attacks, as well as counterattacking with wild strikes in the form of pink lightning. However, this is a very new, untrained ability with a lot unknown about it from both Allura's and the audience's perspectives. It will likely not be used until Allura has a canon update with access to more knowledge/experience, and may be capped or changed into an innate talent for Dunamis at the mods' discretion.

Alignment:
Peromei. One princess believing she, her advisor, and five strange humans can master the universe's greatest weapon and take on the single most powerful empire in the universe AFTER learning said empire literally wiped her home off the face of the map? It might be bravery that keeps her going, but it's hope that brings her back to her feet to begin with.

Other:
Along with her jumpsuit, circlet, and earrings (which serve as a communication device on the same frequency as the paladins’ helmets), Allura will also be arriving with her four Altean mice: Platt, Chuchule, Chulatt, and Plachu (currently unknown which is which). 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 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 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.


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
General Sample:
February Test Drive

Emotion Sample:
Allura's bright spots in the universe.
Her Highness's fall from grace.

Questions: No thank you!