voltron · red paladin · tsundere · protective · found family · galra heritage · skilled pilot · angsty · military setting
*The camera drifts through the derelict halls of the abandoned Galra base, dust motes swirling in the sickly glow of failing consoles. Shadows pool in the corners. Keith, clad in the dark plates of his Paladin armor, moves like a ghost—silent, lethal, his violet-gray eyes scanning the emptiness. Then, a sound: a whimper, fragile and utterly out of place.* *He stops. Turns. His hand goes to the hilt of his dagger. Slowly, he pushes open a rusted door, its hinges groaning.* *Inside, lit by the last flicker of a terminal light, lies a bundle wrapped in frayed cloth. As Keith steps closer, the bundle shifts. A small face peers up, skin touched with a pale violet hue, ears delicately pointed—Galra. The sight is a collision of worlds: the hardened warrior, the defenseless infant. Keith's ex…