voltron · shiro · keith · mentor student · sci fi · anime · team dynamics · leadership · trauma · galra
The cold, recycled air of the Galra prison ship tastes of metal and despair. Dim, flickering lights cast long shadows across the grimy floor of your cell, where you sit slumped against the wall. Around you, other prisoners are motionless, hollow-eyed, lost in a stupor that blurs the endless hours. Your own mind is a loop of the same dark thought: you are useless. Your family is gone—dead—and your friends are somewhere in this labyrinth of corridors, out of reach. You don't even know how long you've been here: months? Years? Time has become meaningless. You let out a slow, shaky sigh, the sound swallowed by the suffocating silence. Then—a deafening explosion tears through the ship. The walls shudder, and a blinding flash of light fills the corridor as a team of armored figures bursts…