Voltron Legendary Defender Does Pidge Ever Go Back to Looking Like a Girl Again?

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     Authors and Websites

Velkyn Karma

IcyPanther

• Recommended by therewriter
• This author'south genfics volition take your breath away with the emotion and detail that goes into them. The character relationships are beautifully written, the action is suspenseful and gritty, and the team scenes are angst and fluff at its finest. Accept, for example, the long fic epic, As Color Fades Abroad (seriously, it's lxxx chapters), which is a immersive squad/Langst fic that draws you lot in with the attention to the rich worldbuilding and the biting whump and recovery scenes. Additionally, the writer has arguably ane of the best ideal Klance fanfictions, The Purity of Sin , which is again, stunning in terms of characters, worldbuilding, and relationships. The writer has besides has many other every bit well written oneshots and are a staple if yous're looking for gen fic in the malaise/adventure category!

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squirenonny

• Recommended by daisyq444222
• This author is very good at balancing an ensemble cast (even with their more romance-axial works); the characterizations and dynamics stay truthful to the spirit of the show. Their fics have a nice balance of heartwarming moments, malaise, and activity. The author likewise does a good task worldbuilding, whether it exist with canonverse or AU.

discordiansamba

• Recommended by EmperorMax2019
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• This author specializes in For Desire of a Nail Alternating Universe Fics that keep to the tone and spirit of the original testify while exploring how the changes bear on different character interactions.

     General Fics

Lost Paladins Series past Rangergirl3 AO3 Link

• Recommended by ilovehirohamada
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: The Paladins of Voltron take been lost. Allura and Coran volition stop at cipher to become them back. Just Haggar has other plans. (In this fic, Keith is confirmed to be part-Galra. This fact will feature in other stories by this author). Set immediately after S1 finale. First in the 'Lost Paladins' serial.

piling sandbags on parapets by alessandriana AO3 link

• Recommended by agreenware
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: "It's really not that bad," Shiro said. Keith shot him a look of raging atheism. "Pidge said you got *tortured*."
• Comments: 1-shot following episode 5. Nice graphic symbol moment. Only slightly shippy if yous deeply want it to be.

Humans: Mysterious and Terrifying past Reid Phantom

• Recommended by agreenware
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Allura cares deeply for her paladins. However, she tin't help but find their species bizarre, agonizing, and sometimes downright horrifying the more she learns about them. Random oneshots and drabbles based around those "Aliens find humans weird or scary" theories from Tumblr.

Fragile Atlas by Pie Badger

• Recommended by agreenware
• Condition: Complete
• Synopsis: Stranded on an unknown planet, Shiro struggles with the ramifications of Zarkon being able to take control of the Black Lion.

Lean On Me by Glass Soldiers

• Recommended by agreenware
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: V times Shiro let his team lean on him, and i time someone permit him lean on them.

"Voltron: The Untold Story" or "5 Heads are Fatter than 1" by The Qing

• Recommended by saltin
• Condition: Complete
• Synopsis: "You're probably wondering how I got into this mess." The showtime flavour of Voltron: Legendary Defender as told from the five mouths of the titular giant robot himself who's pretty miffed that he didn't go more screen time and is rather annoyed past both hero and villain akin. It'southward Five Color Commentary at its best. Uncut, yet inexplicably abridged!

Making the Rounds by Kiaxet

• Recommended by agreenware
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: When Shiro has trouble dealing with his past with the Galra, he heads to engineering for company. Pidge and Hunk...aren't quite certain what to do when he only...hovers.

Empty Nest by Hedgi

• Recommended by Beatman
• Status: Complete
• Synoposis: "All crewmembers are believed to exist dead." Ava Holt lost both husband and son in the time it took a spacecraft to autumn. She just didn't think that had price her her daughter as well.

Simulacrum past Hedgi

• Recommended by Beatman
• Status: Complete
• Synoposis: "Simulacrum, Noun: an unsatisfactory imitation or substitute. Jean Baudrillard amended Plato's theory, calling a simulacrum non a faithful copy, just a distortion that bears no relation to reality. Pidge knows the simulation's simulated. This isn't actually a mission to rescue her dead family. Even if they made it, fifty-fifty if they succeeded, information technology wouldn't bring Matt and her father dwelling, not even their bodies. Information technology only makes her more determined than always to bear witness Garrison'south lies.

Homecoming past Dynared21

• Recommended by Beatman
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: The Paladins had never expected to see it so soon. Globe, home. All Lance and Hunk wanted was a niggling vacation and a hazard to come across their families again, some respite from the seemingly endless battles. What they constitute instead was a planet at war with the Galra, and a planet that considered Shiro humanity's enemy. How did a planned vacation get then wrong?

See What Nosotros've Become by Reign of Rayne AO3 link

• Recommended past Colorfulshadows
• Status: Consummate
• Synopsis: They were not ready. Caught by surprise when a Galra team infiltrates the Castle of Lions during a supply run, Shiro and Pidge must fight together to salvage Allura, Coran, and the other paladins. Merely Shiro'southward mind is working against him, and Pidge can't produce miracles.
• Comments: This story feels similar a existent episode from the serial, everyone is in-character, there is skilful menstruum of the activeness parts and the perfect amount of suspense to keep things interesting. Too if you lot are a fan of the friendship betwixt Shiro and Pidge you probably would like this fic.

Parasite Knight past Velkyn Karma AO3 Link

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Condition: Complete
• Synopsis: Shiro thinks that he's just tired, only as battle and training drain him of more than physical forcefulness, the other Paladins become convinced that something more insidious is at piece of work.
• Comments: This one starts slowly, but once the nature of Shiro's "affliction" is revealed, the drama never lets up. If you're a fan of Battles in the Middle of the Mind, this is your 'fic. It'southward too both a fantastic team-every bit-family piece in which everyone gets a moment in the limelight and a terrifying take on the idea that Shiro'south Galra arm was meant to command him rather than empower him. Well-written, excellently characterized, and truly creepy.

Heading to War series past mumblefox, BossToaster, ashinan, and buttered_onions

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: While the Castle of Lions is under repair after the events of "Crystal Venom" (S1), the Paladins split to undertake two missions: Pidge and Keith to hack into a heavily-guarded Galra database, and Shiro, Lance and Hunk to steal some crystals from another Galra facility for the Castle'south engines. But no programme survives commencement contact with the enemy ... or even with friends ...
• Comments: Information technology's a iv-episode mini-arc with a two-part finale! All four authors are standout private talents, merely they display an extra level of mastery by weaving their tales together into a coherent and exciting whole. The alien Original Characters are every bit inventively imagined as the catechism characters; the jeopardy sequences accept great tension. If yous want more of what makes this series so much fun to spotter, yous tin't go incorrect hither.

the fear of falling past amillionsmiles

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Keith comes to the Galaxy Garrison with i knife, five books, and a jacket. He leaves with one pocketknife, eight books, and a jacket. The knife, he has learned how to wield. The three new books, he has taken from the Garrison's library. The jacket finally fits.
• Comments: S1-only compliant backstory for Keith, focusing particularly on his fourth dimension at the Garrison and his friendship with Shiro (the author calls it "Keith/Shiro if you lot squint" simply the bromance here is low-primal enough to authorize every bit gen). A lovely, well-written character piece, angsty without beingness melodramatic.

Your Princess Is In Another Castle by VelkynKarma

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Allura's diplomatic dinner with the Borrian ambassador is rudely interrupted. Fortunately, she'due south been trained for this.
• Comments: An Allura-centric 'fic that showcases her competence on several fronts without Mary-Sueing her upwards. The writer develops a credible, brilliant backstory for Allura every bit her father's apprentice in affairs that pays off both as character evolution and as an explanation of her skills. This story too gives u.s. a peek into the working relationship between Allura every bit princess of Altea and Shiro every bit Black Paladin that lets him shine, likewise. Keen stuff.

we who are well-nigh to die by Fialleril (AO3 link)

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Status: Consummate
• Synopsis: Shiro wins his get-go boxing, and the next, and the next after that. The roar of the crowd becomes familiar. The faces of his fellow prisoners become familiar, and so disappear and are replaced by new faces that he learns simply in time for them, too, to disappear. The crowds have a new chant when he'southward brought out at present. It'southward not his name, because no ane here knows his name. No one has ever asked. But he can tell it's a proper noun they've given him. He wonders if he really wants to know what information technology means.
• Comments: One of the all-time stories to item Shiro's fourth dimension as a gladiator, framing the horror of the experience with Shiro'southward attempts to make sense out of his situation and carve out a space, notwithstanding small, for selfhood and rebellion. No punches are pulled here; this 'fic is rated T, only heed the content warnings.

The Throne In the Hall by buttered_onions

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: The mission was supposed to exist elementary: reclaim the Clirian capital, kick out the Galra, take back the planet'south sacred grounds. Shiro had been on lath with every function of the plan up until Pidge and her team missed a check-in. Up until Shiro and Hunk burst through the archway straight onto the sacred basis, but to be confronted with the remnants of the Galra ground forces. Up until the gravity in this room tugged at him, upwardly until Shiro had blurted a ritual claiming he'd never heard earlier, up until the Galra who conspicuously fancied himself a King accepted information technology, and now … now here they are.
• Comments: This writer knows their James Frazer and delivers a powerful version of the King of the Woods in Space. The fight scene between Shiro and Bretak is brutal (mind the warnings) and the aftermath adeptly subverts expectations by considering what'south actually at pale in a duel for the sacred kingship of an unabridged planet. Besides, the last line is perfect.

Requite Them Shelter by BossToaster

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Lance nearly slid into the room on his socks, cheeks flushed with the force of his grin. "Crawly." Pidge trotted in after him, looking nearly equally excited, with Hunk and Keith following along behind him. Taking in the general attitudes, Shiro got wary. That combination usually meant mischief. "We're gunna go exploring. Yous should come with."
• Comments: A fluffy little 'fic in which the Paladins explore the Castle of Lions (or, rather, Lance, Pidge and Hunk atomic number 82 an expedition in which Keith participates warily and Shiro wearily). No malaise or excitement, here, merely skilful clean fun — fifty-fifty the liquor cabinet stays locked, to Lance's disappointment. But there'due south enough of squad-as-family unit bonding and Shiro gets a new sweater and a much-needed nap.

When You're Living On Your Knees, You Rise Up past prettybirdy979

• Recommended by daisyq444222
• Condition: Complete
• Synopsis: Here's the matter almost promise — it'south really easy to spread and tends to be one of the hardest things to kill. And a whisper of hope can do so many things; from making a good piece of art, to saving a life. Hope can bring downwardly an empire, if there's plenty of it in the right places. Right now though, Sam Holt isn't looking to bring down an empire. He merely wants to live through this, with Matt by his side. But he has a whisper of hope, this 'Voltron' and maybe if he applies information technology in the right places... Well they might not have enough to take downwardly an empire simply a prison colony seems within reach.
• Comments: A well-written piece about a prison house colony rebellion, staged past Sam and Matt Holt. For two characters who [currently] take little characterization, they're interesting, as well every bit the alien Original Characters. The civilization difference betwixt the humans and aliens is interesting. Slightly AU afterwards flavour i.

Routine Maintenance by VelkynKarma

• Recommended by Lady Arin
• Condition: Complete
• Synopsis: Being an amputee with a prosthetic limb is hard enough. Having a solid metallic alien prosthetic forced on you past another species entirely is even worse. OR: 5 times Shiro'southward Galra arm acquired him trouble in some mode and another member of the team helped him out with it, and the one time the same arm is the merely reason any of them survive.
• Comments: Solid characterization, well-developed plot elements, and merely in general excellently written. Does feature some intense violence, especially in the terminal affiliate.

Between Shadows and Light Serial byWenzel

• Recommended by Kvera
• Status: Expressionless serial
• Synopsis: With the other Paladins lost to the wormhole and the Castle of Lions out of contact, Keith struggles to survive on a dying Lion. But his rescuer isn't Shiro or Allura or even Lance: it's the Galra, and Zarkon has plans for his new detect.
• Comments: A fiction that delves securely into wonderful world-building details that the show just doesn't requite us. This story is full of well-rounded and likable characters (mostly Original Characters) to get with its captivating narrative.

That Ane Line in Let's Voltron past Ruest and Let's Voltron

• Recommended by saltin
• Condition: Complete
• Synopsis: Lotor reveals to his inner circle the origins of his ancient grudge against his parents and why he has schemed for and so long to usurp them equally Emperor.

Voltron Group Chat by YouMayKnowMeAsAngel

• Recommended by: Storygirl 000
• Pairings: Keith/Lance, Shiro/Allura
• Status: Dormant; concluding updated June 2018
• Synopsis: Allura reboots the old paladin grouping conversation. She'll come up to regret this decision.
• Comments: While this starts out every bit the humorous romp most of usa have come up to associate with group chat fics, at that place'southward a natural progression from sense of humour to drama as it goes on, with plenty of Graphic symbol Evolution coming with it. Definitely requite this i a chance.
  • It should too be noted that this is an AU fic (mostly apropos how characters like Lotor and Matt are handled), and, of the two abovementioned pairings, the former gets more focus than the latter (by and large due to drama).

Thicker Than Blood by SunBinamra

• Recommended by ladyofthelibrary
• Status: Completed one-shot.
• Synopsis: "Wait, girls lay eggs?!" "No, Keith, they don't." Or Pidge grows upwards, Lance and Hunk win "best brothers of the year" honor, and Shiro gets to requite The Talk to ii horrified Alteans and one confused Earthling.
• Comments: Yes; an aversion of No Periods, Period. This story manages to exist both funny as hell and very sweetness though the latter is mostly confined to Lance and Hunk fussing over Pidge though Keith's initial panic over Pidge haemorrhage from her rear and Allura and Coran'due south business organisation over her health is sugariness as well, even equally it makes Pidge blush like a lycopersicon esculentum.

Masks by Tiedyed Trickster

• Recommended by Lyra_Dhani
• Status: Consummate
• Synopsis: Anybody has a mask, i that tells the world what character you're destined to play in life, that tells people who you are. Except Lance'southward mask doesn't friction match him at all, and information technology's driving Keith nuts.
• Comments: An amazing world-edifice fic.

every bit the panthera leo loves the lamb past Demenior

• Recommended by Lyra_Dhani
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: The Lions are powerful, ancient machines that have existed for eons. To be chosen past them is an honor only few take, for they selection only the greatest of heroes to serve them. Simply to serve a Lion is a life sentence. And a Paladins life is always a short ane. The Lions are hungry.

     Shipping Fics

Bitten past MellodramaticLawliet

• Recommended by mellowbot
• Pairing: Keith/Lance
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: "Were you bitten?" Keith demanded, wrapping ane arm around Lance's shoulders tightly while his other manus buried itself in his pilus, "Lance. Were you lot bitten?"

  "No." Lance's grip on Keith tightened as his shivers began to subside, and Keith breathed a sigh of relief, "What about you?"

  "No." Keith lied into Lance's cervix equally he numbly tried to block out the precipitous throbbing in his forearm, "I'm fine."

• Comments: A zombie apocalypse AU. Very satisfying. Look lots of klangst.

Washouts and Weed Killers by The Qing

• Recommended by saltin
• Pairing: Lance/Pidge
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: (Role 1 of Ventures in Viridian) On the hunt for their lost comrades, Pidge and Lance merchandise barbs, boasts, and battle scars in the boundless void.

Alphabet Soap by The Qing

• Recommended by saltin
• Pairing: Lance/Pidge
• Status: Consummate
• Synopsis: (Part 2 of Ventures in Viridian) Lance and Pidge play dirty tricks on one another and come make clean in more ways than y'all'd expect every bit they walk down alien shores.

Peanut Butter Ice Foam past N0raDrake

• Recommended past runningninja
• Pairing: Lance/Pidge
• Condition: Complete
• Synopsis: In which Lance has insomnia, and Pidge does too, so what exercise they practice? Be themselves, that's what. Cue messes and shenanigans they tin only go themselves into. And poor Shiro doesn't get any sleep. An adorable fluffy fic about Pidge and Lance, a neat WAFF read.

Stormchasing past sinelanguage

• Recommended by Reveille
• Pairing: Keith/Lance
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: This isn't how Lance intended to spend his vacation, chasing after Keith's premonitions. Only here he is, and he'south ane hundred percentage blaming Keith for all the problem they're almost to go into. Keith makes bad conclusion, Lance makes mistakes, and both of them are stuck together on a space pirate adventure neither of them asked for.

Androcles by Braincoins

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Pairing: Shiro/Allura
• Condition: Consummate
• Synopsis: If Shiro isn't going to confess his feelings for Allura, then the Black Lion volition take matters into her own ... paws.
• Comments: Written from the indicate of view of the Black Lion, this story of a sentient magitechnical AI playing Cupid is both cute and a hoot. The Lion's perspective is appropriately and hilariously express and its increasing frustration and bafflement with its human being partner ("I swear past my delta rotors if you lot accept been deliberately making things difficult this whole time … ") is entertainingly depicted. Well worth a look even if you aren't a fan of this 'send.

The Expiation Expedition past IntelligentAirhead and obstinateRixatrix

• Recommended by daisyq444222
• Pairing: Keith/Lance
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Lance is well aware that miscommunications tin consequence in horrific, preferably avoidable mishaps, which is why he tries to circumvent them whenever possible. Information technology simply figures that the state of an entire planet's fragile political climate rests on him running straight into one.
• Comments: False union trope. The third person Lance POV is very dramatic and entertaining ("Shiro, the simply one of them who's survived existence entrenched in academia for longer than a few years, manages a expect of polite involvement. Or he'south dissociating. It's hard to tell with Shiro."), and the romance is more than subtle than in a lot of other fake marriage fics. The entire bandage is included and plays a office in the fic as well. The lesbian armadillo cadger conflicting Original Characters are charming as well, and accept appropriate conflicting mannerisms.

Problem'due south Making Everything All Right past Mytay

• Recommended by daisyq444222
• Pairing: Keith/Lance
• Status: Ongoing Series
• Synopsis: 2 Paladins go two rough and tumble mercenaries, donning their leather coats and gun holsters, righting wrongs (while committing a few heists of their ain), and fighting to go off this bleak, crime-filled planet. Also known as Lance and Keith'southward Infinite Cowboy Adventures.
• Comments: Series of oneshots featuring Keith and Lance as infinite cowboy mercenaries. The dynamic between the two characters is done well, and the action is entertaining.

The Music Inside by lostinwander

• Recommended by keithyourpal
• Pairing: Keith/Shiro
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Keith swears that being a pilot and learning to sing take nothing to do with each other. Shiro, on the other hand, begs to differ.
• Comments: A sweetness fic inspired by a video of Steven Yeun singing Alicia Keys.

in stasis by ilgaksu

• Recommended past daisyq444222
• Pairing: Keith/Lance
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: The story starts like this: with a story where you remember you know the end, until it turns out you don't, until it turns out you lot didn't take a inkling. In which for three months of Lance Mc Clain'south life, he lives every bit an AI, waiting for his prosthetics to come online. It goes well-nigh as well as expected.
• Comments: Well-written; sad concept, just isn't too angsty.

This House Unfinished by boyghosts

• Recommended past daisyq444222
• Pairing: Keith/Lance
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: "Concept," Lance said, his phonation heavy and gutted with the anguish of it; he caught Keith's gaze and smiled broad, for show. "The war's over. We're back home. All the things nosotros love in i identify." Lance keeps losing the things he's built. Then there's Keith.
• Comments: AU after season one; well-written, with a adept plot and an open ending.

a thing of (mis)interpretation by Yuu_chi

• Recommended by daisyq444222
• Pairing: Hunk/Lance
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Lance and Hunk have been together for longer than they've been Paladins. It's pretty common knowledge. Or you lot know, they idea information technology was.
• Comments: A curt, beautiful, and funny established human relationship fic.

Playing Catch-Up by 5557

• Recommended past daisyq444222
• Pairing: Hunk/Lance
• Status: Dormant; last updated Nov 2017
• Synopsis: Hunk awakens out of the medical pod to find everyone else still within, and merely Lance is there to accept care of them all. He's glad to be reunited with Lance, but every bit fourth dimension goes on, Hunk realizes that things are non entirely what they seem…
• Comments: Practiced writing and portrayal of Hunk's and Lance's dynamic; the plot is interesting likewise.

Something Similar Anthrax past pixie_rings

• Recommended past daisyq444222
• Pairing: Shiro/Allura
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: What started off as a diplomatic mission quickly turns into a 1950s B-film sci-fi cliché. The Paladins and Allura cease up on a planet of amazons for negotiations. Things don't go quite to plan.
• Comments: Good use of sci-fi tropes and hurt/comfort.

Objects in Move (When Unbalanced) by Mytay

• Recommended by Comatose In The Books
• Pairing: Lance/Keith
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Lance and Keith are constantly being mistaken for a couple. Lance is highly offended. Keith is quietly outraged. Pidge decides if she can't accept peace, and then she can write an epic scientific dissertation on the romantic failings of two uncommonly dense paladins.
• Comments: A legitimately well written fic where one character acts as a Shipper on Deck, less because it's what they want and more because the situation is likewise much to deal with. Honestly funny with good characterization. Besides has a sequel

Finding Dwelling house by kazural

• Recommended past Apocrypha
• Pairing: Keith/Allura
• Condition: In-progress.
• Synopsis: She crawled out of the car and into the nighttime air, shivering as a frigid breeze threw her skirt about her bare legs. Subsequently making sure that she had all of her belongings, she kicked the car door close, her heel leaving a respectable dent in the side of his brand new Aston Martin.

  Subsequently Lotor wrongly accuses Allura of adulterous on him, he leaves her stranded in the worst part of town in the center of the night. When a grouping of thieves try to mug her, a male child with a worn leather jacket, dark hair, and even darker eyes helps her fight them off. Romance ensues.

• Comments: An incredibly detailed and well-written fic that transfers the universe of Voltron to a modern setting seamlessly. Don't let the unproblematic summary fool you, many of the plot threads—the Blades of Marmora, the Garrison Academy's mission to Kerberos, King Alfor'due south friendship with Zarkon—are intricately nowadays, adding mystery and suspense. Everyone is beautifully in-character, and it volition send you on an emotional ride, from tugging on your heartstrings to cheering to laughing to grin at fuzziness. Definitely give it a read.

Get and Come up Back Again by Sandyclaws68

• Recommended past Pitac 89
• Pairing: Shiro/Pidge
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis:An unexpected event changes the course of all their lives, and the results are not what anyone would have dreamed of.
• Comments: A long and well-written fic that explores the politics of forging a peace betwixt the Galra and Voltron Alliance in the aftermath of Zarkon's assassination by the Druids. If you are worried nigh the historic period difference between Shiro and Pidge, there is a plot point that ends up shrinking it, resulting in xx-yr-one-time Pidge and 25-yr-former Shiro by the fourth dimension the romance begins.

Just Like Magic by Ninja_Librarian

• Recommended past Sweeneyxx Todd
• Pairing: Shiro/Pidge
• Status: Complete.
• Synopsis: When Pidge's family gave her an ultimatum—either find an extracurricular activity in which she could socialize with actual other human beings past spring break, or her parents would notice 1 for her—she had no idea that would lead to her spending her weekends running effectually with a broom in her hand. She definitely had no idea that it would lead to her crushing on the Quidditch team helm...

Just when Shiro's starting to recall he's finally starting to get his life back together, he learns that his Quidditch team is under the threat of being disbanded due to lack of funds and members. Nonetheless, he'southward determined to save his team, and trounce Altea Academy'due south biggest rival—Galra Tech—in the biggest Quidditch tournament of the region. But how long volition it take him to realize that he has slowly begun to fall in dearest with his newest teammate?

• Comments: Combines your standard College AU and Sports Team AU with lots of Harry Potter love, friendship and team bonding, and overall nerdiness. Practically every character, even very minor ones, shows up in this fic at to the lowest degree one time. A flake long, simply very well written tedious-burn. Has an in-progress sequel focusing on Keith, Lance and the autumn Quidditch season.

Piffling Blade by lilflowerpot

• Recommended by shiftkeyk
• Pairing: Lotor/Keith
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Because everything that has happened to him since existence summoned back to serve equally Emperor pro tem, he hadn't idea in that location was much left that even Voltron could practise to catch him off-guard. Lotor does and so detest to be wrong.
• Comments: Diverging from canon subsequently Naxzela, Lotor surrenders to offer Voltron and the rebel coalition aid in the fight against the Empire while Keith, equally a representative of the Blade of Marmora, is assigned to baby-sit him (and unintentionally has a hush-hush identity). In addition to being a well washed irksome burn Lotor/Keith, this fic expands on canon with its neat label (especially with those outside the pairing), building upon the universe'due south civilisation and history, and addressing topics that were glossed over (similar Keith and Naxzela).

I'll be your knight (in shining armor) by Sarara

• Recommended by Research Everything 13
• Pairing: Lance/Lotor
• Status: Completed
• Synopsis: Lance was born with the ability to see the Red Cord of Fate and he subsequently learns that Lotor is Allura's soulmate...or so he thinks.
• Comments: Dear this story, the concept and the common pining. I honey the characterization and the "twist" at the end.

''Lance Loves U NOT! by rueitae

• Recommended past ladyofthelibrary
• Pairing: Lance/Pidge
• Status: Completed
• Synopsis: Pidge is perfectly secure in her relationship with Lance; she'due south not the jealous type. Protective on the other hand, that she tin can and will do. And when a Spoiled Deviling of an conflicting won't take no for an answer, Pidge decides to infringe from an Earth band to detail to this girl why Lance volition never pick her. Because "he loves me. He loves u NOT!"
• Comments: Sassy Pidge is best Pidge and this is both an fantabulous showing of her protectiveness and a very potent use of Waxing Lyrical that feels natural instead of jarring.

     Alternate Universe Fics

Ancestry past TheLettersN_A_M_E

• Recommended by mellowbot
• Status: Dormant; last updated May 2017
• Synopsis: Finding each other may have been harder if things had been more complicated; if Shiro hadn't escaped, if Keith had a different past, if Pidge, Hunk and Lance had been a fiddling less lucky, if Allura and Coran weren't left undiscovered in their ten thou twelvemonth slumber. Things may have been harder if they'd had to find each other in the eye of the Galra Empire.

  Or, things start out a trivial differently, but they get there in the stop.

• Comments: Starts with the premise of Kieth being a prince of the Galra Empire and rolls from at that place. The earth-building is exceptionally well-washed, and each of the characters' personalities are adjusted according to their different backstories. Great exploration of the earth of Voltron and the paladins.

Handbook of Demonology by squirenonny

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Condition: Complete
• Synopsis: While searching for the truth backside their families' disappearance in a ritual plain gone wrong, Keith and Pidge hire a pair of amateur witches, the "psychic" Lance the Lucid and his friend Hunk, a potion maker, to help them summon the demon Zarkon for answers. They accidentally summon Allura instead and become caught up in the state of war between Alteans and Galra.
• Comments: Entertainingly plotted thus far, but the worldbuilding is what shines. The author acknowledges a debt to Brandon Sanderson and Jonathan Stroud, simply makes the tropes of demonology and magic their own; canonical plot and graphic symbol developments are given only the right twist to work in this new magitechnical surroundings. Characterization is besides handled deftly; though practically anybody begins by working at cross-purposes, the sense of a team in the making keeps fifty-fifty the arguments interesting.

The Storyteller and the Thief past Laura of Maychoria (AO3 link)

• Recommended past nebroadwe
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Pidge is a rogue who badly needs money in guild to rescue her family unit. Lance is a bard who but wants to go home. They take more in common than they remember, and a bigger destiny than either of them ever imagined.
• Comments: Voltron through the lens of a Dungeons and Dragons-style fantasy — the Castle of Lions is, of form, reimagined as an inn (and Coran levels up in cooking). Rogue Pidge and Bard Lance fit right in with their classes; their "fairy lions" act as familiars at the moment, only their origins are sufficiently mysterious to suggest bigger things from them in future.

Standoff Course by winterysomnium

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Status: Consummate
• Synopsis: The Dads of Marmora AU: toddler Keith is left with the Blade of Marmora past his father and grows up in the shadow of the rebellion against Zarkon.
• Comments: Kidfic with some bite to it. This story takes the S2 revelations about Keith'southward groundwork in "The Blade of Marmora" and plots a different path to that episode. The writer does great work fleshing out the characters of Kolivan, Ulaz and Thace; Keith's sense of abandonment and not-fitting-in has a different but every bit poignant source in his upbringing here. (Also, Keith's commencement coming together with Lance crackles delightfully despite their lack of history.)

Voltron: Duality by squirenonny

• Recommended by daisyq444222
• Pairing: Matt/Shiro, Keith/Lance, Hunk/Shay, Nyma/female OC, Allura/female OC
• Condition: Consummate Series
• Synopsis: What if information technology was Matt Holt who returned to Earth and became a paladin of Voltron? What if Keith, an officer in Zarkon's army, freed Shiro from the Arena and together the two of them set out to take down the Galra Empire? Red paladin!Matt, Black paladin!Allura. Total serial AU. 3 seasons plus side stories. Matt/Shiro, Keith/Lance, Hunk/Shay, Nyma/female OC; other ships down the road
• Comments: Has interesting worldbuilding, addressing things that the show has not addressed however, such as the paladins' families at dwelling, equally well every bit the history of some of the past paladins. Does a good job balancing an ensemble cast; the romantic pairings are pretty background in the plot.
• Now has a Trope Page.

I Was Born A Lion by spectralPhobia

• Recommended by daisyq444222
• Pairing: Keith/Lance, Shiro/Allura
• Status: Ongoing
• Synopsis: After Keith discovers he is office Galra and Crimson lion rejects him, in that location'southward but one fashion he can make himself useful: to join Galra and try to wreck them from the within, while figuring out a relationship with a guy who turns out to be his biological male parent. A comic about one stubborn man's cocky-discovery, the challenges of spying, everyone in team Voltron beingness BAMF, and the universe that needs saving, equally usual. I started posting this comic on Tumblr and Patreon, only I've decided to mirror it on Archive of Our Own too. Championship comes from a song by Hollywood Undead.
• Comments: A beautifully illustrated fancomic. Information technology's very entertaining, and gives sort of a "fire nation handling" to the Galra. The mentioned pairings are background to the plot.

i'll be your detonator by contagionangel

• Recommended past daisyq444222
• Condition: Fallow Series (last updated Feb 2017)
• Synopsis: AU: The Galra recall Voltron is long-destroyed. Shiro never makes his dramatic crash on Globe. This is how four dysfunctional cadets miss breakfast, get court-martialed, get leaders in an intergalactic guerilla movement, and bring both Voltron and Shiro dwelling. (Or maybe build a home: mayhap they were meant for this.)
• Comments: Has nice friendship moments.

Non Your Year by IntelligentAirhead

• Recommended by daisyq444222
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Lance knew, theoretically, that it was his ain fault that he was stuck in the back end of nowhere, living in a shack in the heart of the desert. However, he likewise knew he was stuck in the middle of nowhere, and could therefore be as bitter equally he damn well pleased. [A Voltron Roleswap AU Wherein Lance is Kicked Out of the Garrison Instead of Keith]
• Comments: An interesting character study of Lance with a hilarious tertiary person POV.

''Let's Get together past subtlehysteria

• Recommended by EmperorMax2019
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: When Adam helps a bunch of teenagers rescue his ex-fiancé (presumed expressionless) from the Garrison, he was not prepared for the resulting mayhem. Majestic aliens, space elves, giant flying lions. It's a lot to process. Oh, and did he mention that he was still in dear with his ex? Or, what if Adam was a role of the principal Voltron cast from the first?
• Pairings: Shiro/Adam. Hints of Keith/Lance and Hunk/Shay, but non more than that since the fic has only on the first season so far.
• Comments: A actually interesting exam on how Shiro and Adam might take interacted if the latter had been part of the cast from the get-go.
  • Beginning in the Surviving Space with Your Ex-Fiance series. (Ongoing)

Born of the Stars by LadyLiterature

• Recommended by fsdfsdfsd
• Condition: Dormant; last updated April 2020
• Synopsis: Sometimes, Destiny takes you on a different path than you planned. Sometimes, that path is one that an Alien Goddess picks out for you and it happens to involve fighting in a sentient, alien, cat-shaped warship against conflicting dictators. It's not what she expected her life to be, it isn't even what she wanted her life to exist. But goddamn it, is she going to save everyone she can anyway and she's going to build a family while she does it.
• Pairings: Keith/Lance (with gender bent bisexual Lance), and Adam/Shiro (with Adam's cannon lack of label fixed past making him an Expy of Captain Raymond Holt)
• Comments: A fantastic expansion and exploration of Voltron cannon with much heavier focus on the magical elements of the bear witness, that promises to be a ready-information technology in later arcs. Featuring plenty of Worldbuilding, exploration of the magic aspects of Voltron, the situation on Globe developing at it's own footstep (with the Paladins' families looking into their disappearances), and plenty of humor without beingness out of tone. Likewise Hunk gets more fourth dimension to shine.

who you are in the dark bydiscordiansamba

• Recommended by: DarkDatura
• Condition: Ongoing
• Synopsis: Captured past the Galra, Keith is given 2 choices- either lose himself to Haggar'due south experimentation, or accept what might be his simply chance at freedom- joining the halfbreed prince, Lotor. While he might not trust the prince, he'd rather take his chances with him than the witch- fifty-fifty if that means publicly betraying Voltron. It's not like he can get back anyways, after what Haggar did to him. At to the lowest degree this way, he can go along a shut heart on the Galra Prince- or at least, that'due south the plan. Actually carrying it out proves to be far more difficult than he could take expected, leading him to realize that the real threat might never take been Zarkon.

     Crossover Fics

The Bat Paladin past Shooting Arrows

• Recommended by: [EmperorMax2019
• Crossover with: DC Comics Universe, Batman in paticular
• Condition: Dormant (last updated December 2017)
• Synopsis: An AU where Voltron takes place in the DC comics universe and Shiro is ane of the many surrogate kids of Bruce Wayne. Begins with Shiro's capture and will continue past the Season two finale.

Altar of Storms by Velkyn Karma

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Crossover With: How to Train Your Dragon (pic)
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: The Galra tribe has been spreading similar a plague across the archipelago, leaving devastation in their wake. Vikings solitary can't stop them — simply maybe Viking and dragon together tin. After over a century of warring between them, perhaps it'due south time for the age of riders to return.
• Comments: This story places the characters of "Voltron" in the setting of "How to Train Your Dragon" with excellent results, reimagining the Lions every bit dragons and translating the Paladins' backstories, talents, tech and aims into Viking-age terms. Velkyn Karma too knows their manner around an action sequence — the battles are edge-of-your-chair stuff, clearly laid out and compelling.

When Rome's in Ruins by BossToaster

• Recommended by nebroadwe
• Crossover With: Leverage
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: "Galra has the coin and the ability. The constabulary will non stop them and so we take to pick up where it leaves off. For people like y'all, Mr. Shirogane, who trusted in a defence contract and paid the toll with months every bit a prisoner of war, and with your arm. For people like my male parent, whose lives they ruined and pushed down until in that location was zippo left." Allura took a deep jiff, calming herself. Her easily pressed confronting the front of the desk-bound, fingers earthworks in until the knuckles were white. "Galra needs to be stopped. And these are the people who take the skills to do it."
• Comments: This story turns the Paladins of Voltron into the con-and-heist squad of Leverage Consulting and Assembly, with entertaining results. Some of the character calques feel slightly off (particularly Hunk every bit a grifter), but the sheer fun of watching the cons get down carries the story along.

Not Our Get-go Time Effectually by TheOtakuWithHazelEyes

• Recommended by: raptyr
• Crossover With: Voltron
• Condition: Consummate
• Synopsis: It's not similar their state of affairs is typical — they're in infinite flying magical robot lions and fighting an evil alien empire. It is the stuff of science fiction films and corny Sabbatum morning cartoons, and should in no fashion always be familiar. But if that'due south the example, why does it feel similar they've washed this all before? (Or, The Paladins are the reincarnations of their 80s counterparts, and some things just stay with you.)
• Comments: Brusque, sweet, and poigniant in all the best means.

Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron past W.I.T.C.H-and-Naruto-Girl

• Recommended by Astonishing Drawing Hero
• Status: Ongoing
• Has a tv trope page
• Crossover with: Lawmaking Geass
• Synopsis: "One day on a hiking trip, the student council from Ashford University discover a cave filled with lion and catlike drawings. Within the cave they find a huge robotic king of beasts that is 1 of seven pieces to a giant robot named Voltron: the Defender of the Universe. Volition Voltron be enough to gratis Japan?"

What 'Dwelling' Ways byH_Faith_Marr andA Monster Calls (orphan_account)

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