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Tagged by proxy, so here’s my go- Enjoy!
Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most!
Then tag Tumblr friends to keep the game going!
“What if I fail?”
“What?”
The sun shone high above the tree tops, mottling the ground in shadows. The air was clear and warm as they rode towards the gathering grounds.
“What if I fail my assessments and Crowley takes my oak leaf? I mean I never technically earned it in the first place, and I still don’t have nearly as much training as the other apprentices, and I’m still not all the way healed from Skandia, I’m not nearly as strong as I should be, my hands still shake and-“
“Calm down Will. We’ve gone over this, Crowley is aware you haven’t gotten all of the proper their year training, that’s why your taking the second year assessments, and we will take into account count that your still sick. It’s only been three months since we’ve returned, your lucky your taking the assessment at all.” Halts tone is dry, fully aware that in an hour they’ll be having the same conversation, one they’ve had a dozen times over the last week.
“Ok ok I know.” The two ride in silence for a few minutes before- “But what if I fail anyway? What if I’m just that bad at being a ranger? What if I manage to miss all my sho-“
“WILL! You are not going to fail your assessments!” Halt turns in his saddle as he speaks, trying to look Will in the eye. Will on the other hand is looking anywhere but Halt. “If I didn’t have full confidence that you would pass your exams then I wouldn’t have you taking them right now, you have the skill and knowledge to pass, you’ll be fine.”
This is great
I’ve also always liked the idea that they appeared when Allura brought him back to life after the shield incident
Like, she crammed life back into his body but to keep it there it added extra Altean quintessence thus the Altean marks
Never thought about the lions giving them to him, it’s a really interesting prospect though
I like Lance’s Altean marks. Just not in that context.
What if instead: he end up having to use both the red bayard and blue bayard simultaneously? Achieving bayard control and focus (proving he can focus and take things seriously) enough to save who he needs to. Perhaps even managing to access the lions’ weapons via the bayard’s (a one time thing, due to the fact human quintessence can’t handle that much raw power).
What if afterwards Red and Blue left their marks on him? Ever proving he is their paladin, both of theirs, and he is a great enough paladin to bear their brands. It marks him as worthy. It shows he’s not replaceable. It shows they care enough about him to say “we give you these to say you fit here”. It addresses his insecurities to the point that when he looks in the mirror, he will always have proof that they believe in him, and he is a paladin of Voltron through and through. Not changing his identity, but instead cementing it, and giving it the strength it needed to flourish.
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having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE WRITE MORE ABOUT HOW WARMWEED AFFECTED WILL
please I am begging
I want to see how his memory was altered
I want to see how his body felt wrong
I want to see the terror of encountering it as a medical salve
I want to see the lasting affects of a drug that was forced upon him in a situation he was being abused in
Bitches love reblogging this post every Tuesday the 18th
Ok so I'm just checking something and I need you guys to vote
I'll reblog this with a second poll cause tumblr doesn't let me put two of them on one post
I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say
I think I just factory reset
are you frequently overstimulated?