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ARE YOU 18 OR OLDER: YEAH mAN.......
CHARACTER
NAME: Princess Allura
CANON: Voltron: Legendary Defender
AGE:thatswhatmakesyouhaha.mp3 mentally & physically ~late teens (it's speculated Alteans are long-lived but in human years she's probably ~17-19 years old)
CANON POINT: End of S4
HISTORY:
pre-series biography | canon episode summaries
PERSONALITY:
As the last female Altean alive, Allura doesn't simply hold the title of being the Princess of Altea, but she also must bear the weight of her people's legacy on her brow, a fate far more heavier than her crown once entailed. To her, even though the complete and utter annihilation of her planet and race had happened over 10,000 years ago, after being induced to a cryogenic sleep by her father in order to save her, the loss of Altea is still fresh in her mind and thus, affects much of Allura's character. As such, Allura presents herself oftentimes with a maturity far beyond her years. Having been trained at a young age, both in diplomacy and in military training, Allura is a skilled diplomat and tactician, taking her role as the remaining royal of Altea very seriously, and proving to be a very sufficient, worthwhile leader in the wake of her father's death. She is unafraid of facing dangerous situations, and plays an active role in the team despite not being a paladin of Voltron. She is not the sort of person who will sit back and allow others to do work for her, but will instead insist on taking charge in dangerous missions herself, even when her safety would otherwise be compromised. This isn't to say she has a death wish, but that she is someone who will act on her responsibility even if others worry for her safety on her behalf. For example, she does not hesitate to land on a large animal-planet known as a 'Balmera' to help escort its natives to safety -- even if that means diving headfirst in the midst of a firefight. She is unafraid of sacrificing herself for the greater good and for those she cares about, as evidenced at the end of episode 10 where, under duress and knowing that there was no way for both her and Shiro to escape, she sacrifices herself to ensure her friend's safety. She is a young woman able to make tough decisions, even if they are emotionally taxing, she demonstrates the ability to steel herself and go through with it, if it means success for the mission at large.
However, Allura is not entirely straitlaced or even as levelheaded as she attempts to put on. For starters, while it may seem that she takes herself and her role as the Princess of Altea seriously, Allura is still a young woman, and her personality still reflects the levity that comes with youth despite seemingly losing everything. She knows how to have a good time, and she is a personable individual that, while she is the leader of the team, she is also capable of being her teammates friends as well. She is kindhearted and warm in personality, and, provided that a person is not working for the enemy, she often does give strangers the benefit of the doubt and would be the first to try to approach a potentially hostile situation in a diplomatic and kind way. As evidenced above, she is hardly a pushover, but will not be the sort of person to intentionally antagonize anyone either (unless, they of course, started it).
Allura also can be a bit brash in personality as well. As Princess, she is unafraid to speak her mind, and can sometimes even come across a little blunt (after all, upon waking up after 10,000 years of cryogenic sleep, she still has it in her to comment on how 'ugly' Lance's ears are). Just as she is someone who is able to make tough decisions, she is also someone who will tell it like it is. Allura also sometimes reacts poorly in tense situations that catch her off-guard, and although she presents herself as the leader, and as someone who can hold it all together and who knows what she's doing, the reality is...she doesn't know everything, and it frightens her. She is someone who tries to remain strong so that when others look to her, they see a paragon of strength in a time of strife, and it is a personal sacrifice of her own emotional stake that she implements on herself. However, by being rather guarded in her emotions, it can oftentimes backfire. She misses her father dearly, to the point where she was easily manipulated by her father's corrupted AI. She is also bent on having her revenge against Zarkon, a desire that can leave her unthinking at times, for when she later confronts him, she doesn't hesitate to rush at him in a rather violent burst of anger despite knowing very well it would be a fruitless endeavor.
In Season 1, and much through Season 2, Allura is shown to be very hateful and distrustful to the Galra, to the point where she can't even bring herself to trust anyone of the Galra race regardless of their alignment. She pigeonholes them into a singular category of being inherently untrustful, even when she meets Galra of the Blade of Marmora, a group of Galra resistance fighters fighting against Zarkon and his Empire. This quite visibly affects her relationship with one teammate, Keith, someone she has grown close to and trusts. When he and the others find out about his Galra heritage, Allura is shown being distant and angry at Keith for being Galra, continuously questioning whether she should trust him, or flat out ignoring him and shutting him out completely. It is clear that she is grappling with herself with her past feelings towards the Galra as a singular enemy, these new discoveries at having been exposed to a resistance group and, more importantly, with the knowledge that someone she cares about and has come to see as family has Galra lineage. Eventually, she finally comes to accept that her anger towards the Galra has blinded her. She realizes that it's not "what's in your blood" but that it's "who you are that counts." She makes amends with Keith, apologizes for how she has treated him, and is later shown working and fighting alongside the Galran resistance fighters, showing that while she is still determined to beat Zarkon and put an end to his Empire, she is willing to put aside her differences and acknowledge that her anger towards a singular race is a detriment, and that she was wrong to judge.
Throughout the course of the canon, Allura's role in team Voltron is changed circa S3 when she becomes a paladin of Voltron. She experiences the struggle and growth that comes from being a new paladin, having to learn how to fly her Lion and fight alongside the team as a team member instead of as a commanding Princess in a Castle-ship. She develops into someone who is now more open to turning to others for help and being less stubborn about expressing her doubts and emotions, allowing herself to be more emotionally open and available than she had been in the past. While she continues to struggle with her position, she is no longer forcing herself to shoulder the weight of the responsibility herself and others have placed upon her. She also continues to learn how to see shades of grey, having come into contact with an alternate reality where Altea was not wiped to oblivion, and in fact had succeeded in procuring "peace" throughout the galaxy, but in a very manipulative and wrongful way by removing free-will of any individual that shows dissenting thought. She begins to understand more where her father was coming from when he sent the Lions away.
In short, Allura tries to epitomize what is expected of her as not only being the last of her species, but as the leader of the group of people who will, hopefully, save the galaxy. She is diplomatic, tactical, and serious, but also kind and youthful. Sometimes, her emotions get the best of her even when she tries to steel them away, and in truth...she's still hurting from the loss of her entire way of life, but it trying to keep up hope that she will succeed in freeing the galaxy from Zarkon's Galra Empire. She is someone who is young and will no doubt continue to grow.
POWERS:
>super-strength (example: able to throw grown men & human-sized robots with ease)
>minor shapeshifting (example: able to change her height & skintone to better blend in)
>energy based healing (example: she was able to heal a planet-sized creature by tapping into her life energy. however this can and will leave her in a weakened state depending on how much energy she needs to use to heal)
>energy based magic (example: has been shown to be able to sense dark magic, uses her energy to pilot a whole ship, was able to infuse a giant mecha robot with enough strength to break through a powerful gravitational pull, was able to shoot lightning energy after absorbing a fellow Altean's magic...it's relatively unexplored, unexplained, and still kind of a deus ex machina ability so she has the ~~potential for strong magic but is still untrained and unable to tap into it unless a situation is dire)
>skilled pilot
>skilled combatant (favours more physical fighting, she sucks at shooting projectiles when not on a ship, but is great at close-range combat)
SAMPLES
1ST PERSON: HERE
3rd PERSON: HERE
MISC
PLANS: canonly Allura has had experience with regimes whose goals are that of 'true peace' which removes free will from those it deems trouble. she never properly got to grapple with her own personal desire for peace and what it means to achieve peace, so ultimately my plans for her will be to delve deeper into these themes in a way her canon did not.
ITEM: the Blue Bayard, a weapon traditionally used by a Paladin of Voltron. It forms a weapon based on the Paladin who wields it. For Allura, it takes the form of a whip.
CHARACTER @ID SUGGESTIONS: @ALTEA, @PRINCESS, @PINKPALADIN, @POWEROFHEART, @COOLWHIP, @ICEPRINCESS, idk the list could go on and on
HOW DID YOUR CHARACTER JOIN COST? She doesn't remember joining, and the last thing she remembers is essentially a near-death experience in canon trying to escape a planet that's set to blow up. However, once being told why she joined COST and its ultimate goal to fight against tyranny she is hesitantly willing to believe it, though will remain skeptical. Alternate realities are a thing she has canonly experienced in her universe so...she's going to assume this is one of those realities she entered.
NAME: Samii
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ARE YOU 18 OR OLDER: YEAH mAN.......
CHARACTER
NAME: Princess Allura
CANON: Voltron: Legendary Defender
AGE:
CANON POINT: End of S4
HISTORY:
pre-series biography | canon episode summaries
PERSONALITY:
As the last female Altean alive, Allura doesn't simply hold the title of being the Princess of Altea, but she also must bear the weight of her people's legacy on her brow, a fate far more heavier than her crown once entailed. To her, even though the complete and utter annihilation of her planet and race had happened over 10,000 years ago, after being induced to a cryogenic sleep by her father in order to save her, the loss of Altea is still fresh in her mind and thus, affects much of Allura's character. As such, Allura presents herself oftentimes with a maturity far beyond her years. Having been trained at a young age, both in diplomacy and in military training, Allura is a skilled diplomat and tactician, taking her role as the remaining royal of Altea very seriously, and proving to be a very sufficient, worthwhile leader in the wake of her father's death. She is unafraid of facing dangerous situations, and plays an active role in the team despite not being a paladin of Voltron. She is not the sort of person who will sit back and allow others to do work for her, but will instead insist on taking charge in dangerous missions herself, even when her safety would otherwise be compromised. This isn't to say she has a death wish, but that she is someone who will act on her responsibility even if others worry for her safety on her behalf. For example, she does not hesitate to land on a large animal-planet known as a 'Balmera' to help escort its natives to safety -- even if that means diving headfirst in the midst of a firefight. She is unafraid of sacrificing herself for the greater good and for those she cares about, as evidenced at the end of episode 10 where, under duress and knowing that there was no way for both her and Shiro to escape, she sacrifices herself to ensure her friend's safety. She is a young woman able to make tough decisions, even if they are emotionally taxing, she demonstrates the ability to steel herself and go through with it, if it means success for the mission at large.
However, Allura is not entirely straitlaced or even as levelheaded as she attempts to put on. For starters, while it may seem that she takes herself and her role as the Princess of Altea seriously, Allura is still a young woman, and her personality still reflects the levity that comes with youth despite seemingly losing everything. She knows how to have a good time, and she is a personable individual that, while she is the leader of the team, she is also capable of being her teammates friends as well. She is kindhearted and warm in personality, and, provided that a person is not working for the enemy, she often does give strangers the benefit of the doubt and would be the first to try to approach a potentially hostile situation in a diplomatic and kind way. As evidenced above, she is hardly a pushover, but will not be the sort of person to intentionally antagonize anyone either (unless, they of course, started it).
Allura also can be a bit brash in personality as well. As Princess, she is unafraid to speak her mind, and can sometimes even come across a little blunt (after all, upon waking up after 10,000 years of cryogenic sleep, she still has it in her to comment on how 'ugly' Lance's ears are). Just as she is someone who is able to make tough decisions, she is also someone who will tell it like it is. Allura also sometimes reacts poorly in tense situations that catch her off-guard, and although she presents herself as the leader, and as someone who can hold it all together and who knows what she's doing, the reality is...she doesn't know everything, and it frightens her. She is someone who tries to remain strong so that when others look to her, they see a paragon of strength in a time of strife, and it is a personal sacrifice of her own emotional stake that she implements on herself. However, by being rather guarded in her emotions, it can oftentimes backfire. She misses her father dearly, to the point where she was easily manipulated by her father's corrupted AI. She is also bent on having her revenge against Zarkon, a desire that can leave her unthinking at times, for when she later confronts him, she doesn't hesitate to rush at him in a rather violent burst of anger despite knowing very well it would be a fruitless endeavor.
In Season 1, and much through Season 2, Allura is shown to be very hateful and distrustful to the Galra, to the point where she can't even bring herself to trust anyone of the Galra race regardless of their alignment. She pigeonholes them into a singular category of being inherently untrustful, even when she meets Galra of the Blade of Marmora, a group of Galra resistance fighters fighting against Zarkon and his Empire. This quite visibly affects her relationship with one teammate, Keith, someone she has grown close to and trusts. When he and the others find out about his Galra heritage, Allura is shown being distant and angry at Keith for being Galra, continuously questioning whether she should trust him, or flat out ignoring him and shutting him out completely. It is clear that she is grappling with herself with her past feelings towards the Galra as a singular enemy, these new discoveries at having been exposed to a resistance group and, more importantly, with the knowledge that someone she cares about and has come to see as family has Galra lineage. Eventually, she finally comes to accept that her anger towards the Galra has blinded her. She realizes that it's not "what's in your blood" but that it's "who you are that counts." She makes amends with Keith, apologizes for how she has treated him, and is later shown working and fighting alongside the Galran resistance fighters, showing that while she is still determined to beat Zarkon and put an end to his Empire, she is willing to put aside her differences and acknowledge that her anger towards a singular race is a detriment, and that she was wrong to judge.
Throughout the course of the canon, Allura's role in team Voltron is changed circa S3 when she becomes a paladin of Voltron. She experiences the struggle and growth that comes from being a new paladin, having to learn how to fly her Lion and fight alongside the team as a team member instead of as a commanding Princess in a Castle-ship. She develops into someone who is now more open to turning to others for help and being less stubborn about expressing her doubts and emotions, allowing herself to be more emotionally open and available than she had been in the past. While she continues to struggle with her position, she is no longer forcing herself to shoulder the weight of the responsibility herself and others have placed upon her. She also continues to learn how to see shades of grey, having come into contact with an alternate reality where Altea was not wiped to oblivion, and in fact had succeeded in procuring "peace" throughout the galaxy, but in a very manipulative and wrongful way by removing free-will of any individual that shows dissenting thought. She begins to understand more where her father was coming from when he sent the Lions away.
In short, Allura tries to epitomize what is expected of her as not only being the last of her species, but as the leader of the group of people who will, hopefully, save the galaxy. She is diplomatic, tactical, and serious, but also kind and youthful. Sometimes, her emotions get the best of her even when she tries to steel them away, and in truth...she's still hurting from the loss of her entire way of life, but it trying to keep up hope that she will succeed in freeing the galaxy from Zarkon's Galra Empire. She is someone who is young and will no doubt continue to grow.
POWERS:
>super-strength (example: able to throw grown men & human-sized robots with ease)
>minor shapeshifting (example: able to change her height & skintone to better blend in)
>energy based healing (example: she was able to heal a planet-sized creature by tapping into her life energy. however this can and will leave her in a weakened state depending on how much energy she needs to use to heal)
>energy based magic (example: has been shown to be able to sense dark magic, uses her energy to pilot a whole ship, was able to infuse a giant mecha robot with enough strength to break through a powerful gravitational pull, was able to shoot lightning energy after absorbing a fellow Altean's magic...it's relatively unexplored, unexplained, and still kind of a deus ex machina ability so she has the ~~potential for strong magic but is still untrained and unable to tap into it unless a situation is dire)
>skilled pilot
>skilled combatant (favours more physical fighting, she sucks at shooting projectiles when not on a ship, but is great at close-range combat)
SAMPLES
1ST PERSON: HERE
3rd PERSON: HERE
MISC
PLANS: canonly Allura has had experience with regimes whose goals are that of 'true peace' which removes free will from those it deems trouble. she never properly got to grapple with her own personal desire for peace and what it means to achieve peace, so ultimately my plans for her will be to delve deeper into these themes in a way her canon did not.
ITEM: the Blue Bayard, a weapon traditionally used by a Paladin of Voltron. It forms a weapon based on the Paladin who wields it. For Allura, it takes the form of a whip.
CHARACTER @ID SUGGESTIONS: @ALTEA, @PRINCESS, @PINKPALADIN, @POWEROFHEART, @COOLWHIP, @ICEPRINCESS, idk the list could go on and on
HOW DID YOUR CHARACTER JOIN COST? She doesn't remember joining, and the last thing she remembers is essentially a near-death experience in canon trying to escape a planet that's set to blow up. However, once being told why she joined COST and its ultimate goal to fight against tyranny she is hesitantly willing to believe it, though will remain skeptical. Alternate realities are a thing she has canonly experienced in her universe so...she's going to assume this is one of those realities she entered.
