video • un: el rey

[shabby]

Hello, internet peoples!

[ Getting right to the point, Vaas pans the camera around to show the Red Lion of Voltron sitting in the hangar, now sporting a fresh coat of thick black tiger stripes. ]

Anyone want to help me get this tiger I found into the atrium? I will give you some steaks for your trouble.

[ Fair warning: these steaks are made from the Fek Vaas and Reaper killed during their hunting expedition. Also they're going to have to dismantle the Red Lion. It's not going to fit through the doorways. ]

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video; un: altea

[juniberries]

[?????/??? Allura's. just...

it's a mix of absolute confusion and anger and disgust over the fact that 1) someone who isn't a paladin is manhandling a Lion and 2) that this very someone has desecrated a Lion of Voltron.]

What the quiznak did you do to the Red Lion? You will not be moving it anywhere.

[shabby]

[ That just makes him laugh. People trying to tell him what to do always does. ]

I'll be doing anything I want to do. Always have. Always will.

[juniberries]

Not with a Lion of Voltron you won't.

There will be no way for you to move it, and you will wash off that horrendous paint!

[Allura's going to try So Hard to order this guy around even though she knows it's not going to work.]

[shabby]

[ On the one hand, it's amusing. On the other, he's killed people for less. The scarred eyebrow arches. ]

Lady, I don't do any fucking thing I don't wanna do. And you touch my tiger—[ He holds a knife up to the camera. ]—I'll cut every one of those fingers off.

[juniberries]

It is not a tiger, it is a Lion of Voltron, and it is not yours.

[she narrows her eyes, and she feels a pulse of adrenaline at that threat.]

You do not frighten me.

[shabby]

[ His smile grows wider and sharper. ]

Spend half an hour with me. You'll change your mind. Everybody does.

[juniberries]

I have been face to face with worse.

[shabby]

No you haven't. But it's funny you think so. I like that. Bet we could've got a lot of money for you back on my island.

[juniberries]

[she is not about to go off about how she stared down the monster who destroyed her father, her planet, and her entire way of life, but ancestors it is so tempting.

but this man has no right to know that. ...but that last comment...]

And what is that supposed to mean?

[shabby]

[ He shrugs, like what he's about to say is as boring as discussing the weather. ]

Lotta people liked the mouthy ones. You know, most of 'em cried or screamed, usually we had to kill them because they got so fucking annoying. But Hoyt always said he could get the most for the tough ones. Told us to keep those ones alive.

[juniberries]

Are you insinuating that back home you partook in a slave trade?

[there are monstrous people of every species, so it seems. there's no fear in her gaze, only anger.]

[shabby]

I am not insinuating. I am telling you. The tourists we didn't kill, we ransomed for money and then sold off to the highest bidder.

[ D U H. He shakes his head. ]

With ears that big you'd think you'd be able to hear better.

[juniberries]

[wow you did NOT just insult her ears.]

So you are admitting to slavery and murder as well. [NOW SHE'S STARTING TO WONDER IF YOU'RE THE PERSON KILLING PEOPLE ON BOARD but she isn't going to voice that.] I hear you perfectly.

You seem to be the one with difficulty listening, with those...those...hideous ears of yours. That Lion is not yours.

[shabby]

[ Tbf, if it had been Vaas killing people, he would have recorded it live on the network for everybody to see. He'll be so disappointed when he realizes that was a thing he could've been doing. ]

My ears are very nice. Very sharp too. You have to have good hearing to survive the jungle. Might get eaten if you don't.

[ Ordinarily, that might be a threat, but right now he's just imparting jungle survival wisdom. ]

[juniberries]

Your ears are certainly not sharp. All you Earthlings have hideously rounded ears.

[shabby]

So you're alien then?

[ He doesn't look impressed. ]

You look human to me.

[juniberries]

[SCOFF.]

I am Altean, certainly not at all like a human.

[shabby]

[ Lame. Vaas continues to be unimpressed by the "aliens" around here. ]

All the aliens on this spaceship suck. You included. You look human to me.