The Champion
Sep. 20th, 2017 12:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The Champion has returned.
He has a mission this time. He isn't merely for sport, fighting for entertainment. He's a soldier now, an assassin, designed to fight and to destroy Voltron. Enhanced further with Galra witchcraft and a hint of quintessence, whatever past the Champion has no longer exists. His life as a human, as a paladin, as a fighter pilot on Earth, it's all gone, replaced by the need to serve and fulfill his existence. He is a weapon and nothing more.
A few well-placed rumors ensure that Voltron will come to him. It's not his plan, of course. The Champion is no general. He is valued for his strength and the appearance that apparently is so tantalizing to Voltron, and nothing more. They will try to trick him, he's told. They will tell him he is one of them, that since he is human he must also be a paladin, but it is a lie. Killing them is his objective.
They are weak when they leave their lions. The Champion waits, watching the paladins foolishly land and exit. How stupid of them. They're defenseless without the Lions, and he knows this fight will go quickly.
He straightens from his hiding place. They come for him, crying out a name that means nothing to him. He does not smile. He does not move.
He waits.
He has a mission this time. He isn't merely for sport, fighting for entertainment. He's a soldier now, an assassin, designed to fight and to destroy Voltron. Enhanced further with Galra witchcraft and a hint of quintessence, whatever past the Champion has no longer exists. His life as a human, as a paladin, as a fighter pilot on Earth, it's all gone, replaced by the need to serve and fulfill his existence. He is a weapon and nothing more.
A few well-placed rumors ensure that Voltron will come to him. It's not his plan, of course. The Champion is no general. He is valued for his strength and the appearance that apparently is so tantalizing to Voltron, and nothing more. They will try to trick him, he's told. They will tell him he is one of them, that since he is human he must also be a paladin, but it is a lie. Killing them is his objective.
They are weak when they leave their lions. The Champion waits, watching the paladins foolishly land and exit. How stupid of them. They're defenseless without the Lions, and he knows this fight will go quickly.
He straightens from his hiding place. They come for him, crying out a name that means nothing to him. He does not smile. He does not move.
He waits.
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Date: 2017-09-23 02:34 am (UTC)"I'm s-so sorry. I can't..." He can't believe he's forgotten any of this. It must have hurt Matt so bad...
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Date: 2017-09-23 02:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-23 02:45 am (UTC)He lets out a long exhalation and just...presses close.
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Date: 2017-09-23 02:51 am (UTC)There's no need for words, just the two of them together.
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Date: 2017-09-23 03:03 am (UTC)"...Thanks."
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Date: 2017-09-23 03:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-23 03:15 am (UTC)He's really gonna need to change course.
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Date: 2017-09-23 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-23 03:28 am (UTC)He glances back at the question and pauses himself, frowning slightly. "...Good question. I'm not sure. I must have picked it up somewhere."
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Date: 2017-09-23 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-23 03:59 am (UTC)"That...feels right. I don't think I've been with them the whole time." He leans back in his seat. "I want to figure this out too, so feel free to keep poking."
... that awkward moment when you leave a tag at work all weekend...
Date: 2017-09-25 01:12 pm (UTC)He pulls his knees up, thinking and just watching space go by.