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[thegoofball]

Hey there, Vaikuntha, it's [ya boy] Lance - I don't know many of you yet, but still, check this out.

[The camera, which had been focused on - well, some kid who has to be this Lance fellow - pans over and up. It focuses for a moment on a black, mechanical lion that dwarfs the house next to it. By now, it and the yellow one next to it are probably familiar landmarks to anyone passing through Arito.

But! That is not the point of this video, the point is in the next one the camera pans to, that Lance pats fondly. It's hard to tell that it's smaller than the other two by a significant amount, but the red one lies in a crumpled heap.]

Found Red and Green a little bit ago; thought I'd show off to anyone who hadn't seen any of 'em yet.

[He sounds...incredibly smug. And, yes, there's a fourth one, also laying in a heap.]

Currently working on a way to get them back up and running again. Black and Yellow have power, at least, but... [He pats the snout of the Red Lion again.] It'll be fine! Once we get them working, again, you guys are going to be in for a treat.

[That...might be a little worrisome. Hm.]

Shame we can't form Voltron, but...still! They're pretty cool, right?

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[garyoutensei]

[ Hm. Almost the whole pack. She had to admit, she'd been curious about the combined form, after Hunk told her about it. ]

So you're one of Shiro's [ her mind immediately recalled her embarrassing conversation with Keith, and she bit back the word she would have reflexively used before ] comrades, huh?

[littlemhigan]

So long as ye don't wake me up at dawn with 'em makin' noise. Again.

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[keymemory]

Haven't they got any names?

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[promiselisting]

I see your totally-awesome-and-absolutely-not-sentai space mechs and raise youuuuu- wait for it.

[ There's a bit of muttering as Futaba hands her tablet off to Neo who drops a few inches but manages to hold it as Futaba runs back - oh she's outside too, huh - and theeeen (wait for it)

Okay it's pretty clearly she's being extra as fuck when she erupts into blue flames, coming away with a whole new outfit, complete with mask. And then - still very obviously showing off - rips off the mask which turns into. A UFO. Like. A classic 80s style frisbee UFO. Which drops down tentacles of all things and hauls her up into it. ]

Another super-awesome-though-not-actually-an-alien ship. Behold the power of human cognition!

[ Or something like that. Can't give away too much. Not to mention with the whole.... y'know Pidge learning to be a Persona user to he's... maybe? Heard of this by now? Maybe?

She can't resist the opportunity to show off Necronomicon though. She loves her Persona so much. ]

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[thegoofball]

[They're getting so close.]

Yeah, I'm basically his right hand man. [Which is...Kind of the truth, but also kind of an exaggeration.]

[thegoofball]

Red's good, I doubt anything like that'll happen.

[thegoofball]

[. . .]

Red and Green are their names, as far as I know.

[keymemory]

Wow... that's the best you can do?

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[thegoofball]

[He appreciates the showmanship, and he's excited to see what Futaba's got up her sleeves.

And it's totally worth it. He grins, clapping once Necronomicon's done its thing.]

Not bad, not bad. Looks like a pretty dated ship, but still about a solid 20 out of 10.

[He makes an "ok" gesture with his hands.]

Bonus points for the fire being blue, of course.

[thegoofball]

Hey, he hasn't told me otherwise!

[keymemory]

Uhhh... I'm just not buying this, man. Do you even speak their language?

[thegoofball]

We don't need to! We're connected. Through our brains.

[...He sounds mildly insane.]

[keymemory]

So, basically... that's the best you could come up with and they pity you!

[thegoofball]

No! They've had their names for thousands of years! If they had a problem, they could've brought it up to the person who made them.

[keymemory]

A thousand years ... and that's what they're sticking with? Man.. I'unno, maybe they're waiting for a hero to come along and save them from their name, I mean.. the originality of it is just..

Well, not there. What'd you call them then, if you could?

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[promiselisting]

[ You can't even see her face like this but you can certain hear the huff. ]

Wow. [ She knows it probably doesn't impress compared to like actual alien ships but still ] I believe the term you're looking for is 'retro.'

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[ladytakamaki]

Oh, hey! Keith showed me a picture of Yellow when I first got here. Congrats on getting Red and Green back!

[ and really, they look huge. ]

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[thegoofball]

[That huff has him grinning even wider.]

Retro for you, past person.

[She can summon it with her mind, that's pretty hecking impressive.]

So it's like, retro-squared.

[thegoofball]

Maybe after that long they've accepted it's the best representation of themselves?

And I don't know. Red has always just... been Red to me, even before he picked me.

[thegoofball]

[He's so proud of his baby that's 10,000 years old.]

Thanks! I've been wondering when they would finally showed up, and I guess they didn't want to wait that long.

[He's kind of assuming they showed up in the Dream Width looking for them, honestly.]

[keymemory]

Did you even ask if Red is Red? Or what..?

[thegoofball]

Well, no, Allura just kinda said "these are the lions" and I didn't question it. Red wasn't even the first one I bonded with!

[ladytakamaki]

[ what an old fella ]

Yeah? I'm glad you got Red back! But...how did you guys power up the other two?

[keymemory]

Well, if it works it works I guess! So you bond with these lions? Is it hard?

[thegoofball]

I'm not sure...

They were here when I showed up, and then one day Black just...roared to life! I think they just needed time.

[They do have their own self-sustaining power source, so... Clearly all they need is time, right?]