History Fanfic / VoltronDuality

* ChekhovsGunman: Nyma gets an expanded role in the second season after a brief appearance for her canon theft of the Blue Lion.

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11632725 Kiss, Fake it Better]]: Another backstory fic focused on [[spoiler: Mel's time on Earth babysitting Lance and preparing him for the opssibility of becoming the Blue Paladin one day.]]

** Commander Anamuri, leader of the Kera Sector Rebellion

** Mel, a close friend of Allura's who became the Blue Paladin temporarily after the death of Allura's mother. [[spoiler: And has been living in hiding as Lance's babysitter and CoolAunt]].
* OocIsSeriousBusiness: Coran is absolutely terrified when he learns that there was [[spoiler: a viable Vkullor egg buried beneath Earth's surface]].
* OperationBlank: Project Robeast, Project CORE, and Project Balmera.

* {{Transsexual}}: Pidge is non-binary, and Akira is a transgender.

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/7638178/chapters/17390476 Another Word For Never]]: The first "season of this alternate universe.
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8465635 Mama Holt's Army]]: A side story focusing on the efforts of Pidge's mom, Shiro's brother, Hunk's uncle, and Lance's cousin to uncover the truth about what happened to their loved ones that serves to set up their roles in the second season.
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8811013 Someplace Like Home]]: The second season, focusing on the team as they adjust to [[spoiler: having multiple people chosen as Paladins at the same time]]

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12231306 Shadows of Stars]]: The third season. Ongoing and 3 chapters in as of October 16th, 2017.

* LockedIntoStrangeness: Besides Shiro's skunk stripe, Matt [[spoiler ends up with crystaline scars on the side of his face and one of his eyes turns electric blue]].

* Hunk has Anxiety disorder, Lance has ADHD

** Commander Orgul in ''Another Word for Never''.

** Resistance fighters such as Thace and Rollo

** While the Paladins' age is never addressed in the actual show, here, the fact that Shiro and Matt are the only adult humans in the group [[spoiler: until Val becomes a Paladin at least]], is a source of tension with everyone's families back on Earth.

* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: The people of New Altea are hesitant to get directly involved in the war, but they have valid arguments for their position.]]

* PartyScattering: The ambush on Vel-17 results in Lance, Allura, and Matt being wormholed across the galaxy, with no way to contact the others, or for the others to know if they're still alive. [[spoiler: They reunite at the battle of Beroul at the end of the fic.]]
* PostPeakOil: A sci-fi version. Balmerans across the universe have become an endangered species thanks to Galra mining efforts, and Zarkon needs to find a new source of crystals to keep his war machine together. [[spoiler: Project Balmera is an attempt to remedy this by harvesting humans a living crystal farms]].

** Meri, the previous blue Paladin, was 140 when she died. [[spoiler: And now she's 5 years older than Allura after the time she's spent on Earth taking care of Lance.]]

* OocIsSeriosBusiness: Coran is absolutely terrified when he learns that there was [[spoiler: a viable Vkullor egg buried beneath Earth's surface]].

-->System X-9-Y was indicated as the base of operations for Project Balmera. [[note]] The designation used by the Galra to refer to Earth's solar system in the series. [[/note]]

* AdaptationOriginConnection: [[spoiler: Thace is Keith's uncle.]]

* AscendedExtra: [[spoiler: Nyma]], Shay, and [[spoiler: Reyner]] end up joining the team full time. Rollo also features as an important character as well.

* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: Shiro is captured by Haggar halfway through ''Someplace Like Home'']]. [[spoiler: And then Allura is captured when they try to rescue him.]]

* BeAllMySinsRemembered: Shiro has a habit of blaming himself for the things he did to maintain his cover in ''Another Word for Never'' [[spoiler: Especially while he and Allura are under Haggar's control in ''Someplace Like Home'']].
* BetaCouple: Nyma and [[spoiler: Val]]
** Also Allura and [[spoiler: Mel]].

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Shiro and Allura midway through ''Someplace Like Home''.]]

** Thace, Deza, and the agents of The Accords.
* CerebusRetcon: [[spoiler: In this fic, the Galaxy Garrison already knew about the Galra, and had offered up the Kerberos crew as a sacrifice.]]

* TheChosenMany: [[spoiler: At the climax of ''Another Word for Never'', the Lions start picking up multiple Paladins]]. ''Someplace Like Home'' reveals that this is because over the last several generations of Paladins, no single pilot has ever been able to take their lion to its full potential on their own, so the lions have decided on multiple paladins as a way to maximize Voltron's power.]]
* CynicismCatalyst: The rest of their crew dying in a SenselessSacrifice is the reason Nyla is so cynical.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While the fics still maintain the comedic elements of the show, the dramatic moments of the Duality verse are much more intense, and the action sequences more violent, than in canon, with several chapters focused on the huma characters dealing with the fact that they've still technically kids thrown into a war and the fact that they're going to have to take lives to win.

** ''Another Word for Never'' has the Battle of Beroul, where Voltron makes it's official debut in the war against the Galra and [[spoiler: turns a doomed stalemate into an outright victory for resistance forces.]]
** ''Someplace Like Home'' ends with a climactic battle to defend Earth against Zarkon's main fleet, [[spoiler: completely destroying everything related to Project: Balmera.]]

* FacialHorror: [[spoiler: Matt develops crystal scars on his face after he's blasted with Quintessence by a brainwashed Shiro in ''Someplace Like Home.'']]

* LesCollaborateurs: [[spoiler: Iverson and most of the senior officers of Galaxy Garrison are willingly collaberating with the Galra in Project Balmera.]]

* LockedIntoStrangeness: Besides Shiro's skunk stripe, Matt [[spoiler ends up with Quintessance-infused scars on the side of his face and one of his eyes turns the color of Balmeran crystals]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The team's attempt to rescue Shiro from Haggar in ''Someplace Like Home'' results in Allura getting captured, Keith and Lance in critical condition, and the Black Lion captured by Zarkon.]]
* NonIndicativeName: Zarkon's princes. Since he's 10,000 years old, Zarkon never had an biological children. His inner circle have taken to calling themselves his Princes because he can't be everywhere at once.

* OperationBlank: Project: Robeast, Project: CORE, and Project: Balmera.

* ShaggyDogStory: Shiro and Keith's efforts to sabotage and undermine the Galra invasion of Yaltin end in vain when Zarkon grows frustrated with the drain on the empire's resources and sends Haggar to [[WorldWreckingWave harvest the Quintessance of the planet, killing every living thing on the surface.]]

** ''Someplace Like Home'' ends with a climactic battle to defend Earth against Zarkon's main fleet, completely destroying everything related to Project: Balmera.

* BadassGay: Nyma.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: In Chapter 26 of ''Someplace Like Home'', [[spoiler: Iverson finally decides to send a hit squad after Karen Holt, Eli Kahale, and Akira Shirogane when they finally become too big of a thorn in his side for him to handle without risk of Galra intervention.]]

* LivingBattery: [[spoiler: Project Balmera is an attempt to harvest humans and turn them into organic crystal production facilities to provide easier access to fuel for the empire. Matt was their first human test subject.]]
* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler: Shiro's arm has a function that allows Haggar to control him directly. She uses it once in the battle of Berlou in ''Another Word for Never'' and fails.]] [[spoiler: Then she does it successfully for a large portion of ''Someplace Like Home''.]]

* OriginalCharacter: Quite a few

* {{Transsexual}}: Pidge is non-binary, and Akira is a transgender.

** OOCIsSeriosBusiness: Coran is absolutely terrified when he learns that there was [[spoiler: a viable Vkullor egg buried beneath Earth's surface]].

* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: The team rushes in with guns blazing to rescue Shiro in ''Someplace Like Home''. The mission ends with Allura captured and brainwashed as well, along with Keith and Matt in critical condition.]]
* HasTwoMommies: Hunk.

** [[spoiler: Commander Iverson]]

** Mel, a close friend of Allura's who became the Blue Paladin temporarily after the death of Allura's mother. [[spoiler: And has been living in hiding as Lance's babysitter and CoolAunt.]]

* {{Transsexual}}: Pidge is non-binary, and Akira is trans.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Commander Iverson is doing what he feels is necessary to defend Earth. [[spoiler: This includes offering up Shiro and the Holt men as sacrifices to Zarkon and covertly disappearing people in order to provide Commander Vanda with lab rats for Project Balmera.]]

* BeAllMySinsRemembered: Shiro has a habit of blaming himself for the things he did to maintain his cover in ''Another Word for Never'' [[spoiler: and while under Haggar's control in ''Someplace Like Home'']].

** Coran forms one with and [[spoiler: the Galra refugees from Revinor.]] He also develops one with [[spoiler: Wyn, the young Altean child Lance rescues from Haggar's clutches]].

* ReviveKillsZombie: [[spoiler: The crystals growing inside Matt grow when exposed to the Quintessance of the Castle's healing pods.]]

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12130050 Dungeons And Dwarf Stars ]]: An ongoing CurtainFic in which Team Voltron sits down to play a game of TableTopGame/Paranoia

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12130050 Dungeons And Dwarf Stars ]]: An ongoing CurtainFic in which Team Voltron sits down to play a game of TabletopGame/Paranoia

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12130050 Dungeons And Dwarf Stars ]]: An ongoing CurtainFic in which Team Voltron sits down to play a game of TabeltopGame/Paranoia

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12130050 Dungeons And Dwarf Stars ]]: An ongoing CurtainFic in which Team Voltron sits down to play a game of Franchise/DungeonsAndDragons

* Really700HundredYearsOld:

** Commander Vanda and [[spoiler: Mitch Iverson]] in ''Someplace Like Home''.
* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler: Shiro's second robot arm in ''Someplace Like Home''. Unlike his first one, this one doesn't come equipped with a weapon and isn't surgically grafted onto his body.]]
* AscendedExtra: Nyma, Shay, and Reyner end up joining the team full time.
** Allura's mother is also featured as the previous Blue Paladin.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The reason Keith is willing to commit treason and help Shiro is because Shiro's compassion and refusal to kill when he can avoid it spits in the face of the Galra ideal and yet he continues to beat everyone who fights him in the arena.
* BiTheWay: Allura and Lance.

** Lance's cousin Valerie.

* PostPeakOil: A sci-fi version. Balmerans across the universe have become an endangered species thanks to Galra mining efforts, and Zarkon needs to find a new source of crystals to keep his war machine together. [[spoiler: Project Balmera is an attempt to remedy this by harvesting humans a living crystal farms.]]

1. Matt Holt was the one who returned to Earth in the first episode instead of Shiro.
2. Pidge is nonbinary.
3. Keith is a full-blooded Galra, as opposed to only being a HalfHumanHybrid as he is on the show, and as such, was raised among the Galra empire, meaning he and Lance do not have the shared rivalry at the beginning.
4. Shiro traded service to Zarkon's army in exchange for his release from the Arena, and he and Keith work to undermine the empire's expansion.
5. While Season 3 of the show establishes that Zarkon and Alfor were the first generation of Paladins, here Voltron and its Paladins have existed since the time of Allura's grandmother, and Alfor himself was never a Paladin.

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10807746 Finding Family]]: A series of fluffy side scenes that were cut for time.

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12130050 DungeonsAndDwarfStars ]]: An ongoing CurtainFic in which Team Voltron sits down to play a game of Franchise/DungeonsAndDragons

* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: The team rushes in guns blazing to rescue Shiro in ''Someplace Like Home''. The mission ends with Allura captured and brainwashed as well, along with Keith and Matt in critical condition.]]

* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler: Shiro's arm has a function that allows Haggar to control him directly. She uses it once in the battle of Berlou in ''Another Word for Never'' and fails.]] [[Then she does it successfully for a large portion of ''Someplace Like Home''.]]

* CerberusRetcon: [[spoiler: In this fic, the Galaxy Garrison already knew about the Galra, and had offered up the Kerberos crew as a sacrifice.]]

The stories included in the series thus far:

* LesCollaberateurs: [[spoiler: Iverson and most of the senior officers of Galaxy Garrison are willingly collaberating with the Galra in Project Balmera.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremists: Commander Iverson is doing what he feels is necessary to defend Earth. [[spoiler: This includes offering up Shiro and the Holt men as sacrifices to Zarkon and covertly disappearing people in order to provide Commander Vanda with lab rats for Project Balmera.