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ICly, When your character is on a canon update, they completely disappear from the world. It's almost as if they were removed the game, however there's a key difference. Their amulet will remain and be in a translucent state. Characters will be gone from the game from three days to a week. They will reappear wherever their amulet is and can continue their progress from wherever they left off. They will also retain all of their memories.
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ICly, When your character is on a canon update, they completely disappear from the world. It's almost as if they were removed the game, however there's a key difference. Their amulet will remain and be in a translucent state. Characters will be gone from the game from three days to a week. They will reappear wherever their amulet is and can continue their progress from wherever they left off. They will also retain all of their memories.
If you have any questions, contact one of the mods or ask them on the form.
Player:
Character:
Current Canon Point: The canon point upon application.
Updated Canon Point: The new, desired canon point.
Updated Background: All we need is all the new information, so just a summary of what's happened between the current and updated canon point.
Updated Personality: If anything has changed about the character's personality fill it here. Just like in the original application process, we need as much details a possible, especially if there were any big changes.
Updated Abilities:
Other: Anything else worth mentioning.
Questions:
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Character: Lance
Current Canon Point: S5E5 after launching the sentry into space to the tune of Amazing Grace
Updated Canon Point: S7E10, before the actual attack on the Zaiforge bases
Updated Background: I have discovered that my ability to summarize leaves a lot to be desired.
After launching the Fun!Sentry into space, the team regroups and learns that Lotor and Allura happened upon a magical rock that lights the way to the mystical realm of Oriande... which is actually just a floating island inside a white hole whose entryway is blocked by a white lion (the cat, not the band) made of light and alchemy. They head to the coordinates and after an attempt to enter leaves Voltron and the Castle dead in the water with no power, Lotor and Allura run off to do it themselves since they're the only ones who fit the 'chosen one' criteria while the others work on trying to fix the ship. During this time, Lance, who was VERY against Allura going with Lotor, drives the others up a wall, fretting over Allura's safety to the point that he's shoved off on Shiro and removed from the room. The two of them hang out in the hall and have a little heart to heart talk so that the others can work in peace. Eventually, the oxygen levels hit 5% and they're all on the verge of blackout when suddenly Allura and Lotor return and the ship is now at full power again due to the magic of alchemy.
Not long after, the team goes to the aid of a shield station that's suffering damage due to an attack by Sendak's troops, rushing to assist and repair with Lance and Allura working together to weld a broken plate. Unfortunately, the weld begins to short out and Lance/Red slam into Allura/Blue to push them out of the way of the explosion that ensues, taking the blast themselves. Red is shorted and powered down. Lance... got the shock of his life and unless the circuit was completed through his body there's no way he didn't end up dead. While Hunk scrambles to get everything fixed, Allura exits Blue and flies to Red, using her alchemy to revive her teammate.
Back on the Castle, Lotor and Allura work on infusing Lotor's ship while Pidge and Hunk tease Lance mercilessly for crushing on Allura who clearly has a thing for Lotor. When Lance finally leaves the room, he ends up hanging out with the mice who 'listen' to him pour his heart out over her. Afterwards, the mice prove not terribly trustworthy because they rat him out to her, and she doesn't seem to know how to take it because she's... really not into him.
During some down time, they play Monsters and Mana, a D&D knockoff. Lance really isn't interested because it's a book, and only plays because of Allura, then when she runs off to Lotor after one campaign, sticks around because he's depressed about it and has nothing else to do. One-sided feelings are hard, man.
When the ship is completed, Allura and Lotor take it for a test run in the quintessence field through a trans-reality gate... and an Altean pod shows up. It's Keith, with his Galra mom (Krolia), a wolf (Kosmo), and an Altean (Romelle). Explanations ensue and *GASP* Lotor has been playing them all along: some Alteans survived the destruction of Altea and Lotor banded them together in one place claiming to want to keep them safe, shuttling them between two colonies. Yeah, it was a lie and he used them as batteries for his own shit, sucking out their quintessence. Upon return from the test flight, confrontations happen, Allura dumps Lotor on his head and Shiro whacks out, grabs Lotor, steals a ship, and it's hasta la later. The rest of the team gets their lions, and off they go after Shiro~!
However, Voltron is too slow, so the lions split and launch the Black Lion through a wormhole so that Keith can chase Shiro while the rest of the team contends with the nasty computer virus parting gift Shiro left. Pidge and Coran go to town on the ship and Allura blames herself for everything that happened... something Lance immediately intervenes on. He does his best to comfort her and remind her that hey, we all fuck up sometimes, when Keith cuts in to say he's on his way back with Shiro... oh and Lotor is coming. They realize Lotor's going for the gate, and set out to cockblock by blowing it up.
When that's done, the team meets Lotor and his generals only to get their asses whupped hard until the Black Lion shows up in the nick of time. They form Voltron, still get beat, and then follow Lotor into the quintessence field to match his power. They duke it out, but it's adversely affecting the paladins, so they concede to Allura's plan to overload Lotor with quintessence before making a break for it and leaving him behind, teaching him not to mack on a girl after using her people as Energizer replacements.
Except now they have a bigger problem: all that jumping in and out left tears in reality that are starting to get bigger and will destroy everything if they're not closed up, but how to close them? Coran suggests overloading the teludav and use the explosion to do the trick but they'll have to sacrifice the Castle... so they evacuate everything, and do just that. They regroup on a small planet where Keith explains that real!Shiro's been dead for a while but his spirit's chillin' in the Black Lion and the other was clone!Shiro who's... right there on the ground, so Allura pulls real!Shiro's consciousness out and plants it in the body of clone!Shiro that Keith brought with him, and Pidge reveals that her dad has a copy of the Castle's blueprints. So we go to Earth!
While Shiro (who is actual Shiro now and not a clone) is unconscious, Lance, Hunk, Pidge, Coran, and Romelle set out to find something called faunatonium which will help to recharge the Lions since oops, that was what the Castle was for. To do this, they have to find and track an anteater called a Yalmor, but instead they're sprayed by an alien skunk and shrunk down like kids in a Rick Moranis movie. Adventure and mayhem ensues as they hitch a ride on said Yalmor and eventually locate the faunatonium which returns them back to normal size. Now that they have the substance they need, they return to... wherever it was they set out from and Shiro wakes.
The group heads for Earth and attempts to contact the Coalition, but no luck. They eventually reach a Marmora outpost that's long abandoned, and are attacked/captured. Despite Lance's best efforts, there are no secret passages to be had. Coran, Axca (former Lotor general), and the mice band together to get everyone out, and when they get to their lions and away safe, Acxa then fills them in on what's happened in their absence: somehow, thanks to the beauty of plot holes, it's been 3 years since the fight with Lotor, because how does that even work when not everyone was hopping through reality? Wouldn't the people on the Castle have noticed that 'wow, this is taking forever'? Does nobody other than Romelle ask questions in this series?
They continue toward Earth when they're whisked off in a weird group dream game show called "Garfle Warfle Snick" and are made to play various games/solve puzzles that have them reflecting on the people and places they've seen during their travels as Paladins of Voltron. After getting to the final round, they're told to vote one off the island and the rest would stay forever, so they all vote one another off for different reasons. Host Bob caves and lets them all go, and as they wake up and wonder what just happened, Coran says Bob is an omnipotent inter-dimensional being who judges the worth of would-be heroes, and he must have accepted them, meaning that they are meant to be the defenders of the universe.
Again, they continue their trip until they come across a distress signal used by the Blade of Marmora, tracking it to its source where they meet Macidus who fills them in on how the Blade had fallen... only to say something to Keith that makes him realize that oh, this is a bad guy. Turns out Macidus is one of Haggar's druids, and used the signal to lure in Blades and kill them. He attacks and all are frozen except for Keith and Kosmo who teleport away in time, but Allura breaks them free so they can help defeat him and free Kolivan. After discussions, Krolia decides to leave the group to help assemble what Blades are left and everyone else pushes on toward Earth.
Still en route, they encounter an energy storm that incapacitates the lions and causes everyone on board save for the Paladins to again be frozen. The team attempts to tether the lions to keep them from drifting, but another wave hits and they're pulled away and left stranded. They link arms to stay together, but weariness eats at them and tempers fray to the point that they're all starting to lose it, fighting among one another. Hunk saves the day and their collective asses after they're nearly eaten by a giant intergalactic manta ray, and their renewed camaraderie calls the Lions back to them. Afterward, they're once again hit by the storm which reverses the effects, and as luck would have it, also blows them right outside the Milky Way, putting them right where they wanted to be and shearing time off their trip. Talk about catching a break.
HOWEVER! Nothing is ever happy and cheerful in this series, because as soon as they get close enough, they get a message from Pidge's dad (Sam) on Earth... which is a cry for help from anyone nearby as they're prepping for their last stand against the Galra's invasion force. Well, shit. The team rushes into the Milky Way where they park by Saturn and "borrow" a ship to get in undetected. After landing, they're set upon by the enemy and rescued by allies who take them back to the Galaxy Garrison where Lance and Pidge are reunited with their families. The group is then brought in for debriefing and things don't go well with Admiral Sanda, who thinks they need to hand over Voltron so that Sendak will leave them alone, which would absolutely happen because Sendak is just a compassionate and misunderstood soul and not an absolute bloodthirsty warlord hellbent on getting his way. They also get to see the MFE fighters and IGF-ATLAS, which can't even get off the ground because it's a freaking Airbus and no power source is strong enough to make it work. Then everyone breaks to go do other things but the most important thing here is that Pidge and family interrogate an AI version of Sendak built from data to try and get a clue on what he's up to. And Shiro gets a new floaty arm.
Eventually, information gleaned from the AI leads them to decide on a course of action: sending a scouting party to sneak in and gather intel on what the Galra are up to. A party of five paladins, two MFE pilots, Kosmo the space wolf, and an analyst set out on the mission, returning with the info that Sendak is building six Zaiforge cannons which have enough destructive force to take out the entire planet. In an effort to combat this, a plan is devised in which five of the six bases will be attacked by a lion and the sixth will be hit by the MFEs. Each paladin would be escorted by an MFE and after rendezvousing with their lion, the MFEs would continue on to their base with the only exception to this being Lance, who would be escorted by the analyst from earlier, his sister Veronica, who would drop him off and return to the Garrison.
When the plan is launched, everything seems to be going well... up until Lance and Veronica are attacked by a Galra fighter and the vehicle they're in is rolled due to an explosion, tossing them both out and breaking Lance's connection to the Red Lion. He comes around and finds Veronica alive, but they're both wide open when Galra sentries start shooting, and he uses both his shield and himself to protect her, firing back at them. That's when the fighter swoops in, lighting up the ground to either side of them in an effort to blind him with dust. Without thinking twice, he takes the shield down, switches from rifle to blaster, and opens fire, though the shots have no effect. In that instant, he closes his eyes...
...and the connection is made, the fighter slamming into the ground as Red lands on it.
Updated Personality: For the most part, Lance remains more or less the same in that what makes up his core is still present. He's still the same fun-loving, excitable, competitive, personable individual that he was before... but now it's tempered with a bit more maturity. The biggest change for him is that he's much less likely to flirt or butt heads with someone just for the sake of doing it (Keith is where this shows the most), and his childish razzle-dazzle antics are nowhere near as prevalent. While he still acts the goofball, he's dialed it back quite a bit, and it only really crops up to break tensions or when there's a personal 'need' for it. His self-sacrificing streak is still intact as well, and not only will he trample and bottle up his own feelings for the sake of others, but he's grown to be just as quick to jump to their defense and offer support and comfort when they need it.
As far as his own insecurities and personal growth goes, it's something he's still working on, and although he hits walls, he's now learning to dust himself off and climb over them instead of slamming into them over and over again and getting nowhere. He's honestly still feeling himself out as far as who Lance really is and what he wants in life. And because he's finally been reunited with his family, the homesickness he'd felt has been alleviated somewhat.
Updated Abilities: He's been training his ass off on learning to use his bayard's sword form. While he's gotten better, he's still got a little over 6 canon months to go before he's good enough to take on a Very Skilled Swordsman and hold his own.
Other: Since it's a lot of info to cram into someone, he'd be out from 1 Mar to 7 Mar.
Questions: Nada.
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