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Sven, That's Awful!

Story by Sheila Bliss

The following is a story of Voltron I made up based on the T.V. cartoon Voltron by World Events Productions. I did not have World Events Productions' permission to do the story and therefore it does not have World Events Productions' endorsement.

Keith had just had a lengthy conversation during which he had confronted Lance about how he knew Keith's sister and what they had done together. Lance then confronted Keith over a few issues as well, and then found opportunity to promptly skip out on the situation which had all been resolved anyway. And then that's when Sven showed up. He was just making sure that Keith's confrontation with Lance hadn't turned ugly in any way.

Then, as Keith and Sven strode side by side down the hallway together, Keith suddenly asked something that had been bothering him since it had been mentioned in the recent conversation between him and Lance, "Sven, did you ever have thing for Allura?"

Sven stopped dead in his tracks. Keith was then ahead of him before he had stopped too and looked back at Sven.

They stared at each other silently and expressionless for a few moments before Sven asked in reference to Lance, "Vhat did you two talk about anyvay?"

Keith didn't answer. He was only looking to have Sven answer his question.

Then Sven said, "Not here in the hallvays. News travels qvickly through the halls. Let's go in here."

They stepped into an empty room with poor lighting that neither of them bothered to adjust.

"Now vhat vas it that you asked me?" asked Sven.

"I asked if you ever had feelings for Allura."

Sven shifted uneasily on his feet, trying to think of how to best answer the question.

Then Keith accusingly remarked, "Judging by how uneasy you look, I'd say you've still got feelings for her."

"No!" answered Sven abruptly with emphasis. "I mean . . . sure I've still got feelings for her, but not like I did. I mean . . . OK, yeah I had romantic feelings for her at vun time. Who didn't? But all that ended after I met Romelle."

"Is there something you're not telling me?"

"Vhat do you mean?"

"I'm not sure I want to know. But now I've got to know. Sven, did you and Allura . . . did you two ever do anything together romantically?"

Sven smiled as if what Keith said was very humorous, and answered, "Not unless you consider putting up an antenna together romantic." That was in reference to when the boys had all first arrived on Arus. At one time Keith, Lance, Hunk, and Pidge had left together to make contact with the hiding people of Arus while Sven stayed behind with the princess to put up a radio antenna on the castle that later was promptly destroyed by Doom fighter ships during an attack.

"Was it?" pried Keith not in the least seeing any humor in Sven's comment.

Sven thought a moment and said, "Yeah, I guess it vas. I mean at least for me. Ve didn't hold hands or anything. But it vas kind of romantic just being alone vith her. I sort of got the feeling that you vere the one she really liked though. Like she vas trying to get your attention by giving the rest of us guys attention. Or maybe she vould have gotten together vith Lance or I, or OK, maybe even Hunk, if she ever decided that you in no vay had any interest in her or vould ever have any interest in her. I'd like to think I stood a chance anyvay. I tried to vin her attention by playing it cool, but I guess I'll never know if that vould have vorked. I vasn't around long enough. And good thing too. Othervise I may have never met Romelle -- my true love. And you and Allura belong together." Sven paused and then he said, "Vhat about you?"

"What about me?"

"You've been asking me all these questions about vhat's gone on between Allura and I. Vhat about you? Have you ever found yourself interested in anyvun else? For instance, let's say . . . Romelle?"

"No!" said Keith quickly and emphatically. "I mean . . . she's beautiful and all and looks so much like Allura, but no I've never been romantically attracted to her. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I knew you and her belonged together. In fact the sight of her only reminds me of how much I love Allura."

"You mean to tell me that you haven't been attracted to anyvun else since you met Allura?"

"No, I can't say that. But I can say that the only reason I've ever even been remotely attracted to another woman was because I thought I knew I didn't stand a chance with Allura. But even then, I just couldn't romantically pursue another woman. Allura was who my heart wanted." Keith paused and then went on, "Why were you more attracted to Romelle instead of Allura anyway? I mean since you had feelings for Allura, you must have been dreaming about her the whole time you were enslaved on Planet Doom."

"Yeah, I vas. She vas the voman I dreamed about during my whole stay on Doom. I'd dream at night sometimes that someday, somehow she'd show up vun day to rescue me. That she hadn't forgotten me. Those dreams happened less and less as time vent on. Then, vhen I saw Romelle . . . gosh at first for a moment I thought she vas Allura. But in the next moment I had completely forgotten her resemblance to Allura and all I vas suddenly thinking of vas my grandma."

"Your grandma who raised you before you joined the academy?"

"Yes, her. And Romelle looks so much like her, of course much younger. But vhen compared with pictures of Grandma vhen she was younger, they look so much alike! I know it must sound messed up to you for somevun to be romantically attracted to somevun because she reminds him of his dead grandmother. But to tell the truth, that's also vun of the reasons I found myself attracted to Allura. It's been said that men often marry vomen who are like their mother. And vell, Grandma vas a mother to me. Ve vere very close and she vas alvays very special to me. Then in just a moment later, I vasn't seeing my grandma in Romelle anymore either. I was seeing Romelle for herself though I didn't know her name. Soon after my grandma had died, I had a strange dream. At the end of the dream an image of myself was telling me that I must pursue my dream to travel among the stars. That although I couldn't save Grandma, there vas somevun out there, somevun special who'd be needing my help. It vas in that next moment later after I had recognized how closely Romelle resembled my grandma that I recognized her for who she really vas, and that she vas the voman my dream said I vould find. The voman who'd need my help. But I couldn't accept that, Keith. I vas scum of the Planet Doom, not deserving of her and felt there vas certainly nothing I could do to help her. Yet ve vere drawn to each other, and I couldn't escape my feelings of compelled obligation to help her no matter how hard I tried. She vouldn't let me. I could have valked avay and flat out turned her down, no matter vhat she said. I didn't vant her getting messed up vith me. I tried letting her go. But I just couldn't. She insisted on my help and I found it impossible to valk avay. We vere meant to be together." Sven paused and then said, "Keith, you vere attracted to Allura vhen you first met her, I could tell that. But you hid it so vell. I mean , you left me vith her to set up that antenna when Hunk probably vould have been the better choice. I guess vhat I'm vondering is, vere you really in love vith Allura right avay?"

Keith was quiet for while and then said, "I was certainly attracted to her at first . . . like magic. It felt like a bond of some sort." He paused again before continuing. "But it wasn't long after that I was disenchanted with her. For one, I welcomed any reasons I found for not having romantic feelings for her. Why pursue something that just wouldn't work? So I didn't let it bother me to leave her with you. And I actually found her to be annoying at times. She seemed to be playing on all of us for attention and then would seem to pull away just to flirt with someone else. I found her childish and immature in that respect. And she seemed to want endless privileges without the responsibility that came with them. But she won my respect when I got to know her heart better. Then I realized that all that seemingly flirtatious stuff she showed was just attempts to get me to react and show my weakness of feelings for her. Or, at least I was hoping that's why she was doing it. Except, I didn't want to play into it. The love I was developing for her wasn't a game. But what I did learn about her was that she takes on responsibilities even without privileges. She's self-sacrificing and is always caring for what's a best for her people."

Thinking about all of that reminded Keith of the warm memories of when he proposed to Allura. Then that suddenly got him wondering about Sven.

Keith asked, "Just out of curiosity, what made you finally decide to propose to Romelle?"

Sven was quiet as he looked down for a moment drifting off in thought as subtle smile came across his face. Then he looked back at Keith and answered, "Vell, at one time I had told her that someday vhen there vas peace, maybe then ve vould speak of love." He paused and smiled again before going on, "I don't think I'll ever forget her vords she said to me vun day vhen ve vere outside alone together. She said, 'Sven, you once told me someday when there was peace, maybe then we would speak of love. But the day you and I will ever have peace is the day both you and I are dead and buried in the grave. And I'm not willing to wait that long!' And then she jumped way beyond just speaking of love and asked me, 'So when did you ever plan on asking me to marry you?'"

"And what'd you say?"

"Vell I knew I had to come up vith a definite answer. If I said anything that sounded like an excuse, I could tell she'd up and leave all of Planet Pollux for good just to never see me again. So I told her 'Tomorrow.'"

"What'd she say to that?"

"Nothing. But she seemed shocked and happy. And at the same time, I knew she didn't quite believe me. But ve didn't talk about it after that." Sven paused and then went on, "Vhen tomorrow came, she was looking for me but couldn't find me."

"Why? Where were you hiding?"

"That I von't tell. But keep in mind, I am the best navigator the Galaxy Alliance has ever had. If I don't vant to be found, nobody is going to find me. It sure got hard vatching her though. She must have thought I vas gone and never coming back. She looked so distraught and sad. She actually looked like she felt sorry for herself, something totally uncharacteristic of Romelle. At times she even cried. It vas all I could do to keep myself from going to her to comfort her."

"You mean get clobbered. How could you do that to her?"

"I had to Keith. I had a plan and I had to follow through vith it. I had to know how much she loved me. It's easy to love someone vhen they are all nice to you, but if she could love me after all I vas doing to her, that's true love!"

"That's just cruel, Sven."

"Maybe so, but you asked. And I stuck to my plan and she searched all day, but never found me. That night she vent to bed at her usual time, but she cried there in the darkness nonstop for over an hour. I could hardly bare to listen to her, it was so heart wrenching. Then, vhen her sobbing began to quiet down and before she'd fall asleep, I crawled out from under her bed and stared down at her vhere I could clearly see her laying on the bed. At once she had an overjoyed look and vas staring right back up at me."

"She should have clobbered ya."

"But she didn't. She vas happy to se me. And I could tell she was excited and knew vhat vas coming next. And I asked her, 'Romelle, vill you marry me?' and she answered, 'Oh yes, Sven!' And I said, 'OK,' and then I simply left and vent to bed myself."

"You didn't."

"I did. And the next day ve started planning for the vedding. She vent on as if nothing bad had happened vith the proposal at all. I thought she'd rush into the planning, but she took her time making sure everything vas thoroughly planned for."

"How could you do all that to her?"

"Like I said, I had to know how much she loved me."

"I think it's more like you didn't like her asking you when you were going to ask her to marry her and that was your cruel idea of getting her back."

"Sven smiled and admitted, "Yeah it vas. But I knew if she could forgive me, she must really love me."

"How do you know she has forgiven you?"

"Ve varmly spent the next day together discussing vedding plans."

"That doesn't mean she's forgiven you."

"Keith, I know Romelle. I'm sure she was infuriated vith me vhen I just up and left that night after I had proposed to her and it made her all the more angrier about vhat I had done to her that day. But she forgave me, cuz you know vhy?"

"Why?"

"Cuz soon after she vas madder than she had ever been in her life, she realized that that's exactly how I planned on making her feel. And then she laughed about it as the funniest joke she'd ever experienced. And you know vhy she wasn't angry anymore?"

"She'd never be laughing about that, Sven. But go ahead, entertain me. Why wouldn't she be angry with you anymore?"

"Because she saw how she had set herself up for deserving it all. It had already been bothering her that she had given me an ultimatum. After vhat I did to her, she could forgive herself for that. And after laughing about it all she could forgive me and be at peace with herself by calling it a stalemate in the battle of the vits. Except for vun thing. . . "

"And what do you think that is?" asked Keith in a sarcastic tone because he wasn't believing any of Sven's conjecture to be reality.

"Ve von't talk about it vith each other. You're the first I've ever told about it, and I doubt Romelle had ever told anyvun completely about how I proposed to her. Ve've never mentioned it to each other. It's like a last battle of the vits betveen us not to talk about it. And it's fun! Ve're not angry vith each other. It's like some big joke betveen her and I to smile about."

"Sven, that's all just twisted."

"If you don't believe me, just ask her. I'm sure she'll tell you, and you'll see it's all the truth."

"You really believe all that?"

"The people I know, I know vell. But I'll admit it sure surprised me vhen I heard from Lance how you proposed to Allura! But after he told me of the circumstances of the whole thing, it made sense."

"I think I just may ask Romelle about all that."

"Sure. Just don't bother telling me about it after you've found out how right I am."

The two men were smirking at each other by then. Sven over how confident he was of himself and that Keith didn't believe him; and Keith over knowing a darker side of his mild mannered best friend and over the impossible idea of Sven's story being correct.

"Sure, Sven," were Keith's final words, and then they left the room and walked side by side down the halls to get to the dining room.

Commentary: It was fun writing in this story what I interpret Sven's feelings for Allura may have been during the beginning of the first season of the Voltron animated series. I have been influenced by what I've read of other people's interpretations of Sven. Before that, I hadn't thought much about what Sven's feelings had been for Allura since he was on Arus so briefly before going to Planet Ebb and then becoming a prisoner on Doom. (In the original Go-lion series, Sven dies; but I prefer the rewriting of the story in the Americanized series that he lives). Watching the animated series, it's obvious all the boys had some romantic feelings for Allura. I think Sven is the most subtle, but it makes sense he had romantic feelings for her too. The idea of him remembering Allura during the time he was stuck on Doom was something I picked up from Karen. You can read her stories at http://svenslittlegirl.bravepages.com/index.html, Sven's Place. Very Sven orientated! It really made so much sense to me and how he'd have such an obvious attraction for Romelle since she does closely resemble Allura. The whole thing about Sven's grandmother was of my creation. There's nothing in the animated series that I know of that alludes to Sven being raised by his grandma, or even what his childhood was like at all. Once it is mentioned by a Doom robot that he looks like an Earthling. So I take that to mean that Sven was most likely born and raised on Earth. Regardless, the lack of detail of Sven's past left me pretty free rein to create whatever I wanted. The information I use about Sven's grandma in this story is actually from a previous story I've written about what Sven's childhood was like. But, I haven't typed that story yet. Another tidbit of what I've created of Sven's past is that he did know his mother well before she died, but he was closer with his grandma. I think I was probably influenced by Karen's stories to write about Sven in a little darker light than what I'd typically imagine. I did feel the need to explain how Sven proposed to Romelle especially since in the animated series he had told her that "maybe" they would "speak of love" once there was peace. Meaning he was pretty much telling her he didn't even plan on having any romantic involvement with Romelle until there was peace, let alone actually proposing marriage to her. So I decided it would take something really bizarre to get Sven to propose to Romelle and thus created the above story. In a future story I explain Romelle's side of the story. In this story I also added more information regarding Keith and Allura such as what's in the story Confessions between Keith and Lance. I flet it a bit tricky to have Keith say anything negative about Allura. But a few times in the animated series it struck me that he was getting "annoyed" with her, at least in some early episodes. So in this story it was my attempt to explain what would cause him to feel that way. Also I've never noticed any attraction between Keith and Romelle, and I try to explain that too.

[Author -- Sheila Bliss, based on the previous creation of Voltron by World Events Productions]

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