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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.
Lance had found Karla in Castle Control where Coran, Pidge, Tammy, Allura, and Romelle also were. A series of events led up to Lance and Karla lovingly enjoying kissing each other. But that all ended abruptly when Nanny came walking into Castle Control.
"I hope you’re all planning on eating soon," she stated.
Lance stopped kissing Karla. The sound of Nanny's voice put him out of the mood. Karla suddenly wasn't feeling quite so romantic either.
"Of course, Nanny," answered Coran. "What has you so concerned about that?"
"Hunk's not there yet. So I was wondering what was going on that I didn't know about."
"Whah!" exclaimed Pidge.
"Oh, he'll show up, Nanny," assured Lance. "He's probably there right now. There's no way Hunk will pass up food."
Everyone then left Castle Control to go to the dining room. When they arrived, Sven and Keith had just gotten there, but there was no Hunk or Darah.
"That Hunk! He's holding us all up!" stormed Nanny.
"I'm sure he'll be here any minute . . . any moment," said Lance.
Romelle wasn't so sure about that. She whispered over to Sven, "If I'm not back before Hunk and Darah get here, come get me right away. I'm just going to have a little chat with my cousin in this side room right over here."
Then she requested in a whisper in the queen's ear, "I need to talk with you," and gestured her to follow her and Allura did.
Once they were in the room and the door closed, Allura asked, "What is it that you want, Cousin?"
Romelle's eyes turned fiery, shocking Allura who was bewildered over what she could be so angry with her about.
"Did you and Sven ever have a thing for each other?" Romelle asked angrily. The whole botched confession that Lance had made to Karla involving Allura had really gotten Romelle wondering about Allura and Sven. Romelle calmed down a little as she continued, "I mean I asked Sven once long ago if he had ever been attracted to you, and he said sure he did until he had met me." Then she started to sound angrier again as she asked, "But were you attracted to him too? Did you and him have a thing going on?"
Allura smiled, suddenly finding her cousin's anger amusing. Then she said, "Don't you think I would have told you if anything of significance had on between Sven and I?"
"Why would you, knowing it would only hurt my feelings?"
Allura thought and then with a serious expression admitted, "I guess I don't know if I would have told you or not. I think I would have because I think it would be better if you did know about something like that. I mean . . . otherwise there would probably be clues for you to suspect it, and then you'd really be hurt and angry to find out about it later." Allura paused. She had been looking down as she spoke, but then she looked straight at Romelle and said in a tone of realization, "Like what you are right now!" She paused again and then said apologetically, "Oh Romelle! Sven and I never did anything together. The most romantic thing we ever did was put an antenna up on top of the castle together."
"That was romantic?"
"Yes, it was in an odd sort of way. It was a useless thing to do really. Someone had come up with the idea and we just did it while the rest of the boys went about other duties."
"So you admit you were attracted to Sven."
"Sure I was. It was a natural reaction especially after he saved my life. He pushed me out of the way just before a laser shot would have made me a gonner. But even so, I was really hoping to get Keith's attention. I mean how else would a princess flirt with the captain of the Voltron force and still maintain an air of dignity with him? I could tell I'd completely lose his respect if I wasn't careful. The best thing I could think of was to try making him jealous, or at least want me, by vying for the attention of the other guys. But as for Sven, I figured that if I never did win over Keith's affection, I could imagine myself happy with Sven. After Sven was gone, I got to know Lance better, and I know I could have been happy with him. Even Hunk would be better to marry than some stuffy prince, but I didn't share the same sort of spark of romantic love for him that I did for Sven or Lance. And dreams of Keith far outshined them all. And you know, I was never completely confident that I stood a chance of getting together with any one of them, especially not Keith. On a friendship level, I loved them all the same, and once I even told them all that. A part of me had a small hope that would get some sort of reaction out of Keith. But even more so I said it for myself, trying to convince my silly romantic feelings to cease and face what's real. But I just couldn't get away from my desires for Keith, no matter how unrealistic I tried to convince myself that it all was."
"I heard you'd even flirted with Pidge," commented Romelle jokingly, lightening up and smiling.
"He was just a kid," Allura answered back, although she knew Romelle was just kidding her. "I couldn't let all his pals go on an ego trip over me without giving Pidge some attention too."
"Somehow I can't imagine Sven getting giddy over you."
"No, I never saw Sven lose his composure. And maybe even if he had been here always, he may not have ever gotten silly around me. It was so funny when the boys did that." Allura giggled before going on. "Even Keith has gotten giddy around me. It assured me that at least he must have had some interest in me."
Romelle suddenly seemed deep in thought.
"I hope that I can take it from your expression that you're not upset with me anymore."
"No, I'm not upset with you anymore. I'm surprised with myself that I was ever so upset in the first place. I guess that whole line Lance said about, '. . . who didn't have a thing for Allura,' really set me off."
"So what are you thinking about now?"
"I was just thinking . . . What if it had been my planet that had Voltron. And what if the Voltron force had been sent there. I was just wondering how I would have reacted."
The two cousins then smiled at each other and then hugged.
Soon after they parted from their embrace, Romelle suddenly got another far away thoughtful look on her face.
"What is it, Romelle?" asked Allura.
"Well, there is one other thing that I've on occasion been curious about. I hope you won't be insulted if I ask you."
"What is it?"
"Ummm. . . . Well . . . Have you ever found Prince Lotor to be attractive?"
"Why? Have you?"
"Of course I did. You must have realized that. But it didn't take him long to be a total turn off."
"Yes, I was pretty sure you had been attracted to him sometime before you and I had established harmony between the kinship of our planets. But I never asked you. I didn't want to presume my assumptions to be true. And, it didn't matter to me to find out for sure what was true until now."
And I guess the reason I've been mildly curious about any feelings you may had had for him is because I know I was attracted to him in the past."
"Are you still?”
“Attracted to him?”
“Yes.”
“No, not at all. Not after what he did to my brother Avok,” said Romelle only stating the worst of the incidents she had reason to dislike Lotor for. "Lotor is a monster! But how about you? Did you ever have any feelings for him?”
“I remember the first day I met him. I actually found him to be an attractive man. Not better looking than Keith, and I didn’t have any romantic feelings for him. But before he had an opportunity to put his foot in his mouth, a playful vague scenario did play itself out in a matter of split seconds in my mind. I thought to myself, ‘What if he finds me attractive? I could use my feminine wiles to persuade him into helping establish peace between out planets.’”
“You mean marry him?” asked Romelle astounded.
“Nooo! I mean use my feminine wiles to influence him and maybe make Keith jealous at the same time; maybe just enough to get him to come out of his shell and pursue me.”
“You really are a flirt!”
“But it was all just a fleeting thought. I soon found out by Lotor’s reaction to me that he had little respect for me as an intelligent person. And later that fleeting thought of how I could use him if he were attracted to me became a nightmare! Not only was he merely attracted to me, he was obsessed with me. I fear that he still is!”
After Allura’s explanation about Lotor, more questions were on Romelle’s mind. As it often is, she was finding that the more she knew, the more questions she had.
“Allura, didn’t it ever occur to you that by flirting with your friends, you were just using them too?”
“No, Romelle. It wasn’t like that at all. It was all in fun, though it wasn’t without some heartaches for any one of us. I would have been happy spending the rest of my life with any one of them as a ruler by my side, with the exception of Pidge, and he’s not been hurt by my flirting either. My highest hopes had always been to someday, somehow marry Keith. But I didn’t know that was actually what was meant to be. We’re friends and not one of us has ever done anything to emotionally hurt another, not unless the emotional pain was unavoidable. None of us are bitter over the flirting. Neither over the flirting I did with them or the flirting they did with me. It was all in fun. Now my fleeting thoughts about influencing Lotor through feminine wiles, that was cruel. I couldn’t imagine myself with someone who had caused so much atrocity. I just wanted to use him. Anything to bring peace to my planet while retaining my dignity which retains the dignity of my people.”
“You mean you wouldn’t have married Lotor if it had meant peace for your planet?"
"Even if it were possible that it would bring about peace, I wouldn't do it. It wouldn't be true peace if it were something of that magnitude that I would be forced to do. By doing something like that, I would lose the political power I would need to bring about true freedom and peace to my people. I wouldn't do something like that unless it was to save their very lives. Does that make sense to you?"
"Yes. Yes it does."
"You know, before I even met Lotor, at times I had thought how well he and Merla the Queen of Darkness would go together. I knew of them both because of all the conquering of planets they had both done. Merla even more than him. I had fanciful hope of if only they'd get together and then all of a sudden stop their evil ways. And I remember a time when I thought that was actually going to happen. I really thought they both had an interest in being together during a time when they seemed to have both decided on being on the side of good. Lotor expressed interest in Merla during that time. But then later, he actually made a pass at me with an offer to be with him since he was good. I should have known right then and there that he couldn't be trusted. But I had so hoped that he and Merla would stay together and continue pursuing goodness."
"So you were never romantically attracted to Lotor?"
"I guess the closest I come to feeling anything that could be construed as romance for him is that a part of me really does care for him, though there have been times when in self defense I've been ready to do him in. But I keenly sense that there is good in him. And I am touched that he cares so much about me. There is a little more to it all than just an obsession. I feel like he must have had some tremendous loss sometime in his life and somehow I fill that hole. I can't say that I don't feel some sort of connection to him. But no, I guess I've never been romantically attracted to him beyond recognizing that he is good looking and not completely evil."
"You think he must have suffered some great loss himself sometime in his life?"
"Yes, I feel like he must have. At times I've wondered if something horrible maybe happened to his mother."
"Right, Zarkon and Hagar probably ate her," joked Romelle.
"No really Romelle. Zarkon is his father, but who was his mother? And what happened to her?"
"You're right Allura. Maybe something horrible did happen to her. You almost get me feeling sorry for him just thinking about it. But he's still a monster. Nothing excuses what he has done."
"Yes, nothing excuses him. But if only he'd change."
"Your hope is noble."
"And I know in my heart it's all very possible."
Romelle hugged Allura again and as she hugged her she said, "No matter what happens, we'll keep peace for our planets. Even in the midst of war for our freedom, our people will still know a semblance of peace." They parted their hug and Romelle added, "Thanks to Voltron, defender of the universe."
"Yes, he is a gift for us."
Then they re-entered the dining room and Hunk and Darah still weren't there yet!
Commentary: To read about what events had led up to Lance and Karla kissing each other, read teh story Surprise Confession. It was fun in this story writing about Hunk's strange absence from the presence of food. The reasons for that will become apparent in stories soon to follow this one, if the answer isn't already apparent! But with Hunk and Darah gone, it created an opportunity for me to have Allura and Romelle have a little private discussion together. It was difficult to imagine Romelle angry with Allura and being jealous over the idea that Sven and Allura may have at one time had a thing for each other. But I thought all that information Lance spewed in the story Surprise Confession would be just the thing to wake up the green-eyed monster in Romelle, and I had fun going with the notion. As for the idea of Sven and Allura having any sort of thing for each other, I really hadn't noticed that much on my own when I first watched the animated series. But reading comments and fiction of other Voltron fans, I've concluded that it does make sense that there was some sort of thing going on between Allura and Sven. And it comes natural to me to describe that relationship that was once going on as very minor, because it seems to me that she really had her heart set on Keith. But that's just based on how I viewed the animated series, and so that's how I write my stories. I had naturally saw Allura in the series as being flirty with the others on purpose for the reason of hoping to get Keith's attention. That's the way I saw it because I've tried pulling the same thing myself. I even felt as though the person I was most interested in likely may not be interested in me, but felt that if that's the way it was going to be, I could be happy with one of the other boys I was flirting with -- just as I describe with Allura. But as for me, none of the boys turned out to be interested in me. Alas! But no big deal cuz I found and married someone else later. I did mean this story to be a nice mirror for comparing Allura's thoughts here with Keith's thoughts in Sven, That's Awful! and [Author -- Sheila Bliss, based on the previous creation
of Voltron by World Events Productions]
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