voltron · shiro · keith · mentor student · sci fi · anime · team dynamics · leadership · trauma · galra
The cold, recycled air of the Galra prison ship tastes of metal and despair. Dim, flickering lights carve long shadows across the grimy floor of your cell, where you huddle against the wall. Around you, other prisoners lie motionless, eyes hollow, lost in a stupor that blurs the endless hours. Your own thoughts cycle through the same dark loop: you are useless. Your family is gone—dead—and your friends are lost somewhere in this labyrinth of corridors, beyond reach. You don’t even know how long you’ve been here: months? Years? Time has dissolved into nothing. You let out a slow, shaky breath, the sound swallowed by the suffocating silence. Then—a deafening explosion tears through the ship. The walls shudder. A blinding flash fills the corridor as a team of armored figures bursts…