finished designing their outfits for my wolf’s rain au. i was gonna keep their outfits from the show but, if uve seen wolf’s rain there is Very Little colorful stuff, it’s all dark and bleak, so… ba-da-bing!
since they’re just outfit changes i drew over official stuff to get the basic concepts down… i’ll probably make in-depth refs later for consistency’s sake but Who Knows
pidge’s design is my favorite… but i love lance’s pants… also i had a crisis with shiro’s outfit. couldn’t get it to look right. but it’s shiro, he has no fashion sense whatsoever so i just tossed whatever together HAHA
i never posted these here so i figured i may as well, hello i am danny and i am making a wolf’s rain!au comic that will be cleverly named “volt’s rain” check it out like fave comment subscribe
i designed their wolf forms a while ago but i love them a lot and still have a blast drawing them. pidge was the most fun to design but lance is the most fun to draw altogether? i’m really excited to start this project…
will it be cute? will it be sad? heck i don’t know winks
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I imagine they’re not going to worldbuild this fantasy world too hard, but I would guess Pidge is a dwarf and Allura is possibly an elf while Lance is some kind of… animal person.
There’s more about the characters, however, that interest me, especially in context of s4e4 and what we know about these characters and how they tend to respond to roles.
Shiro is… for all intents and purposes playing himself. This is him, exactly as he is, with a thin coat of fantasy paint. He’s not flexing any muscle away from his comfort zone here, depicting himself exactly as he is, which makes sense with the whole black paladin thing- a lot of those virtues come back to an ironclad sense of self that comes with considerable difficulty really operating away from that. It’s likely he’s chosen a paladin or fighter as a character- I wouldn’t be surprised if his attempts at RPing a character are either nonexistent or a little stilted.
Allura’s very much herself- she’s playing to a different skill set and my previous thoughts about how much that outfit resembles the queen’s attire still stand. As a result, I genuinely have to wonder if we’re going to get juicy details on Allura’s mother and their relationship in this episode- if Allura modeled her character after her mother. But she’s still playing hypotheticals a little more, she’s still herself but trying out a new thing or flexing a side of herself that doesn’t normally see the surface.
Hunk seems to have more of a built character- that odd haircut suggests ecclesiastical inclinations and he’s likely either the party wizard or party cleric. (or both). Either way, he’s breaking more from his real self creating a fantasy persona.
Pidge and Lance are the ones most clearly engaging in transformative fantasy- actual role play if you will. Pidge’s is fairly predictable- even though she’s canonically a rogue personality, we’ve seen her on many occasions indulge in imaginings that frame her as stronger and more important. She would enjoy a fantasy that lets her feel self-sufficient and strong, especially with the idea that, as party tank, the team will rely on her.
Lance? Look at how effortlessly Lance is swinging this punk rogue animal-eared guy. The casual squat. The lazy grin. This guy is 100% in character here like he’s just gonna pluck a bit of hay off the ground and chew it for pure aesthetic effect and not even miss his train of thought. Sorry, lookin’ for Lance, Blue Paladin of Voltron? Ain’t heard the guy. Now, if you’re lookin’ for directions to the thieves’ guild, he might be your fella, see?
That bracelet is probably cursed, he has a twelve-paragraph backstory, and derails the DM’s campaign because he incidentally goes way back with a major NPC.
TL;DR you could probably just, all hologram technology inside, dress up Lance in this outfit and hand him a prop weapon and he would just start LARPing with zero hesitation.
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