p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" There was a time, many years ago, a child lost his parents. A child of earth who was an ordinary human baby on the surface, but underneath had an unknown percentage of alien DNA. DNA from a race called the Galra. The Galra DNA did not make itself known through any external traits and was so minute that he wouldn't even now about it until he neared adulthood./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" Without any parents to raise him and the reason as to why he did not unknown to even him, it would appear at a glance that his future was bleak. It was not. He had a guardian to take care of him. A full-blooded Galra who looked much different than himself but as a child, that didn't matter. His relation to this Galra was also unknown. Perhaps he's the brother of either this child's mother or father. In this case it would be more likely he is the sibling to the mother because the father of this child is very human in appearance./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" That could be a lie though, with hidden Galra DNA much like the child's. But this was unlikely as it would imply that the Galra genetics came from further up the family tree. No, It was far more likely that this Galra was the child's godfather. Godfather, for all of those who do not know, is a title given to a person whom the parents of a child have come to a mutual agreement with that in event of something happening to them, whether they were to die or just no longer be able to raise their own child for whatever reason it may be, that they would raise the child in their place and give them guidance./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" And this child could not raise itself, too young to know how to survive on his own and so the Galra took the role of a godfather, perhaps having known the child's parents, to raise this unfortunate child so that he may live to see adulthood and he did so without knowing how to be a parent or a guardian. He did not know how to be gentle or how to handle such a tender living being with care. He didn't know how to give him guidance or how to teach another person./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"But he did his best and in return learned about how rewarding it can be to care for someone and to have that person respond and care back. They lived happily or as happily as two people grieving the loss of two other people could be. He came to love the child deeply with all his heart and the child came to love him too./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" He would find himself crying sometimes at nights with feelings of conflict about how blessed he felt to have this child in his life mixing with the feelings of guilt knowing that the only reason things were this way was because the child's real parents were gone. On those nights, he didn't know that the child would sometimes listen to him and cry too and that it someone deepened the bond that they shared./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" The child would see how much his godfather cared for him and try to do little things for the Galra to show that he cared too. Anything to make him smile because his godfather smiling make him smile too./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" But it was not to last./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" One day, the Galra had to leave behind the child too. He never forgot ever about the child. It didn't sit right with him and of course he woke up with a bitter feeling in his throat for many years to come but he left out of duty and for reasons too abstract for a child to understand. He left for a cause and he left out of love./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" Not because he thought the child would be better off without him, no it was the opposite. He didn't even leave to create a better world for the child to live and grow up in. He left to create a better span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"universe /spanfor the child to live and grow up in. There was a war going on out there in space and it would only stay away from the Earth and the child for so long. And he couldn't help prevent that by staying with the child. It pained him and he knows it pained the child too to be left alone again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" More times than he could count, the Galra wanted to turn around and go back for him before it was too late and the child was left with scars and loneliness but with tears streaming down his face, the Galra uncovered his ship and left. The child cried and cried but this time no matter how long he cried, no one came for him./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" It was horrible, it was unfortunate, it was debilitating sad. The child was so young and his godfather hadn't even tried to explained anything to him even though he wouldn't be able to understand the reasons, it would have been nice for him to at least know what was the cause of their separation. But that's not where this tragedy ends. It continues when years and years down the road, they meet again, only shortly before one of their tales ends for good. And when they do meet again, the child does not even remember his godfather. He doesn't remember the grief, the sadness or the happy memories. He doesn't even remember his name./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" The reunion the Galra godfather had been hoping for after learning that his godchild might be one of the paladins of Voltron was bittersweet at best. He realized within seconds that this is both the child he took care of so long again and not long after he also realized that he was not remembered./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" It was painful for the Galra to introduce himself as a stranger, there was no way it wouldn't when he knew that the reason the child didn't remember him and all the good memories they shared together was because he had left all those years ago. Maybe it was because he was too young or because the memories of his departure had been too traumatic. No matter the reason, he was forgotten./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" The realization was enough to cause regret to start creeping in and take hold. But he forced himself to recall why he had left. He had only been able to help out the paladins of Voltron the way he had, preventing them from being killed or hurt or captured, was because he had secured his position as a spy long ago. That was why he had had the ability to assist them like this and knowing that made it worth it. This is the price he had to pay and he accepted it with grace./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" He was so, so proud of him. That is why when they became under siege that he knew he had to help his godchild escape. He would not let this be the end of the road for him. They both had jobs they needed to do or everything would have been pointless and the surge of hope blossoming with him would not let that happen./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" So of course he did not think twice about sacrificing himself to his godchild may escape and live to see another day. And when the air around crackled with energy and the air become hot and too thick to breath just seconds before the deadly explosion would take his life, he thought back to all those years ago when they lived together and was happy./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" He was happy he got to see that child again. To get to see the person he grew up to be filled the Galra with unimaginable joy. It confirmed to him that the child lived and didn't die somewhere along the way. He grew up. Nothing made him happier than that fact alone. He would have hoped the child would have stayed out of the war but it was because of that he could see him again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" As his life slipped away from him, he smiled and was filled with wonder. To think that his godchild became a hero./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;""Thace, my name is Keith. I'm a Paladin of Voltron."/span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" Without any parents to raise him and the reason as to why he did not unknown to even him, it would appear at a glance that his future was bleak. It was not. He had a guardian to take care of him. A full-blooded Galra who looked much different than himself but as a child, that didn't matter. His relation to this Galra was also unknown. Perhaps he's the brother of either this child's mother or father. In this case it would be more likely he is the sibling to the mother because the father of this child is very human in appearance./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" That could be a lie though, with hidden Galra DNA much like the child's. But this was unlikely as it would imply that the Galra genetics came from further up the family tree. No, It was far more likely that this Galra was the child's godfather. Godfather, for all of those who do not know, is a title given to a person whom the parents of a child have come to a mutual agreement with that in event of something happening to them, whether they were to die or just no longer be able to raise their own child for whatever reason it may be, that they would raise the child in their place and give them guidance./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" And this child could not raise itself, too young to know how to survive on his own and so the Galra took the role of a godfather, perhaps having known the child's parents, to raise this unfortunate child so that he may live to see adulthood and he did so without knowing how to be a parent or a guardian. He did not know how to be gentle or how to handle such a tender living being with care. He didn't know how to give him guidance or how to teach another person./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"But he did his best and in return learned about how rewarding it can be to care for someone and to have that person respond and care back. They lived happily or as happily as two people grieving the loss of two other people could be. He came to love the child deeply with all his heart and the child came to love him too./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" He would find himself crying sometimes at nights with feelings of conflict about how blessed he felt to have this child in his life mixing with the feelings of guilt knowing that the only reason things were this way was because the child's real parents were gone. On those nights, he didn't know that the child would sometimes listen to him and cry too and that it someone deepened the bond that they shared./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" The child would see how much his godfather cared for him and try to do little things for the Galra to show that he cared too. Anything to make him smile because his godfather smiling make him smile too./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" But it was not to last./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" One day, the Galra had to leave behind the child too. He never forgot ever about the child. It didn't sit right with him and of course he woke up with a bitter feeling in his throat for many years to come but he left out of duty and for reasons too abstract for a child to understand. He left for a cause and he left out of love./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" Not because he thought the child would be better off without him, no it was the opposite. He didn't even leave to create a better world for the child to live and grow up in. He left to create a better span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"universe /spanfor the child to live and grow up in. There was a war going on out there in space and it would only stay away from the Earth and the child for so long. And he couldn't help prevent that by staying with the child. It pained him and he knows it pained the child too to be left alone again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" More times than he could count, the Galra wanted to turn around and go back for him before it was too late and the child was left with scars and loneliness but with tears streaming down his face, the Galra uncovered his ship and left. The child cried and cried but this time no matter how long he cried, no one came for him./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" It was horrible, it was unfortunate, it was debilitating sad. The child was so young and his godfather hadn't even tried to explained anything to him even though he wouldn't be able to understand the reasons, it would have been nice for him to at least know what was the cause of their separation. But that's not where this tragedy ends. It continues when years and years down the road, they meet again, only shortly before one of their tales ends for good. And when they do meet again, the child does not even remember his godfather. He doesn't remember the grief, the sadness or the happy memories. He doesn't even remember his name./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" The reunion the Galra godfather had been hoping for after learning that his godchild might be one of the paladins of Voltron was bittersweet at best. He realized within seconds that this is both the child he took care of so long again and not long after he also realized that he was not remembered./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" It was painful for the Galra to introduce himself as a stranger, there was no way it wouldn't when he knew that the reason the child didn't remember him and all the good memories they shared together was because he had left all those years ago. Maybe it was because he was too young or because the memories of his departure had been too traumatic. No matter the reason, he was forgotten./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" The realization was enough to cause regret to start creeping in and take hold. But he forced himself to recall why he had left. He had only been able to help out the paladins of Voltron the way he had, preventing them from being killed or hurt or captured, was because he had secured his position as a spy long ago. That was why he had had the ability to assist them like this and knowing that made it worth it. This is the price he had to pay and he accepted it with grace./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" He was so, so proud of him. That is why when they became under siege that he knew he had to help his godchild escape. He would not let this be the end of the road for him. They both had jobs they needed to do or everything would have been pointless and the surge of hope blossoming with him would not let that happen./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" So of course he did not think twice about sacrificing himself to his godchild may escape and live to see another day. And when the air around crackled with energy and the air become hot and too thick to breath just seconds before the deadly explosion would take his life, he thought back to all those years ago when they lived together and was happy./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" He was happy he got to see that child again. To get to see the person he grew up to be filled the Galra with unimaginable joy. It confirmed to him that the child lived and didn't die somewhere along the way. He grew up. Nothing made him happier than that fact alone. He would have hoped the child would have stayed out of the war but it was because of that he could see him again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" As his life slipped away from him, he smiled and was filled with wonder. To think that his godchild became a hero./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;""Thace, my name is Keith. I'm a Paladin of Voltron."/span/p