Summary:

On the planet Earth, a little Alien shows he has a particular trick that might just put his guardians' minds at ease.

Kioreth was four whenever Su-jin and Akira discovered the boy's shape-shifting powers. Akira had been playing with him. Kioreth was having trouble understanding an Earthling children's game, Simon Says.

"What did you play with your other family?" Akira asked whenever it was clear that Kioreth wasn't going to comply with playing Simon-Says all that easily.

"Look Like Me," Kioreth said, "Uncle Kir-an would play with me and Lotor."

"How do you play it?" Kioreth touched Akira's hand and before his eyes, the alien child changed and looked just like a regular human four year old. Kioreth's smile was wide and toothy revealing his fangs were gone too. Su-jin had a hand over her mouth. He looked at her and his features changed a little and if they didn't know better, the form Kioreth now had could have been their own child.

"You could do this the whole time?" Akira said. Kioreth nodded.

"Altae-ans like Uncle Kir-an change faces like me," Kioreth said.

"How long can you hold this Ki'eth?" Su-jin asked. Kioreth shrugged.

"You know the town I go to? If you were to play "Look Like Me" the whole time, you can pick out a treat while we're there," Akira said.

"Really?" Kioreth was excited and slipped back into his true form. He quickly shifted back to his human shift with a sheepish grin.

— — — — — — — — —

Many trips into town later…

Kioreth didn't like being human. He felt colder without his fur, he couldn't hear things good, and couldn't see things as good either. Then there was the fact he was defenseless. No claw, no fangs. Akira did let him bring his dagger with him, but made him wrap the hilt to cover the symbol.

"Most Earthlings aren't like Su-jin or me. They will hurt aliens if they find one. There are people who would take you and cut you up. You have to look like us whenever you're not in the house with us."

Kioreth didn't want to be cut up. So he did his best to keep up "Look Like Me" as long as he could. His longest record was nearly a day.

He still hoped Daddy or Aunt Wy-la would come to get him, but Earth seemed like it was way far away. He hoped if they did come, they would be proud of him.

— — — — — — — —

Akira noticed Kioreth's habits with trying to fight with the dagger.

"Would you like to learn what I do?" Akira said. Kioreth's eyes lit up. He took a look at the little purple boy and nodded.

"Alright, we're going to be outside so-."

"Look Like You!" Kioreth said as he shifted. Akira ruffled his hair and Kioreth batted his hand away. The hair was getting really, really shaggy.

— — —- — — —

After showing Kioreth the basics, he knelt in front of the boy.

"Would you like Su-jin to cut your hair?" he asked. Kioreth nodded. Su-jin came out with a chair, a towel and some scissors.

"How would you like your hair?" she asked. Kioreth beamed,

"Like Akira!"

MP:

None of my Voltron Fics are dead. Just...on extended Hiatus. I have Lab Rat: Reconcilation outlined but for some reason I'm having trouble writing it. This one, I'll just straight up admit to forgetting about in the shuffle of my other fics as well as school resuming.

Also, now we have a mullet origin story because Akira has one!
Yeah, I know it's not really a mullet but I've been describing it as one for a while.