mosthumanblade | Lost Raiders app

As this will also contain details of the specific and RIDICULOUSLY SELF-INDULGENT AU version I am planning to play in this game, I figured I should post it here for other players to be able to look at.

OOC Info
Player Name: Kai
Age: 35
Contact: kaitreides on plurk; pm this journal

IC Info
Name: Keith Kogane
Canon: Voltron Legendary Defender AU
Reserved: Yes
Personality: Keith has a pragmatic nature, going so far as to suggest not rescuing Allura when she was captured because it would risk flying Voltron right into Zarkon's hands. He has problems with his temper, and can lose control if the situation involves someone he cares deeply about, like when he was so worried about Shiro that he charged off to protect him and the Black lion and attacked Zarkon by himself. He tends to act on his own instincts and behave like a headstrong loner, ignoring other people - basically the only person he'll listen to most of the time is Shiro. It's unclear just what Shiro and Keith's previous relationship was, but they definitely knew each other at the Garrison, and Shiro is the only person that can calm Keith down. This isn't to say that he dislikes other people, he can be a very happy person if he's feeling relaxed enough, but he has problems making connections. He's an orphan, and between that and his temper, he has abandonment issues, a problem with authority, and a fear of feelings. He also has trouble understanding some social idiosyncrasies and behaviours - he doesn't understand what the others are doing when they make laser noises. It's possible that this is because that kind of game is something childish, learned from playing at war games with other children, and Keith didn't really play with other kids. Very anger, much fight.

In this AU, Keith's parents were of alien origin. The Blue Paladin, an Altean, had to hide the Blue lion on Earth 10,000 years ago and was also carrying with them King Alfor and Zarkon's secret baby to hide their existence from Zarkon. The Blue Paladin went into cryo-sleep until civilisation progressed sufficiently and then used their Altean shapeshifting ability to blend in as a totally normal humans single parent. The baby grew up believing she was human, met some cutie human and had Keith, and then both his parents died and I guess the Blue Paladin was also Not Around. From there it mostly follows the events of canon, except then Shiro gets recaptured and brainwashed, and meets a disgraced and embittered Sendak, holy shit. Shiro is under much closer watch with his connection to the Black lion but somehow both Shiro and Sendak end up going on a mission that means facing the Paladins, and Keith has some trouble fighting Shiro and gets himself injured, and Shiro licks his blood off his hand and is like huh, he kind of tastes like one of you, and Sendak is like what. But he runs a check because he's curious, and oh look at that DNA. So Sendak is like you know what I don't like Zarkon much any more, and the Galra's internal resistance would be more effective if they had a potential new leader of the right bloodline to rally behind, and I guess there's some flowery bullshit about bridging the gap between species and bringing peace to the universe as well. And okay, that's kind of appealing to Keith, even if he's pretty shocked on the whole Galra thing at first. But I mean who cares who his parents were, they're dead, doesn't change who he is? But Sendak is like look, come work with me to take down Zarkon from the inside with political bullshit, and you can also save Shiro from the witch's influence while you're at it.

Keith is tempted by that, but he's not so sure that walking in and telling Zarkon he exists as a rival for his power is a great idea, and also have you met him, what is a politics, can you eat it. So he suggests Sendak and Shiro join them instead, and help them reach the anti-Zarkon sympathisers in the Galra ranks and stuff, it'll be safer and they can hide the truth of Keith's existence until they're ready.

So Sendak and Shiro just kidnap him to neutral territory to try and seduce him to their way of things, and Keith is like, for fuck's sake, but he goes along with it because maybe he can reach Shiro and break him out of the brainwashing this way. You know, with lots of sex, between the three of them. And he's learning about his shapeshifting ability but it's still really hard to control so sometimes he has a mass of tentacles for a dick and sometimes it's pretty normal, and sometimes he's just an alien cat boy.
Sample Objectives: 1. Connect with other people. Since Keith has trouble with making friends and connecting with people due to his experiences making him feel like they'll probably abandon him or just won't like him, this will help him to get over that and make more CR by trying to talk to people more.
2. Have sex with someone in a non-human form. This will help Keith work on his shapeshifting ability, and also with building CR and opening up about his not-entirely-human nature.
Sample: Test Drive
Sample Game Mechanic: Keith isn't sure about giving artifacts of power to random gods he doesn't know anything about, but he will go hunt down artifacts to sell to merchants until he's more sure of things. Exploring the ruins sounds dangerous, but kind of fun, and there might even be something buried out there that can get him home.