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[lionunchained]

[The video opens with a rather hesitant looking Shiro. There's really nothing behind him as of the moment, but he does glance over at something almost right as the video kicks on]

So... it seems this place just keeps getting weirder. It seems we had some recent arrivals from our world and well... it's better to show you.

[He turned back to whatever he had been looking at]

Come here. You can come here.

[Faintly in the background there was the sound of metal moving off screen then something walked into view of the camera so others could see it. It was quite clearly a black robot lion with glowing yellow eyes, several panels glowing blue, and red wing like protrusions on its back. It's was larger than a normal lion. It walked over and sat down next to Shiro, leaning in as though trying to figure out what he was holding]

This is the Black Lion of Voltron. However, its usually not this... small.

[Yes, he is calling a robot that's larger than a normal lion small]

I'm usually shorter than Black's foot. Let me see it.

[This he says to the lion, which does raise one leg to let Shiro have its foot, but it basically drops all the weight into his hand which makes him flinch]

You are still made of metal and heavy.

[Someone might be able to faintly hear the snickering in the background, but then the next thing that happens is that Keith suddenly fell into the frame of the camera as though shoved by something, a vague red blur before it vanished. Shiro jumped when this happened and the Black Lion got up heading off camera again only to return a moment later carrying a smaller red lion by the "scruff" of the neck as Keith sat up. Shiro just put his chin in his free hand watching as Black carried Red off before he remembered this was still rolling and turned back]

They don't know their own strength.


[ooc: Meet your new neighbors, two of the lions from Voltron! Black is about the size of large liger and Red is the size of a small lion. They are... slightly more active than normal, but will probably be around their specific paladin for the most part.

Either Keith or Shiro is available to answer. If you have a preference or if your character is pinging a specific person, just let us know. It can even be both if you'd like! If no preference, random response.

The log where they arrive is still ongoing]

Comments

[lionunchained]

They're definitely more advanced than anything in our world, at least before we met them. They seem to be capable of... not really evolution, but when their bond with their paladin grows, they can do more. All of the lions have demonstrated additional weapons that appear out of nowhere, the jawblade being the one they all can do. Lance's Blue Lion can now produce a weapon which uses sonic waves to either attack or map an area, like echo location, but she doesn't carry it around all the time.

They've been too large to interact with, but with the bond, we have a relationship with them.

[So this will be interesting. He's wondering if part of the reason Red and Black seem to be so active is because they were smaller. If it was same amount of... whatever they fed off of to do what they did, now they had more of it per pound]

[realimperfect]

I can comfortably say I've never heard of a machine capable of that, before. [ She imagines if that happened to autoreivs when they had a better bond with their master - how that might've effected things in the end. It's a rather morbid train of thought, though thankfully easy to pull from when he's describing all the different things these lions are capable of.

It all seems a bit far fetched, but so does living in a Quarantine on a moon in space or being transported to a ship in the middle of deep space just because, and that's been her life for the better part of a year now... ]

Now, then, you can have an even better relationship I would imagine. Even if you're unable to pilot as you had been before... I just wonder...

[ She pauses, thinks about her wording for a moment - ] Did you make a request for them, or did they just appear? I've often wondered if the portal brings things for any.. particular reason, is why I ask.

[lionunchained]

Yeah, we should actually be able to have a relationship with them as friends rather than as pilot and machine. It was a little more than that even so, but we've never been able to interact with them like this.

A request? No, we didn't. We went out to see if we could figure out what had happened to our teammate who vanished before we arrived. Some creatures from beyond the wall attacked us and they showed up.

[realimperfect]

That's a hard balance to strike, sometimes. But it doesn't look as though you'll have a problem. [ It also probably helps that they were never ingrained with the thought that machines were lesser, but there's no sense in digging in to that bag of worms here and now. The lions weren't autoreivs with Turing functions, after all. ]

So it seems as though the portal brought them through in a time of need. Interesting.

I've just been curious, lately, as to the portal's motives for bringing things through, or if it's just random.

[lionunchained]

No I don't think we were. [The lions bonded with their paladins, but at the same time knew they were in charge. If they wanted to take their paladins somewhere else or run off to save them or attack an enemy base to rescue their paladin, that was their prerogative and who was really going to stop them. This was a new world for them]

Yeah, it was interesting. Keith was about to get attacked by a creature and Red appeared with a roar and dragged it off him.

It's possible though that if the portal connected with our world at the right moment, the lions would have been able to try and use it on their own. Wormholes for travel are commonplace to them.