[Team Space] (Wingfic) A Chance to do Something Great

[evig_sang]

Title: A Chance to do Something Great
Prompt: (Wingfic)
Rating: Teen (for swearing and violence)
Tags: Voltron: Legendary Defender fusion, Not Safe For Newbies/Nick (NSFN),Wingfic, VLD canon-typical violence, Kurogane's potty mouth, minor panic attacks, established relationship, Horitsuba-style twin names

Summary: The mysterious disappearance of the Kerberos mission. Carvings of a wolf and a strange energy in the desert. Transmissions from an alien warship headed for Earth. As they try to connect the pieces, Fai, Kurogane, and Syaoran find themselves embroiled in an intergalactic war they never could have imagined.
(This is written to (hopefully) be accessible to people who have never watched VLD.)

Author's notes: I swore up, down, and sideways that I was done with the VLD fandom for good and wouldn't write a crossover for this prompt. You can see how that worked out for me.
The title is, of course, taken from Shiro's words of wisdom in VLD episode 1: “If you get too worried about what could go wrong, you might miss a chance to do something great.”



A HUGE thank-you to everyone who helped me with this fic: my sister, for brainstorming with me; yououui, for making some very good suggestions for things to add, and crystalrequiem, for polishing my word choice and making this thing readable.

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~the end.


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[crystalrequiem]

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AHHHHH you know I love this! It's a super fun ride and the way you fused two universes and came up with something totally fresh is fantastic.

Of course, it didn't feel super like a wing-fic since you didn't really have time to focus on the Clowite wings, but oh well, IT WAS A RAD ASS MECHA SPACE BATTLE FIC.

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I watched some of the original voltron many many years ago and understood the basic premise of the Individual machines forming a giant one but were they actually flying? Or was the wings reference the feathers the clow duo had? Regardless, This was a cool take on the prompt for sure.

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I felt the characterization was good in places where we weren't seeing exact quotes from Voltron; but every time a quote from the pilot appeared unchanged, I heard the voices of the characters from Voltron, rather than the characters from Tsubasa, if that makes sense? The Tsubasa-specific twists on things were great, and I actually really liked using the MKR 'bots to take the place of Voltron/Golion's 5-of-the-same thing. It would be very cool to see some kind of continuation of this where the hints and beginnings laid out could be further developed, if you ever have time to return to it!