Voltron oneshots

HAVE AN EARLY CHRISTMAS AU

Space Christmas™
look we know its September we just have a lot of feelings ok

ok so everyone's always talking about how much Lance misses his big family and whatnot, but how would that carry across to a holiday like Christmas?
like, forget about missing just his siblings and parents what about the massive extended family? also (we're not trying to shove beliefs onto a character or upset anyone in general please don't yell at me) A LOT of people are religious and quite a few more practice exclusively on holidays like Christmas or Easter.
plus, even if Lance wasn't strictly religious there's something about being raised in a family that is that ingrains bits and pieces of those things into you just as a byproduct of being raised that way.
either way you can't tell me that Lance's family didn't celebrate Christmas and since he has younger siblings it would still be a big deal since they would still believe in Santa.
so it gets to the point that Lance is spending the nighttimes heartbroken thinking about the presents he had planned for his little siblings that he won't be able to give them this year because he's an amazing sibling like that, or wishing for just one day, THIS day, that he could be back with his family, because anyone who has gone from spending Christmas with a big family to spending it almost alone know that it's one of the loneliest feelings on the world.

Pidge's family is kind of a mixed situation
like her dad's jewish so they just decided as a family to celebrate both Christmas and Hannukah
the holidays weren't really at the front of Pidge's mind when the 'winter months' rolled around
because FIRST OF ALL it looked NOTHING like winter normally did (bc space),
and anyway for the past couple years she and her mother had grown apart and holidays were hardly the first thing anyone would think of when a family falls apart like that,
but she's the one that notices Lance disappearing more and stumbles upon him crying twice as many times as she normally would, so she figures something's up.
it doesn't take a genius to figure out that they have reached what would be on Earth the month of December and to link that a little further to Christmas.
now Pidge understands a lot, but humans have never been her strongest suit so she does what any reasonable person would do and goes to Hunk and lets him take the wheel on what to do. Pidge does what she can to help (she's probs the one that makes the cool decorations)
she misses her small, intimate family Christmases and it was trying to get that family back that brought her here in the first place, but along the way the team has kinda become her family too so why not embrace that for a little while?
Pidge makes a metal tree and everyone helps to decorate it
Lance goes nuts
people's thing's just start going missing and they end up on the tree
everyone knows it's Lance and it's mildly inconvenient but they can't bring themselves to say anything bc he just looks so happy
they start voluntarily putting their things on the tree
Keith puts fingerless gloves on it. Lance almost cries laughing
Shiro puts his fucking arm at the top of the tree bc he thinks he's funny
"Shiro, no you need that what the hell"
"I just wanted to lend a hand, Keith"
Pidge teaches them all about Hanukkah too, and the Alteans love the dreidel
Coran is really hung up on the menorah thing
"But if there was only enough for 1 day, how did it last 8?"
"I don't know, that's why they call it a miracle"
"Fascinating"
Keith doesn't really get this Christmas thing.
like obviously he knows what Christmas is, he's from Texas of course he does, but he's not quite sure how to celebrate this.
after Pidge tells Hunk about Lance's odd behavior Hunk arranges a paladin (and confused Altean) meeting where everyone decides to try this "Christmas in Space" thing out, but Keith is kinda left stranded on what to do.
he wants to help, in the way that you can't help when you're maybe, hopelessly in love with someone and would do anything to make them happier, it's just, holidays were never a part of his childhood and what if he does it wrong?
one thing Keith's sure is part of this is gift-giving so one day during a battle he picks up a Galra shooter and tosses it to an unarmed Lance with an offhanded "Merry Christmas."
AND LANCE JUST LIKE FREEZES FOR A SECOND AND THEN JUST GIVES KEITH THE BIGGEST SMILE AND KEITH IS LIKE BLINDED
so he just keeps giving Lance things?
like he sees a cool rock while on a mission and just puts it in his pocket
a couple of days later he stumbles upon a gorgeous blue gem-type thing on some planet and does the same thing bc it reminds him of Lance's eyes.
and he'll just like slide the gift over to Lance in the middle of meals or just leave it in front of his door
and Lance always just grins like an idiot bc Keith is being nice to him and he just feels lighter
soon all of the paladins start incorporating casual Christmas gift-giving into their daily lives and as Lance's mood starts to brighten more day by day Keith can't help but be a lil proud that he could be the start of someone's happiness
and everyone starts giving each other gifts and Keith is just really proud bc he started this and he just loves these guys so much and is this what a family is like bc he gets it now
one day Keith's in Lance's room (who knows why lmao) and he just sees all of the stuff he's given Lance placed a little bit away from the other's gifts and he just smiles a lil to himself
(sorry we're klance trash)
Hunk's a good best friend.
he's also a bit of a people-watcher so when Pidge comes to him with her research* (*stalking) on Lance and the current month on Earth his own thoughts on the matter are confirmed and he jumps straight to planning Space Christmas™.
a secret meeting is arranged promptly to inform the other paladins/alteans of what's going on (a long explanation of earth customs is required)
then he and coran get ingredients for the Altean equivalent of cookies and just go to work
Pidge and Lance bend cookie cutters out of scrap metal and use those and Keith just cuts out shapes with his knife bc of course he would
cuz if they're doing Christmas, then they're doing it right. Hunk's typical holidays involve so much food, especially as gifts
large family dinners become a mandatory thing, every time getting more elaborate and delicious.
Hunk always makes people share about their day because it's what his family always did
"So Pidge, how was your day?"
"Hunk, I was with you all day, we had the same day."
"But how was it?"
when Christmas would roll around Hunk's younger siblings presented him with small and, to the outsider's eye, meaningless gifts so when he starts getting handed shiny rocks, or little people made of twigs, or one time a small robot that did nothing but blast screamo he can't help but be reminded of his family too
Shiro had quite honestly forgotten that holidays were such a big deal.
in his defense a lot had happened and they just had slipped his mind.
he's not opposed to the idea when Hunk brings it up, but a week later he's fully invested in the holidays and has crocheted several sweaters, because he looks fantastic in red, ok.
growing up with a single parent and a much younger sibling has hardwired into his brain the need to make every holiday as big of a deal as possible and he starts spending late nights decorating various parts of the castle to make this the most magical experience possible because now he had 4 little sibling to share this with and also he needs to and it gives him peace of mind when his nightmares are too intense to sleep through.
every opportunity he gets he spends squirrelling away presents for the 25th or furiously crocheting sweaters for everyone else because what's Christmas without the ugliest sweaters you've ever seen?
ok quick side note but we promise this is relevant: so we all know about the headcanon that Lance knits but consider this: Shiro crochets
and Lance like will not stop giving him shit about 'wow only one needle? I have two so...'
and Shiro's a good sport so he just kind of plays along bc wow Lance has started another dumb rivalry who would have guessed
but then Shiro crochets him this blue hat with lion ears on it and Lance can't really bring himself to keep the the 'rivalry' going
(he wears the hat everywhere)
Shiro and Lance team up to make the team stockings and Shiro even makes tiny ones for the mice
the Alteans don't know what's going on
like obviously they notice that there's something off about the paladins, so when Hunk calls his meeting about Lance, they're kind of like ???? bc they noticed these things with everyone but if they want to pretend that it's just about Lance then okay
learning about Christmas is..... interesting to say the least
"So you're telling me that the people of earth tell their children about a reverse thief dressed in red that breaks into everyone's home?"
"I mean I wouldn't say it like that"
"Well then how WOULD you say it"
"He just visits everyone to give them gifts-"
"I'll prepare the castle's defenses for an intruder immediately!"
"No that's really not necessary"
They get it eventually.
Allura's really into the 'Santa's reindeer' thing (something about them reminding her of an altean animal) so she works with pidge to make little reindeer antlers for the mice and also ENORMOUS ONES for the lions
((Keith is FURIOUS (and a little confused) when he sees the large red ball attached to red's nose but Lance is just laughing and smiling so he guesses it's okay))

@ dreamworks just give us the space fam doing space things for the holidays. just a christmas episode that's all we're asking for
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