everything voltron pt 2

team voltron + lance's presents

shiro: shiro loves giving presents. back in the garrison days, every year he and adam would take the day off to see keith for his birthday. naturally, shiro wants to get lance the best gift!! he settles for some things he found in the space mall, like a keychain of blue and a heart with the bi flag. he also buys lance a telescope so he can see cuba once they get in the earth’s atmosphere.

allura: she and lance both have a very similar taste for sparkly things, so allura gifts lance some of her makeup and skin care products she doesn’t use. she ends up picking out the altean equivalent of a glittery highlighter, as well as shiny blue lipgloss. she also slips in a few face masks and tremendously glittery pink nail polish. she and coran sing the altean version of the birthday song to lance, and allura ruthlessly smashes coran’s face in the cake.

hunk: hunk has a lot of making up to do, so he plans to outdo everyone and give his best friend the most gifts. he starts with a large painting of a beach back on earth—though he doesn’t mention he had to use some serious diplomacy skills to persuade it into his hands. hunk also purchases a surf board at one of the "exotic" shops in the space mall in hopes that lance will use it when they go back to varadero. he even gets a new bell for kaltenecker. and of course he makes an amazing blueberry cheese cake (lance's favorite cake) and cuban churros.

coran: he’s probably more excited than lance himself. coran gives lance an altean relic he’d managed to recover from alfor’s room—a golden bracelet highly respected in his culture. typically, fathers are meant to gift their sons the bracelet as a symbol of honor and pride— a peace offering of unconditional love.

Pidge: she decides she doesn't want to go over board, so she decides something simple: a video game lance had been eying at the earth store in the space mall. he had been talkimg about how he used to play it when he was little and he was just so excited, she thought it was a perfect gift. pidge hopes lance can teach her how to beat all the levels. she also rigs the red lion to play beyonce, shakira, daddy yankee, and all of lance's favorite music.

keith: not one for birthdays, keith doesn’t necessarily understand the hype of turning a new age, but he does want to make lance’s day special. he wakes him up kisses and ice cream (sort of) for breakfast. he happens to convince the mice and cosmo the wolf respectively to do tricks for the boy. keith sets up a successful birthday party alongside coran and, as discreetly as he can, pulls lance aside to give him the real present: matching promise rings, both silver and encrusted with flecks of red and blue. lance doesnt think he’s ever been this happy.