Red Tails || Klance Mermaid Au

Deep within the Voltron seas, lived the prosperous Kingdom of Altea inhabited by the mysterious yet beautiful merpeople. Mermaids and Mermen equally ruled the seas, but were only divided by one thing, their tails. Each merperson is born with one of 4 tail colors in their younger years, Blue, Purple, White, and Red. Blue tailed merfolk were only born from royalty or the extremely rich, being the most respected and privileged among their race. Purple tailed merpeople we're just behind Blue tails in status and wealth, they we're never royalty or as rich as the Blue tails, but they we're still very wealthy and respected. White tails were at the lower status end, and didn't come from money or privilege, often having just enough to live day by day. And finally, at the bottom of the food chain are the Red Tails. These merpeople were poor and unprivileged, and treated like trash by the rest of the merfolk. Years of mistreatment towards lead to tragedy, as the species of Red Tails finally snapped, and attacked the Altean Kingdom, leading to years of devastating war, leaving the kingdom in ruin. By the end of it, the Red tails had lost, and this caused them to be banished to the Galran Caves, a place so dangerous and scarce that no merperson dared to enter. Years had passed since this war, to today, where a young merman named Keith lives in the Galran caves with his other brother Shiro. Disobedience and disregard for Shiros warning of taking a forbidden journey beyond the caves leads him to meet Lance, a Blue tailed merman and the current prince of Altea, who also disregarded the law of the land and journeyed towards the Galran caves. This illegal encounter, though seeming small at first, could change the fate of mer kind for generations to come.