Allura

Princess Allura was the princess of the planet Altea, daughter of King Alfor, and one of the last remaining members of the Altean race.

She had been asleep within the Castle of Lions along with Coran for 10,000 years.

She formerly functioned as the commander of Team Voltron and a Paladin of Voltron, piloting the Blue Lion.

Along with Honerva, she sacrificed herself in "The End is the Beginning" to undo Honerva's actions and stop all of reality from being destroyed.

## Appearance

Allura is a slender, young, and humanoid woman with brown skin and long, curly silver hair. As an Altean, her ears are pointed at the top rather than rounded, and she has small sickle-shaped marks of pink situated on her cheekbones, right under each of her bright blue eyes. The pupils of her eyes have a noticeable lavender color in the center of them. Allura usually keeps her long bangs pulled back out of her face to reveal the gold circlet she wears that has a teal embellishment in the center; her hair is long enough to reach her hips, but when donning her spacesuit, she can tuck her hair into a neat bun. She wears a pair of purple earrings that dangle from her ears with no drawn attachments.

In her Paladin armor, Allura's uniform mirrors her fellow Paladins but with pink accents - a color Alteans wear to honor fallen warriors.[1] Apart from Paladin armor, Allura has her own space suit of unknown material, largely white and black, with pink and blue accents. However, it does not appear to be separate sections and intended for battle like Paladin armor. The suit's wrists are large protruding cuffs; the suit has the glowing Altean blue at its cuffs and shoulders. The helmet she wears is white to match the suit with pink and Altean blue accents. Her black "gloves" apparently can be removed while wearing the suit.

When she is not in her spacesuit, Allura wears a formal royal gown like a princess. The dress is largely blue and white, accented with gold, light blue, and pink. She wears gold bracelets on each wrist and a blue cape lined with gold that snugly wraps around her shoulders and flows behind her back, reaching her calves in a split, winged design. The inside of her cape is pink and lined with white, and the collar of her cape is decorated with an Altean blue mark on each side. Allura appears to wear white boots with gold ankles and soles underneath her dress.

## Personality

The princess of Altea carries herself with poise, authority, and a driven will to defend the universe from evil.

She values diplomacy and kindness, acting as polite as possible so as not to offend others even when uncomfortable, and strives to uphold the Paladin code to help all those in need, but ultimately has her sights set on a warpath of justice to defeat Zarkon.

She can be quite stubborn and brutal to see her goals met.

Her motivation is personal and serves the greater good: Allura has a severe distrust and hatred of Galrans seeded in her heart because Zarkon betrayed her father, Alfor, and the subsequent annihilation of her planet race by the Galra Empire.

She has buried her suffering and fears to portray herself as a collected leader and goes to great lengths to sacrifice her personal interests, health, and safety for the greater good.

She will readily throw herself into the midst of battle to either save those caught in the throes or join combat herself, ignoring all advice otherwise.

Her bitterness rears its head when the prospect of working with Galrans to defeat Zarkon arises, only agreeing to an alliance with the Blade of Marmora for the greater good, and when she learns of Keith's Galran heritage.

Allura shuns the Red Paladin for some time until she overcomes her anger, realizing her hatred only causes more pain and that Keith is her new-found family: the same family she considers the rest of the Voltron team.

Allura truthfully has a kind heart, and her desire to protect others extends to the point of withholding information from her allies, such as refusing to tell the new Paladins about Zarkon's former role as the Black Paladin because she wants to protect her friends from the "dark history" of the past.

Allura remains the team's commanding leader but is learning to open up more to the Paladins and share the burden of defending the universe with all of them rather than bearing it alone.

This fortitude and refusal to stand idle as others risk their lives leads the princess to join the Paladins in battle as a Paladin herself and pilot the Blue Lion.

## Skills & Abilities

* **Expert hand-to-hand combatant:** As a member of the royal Altean bloodline; Allura is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant; calling the first gladiator simulator that the Paladins fought as fit for an Altean child.
* **Empathic Nature:** Allura's empathetic and kind nature extends to her abilities, allowing her to tap into her own life force and use it to communicate with and heal the Balmera, something that only more experienced Alteans could do. She also passively developed an empathic mental bond with the mice who shared her cryo pod, the exposure to her mind and memories augmenting their intelligence and allowing them to mentally communicate even when physically separated.
* **Quintessence Manipulation:** Her ability to absorb and channel quintessence is so powerful that she survived using the Castle Ship to amplify her power to restore life to the Balmera, something that Coran was doubtful of her surviving.
* **Altean Physiology:** Like other Alteans, she possesses a natural, though somewhat limited ability to shapeshift. She impersonated a Galra soldier, changing her normally brown skin to violet & growing much taller (even dwarfing Shiro) in order to fool the guards on one of Zarkon's ships. As an Altean, it possible she has a lengthy lifespan, but her exact age is not known.
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** While impersonating a Galran soldier, Allura exhibited prodigious strength, hurling Sentries and Shiro alike with a single arm. Whether she must mimic other species to gain this strength or can increase her strength without actually shapeshifting is unknown, as she has not exhibited this level of strength since.
* **Magical Abilities:** Like Haggar, Allura is gifted with latent abilities to manipulate magical energy. During her duel with Haggar on board Zarkon's command ship Allura's magical abilities were unlocked by the repeated blasts of mystical energy she endured, effectively jump starting them like an electrical current, allowing her to duel Haggar to a standstill. Despite her relative inexperience with her magic, Allura is clearly incredibly powerful, as her raw might alone was enough to frighten and match the elder Altean sorceress. Her first hint of magical power was her ability to see through Haggar's illusions. Allura's powers were greatly enhanced by her newly found alchemical knowledge. Not only was she capable of restoring Lance from near-death after he took a blast from a solar flare, but even more impressively, Allura proved herself capable of consciousness transfer. She did this by transferring Shiro's consciousness from the Black Lion into the body of his clone puppet. The process was quite intense, and the physical tole it took was so great that it turned the rest of Shiro's hair white.
* **Expert Pilot:** Allura's timely intervention while piloting the Castle of Lions (with or without Coran's help) has saved the team several times. Her quick thinking and strategic intelligence allows her to engage far more powerful or numerous enemies, tipping battles in the team's favor or buying enough time to devise a strategy. While she initially struggled to pilot the Blue Lion, she learned quickly, unlocking several special abilities in a much shorter time than Lance.
* **Altean Alchemy:** After Lotor defeats Zarkon, it is revealed that Lotor is searching for the fabled ancient Altean land Oriande. Lotor, and Allura are shown to bear the marks of the chosen, proving themselves worthy to enter Oriande. In the fight against the white lion Allura gives herself to the lion, proving herself worthy. Allura is given the same secrets her father was, and now posses the same knowledge Alfor used when creating Voltron.
* **Blue Bayard:** She can turn her bayard in a Whip sword similar to the one Zarkon created in his first fight with Shiro and Keith. This can be use on a sword or Whips capable to cut, immobilizing enemy's, and can extend being used like a mid-distance projectile and later on a spear.

## Weapons

* Bayard
* Paladin Armor
* Earings
* Polearm
* Space Suit

## Family

* Alfor *(Father)*
* Melenor *(Mother)*