Allura (Legendary Defender)

**Allura** was a character from the netflix series *Voltron: Legendary Defender*.

## Appearance

Allura was a female Altean. She has an active, leggy physique and waist-length, voluptuous white hair. The only visible features distinguishing her from a human are her down-turned elfish ears. Her skin tone is warm brown, her eyes are a mix of galaxy blue and turquoise with purple pupils, and her Altean marks are light pink.

Allura is first seen wearing her ankle-length Altean gown. The dress has a sky blue bodice, a white skirt and a knee-length pink cape; all accented with gold. The bodice has a sweetheart neckline and ends in a "V" shape at her waist. The skirt has a pink hem and a pale blue stripe down the front. The dress has long blue sleeves, as well as white puff sleeves attached to a white undershirt.

Allura's main outfit is her combat attire — a white bodysuit with black areas on her midsection and thighs. The suit comes with a tapered blue belt, shoes, and clunky wristguards. Pink accents are located on the collar, above her ribs, separating the white and black on her thighs, and under her kneepads. She has a pink "V" shape on her chest to represent Voltron. Allura wears her hair in a high bun during battle.

## Personality

Allura was known for her commanding attitude towards the Paladins, her serious demeanor and occasionally playful personality. However, she did have a deep-seated bitterness; Zarkon was the focal point of Allura's rage and suffering because of his betrayal of her and her family that resulted in the murder of her father, her entire race, and the destruction of her home planet. Allura's raw hatred of Zarkon was unnerving to behold for those more familiar with her more compassionate side, and her bloody history with the Galra has fostered in her a severe hatred and distrust of their race. This comes to the forefront upon learning of Keith's revelation that he is part Galra. She becomes severely conflicted and begins coldly shunning him. However, in due time, Allura realized that Keith has more than proven his good heart and rightful place on the team, which Allura considers to be her new-found family, and she reaffirms her trust in him by apologizing for her misjudgment.

Allura was a very caring and altruistic individual who wants to do right by the people of the galaxy and was incredibly committed to her diplomatic and military duties as the daughter of the king, and appears to define her mission by the same standards and care that her father did. Allura greatly admired her father and misses him, and tries very hard to take up the mantle of leadership in his stead. She is very intelligent in dangerous situations, shown when she absorbed a dark entity extracted from another Altean (though she was haunted with visions of Lance, Lotor, and Melenor to do it) and decided to use it to access Honerva’s mind via hers. She maintained a deferential attitude towards her father's hologram until its destruction, despite the mantle of leadership having passed to her.

Allura possessed an incredible force of will, able to sacrifice her father's artificial intelligence, and with it her last connection to the king and parent she so deeply admired and loved. She is even willing to give her own life, which she did to restore all realities in the series finale. This showed just how much she was willing to give up in order to complete her mission, she was also able to mutilate her own emotions in the interests of peace and defeating her enemies.

When pushed to her limits, Allura gives in to a rage-fueled brutality, and her dark side completely takes over. For example, during Season 6, after finding about Lotor‘s true intentions, she angrily knocks him out, due to having a loving relationship with him. She later compared him to his father and even agrees about abandoning him in the Quintessence field despite initially conflicted by said decision. In Season 8, she attempts to kill Honerva out of pure anger, but fails when Honerva anticipates this and temporarily puts her mind into a void, causing her to miss.

Sometimes, Allura blatantly gives in to darkness, shown when she battles a figure in Honerva’s subconscious, and attempts to kill him with her eyes and hands radiating with black energy, presumably dark Quintessence. However, she did not know it was the original Blue Paladin, but she still believed it to be a ruse even after finding out.

## History

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Allura is determined to save the universe from Honerva and fights alongside the other paladins. At the end, Allura learns that she must sacrifice herself for the sake of all realities. After bidding the paladins farewell, she willingly makes the ultimate sacrifice. Afterwards, the paladins and Coran spread her message and tell Allura's story throughout a now peaceful universe.

## Death

Allura sacrifices herself to restore all the eliminated realities.