Lotura

"Our fathers were friends once, long ago. There must be hope for us."

- Lotor to Allura.

Lotura is the het ship between Prince Lotor and Princess Allura from the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom.

Canon
After Lotor killed his father and seemed to prove he truly desired peace, he and Allura became allies. Lotor helped Allura reach Oriande and discover her latent Altean alchemist abilities which she then used to help Lotor complete his Sincline ships. As they sought to bring peace to the universe, their relationship grew to the point of a kiss. However, Lotor was exposed for performing experiments on other Alteans to steal their life force earlier in his pursuit of quintessence and Allura was devastated and turned against him. Later, before they faced off in a battle, Sincline vs. Voltron, Lotor prevented his generals from firing on Allura when she attacked him and pleaded that his feelings were genuine. After she equated him to his father, who he despised, Lotor completely turned on her and attacked.

In the battle inside the layer between realities, she realized that the quintessence surrounding them was corrupting not only Lotor, who had become crazed, but the Paladins themselves. The only way to defeat Lotor and his Sincline mech was by infusing it with Voltron's power until his ship was overloaded - a trick she learned from her trials in Oriande. Allura wanted to rescue Lotor from the quintessence layer when he was incapacitated, but Voltron, heavily damaged and its Paladins susceptible to quintessence, could no longer stay; the Paladins fled, and Allura seemed to reflect on how she had learned so much because of him and her deeply hurt feelings.

Fanon
After the release of season 5, Lotura shot up in popularity.

Fandom
AO3

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Variations

 * Keirotora refers to the ship between Shiro, Keith, Lotor and Allura
 * Leithal refers to the ship between Keith, Lotor and Allura
 * Loturance refers to the ship between Lance, Lotor and Allura
 * Shotura refers to the ship between Shiro, Lotor and Allura

Trivia

 * In the original Voltron: Defender of the Universe series, Lotor was completely obsessed with Allura. Wanting to maker her part of his harem, and eventually wanting to have her rule beside him. This creepy obsession is nonexistent in Legendary Defender.
 * Lotura placed #6 on Tumblr's Fandometrics ship list on March 5, 2018. (3 days after Season 5 aired.)
 * It placed #8 on Tumblr's Fandometrics ship list on June 18, 2018. (3 days after Season 6 aired.)