Voltron: Legendary Defender/Ships

Acxlura
 Acxlura is the femslash ship between Allura and Acxa. AKA: Allurxa, Acxura, Grape Bubblegum, General/Princess, Princess's Bodyguard

Canon
In The Way Forward, where the Paladins are being held in a cell, the mice take down the guard and Allura is the first to communicate with them, learning that Coran and Acxa had came to break them out.

Acxa and Allura interact once they all land on a remote planet to talk about what has been going on. Acxa explained that she realized Lotor wasn't the man she thought he was. Allura relates with how Acxa is feeling, explaining she too had fell for Lotor's facade. Acxa promptly tells her and presumably to the others that she will do whatever she can for the Voltron Coalition.

Fanon
Shippers and fans have thought Acxlura would make a great power couple. They have been depicted in some fanart and fanfic as possibly be suspicious towards each other and be on opposing sides, and in other depictions would be Acxa being quiet and would act longing towards Allura before getting together.

There have also been speculated similarities between Allura and Acxa. Acxa has been theorized to be half-Altean, since looking similar to Lotor and has been speculated to have trust issues similar to Allura, theorizing she was kept away like Allura was.

There are even inside jokes in smaller areas that Acxlura is "Fem Klance" or "Klance 2.0" because of the depiction of being also the rivalry type/opposites, with Allura being the outgoing and preppy type of person and Acxa being the quiet, rough-edged one. Even some theories going around, imagining if Acxa and Allura would end up together or theories that Acxa and Allura would rule together in union of Altea and the Galra Empire.

The ship is one of the more rare pairs among many ships, but has garnered some attention on the concept. There is fanart popping up more and multiple fan-written works on the pairing.

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 * Allura/Acxa tag on FanFiction.net
 * Allura/Acxa tag on FanFiction.net

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Hunelle
 Hunelle is the het ship between Hunk and Romelle. AKA: Honelle, Sugar Lemon

Canon
Hunk first met Romelle when Keith, Krolia and Cosmo brought her to Castle of Lions, where she told him, Coran and the rest of the Paladins her story of the hidden Altean colony and Lotor's monstrous actions towards the Alteans he had taken from the colony, like her brother.

In the after math events of Lotor's defeat, the Castle of Lions' loss and the real Shiro's return, Romelle joins Hunk and the others in their Yalmor search, before they had set off to a heard of them Romelle asks Coran and the Paladins as to why they are simply moving on after all they had went through, Hunk answers her question by saying that the others of their group "like to move up". During their Yalmor search, Hunk, Romelle and their party get shrunked and later get cashed by the Yalmor they found Romelle yells "Adventures are not fun", to which Hunk replies "Thank you! That's what I'm always saying!". When Romelle questioned Coran's idea of luring a Yalmor to them while they're still small, Hunks says that it is like that he thinks it while she says it. Before Hunk was used as Yalmor bait, so they could get back to normal, he had that thought that he and Romelle had bounded until she tells the Yellow Paladin that she had no trouble of him being the only one of them in danger.

Shortly before they begin their journey to Earth, Hunk tells Romelle that his manganic still and the bond he has with the Yellow Lion helps him to see and feel the state that his lion is in by just looking at it, Romelle is fascinated by this in which made Hunk feel pleased with himself until Pidge "cramped his style" when she shares with what she has gleamed from the lions by checking them manually. While Romelle accompanies them on their long journey the Two don't have much interaction while within the lions, but it hasn't stopped them from being allies.

After Voltron saves Earth, Romelle becomes a member of the Atlas crew so they can free the rest of the galaxy and stop Lotor's mother. Once peace is returned to the whole freed universe, Romelle helps Hunk to cook a meal for the diplomats during a meeting that will help to keep the universe at peace with each other.

Fanon
People shipping Hunk with Romelle could simply be due to the events of VLD season 7 episode, A Little Adventure, where the two have both agreed and disagreed with each other, where one of Hunk's continue to bond with Romelle words were, "I mean, it's like I think it, and you say it!". As well as the fact that Romelle had joined Hunk in his new mission of bringing the universe together, one meal at a time.

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Jeiro
 Jeiro is the poly ship between Shiro, Keith and James from the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom.

Season 7
A LITTLE ADVENTURE

During a flashback, Keith and James are classmates in their formal operational years. Shiro comes to their school looking for “the next generation of astroexplores.” James is excited, while Keith only looks out a window. Soon Shiro has them and the rest of their class outside at a flight simulator. James and others complete the simulator, with no one making it past level 3. Only Keith left, he excels and completes level 5. James looks over Keith’s shoulder, saying, ''“No way! Keith made it past level 5! Thing’s gotta be broken…”'' Shiro is impressed, asking if Keith is on the list of students that his teacher made. He is not; instead she introduces James as he has the highest grades. Moments later Keith steals Shiro’s car, with James looking on in absolute shock and Shiro silently stunned.

Later, Keith and James are now cadets at the Galaxy Garrison. Shiro, along with observing senior officers, is intruding them and other cadets on what to do during a simulation flight. Keith gets bored and starts “showing off,” resulting in the simulation coming to a stop. The entire group of student ends up in trouble. As the group is lined up, James looks to Keith, sarcastically saying, “Thanks a lot.” Not missing a beat, Keith quips back, ''“My pleasure.”

Fanon
With Shiro/Keith already being one of the fandom’s most popular ships, and James/Keith proving itself to be more than just a “crack ship,” it wasn’t long before the two of them came together with their shared history. In most Jeiro works, Shiro and Keith are in an established relationship with James pining for Keith, where he’s then invited into Shiro and Keith’s relationship.

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Trivia

 * Jeiro had its first dedicated week, which ran from November 12th - November 18th, 2018. (Under the name “Shaith.”)

Variations

 * Jaith refers to the ship between James and Keith
 * Shames refers to the ship between Shiro and James
 * Sheith refers to the ship between Shiro and Keith

Katt
 Katt is the slash ship between Keith and Matt. AKA: Kitkat, Rebelfire, Math, Meith

Season 4
Although Matt and Keith have not had much screen time together, they are seen working together in A New Defender. The two characters lead separate teams on an large-scale mission, where the Paladins are in immense danger; they're desperately attempting to fly Voltron away from Naxzela, a planet that Haggar has made to become a bomb. Keith realizes that Naxzela is a trap for Voltron, and using a Galra fighter, he takes off to attack the Galra fleet, gathering the rebel ships still available along the way. Keith and Matt are in communication with each other, when Keith heavily implies—then attempts—that he's going to sacrifice himself to stop Haggar by flying his own ship into the barrier surrounding the ship Haggar's aboard, and therefore stopping the bomb. Matt screams for Keith not to. Fortunately, Keith is saved by Lotor, shooting the ship instead.

Fanon
Katt is a rare-pair in the Voltron fandom, though it became slightly more popular after season 4.

Some fans often theorize that Keith and Matt knew each other while at the Galaxy Garrison, mostly due to their mutual relationship with Shiro. Following the events of season four's A New Defender, of Keith's heroic-suicide attempt, fans also like to theorize how Keith and Matt would interact after.

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 * Matt/Keith tag on FanFiction.net
 * Matt/Keith tag on FanFiction.net

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Variations

 * Shkatt refers to the ship between Shiro, Keith and Matt

Komelle
 Komelle is the het ship between Keith and Romelle. AKA: Keimelle, Keille, Romeith

Canon
Keith met Romelle when he, Krolia and Cosmo came across the Altean colony, while searching for the unique kind of Quintessence, where Romelle told them what had happened to her brother, and many other Alteans, after the trio explained their mission to her. Even though it was Galra, Krolia and half of Keith's race, that destroyed Planet Altea and had forced many Alteans into hiding from the rest of the universe, Romelle chose to trust them. A choice that allowed her to uncover the truth and to be one of the first Alteans to leave the safety of the colony, so Keith could bring her to Castle of Lions and expose Lotor's crimes. When they got to the castle-ship, he let Romelle tell Coran and the rest of the Paladins her story, from how the colony came to be to Keith helping her to gain the answers to her long-asked questions.

After the Castle of Lions was destroyed to prevent the holes of Lotor's jumps from truing up the universe, along with the real Shiro's return, Romelle accompanies Keith and the others on their long journey back to Earth. In "The Journey Within", as their journey seems to be taking too long to reach Earth, they get hit by a void that motionless frozen the Paladin's passengers where Romelle is one of them, until the Paladins formed a stronger bond between them to which allowed their passengers to become unfrozen, before Voltron delivers all of them straight to Earth's solar system. Once they all arrived at the Galaxy Garrison on Earth, Keith, Romelle and the others were given orange Garrison uniforms to wear.

Shortly after Voltron saves Earth and is ready to free the rest of the universe, Romelle becomes a member of the Atlas crew so she can help Keith and the others in their task and to make sure that they stop Lotor's mother.

Fanon
The stander reason as to why people have shipped Keith with Romelle could simply be due to Keith being one of the first outsiders she'd met, that aren't Lotor or his Galra doctor soldiers, and it being Keith who had helped Romelle expose Lotor for his crimes to the people that have helped her to prevent other Alteans being harmed by the Galra-Altean prince, like her brother. Since helping someone to get justices for their loved ones and showing them the rest of "world", have been one of the many first stepping stones that can lead to a romantic relationship.

Some fans like to see the ship an an interesting contrast that could be introduced if they were in a romantic relationship. Romelle is more bubbly, curious, and sometimes acts daring, while Keith is quieter and has a warrior demeanor to him, which is why some see their relationship being of an outgoing/shy or lone wolf romantic trope.

On AO3, the ship only has 25 fanfics. It also has a reasonable size fanbase on Tumblr.

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Kromelle
 Kromelle is the femslash ship between Krolia and Romelle. AKA: Romelia

Canon
Krolia met Romelle when she, Keith and Cosmo came across the Altean colony, while searching for the unique kind of Quintessence, where Romelle told them what had happened to her brother, and many other Alteans, after the trio explained their mission to her. Even though it was Krolia and a half of Keith's race, the Galra, that destroyed Planet Altea and had forced many Alteans into hiding from the rest of the universe, Romelle choice to trust them. A choice that allowed her to uncover the truth and to be one of the first Alteans to leave the safety of the colony, so Krolia's son could bring all four of them to Castle of Lions and expose Lotor's crimes.

When the Castle of Lion was damaged in an attack by Lotor's generals, Krolia and Romelle stayed behind on the castle-ship where they helped Coran with its repairs. Some of those assisting with repair work that they helped Coran with, have them being alone together in a room. After the castle-ship was destroyed to seal the tears that Lotor made in his final battle with Voltron, Krolia and Romelle stand beside each other as they witness the real Shiro's return and the Voltron Lions roaring to mark it. Before they both accompany Team Voltron's long journey to Earth, where they will be able to build a new Castle of Lions. Because they were in different Lions while traveling through they didn't have much interaction with each other, until it was time for Krolia to part ways with them.

After Voltron saves Earth and the five are recovering from the battle, Krolia re-joins Romelle and the others on Earth. Like Romelle with Allura, Krolia goes to see her son at the hospital that the Paladins are being treated at. Krolia and Romelle later began to continue helping Voltron in their mission, while coming across other Galra and Alteans who joined their side. Romelle and Krolia also attended a few of the mission briefings on the IGF-Atlas with the rest of the crew and the Paladins. Even though Honerva and Voltron's other main enemies were defeated and the universe is freed, Krolia and Romelle continue to hold up the peace that the Paladins brought on their sides of the universe.

Fanon
People shipping Krolia with Romelle might simply be due to Krolia being one of the first outsiders she'd met, that aren't Lotor or his Galra doctor soldiers, as well as Krolia, Keith and Cosmo being the ones that helped Romelle expose Lotor for his crimes to the people that have helped her to prevent other Alteans being harmed by the Galra-Altean prince, like her brother. As well as the fact of the two spending sometime alone on the Castle of Lions, for when Coran wasn't in the same room as them, and that Romelle and Krolia had stood closely to each other during the Voltron Lions roaring to mark the real Shiro's return.

Even though the ship isn't popular on fanfiction related websites, it does have a reasonable size fanbase on Tumblr.

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Latte
 Latte is the slash ship between Lance and Matt.

Season 4
Lance and Matt have little to no interactions between the two. Their only canon exchange is during season four's "Black Site". After Pidge returns with her brother Matt, Matt and Lance meet for the first time. Once it's Lance's turn to meet him, Lance tells Matt, "Nice to meet you." Though moments later when Matt meets Allura, he is immediately infatuated with her and Lance quickly becomes jealous, making Matt back off. As soon as Pidge drags Matt to the Castle of Lions, Lance is seen behind them, groaning.

Fanon
The pairing is more rare in the Voltron. It didn't have more vocal shippers till season 4. This is due to their limited screen time together. Matt shares most of his screen time with his sister, father and Shiro, while Lance spends most of his time with Hunk, Allura and the other paladins. They don't share any screen time together outside of their first meeting.

Since the two didn't have any interactions till season four, most fans already had preferred ships for the two. Both have very dominant fanon pairings, as well as semi-canon one's. Matt is mostly shipped with Shiro, and occasionally Allura. Lance is shipped more with Keith, Shiro, and Allura.

Those that do ship it, believe that the two would have some form of unresolved sexual tension. Specifically over a competition for Allura's affection. Other fans believe that there personalities are similar enough that they could bond over their more goofy traits.

On AO3, it is the third most written ship for Matt and the twelfth most written for Lance.

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 * Lance/Matt on FanFiction.Net
 * Lance/Matt on FanFiction.Net

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Variations

 * Klatte refers to the ship between Keith, Lance and Matt

Nymatt
 Nymatt is the het ship between Matt and Nyma.

Season 4
In "Begin the Blitz," Matt and Nyma are first seen working together as allies since joining the Voltron Coalition.

Season 5
In "The Prisoner," Matt, along with Pidge, his sister, help fix up Nyma's ships following the season 4 finale. Not long after, he and Pidge get a call from Shiro and Allura informing them of their father's whereabouts. Not wanting to wait any longer, Matt and Pidge head for the coordinates. Shiro and Allura told them to wait, as then they'd have backup. Rolo and Nyma tell them they'll go with Matt Pidge, giving them the backup they'd need.

Once at the coordinates, a prison, Pidge drops them off out of the Green Lion, Matt's parachute fails to open, and as he falls, Nyma screams his name. Beezer saves him, as they gently land the ground, Nyma tells Matt has can let go of Beezer. Inside the prison, Matt desperately searches for his father, Sam Holt. As Nyma and Rolo are readying up to get the other prisoners out, Nyma worriedly says to herself, "Come on, Matt, where are you?" Soon Matt rounds the corner, jumping into the ship. Nyma takes notice of his still missing father, asking where he is. Matt snaps at her, telling them to go. Nyma is hurt by this, but leaves it.

Fanon
After the release of season 5, Nymatt gained in popularity a bit following Nyma's obvious concern for Matt at his father's still disappearance. On AO3, Nymatt has 16 works written for it.

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 * Matt/Nyma on FanFiction.Net

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Pallura
 Pallura is the femslash ship between Princess Allura and Pidge. AKA: Alluridge, Watermelon

Canon
Allura meets Pidge at the same time as she meets the other Earthlings when she comes out of a cyropod after a 10,000-year sleep. Pidge, being a techie, is fascinated by all the Altean technology around her and keenly observes how Allura operates it. Allura notices this and assigns Pidge to pilot the Green Lion.

Pidge is the first to bring a playful side out of Allura, though it was mostly through tension. Pidge, stressed out, snaps that Allura is no princess of theirs, and this prompts Allura to start a food fight that everyone enjoys.

At a party in the castle, Allura is gossiping with her pet mice and finds out that Pidge is actually a girl. Allura is happy to learn that there is another female on the team, and instantly goes to talk to Pidge. She tries to get Pidge to reveal the information herself, winking at her and dropping hints about how they "have a lot in common." Pidge doesn't seem to get it though. When Allura points out that they both lost their fathers to the Galra, Pidge then admits something else—that she's planning to leave Team Voltron to find her family. Allura is upset about this and tries to convince her to stay, but Pidge has made up her mind. She snaps at Allura, asking her if she's would get her father back if she had the chance, then storms off.

Later, however, Pidge decides to stay with the team and all is forgiven.

While the characters haven't had much screentime together after this, they are often shown encouraging each other as teammates, such as when Pidge got excited over Allura piloting the Blue Lion.

Season 2
Across the Universe
 * Pidge makes a junk sculpture of Allura. While pretending to be her, she says, "Paladins, please! We must defeat Zarkon!"

Season 3
The Red Paladin
 * Allura is seen blushing when Pidge describes her as the "decision-maker".

Season 7

 * Pidge compliments Allura for her idea on their plan on defeating Sendak on Earth.
 * Allura joins Pidge and her family on questioning a hologram of Sendak.

Season 8

 * Pidge is hugged by Allura when she helps her pay for her dress.


 * Allura comforts Pidge when discovering the destruction of Olkarion.
 * Pidge tells Allura she'll miss her and cries into her shoulder when she is about to sacrifice herself.

Fanon
The ship is a rarepair in the Voltron fandom, although it does have a decent amount of content since it is one of the very few femslash ships in the series, and the only one between main characters.

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 * Pidge/Allura tag on FanFiction.net
 * Pidge/Allura tag on FanFiction.net

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Trivia

 * In the original Defender of The Universe series, all the members of the original Voltron team had a crush on Allura, including Pidge. Although, Pidge was a boy back in the original series.

Romance
 Romance is the het ship between Lance and Romelle. AKA: Romllance

Canon
Lance first met Romelle when Keith, Krolia and Cosmo brought her to Castle of Lions, where she told him, Coran and the rest of the Paladins her story of the hidden Altean colony and Lotor's monstrous actions towards the Alteans he had taken from the colony, like her brother. In the after match events of the Castle of Lions' loss, the real Shiro's return and had began to make preparations for their journey to Earth, Romelle flights with Lance during their first part of their journey in the VLD episode, "The Road Home". Where she caused Lance some trouble as she kept on pressing countless buttons in the Red Lion, until she, Coran, Kosmo and the Space Mice were all placed in the Green Lion with Pidge, who wasn't about it. Despite the headache trouble that Lance had gotten from Romelle during the first part of their long journey, Lance didn't let it stop him from giving Romelle a second chance to fly in the red Voltron lion with him, again.

In "The Journey Within", as their journey seems to be taking too long to reach Earth, Romelle learns from Lance about their rotten luck that involves something out so it could try to kill them, before the Paladins get hit by a void that motionless frozen their passengers where Romelle is one of them, and shortly after the Paladins formed a stronger bond between them their passengers become unfrozen. Romelle asks Lance if something had indeed tried to kill them to which Lance replies yes, before Voltron delivers all of them straight to Earth's solar system. Once they all arrived at the Galaxy Garrison on Earth, Lance, Romelle and the others were given orange Garrison uniforms to wear.

Shortly after Voltron saves Earth and is ready to free the rest of the universe, Romelle becomes a member of the Atlas crew so she can help Lance and the others in their task and to make should that they stop Lotor's mother. The day before they left Earth, Romelle stood beside Allura as Lance asks the princess if she would like to go on a date with him and after Allura agrees to it Romelle helps the princess to find a courting outfit to wear, where Romelle's turn of picking it out of Allura was ridicules. When the two left Earth on the IGF-Atlas to continue Voltron's mission, Romelle keeps her orange uniform while Lance is given a blue colored one that matches his Paladin armour. At one of their mission briefings about Honerva, who had tricked Romelle's fellow Altean colonists into joining her side, Lance and Romelle are seen sitting beside each other during it.

Fanon
The reason as to why fans have shipped Lance with Romelle might be due to the fact that the two have flown in the same lion together a few times, even though Romelle had caused Lance some trouble the first she flew with him. As well as the fact that Lance to shown to be a lady's man and playboy at times.

On AO3, the ship only has 12 fanfics.

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Romatt
 Romatt is the het ship between Matt and Romelle. AKA: Maelle, Mattelle, Sky Rebellion, Rebel Rose, Nerdy Adventures, Space Link and Zelda

Canon
From separate character interactions, Matt and Romelle have similar attributes to each other. They are both older siblings, although Romelle's case ended more tragically than Matt's reunion with his sister, Pidge.

Matt and Romelle have been portrayed as intellectual people. Matt displays a more genius level, knowing how to fight and figure out situations through a complex lens. While Romelle doesn't have 100% genius intelligence like Matt or Pidge, she is very smart in her own way. Her curious and skeptical mind displays her as a person who needs all the facts before coming to a conclusion with her finding out about the colony and what had happened to her younger brother, Bandor.

They also display a curiosity for technology, shown through Matt being impressed by the Castle in season 4, and Romelle touching every button in the Red Lion as well as playing Pidge's video game in the Green Lion.

However, the two have not directly met or interacted yet.

Fanon
The rarepair is still very obscure in the fandom after season 7, but there are dedicated fans coming into the pairing and creating content for it recently.

There are little inside jokes about them, saying that Matt and Romelle would be the "Space Link and Zelda" and would go on adventures together. Matt would also be most likely the more outgoing one on adventures, while Romelle being fearful and skittish of the obstacles they come across.

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Shayllura
 Shayllura is the femslash ship between Shay and Allura.

Canon
Shay and Allura meet during the first season of the show. When the Balmera, Shay's home planet, is in danger of collapsing, Allura rockets down to the surface and tries to convince the population to evacuate. Shay's family is the first that she meets, and although they are reluctant to leave, they help Allura use her Altean powers to communicate with the other Balmerans and start the evacuation.

When the evacuation fails, however, Allura decides to use her energy to heal the Balmera. This process up almost all of her energy, causing Allura to collapse on the ground. Shay is there to support her, holding Allura in her arms and assuring her that everything turned out fine.

In the second season, Allura returned to the Balmera to get a crystal, and once again Shay and her family gladly help her. When Allura is about to leave, she and Shay exchange a friendly hug.

In the fourth season, when Team Voltron is forming their coalition, Allura and Hunk return to the Balmera. Shay and Allura are seen shaking hands in one shot, presumably making their alliance official.

Fanon
Though not the biggest ship in the fandom, Shayllura is one of the more popular femslash ships.

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 * Allura/Shay tag on FanFiction.net
 * Allura/Shay tag on FanFiction.net

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Trivia

 * In the official Voltron lithograph for season 2, Shay and Allura are shown walking together with flower crowns on their heads. Shay is also blushing slightly.

Shunk
 Shunk is the slash ship between Shiro and Hunk.

Season 1
THE RISE OF VOLTRON

When it came to rescuing Shiro, Hunk wanted nothing to do with that, fearing the aliens that were after him. Before officially becoming part of a team, Hunk uses Shiro has a barrier, such as in episode one, when the Blue Lion roars, Hunk believes it's going to eat them, so he quickly takes cover behind Shiro.

TAKING FLIGHT

Hunk is excited because he's going to see Shay again, while Keith tells him to calm down and the others tease him; Shiro defends him, as it’s their first rescue mission as a team. However, the team gets a distress signal from a nearby moon. Hunk is adamant to help as he wants to get to Shay as soon as possible, but he's quickly outnumbered by the others. As they help Rolo, Nyma and Beezer, Hunk is getting more suspicious of them the more he looks at their spaceship. He and Shiro converse quietly, but Shiro doesn't show his concerns, believing they really are simply stuck with a broken down ship. It isn't until later, once the Blue Lion is stolen, that Shiro and the others realize Hunk was right.

Season 1
Taking Flight Rebirth
 * Shiro defends Hunk’s enthusiasm, because it’s Team Voltron’s first rescue mission.
 * Hunk thanks Shiro for “telling Shay” Team Voltron could beat the monster.

Season 2
Shiro’s Escape Stayin’ Alive
 * As Shiro’s in the healing pod, he’s making sounds of discomfort, leading to Hunk asking if he’s okay.
 * While in the Yellow Lion, Hunk is hit and loses control. Shiro–in the Black Lion–flies down and saves him.

Season 3
Changing of the Guard
 * Hunk mentions how “Shiro taught him everything he knows about being a pilot.”

Season 7
Lions’ Pride, Part 2
 * Hunk gets an injured Shiro to the Atlas.

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The ship is a rarepair within the Voltron fandom, although it does have a decent fanbase.

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 * Shirogane/Hunk on FanFiction.Net

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