Voltron: Legendary Defender/Ships

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.

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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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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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 * 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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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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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.

Fanon
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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