Red and Blue make Purple

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!!! Platonic Voltron squad soulmate AU

Lance and Hunk meet first, as kids, and as soon as they light eyes on each other, Lance can see yellow and Hunk can see blue. Lance decides that they are best friends now and doesn’t even question why, when people described color to him, it was a lot more than just scattered flashes of bright in a gray world

Keith and Shiro meet later, in a space camp or something. For them it’s purple and red, respectively.

For years, that’s it, and everyone’s kinda thrown because just one color each? More than one soulmate isn’t common, sure, but it’s not unheard of. But one color? That adds up to a lot of soulmates.
After Lance and Hunk enroll in the garrison, there’s an assembly where Shiro’s invited to speak, probably a sendoff before his mission leaves for Pluto

Shiro looks out over the auditorium and he sees new colors
which is great except for the fact that the auditorium has thousands of people in it and which ones are his soulmates he needs to find them because they obviously love space as much as he and Keith do and hello friends where are you how will he find you?
Lance and Hunk, meanwhile are freaking the hell out
Lance: !!! SHIRO! IS OUR SOULMATE! THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE SHIRO IS A LEGEND HE’S MY HERO!
Hunk is simultaneously like “I am not cool enough for Shiro to be my soulmate” and “if Shiro is one of my soulmates that means im going to have to go to space I don’t wanna leave the planet I’m gonna throw up”

Lance hears about Keith way before he ever sees him in person, and by this point he’s already decided that the all-star student is his rival and his enemy

the first time they’re in class together Lance just starts going “No.” over and over again.
Keith turns around and suddenly there are things that are blue and yellow and ??? Who are these people and why is one of them having a breakdown?
Hunk: Um… Hi. I think we’re soulmates. I’m Hunk.
Keith: Oh. cool. Keith.
Lance: NO

Keith is lowkey excited like he was when he thought he and Lance were gonna be friends after the Bonding Moment™. Keith doesn’t do people well and these people are gonna be his people

When Shiro goes MIA Keith is convinced the Garrison is covering something up because come on I can still see his colors he’s not dead I’d KNOW and he tries to convince Hunk to investigate with him. He’s written Lance off as a lost cause by this point, because he’s still being an ass. Hunk won’t go.
When Keith gets kicked out, he goes angry because Hunk and Lance were supposed to be people he could count on forever like what he thought family might be like and they’ve just been a massive letdown and the only person who was at all what he thought having a soulmate would be like is gone

Definitely don’t imagine Keith all alone in his shed, mostly seeing gray, surrounding himself with purple things just so he can remember that Shiro is still alive, hating every yellow and blue thing he sees

Pidge shows up a couple months later, all gray-vision and determination, and meets Lance and Hunk right away

Lance is much harder to shake off than Pidge anticipated
Seriously, Pidge is great with the soulmates thing and all, but Pidge joined the Garrison to do highly troublesome things and let’s keep the newfound soulmates out of this, shall we?
Lance will not go. Lance follows Pidge around determined to help with whatever shenanigans are happening

Shiro shows back up and Lance is even more determined to help than before, because this isn’t just his hero, this is one of his soulmates
Keith is angry. Keith is seeing green for the first time and this is just going to be another disappointment and these people won’t leave
Shiro wakes up to his first sight of green and “Hi we’re your soulmates” from three new people which is great except that Shiro is kinda a mess now and he maybe wanted to contain that mess as much as possible

Out in space, Shiro couldn’t see the purple of the Galra ships. He could see color still, yeah, but only in the other prisoners. He clings to that.

They go hunt down Blue, and the second Lance sees his lion, he can see blue too. Nothing changes for anyone else, because his lion’s only bonded with him

every time a team member meets their lion, they get to see the color they gave everyone else

Oh
Because up until this point, the gang had only ever seen in bright colors, like the basics from a crayon box, with no shades or browns or anything
But Allura? opens all that up.
Allura’s not one color, she’s hues and shades and gradients
And the world sure is more beautiful when not everything is in day-glo

They’re a space family and they’re not like conventional soulmates but they love each other and they’re going to save the galaxy

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.