Title: Raygun Gothic
Author: papirini, writing as Genesister
Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Word Count: ~18k
Rating: M (Graphic depictions of violence, Omegaverse, non-explicit allusions to past incidences of non-con elements such as rape, torture and experimentation, body horror. Please mind all the tags!)
Ships: Sheith, Allurance, Zaggar
Keith is the spoiled and bored heir of the last and only city left in the world. Zamyatin is a place of technological wonders, unbelievable luxury, and a rigid sexual caste system-it is the Omegas, the wealthy, intelligent, refined sexual dynamic, who is said to have saved the world from the foolishness of the alphas, that rule with an iron fist among the smooth skyscrapers. Meanwhile, the barbaric alphas, and the otherwise normal but still inferior betas, have become menial slaves, disposable lab rats, and helpless playthings for their superiors; they are on the whole confined to the darkness of the machine halls and the Underground. To step beyond what is expected of one’s dynamic is to court death or worse; true love between an alpha and Omega is considered unthinkable.
One day Keith unexpectedly finds himself face-to-face with an itinerant alpha preacher, whose kindness and pacifist methods belies the scar on his face, the snow-white hair on his head, and the prosthetic that has replaced his arm. Little does he know that this fateful meeting will trigger a conspiracy that will not only threaten him and this alpha, but the very future of what is left of humanity.
Omegaverse AU fusion with the 1927 film Metropolis.
Read on Ao3.
Art by Lys.
Apparently I couldn’t contain myself and made two different cover arts, both edited from original 1920s Metropolis paraphernalia. Choose your poison, I guess, and enjoy. XD