#pidge is so young actually

[autisticlancemcclain]

Pidge stares hard at her twisted fingers. Her eyes have long since begun to burn, and she holds her face carefully parallel to the floor, knees presses to the sides of her head, watching as her vision gets blurrier and heavier, until eventually the tear drops from her eyes and splatters on her glasses.

“How did you handle it?” she asks hoarsely, not even looking up. “The homesickness.”

For a while Lance doesn’t say anything. His breathing is steady and near-silent, quick little inhales and long, shallow exhales. Practiced breathing, when he’s choking back tears. He does it several times a day. Sometimes Pidge can’t stand to look at him. She doesn’t understand where he puts it all, the sadness that is constantly bubbling out of him. Doesn’t understand where he finds the strength to let his voice get choked up in the middle of a sentence and keep going like there’s nothing wrong. She feels hot shame heat up her own body, in the clear absence of his; a secondhand embarrassment at emotion that shouldn’t be advertised so easily, so trustingly, so constantly.

Eventually he sighs. When Pidge looks up there are tears in his brown eyes, as there so often are, but she fights the urge to look away and tucks herself under his open arm, instead.

It’s warm, in his hold. Bony too. But he holds her without fear of squeezing too tightly, winds his long arm around her back and shoulders and presses her face into his neck. He smells, as he always does, of flowers, although Pidge could not identify what kinds, and she imagines that she’s sat under the rows and rows of shelves in her mother’s greenhouse, watching her work. Her hands shake so she winds them around the creases of Lance’s jacket and grips tightly.

“I don’t,” he says after thinking about it. “I carry it with me. I always have.”

Pidge thinks she knew that, in her bones. She thinks she understood that about Lance from the very second she first saw him, two years ago at the Garrison auditorium in September; this boy who slouched and grinned and shot finger guns and laughed like a hyena and cried four times a day. The boy whose eyes were deep and dark and filled with an abyssal pain that hurts to look at. Off-putting.

“That sounds lonely.”

Lance hums. He shifts, resting his chin on the top of her head. She feels the slow drip of his tears, down his nose and plopping onto her scalp, and parcels at how his heartbeat doesn’t change, the ease in his voice. The shaky steel of it.

“It is. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t. Lonely. It’s just something I carry.”

Her breath shudders out of her, big and large and shaking her shoulders. She hears what he doesn’t say: I have gotten used to it. She thinks to herself: I will never get used to this weight.

She says: “I don’t understand.”

Ever so slowly, he begins to rock them back and forth, barest sway of their bodies. His lips press her hairline. Her face crumples and her breathing quickens as she forces down the tears, shoves back the mirroring feeling, the mixing of Lance and Matt happening in her head.

“When I was four my oldest brother moved away. He was getting married. I never got over that, I don’t think. He lived down the street longer than he lived down the hall but I never really stopped missing him.”

He pauses for a moment, and Pidge knows it’s deliberate in the way his whole body stops moving, pondering, before starting again.

“Sometimes I miss him on purpose.”

Pidge pulls away, enough to look him in the face, to watch his sad eyes and slight smile and the familiarity in the uncanny expression, the Lance of it.

“Why?” she asks desperately, hands twisting further in his sleeves. “Why would you ever — on purpose?”

“Because I love him on purpose.” The tears drip down Lance’s face as a steady waterfall and he doesn’t even flinch at them, doesn’t even blink. Lets his eyes fill and spill over again and again like cupped hands under a leaking faucet. “When I miss my mom I love her. When I miss my sister I love her. When I miss my brother I love him. When I miss Keith I love him. When I miss you, I love you.” He gently pulls his sleeves away from her clutched fingers, wrapping his hands around them instead and squeezing. “The grief hurts like a never healing wound. But I’m terrified of not having that. I don’t want to wake up one day without the reminder of how deeply I’ve loved and how deeply it will always be a part of me, that love. I don’t know how I’d ever function without it.”

“You don’t function with it,” Pidge argues. “It — haunts you. I see it in your face.”

Lance shrugs. “I function with it. I function because of it. Every day that I miss them I live because I will miss them until I see them again. It’s an — anticipation, almost. I miss you and I can’t wait to see you again mean the same thing.”

A strange noise bursts out from Pidge’s throat, gut-punching. I miss you and I can’t wait to see you again mean the same thing.

She misses her brother in her bones. Her father in her blood. Her mother in her heart.

Waiting to see them again pulses at every level in her body. That’s — manageable.

“Oh,” she says, and she means oh, in the way you blink your eyes open in the mornings. Oh, I see now. Oh, that hurts. Oh, it’s bright.

Lance squeezes her hands again. “There are worse things than loving so much it hurts you,” he says softly.

“Oh,” Pidge says again. “Oh.”

#i have been carrying this for a while i think #hm. anyways #vld #voltron #lance #lance mcclain #pidge #pidge holt #pidge & lance #brown eyed lance #langst #pidge angst #pidge is so young actually #hurt/comfort #klance #like barely and if u squint but idc #my writing #fic #longpost

[serialadoptersbracket]

Round 2, Match 25: Xie Lian vs. Takashi “Shiro” Shirogane

Submitted kids:

Xie Lian: Ban Yue, Pei Xiu, Lang Ying, Lian Quianqiu, Gu Zi, Lang Ying

Shiro: Pidge, Hunk, Keith, Lance

Propaganda under the cut!

Xie Lian:

1. “a several centuries old disgraced god who keeps somehow getting mixed up in things that have nothing to do with him and taking in random kids in the process. Got dragged into being a soldier in a war between kingdoms he's not even from? suddenly single dad to these two random kids caught up in between. dealing with a malicious ghost who has been killing brides? boom, now he has a ghost son whose previous guardian was killed by the malicious ghost. psychotic ghost cousin posses the body of a man with a young son and continues being a piece of shit? well i guess your taking care of that kid too now (i know guzi is technically qi rong's kid since he's the one possessing his actual dad but if it weren't for xie lian intervening when he did the kid would be dead so he kinda counts too)”

2. "Xie Lian saves a young LQQ from being kidnapped, returns him home and end up becoming the/his grand tutor(which was NOT his original plan at all). He literally teaches the boy everything for years, raising him to become the best ruler he could ever be. The XL ends up accused for killing his family (because of a lot of different things) what is important is that he was not the perpetrator but he did kill LQQ’s father in an act to save the boy from making a horrible decision/outcome and also dealt with the actual perpetrators but kept it a secret cause he knew it would break LQQ’s heart to learn his dear friend planned to kill him and his entire family. LQQ took this betrayal by XL so hard he buried him after staking him through the heart when he was still alive. 300 years later when XL returns/is revealed LQQ is still not over it to the point he wants a FAIR duel to settle the score. FAIR with the man he still thinks killed his entire family!

Banyue and Pei Su are connected. XL took BY under his wing while he was a soldier in the army. He did his best to protect her and get her fed as she had pretty much no one. He also talked with her about his younger selfs dreams for the future which was so inspiring to her that not only did she remember it over a century later when they meet again in very different circumstances but she also apologized for essentially not being able to live up to the ideals he had accidentally passed on to her. While he didn’t have as much direct contact with Pei Su, the boy was BY’s only friend and so while XL was around he did also interact with the boy. However this all came to an end when in an attempt to save BY (which succeeded) he through himself in between two armies and was trampled when they began to fight. When they meet again (as I previously mentioned) XL takes BY under his safety until he is not safe and then sends her off to a safe place where she reunites with PS, who for all XL doesn’t give the same amount of attention to, XL does actually approve of some of him (not all his actions) and seems to find it cute that PS is courting BY.

XL meets Lang Ying first when he helps the boy burry his proxy sister, LY ends up running off after XL reacted with shock to LY’s uncovered face, but XL keeps a constant search for him. XL next saves him from getting beat up by ghosts and ends up taking him to live with him in the shrine he lives in. He does his best to take care of both LY and Gu Zi at the shrine and keeps his good treatment up even knowing LY’s a ghost it only ends when (spoilers for non book people, feel free to look up if you want to know).

XL takes in GZ mostly as his ghost cousin (whom he arrested) has taken over the body of the boy’s father. While I’m not sure how much this one counts, especially since by the end his cousin ends up caring for GZ, but he still does the best he can to feed and care for the boy as his entire life changes."

No propaganda has been submitted for Shiro

#xie lian #heaven official's blessing #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #mxtx #voltron legendary defender #vld #takashi shirogane #shiro #vld shiro #serial adopters bracket #round 2 #tumblr polls #tumblr tournament #mod note: it wasn’t me honest

[uniquecellest]

Some fun AU ideas for Adashi

- Adam is half Galra/human but remained unaware

-Adam is half Altean/human

-Adam half Altean/Galra

-Adam was sent to earth to be a spy however he was extremely young and does not recall his mission at all

-Adam was captured; Shiro gets recaptured and thrown into the Gladiator ring again, they have to fight. Adam doesn't remember Shiro

-Shiro and all Paladins get to Earth the day the Galra invade. Shiro ends up saving Adam before Adam can unalive and Shiro is p i s s e d they went after Earth, especially Adam

-Adam and Lance get captured at different times/places resulting in Keith and Shiro to go after them, only they have to make a choice who lives: Adam or Lance (bonus for Adashi/Klance parallels)

-Matt teasing his friends Adam and Shiro constantly being a little terror to them

-more Adam, Shiro, and Matt being the og Garrison trio

-Krolia meeting a young Adam while she's with Keith's dad and Keith's dad being a mentor/role model to Shiro

-Matt, Shiro, and Adam discover Voltron earlier and are the paladins

-Adam meets Zarkon, Lotor, and/or Sendak and goes ferral on them for hurting shiro, Keith, and the other paladins

-They never broke up when Shiro went to space making

-Adam went on Kerberos replacing Matt, Sam, or Shiro

-Adam gets captured but is released as if a hostage, he was brainwashed/had a chip put in him

-Shiro vs. Kuron and Kuron brings Adam up to emotionally hurt Shiro (lowkey pisses Keith off bc no disrespects his brothers like that)

-Shiro and Adam reunite but are stiff thinking the other has moved on. They're only around each other when necessary unaware that they're also spending longer times together again - /and of course I still want him, but I can't when he's clearly moved on/ (cue Matt and Keith pulling a parent trap)

-rebel leader Adam whether it be on earth or a different planet

-Adam helps make Shiro a new hand

-trouble makers Adam, Matt, and Shiro (i.e. Matt and Shiro causing chaos while Adam tries to get them to chill)

- teenage Adam wanting to impress Shiro so he does something stupid that could actually result in explosion from the Garrison

-Shiro and Adam having relationships with the other Paladins before Kerberos (Pidge especially)

-Adam making Shiro blush easily

(Shiro: you know what you're doing

Adam: what are you talking about. [Actually knows what he's doing])

-Shiro and Adam loving to observe each other from afar from when they're cadets all the way to when Shiro leaves for Kerberos

-Adam is secretly an heir to a great fortune, but he had cut ties with his family and didn't get it til his grandparents passed away (Adam is not the only living relative just a sole inheriter)

-Adam sees Kuron and Shiro fighting and is the meme of "hey what's x + x kuron: correct answer Adam: shoots him Paladins: that was the right answer Adam: yes, but Takashi always does this (cut to Shiro and Keith doing the same fucking movement)

- Adam giving Shiro a silent treatment for dying in space

-Adam thanks Haggar for curing Shiro before unaliving her

-nervous cadet crushes bc they're 50/50 if the other will say yes if asked on a date. Someone makes a remark on the other making Adam or Shiro punch someone. The fight is broken by the time the one who wasn't present gets there (or maybe they're pulling their crush off) and don't get the full story until the one who wasn't fighting is helping patch up the one who was

-they're roommates as cadets

-Adam or Shiro is roommates with Matt while the other has a single room (cue Matt doing his best in getting the two idiots together)

-young Keith unaware that Adam and Shiro are dating so he tries to get them together (he enlists Matt's help)

#adam voltron #adam x shiro #adashi #shiro x adam #takashi shirogane #voltron legendary defender #shadam #shirogane takashi #voltron #keith kogane #krolia #keiths dad #lance voltron #lance mcclain #pidge #pidge gunderson #pidge holt #katie holt #pidge voltron #hunk voltron #allura #coran #matt holt #sam holt

[discordiansamba]

was rotating the beta concept for cosmic dust while making dinner and somehow I rotated it too hard and came up with a concept that I basically like to call. oops! all Galra!

(well, except for Allura and Coran)

Keith is half-Altean, half-Galra and grew up on Altea as Allura's childhood friend. His mother Krolia worked as an ambassador to Altea, and ultimately sided with King Alfor over Zarkon. Keith was sealed away in a cryopod alongside Allura and Coran, while Krolia left before Altea's destruction to ensure that a rebellion against Zarkon would remain among his people and founded the Blade of Marmora.

They wake up on their own and have to figure out where to go from here. They know Keith has the potential to fly the red lion, but they'll need to find the rest of the lions and the rest of the paladins if they're going to have any hope of defeating Zarkon. They concentrate on finding the lions first, since perhaps they can use them to find their paladins.

Pidge is a low-ranking Galra working at a work camp for prisoners. She's not fond of the Empire, half because she's a runt and they treat her poorly- ignoring her talents and forcing her to work a terrible job that no one else wants instead. But half because she's used her talents at hacking to see things the Galra Empire doesn't want it's citizenry to see, and she's horrified. She strikes up a small friendship with a human prisoner named Matt, and when rebels come raid the prison, she helps bust him out.

He in turn asks if she wants to come with him- a chance which she seizes. She becomes a rebel, working alongside Matt who gradually becomes like a big brother to her.

(Matt holding up Pidge under the arms: hey mom. hey dad. I adopted a little sister while I was in space. hope you don't mind.)

Hunk is a low ranking Galra foot soldier stationed on a Balmera, but the lifestyle of a Galra soldier has never sat well with him. He's inherently kind, something which the Empire has tried and failed to stamp out. He sneaks extra rations to the Balmerans, doing what little he can for them, even though it's not much.

(Also there's a cute Balmeran girl named Shay he kind of has a crush on? He wishes he could do so much more for her, though...)

Lance is a member of the Blade of Marmora... in training. He has years to go before he can actually have a shot at the trials, even though he's got a burning urge to go out there right now and do something. Understandably, when he meets the literal son of their founder and he turns out to be a hotshot pilot who was personally trained by the Krolia, he feels the brewing of a rivalry.

(Keith still does not notice. Some things never change.)

Shiro was raised to be one of the Galra Empire's elite. He was promoted to Lieutenant at a young age, and served Zarkon loyally- until he was sent was sent on a mission to help locate the four remaining lions. He crash-landed on Earth and lost his memories, but was found by Adam. Without his memories, he became a kinder, gentler person- and falls in love with Adam in the process.

When a second scouting party arrives two years later, he's forced to confront his past- and vows to do better. To be better. He reveals himself to the Galaxy Garrison and works with them to strengthen their defenses. The true purpose of the Kerberos mission was to set up deep space sensors that would alert them of any incoming ships into the system... they were successfully installed, but what a bitter irony it was that they were too late for the Kerberos crew.

#adam was the one who gave Shiro the name 'Shiro' #Pidge is a nickname given to her by Matt #do Hunk and Lance have Galra names? maybe. #Keith is still Keith. because it's really funny that his parents managed to land on a human name #allura voice: is this a superweapon or a metaphor for the Galra's ability to redeem themselves as a people #allura: just kidding. it's both #oops! all galra au

[danceylancey]

Lance was the first person to take a life. Everyone always took down the droids with ease but either hesitated or just avoided actual beings. They always set to stun and never went for any lethal attack. Lance didn’t want to kill anyone, not just because it went against his own personal morals, but because he was terrified to go home to his family as a monster and murderer. The first time he kills someone he’s in his own and it’s to save a little girl with big, wide eyes that take up half her face and make his heart clench when he realises those eyes were full of fear. He doesn’t regret it at first, then hates himself and wishes he found a different way or didn’t change his gun from stun without realising, but then when it happens again and he stuns, the person he was protecting getting killed anyway… he looses all hesitation. He still tries to avoid it but when he needs to, he’s quick and clean. He aims and takes his shot within a heartbeat and moves on to the next one, not letting the sound of a body falling or blood gushing get to him. Eventually he gets so used to it he stops with the stun entirely, willing taking out enemies because he knows that if he doesn’t kill them they will kill someone else. Someone young and innocent and so much like his little sister with those big wide eyes- Lance never lets himself get too worked up. He stops aiming for the head when that happens and goes for the throat, letting them bleed out painfully. Surprisingly, it takes several months for the team to ever see how effective he is with his work. The rush of battle probably hasn’t helped, but never the less they all didn’t notice his change in morals. It’s when Pidge is being held hostage by a large Galra and he shoots the guy in the head without thought that everyone looks at him. He doesn’t get why at first, looking at them with a confused and somewhat annoyed expression. Maybe he was a little upset they all just stood around trying to reason when he guy wasn’t even armed and was so easy to take out. It’s when he processes the looks of horror and Pidge and Hunks face, the look of shock on Keith’s and the saddened, almost broken look on Shiro’s that he gets it. Lance feels his shoulders slack as he properly realises how ignorant to the cost of being in a war his friends are. Shiro understand, evident by the shame on his face as he looks at Lance’s weapon and the now very dead Galra. The others though… they look almost scared of him. He remembers in that moment why he tried so hard not to take a life in the first place, but when he sees the blood on Pidge from his shot, he can’t find it in himself to feel sorry. Not when they blood could of been theirs, when it could be their body on the floor. Lance gives a blank look to all of them and shakes his head slowly, trying to ignore how they all stare at him. He’s fine with being the monster if the people who fear him are alive to do so.

#lance mcclain #lance centric #langst

[bibibbon]

Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks...

Thank you for the ask and no, no one has asked me this before.

I must admit Iam someone who doesn't really have favourite characters in a way I can rank them but I like talking about every character I find interesting which tends to be majority. Also my opinions about what characters I like change very frequently.

I find it hard to rank characters I like from different media so here's the list in no particular order

Katara (avatar the last airbender) - ever since I watched atla I have always loved katara and the premise of her character. Katara is someone who lost her mother at a young age due to abilities that she possessed of being a water bender. She was then forced into a motherly role after her father left for war so she definitely struggled coming to terms with a lot of things and probably felt a sense of isolation being the only bender in her tribe. I love how katara is tough and femine at the same time, how she also has her own complex feelings about things and how she is the glue to team avatar.

Pidge (Voltron) - no I was never active in the Voltron fandom but even with the wasted potential of the show pidge will always be my favourite character in that series. Pidge is a character who would do anything for both knowledge and family. Her knowledge is what ends up saving voltorn a lot of the time and I loved her motivations and the character conflict she had where she wanted to prioritise her family over Voltron. (Ps I don't recommend watching voltron the story writing went out the window in season 2)

Itadori yuuji (Jujutsu kaisen)- I think you kinda tell the type of characters I like by now all are moan characters (I guess I just have a soft spot for MCs). To me yuji is a very fascinating character he can bring out the best people and honestly his character arc is very satisfying to see. The boy who was cursed to try and save people failing to do so and then going on to develop ideologies like how he is just a cog within a system and how his only purpose is to be a vessel and die but then all of that being broken Infront of him and he ends up causing the people he wanted to protect pain just by existing is something so heartshattering. The losses he goes through and how he always viewed himself as a lonely guy but now he finds strength in community and ends up viewing his only purpose is to save megumi.

Izuku midoriya (my hero academia)- Iam not sure if this counts but Iam more in love with the wasted potential and the what we could of had when it comes to izuku. Izuku isn't the regular shonen MC kinda guy there are many scenes of him analysing and overthinking things easily. He is also someone who isn't afraid to show and express his emotions and I truly wish he was handled by a better writer because there are some very small things I like about his character that don't get explored. Izuku is a very emotionally intelligent character who is able to realise a lot of things about people he usually spots and sees what people want to keep hidden and he isn't afraid to point these things out and actually do something about it.

Takemichi hanagaki (tokyo revengers)- This was the first series I actually started to make theories for and I loved takemichi as an MC. He was someone who made a lot of mistakes in the past and got the chance to change everything so he did and he tried to become everyone's saviour but sometimes not everyone can be saved. I just also really love the idea of a character who was lonely and got a chance to escape from that lonieless and surround himself with the people he loved just to slowly lose them and then goes on to blame himself and views that his only way of redeeming himself is to help another person suffering the same fate as him (I think the TR ending could of been improved a whole lot more but Iam not mad with what we got it's pretty good for a time travel and deliqunent manga)

Mao Mao (the apothecary diaries)- honestly I love how relatable and adorable she is. There is also the fact that she grew up in a bath house where her emotional needs where neglected so she grew up quite apathetic and slowly her character is used to explore the female world in china and how broken and unfair the system can be to people all make me love her character. Also who doesn't want to be a cat and spend their days doing nothing.

Violet evergarden (violet evergarden)- oh how much I hold this short series dearly. Violet was always used as a tool her entire life the series follows her journey of her learning love she goes and writes letters for people trying to capture what they want to say and understands their feelings learning about different types of love whole she slowly starts to incorporate that into her life. I do have some mixed feelings about the ending considering that Gilbert and her share a nine year age gap and some of the controversial stuff that goes with the ship but overall violets story is really beautifully executed and her character development is beautiful.

Eren Yeager (attack on titan)- Yes another MC I love. If you're wondering no I don't believe Eren was right for what he did but i understand why he did it. I understand why he wanted destruction and viewed the world as a rotten place I also understand why he wanted to abandon his duty and live out his life in peace with the person he loved. I love how isayama wrote his character and I especially love how he humanised Eren in chapter 139 and actually showed us that Eren is still a 19 year old who was exploited and used as a child soldier, a child who saw too much when he was too young in a world that was too cruel for him to survive.

Genya Shinazugawa (demon slayer)- he definitely deserved more screentime but I love genya he is an absolute menace all he needs is some demon flesh and a gun and he is sorted. I loved his character arc with sanemi how the manga explored his confusion of what happend to his mother, him naturally growing to become cold hearted to survive, him wanting nothing but his brothers love and the tragedy behind his character how he could never hear his brothers last words to him.

Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson)- loved this series and I read it when I was young. I mainly love how Percy is just a little confused meance to society who has a fatal flaw of being too loyal to the ones he loves. His story of not fitting in and his relationship with his mum Sally is everything to me. I haven't read the series in a long time but I still truly love Percy.

Yeah my liking for characters is actually very basic. Majority of these characters are main characters but that doesn't mean I don't like talking about other characters I just like thinking about and analysing these characters way more also this list changes a lot of the time. Again thank you for the ask

#ask #pjo #voltron #mha #aot #violet evergarden #demon slayer #apothecary diaries #tokyo revengers #jujutsu kaisen #thank you #i love getting asks

[alluraaaa]

46. For everyone

46. the person they most admire

this question is so fucking hard, but i mean that in the best possible way. this team clearly has so much affection for one another, but admiration is a specific word and hard to work with, in a way. no lie, my process was staring at my phone, typing something out without thinking, and then realizing what the answer is

shiro: hunk. as team leader, he makes it his responsibility to look after the team’s mental health and let them use him like a therapist. once he makes that known, hunk is very open about how anxious and scared he is, how he’s kinda always been like that. hunk wasn’t studying to be a pilot, doesn’t have anyone in his family who are pilots. he’s young, and he has no idea what he’s doing! he wants to go home!! but he keeps going, not because there’s no other choice, but because he wants to help people more than he wants to see earth. for shiro, who only survived the pits because it was either kill or die, hunk is endlessly inspiring.

keith: shiro. not a lot of explanation is needed here, it’s the obvious answer. while the garrison trio also look up to shiro as a teacher and pilot, keith looks up to shiro for everything. without shiro, keith would be in some juvy on earth instead of getting to save the world. keith owes everything to his brother, who won’t give up on him, no matter how many times it takes.

pidge: lance. she spent the first months knowing him trying desperately to push him away, because it hurt to look at him. he’s just like matt, and she doesn’t wanna just replace him even if it is nice to have someone who shares his jacket and ruffles her hair and cleans her glasses without her asking. but when she spat vitriol at him, he retorted with something just as piercing, not letting her get away with it. and he stayed. despite the war, despite her, he’s still here, blowing raspberries at her and wading through fountains to collect change. so when their barbs got more and more affectionate, she wanted to be mad at how he wormed his way into her heart. but she’s not replacing her big brother, she’s gaining another.

lance: keith. the infamous rivalry was born from admiration, after all, even if he didn’t know it. he was hoping one day he’d be the better pilot, the better paladin, but once he actually was keith’s equal, he found he actually liked it. them butting heads worked in a way nothing else did. it wasn’t hunk’s hugs or pidge’s snark or coran’s stories, it was difficult. there’s pushing and shoving and hair pulling and wet willies and it’s so fun. in a nearly empty castle with only six others, you get bored. having someone who doesn’t look down on you as a person while wrestling over the remote is really nice. not to mention, keith isn’t nearly as perfect and lance thought. to learn that someone he put on a pedestal has flaws and weaknesses that lance compliments? kind of life changing, to say the least.

hunk: pidge. she’s so little and he’s so big but she keeps up with him easily, and sometimes he’s the one who has to keep up. absolutely nothing stops her once she puts her mind to it, and has a way of thinking through things that just eliminates any possibility of anxiety. if there’s a pidge, there’s a way. there are also times, though, when she’s sad or scared or small, but trusts him to not hurt her, despite him being big. she knows he won’t judge her for not understanding a formula, or needing help with a line of code, or crying on his shoulder when she misses her family. he realizes, one quiet night, that she trusts him not despite his size but because of it. she finds comfort in big brothers.

allura: coran. she turns to him for anything and everything, gives orders and trusts he’ll follow them, and he’s the only parent she has left. she knows that he’s suffering just as much as her, but he doesn’t let it stop him the way it stops her sometimes. when it stops her, he’s the only one who can get her going again. she doesn’t know how he does it. and she offers to help, she’s not stupid, she knows he’s keeping the hard parts to himself while also helping her, and she says it’s not fair. she wants to help him too, what can she do to help? but he just brushes the hair away from her face, kisses her forehead, and tells her all he wants is for her to get a full night’s rest. and… she can’t say no to that. when they’re in her bed and he’s serenely narrating his way through a story of his past, she can curl up to his side, close her eyes, and know that no matter what, he’s the constant in her life.

coran: allura. she used to be so happy, and she’s so young, and so hurt, and so tired. but despite it all, or maybe because of it all, she works so hard to fight a man who betrayed them so harshly. if anyone deserves to shirk the responsibility of voltron and live out their days on a peaceful remote planet, it’s the two of them. but she refuses to give up, so neither does he. he does all he can, despite the weariness in his bones, to help her. he’ll polish her helmet visor, braid her hair, wipe away her tears. he’ll polish the ship’s controls, groom his mustache, wipe away his own tears. he’ll do it all, so she doesn’t have to. and when they find out that they weren’t the only alteans left, when they found a new altea, she doesn’t want anyone else officiating her coronation, and he doesn’t want anyone else as queen. they both cry during the ceremony, and he hugs his daughter, holding her close.

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#this was so fun omg omg omg #tysm holly <333333 #ask #tarantula hawk wasp #long post #team #hunk&shiro #keith&shiro #lance&pidge #keith&lance #hunk&pidge #allura&coran #give me ANY pair between these seven and i could tell you how much they love each other and why. IM SO NORMAL

[lilflowerpot]

I'm not sure if this has been asked before but i just noticed that Lotor calls Pidge dynah in chapter 23. Does it mean something specific or is it a general nickname sort of thing? I just absolutely adore the entire scene with the two of them and also all the ones with Lotor and the kids before that. I really love seeing him be kind and gentle towards others

I'm so glad you like that scene because I too have a soft spot for gentle!Lotor but especially when it comes to his budding relationship with Pidge! I actually wrote a short post on galra terms of endearment a whopping three years ago now(!!!) but dynah remains my favourite in terms of its origin/meaning because I just think it's so obscenely c u t e ♡

Dynah [[ d-ee-n-ah ]] - tenderfooted one; a deeply affectionate term originating from the Kyx tribes of Daibazaal who historically traversed the hot sands of the Great Wastes during the day, which posed the risk of burning the delicate feet of young children. As such, kitlings would typically be transported within a litter (a large covered box supported by two horizontal poles, carried by four bearers) and later this became the fashion for the nobility of any given clan.

#the thing about Pidge is that while Lotor has a deep and genuine respect for her intellect he's also just sat there like ''that is a CHILD'' #a baby of //sixteen//!! an infant!! deserving of being swaddled and coddled!! #ofc Pidge would probably scratch his eyes out if he so much as suggested this but all the same.. she is...... little #Ao3 Little Blade #sa screams back #prince lotor #team voltron

[kidge-planet]

KIDGE HEADCANON PART 12!

During the episode 9 season 8, we can find that scene:

Well, I have an headcanon about what happened next, when they got back to the Atlas:

So they came back to the Atlas and got immediately checked by some doctors aboard the ship to make sure that they were ok. Hopefully, everyone was ok (except Allura that had passed out at the end of the mission and was now resting.)

It was just the paladins sitting on the couch in a common area of the atlas but there was no one else around just them. Finally Lance left to go check on Allura because he was very worried about her and Hunk would be going to the kitchen.

So now only Keith and Pidge were in the room: pidge working on her computer and Keith just crossed arms in the couch... He seemed worried:

Pidge: are you ok? You look like you have something in mind.

Keith: I... Actually, yes. I needed to talk to you.

Pidge:ho?... Really? What's up?

Keith: ( blushes a little, not knowing how not sound weird) hummm... I just... Wanted to know... When you passed through the ground, what did you guys saw?.. (that wasn't what he had to tell her.......)

Pidge: mhh.. well... I personally saw a shadow trying to kill me. But it turned out that it was Trigel, the original paladin of my lion. I think it was the same for everyone else.

Keith: ho, I see...

(they stayed silent a moment)

Pidge: is that all you wanted to ask me? I mean, you literally said that you needed to talk to me and just asked a question...

Keith: (take a deap breath) Actually... No, I'm not done. I'm just scared that I'll sound stupid...

Pidge: why would you sound stupid ?

(Keith stands up and comes to sit next to her.)

Keith: you know, back there, I... Tried to, like, save you. I did my best, but I failed... Your hand slipped from mine. And, well, I felt so bad after that. I felt like I had lost all of you... I felt like I lost you.. But you know, for you, it was different, I really tried to save you! I did! And I failed. It all just made me realize how dangerous this all is... It made me realize that we could lose one of us easily... I'm just... So glad that you survived and... I want you to know that I'm sorry that I couldn't save you... I sound stupid, but it really keeps coming in my mind... I'm glad you're here.

(Keith blushed and looked away, feeling vulnerable.)

Pidge: Awww, Keith, that's so sweet!... Thank you, I'm glad you're ok too. Really. And stop thinking about what happened during that mission. It never really came to my mind but I forgot to thank you for trying to save me. But why me?.. Like, all of us were getting pulled in the ground...

Keith: Well, I don't know... My instinct told me to save you... The choise wasn't easy, of course, but I wanted to save you first... Don't tell the others tho... I also figured that if I saved you, we would work together to get the others back, somehow... I mean, I thought that you'd find a solution...

Pidge: I understand...

Keith: But anyways, this whole thing made me realize that we might die young after all... You know, I think I always thought that I was strong enough to defeat Zarcon and everything... But I'm realizing that we are now facing something very dangerous... And if we lose one of us... (If I lose you...)

Pidge: hey, I'm sure Shiro told you this before but, as my father always said: "if you get too worried about what could go wrong, you might miss a chance to do something great!" These words help me as a paladin. I am not the strongest, I'm actually far from being an ideal paladin... I could die any minute! But fuck it! If I think about my death during a mission, you can be sure that the mission IS going to go wrong. Nah, I'm just doing things and adapting myself to the situation. What I mean is that you should live in the moment and not think about the future. SO! STOP THINKING THAT IM GOING TO DIE IN OUR NEXT MISSION OR I'LL KICK YOU BUTT! But thank you for worrying tho, I appreciate that from you, emo boy. ( She gently punch his arm)

Keith: You're right.

Pidge: pfff, I'm always right...

Keith: that's true, that's why I trust you.

(Pidge smiled at him.)

Pidge: just, take opportunitys, alright?..

Keith: opportunitys... Mhhh...

( HE HARDLY WANTS TO KISS HER. But he doesn't take that opportunity. Probably not the right moment, he thinks to himself...)

Pidge: so are you going to stay here?

Keith: yeah, I like it here.

(she leans her head on his shoulder. Keith blushed slightly and after hesitating, he placed his arm behind her.)

Pidge: I like it too.

#voltron kidge #pidge and keith #keith and pidge #keith #keith voltron #pidge #voltron pidge #voltron #kidge #voltron legendary defender #12

[garden-of-athena]

coming back to the voltron renaissance in 2023 made me think about the old fandom and the new fandom, and how they never changed.

mostly the hate for sheith and the fanon interpretations of the paladins. i was a sheith shipper and i still love them so much. but back then and even now, people will label those who like sheith, no matter who they are, "p*dos", "incest shippers", or simply "proshippers". this issue has been talked about in the past, but i still see it in the voltron fandoms renaissance, so i just wanted to put my two cents about this issue.

since the hate was born from the fanon interpretations i will start there (please keep in mind that these are my opinions and im writing about the things ive seen personally, back then and even now):

i will start with lance actually. lance in canon is the flirty, happy, jokester, or as pidge said "the goofball". he flirts with women sometimes, makes jokes, but overall he is a capable paladin, and he is great at longe range weapons. he has his own set of insecurities and has expressed homesickness in the show when they were still in space. his insecurities came from thinking what he brings to the team isnt enough. this isnt a rant about the show itself (mostly) so i wont be talking about his missed potential here, many lance lovers already did that. now in his fanon version ive seen, especially back then, his insecurities and homesickness was turned up to a 100. he had depression, and hid it behind a happy facade. this isnt my problem with the fanon character. i completely understand projecting onto a character ypu relate to, i do it all the time. my issue, in a lot of fandoms not just voltron, is that sometimes people bash other characters or make them unnecessarily mean just to angst another character. i personally hate character bashing with a passion. it honestly makes me a little mad sometimes, because the character is the exact opposite of what the fandom portrays them as. im not trying to generalize the entire fandom, but i see this a lot in almost every fandom. its usually only a single character that gets bashed too. when i look at something for the character from a show/book/etc i want the actual character, preferably with hcs i find cool, not oc content made out of them. i like oc content separately thats another thing, but making characters into what theyre not defeats the purpose of liking them in the first place. thats what i almost always saw with "langst". unnecessary character bashing, mostly keith, almost always keith. was the team mean to him sometimes? yes! but lance wasnt the defenseless victim in any way, he retaliated. thats the whole point of his own "rivalry" with keith. to push each others buttons. i love when people make hcs for characters even if i dont like them, but not when it erases another character entire personality or watering it down. that was my issue with fanon lance. he wasnt hated by the team. do i have hcs that dont align with canon at all? yes yes i do!!! thats okay!! but i try to keep their personalities the same.

next up shiro, my sweet winter child. shiro is the "hero", always willing to do whats good for the majority. hes the leader, the champion of the empire, hes calm when he needs to be, but hes also playful sometimes, and adventurous, and (from the pre-kerb flashbacks) even a little bit of an adrenaline junkie probably. most importantly, hes young. not a teen young, but a young-adult. his trauma made him seem more "mature" and "responsible", and yes while he is responsible, he is nowhere near parental kinda responsibility. his fanon interpretation make him a father figure to all, tired™️, wants to die, single father to 4 children, etc etc. personally, i dont see it. hes at most an older brother figure to the garrison trio. also he is keiths best friend. not parental figure but best friend. he is maybe the dad friend of the group and thats a maybe. because of the “father figure” hc, a lot of people hated on sheith bc “ew dude thats his dad/brother”. this kinda thing is not exclusive to the vld fandom either, because genshin has this issue too. i wont be talking about it in depth but another ship i like, zhongxiao, is hated because of the very popular “father/son” hc that is not canon. fandoms need to learn that just because a hc is really popular doesnt mean it is actually canon. the fanon shiro has the feel of a middle aged dad, when in reality hes barely in his mid twenties. he makes stupid laser sounds, jumps off of cliffs in a hover bike, and goes on rides past curfew with keith. he was the youngest pilot to ever go to the edge of the solar system, it was literally said in the show. he was most likely 21-23 pre-kerb and 25 in s1. people forget that yes shiro aged a bit in space but so did the others. also he was dead for like 3 season so i dont think he aged that much then. he died when he was 25-26, i really dont think people age when they die but thats just me idk. if you age shiro up while keeping the other paladins in the 16-18 range thats weird, and if you attack people because of that thats weirder. his responsible nature probably was caused by his trauma when he was the champion. he had to mature to survive.

now, onto my specialest boy, my babygirl, my universe, keith. i will admit that i have a bias when it comes to him, but its probably not what youre thinking. first things first, ill say this again in another post too, i hc keith as strictly mlm, meaning i dont like any pairings with him that involve a female character, especially acxa (bc shes my gf). this does NOT mean that i will harass people who like it. it just means i will block you if you reblog or like posts with it, because thats what youre supposed to do if you see something you dont like. this was just a heads up just in case. back to the actual rant. keiths canon character is that he has trouble trusting people, but hes still kind, thoughtful, and sometimes playful too. like in s1 where he was having fun with the team. he has a edgy exterior, likely because he wants to drive people away before they can reject him. he has trouble understanding social cues and such, he is fiercely loyal and protective of his loved one(s). his fanon interpretation watered him down to "edgy teen", or sometimes an asshole. he was seen as emo and angsty, friends are for the weak, and "shiros emo son/brother". they took away the times he has shown vulnerability and kindness. when he put others no matter what above him during survival. he is not someone that would be mean for absolutely no reason, his rivalry with lance was mostly one-sided because lance initiated and he retaliated. his inability to understand social cues was most likely due to a) growing up in the foster system b) people not making an effort to know him, like shiro did, and shrugging him off as the emo loner kid and c) his year alone in the desert after his expulsion. some people made him up to be an asshole, or just plain stupid (lance sometimes got the "dumb one" treatment from the show but ive never seen it in the fandom, feel free to correct me). he was seen as edgy and emo for acting the way he did in s3 after shiro disappeared and before they found him. the treatment keith got, from both the show and the fandom, was so so bad. especially when it came to his trauma, grief, and his self-sacrificing tendencies. after shiro disappeared post-s2 keith lashed out, he was tense, from losing shiro AGAIN. there are, as we all know, 5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. he had just gotten shiro back after everyone told him he was dead and then he lost him yet again, this time with no logical explanation as to why or how. he just disappeared, seemingly into thin air. there was no logical explanation, he couldnt linger in denial like before, because there was nothing to deny. shiro was gone. the others didnt understand, because they werent as close to shiro as keith was. he was their leader, their role model, their friend, sure but he was keiths best friend. the one person that didnt give up on keith even when everyone else did. their attempt at comfort fell flat, because they didnt understand what keith was going through, except for maybe pidge. keith didnt "get over it" at all, and it showed. it showed in his leadership, when he kept going after lotor, even if they kept getting their asses handed to them. i could make a separate long rant about hoe keith mental well being was always shrugged off, his sacrifices. another instance, was naxela, or however you spell it idk. keith almost sacrificed himself, almost died, to save everyone else. he was so so close to doing it that if lotor was even a second late he wouldve died. and no one acknowledged that, not even an "are you okay" from matt, who begged him not to do it. hell, shiro(kuron) even congratulated him for taking the shield down and saving them. imagine how fucked up it wouldve been if keith succeeded. keith self-sacrifices are never brought up, never acknowledged. the cartoon excuse wont work because the show did cover heavy topics at times. keiths inability to see himself as invaluable and important was further encouraged by the "mission before the individual" mindset. im about to lose my point and start ranting about keith.

now, sheith;

no sheith isnt incest. they arent and never was actual brothers (adopted or otherwise). the "youre my brother" line is what people always refer to in an arguement, but that isnt evidence. bc in s2 keith said "youre like a brother to me". "oh they have a brotherly relationship you cant ship them-" yes i can. yes i absolutely can. that arguement is literally just "smh cant two people be friends". because they are best friends first. and it was always keith saying those things, never shiro so i can make the arguement that if they had a brotherly relationship it was one sided. in the black paladins episode (still my favorite along the the bom) the clone didnt have a reaction to the "youre my brother" line, he specifically had a reaction to "i love you". there was a pause between those two lines, so i can make the argument that keith thought shiro only saw him as a brother, but when that didnt work, he confessed. but even without my own argument, they still are never brothers, otherwise they wouldnt have put a direct paralel between shiros ex-boyfriend and keith.

no sheith isnt a p*edo ship. keith in s1 was 18, and that wasnt even confirmed after a while. shiro was 25. in s6 keith was 21 and shiro, being dead, was most likely still 25. most people, like me, who shipped sheith started shipping them in s1, because it was clear they had a positive history. keiths first word was "shiro?" in the softest most vulnerable voice ever. shiro always showed concern for keith, the way the looked at each other was enough for people to like them as a ship. their wiki has an incredible amount of moments between them that can be interpreted as romantic. the ages were never an issue, if they were they wouldnt have said that they could be interpreted as romantic. even with the pre-kerb argument, because the ages arent confirmed, it never was.

this point is for shunk, shance, etc too. but bc sheith was and still is public enemy no1, i talk about them. sheith was popular, and at the time any ship with keith and lance that wasnt klance was hated by them, but sheith especially so. the fandom calmed down for a bit and now its back, i think, from what i saw. but the sheith argument is still going on. i got back into vld because of a keith edit i saw on tiktok, i wont lie. but the not so surprising thing was that sheith is still public enemy no1. you cant go one second without someone hating sheith and making fun of the shippers. its a "proship" apparently. hell my favorite keith editor literally has "shaladins dni". the hate for sheith specifically is still so strong. and its exhausting, i dont like people calling me a proshipper simply for liking a fictional ship that is in no way a proship.

i sat down for like probably an hour writing this just to get my thoughts out. i have been thinking about this for so long, even if this doesnt make sense or its stupid i really dont care. maybe tomorrow ill hate it, maybe ill delete it even who knows. im really glad that there are places where sheith is no longer shot on sight.

#sheith #voltron #rant post #really long post #this is just me ranting #feel free to ignore or tell me im wrong #im gonna be back to posting deranged posts after this dw dw

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

Let's Rewind! Toast Watches Voltron: Defender of The Universe (1984)

Season 1, Episode 39: The Captive Comet Season 1, Episode 40: The Little Prince

Episode 39: The Captive Comet OH BOY IS THIS THE EPISODE I THINK IT IS, THIS IS GONNA BE FUN

Opening with Haggar dishing out some lore, yes please universe started with a big bang and that apparently created a comet that acted like a black hole that at some point Voltron banished to a far corner of the universe inch resting

this was a fairy tale for drule children? i wonder how that story would've gone

ROMELLE WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN IVE MISSED YOU SO MUCH

"take it easy zarkon, eaaaasy" Haggar smokes weed for sure

she sacrificed a star fleet to be able to control the comet, another thing that feels so similar to a plot point in vf

did they just pull Romelle out of her cell just to let her freak out about the omega comet heading to arus 😭 what a petty move lotor

smart cookie, she found a way to contact the team before getting found out

"human on arus" so is arus like a colony of earths that slowly became its own governing body? Inch resting, they will still be aliens to me though

how does Coran know about the secret plan that happened before voltron split into lions if he only found out voltron after it was split into 5?? I'm gonna make this lore make sense by the end of the episode I swear

early voltron formation, shits about to get real

oh man they already got to the comet? also why did Allura look so young in that scene?

Keith: maybe your right Lance: I know im right! get his ass lance

the secret plan is to go 4 sector power setting?? oh this is so a trap YEAH ITS A TRAP THEY'RE GETTING SUCKED INTO THE COMET AND LOTOR USED ROMELLE TO GET VOLTRON TO DO IT WHAT THAT WAS SUCH A GOOD PLAN

oh man voltron is trapped trapped for realises this time, he can't even get out of the comet's gravity

ofc they contacted the alliance for help, and they'd rather let Voltron die instead of giving any help "ill see what i can do" literally i want the alliance broken

PRINCE BANDOR COMING IN TO HELP THE TEAM LETS GOO again i need to make this lore make sense and by the end of this show i fucking will

YES I WAS RIGHT THEY'RE DEAD THE TEAM ACTUALLY DIED OH MY GOD YESS THIS IS SUCH A GOOD EPISODE

and now an entire fleet of doom (lol) is heading towards Arus IS THAT THE END OF THE EPISODE HOLY SHIT

/episode end

Episode 40: The Little Prince TWO PART EPISODE LETS GO

recaap time since this was a weekly premiering show

literally starting off with an invasion of Arus now that Voltron is gone, this is wild especially because it's not even the season finale

"Coran made the situation worse by calling Prince Bandor for help" I HATE THE GARRISON I HATE THE GARRISON I HATE THE GARRISON BARK BITE SNARL

"little fella" bandor you're only taller than pidge by a head shut up LMAO

Coran actually doing work for once and helping out, he's becoming a dependable person slowly but surely

Lotor is yelling about this next robeast being the most powerful there is,, my guy you say this every time just pick one of them to back and stick with it

"sorry we shouldve helped you when you asked earlier but now we're fucked and we genuinely can't do anything now <3" FUCK THE GARRISON I HATE THE GARRISON RAAA

GOD IS THAT YOU?? WHAT IS THIS

THEY'RE LITERALLY MEETING GOD AND SHE'S GIVING THEM A CHOICE, GO TO HEAVEN OR KEEP LIVING AND GO TO HELL WHEN THEY REALLY DIE

what heroes, they chose to end up going to hell if it meant being able to save the universe IMMEDIATELY NOTING THIS DOWN FOR FUTURE ANGST EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY KNEW ABOUT IT

VOLTRON LITERALLY HAS THE POWER OF GOD AND ANIME ON THEIR SIDE LMAOO

back to romelle and now she's chained up, what did they do to you bestie

ITS BANDOR COMING FOR HIS SISTER HE'S SO REAL FOR THAT

there he is! voltron to save the day and destroy that robeast with blazing sword!

i'm sorry couldn't follow lotor to planet doom? what bullshit

IS GOD TALKING TO ROMELLE? OH MY GOD, SHE GOT SHOT INTO THE PIT OF SKULLS NOT PUSHED

THIS IS A THREE PARTER HELLO???

/episode end

#voltron #voltron defender of the universe #voltron dotu #80s voltron #let's rewind! #toast talks #what just happened in these episodes #insane

[autisticlancemcclain]

What’s your most hated fandom characterization for each of the main 7?

hoo boy am i glad you asked. although i’m gonna be real, my issue is less with fandom characterization, because you do you i don’t give a shit, and more with how people go batty if you personally are not a fan of fanon characterizations.

like, lemme be obvious and talk about my biggest example. i am a brown eyed lance truther. we know this. the amount of weirdo comments, weirdo DMs, and weirdo asks i get is atrocious. i post a lot of them bc they’re so stupid they’re funny but the amount of people per week that tell me to kill myself is lowkey wild. the amount of people that love to say some variation of “i liked your fic but you ruined it by making lances eyes brown! his eyes are blue!” and i’ve checked other brown eyed truther’s fics — either they delete their comments better than me, or they do not get the same thing. idk what the deal is lol.

i will concede to the point that i’m a contrarian and annoying about it, but a list of the following non-fanon headcanons/characterizations i hold that have been commented on in some derisive way:

- bitchy hunk (lol)

- non “cinnamon roll too pure and baby and good for this world” hunk*

- allura is a good character (🤡)**

- allura is a sweetheart

- allura is not a drill sergeant

- kuron was a good iteration of shiro

- red paladin lance/black paladin keith/blue paladin allura

- retired shiro

- pidge is not cruel

- pidge is not an infant and can handle things a regular 14-15 year old can handle

- small details are irrelevant (think lances family, exact prekerb details, etc)

- keith gyeong and lance sanchez

- fucking brown eyed lance. i’m saying it again

- tall keith

- non omega keith***

- readmores

- autistic lance

- adhd keith

- non asshole/cruel keith

- comphetting gay lance****

- shallura

- bi shiro, demi keith, essentially any sexuality headcanon that isn’t mainstream

- hunk who isn’t food obsessed

- that’s about it

*stop infantilising hunk

**the allura hate is ridiculous and largely rooted in anti-Blackness. it should not be a fight to say that she had a reason to feel betrayed by keith’s heritage, that she did not “get in the way” of klance, that her death was stupid and ridiculous, that she is often pushed over in favour of klance (not as in she’s less popular, but that her/her death are used as a plot device to further klance), and that she is as interesting, nuanced, and multifaceted as the rest of them.

***people, inevitably, feminize characters in fandoms (largely because many people in fandom are young women, i know i feminize characters simply bc i’m making them like me and i’m feminine lol), and my issue is that people (in the general sense, not everybody) love to feminize keith and then get really mad if anyone else is feminized. this is not about fem or trans woman keith btw. this is about people omega-ifying him and then losing their MINDS if i don’t share that headcanon.

****i literally only wrote this once and then never again because people lost their minds. but as much as i love bi lance, i think it’s interesting that usually, when we see “boy crazy” or “girl crazy” characters, especially if they have a lot of chemistry or homoerotic tension with a same-gender character, people are like oh ya that’s comphetting. that character is desperately trying to outrun the gay thoughts. but with lance, who was definitely girl crazy and cared more about having a girlfriend than actually dating and falling in love (think “mrs blue lion” — he didn’t give a fuck about who he was marrying, so long that it was a girl), calling him gay will have people saying you’re erasing bisexuality. as if he was not fucking straight in the show. so.

sorry this is so bitter and ranty lol. been in a mood

#and have been wanting to complain about this specifically for months #so thank u for that #longpost #vld headcanons #rant #ask

[one-thousand-and-one-fandoms]

Voltrom Ghost Whisperer AU - Part 9

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Allura wanted when she got home was to pop open a bottle of wine, order take out and binge trash tv on Netflix. What she actually got was a sad looking Keith sitting morosely on her couch. She sent a small prayer to whoever was up there making her life difficult to please, please cut her some slack.

"You're back," Keith said, and his face lit up.

"I am," Allura replied, "you remember me this time?"

Keith nodded.

"Good, so what can I do for you?" She asked.

"I... I don't know?" Keith answered, "I remember the fire, now. And my pa. And... and Lance. Are they...? Did they...?"

Allura couldn't help but feel her heart break a little. It wasn't fair, she thought, for he'd been so young and full of promise. And even though he'd just realized he was dead, he was still mostly worried about his father and his best friend. She sat down next to him and made sure to hold his gaze.

"Lance is okay," she said, and it was heartbreaking how Keith's shoulders relaxed and a small smile appeared on his face, "I saw him today. His family moved a few months after the fire."

"Did they move because of me?" Keith asked, his smile turning into a frown.

"I don't know," she admitted, "to be honest, I didn't get to speak with him a lot. He ran out before I could."

Keith snorted, "Sounds like him."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. He was always a scaredy cat."

Allura snorted, "I'm sure you know all about it."

Then Keith sobered up again, and turned his big, violet, doe-like eyes on her and asked, "And my pa?"

Allura sobered up, too, "According to the firefighters, he also died in the fire."

Keith's eyes lit up and he asked, excited, and began looking around as is Allura had him hidden somewhere, "Where is he?"

"Keith, your dad... have you ever seen a light calling you to it?" Allura said, at loss of how to explain it, "you see, when people die, they don't usually stay here. They go to a different place, a better place, full of light and people who love them."

"So he's gone? He left me?" Keith asked, and his voice wobbled, and Allura panicked for a bit.

"I'm sure he thought you were already there, waiting for him," Allura quickly replied, "I would like to help you cross over, so you can be together again."

Keith didn't answer for a long, long time. He was frowning, but the lights weren't flickering nor were the doors slamming. Allura knew better than to rush him, so she waited quietly.

"I think I'd like to go," Keith finally said, "but I've never seen anything like what you said."

"That may be because you feel you still have something to take care of in here."

Again, Keith went quiet. Allura was very willing to wait it out, but then there was a knock on the door. Keith startled, but didn't leave. Allura sighed, but went to open the door.

Much to her surprise, there stood Lance McClain. And his two friends. He also seemed surprised to see her.

"Wow, so you weren't lying," he said.

"Why would I lie?" Allura replied, mildly offended. Lance shrugged and refused to answer, "What do you want?"

"I came to see if what you said was true," Lance answered. His small friend elbowed him hard enough that Lance flinched, so he glared at his friend, "sorry, we came to see if what you said was true."

"Well, if you want to come into my home, you might as well tell me your names."

The three friends shared a look that screamed that they thought Allura might kidnap and sell their organs in the black market. The larger one was the first to answer.

"Hunk."

"Pidge."

Allura raised an eyebrow, "Allura."

She didn't know if she believed those were their actual names but she wasn't going to fight them on it. She stepped aside and led them to her living room, where Keith had stood up and now stared apprehensively at the arch that separated the foyer from the living room.

"Lance?" He asked in a whisper, and the lights then flickered.

The three teens looked up. Allura tried to warn Keith with a look, but he wasn't looking at her.

"Could be faulty wiring," Pidge whispered to Lance. Subtle, Allura thought and rolled her eyes.

"Is that K-him?" Lance asked. Allura observed him. He seemed genuined enough. She looked at Keith, who was frowning now.

"Why isn't he saying my name? Has he forgotten me?" Keith asked.

"Yes, that's Keith," Allura answered, "he wants to know why you didn't say his name."

Lance opened his mouth to answer, but Pidge beat him to it.

"How do we know you're not lying?"

Allura looked at Keith, who didn't seem to know how to react.

"I don't know how to convince you that he's really here," Allura said, "I do think, however, that it would be best for Lance to do it on his own."

"Dream on, lady," Pidge replied.

"Yeah, he's our best friend and we won't leave him alone!" Hunk reiterated.

Just then the light above them exploded and the windows shattered around them. Cabinets began to open and close seemingly without rhyme or reason and Allura knew that now they were all potentially in danger. The three teens yelped and screamed and huddled together, trying to protect each other.

"Keith! You've got to calm down!" Allura yelled above the noise.

"He replaced me," Keith said and his features were now contorted in anger, "I died, and he left and got shiny new friends. He left me, just like my pa."

"No, Keith, I'm sure that's not true," Allura replied, "tell him, Lance, that you didn't forget him nor replaced him."

Lance was shocked to hear Allura address him after seemingly talking to the air. He looked at the place where she looked at, hoping that K-Keith was looking at him, too.

"K-Keith," Lance said, "I... I'm sorry."

He was apologizing for so many things he couldn't name, but clearly that was the wrong thing to say because the cabinets all slammed at once before the house was plunged into complete silence. Slowly, Lance picked himself off the ground and helped Hunk and Pidge up, who seemed very shaken.

"K-Keith?"

"He's gone," Allura pipped up, shaking herself off.

"Gone?" Lance asked, feeling dread pull in his stomach.

"For now," Allura replied, "ghosts are emotional beings. Seeing Lance, so different, was already difficult for him without you two making it worse."

"Hey! We didn't do anything!" Pidge exclaimed.

"You set him off!" Allura retorted, took a deep breath to collect herself and turned to Lance, "can I talk to you in private?"

"Like hell..."

"Pidge!" Lance exclaimed, looking angry for the first time, "this is not about you, alright? K-Keith was there before I met you and I believe Allura when she says he was here and I want to hear what she has to say. I don't need you to act as if I can't make my own decisions, so cut it out!"

Pidge took a step back, shock and hurt taking over her features, before she stormed out of the house. Hunk hesitated between the two, but ultimately followed Pidge. Immediately, Lance felt guilty and he rubbed his hands over his face.

"What just happened?" He asked.

"There's a lot of anger for now, and it was mostly focused on you, so you probably reacted to that," Allura explained.

"No, not about... with K-Keith. What happened with Keith?"

"At first he was shocked to see you, and then he got upset you couldn't say his name," Allura answered, "but really, what angered him was hearing you have new best friends."

Lance snorted, "He was always the jealous sort."

Allura bit back her own.

"What now?" Lance asked.

"Well, we could try to go to the school to see if he's there, or wait until he finds us again," Allura replied, "usually, spirits this upset don't want to be found."

Lance looked around the room quietly for a few moments, and then said, "Do you think he hates me?"

"I know for a fact he doesn't."

"Well, maybe he should."

Allura frowned, "What makes you think so?"

"He'd still be alive if it wasn't for me."

"I don't think Keith sees it that way at all," Allura countered.

"But I do," Lance said, "maybe this is for the best."

"Do you know what you'll be condemning Keith to if we don't help him move on?" Allura asked, losing her patience, "he'd be stuck forever between two worlds, never belonging to either, always roaming and lost. Is that what you want?"

"...no."

"Then I suggest you find a way to deal with your survivor's guilt in a different way and get your head out of your ass," Allura replied, "as you said, this is not about you. This is about Keith."

Lance contemplated her words for a moment. Then, he nodded to himself and squared his shoulders. Helping Keith came first; he could feel sorry for himself after.

Next

I need your help: This was meant to be a short fic of only 10 to 11 parts. It was also supposed to be self-contained.

But then my brain remembered that there are ghosts who refuse to move on and gather strength, and I thought "hmm, those could be the Galra/druids," and little things like that and so I would like to hear from you.

Option 1: short, self-contained fic of 10-11 parts. I already have an idea for the ending of this one. (Think of it as one episode of Ghost Whisperer)

Option 2: an elaborate fic, who knows how many parts long, with world building, more VLD characters, plot twists and turns, angsty and dark in themes and probably adapting the source material to match. (Think of it as the overarching plot of Ghost Whisperer seasons 1 and/or 2)

#fanfiction #fanfic #fanfic writing #fandom #klance #keith kogane #lance mcclain #klangst #ghost whisperer au #ghost au #childhood friends au #so I need your help #this was supposed to be sad and tragic but also short and sweet but now the plot bunnies are messing with me #please vote

[aspenmissing]

𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝙰𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚁𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚍 (𝙿𝚝 𝟸)

The Gladiator deactivates and falls to the floor. Allura appears behind it, looking unhappy.

"That combat simulator was set at a level fit for an Altean child! You're not even close to working as a team, let alone ready to face Zarkon!" She shouted.

==

The Paladins sit in the dining hall before a table of food goo and other strange food. It goes: Pidge, Keith, Lance, Hunk, Y/N and Shiro. Soul is sat on Y/N's lap, leaning back onto her stomach. Coran stands nearby.

"Ahoy, young Paladins! I've whipped up a big batch of focusing food. After this meal, you'll be forming Voltron six times a movement and twice on the astral conflux" I said. "

Smells great, Coran. Thanks." Shiro said. The Paladins grab their forks before Coran pulls out a remote and presses a button, handcuffing the Paladins together on each arm.

"Hold the phone!"

"I saw a lot of solid individual performances today, but you're still struggling to work as a team, minus Y/N and Pidge. So, welcome to the final bonding exercise of the day." Hunk tried to pull his arm from Lance, then tries to free himself from Y/N. Both attempts fail.

"Coran, I want you to think about what you're doing." Hunk said. 

"Oh, this one's a classic. You get to feed each other, like a pack of Yalmors!" Coran said. Allura then joins the Paladins for dinner. The Paladins struggle to eat. Lance flings Hunk's food goo on accident as it was close to his mouth.

"Ow!" 

"Sorry" Lance apologizes. Hunk tries to eat again; Lance's fingers end up Hunk's nose and mouth. Lance pulls away "Ew! Ugh..." Lance is pulled back over by Hunk, causing him to pull Keith's hand into Lance's plate of goo.

"Ew!" Lance said and pulled his hand away making the goo fly over the table. Hunk then pulled making lance go with him and Keith accidently put his hand in lances food. 

"Oh, nice. You defiled my food goo!"

"It's your fault! This is ridiculous." 

"Here we go again" Y/N sys to Shiro, laying her head on his shoulder. Allura growls in frustration as she eats. Goo flies everywhere.

 "Do Earthlings ever stop complaining?" She asks.

"Can't you just give us a break? Everyone's been working really hard today." Shiro says.

"Yeah! We're not some prisoners for you to toy with, like... like..." Keith thinkg.

"Like a bunch of toy prisoners!" Lance finishes.

"Yes! Thank you, Lance!" Keith shouts.

"You do not yell at the Princess!" Coran shout.

 "Oh, the princess of what? We're the only ones out here and she's no princess of ours!" Pidge says. Goo then lands on Pidge's face and everyone looks to Allura who is standing up, a spoon in hand. Y/N snorts.

"Go loose, Pidge!" Keith says. Keith flings a bowl full of goo at Allura. Coran blocks the attack and tosses a huge scoop of goo all over the Paladins. Excluding Soul, who had ducked.

"Oh, it's on now." Hunk says. He face palms the bowl of goo and sucks it up before pushing his cheeks, spitting the goo all over Coran and Allura. The Alteans grab plates and begin throwing goo at the Paladins, and the Paladins soon going. Everyone begins throwing goo at each other until they begin having fun and laughing.

==

The fight leaves Allura exhausted in her chair. The Paladins look at each other before laughing. Including Soul, who is sat on the table eating some of the goo, which is all over the place.

"Enough!" Everyone stops laughing, staring wide eyed at Allura "Do you see what you're doing?" Allura shouted with her face looking down. She then looked up with a big smile. "You're finally working together as one!" She says.

"Hey, she's right!" Keith said. 

"I actually don't hate you right now." Lance said. 

"You guys thinking what I'm thinking?" Hunk said. 

"Let's go form Voltron!" Shiro said. 

"Yeah!" We all shouted.

 "Actually, I was thinking dessert." Hunk said. 

"I was thinking going to sleep" Y/N says. Everyone looks at Y/N and Hunk. "But, yeah! Let's do it!"  Hunk cheers but ends up making the Paladins fall over as they are still handcuffed.

==

The Paladins all successfully make it to their Lions. Shiro takes the control of the Black Lion.

"Everyone ready to do this?" Shiro asks, taking control of the Black Lion. Pidge takes control of the Green Lion.

"Roger that!"

"It's on!"

"Of course!"

"Yes, Sir!"

"I was born ready!"

 "Then let's go" Shiro said. 

"Yeah!" The Lions form Voltron. Allura, Coran and Soul stand outside the Castle of Lions, staring up a Voltron

"I told you I could get them to do it. They just needed a common enemy"

"It's true. Like the old proverb says, 'A man can be driven to do anything, if a beautiful woman is just really, really mean to him, and I say also women can be driven by it too, it seems" Allura looks unamused. 

==

In the Castle Lounge, the Paladins recount their success, changed into their normal attire.

"Man, that was cool! I'm so charged up, I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep tonight." Lance says.

"Not me. When my head hits the pillow, I'm going to be lights out." Keith said. 

"Same" Y/N yawns, leaning her head on Pidge's. Eyes closed. Soul yawns, and leans back into Y/N. Hunk slips between Lance and Keith,

"Just want you to know that I realized when we were in Voltron, we're brothers and sister man" He pulls the two closer "You know? Like, we're totally connected. No secrets, no barriers, no nothing" Shiro places his hand on Pidge's shoulder, smiling. Before placing his hand on Y/N's head, she looks up at him with a tired expression and he smiles, she returns it "Brothers and sister all the way. I love you guys" Shiro stands up as Y/N changes her position, laying down on the couch, cuddling Soul.

"G-forces mess with your head a little bit?" Keith asked. 

"Yeah, maybe a little. I don't know. It's been a tough few days." Hunk replied. The Paladins head to bed, except Y/N, Pidge and Soul. Shiro stops and turns.

"Going to bed Pidge?"

"In a minute"

"Good work today. We're really coming together" Shiro looks at the sleeping Y/N is about to go over to her.

"I'll wake her, you just head off" Pidge says. Shiro looks at him before smiling and walking away. Pidge then gently shakes Y/N awake, she lifts her head and looks around.

"Where did everyone go?" She asks.

"Bed. You should go, you've had a long day"

"Yeah your right. Who knows what tomorrows going to be like" Y/N smiles. Y/N stands up, picking up Soul and putting her into a comfortable position. Y/N looks at Pidge and ruffles his hair.

"You coming Shorty?" 

Hey!" Pidge said with a playful pout "I'll go in a minute" Y/N nods and walks to the door, which opens. She stops and turns to face Pidge.

"I know your father and Matt are fine" Pidge looks at Y/N, with a surprise look "I have that feeling and you know never to doubt that feeling" Pidge smiles and nods.

"Right" Y/N smiles back before leaving. Pidge stares after her, before frowning, taking out the picture of 'Pidge' and his 'girlfriend'.

#Voltron #Reader Insert #Voltron Fandom #Voltron Fanfiction #Fanfiction #Keith x Reader #Keith Kogane x Reader #Voltron Legendary Defender

[discordiansamba]

Keith comes from a time before the war, raised in the old ways of the Galra Empire by his mother. He was raised in the ways of his father's people too, but he always leaned more Galra than he did Altean. He's thrilled by the prospect of a good fight, and never really developed much of a head for diplomacy- can't we just fight? This would be so much easier if we could resolve this by combat.

(His bayard takes the form of an Altean broadsword, reflecting on his father's heritage anyways.)

Pidge might be tiny, but she has a high propensity for violence... just the indirect sort, mostly. She knows she's not good in fighting someone straight on, so she's learned to use all kinds of neat little tricks to make up for her lack of physical strength. She's got great speed, though. Other Galra say she fights in a dishonorable fashion, but she'd argue that the Galra have no standing to talk about honor.

(Her bayard takes on the same form as it does in canon. It's already perfect.)

Hunk doesn't like fighting. Or violence. He likes cooking. He likes making people happy. He underwent standard training, so he can fight- he's really good at throwing his weight around, being the biggest and bulkiest of the team. But he doesn't like it. There's usually better ways to resolve conflict! ...but at the same time, he discovers that he's actually more willing to fight than he ever thought he was- he just needed the right thing to fight for.

(His bayard also takes on its canon form, giving him a lot of range- but if one of the other paladins is in a tight spot, he doesn't hesitate to throw himself in there.)

Lance has been training to be a Blade since he could basically walk. All of his older siblings are Blades, and he desperately wants to be like them. He's got great speed and agility, but he makes the mistake of not taking as much advantage as he could, instead trying to use brute force that he doesn't have comparatively as much of to win fights. He's actually a much better marksman than he is a swordfighter, but he's too hung up on using a blaster not being the Blade way to see that.

(His bayard initially takes the shape of an awakened blade, before he starts to realize that's not where his strength lies. It then becomes his canon rifle.)

Shiro is an elite among the elite. He's a skilled fighter, ranging from hand to hand combat, to blasters, to sword fighting. He's not quite as big as Hunk, but he's definitely just as strong. He's an incredibly tough opponent to beat, and it's easy to see how he managed to claw himself up to Lieutenant rank despite being so young. He used to resolve things with combat a lot more, but since losing his memories and living on Earth, he's come to understand the value of negotiating first. Sometimes that's even better than a fight.

(He doesn't have a bayard at first. He settles for hand to hand instead. When he does get it, the shape it takes is a spear- hearkening back to the very origins of the Empire.)

#oops! all galra au #Yes Hunk IS the tallest in this AU #only Keith is his canon height. Pidge is a LITTLE taller than in canon but still shorter than Keith #lance I feel has a body type that's a lot like Throk's? #he's still shorter than either hunk or shiro though

[the-kittens-of-vol-tron]

Keith's dad didn't die in the fire. He died of burns days later in a hospital and young Keith watched as his father deteriorated before his eyes.

Bonus points if it's revealed through flashbacks when Lance sacrifices himself and he just breaks

I want to watch someone break

Don't pressure yourself to work on this until you're ready

Angst <3

TW: Topic of death, Self Harm (Hair pulling and neglecting self-care), Injuries 

-----

“Come on baby we have to get up.” Keith poked the boy that laid on top of him. 

Lance groaned, “five more minutes.” 

Keith chuckled, “these five minutes have turned into fifteen. We have to get up.”

Lance mumbled something under his breath before he rolled off his boyfriend. “I hate you.” 

“Yeah, I bet you do.” Keith sat up and planted a soft kiss onto Lance’s hairline. “See you at breakfast?” 

Lance nodded, “love you.” 

“Love you too.” Keith left the room, nodding at Shiro who was leaving his. “Morning Shiro.” 

“Morning Keith. Lance awake?” 

“Yeah. Let me get changed and I’ll head down to the deck.” 

“I’ll be waiting.” Shiro walked down the hallway and Keith entered his room. He focused on the fuzzy feeling that bloomed in his gut. For once in his life he was happy. He was with his found family. His family. It still felt weird to say. And to top it off, he had Lance. He actually got the boy he wanted. 

Nothing could ruin this.

---

“We can’t win until that weapon is destroyed!” Pidge screamed as their lion was hit with another blast. 

“But how? All of our blasts don’t even scratch it?” Hunk asked, nervousness plaguing his voice. 

“It opened up before each attack. I think that’s its weak point.” Pidge responded, moving her lion so she was next to Shiro. 

“Well, it’s getting ready to attack again!” Hunk said, and everyone prepared for the next attack. 

“I know what to do.” Lance’s voice crackled over the coms as he flew his lion into the opening. A bright light filled the surrounding space. The weapon broke into multiple pieces. 

“Lance?!” Everyone called his name, twisting their lions to check the surrounding space. 

“Allura! Can you track the blue lion?” Shiro asked, his voice falling into a slight panic. 

Keith couldn’t hear anything. He could feel anything, his vision swam. Lance. He needed to find Lance. 

He tried to squeeze the handle of the Red lion. Maybe he was moving, maybe he wasn’t. Nothing made sense. Lance couldn’t be gone. He was just right there. They had breakfast together. They shared the same bed last night. He wasn’t-

Beep. 

He smacked his helmet, He couldn’t handle this right now. Not right now. 

Beep. 

His breath hitched in his throat. He silently pleaded to himself for it to stop. He couldn’t think of this. He didn’t want to think of this. He was gone, Lance wasn’t. Lance couldn’t be gone. 

Beep. 

He leaned forward, sliding his helmet off. Yanking on his hair as soon as he could. This couldn't be happening. This wasn’t happening.  

---

He awoke breathless, his hair clingy to his forehead with sweat. His heart was beating out of his chest and he found himself hugging his knees. Rocking back and for softly. 

He took a deep breath, nearly gagging on the stale air. He stumbled off the bed, rushing out the door into the bright hallway. Gasping. 

He hated that smell. The medical smell that made your lungs hurt. 

A voice sounded by him, a familiar hand rubbing his back. “In and out Keith. Take a deep breath.” 

Keith choked on his own breathing. He needed to get away from the smell. 

Beep. 

He grabbed at his hair again, his body falling into a fetal position. “Make it go away. Please.” He knew his voice was jumbled. He figured Shiro was telling him something or calling for help but he couldn’t move. 

Beep. 

Beep.

Beep.

He came to in a bright room. Shiro sitting next to where he laid. “Hey, you okay?” 

He tried to rub his eyes. “Where?” 

“The med bay.” 

His blood ran cold. “No...I gotta-I can’t be here.” 

Shiro frowned at him, “Keith. We need to make sure you’re taking care of yourself. Losing Lance-” 

“GET ME OUT OF HERE!” He found himself falling off the bed, trying to scramble out of the room. 

“Keith!” Shiro followed him, grabbing him slightly. “We can leave but just try and calm down.” 

He didn’t properly calm down until he was in Lance’s bed. His green jacket pulled tightly around him. “Shiro I-” 

The older man raised his hand. “It’s okay. You’re...dealing with a lot. We all are.” 

Neither of them spoke. Just letting the silence grow between them. Shiro released a tight breath. “The team is here for you. We’re all here for you.” He placed his hand on Keith’s shoulder. “And we will find him.” 

Keith closed his eyes. “What if he’s gone.” 

“No. We’re not going to think like that. Until we know for sure. We’re not going to think like that. You can’t let yourself think like that.” 

Beep. 

He squeezed his eyes tighter. Praying that beep would go away. 

---

Keith stared at the table, trying to keep himself from dissociating completely. This was the first time he was eating with the group in weeks. 

A slight smokey smell filled the air and Hunk ran from the kitchen, waving an oven mitt around. “Sorry, I turned the oven on too much. My mind has been distracted lately.” 

Keith tried to shallow his breathing but it was too late. The slight smoke filled his lungs. The beeping noise filled his ears. The bright room, the white bed sheets. The bandages. The smoky smell that stuck to his clothes. 

Keith stood from the table, running out of the room. He didn’t stop until he was back in Lance’s bed. Holding his jacket. Breathing in his smell that had started to fade. 

---

He swung at another bot, tumbling out of the way in a less than grateful roll. He was tired. His muscles screamed at him to stop. His head swam. When was the last time he slept? 

He had been avoiding it since Hunk burnt that food. He wasn’t mad at Hunk in any way. Maybe mad at himself? For not being the first one to move toward the weapon. For losing Lance. For thinking about him right now? He buried those memories, why were they resurfacing? 

“End training sequence!” Shiro’s voice boomed across the training deck. “Keith!” He jogged over to him. “Allura found the Blue lion.” 

---

Lance was alive. Hurt, but alive. 

They had to travel to a small planet. Apparently, the Blue lion had mini-warped to another galaxy. Crash-landed on the planet.  

Keith stood outside the room Lance was in. Where Lance was healing. The others stood by him, nobody moved. Keith took the first step, relieved that nobody tried to follow and he stepped into the room. 

Bandages. So many bandages. They covered his arms and neck. How far did they go under his clothes? His breathing was shallow, but he was breathing. 

Keith took a step closer, his eyes glued to the white material. He took a hesitant breath. 

The air was stale. Medically cleaned. 

His body shuttered and he closed his eyes. 

Beep. 

Was that in the room or his head? 

Beep. 

Beep. 

He found himself stepping backward. Tears burned his eyes. 

Beep. 

“I’m sorry.” He mumbled before he ran out of the room. Out of the building, Straight to his lion. Only then, he allowed himself to cry. 

---

He hugged his knees closer, cursing himself for how cowardness. Lance was back in the castle. He was put in a pod. He would be awake any moment.

And where was Keith? Lance’s loving and devoted boyfriend? 

In his room, not Lance’s. His room, sitting in the corner trying not to freak out. 

“Deep breath in. Deep breath out.” He mumbled to himself. 

Beep. 

He covered his ears. 

Beep. 

“Go away.” 

Beep. Beep. Beep. 

“Go away. Go away. Go away!” 

“Hey...hey babe what’s wrong?” Smooth hands grabbed his wrist, pulling them away from his head.

He lifted his head, his eyes falling on the ocean. “Lance!” He lunged forward, wrapping his arms around the other boy. Lance quickly reciprocated. “I thought you were dead.” 

Lance laughed, “I did too.” 

They held each other until their bodies cramped. Only then pulling away. Lance sitting next to him. 

Keith stared at Lance’s arms, they were covered by his sleeves. How badly was he hurt? How badly was he left scared? 

Lance followed his eyes. Rolling up his sleeves. “No scars. The people that took me in had this...remedy? I don’t know. Allura told me about it. Git rid of the scars. Even the one of my back from Arus.” 

Keith nodded, closing his eyes again. 

“Shiro...said you were having a hard time.” 

“I guess you could call it that.” 

“Do you want to talk about it?” 

Beep. 

Keith took a deep breath, reaching for Lance’s hand. “I just want to be with you.” He rested his head on his boyfriend’s shoulder. The beeping noise finally faded for a bit. 

-----

I hope I did a good job on this <3 I was going to add Keith telling someone about his dad but 

1) Writing fatigue 

2) I think he would be too stressed to tell people what was happening 

I really hate hospitals so I used this to kinda...project my hatred to them 

Thank you!!! <3

#kangst #keith angst #tw injuries #tw topic of death #tw self harm #klance #klangst #langst #keith voltron #keith vld #keith voltron legendary defender #keith kogane #for viv #keith centric #hope i did okay #posted on ao3