#voltron critical

[uncaught-coolfish]

when voltron first started did any of you guys have “a character would be introduced who was clearly somewhat of a zuko-stand in, who was a victim of child abuse, but then went insane, got told by one of our mains that he was “just like his abusive father”, and 2 seasons later we get that same child abuse victim’s mangled horrible corpse shown to us on screen from behind” on your bingo card because I sure as hell didnt

#voltron critical #v slur #voltron: legendary defender critical #vld critical #for all the things this show did dogshittaly this was the one that genuinely grossed me out #like shocker shocker everybody but #lotor deserved better

[western-magical-girl-confessions]

“After seeing the Bible Leak from Miraculous season 5, I’m really glad I dropped the show since it’s just getting worse and has officially become the next Voltron as far how disturbing it has gotten😖 (especially with the weird moral double standards both shows seem to have).”

#ml salt #mlb salt #ml #mlb #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #miraculous tales of ladybug and chat noir #miraculous ladybug confessions #ml bible leak #ml bible spoilers #miraculous season five #miraculous s5 #western magical girl confessions #confession 2102 #anti voltron #voltron critical

[aro-paladin-pidge]

I feel like most of my problems with the characters of Lance and Hunk is that Lance got a lot of a little, and Hunk got a little of a lot.

#like Lance is a really important character in the early seasons but we learn nothing about h #*him #like he has a fun flirty personality and a dumb rivalry with Keith and then like nothing #he’s homesick in that one season 1 episode and then it’s never mentioned again #he feels like a seventh wheel without a ‘thing’ in Escape From Beta Traz and then it’s solved with 1 shitty compliment #he’s so insecure about his place in Voltron he feels like he should just leave to make it easier for everyone else (will never mention this #big character moment again) #and he feels so expendable he literally DIES and it’s glossed over like wth #and Hunk is just ignored except for like the Season 1/2 Balmera episodes and Omega Shield but we learn so much about him #and he’s just perfect in whatever scene he is #super nice and snarky and snide all at the same time but like tormented by impostor syndrome and anxiety #like there’s SO MUCH there and he just gets nothing #idk if this makes sense but I’m just really upset about it #voltron #lance #Hunk #voltron salt #voltron critical #lance voltron #Hunk Voltron

[zr-stein]

Voltron Sucks

I know it’s not exactly groundbreaking to say that Voltron is a bad show, but I thought I’d put my thoughts out there.

The thing about Voltron is that all the ingredients of a good show are there. You’ve got an evil Empire with a distinct design, giant Lion mechs that are sentient, interesting and distinct characters, immediate plot hooks for Shiro, Keith, and Pidge, cool space magic, and more. And that’s just the very beginning of the first season. There were so many things that worked in Voltron, they just...failed to use them effectively.

There are many, MANY issues in Voltron (the queerbaiting, the monster of the week filler, the nonsense deus ex machinas), but I wanted to touch on some of the ones I found most annoying.

#1: Allura should have been the leader of Voltron after Shiro. I don’t know what the writers were thinking to have Shiro want Keith to take over leading after him, because all of Season 2 shows Keith to be a hotheaded loner, and then later on in the show he literally ditches the team to go be a member of the Blade of Marmora (yeah Keith, becoming a rebel/saboteur is a much better use of your time than being the leader of Voltron). Allura is a leader, she was a leader during the entire show, and she frankly deserved to pilot the Black Lion.

Also, it’s a tiny thing, but the Paladin’s Armour color should always match their Lions. Having Blue Armour in the Red Lion, Red Armour in the Black Lion, and Pink Armour in the Blue Lion made me want to tear my hair out.

#2: Hunk should have been treated better by the narrative. The poor dude barely got any serious moments in the entire series, and easily 20% of his screentime is devoted to jokes about how he’s a coward with a weak stomach. Hunk is the second or third most capable engineer among the Paladins, he’s a great cook, he’s dependable, trustworthy, and has a strong moral code. I wish we had gotten to see more of that Hunk.

#3: Voltron itself really should have been stronger. A lot stronger. This is supposed to be the Defender of the Universe, a nigh invincible mystic sentinel against evil, and it gets knocked around and “nearly defeated” practically every other fight.

Things that challenge Voltron physically should have been saved for very important fights against well established threats (Zarkon, Lotor, etc). By having Voltron get knocked about and damaged as often as it is, it has the opposite effect to what was probably intended; we all know Voltron isn’t going to be destroyed, because every other time before now they pulled through just fine.

#4: The Castle of Lions is too empty. This is partially a complaint about the fact that the CoL is the size of a Star Destroyer and yet has a crew of less than a dozen people, but that’s just a nitpick.

My real issue is how Voltron is so isolated from the rest of the galaxy. They come in, save the day, and then leave. They eventually coordinate a rebellion Coalition, but that group operates outside of the CoL in their own ships on their own planets, and it’s such a missed opportunity. You have a ridiculous amount of space on the CoL, why not take on a couple dozen alien allies? We see hints of this in S8, with the Atlas; Voltron now has allies to help coordinate, wings of fighters that can handle less important tasks, intelligence gatherers, maintenance engineers, and more. Just do that, but earlier, and with aliens!

That’s all I’ve got for right now. God, imagine if the She-Ra crew had written Voltron, we might’ve actually gotten a good show.

(Pidge is the best character in the show and the single amazing episode in the show is about Pidge.)

#voltron #Voltron legendary defender #voltron critical

[seroqueldreamer]

Every now and again I think about Voltron and how it got cancelled after season 3 (/s) because what followed was absolute dogshit and a complete fever dream that it couldn't have possibly happened. Especially what the VAs were saying! Like "being the idiot out of 5 other smart people still means something." (That's roughly paraphrased.) And the whole BTK incident here on tumblr. AND NOT TO MENTION THE FUCKING KILLING YOUR GAYS TROPE AFTER SAYING SHIRO WAS GAY AND KILLING OFF HIS FIANCE FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES. There was no plot that went into Voltron's last 5 seasons. They drew shit out of a hat. If you want a good 80s reboot, She-ra and the Princesses of Power. The last 5 seasons were nothing outside of ragebait because it devolved into shit. They didn't care about making a good story, they cared about getting it out as fast as possible and marketable toys. Allura's death traumatized Lauren Montgomery as a child, and instead of changing that narrative, nah. Fuck it. Traumatize the next gen. What a fucking cop out. So yeah. The last 5 seasons couldn't have happened and it was a mass hallucination.

#starry eyed rants #voltron #voltron critical #can't believe it got cancelled after s3.

[curtashiism]

How Sumikko Gurashi does literally everything, especially clone arcs, better than Voltron

Clones. Found family/friendship. Character arc resolution.

I was watching the two SumikkoGurashi movies the past few days and I love it so much. It's made by the creators of Hello Kitty, and is almost saccharine at times, but never tips too far over the line (IMO). And it manages to deal with some surprisingly beautiful themes- better, in fact, than Voltron ever did.

So I'm going to write a quick analysis noting how it did clone arcs so much better. (If there's interest, I might make a post about the found family and character arcs too, in a different post!) @kari-izumi, @synergetic-prose, @as-thou-will, @bbtreee, @backupblogforjg, and @puppetmaster55, I'm tagging you since I know you love VLD criticism.

So first: what is Sumikko Gurashi? Like I mentioned, it's an IP made by the creators of Hello Kitty, about the adventures of various characters who live in the same village, and they all love to spend time alone in a little corner of one of their houses (Sumikko Gurashi means "life in the corner"). There's Shirokuma, a polar bear who ran away from the North Pole because he was scared of the cold; Neko, a timid cat who is self-conscious about her weight; Penguin? who spells his name with a question mark because he's not sure if he is a penguin, and is always reading self-discovery books; Tonkatsu, a fried pork cutlet who was left behind for being too fatty and oily (yes really), and last of all, Tokage, an aquatic dinosaur in disguise who hides his identity to avoid being captured.

(Warning: spoilers for the Sumikko Gurashi movie follow!)

In the first movie, the Sumikkos end up transported into a magic fairy-tale popup book, and each takes on the role of a protagonist; Tokage becomes The Little Mermaid, etc. They meet a little bird, Hiyoko who is trying to find what story he belongs to. The Sumikkos all want to help, especially Penguin? who resonates with Hiyoko not knowing who he is. (Penguin? loves cucumbers and has vague memories of having a plate on his head; the joke is that he actually is or used to be a kappa, a Japanese water demon, but he doesn't know this.) They immediately work to find his story. They think he must be the Ugly Duckling, but Tokage accidentally presses a popup button that releases the real Ugly Duckling, and then they walk into the next page... the last, empty page of the book. Hiyoko isn't a character from any fairy tale at all; he's a child's drawing, drawn with so much love that the magic book brought him to life. He isn't "real", even in the context of the book; he doesn't belong to any story, nor to the real world. He was created, and doesn't have a family or story to call his own.

In other words, he's a clone. Even if he isn't in the strictest definition, Hiyoko fits the narrative role in every way.

Immediately, the Sumikkos offer to bring Hiyoko home with them. They tell him they'll be his friends/family, that he has a home with them. It doesn't matter that he isn't part of a proper story, that he isn't "real". He is a person, with emotions and dreams and a personality, and that is what the Sumikkos care about.

Then the book starts to collapse, and the Sumikkos discover that while they can leave the book, objects created inside the book cannot. That means Hiyoko can't leave with them. Penguin? tries to stay behind, but Hiyoko makes him leave, and the Sumikkos then end up back in their world, crying over the book as they gaze at their lovingly-drawn bird friend.

If this was Voltron, they would have had the characters laugh at the idea of caring about a drawing, or the creators would have snarked about the readers "thinking the drawing mattered" or whatever their wording was to dismiss Kuron. The story would have ended there.

But Sumikko Gurashi flashed forward immediately to the Sumikkos hard at work over their book. Panning out, you see a house and a village surrounding Hiyoko, carefully drawn by the Sumikkos... and last of all, themselves in bird form. So that even if they can never return to the book, they can still keep Hiyoko company in their own forms. The message is clear: sometimes, even if you can't fix a friend's problems, you can always, always make them better, and you can be there, in one form or another- and often, that's all one really wants.

The clone didn't get a perfectly happy ending, but his inability to get the happy ending was portrayed as an absolute tragedy; our hearts were meant to ache for Hiyoko (and Penguin?, who was in despair over his fate). The Sumikkos showing such compassion and love to a "clone" to give him the best life he could have... Voltron would never. They couldn't give Kuron even a quarter as much love and sympathy in their writing.

Sumikko Gurashi, made for little kids (with a large periphery audience of adults, granted), managed to show how a proper clone storyline should be done, without even having an actual clone in the story. That is just how much love and care they put in the stories they tell, compared to... *gestures* Voltron.

I mean, really, everything did clones better than Voltron, but every so often I see something do it that is so far from Voltron in genre, demographic, and so on, that it still astounds me that a sci-fi show managed to utterly break a sci-fi story with its failure to understand basic sci-fi tropes.

#voltron #voltron critical #voltron legendary defender #voltron criticism

[the-kittens-of-vol-tron]

I need to get off dating sites wtf

The first time imma talk to this person is to give them my "How I Feel About VLD: Where Did It Go Wrong?" Presentation I made for a party 2 years ago

#please help #why #what happened to normal flirting ash #about me #vld #vld critical #voltron critical #voltron #voltron legendary defender #voltron legendary defender critical

[triple--a--threat]

so about voltron

idk where this post is gonna go, but i have thoughts and feelings about this show and needed to get them out. so. rambley post it is.

i dont think it's new information for anyone that voltron and its fandom suck major ass, unless you've been living under a rock, and in that case, get back under that rock sweetie. this show sucks a fuckton and this rambling will be nothing more than critique and bashing. anyways

at the end of season 2 shiro was going to die in the original "plan" as far as we know. we were gonna get a heroic sacrifice and the team would go back to its 1984 setup with allura piloting the blue lion. except of course the machinations of the universe are beyond us so shiro did not in fact. die. he was the most popular character and his merch sold the most, so he couldn't possibly die this early on. who else would've made dreamworks their pure gold bars?

so as daddy dreamworks demanded, the writers delivered and un-unalived shiro, completely disregarding their original flimsy shambling excuse of a plan in exchange for among the worst plotlines i have ever seen anywhere. possibly the worst that exist in all of television ever. we got 4 seasons (well really 2) of completely directionless, contrieved, contradictory, and mind-numbing bullshit. stuff happens because someone wanted it to. 2 eps later something very contradictory happens because someone else wanted it to. i cannot stress this enough it feels like the writters were split into factions each of whom had very different ideas about literally everything in this fucking show. some of the dialogue actually feels like someone just wrote down the arguments and fighting going down in the writer's room. shit was made up along the way as the show went on for far longer than it had the right to, and for each and every fucking plotline the writers were divided and kept on shooting themselves (and the others too don't forget) in the foot for the sliver of chance that their story will be canon. just completely backstabbing each other for the sake of it and no regard for what is actually happening. it would be hilarious if it hadn't destroyed my sanity. and for a bit of a personal opinion, a liitle ymmv, none of the writers had any good ideas actually. even ignoring the nonsense opposite fuckery happening, none of the plotlines were good lmao. please end this and me oh god.

as a result we got a completely wish-washy, flip-flopping, self-contradictory, reductive mess of a show which never had any good original ideas or story much less a fucking plot or even a plan in some direction. the writers had no goal except to get their plot on the paper disjoint from everything else with jackshit regard to the overarching storyline. well if there was anything resembling an overarching storyline in the first place.

ig i'll talking specifically about the some of the worst offenders in the "the writers never thought of anything" situation - the allura racism arc, the clone shiro arc, and fucking lotor. oh my fucking god motherfucking lotor. holy shit they fucked him up.

i dunno where to begin with the allura racism arc except for the fact that it was DUMB. completely out of the blue and so fucking forced. for a princess of a diplomatic people she sure is fuckin racist for no fucking reason. even if she doesn't trust any and all galra (ig they didn't have unity in diversity activities in altea), she has no reason to not trust keith. like. my guy what. he proved himself as a paladin of voltron and has directly and indirectly saved her ass. why is she racist oh my god. and why doesn't coran hold any animosity towards the galra? he also lost his homeworld (and alfor)? and he lived on altea for far longer? ig women are emotional or smth. man. i also liked (absolutely despised) the the fact that it kinda took a #notallgalra turn and i was jesting about it and then they actually said that in the fucking show. hey allura not all galra are bad. hey allura stop being a bitch. and then the writers forgot about it btw and made allura racist again 2 seasons later. hmm. wut. also they never checked their own internalised racism or whatever as *points to zethrid's design*. lmao. WAIT also the conflation of racism with speciesism. yknow. using anti speciesism messages as anti racism messages. classic white person living in california moment.

alright the clone shiro arc. because its the keith and shiro show and we can't loose half of our money milking cow. and we shan't make them explicitly gay. only allude to it and sprinkle in family brother stuff so nobody actually thinks they're gay. that would be blasphemous. we shall continue with our pseudo-incest for the rest of the show and give shiro a last minute husband so they don't haul our ass for gaybaiting and burying our gays because we somehow managed to do both of them. anyways where was i. oh right shiro died but they had to bring him back blah blah but they made a clone of him for? reasons? while the real shiro is in the subconscious of the black lion or smth for unexplained reasons. i have absolutely no idea why they did that. they have a carbon copy of shiro in terms of everything - personality, fighting capabilities, homoerotic scenes with keith - for jackshit reasons while they could have the actual real shiro running around but i guess not. the clone is the exact same as the real guy until he isn't. because. we need more drama in this over extended bullshit show i guess??? clearly we don't have enough stuff going on we must make it more exhausting and confusing to watch. also clone shiro is as good and noble as normal shiro until he got a headache and now he's evil at the flick of a switch and retains none of his previous personality and is therefore irredeemably evil and nothing can be done to save him. he's bad and evil and must be forgotten. they never mention him again later on except for a throwaway comment on how evil he was except he wasn't evil guys you're not gonna fool anyone. oh and btw the real shiro's soul or whatever got supplanted in the clone's body because idk man where his original body went and he retained all the memories of his clone self because isn't that convenient. fuck everything. also this arc culminates in the best episode of this show despite everything wrong with the events leading up to it and the way they handle lotor in this episode. more on him later. it's literally among my favourites now 10/10 would watch again it was so fucking good. kill me. i.

again, i don't know where to begin with lotor - such an interesting character who got the short end of the stick. the worst victim of the writers' squabbles. i genuinely liked him a lot and then. such a shame. well there are other characters- oh no. there aren't any other even remotely interesting characters. not good, no no, no one is good in this show, but just fun to watch.

he starts off as an antagonist to team voltron but he's not actually a threat. he maybe wants to use them to further his goals but really he isn't the villain per se. which sucks because there aren't any villains in the show now cause the previous main villain is out of commission for who knows how long. and then whoops lotor has to kill one of his generals and then the other generals betray him and now i guess he's with voltron now. sure why not. interesting turn of events. at least it isn't boring. i'm having fun can't you see. then he kills the previous villain (who is his father did i mention that) in episode two of season five. yes s05e02. i dont know any more than you do. and now it sucks even more cause theres literally no fucking villain rn. then he and allura start working on quintessence or whatever because she learns that he is half altean and btw do you remember she is racist. now since he is not 100% galra (bad people) but half galra half altean (good people. her people) she smooches him and stuff and. also btw all this fuckery is happening alongside the climax of clone shiro arc. yeah this show may suck. whatever evil shiro who wasnt evil is defeated and lotors really helped team voltron and the galra empire is going to stop conquering worlds and the show is going to end on a mid note. well.

EXCEPT SIKE BITCH LOTOR IS PURE CRAZY EVIL FUCK YOU FOR EVER ROOTING FOR HIM. FUCK HIS WHOLE CHARACTER BEING ALL "IM NOT MY FATHER" AND THEN AT THE END 180ING MAKING HIM JUST LIKE HIS FATHER. FUCK EVERYTHING FUCK THIS SHOW YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SOMEWHAT GOOD. WELL FUCK YOU IT AINT EVEN SOMEWHAT GOOD.

i. im just so disappointed in his character and the plot twist for the sake of twist that i cant even express how disappointed i am except for shouting through the use of all caps. one final fuck this show

#voltron #voltron critical #idk the tags man #sorry for the paraghraph breaks #well lack thereof #and copious amounts of 'btw' 'and' 'also' #i don't know any other conjunctions apparently #or how to transition between ideas. idk don't be mean to me about it.

[purple-man-with-anger-issues]

they dancing on Amor Prohibido by Selena (longer, fluffy hair and freckles Lance is my roman empire)

here is the link of the tiktok account if you want to say hi :

#klance #voltron legendary defender #vld #keith kogane #lance mcclain #klance renaissance #klance 2024 #they love dancing and i take no criticism #happy boys in love

[art-farting]

love me a babygirl with white fringe

#Jason Todd #Takashi Shirogane #Fjord Stone #Simon Petrikov #Voltron #DC #Batman #Critical Role #Mighty Nein #Adventure Time #Fionna and Cake

[nilfheim-arts]

Last month I did the color wheel challenge and honestly it was so much fun!

#oc #monster high #jackson jekyll #hetalia #aph prussia #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #fruits basket #kyo soma #voltron #vld keith #scooby doo #velma dinkley #lazy town #robbie rotten #lucky star #bluey heeler #robecca steam #shikimori's not just a cutie #critical role #critical role mollymauk

[animentality]

I love video essays about topics I don't understand or have never thought of, where the OP is absolutely deranged with hatred or love. Explain your passion to me! I don't care what it is, I care about how you feel. Help me see your world, tinged with red.

#i watched that sideways video about the music of cats the movie being ass and i was like i know nothing about music but tell me everything #i watched that lily orchard video on steven universe even tho i generally like the show #i have watched voltron rant videos even tho ive never seen voltron #tell me your pain i want to share it with you even if only briefly #i watch criticisms of star wars shows ill never watch and people talking about movies i dont want to see #i love it all

[vldlance]

allura in the style of hades! i like to think she would be one of my favorite gods to get a boon from <3

#allura #allura voltron #vld #romellura #voltron #this is such a bad time to post but i’m proud and i don’t wanna wait 💖 #need to post the progress video for this at some point bc it took SOOOO long #also this is inspired by jacob grimoire on twitter & insta who has done the same w critical role characters!!! #i rlly did enjoy doing it. may have to do it again for lance or keith or smth…. #juno.txt #my art

[how-queerious]

been seein lot of posts calling the cast weird for the way they/their characters are being with the whole "destined" aspect of callowmoore but like consider who does and does not seem to outwardly ship it that way.

maybe there are things and dynamics i've been missing but to me there is a clear division between which characters (not actors) are pushing it and which are not; The main people seeming to push for it are FCG, Imogen, Laudna, and Fearne. The main people just watching and not really swaying either way are Orym, Chet, and Ash. Here's my thoughts on the possible motivations for that from a character perspective. With that in mind, I have focused on the PCs here; I have all the love in the world for matt as a DM, but to untangle the intricacies of his character work in literally even just one episode at a time is a whole other post. Accidental essay below the cut y'all.

broad strokes are that the camps are divided primarily* by who has and hasn't had extensive adult romantic relationships. Laudna, Imogen, and FCG are all experiencing what seem to be their first real adult relationships, and have had notably, explicitly little experience with romance at all beyond that. Fearne herself, despite her age, also seems to have had very little experience with romance and love (remembering that casual or platonic sex is not romance). They have all been starry-eyed and naive about love in prior episodes, and Laudna in particular has a childlike view of it. To compound this, Fearne has been lonely the vast majority of her life, just her, her nana, and their companions of questionable sentience and willingness. Exhibited in some of the darker episodes, and stated by ashley (at some point), she is literally just learning how to feel as mortals do in the prime material plane. Many of us as young shippers were drawn to the allure of the "Soulmate AU" for a lot of the same reasons.

On the other side of the coin, we have the three opposed or neutral. Chet and Orym, unlike any of the others, have both experienced long-term mature romantic relationships. Though Chet often focuses on the sex, and Orym tends not to focus on anything if he can help it, both have shown in their character choices and interactions with people from their past that they have the understanding of mature and healthy(ish) romance. As a contrast to their knowledgability, Ashton has only ever been burned by what should have been love in the past, and has not experienced romance. They have spent their whole life fighting fate, and will continue to do so for at least the time being. He is just learning to let themself love platonically, of course they don't want to follow "fate" to a romantic relationship with someone as chaotic and beautiful and terrifying as Fearne. They'll do the cool combos with her, and he'll flirt and tease, but anything else is unknown territory in a field already littered with the casualties of their past attempts to trust.

Though they may seem to be pushing for this fated dynamic in a way that feels very off for CR, there are genuine and realistic character motivations for them to do so. Perhaps I'm putting too much thought and faith behind it, but I think the specificity of who is or isn't pushing speaks great volumes to the fact that these are all people who have a wealth of theatric and improvisation experience and knowledge behind them. They are all actors with more than my lifetime of hard work behind this "silly game" they play, and I think we ought to consider that.

#like idk them personally but c'MON #aside from their DECADE of play experience #they are all professional actors nd improvisors #i feel like we should give them a little more credit here #long post #in this essay i will #critical role #i do kinda ship callowmoore as fuckbuddies btw #i am projecting my maybe-aro-ness onto fearne about it tho #gimme gimme gimme #callowmoore #callowmoore positive #ashton greymoore #fearne calloway #fresh cut grass (cr) #launda #imogen #southern gothic (cr) #orym of the air ashari #chetney pock o'pea #not to interact with the disk horse i was in the trenches of 2017 broadway and 2018 voltron #but i just had thoughts i hade to give to the universe

[very-burnt-toast]

Some random unedited Klance stuff I wrote at like 2am last night

Lance finds himself standing before his mirror, eyes darting back and forth across his reflection as if scanning for something. With a sigh, he steps back and slumps down into his bed. Nothing out of the ordinary. It's perfectly normal. Unremarkable.

Nothing special.

Fitting, because that's all he is, isn't it? He's nothing special. Everyone else has something going for them. Shiro had been the leader who always figured out what to do and now he leads from the sidelines, Pidge is the tech genius who always has a comment to make. Hunk's the friendliest guy Lance has ever met and holds the team together, all the while making the best food ever. Allura and Coran know all about the lions and run the entire ship.

And Keith. Keith was the best at everything. He'd been the best cadet in the Garrison, he was hella good at fighting, thinking on the spot and being the team leader, looking pretty... And not the worst diplomat ever to exist. So basically all he needs to be a great paladin.

Lance couldn't help but envy Keith a little. Ever since his Garrison days Lance had always wanted to prove himself, to be worth something. But now here he is, deflated and sitting on his bed with no role to fill. And why would the team want him if he doesn't have a role to play?

But a much more devastating thought prickles in the back of Lance's mind. As much as he envies Keith and always made an effort to go out of his way to poke fun at him, he can't help but admire him. I mean, it's hard not to. The powerful yet graceful motions when he fights, the feeling in his voice when he gives commands to the team, his persistence when he wants sonething, and the amount he cares for his teammates.

It would take some kind of miracle to have that absolute prodigy even come remotely close to falling for a simple boy from Cuba with no redeeming qualities?

I mean, there's his immeasurable charm... But Keith could beat that one pretty easily. His mullet is nicer than Lance says it is on a regular basis. And his eyes. But no matter how much admiring Lance does, that's not gonna get him anywhere. It's not like he can say anything to Keith though.

Lance leans against the wall and lets his body deflate further. The more he thinks about Keith the more he can feel an ache growing in his chest. Collapsed against the wall, he lifts his hand to rub his eye and there's something wet on his face.

He was crying.

Right at that moment there's a knock on the door. Hurriedly, Lance wipes his eyes with his sleeve and inhales slowly and deeply before calling out, "Just come in."

The door opens to reveal none other than Keith himself. Keith's eyes widen to see Lance sprawled across his bed, leaning against the wall. "Are.. You okay over there, buddy?"

"Hey Keith, I'm... I don't know." Lance lifts his head and gives a weak smile. Keith walks over, sits down and glances at Lance with a look of concern.

"Lance, have you been crying?"

Lance blinks before turning his head away and taking another deep breath. As he exhales, Keith places a hand gently on his shoulder. "Look, I know I'm not necessarily the best one to talk to sometimes, but if you've got stuff on your mind you can always tell me."

Lance can feel the waterfalls that come rushing from his eyes as he pushes himself up and wraps his arms tightly around Keith, muffling his sob as he buries his face in Keith's shoulder. Keith is frozen for only a second before he returns the gesture. The two sit there like that in silence for a number of minutes before Lance eventually raises his head again and attempts to wipe his eyes on sleeves that are becoming more and more drenched by the second.

Noticing he left a large wet patch on Keith's shirt, he starts, "Keith, I- I'm so sorry I-"

"Hey, shh, it's okay, Lance," Keith reassures him, "what's on your mind, bud?"

Lance's head is flooded with thoughts; he wants to tell Keith just how he feels about him but the eminent doom of what would surely be a rejection stops him. He wants to confirm or deny his suspicions that he won't have a place in team Voltron anymore. Or maybe he just wants to know what Keith thinks of him. Lance's head spins but he opens his mouth to begin but somehow he blurts out everything all at once.

"I don't feel like I even have a place on the team anymore because everyone has something and I don't and I feel useless as if I'm just some normal guy while everyone else gets to be something special and I just want you to want me here and I know I make fun of you but I actually care more than I'd like to admit but I'm so jealous of you because you get to be something awesome that I could never be and I just want to be something and I..." he trails off into silence.

Keith slowly absorbs the information before once more glancing at the pile of limbs that is Lance before grabbing him by the shoulders and staring him straight in the eye, "You're not going anywhere. We aren't replacing you, Lance, and we aren't kicking you off the team."

His gaze softens and the muscles in his arms and hands relax a bit, "I'm not really sure how to put this next bit into words so you're just gonna have to trust me, okay?"

Lance pauses and cocks his head slightly, confused. Slowly he nods at Keith and says "I trust you."

And with that, Keith leans down and presses his lips to Lance's. Sliding one arm around his waist and one behind his head he kisses him smoothly but firmly. After a while he pulls away to reveal Lance, wide eyed and red faced, but now only the slight remnants of his tears remain glistening on his eyelashes.

Satisfied, Keith smirks through his words when he asks Lance, "does that give you your answer?"

Lance nods, causing Keith to smirk even more. Pushing himself up from the bed, Keith turns toward the door.

"Well then, if that's all you need from me I'll be in m-"

He's cut off by Lance who springs up and grabs Keith by the arm, spinning him around and kissing him again. This time it's Keith who's startled, but he quickly kisses Lance back. Lance's fingers run through Keith's long black hair and the other still holds him by the arm. The two pull away from each other and Lance, shooting Keith a challenging look, says "couldn't let you get away with winning that one, Kogane."

The slightest hint of pink dusts Keith's cheeks as he chuckles quietly to himself as he walks out of the room, leaving Lance standing in the middle of his room, now alone. But somehow, Lance didn't feel quite so separate anymore.

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💛 For the third year running, please enjoy Haven's end-of-the-year self-rec list! 💛

This year, we have fics from Bigamma, @bonzai-bunny, CitizenMocha, @gavilansblog, @ibovaryyou, @ineffablemiscreant, InTheMidnighHour, @ladyofrosefire, @mischiefseven, @motherfuckingnazgul, @notaficwriter, @rigormortisriot, @songofwizardry, @spare-the-dying, @themurderrose, @treemaidengeek, @valakiir, @vexing-imogen

There are fics for Critical Role, The Untamed, Star Wars, Good Omens, Dimension 20: A Crown of Candy, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, New York by Night, LEGO Monkie Kid, Voltron, and The Locked Tomb.

💛 Find the list here! 💛

And have a happy new year!

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