#worried keith

[autisticlancemcclain]

Their room reeks so strongly of peppermint that it makes Keith’s eyes sting. He blinks it away, slipping into the room as quickly as he can, minimizing the amount of light bleeding into the hallway. The lump of covers on their bed trembles slightly, and Keith’s heart breaks at the sight of it. He sets a glass of ice water on the bedside table, slipping out of his clothes in favour of a softer t-shirt and pyjama pants. He picks the cup back up and turns to the blanket lump, gently peeling the covers off his husband’s face. It’s wet, covered in tears, and his eyes are squeezed shut, fingers pressed deeply against them in an attempt to ease the pressure.

“Sit up,” he requests gently. Lance doesn’t move immediately, and Keith doesn’t push, gently stroking his forehead and untangling his hair. Lance leans in to the touch, relishing the cold of his fingers.

“It hurts,” he croaks, after several minutes. Finally he takes his hand away from his face, cracking open his bleary brown eyes.

Keith sighs. “I know, baby. But the water will help.”

“Okay.”

Keith squeezes his shoulder, then quickly crawls onto the mattress behind him, leaning against the headboard and helping Lance pull himself up so he’s leaning upright onto Keith’s chest. The change in altitude, however minuscule, make his breath hitch, and seconds later Keith feels something wet drip onto his arms, hears it drop steadily onto the duvet.

He winces. This one is…bad. He’s reminded, painfully, of the first time he ever witnessed Lance have an episode, hunched over a toilet bowl and shaking so bad Keith had been convinced he was seizing. The then-Blue Paladin had begged him, in between gags and heaves, not to tell anyone. Keith, who had only really known him for six months, six months of near-constant arguing broken up only by rare moments of true teamwork, who had barely considered them friends, had already been halfway out the door, Coran’s name on his tongue.

Keith had been scared shitless. He didn’t know what was wrong, but he knew enough to know that it was serious, that Lance was in real danger. His mind flashed to poisoning from a backstabbing ally, alien sickness a human immune system couldn’t fight off. A million different worst-case scenarios had rushed through his head, making Keith want to throw up himself.

But the terror in Lance’s eyes had scared him a thousand times more than whatever was wrong with him. So he had swallowed his fear, then, and kept his mouth shut, placing a tentative hand on Lance’s back as he vomited and carefully watched the door.

He doesn’t have to watch the door, anymore. There’s no more hiding.

But the fear has never left him.

“The meds aren’t doing anything,” Lance rasps. He’s drained the entire glass of water in seconds, body desperate for something to replenish all the sweat and tears and shaking effort of fighting off something that isn’t there.

“How long?”

“Third time.”

Keith tightens his arms around Lance’s waist, eyes closing in resigned disappointment. Third time — the meds have been ineffective for three consecutive attacks. It doesn’t work.

Fuck. They’d been hopeful about this one.

“We’ll talk to Coran.”

It had taken a year of Keith desperately trying to keep Lance’s secret — from the ‘real grown-ups’, as Lance called them — before they’d been caught. Usually Lance’s migraines were pretty predictable, warning signs obvious enough in advance that they could either find something to prevent it or get Lance somewhere he wouldn’t be disturbed.

But once they couldn’t manage it.

Neither of them could have predicted the bright, flashing lights of the planet the team was visiting. Nor did they know how badly that was going to hit Lance. One second he was fine, upright, laughing with Hunk, and then next the lights were flashing in and out like an ambulance and Lance’s eyes were rolling back into his head. He had come back as fast as he’d passed out, before he even hit the ground, but there was no mistaking the way he looked like someone had just taken a mallet to his skull, the way his palms were pressed, digging, into his eyes, the way he was obviously and clearly in pain.

Migraine has never been a large enough word.

Lance groans quietly. “I don’t — not right now.” He pushes himself forward slightly and then carefully spins around, so he’s no longer leaning against Keith but leaning into him, head buried into his neck. Keith moves his arms until he’s adjusted, then wraps them back around his waist, resting his head on top of Lance’s and just holding him, covering him, letting him know he’s there. “You know what he’s going to make me do.”

The team had wanted to push Lance into a pod immediately. Keith had been yelled at by five seperate people at the same time when he’d stood in between them and Lance, protective hand on his arm, and refused to move.

That’s when he thinks things clicked for the two of them, he thinks. Not when he found out for the first time, not when he promised to keep quiet, not when Lance stood by him and Black’s choice, not in the countless other times they’d fought and won together. But the time Keith had stood between him and their friends, the people who wanted them to be safe, and said without saying the words I am on your side. I will be on your side, even if I don’t agree, even if it’s the wrong one.

“It’ll help,” he murmurs, pressing his lips to Lance’s temple. “I know it won’t make it go away, but you won’t feel it while it works it’s way. And who knows? Maybe this time it will fix something.”

“I doubt it.”

It hadn’t then, either. Lance had eventually agreed, battered, to a pod (“I can’t do it, Keith, I can’t, I’ll get stuck in there and suffocate and won’t even be awake to try and save myself —” “I’ll keep watch.” “What?” “The entire time. As long as it takes. I’ll stay awake and make sure you come out. I swear it, Lance.”), staying in cryosleep as the migraine worked it’s way through his body and the rest of them puzzled over his brain scans. They had even contacted the Olkari, the leading scientists in medicine besides the Alteans themselves, but no one in space is familiar enough with the human brain to find any miracles. And besides, from all angles, everything looked normal. Healthy, even, besides the pain. But obviously there was something wrong.

“That’s okay. We’ll just…sit here for a bit.” He knows that he should try to get Lance into a pod sooner rather than later. He can’t really sleep when he’s like this, so he’s just suffering, head pounding and nausea twisting his stomach, pain wrapped around his nerves. At least when he’s in the pod he’s in stasis. His migraines aren’t usually this bad — he can usually handle low lighting, can usually swallow the pain enough to smile and work and interact with the team; hell, usually the painkillers work — but when they are this bad, there are no other options. When they’re this bad, nothing does anything; not the water or an ice pack or the dark room or rest or peppermint or anything. (The peppermint always comes out, though, because Lance says it smells like healing. It smells like the times it /does/ work, smells like when he puts it on and the pain goes away. Keith will take burning eyes for that.)

For a while, the team put all their downtime into trying to figure out what they could do to fix things. Lance went through brain scans when he wasn’t hurting, when he was, when he was only hurting a little. He had so much blood drawn that he became anaemic again. Different ideas were tossed around and disproven three days later. He cycled through meds. The only thing that everyone could agree on, something that Lance already knew, was that the migraines started after the Sendak incident. Brain damage, of some kind. Once, carefully and kindly, Coran suggested that the pain might be psychosomatic. Keith and Shiro refused to talk to him for days, both remembering years of doctor’s visits that almost always ended with Well, Mr. Shirogane, have you considered that your problems may be more mental than physical?

It had been Lance’s scolding as much as Coran’s guilty face that had to two of them fixing things. Psychosomatic or not, Lance had reasoned, there’s something wrong, and what it is doesn’t really matter so long as it can be treated.

But it couldn’t. Be treated, that is. So long as it appears that Lance’s brain is just…attacking itself, sending off rapid fire pain signals for no reason, he just has to live with the constant pain of it, and the dread of the pod, the one fear Lance has never been able to fight off.

“I’ll watch,” Keith murmurs, lips pressed to Lance’s hair. He tightens his hold as Lance shudders.

He always has. It’s been eight years, in space, and Lance has been forced to enter a pod more times than he can count, for hours on end. But Keith has always stood there. He has always stood guard, watching the pod until he is bleary eyed, because he made a promise and he intends to keep it.

“Okay.” Lance exhales, long and slow. “As long as you’re with me, okay.”

“Always.”

#chronic migraines baby ❤️ hell on earth #vld #voltron #keith #keith kogane #lance #lance mcclain #klance #established klance #hurt lance #langst #brown eyed lance #soft keith #worried keith #my writing #longpost #fic

[ao3isthehomogod]

My Heart Burns and My Skin Burns

Author: Write4love

Words: 8,425

Chapters: 1

Author Summary:

The Paladins of Voltron made it out of Bob's game show alive, but Lance is feeling the effects of being called the dumb one...and is about to feel effects of being thrown into a vat of acid...

My Summary:

This was one of the very first fics I ever read in this fandom and also made me practically fall in love with Voltron fan fic. The writing is just superior. It’s heartfelt, angsty, and just straight up beautiful! It has everything from lance angst (I love lance but reading his angst is simply the best), worried Keith, Klance, hidden feelings bursting to the surface, it has everything. Lance angst is so gut churning- and no matter what the writing is flawless! This fic definitely makes my top five!

Rating: Not Rated (I would rate it teen and up)

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Klance

Characters: Keith, Lance, Shiro, Krolia, Romelle, Kosmo, Allura

#voltron #angst #lance voltron #ao3 author #keith voltron #klance #klangst #lance mcclain #ao3 fanfic #keith kogane #klance fanfiction #i suck at tags #voltron 2023 #voltron fanfic #lance suffers #team voltron #worried Keith #lance angst #Garfel Warkle Snick aftermath #the answer was bi #keith cares about lance #and lance cares about keith #I will not hear otherwise #Lance angst fics #klance angst #Klance angst fanfic #fanfic rec #Klance fic rec #Voltron fic rec

[petiyean]

#duality fanart #duality keith #don't worry guys it's tomato sauce #at least that's what he said #my art #duality vn #yancore #i'm tired #maybe i'll paint tenebris next?

[bleh1bleh2]

S'mores !!!!

#dont worry lance is fine. he started it and is just being dramatic. #pidge is eating raw marshmallows like popcorn #i think keith is just like me. in that he would put a piece of chocolate in a marshmallow and then cook it #the goal being to have melted chocolate with the marshmallow and No Graham Cracker. sometimes the graham cracker is too dry #BUT let it be known that i am very good at roasting marshmallows. the best in my family #on a different note allura deserves fun little earrings so she has lollipops <3 #and i dont know anything about timelines. theyre either on earth or found smores supplies at a space mall #its fine and makes sense <3 #voltron #klance #(to me) #my art

[heynhay]

please don't say you love me (x)

#SOMETHING SOMETHING FIRST LOVE THE TERRIFYING ORDEAL OF BEING KNOWN #klance #voltron #vld #art #my art #katie klanced if youre seeing this. you did this to me. therefore you did this to yourself #but i worry i overhyped it by posting abt it bc its rather simple #anyway initially i had type laid over this with 'please dont say' on keith and 'you love me' on lance. & that was a very intentional choice #if that says anything. #mitski

[vldlance]

julance week four: birthday ❣️

happy birthday lance sharpshooter goofball loverboy mcclain who would i be without you 💙🌟

#klance #keith kogane #lance mcclain #voltron #julance #julance2023 #juno.txt #my art #hiiiii barely got this done in time but it did happen! god bless #mel if u see this hi yes i did change my idea entirely. don’t worry about it dhdjdjdj

[coolnonsenseworld]

I wanted to say that outside of semantics and divisions - I am simply happy to find communities that welcome with kindness - that welcome you by a good heart and not the ability to conform. I am happy for the opportunity to be surrounded by people who care. It's a funny world we live in - making the same mistakes over and over, multiplying the same suffering by billions. I don't think I hope for an utopia anymore, I don't think such a thing exists - but you can't call me hopeless either. And that's what matters.

As a side note - this piece is set in DanceAU, which might be better known to Patrons so far, but still it was the best and most fitting option for this occasion..... also there are 12 DanceAU pieces incoming, because I might be making another calendar so. get familiar with these mutts

#klance #voltron legendary defender #klance fanart #priDEMONth #you know there is always so much happening idk what to add in the tags #i made banana bread yesterday and almost burned the kitchen (right after i asked myself how bad can it be?) i am not kidding #and then burned my arm twice trying to avoid a burn which is top ten ways to get them #its okay tho it doesnt hurt anymore #there was also my nameday which I forgot about and had a headache thorough #also when i was drawing i was considering that lance is maybe a bit too tall on this piece #he IS taller but bending like that with keith standing straight? #i mean gay? #idk about that #but i decided not to worry danceau always has heels for that #i also have been so deep in wirting hex if you dont know whats hex dw you shouldnt #but i have this love hate relationship with it everyone knows it its a sinusoid #im on my happy phase with it lately #no one jinx it it better last #all i wanted was bamf rescues and cliche tropes and now im trying to do them justice in 200 thousand words or less idk why #they could have been just fighting demons and cuddling #either way happy pride once again!!

[salmonwentmissing]

“Eternal Immortality” is now available for grabs! It’s 20 pages both the comic and the storyboard ^^

The entirety of the comic will be posted over time here on tumblr too, so no worries if you can’t afford

NEXT / FULL

#klance #vld #fancomic #klance comic #keith kogane #klangst #lance mcclain #no worries if you cant or dont wanna pay for it #i will make it available on all my socials #i dont wanna limit klance content for the fandom

[discordiansamba]

actually I think the absolute funniest possible bodyswap fic would be a pre-Kerberos swap between Shiro and Krolia. Keith just casually wishing he knew who is his mother was the universe responding by revving up the body swap cannon.

Thankfully for Krolia, Adam believes her story, as outlandish as it sounds and agrees to try and help cover up for her while they both try and figure out how this happened and how to fix it. Of course, that was before the wrench is thrown in where she recognizes the kid Shiro basically adopted and reveals that he's her SON. Shiro didn't just swap bodies with some random alien. He swapped bodies with Keith's mom, who is apparently an ALIEN.

VERY thankfully for Shiro, Kolivan believes his story- and most importantly, believes that he has no idea what's going on, and that he didn't intentionally cause this swap. But also now he's in the body of an elite alien super spy in the middle of a ten thousand year old war, while knowing that said alien super spy must be in his body back home.

Also why does she look so much like Keith?

#krolia is treating this like a vacation while shiro is extremely stressed #keith is just. confused. shiro's definitely acting differently lately? #but adam's acting like nothing is going on? is he missing something? #krolia's very bad impression of shiro based off of what Adam tells her he's like #adam: wait. you're a woman? #krolia: yes. #adam: oh. that suddenly explains why I feel abruptly less attracted to shiro's body #krolia finding out how much shiro has stood up for keith like. i like this man. i'm much less worried about him being in my body now #parental figure bodyswap au

[moonlit-minuet]

Voltron posting in the year of our lord 2024? It's more likely than you think

#these are pieces I did for a klance angst zine like a year or 2 ago #I notice a lot of mistakes now but hey thats progress #why I did this for april fools?... dont worry about it haha #klance #voltron #voltron legendary defender #lance mcclain #keith kogane #angst #zine art #my art #myart #shut up phoenix #illsutration #i did really enjoy working with my teams on this one though it was a good time #i have like SO many zine stuff on the back end that I haven't posted bc I'm stupid sometimes and even when a zine ends idk when to post #im gonna try and throw them out into the void more often but until then i gotta work on OTHER zine stuff haha

[vulturevanity]

normal thing to say about your dear friend who you think is really cute and charming and hard-working and basically the perfect wife material

#hamefura #my next life as a villainess #otome game no hametsu flag #aaand rewatch done! now my honest thoughts #good start. the middle is kinda boring. ep 8 doesn't exist don't worry about it #this anime draws me in in the same way that Futari Wa does #in that it has a fascinating main cast and a very vague skeleton of a worldbuilding that leaves me wanting to overthink it #unstructured thoughts incoming: #Geordo's still a creep and no matter how much the story wants me to like him I just can't #Keith's siscon is very Yikes! and that's so bad because I love his and Katarina's relationship as siblings #Katarina lowkey thinks Sophia is a freak but never kinkshames her and that's so bestiecore of her. they're soulmates your honor #Mary is SUCH A LESBIAN holy shit. I did not remember how much lesbian she is #I'm lowkey annoyed that the show frames her attraction to Katarina as “haha funny isn't she weird?!” #like in the sleepover episode she was describing the things she'd like to do with her beloved and she's being like. normal about it #but the soundtrack does a silly and I'm like. wow this anime does not like her huh #I swear Geordo and Keith are even weirder about Katarina than she is but the anime always gives them slack about it #unless they're having their homoerotic squabbles. which is to say the anime does Not Like The Queer Coding of the story #I'm sure there are worse examples of weeb homophobia but there are a couple moments I saw in the manga but not here! #anyway where was I. Oh right. Ascart Sibs Autusm 👍🏼 #Nicol doesn't have much presence in the story due to his quiet nature which is so sad because his inner world is intriguing #he's such a good friend. loyal and caring. I wish we got more of him in this season #and finally: Maria. God. what is there to say about her that I haven't already #the girl came in with a 7 year disadvantage on her rivals and yet Katarina is all over her! #rewatching season 1 is so weird because I could swear she had more presence than she really does because holy shit #Katarina loves her! so much! wtf #maybe I'm remembering season 2? #anyway these are my thoughts on doomflags season 1 #2nd watch edition #oh I almost forgot #romance in chiaroscuro

[autisticlancemcclain]

Could you explain your position on Shallura? Since Allura was established as a teenager when she started dating Lance and Shiro was very clearly an adult. I can understand the bi shiro headcannon but the shallura thing worries me

i am going to remind yall that i have been in this fandom since 2016. and in the early seasons, allura was not established as a teenager. in fact she was coded as older, as closer to shiro's age -- there was a specific divide between her and the younger paladins that she did not have with shiro. they made her younger (both explicitly and in mannerisms) as the show went on. and i do not give a fuck about voltron like...post s4 and i didn't even watch s7-8. so like. especially with older fics, im going to enjoy shallura.

#also this is less relevant and i was going to put it in the main post but i cant find the words for it #but i found your last sentence kind of condescending. “the shallura thing worries me” as if i am your little project and things arent going #to plan. as if you are the Knower Of All Things and i am straying from my path lol. twas odd #and this is a controversial thing to say i know it but like #we take fandom way too seriously. if someone decides in fic to make two characters the same age to ship them or whatever. do we really need #to get the torches and pitchforks. like i can understand discomfort when people ship like shiro and pidge or something but. also. i feel #like you can just block and move on?? like i dont ship sheith bc they are brothers. to me. but also i dont think sheithers should be #harassed or any dumb shit like that. i think its so so whatever like theyre Lines man theyre moving lines #at the same time i understand that peoples headcanons can be reflective of their worldviews (like when racism/transphobia/sexism shine #through someone's headcanons/characterization) but how much scrutiny is too much? when do we get to remember that fandom is a place to #work with the FICTIONAL? where you can change details without consequence? i saw a fic where keith was the older sibling and shiro was the #younger once. it was a good fic. how come we can play with ages but only when the Fandom Council approves? #i guess this is a really long and clumsy way to say like. you do not own the fandom nor do you get to dictate my work. and while there #is always room for necessary criticism please also think critically before you post your criticism #anyways #rant #ask

[ao3isthehomogod]

Bonding Moment

Author: the_forgotten_daydreamer

Words: 2,332

Chapters: 1

Author Summary:

What I think happened during the famous bonding moment in s1. Whump and hurt/comfort all the way.

My Summary:

Maybe it’s just me. But I’ve found that there are very few docs about the infamous “bonding moment” that highlight not only the worried team but also the fact that Lance got f-ed up. This fic has so much hurt/comfort and worried Keith you could get a cavity at the sweetness. Keith is the clueless, caring, and panicky boy he is and lance is- my babies trying his best! But this is probably my favorite fic surrounding the bonding moment!

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Warnings Apply (check tags)

Relationships: Lance & Team Voltron, Klance

Characters: Lance, Keith, Shiro, Coran, Pidge, Hunk, and Allura

Enjoy :>

#voltron #angst #lance voltron #ao3 author #keith voltron #klance #klangst #lance mcclain #ao3 fanfic #keith kogane #bonding moment #Lance is hurt #hurt lance #worried Keith #fic rec #Lance suffers #and we love it #Keith loses is shit #shit I cursed #fuck #omg wth am I doing #i suck at tags #Klance 2023 #klance fanfiction #Klance is endgame #sendeck can die in a ditch #love you all bye!

[fannyyann]

so there’s a new interview with the panthers’ play-by-play guy where he says keith told matthew to ask for a personalized goal call when he came to florida: thehockeynews.com/nhl/florida-panthers/latest-news/getting-to-know-goldie-q-a-with-florida-panthers-play-by-play-voice-steve-goldstein

this fits into my theory that matthew is a very media savvy person and super aware of his public personal narrative and branding because keith kind of trained him to be that way.

oh that's fun to know! i DO think matthew is very aware of his public persona, because keith has definitely said things about how it's different for matthew and brady than it was for him with social media and stuff, and how matthew was obviously a little peeved that videos of brady's wedding got out because he's very intentional with what he puts out of himself, and is very good at not getting photographed

but i would also say matthew said this to goldie in a joking manner too, because that's another neat thing about matthew, he's very charming and undemanding

#matthew ask #i'm too lazy to find that quote about keith not worrying about matthew getting into trouble because he's a good kid when he went to CGY #but he was still glad the flames had the policy of having the rookies stay with someone but yeah #i think it's impossible to grow up in the public eye and not be a little aware of what of yourself you put out in the world #and i think matthew's def more cautious than brady #or at least thinks about it more than brady does

[chibi-pix]

Oops. I forgot I had this WIP. Started back in December. But hey, I'm finished with it now!

Anyway, I like to think that Daniel and Katie would actually get along. And they'd prank each other constantly. Nothing too bad. Though glitter is a mess, so Katie just skips to hacking Daniel's game to block his data until it's cleaned up. Oof.

Anyway! I hope y'all enjoy this one! Until next time! Ko-fi available!

#Pidge #Daniel #Katie Holt #VLD Pidge #VF Daniel #Daniel Lee #Pidge Gunderson #technopath au #vld #voltron #voltron legendary defender #voltron force 2011 #vforce11 #they do get along #their language is pranks and messing with each other #Lance and Keith probably worry it'll get out of hand #but these two do well

[leenfiend]

one of my fav tropes in Star Trek fics is the “away mission went wrong and now we’re stranded on this planet and must learn to get along to survive” and i want more klance fics like that SO BAD!! It suits them so well. Give them to me. I want like a long one….a slow burn….is this gonna have to be a fine I’ll do it myself moment bc don’t tempt me. I’ll consider it.

#i read one once that was literally EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED it felt canon they were so in character the PLOT!!!!! ! #it was like reading a sci fi novel where my blorbos fell in love #but i didn’t read…..THE TAGS!!!!! #AND KEITH DIED AT THE END. AND IT FELT LIKE HE HAD DIED IN MY SOUL FOR LIKE A WEEK AT LEAST #SO I WANT ONE WHERE MY LITTLE GUY DOESNT FUCKING PERISH #klance #vld #Voltron #colleen thoughts #good as fic but my fucking god there’s a scene at the end where lance is back at the garrison bc they got back to earth and there’s #missing posters for all of them but not for KEITH BC NO ONE WAS FUCKING LOOKING IM LOSING MY MIND!!!!!! #AND LACE WAS SCREAMINIG AT THEM GOING SOMEONE ELSE WAS THERE WITH US SOMEONE WHO SHOULD BE HERE NOW #i literally had to rant to my irl friend about it bc it messed me up so bad . i had no other choice i had no Voltron friends. #anyway. im normal now. no need to worry :)