#GOD im just gonna write a fic featuring the bi squad and only the bi squad at some point

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I like to hc that Shiro questioned his bisexuality for the absolute LONGEST and if he was ""bi enough"" because he'd only ever had feelings for one guy so when Lance came out to the team as bi Shiro immediately pounced on him and was like "how did you know you were bi when did you realize do you like girls and boys equally was it sudden was it gradual am I bi am I bi am I??? bi!????!!?" so Lance ultimately helps him discover himself (I NEED this lance and shiro bonding)

OH MY GOD UM ANON YOU LITERALLY JUST SAVED MY LIFE RIGHT NOW????

YOU GOT ME SO EXCITED I’M LEGIT WRITING SO MUCH RIGHT NOW LMAO, so yknow. Long ass text of Shiro and Lance bonding over their bisexuality under the cut. Also the way I’d really like their friendship to be shown in canon because I legit cannot shut up lol.

ANYWAY, HERE IT BE:

Okay I’m gonna start off by saying that I completely ADORE the idea that Shiro struggles with his bisexuality, or even recognizing himself as bi, because majority of the people he’s attracted to happen to be women. It really hones in by the fact that in canon Shiro is actually pretty insecure about himself, not so much about his abilities and contribution to the team (the only time he ever doubts himself about that is after the black lion ejects him, so it makes sense) and while Lance is insecure at times, he’s namely confident in himself as a person and who he is, but is insecure about his abilities and contribution to the team as a whole.

BUT I REALLY LOVE THE CONCEPT OF LANCE HELPING SHIRO FIGURE HIMSELF OUT FOR THREE  REASONS:

 I hc that Lance is pretty proud of his bisexuality because he has a multitude of supportive sources in his life, so he never really had to worry so much except for the initial coming out process. But after that? FREE GAME. (Not to get Klance in here but Lance imo wouldn’t so much freak out about the fact that he has a crush on a guy, but the fact that this guy is KEITH. That’s legit.. my fave. Anyway,,,,)

 I feel like it’d really help Lance to see, which he might have already started doing idk, that Shiro isn’t the hero figure he built himself up to be in his head. He’s human, and he’s got flaws and fears and concerns just like the rest of them.

It’d give them a chance to bond over something outside of Voltron, and Shiro learns that while yes he’s their superior officer and needs to retain a mature and healthy level of companionship, they aren’t just his team members, but his friends too!!! I feel like that’s why it’s so difficult for him to be chill and relaxed around anyone of the team besides Keith considering he knew him before hand.

But just… GOD.. The idea of Shiro talking to Lance about his own insecurities with his bisexuality is so good to me?? Mostly because hed start off with a single question or two… and then it just grows into more the more he gets into it.. AND LANCE WOULD CALL SHIRO HIS YOUNG BI PADAWAN AND TELL HIM TO CHILL WHILE THEY GET COMFY IN THE LIVING ROOM-ESQUE PART OF THE CASTLE

They can talk about the fact that Shiro’s only liked one guy so he doesn’t feel like he really “counts” and Lance tells him that sometimes he used to think that way too because he’s constantly flirting with girls on earth, and sometimes even still feels compelled to only flirt with girls in space sometimes because of all the internalization, but he gets through it because he has to remind himself that the only people he cares about what they think of him rn is his team.

And yknow Shiro would be like.. oddly comforted by this because he realizes then that Lance isn’t just some goofy kid who keeps everything lighthearted just for laughs, but that he’s got more to him than that. And they talk. It starts off with the bi stuff, with Shiro feeling better about himself and more comfortable about calling himself bi, but then it gets into other stuff they have in common. BECAUSE THEY’RE BOTH PILOTS, and love flying. Shiro may have had a moment where he forgot that he loved space considering his trauma, and Lance had been in love with space but it dampened a little because he realizes that it’s keeping him away from his family. Maybe they try to reconnect a little on why they love space and fall in love with it again. Shiro and Lance probably have a similar taste in humor, so they’d probably have really dorky inside jokes that only Hunk would think are funny. It’d hopefully get to a point where Lance feels comfortable being able to finally talk to someone he actually knows more than what was beneath the surface and stuff like that. (I have a whole post I wanted to make where like while Lance is arguably one of the most vocal on the team about his feelings, it’s not really going to towards anyone he actually knows that well… Another post.) And while I don’t think Shiro will ever feel comfortable coming towards the younger kids about his feelings or trauma, I feel like he’d get to a place where he’d be comfortable asking for Lance’s support or time when he’s in a bad headspace.

I just think that Shiro and Lance have a lot of potential to be really good friends in canon and have a lot more in common than they think. They have the perfect set up for a ‘just bc theyre your hero doesnt mean that they arent human’ arc and a ‘more than meets the eye’ mark, bc as of rn in canon I definitely think that’s where they’re at in terms of their relationship. It could be so much more though!!! They truly could be the most embarrassing duo in the entire universe with their bad jokes and all LOL.

GOD, you have no idea how much I wanna write a fic about Shiro and Lance bonding through their bisexuality which ends up leading them to an actual friendship now…. ANON YOU CURSED ME

TLDR; I love Shiro and Lance’s potential bond SO FUCKING MUCH