#Lance bouta die

[itzmemyselfandi]

Moments before disaster

[yamamawama]

hi yes voltron what the actual fuck

[realmaturebradley]

*flexes* ladley (again)

FUCKLE YOUR SEATBELTS EVERYPONY, CUZ JERA’S BOUTA GO OFF

ok so! despite writing this nonsense at like 13, i didnt realize how not only Actually Viable it was, but… that there is enough there to suggest it’s? kinda requited? YEAH

So first of all, let’s get this out of the way: it isn’t one of those shitty goddamn yaoi-ass, k3v3dd adjacent, “Jock picks on shy feminine nerd because hes territorial wuw” fujobait ships. It only works if you understand Lance as a character, cuz then you understand that he fucking sucks as an actual threat.

Like… more than once, other characters have pointed out that his whole schtick as some big tough guy is… mostly horseshit on one end and him badly trying to project hypermasculine bravado to coverup his fixation on bradley on the other. So with that in mind, plus the fact that the other kids don’t Mind spending time with him and Russell when they’re not being weird assholes, you can pretty much take it as a given that Literally No One is threatened by them.

and if you pay attention that’s? especially true from Bradley’s end?

like at most, he’s just annoyed that this weird asshole and his smelly cohort refuse to like. just be upfront with the fact that he wants to spend time with him and resort to crimes against underwear-kind and Straight Up Innuendo Disguised As Threats (if i didnt bring it up here i would Die cuz everything about this is PLEASE REPHRASE) to spend time with him.

(like lance and russell hang out with their clones and the way bradley goes on about it to his clone makes it sound… kind of like he wouldn’t have minded in the past but lance become a dumbie)

like, from as early as the first official episode of the mainline series, it’s suggested that Bradley clearly does respect Lance beyond BullyNerd Foolishness and vice-versa, and sees him as harmless enough to mess with on… most given occasions.

AND HONESTLY EVEN IF BRADLEY ISNT SAYING QUESTIONABLE SHIT LIKE “pound/slosh/paddle ya later” as a goodbye like…. he’s still equally weirdly obsessed with lance right back?

like you got the subtle cinematography stuff like in “Dill: Man of Letters” where he sees frickin’ hearts in the bg when looking at lance in the romance section, after mostly being grossed out at all the lovey dovey shit,

him being implied to draw stupid comics of lance and russell so often that lance recognizes them and that bradley got so bold as to sign them anyways?

(i dont know what the “duh” means and at this point im too afraid to ask)

and then there’s just Straight Up Questionable Shit like 

Lance being the first guy to come to mind for Handsome Dudes like for a handsome dude (which boggles my mind cuz even at a dig at stacey that??? still doesnt even work cuz he’s barely in the episode anyways)

whatever the hell this moment from “Hit the Showers” was (which is already the bradley trans real ep of the century but THATS FOR ANOTHER DAY)

how much of a flirty smug snake Bradley was in “Scared Stupid”, 

THIS BEING OFFICIAL ART (cuz notice how stacey’s equivalent isnt. that despite her being the more romantic of the duo)

hell, even how often Stacey just as gleefully throws bradley to the wolves as the series goes on (cuz like. im pretty sure she picked up on their weird tension too)

like all of it points less to guy pulling on the pigtails of the dweeb he likes while said dweeb hates it and misses his intentions, and more Neither Of Them Know How To Communicate That They Want to Be Friends so they take on this Bugs/Elmer Fudd dynamic as compensation and? ITS LEGIT ENDEARING IN HOW STUPID THEY BOTH ARE, both in terms of wanting to befriend each other and both in how much they both suck at recognizing their feelings and Its Unbelievably Real.