#i just...love sappy shiro ok...

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milestone prompt!! sheith where they try ridiculous things with shiro's new arm (sex related or otherwise). bonus points for silly/awkward sexytimes. extra super bonus points if you wanna throw some galra keith in there too.

wow thank you so much for this...i had a lot of fun with it and while there isn’t any galra keith, there is a lot of Shiro In Love which i figured you might also like. 

without further ado, here is a silly fic of shiro and keith doing silly things with shiro’s hand. partly based off of this post by @goghbach & this ask I received awhile back. it’s (mostly) SFW~

Follower Milestone Prompt #1: Getting Handsy

read it on ao3

“It’s pretty big,” Keith says, inspecting the new arm critically.

Shiro coughs. The glint in Keith’s eye is making him nervous. “Yeah, I guess so…”

“I could probably sit on it,” Keith continues.

Shiro chokes on his own spit. “Nngh?” he says, eloquently.

Keith looks up, nonplussed. “You know,” he explains, “like, I could sit on it, and you could punch really hard and make it fly across the room like a rocket launcher.”

They’re not on the same page, here, and Shiro honestly isn’t sure if Keith’s idea is better or worse than his. “I don’t even know if the neural connection extends that far,” he protests weakly.

“Then we should try it,” Keith declares. “What could go wrong?”

“I mean...a lot,” Shiro points out. “A lot could, potentially, go wrong.”

Keith gives him a flat look. “You encouraged me to drive my hoverbike off a cliff when I was a teenager, Shiro. How is this less dangerous?”

“Point taken.” Shiro sighs. “Alright, well, I mean...is this room big enough?” They’re standing in an empty aircraft hangar, where they were supposed to be inspecting it as a new hangar for the Lions. As usual when they’re with each other, they got distracted.

“We should probably go outside,” Keith says.

“Where everyone can see us?”

Keith rolls his eyes. “Alright, fine. The hangar is probably big enough.”

“It’s still not very safe,” Shiro hedges.

Keith sighs, stalks over to a workbench, and picks up an abandoned pair of plastic safety goggles. He slaps them on and raises an eyebrow. “Safety,” he says.

“Fine,” Shiro relents.

Keith grins and walks back over with a spring in his step. “Can you put your arm down?”

“Down…? Oh.” Keith is slinging a leg over Shiro’s floating forearm. Shiro really hates that the arm is, in fact, big enough for Keith to straddle it somewhat comfortably. It looks a little awkward, but Keith determinedly hunches over and peers at Shiro over his shoulder.

“Okay, see, this is cool,” Keith says. “Now, you try.”

Shiro wavers. “This is still a terrible idea,” he says, because if Keith gets hurt at least then Shiro can say I told you so, and then settles back into a defensive stance, focusing on powering up the socket in a slowly growing warning whir of sound. He whips his arm back, impressed Keith manages to stay on, then with gritted teeth releases all of the stored up energy in a deafening blast of blue electricity.

It’s amazing.

Keith zooms across the hangar at a speed previously unknown to mankind, lightning arcing through the air behind him. He looks like a witch on a broomstick, if the witch was dressed in a Garrison officer’s uniform and the broomstick was a military grade prosthetic arm that never needed to be as big as it is. But god, is Shiro glad it’s as big as it is.

Keith leaves a trail of destruction in his wake, and it’s probably a good thing there’s not much in the hangar, because dust billows outwards and upwards, an entire table goes flying through the air and smashes into smithereens against the opposite wall, and the unlucky metal husk of a fighter jet crumples pathetically at the blast wave’s impact.

Thankfully, Shiro calculated right, and the energy runs out before Keith reaches the opposite wall. By the time he goes tumbling off with a shout, the arm is traveling at a nonlethal velocity. As it is, Keith lands hard, and Shiro is about to yank the arm back to him and jog over...but it’s a long distance, at least a hundred yards, and he’s got a better idea.

Or worse idea.

The metal fingers grab Keith by the collar of his uniform like an oversized kitten, and Keith only has time to yelp, “Shiro, what – !” before Shiro sends the arm hurtling back towards him like a boomerang, or a very large, fairly deadly elastic band. Keith screeches and clings on for dear life, but Shiro is pretty sure he’s having fun. This is confirmed when a heavy bundle of shocked Keith careens into Shiro’s arms, or rather, arm, sending them both staggering and then falling backwards onto the ground, with Keith on Shiro’s chest.

“Holy shit,” Keith wheezes. His hair is sticking up and his eyes are wide with a delight Shiro hasn’t seen in him for a long, long time. “That...was…”

“Fucking awesome?” Shiro finishes, heart pounding with excess adrenaline as the arm’s system cools down.

Keith snorts, and then dissolves into full-blown giggles, collapsing onto Shiro and burying his face in Shiro’s jacket. “Fucking awesome,” he agrees. “Oh my god. We’re officers, Shiro.”

“We’re also having fun,” Shiro says, and the prosthetic pets Keith’s hair fondly. Keith leans into it, and shoots him a dopey smile. Shiro smiles back, and revels in the familiar warmth of Keith over him, chin resting against Shiro’s chest.

“We should go outside now and do it again,” Keith muses after a long and wonderful moment.

“Yes,” Shiro says with feeling, and helps him to his feet.

*

Iverson gives them an earful later when they show up twenty minutes late to their night meeting, covered in red desert dust and fresh bruises, but it’s totally worth it for the sound of Keith’s laughter, echoing in Shiro’s head like his favorite song long after it’s gone.

*

The next night, they end up in the desert again, at the edge of a familiar cliff.

So many things have changed, but it’s good to know that this, at least, has stayed the same.

“Are you sure about this?” Shiro asks for the thousandth time.

“Yes,” Keith says without hesitation. “Ready?”

“As I’ll ever be,” Shiro sighs, and tries to stop himself from gripping the handlebars too hard as Keith accelerates towards the cliff. He knows, if they were caught out here, people wouldn’t understand why they’re putting themselves in danger to have fun. But they also wouldn’t understand what it’s like to live every day on the edge of danger, with the threat of it looming over your head at every waking moment.

It’s difficult to transition from soldier to civilian, even more difficult when you’ve been a soldier in space for years dealing with forces far beyond your control or understanding. They haven’t discussed it, but Shiro would bet anything Keith feels the same way – it’s unsettling to go from a hundred to zero overnight. Their expectation for danger is omnipresent, even if, for once, there is none. Safety has become strange.

So, this way, they’re choosing their own danger. Together.

Keith flies off the cliff’s edge, Shiro close behind. He brakes on the top of the cliff instead of following him over, and aims his hand for Keith before releasing it in the same thunderous crackle of noise as before. As if in reply, the clouded sky rumbles, and Shiro’s heart pounds in excitement. It’s the monsoon season, and the thought of a desert storm sends his arm flying faster, almost too fast when it connects with the bottom of Keith’s hoverbike and latches on.

He’s far away, but Shiro, muscle straining, sees the moment Keith’s hoverbike wins against gravity and lifts, swooping gracefully out of its tailspin downwards and back up towards the dark sky. Outlined against the faint moonlight, Keith throws his arms up with a resounding whoop of joy, some strange creature soaring through the night, pale blue lightning all around him.

Real lightning tears the sky open in the distance, over the silhouetted mesas and mountains, and the rain begins to fall. Shiro guides Keith down to the earth before following him over the cliff, with only one hand, and just a human one at that, to guide him. But then Keith shouts, “Shiro, your turn!” and waves Shiro’s hand at him with a blinding grin.

And how can Shiro say no to that?

The hand returns to him, shoving up under his hoverbike, and Shiro’s breath is stolen by the sudden jolt and gain in altitude, wind whipping past him, rain splattering over his worn leather jacket as the storm picks up. He looks down at Keith, staring up at him with wide eyes full of lightning, and just like that his breath is stolen again.

It has nothing to do with the wind.

*

“Keith, you should really sit up,” Shiro says, studying him across the desk, lips pursed. Keith is hunched over his paperwork like a particularly pouty gargoyle, and glares at Shiro like one, too.

“Shiro,” he grits out, “now is really not the time for your nagging.”

Shiro lifts his hands in surrender. “Not nagging! Just...observing. Helpfully. You’re gonna get back problems with that posture.”

Keith grumbles something under his breath, and stretches, his spine popping audibly. They wince in unison. “Think I already have them,” Keith admits. “I don’t even remember the last time my back was this knotted up. It wasn’t even this bad after I slept in the Black Lion’s cockpit for a week straight.”

Shiro’s jaw clenches. “You did what?”

Keith coughs. “Nevermind. My back does hurt. So does my head. But this stupid paperwork has to get done; I’m not gonna leave an entire base without clearance for rations just because I need a massage or something.”

Shiro perks up. “A massage?” he says.

Oblivious, Keith continues, “Yes, but the Garrison isn’t exactly crawling with masseuses, and even if it was you know I’m not the best with strangers touching me, and –”

“What about if I use this?” Shiro’s right hand pops up helpfully, fingers wiggling.

Keith turns red and his jaw drops. “Wow,” he says. “You really just offered to give me a massage with your magical floating hand?”

“I’m still offering,” Shiro says gently, even as his hand creeps across the table on two fingers, mimicking walking. “We can both keep doing our paperwork, and you can avoid a slipped disc.”

“That’s creepy,” Keith informs him, watching the crawling hand, but his expression is thoughtful. “Yeah. Okay. You can try it. But if it’s too distracting…”

Keith is always distracting on some level, but Shiro doesn’t have the heart to tell him that.

When the hand touches Keith’s back, Keith sighs at the contact, scooting forward in his chair to give Shiro space to work. He starts a new page of work as Shiro stretches the fingers over his shoulder blades, focusing on feeling for the tense muscles, digging in when he finds them and working his thumb and forefinger into the knotted tissue. Keith sighs again, louder and more content, and for a second he glances up, half-lidded eyes meeting Shiro’s.

Thank you, Keith mouths, and quietly goes back to work, rolling his shoulders into Shiro’s touch.

Shiro may have accidentally given a few bases triple the rations they needed, but frankly it is unrealistic to expect him to do math when he can feel Keith’s rippling muscle under his fingertips.

*

“I mean, I want you to try it, at least,” Keith says stubbornly, sitting up on his elbows and peering at Shiro’s lubed up fingers. “I’m okay with it, really.”

Shiro puts his head in his other, non-lube-covered hand. “These are like, twice the size of my normal fingers,” he groans. “I don’t think…”

Keith shrugs. “So it’s just like starting with two. That’s fine. We’ve done that.”

“You could just fuck me instead?” Shiro suggests hopefully.

Keith considers it for half a second, then sighs. “I’ve already done that, like, every time since we got back to Earth. You can’t run from this problem forever, Shiro.” Read: oh my god, please just fuck me, we both know I’m going through withdrawal.

“It’s not a problem! I can use my left hand –”

Keith’s glare silences him, and he winces. Yeah, fair point. He’s really awful at using his left hand for, uh...this. Ambidexterity has its limits. “You could, and I could use my own hands, but I’m asking you to try with this one, Shiro. Please.”

“Okay,” Shiro finally says, chewing his lip. “If you’re sure.”

He’s very, very careful. Keith’s face still scrunches up, and his stomach flips. Shiro starts to pull it out, and Keith grabs his wrist instantly, shaking his head. “Uh-uh,” Keith grunts, and oh, his voice is uneven already. Shiro presses into him a little harder, and Keith’s mouth falls open in a sound he would probably call embarrassing but which Shiro can only describe as hot.

Shiro curls the thick metal finger and Keith whines.

“Huh,” Shiro whispers. “That’s new.”

“Not a word,” Keith warns, though it falls a little flat when he’s arching up into Shiro’s touch and all but verbally begging for more. Shiro, suddenly, wants to make him beg, and shifts over him, forcing Keith’s legs open wider. He pours more lube over his fingers, trying to ease in a second, and Keith pants, open-mouthed. He’s so hard, and Shiro wants to make him come so, so badly.

He leans down, emboldened by Keith’s honest pleasure, and lets his teeth graze the flushed shell of Keith’s ear. “I’m not gonna fuck you,” Shiro tells him, soft and private. “I think I’m just gonna use my fingers tonight, baby. What do you think?”

Keith shudders without an ounce of protest and whispers, “Yes,” squirming under him.

“Yes, what?” Shiro needles, letting the second finger rub and press, but not breach.

Keith shakes his head. “You’re a menace,” he hisses, gritting his teeth.

Shiro wonders if he can get those teeth to sharpen into fangs, again. Preferably in a kinder way than a sword fight. Or maybe in a different sort of sword fight.

Another day, Takashi. They have time now, for that...for rain checks and other days. The thought is almost unbelievable. Almost. It’s easier to believe they made it this far when he’s looking at Keith. Everything is easier when he’s looking at Keith.

“I’m also your boyfriend, lucky you,” Shiro chuckles, still braced over him, still teasing, shoving aside the tangled emotion.

“I am lucky,” Keith says then, earnestly, and Shiro falters, emotion rushing right back to him faster than the rocketing arm, his elbow almost giving out from under him where he’s braced over Keith on the bed.

“Oh,” Shiro says.

Keith’s eyebrows draw together. “Oh?”

“I think I changed my mind,” Shiro says breathlessly, “because I need to be inside of you, like, yesterday.”

“Oh,” Keith says, happily, and kisses him in enthusiastic agreement.

*

Shiro wakes up with Keith wrapped around his arm like a sexy octopus.

No, nope, bad thought. Keith is not an octopus. Keith is a Keith, and Shiro loves him very much.

God, Shiro’s coffee dependence has hit him full force since their return to Earth and his body’s rediscovery of the dual blessing and curse of caffeine. Groggily, he tries to sit up, but freezes halfway – if he moves, he’ll wake up Keith. Keith is the Universe’s lightest sleeper, other than Shiro, and he needs all the rest he can get these days.

Also, after last night.

Carefully, he tries to extricate Keith’s arms from around his arm, but it’s a futile mission, and when Keith’s nose wrinkles and his fingers twitch, Shiro backs off. Hm. Well...he doesn’t really need his right arm. Right? He has lots of meetings today, but those don’t require having two arms.

Currently, Keith requires the arm a lot more. A lot more. It definitely has nothing to do with how appallingly adorable Keith looks curled up against it, cheek smushed against the warm metal, ruffled hair soft against Shiro’s finger sensors when they curl through it…

Come to think of it, he might as well test this thing’s control radius. He latches onto the solid excuse, kisses Keith on the head, and gets ready for the day, petting Keith’s hair from the other room while he makes a pot of coffee.

When he’s putting on his shoes, he freezes at the sudden and unmistakable sensation of someone kissing his palm, then nuzzling into it, followed by the soft vibrations of continuing snores.

Shiro muffles his garbled sound into his palm. Keith. Just kissed. His hand. In his sleep.

Shiro thinks he might cry. This is the best day of his life.

Iverson gives him an earful again, but Shiro’s too busy savoring the sensation of Keith’s soft, warm face cradled in his hand half a mile away to hear a single word. 

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Oooooo if 3-E were supernatural creatures who would be what 👀👀👀

Oooohh this is interesting to think about! I’m sorry, I don’t know a lot haha so I did some research to have more options!!

Karma: Demon

I feel like I don’t need to elaborate on this too much lmao. The boy is mischievous, LOVES to mess with mortals for no reason. When he’s feeling a particularly strong emotion, usually rage, excitement, etc, his eyes glow a shade of yellow-gold (like what canon showed)

Isogai: Demi-God

His crazy perfection in everything has to come from somewhere. His father was a God who left his realm and lost his immortality to be with Isogai’s mother, a mortal. Isogai only became aware of his heritage after his father’s passing.

Okajima: Half-Angel

LMAO I mostly picked this for the irony, but it kinda fits ngl. He’s generally a good, loyal, kind person and a very good friend. His perverted nature is his one big flaw and comes from the influence of his mortal father, who was his main guardian since his mother remained on Heaven.

Okano: Werewolf

I’m gonna credit this one to @greengargouille haha. They made a wonderful post about this idea that I still adore with my whole heart. But yeah, Okano being a badass werewolf with crazy athleticism and defying femininity expectations? Yes please.

Okuda: Witch

She excels in potion-making, of course. She comes from a long line of witches and magic-users in her family. So she feels quite a bit of pressure to be successful. She’s very talented but needs a tad bit more of control in her magic.

Kataoka: Mermaid

This one shouldn’t be a surprise haha. She’s a very strong and powerful swimmer...but where does all that raw talent come from? Surprise, Megu is a mermaid and she can transform between her physical forms at will. She loves the water because it’s her home and what she knows best.

Kayano: Part-Phoenix

I don’t know how this works and how someone can be part-Phoenix lmao, but it fits her way too well. A being that goes out in flames and starts a new life...isn’t that basically what Kayano did after her reveal? Her new life is her going by Akari again and showing her true colors to the class.

Kanzaki: Goddess

She’s apart of a very royal family of gods...all with ridiculously high standards and little respect for her. Kanzaki is very powerful and has so much raw potential but she’s never been able to show it. Her best skills are teleportation, invisibility, and a strong grasp on aerokinesis.

Kimura: Centaur

I’m serious about this one lmao. He’s a very fast runner and impresses everyone, and it’s thanks to his strong physique and raw energy in centaur form. Don’t worry, he can shape-shift back to a human form, but he hates it because he loses his height and is back to being 160 cm.

Kurahashi: Fairy

Of course, this bright, sunny, cheerful sweet girl could only be a fairy. She has a very strong connection to nature and wildlife, to the point that if they’re harmed, she feels the pain. Her wings are very tiny at age 14 can easily hide underneath her clothes. But by adulthood, they’re grown and able to use for flight.

Nagisa: Half-Ghoul

Surprise...this soft boy is actually half-evil :’). His father is actually a ghoul, and Nagisa was very much unaware of it for all his life. Hiromi kept it a secret and tried to suppress that part of him too. Basically I imagine what it means for Nagisa is that death draws him, and his physiology is why he has such a high bloodlust. When he’s pushed to his limits, he’s terrifying... (cough Takaoka cough)

Sugaya: Wizard

He comes from a relatively average line of wizards, who all moved to the mortal realm and own artisan businesses. Sugaya wishes to do something similar and follow his passion for art. He mostly uses his magic for that, levitating his brushes, enhancing his work, creating new things. He’s quite talented at conjuring.

Sugino: Angel

Yes, I’m serious about this. Sugino is a very good person and always strives to lead others down the right path. He’s good at guiding, but even he wants to live for himself for once. So he learns what baseball is and grows a strong love for it.

Takebayashi: Wizard

Unlike Sugaya, he comes from a super prestigious line of successful and powerful wizards. His family is one of the top ones. He feels immense pressure to live up to them. His talents lie in fire magic, particularly creating explosions. And he’s a very skilled healer.

Chiba: Half-Dragon

Fitting considering his name 💜 He has the ability to change between his human and dragon form, but it’s very shaky for now. His eyes are a bright, terrifying shade of red, and it exposes his dragon heritage so he must hide it.

Terasaka: Half-Titan

His Titan physiology is the reason for his raw strength and physical prowess. He’s incredibly strong and has a high endurance, durability, stamina... He’s a talented fighter and will always use his advantage to protect his loved ones.

Nakamura: Siren

She hates being a siren so much. She has to deal with boring mortal guys all the time, who for some reason, love her voice. She gets a real kick out of fooling them though, and the pranks are always chaotic. Since she’s been having to sing and use her voice, she’s gotten the chance to learn many languages. She has an affinity for them, and wants to continue learning more.

Hazama: Witch

I know this is a little cliche. But in contrast to the potion-centered Okuda, Hazama excels in linguistic spells. She keeps a journal of every new one she learns, as well as images of herbs and such. She’s very interested in dark arts, but will only indulge in it with the presence of someone else, to make sure she doesn’t fall too deep.

Hayami: Witch

Wow I’m really repeating so many. Hayami is a very hardworking, talented witch. But she’s so focused on helping others, she tends to get taken advantage of unfortunately. She’s best at transfigurations, altering things to her (and others) liking. Her favorite test subject is Okajima. She’s quite talented in hand-to-hand combat and having kinetic vision, which helps in magic. She wants a cat as a familiar so badly.

Hara: Fairy

Hara says “fuck you” to the idea that fairies are traditionally small and frail. She’s proud of her physique and strength, and her interest in fighting. She’s still the sweetest fairy there could be, always looking after everyone and all of nature. She loves cooking and sharing it with as many people as she can find.

Fuwa: Ghost

Yep our crazy, lively Fuwa is a ghost! Specifically, she’s a poltergeist, the kind who try to create mischief in some way and move things around. The reason why Fuwa is kinda wild and open about her passions is so she can be noticed by people...if her presence isn’t being acknowledged, she loses her physical form and goes back to being a transparent spirit. It isn’t all bad though. Her favorite thing to do is read mangas in ghost form, so all people see is a floating copy of One Piece.

Maehara: Vampire

This one is a little cliche lmao, but he’s a vampire playboy who always ends up accidentally turning his girlfriends into vampires too with his bites. No one ever suspects him of being a vampire since he looks like sunshine incarnate. He’s quite reckless and has come close to being exposed multiple times, and Isogai always scolds him.

Mimura: Elf

Poor boy is a little insecure about being an Elf...he tries his best not to stand out, especially given his dad’s love for the spotlight. He is good at basic magic, slightly above average. His best talent and what he excels at is photokinesis. He uses it on his filming hobby, to change what’s on camera, adjust lighting, etc. He can go as far as even completely remove shadows from the sunlight.

Muramatsu: Alchemist

He comes from a relatively average family of alchemists that used their abilities for culinary purposes. He enjoys it a lot, and is very talented. He prefers to rely on physical prowess when it comes to fights, but is able to use his alchemy additionally.

Yada: Vampire

Yada is the hot vampire girlfriend we all wish we had 😔 Just kidding haha. But yes, she’s a vampire and no one would ever expect it with how good she is at hiding. She plans out her life and days to specifically avoid sunlight, garlic, etc. She’s a very busy member of the school community and has tons of friends and connections. She and Maehara, her fellow vampire, constantly compete to see who can get more dates.

Yoshida: Werewolf

This is slightly cliche since he’s the resident bad boy, but it fits. He tries to keep a tough image even in human form partly since his family taught him to do so, and because it is comfortable for him. But he’s a softie deep down, and is nowhere near as ruthless as he’s believed to be.

Ritsu: Magic Mirror?

Hmm this is kind of the only option I see fitting for her as it correlates to her role in canon. One classmate has to carry the mirror around for her to communicate, but she’s very powerful and helpful.

Itona: Mummy

Ok so storyline here: he was abandoned to die by his family centuries ago, and his 13 body was mummified against his will. In present time, Shiro awakens him, revives him, and uses him as a tool. He goes through a lot...but is able to live a peaceful life with 3-E once all that is over. He wears bandages almost everywhere, only exposing his eyes which glow yellow when he’s using his power.

Bonus:

Gakushuu is a Demi-God, of course. He’s pretty annoyed that his elemental magic only extends to hydrokinesis and cryokinesis, but he’s still amazingly talented.

Ren is a Merman who flirts with girls at the beach with sappy poetry. He’s gotten caught in a fisher net too many times.

Seo is an Ogre.

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Did you say angst?

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Poor boys <3

!PART 2 HERE!

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Missed

Lance isn't the best or brightest. He isn't the funniest or most likeable. Lance doesn't command attention, he has to fight for it.

Lance's friends are geniuses. Top of the class, prodigies.

Despite this, Lance knows he is loved. Lance loves his friends. And he knows they love him just as much as he loves them. He is needed. 

19,072 words    AO3

Talk It Out

Keith had noticed for quite some time now that Lance wasn't being his usual self. He had waited for someone else to say something and approach Lance about it - but no one ever did. So once they got Shiro back, he decided that he wouldn't wait any longer and make him talk.

Lance doesn't want to talk about it. At all. Not with Keith, not with anyone else. But somehow, one way or another, Keith gets him to open up. And Lance's reward? A new boyfriend.

10,955 words  AO3

3 years gone

Lance and Keith have been dating a little under three years now. On a mission, Keith and Red crash. Keith ends up losing his memory. He doesn't remember who he is or anything about the team or Lance's and his relationship.

21,959 words   AO3

Cut It Out, Restart

“Sorry guys,” Lance’s voice is clear now, like the static that lives in the earpiece of Keith’s headset is holding its breath too. “I guess you’ll have to find a new Red Paladin after all.”

Someone leaves, someone comes back and war is tough, but we are tougher.

15,073 words   AO3

Three Little Questions

Everyday Lance went to each of his teammates and asked them a question. Everyday Lance was turned away by all but one of them. They didn't know what they were doing to Lance and only one person was going to be able to fix it.

5,548 words   AO3

Find Yourself (And Be That)

The one where Lance crashes on a Planet after a mission, can't contact his team, his insecurities strike, he losses his bond with Blue, he saves an entire planet, wins a war and he finds his self worth along the way.

8,574 words   AO3

Drastic Measures

Lance is struggling with his insecurities and fears that the team doesn't need him. But their true feelings become clear   when Lance literally sticks his hand into a life or death situation.

8,679 words   AO3

The Simplest of Plans

Lance is badly hurt, he needs to get a message to his team to let them know that he and Blue are down but how can he get to his communicator when he is in so much pain?

5,600 words   AO3

Reach out for you (break these walls)    

Keith is trying to make himself smaller, to bury his head deeper in his knees, and Lance’s heart freezes in his chest. Anger dissipating like an exploded firework, Lance lets his hand fall limply to his side, mind blurring with static. When he tries to speak, nothing comes out but a choked noise, so he tries again.

“Keith,” he breathes. “Keith I’m not going to hurt you.”

9,139 words   AO3

Leave Me Alone (don't leave me alone)

Lance groans in pain, holding his injuries.He thinks he'll black out from the impacts but it's not before he feels time melt; the way it always does when he knows something's gone horribly wrong.That's when he starts to feel hot.His head is burning with a throb that lets him know how fast his heart is beating.His fingers feel hot for other reasons as they now clutch the skin between his ribs just above where the bottle first struck.The heat is liquid.It's thick.It's blood. 

Or

The paladins find out that most of Lance's scars aren't from battles against the Galra, but instead from the battles he fought before Voltron.

4,705 words   AO3

torn wires

When Lance falls apart after a devastating mission, the team has to try and pull the pieces back together.

14250 words   AO3

Heroism Gets You Killed

Five times Lance McClain recklessly risked his life to prove his worth to his teammates, and one time they showed him he had nothing to prove.

15,428 words   AO3

What Keeps Him Whole

Lance struggles in space. He knows that he is doing good by being part of the Voltron team, but everything is just constantly moving, difficult, and unrelenting. He's tired. He doesn't know what's keeping him going anymore.

6,398 words  AO3

his own worth

In the middle of the conversation, Lance stops talking and no one notices. It’s not like he had been leading the conversation, for he hadn’t been, but somehow the fact that his lack of input or opinion isn’t noticed tightens the grip loneliness has on his heart. He looks down at his food, his face burning, his throat tightening up.

6,270 words  AO3

The Skies Are Black But Our Hearts Are Made of Gold    

Lance knows for sure Keith doesn't like him. Not as a friend, nor family, and definitely not as a life long partner.

He's content that he's at least dying with knowledge of that.

So he watches Keith's mercilessly sword fall upon the gang of soldiers, leaving a blood bath in his wake.

He thinks he's beginning to understand why Keith hates him so much.

He doesn't want to deal with a mess like this.

A mess Lance left behind.

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Silence Speaks Louder    

He still turns up for meals and training and annoying people every once in a while, but he's more subdued, from tiredness, he's less talkative, from lack of wanting to, and he's better at training, due to training an extra three hours a night sometimes.

Lance becomes more and more depressed as the weeks go on, but nobody mentions it, they don't even seem to notice aside from the fact his obnoxious personality has taken a backseat as Lance isolates himself.

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I'm With You

Lance pinned the whole mission down to four huge missteps:The first was in sending Keith with him. 

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we'll make it, you and me

"Keith, if we make it out of this alive, I'm going to kiss you."

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Leaving For Good (Letters from Lance)

"Dear Paladins of Voltron (and Coran),

If you're reading this, then that means you've forced your way into my bedroom and discovered that I'm no longer in it. It means that you found my computer, and noticed that I left something behind for you. I'm sorry that I couldn't leave something bigger, better, worth your time and effort, but I'm not very good in that area. I don't know how to be... enough."

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Why don't you see me?

When Lance was a little boy, he was never noticed. He was invisible. So lance made up a game! It usually went like this: “Mom, (insert utterly ridiculous statement here), goodbye!” “Ok honey, be careful.” And then silence It went on like that for years, at least until he was accepted into the Garrison at the age of 14. The Cuban got his 15 minutes of fame, and then he was sent off. Now, Lance finds the same things happening, so he changes the rules just a bit to make things a bit more…. Physical.

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Inessential    

“Gotcha,” Lance breathed as he hit the target dead center. He wasn’t called their sharpshooter for nothing and he aimed to keep that title.

He took another deep breath, closing one eye and lining up to hit the next target when a sharp, stabbing pain erupted in his gut, knocking the wind out of him and causing him to fire off to the side, missing it completely.

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A/B/O

Vigil

Omega's aren't an impossible puzzle but they treat him like one.

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Modern

(I'm Not) Better Off Without You   

(Series not completed 9,952 words 2 works)

“So you think I deserve to be happy?”

“Yes! Lance, that’s all I want for you.”

“Then why did you break up with me?”

“I told you, I-”

“Because you made me so happy, Keith. You made me the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. I didn’t care that you didn’t want to cuddle a lot or talk about sappy shit. I didn’t care that you didn’t like pda. All I cared about was being able to just be with you.”

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Hurry up and come back

“I like you”

This isn’t how Keith planned on spending his Friday night, chilling in on a couch playing Mario Cart with one of his closest friends. Not like this, with Lance’s face beet red and looking at him straight in the eyes..

Looking for... Something. He don’t know what. But it’s something he can’t give.

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Just a Joke    

“I think I’m going to kill myself,” he announced. “I know that finals are a stressful time, but that doesn’t mean you should joke about something like that,” Shiro scolded mildly.

Lance’s chest tightened and he forced a smile.  

"Yeah, you're right. Poor joke."

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Happier

Lance can't just stay and watch Keith move on. It's selfish, he knows, but he isn't strong enough to stay. Solitude doesn't hold anymore charms for Keith now, not since Lance. And especially not since their break-up but why can't he find someone who wants him back? What does it take to be happier?

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Panic Attack    

Keith made sure Lance didn’t know how much of a difference he made in his life. Lance didn’t need to know that he was the only thing that made Keith happy, he didn’t need to know that the days they had class together were always his favorites, he didn’t need to know Lance made him feel like he could finally be better, be normal, for once. No, Lance didn’t need that presure. But then one day Keith goes to class and Lance completely ignores him, and maybe he should have told him after all.

Lance was having a hard enough time in English without being distracted by the gorgeous boy sitting next to him. Keith. Smart, shy, but still completely badass. And Lance had it bad for him. When he starts failing the class Lance decides he needs to pay more attention to Professor Coran instead of Mr. Mullet Man. After all what could go wrong, he would pay attention to him again after he started passing. Right?

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Of Heroes and Hellfire    

It started with a house fire.

Which, admittedly, made things sound a hell of a lot more dramatic then they actually were. Lance had seen plenty of house fires these past few months.

He was a firefighter, after all.

But then again, the fire wasn't the part that was out of the ordinary. That was Keith, or what he learned the name of the infuriating yet attractive policeman at the scene was.

Because that was the first time they met.

Lance wanted to save people, so he became a firefighter. Keith wanted to save people, so he became a police officer. This is the story of how they fall in love.

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Hold on, please

“Shut up. It’s still me hanging out with Plax and the term ‘date’ was implied,” Lance bragged, “so, help me choose an outfit.”

Keith stomach did an uncomfortable flip when Plaxum’s nickname was dropped into the conversation.

Or: Keith has a crush on Lance and suddenly his world is falling apart when he hears Lance has a date.

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Icky      (this fic made my face look dumb)

A little bit of pining in their life

A little bit of sickness by his side

A little bit of happiness is what they need

A little bit of depression is what I see

A little bit of angst in the sun

A little bit of crying all night long

A little bit of comfort there he is

A little bit of you that makes me your man

Fic in which Lance McClain goes to a coffee shop everyday and Keith Kogane falls harder with each visit.

Lance has some really bad allergies.

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[astravein]

i have so many gripes for my boy about voltron in general, and obviously many from s8. 

black. first of all, why did they want to kill shiro off? after the entire first 2 seasons of him earning black’s trust and respect, of him building that deep connection ( and its significant, you can see that in his battle with zarkon ) only to violently rip that from him only 2 seasons in? why. why do all that work only to fucking trash it in the end? because that was their goal. make shiro want and want black so bad, then pull it only for keith to get that in less than half the time? it was easy for keith. or maybe that just was the plan all along and shiro had to fight for that trust because he was never meant to have it to begin with ( which now makes me incredibly sad to think about ). and don’t get me wrong, i love keith so much more than this might let on, and i do think he’s worthy to be black paladin.  but goddamnit shiro worked so hard to be black paladin and it amounted to nothing ( until fans were upset enough that higher ups literally told them to find a way to bring him back ). and then after they bring shiro back, it was literally to keep his soul within black. they made it so that black literally kept shiro’s essence alive within themselves. WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THAT IF BLACK WASN’T TO BE HIS, AND TO DESTROY HIS BOND BY SAYING IT NO LONGER EXISTS. shiro literally meant jack diddly in the end to enough people that s8 completely destroyed his character.

sendak. as stated, i love keith with all of my heart. i have no doubts that his love for shiro, platonic or otherwise, would drive him to do everything he could for shiro. but why, whywhywhy did the writers take away sendak’s death and give it to keith? we get it. you’re just beating a dead horse at this point with keith’s constant ability to save shiro from life and death situations. his love has been made known. we been knew for 6 seasons. but goddamn, can shiro have some form of autonomy when it comes to his own life? can he be anything unless keith is saving him? is this purposeful because shiro was keith’s driving force for his garrison life? is this what happens when a character is brought back when they weren’t supposed to? i have no doubts that shiro is forever grateful for all that keith does for him. but everything that has happened to shiro, every villain who has taken away his choice when it comes to his own person, HIS OWN BODY; shiro was never given closure for that ( except maybe when it came to zarkon ). this isn’t about revenge for me. this is about shiro finally getting the control of his own life that could have been presented to him. he literally fought and fought sendak only to fall from a ship and be left exposed on the ground? for keith to jump out of black to strike him down personally? which is so extra vld, so fucking extra. and it hurt me. it hurt me personally that keith took the weight of sendak’s death and shiro was left to watch once more as someone else had that control over his life.

keith. ok so maybe this piece is about keith more than anything but, shiro literally loves this man. idfc what anyone has to say about it. he loves keith and that should have been said, by shiro, to keith. it should have. fucking. after everything they’ve been through keith deserved to hear that. i know it’s common knowledge through actions that these two mean something significant to the other, but goddam. after everything that boy did for shiro, he deserved to hear, out loud, that someone loves him so much they would go to death’s door for him in return. the point of this is that shiro was also robbed of returning keith’s feelings. idec if it was to be platonic, i literally don’t fucking care after the fuckery of s8, but shiro’s character deserved to show keith some measure of the same devotion he was shown. because you can’t tell he wouldn’t have. you can’t tell me that shiro wouldn’t have given keith love in return.

shiro. what the fuck even is s8? admittedly, i enjoyed the purpose of what s8 was supposed to represent. but like so many others, everything that was omitted killed the season. allura’s death killed the season. lotor’s dismissal and torture killed the season. shiro as a prop? killed the season. where was the depth to s8? was it actually supposed to end at s8, or was that rushed for some other reason? i feel like so many things were cut out to pack the big war, the big battle, the big sacrifice into 13 short episodes. shiro has no purpose in the show anymore, after making him the reason of the show for so many seasons. i’m sorry, my bias will show, and i will defend that voltron easily became about shiro and keith in the end, and that was threatening to some people and it was completely omitted in s8. but shiro amounted to nothing in s8, even removing keith from the situation. becoming one with the atlas? shrug. having connections with the paladins? shrug. spending time with those paladins at a fuckin carnival? shrug. yes, yes i firmly believe that the sunset belonged to shiro and it was the perfect moment for shiro to actually express his gratitude and love for keith. because shiro would have known where to find keith, not lance. i’m not even sorry for how ship biased that makes me sound. lmao, also, that little stupid credit end is a load of bullshit because shiro fought for the stars for his entire life and they just took that from him like it meant nothing for 7 seasons. leaves his ex for the stars? check. survives being champion? check. wants to be paladin so much he fights for black’s acceptance? check. his clone, which embodies shiro, wants nothing more than to be a paladin no matter what? check. him getting married to a nobody and settling on earth? ??? who tf wrote this ending?

anyway, i’m fucking disappointed in vld s8, and i refuse to acknowledge it as canon. i will literally rewrite everything for myself. lotor will have his redemption, allura will save him just like she saved lance and shiro, honerva will die for her choices, and her death alone will be enough to end the realities being destroyed. allura will live, and yeah, she’ll probably be with lotor because it ended in that progression anyway ( i love a//urance a lot but her connection with lotor progressed into something that moved away from a//urance ), shiro will show, and tell keith that he loves him in return, keith will still give the blade the purpose of restoring what the war destroyed, pidge hunk and lance will be the trio together coming full circle, lance will actually be given the development he deserved and not be consumed by allura??, coran will be so sappy crying sad that allura literally gets to live out her life and he gets to see it happen, team earth squad will have their moments, hunk will revisit shay, pidge will actually find the olkarion, matt will keep the ponytail and live with his robot ‘friend’, lotor will get to bring about the change that he meant for ( obviously did not make the greatest choices in how to get there, but it’ll happen and he deserves to see it happen ), and shiro will travel the galaxies, living a full life doing exactly what he dreamed of for years.

[ear]

do you read/or write klance fics? and if you do read them what are some of your faves? or just recently read good ones? hope you're having a good day!!

i dont write fics but i do have some good fics bookmarked !! someone asked for a fic rec a while ago and totally forgot <:3c so here it is now !!

lipstick on a camera lens by just_plain_fanficsthis was SO CUTE. keith is a photography major and lances wears lipstick and BITCH IDK THIS WAS JUST SUPER CUTE

when the war is done by vivacedKEITH COMES BACK TO THE CASTLE AFTER A FEW YEARS OF WORKING W THE BOM AND HE DOESN RECOGNIZE ANYONE …. NO ONE RECOGNIZES HIM EITHER …… this was cute …….

so what are you waiting for by saltylancesLANCE GETS RESCUED BY A BOM SOLDIER AND DOESNT REALIZE ITS KEITH ;^)

love countdown by bluebellesieTHIS WAS SO FUCKING SUTE AND SAPPY AND SWEET LIKE SERIOUSLY IF U LIKE SAPPY FICS THIS ONES FOR U …………I CRIED BITCH……

short change heroes (watch you bleed) by mytaythis fic is part of a group of ongoing works so i suggest you read the very first written first before you read this one BUT THIS FIC WAS…….. RLLY GOOD. I LOVED THE ENTIRE SERIES SO MUCH ………. SPACE COWBOY MERCENARIES KEITH AND LANCE … LIKE ………. BITCH …….

shades of blue by vaziahTHIS IS THE WING FIC AU I FUCKING NEEDED !!!!!!!!!!! this fic was rlly cute and it starts off with a lance and shiro friendship i never knew i needed. <:3c this was just overall rlly cute and i cant wait for the next chapter !!!!!!

love letter to the universe by elysabethAU WHERE THE PALADINS (EXCEPT PIDGE) ARE ALIENS !!!!! :0000 BITCH !!!!

snow white by subtlehysteriaKEITHS HAIR STARTS TO TURN WHITE + PALADINS REACTIONS ……………….. INHALES AND DIES

not my type by hannaadi88WEREWOLF KEITH ND VAMPIRE LANCE ……. BITCH BYE

knew from the first by xintongHIGHSCHOOL AU WITH VAMPIRE KEITH YALL IM FUCKING !!!!! DYING ITHCM KEDFNJHEK THIS IS SUPER GOOD………….OK ………………………………

red skies by angstinspacereal shit …….. this is actually my favourite fic rn …………………… just read it yall arent gonna regret it……… slaps my ass and dies

mermaid’s glow by kirinjaegesteASIDE FROM RED SKIES THIS IS ALSO ANOTHER ONE OF MY FAVOURITES …….. keith gets bitten by a mermaid right .. and he turns into a mermaid ………… its rlly fucking good …………………..

thats all for right now but if you want more fics recs, check out my bookmarks on my ao3 @boys !!!!!!!! <:3c

[coccoplasmosis]

You may think this is some random bullshit, but actually is some klance analysis

So after s7 of voltron I can see why people is angry at the allurance, adam’s death and stuff. I didn´t like the forced allurance interactions, mostly because of Allura, becuase Allura has grown up in all the seasons she is not the fragile little princess anymore, and when he confronts the truth about Lotor’s real feelings, she hurt but she decided to do something instead of being a heartbreak mess. Which leads me to the allurance. If you are giving her determination, courage and capacity to be independent emotionally speaking, why would you throw her to a fragile emotional puppy seaking out for Lance EVERY GODDANM EPISODE. Dont get me worng, I think is an interesting dynamic that Allura is confused and still healing, cuz I mean she really liked lotor even if everything was a lie. The whole thing wrecked her and I get that she is trying to compensate her emotions with Lance honest affection. Wich is really dark and sick but in a good way, because it could help to develop both Lance and Allura’s characters.

Now, moving onto Lance, his crush with Allura was obvius since the first episode, so his affection going stronger in every season is not a surprise. But also his relationships with other characters changed in a good way, and I think that should not be forgotten, just because some a big fat crush.

First of all Shiro, since the very begining Lance has tried to make himself look awesome infront of Shiro, looking for his aproval. And being the awesome space dad he is (U HAD ONE JOB DREAMWORKS) Shiro acknowledges Lance development, even though things get a little rough between them when Keith’s gone. But they got really close ins a mature and fraternal way, to the point that Lance was the first one to notice Shiro’s consciousness living inside voltron. So what I’m really trying to say is that Shiro is a great influence in Lance.

Which leads me now to Adamm’s death, ok I know most of the people hated it and feel offended by it. But seeing how voltron has developed, adam's death is not just a meaningless death. Also some people think he is alive, which can be or can’t be true, idk, I’ll just focus on the fact there is a missing Adam in Shiro’s life.

And that’s the important part I’m getting Shiro is missing the love of his life, he is no longer with him and he can’t do anything about it. And when he could, he choose his desires over him. (which is totally fine cuz nobody knew he was going to be kidnapped and had his arm chopped) But that’s what I’m getting he didn´t know, so it was easy to put in a second thought his relationship with Adam. Until he is back to earth he realizes that even if he is a paladin, a great leader and survived lots lots of shit, Adam didn’t, and no matter how great Shiro is he can’t go back (at least of what we know who knows if vld crew pull some strange shit and oh look adam is back)

It is there the great leasson Shiro is going to teach to Lance. To show him he needs to be honest with himself before is too late. That Lance doesn’t have to make the same mistakes as him. That Lance is going to really regret it one day if he doesn´t realize what he really needs and WHO really needs. And that is ok to get what he wants but not forgetting who he loves.

Who that might be? I really think it could be Keith (it can be any other person, we don’t know maybe out of nowwhere is Kinkade or Griffin or SHIRO?!?!?) But being honest the big shot here is Keith. Because even after all that lance and keith neck and neck stuff, they start to understand each other and not in a sappy way (wich for me makes thing  more interesting cuz is not that obvius of a plot)

Because even in season one Lance is anxious of not being good enough not just compared to Keith but compared to anyone. And the one who gives him reasurance is Keith, even if other members acknowledge him, Lance seeks Keith out to talk about what is going on with him. Also Lance accept the fact that Keith is the leader now and will do what it takes to support him. And also that Lance  is the one who brings Keith back to earth when he’s impulsive when Shiro is gone, and they start to trusth each other because they need to. And I think what I like the most is that they may start developing feelings for each other because the respect and admiration they have. And that’s good, not your usual teenage angts love story, just some space dorks trying to figure each other out while fighting giants. Cuz come on who doesn’t like giant robots.

Sorry if this is really obvious for some people, I just enter to the voltron hell a month ago, so there is a lot that I don’t know, but yeah there are some thoughts about klance.

[space-lions-and-imagines]

A Very Merry Voltron Valentines! ft Shiro

A/N this was the first drabbled/fic I had written with valentines in mind and gave me the idea to do something for all the paladins! Its got a special place in my heart because of it so enjoy :D

You couldn’t think of anyone you loved more than Shiro. And with that love came the acceptance that sometimes things with him weren’t … traditionally romantic. That wasn’t to say he didn’t have his moments of course, he honestly really did try the sweet man. Of course a lot of the sweet moments you could remember: candle lit dinners, extraordinary views of meteor showers, dancing at extravagant balls were all really thanks to the rest of team Voltron. They all had a real knack for forcing Shiro into being your prince charming. Reminiscing on those thoughts made you smile as you were washing dishes, humming along quietly to the music playing faintly in the background.

“Huh not your usual genre, don’t tell me you’re going soft on me,” Shiro chuckled as he walked into the kitchen carrying a load of laundry on his hip. He stopped and tilted his head to the side as if trying to listen better “I thought maybe it was just a weird shuffle but this is definitely the third love song I’ve heard. What’s the special occasion?” he asked, taking a seat at the table as he started to fold clothes.

You couldn’t help but scoff a little, rolling your eyes at his obtuseness. It wasn’t everyone’s dream to be doing all the chores the night before Valentine’s Day. “Just feeling like a change is all honey. Some people don’t listen to the same music since they were in high school, it’s called variety” you teased, patting your hands dry. You supposed you could have mentioned what tomorrow was, asked if maybe you guys should do something but decided against it. You hadn’t really been expecting much and why potentially make him feel bad for not planning something for a day he obviously wasn’t into. Besides there wasn’t much better present than being back on Earth with him.

“Plus there’s a ton that we missed while you were off saving the universe. It’s worth giving some of it a listen,” you said kissing his cheek, stealing a clean towel from his stack. You clicked the music on your phone off and gave him a gentle pat on his cheek “But I’m going to call it an early night. I haven’t gotten to the bathroom yet but hey gotta have something to look forward to right?” you said trying to keep your tone as casual as possible before taking your leave.

Just as you got to the entry way of the kitchen Shiro’s voice stopped you. “We,” he said staring at you intensely, the look only slightly dulled by the fact he was holding a pair of his underwear. “We saved the universe … just uh don’t forget that ok?” he finished with a blush and clearing his throat as he tossed the boxers aside.

You couldn’t help but smile at him. “We … I do like the sound of that,” you said before heading towards the stairs shaking your head, sometimes he could just be the cutest dork.

~*~

You stayed true to your word and went to bed early, hoping right into bed after your shower. Only taking the time to wonder what was keeping Shiro before drifting into sleep. You hated to admit it but you were only really going to bed so early so that you could hurry up and get through tomorrow. It wasn’t right to try and force Shiro into celebrating the holiday but it would still sting a little bit when you received nothing but tile cleaner. So the quicker it could come and go the sooner you could get back to your happy peaceful life with him.

Yet the early alarm you had set never came. Instead of waking up to the ringing of rather annoying bells you woke up feeling a heavy shift in the bed and then your bare shoulders peppered with kisses. You smiled into your pillow and forced your eyes to remain shut a little bit longer. You loved when Shiro was affectionate but it was rare enough that you wanted to soak it in for a few more minutes, afraid if you opened your eyes you might just scare him off. You couldn’t ignore it much longer though when he was running his scratchy stubble along your cheek, whispering in your ear “Morning beautiful time to wake up.”

You yawned, butterflies starting to hatch in your stomach as you blinked open your eyes. “You’re going to spoil me waking me up this way Shiro,” you said grinning, stretching your arms so that you could wrap them around his neck. He smiled back, closing the gap between you effortlessly to capture your lips in the same tenderness he had been showing your shoulders.

“I think that you deserve to be spoiled a bit. Especially today,” he said, his chest swelling to match the pride in his voice. You couldn’t do much more than stare at him blankly, not nearly awake enough to understand why he was talking so sweetly. A thought of Lance and written cue cards danced across your mind before you remembered you weren’t in the castle. When you didn’t immediately answer his smile faltered a little bit and he gulped “D-don’t you want to know why?”

“Well yes but I know that waking up someone while they are sleepwalking is dangerous. I didn’t want to risk that this was some crazy sleep sweet talking,” you said finally pushing yourself up, your brain now starting to function at a more normal level as the smell of coffee wafted over to you. You were expecting maybe a couple of mugs of the stuff to be waiting for you on the nightstand, what you weren’t expecting (in this or any dimension) was a full breakfast spread ready for you on the bench at the foot of your bed. “Oh Shiro!” you gasped bringing your hands to your mouth.

“Happy Valentines Day!” he said smiling brightly, his arms folded over his chest as he looked down at his buffet nodding approvingly at his own work. “At first I thought it was kind of sad that you forgot about it but then I thought that it was a good stroke of luck cause it meant that all my surprises got to be even better,” he started to ramble before he was cut off by your laughter. Now it was his turn to look at you blankly “Wait whats so funny?”

“Shiro I didn’t forget about Valentines,” you said rubbing at your eyes before leaning against him with a happy sigh, the kind that only comes after a belly aching laugh. “Sweetheart I just didn’t mention it because well … it didn’t seem like your kind of thing honestly. You never really were the one for traditional romance and well this day is all about cheesey lovey sappy stuff so I just figured I wouldn’t try to put the pressure on you to come up with something. Just being with you is enough for me any day,” you said reaching up to run your fingers through his hair.

He caught your hand and kissed it and cradled it between his own. “You have to give me some credit for not really doing this stuff before y/n. I was fighting a war … in space!” he said with wide eyes as if he still didn’t quite believe it. He powered through it though and leaned his forehead against yours “But here I have nothing to worry about except you and you deserve all the romance I didn’t give you at the beginning of our relationship,” he said, his breath hot against your skin and words warming your heart.

Your own words failed you so instead you did what seemed most fitting; you threw yourself into his lap and kissed him as hard as you could. In the end you were both coming up for breath and his whole face was dusted pink. “You are the most amazing man I have met on any world Takashi Shirogane,” you said breathlessly before pulling back to grin at him “and you have a lot of making up to do.”

[disloyalpunk]

2, 18, and 37 for the ask meme thing!!!!

172. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

a fake dating au.........with mutual pining and every romantic comedy trope available..........based heavily on the proposal.......keith panics when faced with the threat of being sent back to canada so he claims he’s marrying his best employee shiro & they have to spend a ridiculous week in shiro’s hometown trying to convince everyone they’re engaged and in love while pretending to each other they’re just good friends helping each other out while in reality theyre desperately in love it’s 1 google doc short of being an offical wip

18. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?

i definitely outline, but usually not very intensively and i deviate a lot from the original plans while writing lmao

37. Talk about your current wips.

oh god well the first one and probably the closest to being published is the stupid frat au sequel...ive been really thirsty lately, so dont worry, keith gives shiro his number and they continue going to Bone Town for the rest of their lives and get married one day becAUSE THATS WHAT I BELIEVE IN AS A WRITER

i also have another smut fic in the works that’s also about sheith on their honeymoon cause i’m the weakest person alive. i just wanted to write one very specific kink that i havent seen enough of in this fandom and it got sappy. can’t figure out a title for it, usually i’m very good with titles since theyre all named after songs and music inspires me

and the big one is the sequel to i told the moon, i think it’s like 18k now? “light carries on endlessly, even after death” lmao is it really sheith if the lyrics to saturn don’t apply......but it’s giving me trouble in some sense bc i have a very specific vision for it, so i end up calling hannah a lot to talk me down from thinking i’ve completely lost my mind...but yeah i don’t want to give too much away about the plot bc it’s probably not what people are expecting but is the actual contribution i wanted to make to this fandom when i started writing for it. i’m filling the fanfic gap in my soul ok.

[messy-voltron]

Ooh, I'm the first one here! Ok... if you do headcanons, can you write something about the Paladins at the Zoo w/ their S/O? Thks!

Thank you so much for this head canon! I’ve been thinking about writing something like this for a while, but I’m glad you gave me the push to actually write it! 

Shiro

This boy loves the zoo! He loves seeing all of the unique animals, but he loves seeing you happy the most

Probably a first date idea for him, so asking you out was probably the scariest thing he’s ever done

“what if they don’t like me? what if they think I’m weird?!” 

When he asks you out, he’s so stuttery and nervous you almost feel bad, but it’s actually super cute

His favorite thing is being able to feed the animals, eSPECIALLY when you hold his hand while doing it he is a dead man you’re so precious to him

The both of you will probably spend the whole day there with no regrets you may be tired and sweaty but you’ll be together and honestly that’s all that matters 

And of course this gentlemen kisses your hand before you leave; it’s soft and gentle and it feels like a permanent tattoo because you’ll never be able to forget about it 

Keith

When you two go to the zoo, you are most likely to ask him because that boy can’t handle his feelings very well and he likes you so much that he’s too afraid to ask

But as soon as you ask it’s an automatic yes, no questions about it

Keith loves spending time with you, but isn’t a very affectionate person himself, so he secretly enjoys it when you grab his hand as you lead him around so you two don’t get lost

His favorite exhibit is the hippopotamus one hands down he could sit there for hours and be content, which makes you like him that much more

“Why hippos?” “Why not?! Have you seen them? They’re spectacular.”

By the end of the day the both of you are just sappy lovers at a zoo it’s so gross it would have you aww and throw up at the same time 

Lance

If this boy is going to take you anywhere, it’s an aquarium, which is still technically a zoo, but for salty animals

When he asks you out, he tries to use a really terrible pick up line, but it just makes you cringe and laugh. But if you’re really honest with yourself, you love his pick up lines

“Are you an octopus? Cause you octopi my thoughts~ Water you doing later? Wanna hang loose at the aquarium?” “Oh god Lance…..I’ll go…..but please…just….stop”

It’s a blast of course and you two go to see an orca whale performance, only to be splashed because Lance wanted to sit as close as possible. He’s a good gentlemen though as he offers you his coat to wear that wasn’t affected by the slash zone

Once you guys go to the shark exhibit, he gets all starry eyed and looks at them in wonder, and you can’t help but to stare at him.

He loves to hold your hand!!! Lean on his shoulder when you sit next to him!!! He’ll just melt!!!

Once it’s over, he’ll gain an ounce of confidence and kiss you on the cheek, but starts to get scared when you react by just staring at him in shock. That’s only because you’re so flustered you froze you guys will laugh about this later

Hunk

Ugh, my bOI he loves going to the zoo with someone special (hint: that special person is you)

No matter what exhibit you go to, all of the animals seem to want to get close to him and it confuses him to no ends. But you love it because of how sweetly he talks to each and every animal

You don’t remember who offered to go through the creepy crawler exhibit, but here you guys are, scared out of your minds. And although Hunk’s scared, be doesn’t mind putting on a brave face as you cling on to him for dear life he loves it when you cling on to him but he will never admit it

‘Hunk, they’re trying to get me through the glass!” “Don’t worry I’ve got you! Just hold on!”

Once out, you decide that food might be a good option and he could’t agree more. The two of you eat until it’s hard to move, so you call it a day, but it was one of the best days you’ll make sure to remember, especially when he kisses you’re cheek before you leave 

Pidge

Pidge tries to be confident and cool, but when she asks you if you want to go it’s just a jumble of words thrown together

“Hey, I heard you like animals, do you want a zoo? No wait, I mean do you want to go to my zoo? Wait- that’s not- I don’t have a zoo i mean-” “I would love to go to the zoo with you.”

She’s such a nerd because she brings a small notebook to do observational notes and sketches but you love to see the way her mind works on paper

Throughout the exhibits, she’ll randomly point out facts about certain animals and sometimes it’s hard to tell if she’s making it up, reading off the signs, or actually knows a cool fact

“Did you know that that species of bird is most known for their mating calls because they can produce a frequency high enough to kill a human?” “Really?!” “No, but wouldn’t that be cool?”

 When you guys get something to eat, Pidge almost gets into a fight with a squirrel because it steals some of her french fries and you have to be the giggling mess holding her back from killing any wild life. It works out in the end though because the staff gives the both of you more french fries because of how hilariously angry Pidge got

As the zoo starts shut down, she yet again becomes a stuttery mess when she asks if it would be ok to give you a quick kiss you say yes almost immediately gosh dang you’re so ready but she chickens out at the last second by kissing your nose instead, but it was still worth it 100%

[pininqkeith]

what happens after they both figure it out??? do they pine they definitely pine but??? more hcs please? i love you

i love you too dear anon this is for you

i’m not sure entirely how it would first go, but i imagine they’re laying around and keith is really intensely playing with lance’s fingers (like really intensely he looks like he’s trying to x-ray vision them u ok there buddy?) 

and lance is just watching him and it hits him full force his heart literally starts aching and he just pulls his hand away 

keith is confused for a second and kind of like :’( until lance cradles his jaw and says in a slightly trembling voice “can i kiss you right now?” 

the answer is yes 

they try to hide it for a while because they’re afraid it might mess up the team dynamic 

except they try hiding it by not touching each other as much,, which is when they realize how much they were touching each other and they’re both like “how did we even go this long without realizing?” 

shiro eventually asks if something is wrong between them because he notices they’re standing apart a lot (on a separate note have you noticed how often these two are standing next to each other in canon it’s like they’re drawn to each other i’m fjdsal;k)  

keith, smooth as ever, just blurts out “I KISSED HIM” 

shiro is a little surprised but he just smiles softly and is like “that’s great, keith. i already thought you had, though?”

keith: did EVERYONE know except us???  

they’re teenagers you know,, so they’re always all over each other

keith’s hair is literally always a mess

sometimes it’s braided but it half falls apart because lance can’t stop running his hands through his hair when they’re kissing

keith, mumbling into lance’s mouth: you’re ruining your work 

lance: worth it 

someone knocks on the door once and they scramble to put their shirts on and open it like “hey, nothing interesting happening here!” except,, they’re wearing the wrong shirts,, a mess 

or,, hunk, peering at keith’s neck very closely: dude, what are those purple marks? are you ok? they look like bruises? 

keith, flustered and tugging at his collar: NOTHING IT S NOTHING just my… galra genes!!! yeah!! my galra-ness kicking in!! you know how it is!! 

lance unabashedly flirting over the coms

they’re literally so sappy and cheesy all the time. they’re that couple that has an entire conversation using eye contact and forgets to explain what’s going on to the rest of the team  

lance pretty much moves in keith’s bedroom. keith pretty much steals all his shirts and doesn’t have to feel guilty about it anymore (he had like 5 already and when lance finds them he won’t leave him alone about it) 

thank youu 

[eledritch]

For the character headcanon ask, I'd like to know what you think about all six paladins (b/c, why exclude Allura now?) and 1, 4, 5, 7, 11, 14, 18, and 20. Sorry it looks a bit on the long side.

hooo boy ok let’s do this:

1. Their physical weak spots

Shiro: where his arm was amputated/his entire right side to some degree, though he does a good job of hiding it

Keith: his chest, since he’s smaller if he was hit head-on he’d go down faster. also his neck, i dont have an explanation for this other than keith being choked is. well it’s something.

Allura: nowhere. she is Impenetrable and Mighty (jk jk probably her hair? she’s got a lot of that, if you got a big handful and yanked it would be a) unexpected and b) painful for her)

Lance: his legs, he’s got a lot of them haha, and being a fast runner doesn’t matter if your legs get hit

Hunk: head, probably, he’s so focused on his core strength that I think he pays less attention to his noggin’s safety

Pidge: Face/eyes, it would hurt like hell if Pidge’s glasses got shattered. yikes, as a fellow glasses wearer i’m cringing just thinking about it

4. Best places to kiss on their body

S: scars and chest/nipples, im sorry was this supposed to be innocent kissing? is innocent nipple kissing a thing, sure, let’s go with that

K: neck. definitely neck. also forehead kisses

A: mouth, cheek, hands, nape of neck

L: hips, inner thighs, forehead, cheek

H: tummy, mouth, shoulders, cheek, head

P: nose!! also cheek and hands

5. Guilty pleasures

S: watching The Notebook (and other sappy romance movies). he will forever deny it, but he cries every time

K: snuggling. keith is super clingy and snuggly when he sleeps but pretends he’s completely unaware of it. also, fingering himself lmaoo this was ALMOST innocent sORRY

A: she would totally be the kind of person who watches dozens and dozens of Internet marriage proposals/cute boyfriend/girlfriend tag videos and just gets so much secondhand happiness from it

L: obsessively cleaning ears with q-tips. apparently ur not supposed to do this but fuck that, lance does (and so do i)

H: MUSICALS. HUNK LOVES MUSICALS FIGHT ME

P: POPPING PIMPLES YOU KNOW PIDGE SO WOULD

7. Their tickle spots

S: tummy!!

K: armpits and back of neck

A: Alteans don’t get ticklish. She’s just very confused and slightly offended.

L: feet and chest

H: EVERYWHERE

P: nobody knows, because nobody has tried, they like keeping their hands too much (but it’s everywhere, particularly right under her chin)

11. Bad or petty habits

S: drinking and/or consuming ridiculous amounts of chocolate/caffeine

K: picking at his skin and biting his nails

A: making the other paladins get up extra early for training if they’ve irritated her lately, using the electric maze thing if they pissed her off

L: leg bouncing, am i projecting onto lance, absolutely

H: adding extra salt to people’s food/food goo if they’ve pissed him off lately

P: compulsively checking and rechecking stats/info/the time, etc

14. Ingrained habits/forces of habit

S: sleeping on the floor/on hard surfaces and waking up early/at any sudden noise

K: talking to himself since he spent so much time alone, sometimes he just forgets

A: mentioning her dad/Altea in the present tense before quickly remembering he’s gone :((

L: skin care routines (and general impeccably cleanly hygiene). you can pry his clay masks away from his cold dead hands

H: stress eating. and maybe also forgetting to eat when he’s REALLY stressed

P: pretending to be a boy/lowering her voice/always staying fulling clothed

18. Things they’ll never admit

S: all the horrible things he was forced to do as the Champion

K: the reason why he was kicked out of the Garrison, or how close he was to just giving up everything after they gave him the boot

A: a part of her likes the idea of the Altean Empire. really likes it.

L: sooooo many things, like how he feels like a seventh wheel, how he’s always been jealous of keith, how he wishes he could go back home more than anything. but lance would probably say anything under enough pressure

H: I honestly cannot think of anything…Hunk is a pretty open book

P: she still considers leaving team voltron to find matt on her own and take him home

20. What-ifs/Alternate Timelines

S: well, we already got Sven, but I have several existing AUs where Shiro is an ex-Garrison commander (in this AU the Garrison is an organization kinda like Starfleet/the Federation), one where he’s Earth’s ambassador to the Galra, and one where he’s a faery hunter. also, I think it would be interesting if Shiro and Keith’s roles had been switched.

K: born and raised in the Galra Empire Keith, Blade of Marmora Keith, Galran Prince Keith, Galran Champion Keith

A: ALTEAN EMPIRE EMPRESS ALLURA, I’m also a huge fan of the human Allura AU, where her and Shiro’s places are switched

L: Altean (Prince) Lance is always fun, faery Lance is my current fav, bounty hunter Lance is a good concept i wish i saw more, evil/corrupted by the Galra Lance can be interesting to explore too

H: Balmeran Hunk ahhh!!! I’ve also grown really fond of the Galran Hunk aus, and wEREWOLF HUNK SIGN ME THE FUCK UP. 

P: whatever alien species Slav is…imagine Pidge as that. and cackle in delight with me. also, conspiracy theorist Pidge, astronaut Pidge, cryptid hunter Pidge, spy Pidge, I just love Pidge a lot any Pidge is a good Pidge

[lvtvr]

I... kinda wanna hear the klahnce tropes you hate...

ok since i can never resist a chance to Vent i’m gonna share them under a cut but first some disclaimers

1) honestly oh my god if somebody else likes or enjoys this stuff i dont care!!!! i really do not care!!!! as long as you aren’t shoving it in my face or claiming that any alternative interpretations are Wrong™, i really really do not mind!!!! people like different things and that’s okay!!!!!! my intention truly isn’t to make some 15 year old w a fluffy fantasy feel guilty just bc some random person on the internet doesnt like the way they do things kdsjgsjdgskjdg so pls read this w a grain of salt

2) i’m not even really that passionate in my dislike of these things bc it’s just shipping and it literally doesn’t matter at all so this is basically just a list of my preferences

phew ok here we go

the kind of k/l made by lovers of l@ngst that makes the whole story about lance, and him just needing to be reassured of how incredible he is 

this almost always has keith tenderly holding lance and saying something along the lines of “you are the most beautiful boy in the universe and i will never let you go :) i love you so much lance :) to me, you are each and every star in the sky :)”

KEITH WOULD NEVER SAY THAT WHAT THEUF CK

this bothers me bc the dynamic they are portraying is closer to h@nce, sh@nce, or even she!th. both hunk and shiro are kind and loving people who are quick to verbally reassure their friends. but keith, the way i read him, prefers action to speech. he has other ways of expressing how deeply he feels about someone without waxing poetic

please don’t make discount h@nce, make actual h@nce instead i beg of u

also ppl editing the “br0gan3s hug” replacing shiro with lance and now suddenly it’s romantic and not familial lmao… just admit that u love the beauty of s/k and its passionate star-crossed lovers bound by fate angle and stop projecting it onto k/l which is a different beast entirely

“keith and lance have been in love with one another all along/are in love with one another at this current point in canon”

ok while i do admit i can appreciate some cute pining-at-the-garrison fanart, this one bugs me bc if we just look at canon………  they don’t like each other. they just. they don’t.

there’s definitely an admiration-jealousy thing going on from lance’s side, but not an outright crush

and lets be real while i understand the appeal of a headcanon where keith has crushed on lance since forever………………….. in canon, he literally had no idea who he was

i dislike this bc to me it sounds far too much like a love at first sight kind of thing, where they had crushes on each other without even really knowing one another

the appeal of k/l for me is the potential for growth they have AFTER they’ve spent months in space working as a team and getting to know who the other person really is, beyond first impressions

two people who are incompatible at first, developing and maturing until they can see new sides to each other, learn to work with one another, and choose to put their differences aside so that they can be together? that’s much more romantic, at least to me.

the “keith and lance are in love and shiro and keith are brothers and also shiro is dating allura :)” clusterfuck that mostly died after the vague statement about allura’s age that gave antis a collective bout of hives

im not saying there are no good fics with this constellation but there are 392580968230698409683478 fics that copypasted this relationship matrix. it is a fanon thing but ppl started treating it like canon which always gets me a little squinty. also i’m not all that into s/a so there’s that

keith and lance getting married. this is entirely a personal thing but it’s my biggest fucking squick and i have an irrational hatred for it it just fucking bothers me so much NEVER talk to me about it

this includes kidfic it makes me feel almost ill

marriage/domesticity/kids is the opposite of a romantic fantasy for me and thinking about it makes me really uncomfortable

while im more ok with it with some other pairings, i just cant see it happening w keith and lance

this is also where i see them start to clash, with lance’s big family and probable love of tradition and keith’s orphan-loner lifestyle. they’d probably want very different things

and it’s really stressful for me to think about so i’d rather just not lol

basically just fucking miss me with them wearing rings or anything like that unless u want me to let out bloodcurdling screams for 8 consecutive hours

anything making them too soft, squishy and blushy. while i totally get why people want to look at this kind of content it makes me want to die

this is usually paired with “everyone else exists just to support their relationship”

i’ve also seen their rivalry reduced to “yeah but i love you more asswipe” “no i love YOU more” “umm excuse you i clearly love you the most :/” like… lmao pls stop this they’d still argue about exactly the same things as before

while they’d definitely tell each other i love you and be soft with each other, it’d be in quiet, private moments. ultimately, they aren’t a gross sappy couple… they just aren’t…… they’re those friends who argue a lot about inconsequential things but also kiss each other when they’re alone and would die for each other without hesitation but will Never admit it

okay phew i think those are my Top Shitty K/L Tropes, and from what i’ve heard there are a lot more like them being shoved into ridiculous yaoi archetypes (eg keith is a blushing flower of a sub instead of the vers power bottom we all know he Actually is) but since i read very little fic i’ve managed to avoid that stuff. sorry this turned into an essay lol this always happens

[hufflepirate]

Last of the hug collection!  I wanted to end on something that felt like a good ending i.e. that wasn’t pretty much straight-up angst.  I also wanted to write more Coran!hugs, because while I managed to turn one of the prompts into an Allura prompt, I never did Coran as a central character.   This came out more somber and less straight-up fluffy than I expected, but I think makes a fitting ending anyway.  (Used a readmore because it came out quite long.  The hugging comes after the readmore.)

Something about sitting around the dining table late at night made the paladins soft and reflective in ways they weren't when they clustered around the couches outside the training room or lounged around the bridge.  Coran wasn't sure what it was, but nights like this, when they finished late and ate later and sat once they were full, everything seemed very close to the surface, somehow.

"I miss peas," Pidge said absently, "Is that dumb?  My dad always said the peas they got in space were the best peas and I always thought one day I'd try them, but here we are and there are no Garrison peas around to try.  And I don't even like peas, I just like the way my dad always got when my mom made peas, like he just couldn't wait to go up again, and we knew we were gonna miss him, but he was just so-" she trailed off for a moment, reflectively, and the others let her.  "He was happy," she finally concluded, "And I miss that."

The others nodded, making little soft noises of agreement.  "Your dad really did love those," Shiro said, looking distant, "He used to eat mine, too.  I hate peas."

"I never hated peas," Hunk said thoughtfully, "But I always hated brussels sprouts."  Lance raised an eyebrow in surprise, and Hunk laughed, "No, I know, I love 'em now, but you gotta learn, right?  I think about that when we try new alien things and they aren't great.  I think about how my mom would tell me I had to try the whole thing and be polite and I couldn't have dessert until I ate all my vegetables.  Do you ever miss that?  I kind of miss that.  That's probably a dumb thing to miss."

"I miss hugging my mom good night," Lance said decidedly, "I think maybe I miss that the most out of everything."

Another noise of agreement went around the table, from everyone but Keith, who'd had his head down in his arms for the last 20 minutes and had watched the others without talking.  Shiro reached a hand over to rest on Keith's shoulder.

The table was sadder now, as it settled into another silence, and after a moment, Coran couldn't take it.  He hated that they'd dragged these kids so far from home, so far from their families, but he also hated that his planet was gone and he and Allura were all that was left and the universe needed them to keep going.  Usually, the paladins being lonely and far from home blurred into all the thousand things he hated about being at war, one more hurt in a world of pain, and usually it wasn't - couldn't be - his priority, but it was late and whatever made the paladins get like this, late at night and sitting around the table, was affecting him too.

He got quickly to his feet, clearing his throat.  "This has been a nice chat, but we've got a long day tomorrow," he announced, "Time for everyone to go to bed, I think."

The paladins looked up at him, a little dazed, like they couldn't catch up to that, and he knew it was the right choice.  They needed sleep and not to lose themselves in sorrow.  "Hugs for everyone, and then bed," he said, waving his arms at them.  They stood up almost reflexively, halfway to their feet before comprehension dawned on them.

Lance grinned first.  "Really, Coran?"

"Of course!  I may not be your parents, but I'm always here for a hug when you need one!"

He wasn't sure that had always been true.  He wasn't sure he'd have offered, a few months ago.  He wasn't sure he'd have wanted to open himself up to all those emotions, when worrying about Allura was already a heavy enough burden to carry.  But he'd come to care about the paladins since then, all of them, and now it was true.

He wrapped his arms around Lance as soon as the boy was close enough, letting Lance tuck his face into his shoulder and hug him back.  Lance's wiry limbs were surprisingly strong, but even a brief hug was enough to convince Coran the boy needed feeding up a little.  He'd make sure he got a little extra food goo at breakfast, if he remembered.

Pidge claimed her hug next, wrapping her arms around his middle as he hugged her back and then springing up onto her tiptoes to kiss him on the cheek.  Allura giggled when he blushed, but Pidge was already out of his arms and wishing the others a casual good night, so he got a grip on himself.

Hunk had hugged him before, when he was excited and had nearly lifted Coran clear off his feet, but now he was tired and a little sheepish.  The boy ducked his face down to press his forehead against Coran's shoulder, like Lance had done, and Coran squeezed Hunk tightly enough to be able to get one of his hands up, cradling the back of Hunk's head to tell him it was ok.  Hunk breathed out heavily, like he'd been holding his breath, and Coran could feel it against his shoulder.  "Good night, Hunk," he said softly, "Sleep well."

Hunk let go, nodding.  "Yeah, yeah, I'm sure I will.  Big day tomorrow."

They were all big days, so Coran just nodded, reaching out to ruffle Hunk's hair.  The boy laughed, looking suddenly less morose, and turned away toward the bedrooms, straightening his hair back.

Shiro stepped up for a hug next, coming in for a tight squeeze and then breaking away after three affectionate thumps to Coran's back.  Coran almost laughed, but something in Shiro's eyes as he said, "Thanks, Coran," was a little too serious, and he held it in.

Keith was the only one left, hovering warily near the doorway like he'd almost left and might be willing to leave if Coran didn't seem interested in hugging him.  That wouldn't do.  Coran crossed the floor in a few long, quick strides, watching Keith's face light up with surprise and relief before he pulled the boy into a tight hug and couldn't see it anymore.  Keith hugged back fiercely, holding Coran so tightly it was almost hard to breathe, and Coran squeezed back just as hard, figuring Keith needed it.  When they released the hug, Keith couldn't quite meet his eyes and half-ran down the hall, throwing a casual "Good night!" over his shoulder like he was embarrassed.

Coran watched him go, feeling weirdly empty.  He wasn't supposed to feel like this.  But kids weren't supposed to sit between their friends, not talking about their own family, and they weren't supposed to hug like they were fighting.

Allura floated up to him, clearly soliciting a hug of her own, and he kissed her on the forehead before wrapping his arms around her.  This was more familiar, and Allura leaned into him like he really was family, and he rested his head on top of hers like he hadn't with the others.

He'd never asked for this.  He'd never asked for a castle full of teenagers, trying to save the universe from a threat that had destroyed the adults.  He'd never asked to be the last of his kind, the last of the Alteans, the last of the palace guards, the last of the defenders of the Altean monarchy.  He'd never asked to worry about children who weren't his, and especially not to worry about children who weren't anyone's, and needed someone to step into the gap those nobodies had left behind.

But maybe he had asked for it.  Because 10,000 years ago, he'd agreed to stay with Allura.  He'd agreed to look after her, knowing that things might not go as hoped for and there might not be anyone else.  He'd agreed to defend her, to stand by her, to watch her grow and change and take on new responsibilities.  He'd agreed to watch her become a woman, and a leader, and a queen.  And they might not have a planet, and she might not be a queen, now or ever, but he was proud of her every minute of every day, in this strange new terrible universe, and he was glad he'd stayed.

"I'm glad I never lost you," Allura said, like she knew where his mind had drifted, "I'm glad you were still here when I woke up."

"I am too, Princess."  He wasn't sure if it was an honorific or a nickname, anymore, but either way, he meant it.

"I know you miss them, too," she said, "But I know I miss them less when you're around.  I hope you know I'll always hug you, if you miss them less that way."

He squeezed her tighter for a moment.  He didn't know how to tell her how proud he was, now and always, so he made a joke instead. "You must be tired if you're getting sappy on me!  I think it's past time you were in bed."

Allura laughed, because she'd known him all her life, and kissed him on the cheek.  "Good night, Coran."

"Good night, Allura."

He watched her go and then shut down the nonessential systems on the bridge, still feeling the ghosts of his paladins in his arms.  He'd never asked for children.  But he had them.  And all the rest - all the rest could go to hell.  It was time to win this war, because anything else didn't bear thinking about.