#jaith is the endgame always

[komohine]

hi! So, I wanted to write a klance ff in a cool zombie survival au but mid-creating it I realised it wasn't klance dynamic at all but 100% pure jaith material. Except. I haven't even READ jaith yet. Could I possibly get the chance to be guided through my ignorance by the illustrious Official Jaith Guardian themself and get some fanfic recs? Some of your fav headcanons/artists perhaps? also thank you for all your work 🙏

The only jaith fic you need to read is this

All of my headcanons and stuff come from these two fics. Theyre so good. Also be sure to listen to the jaith playlist (in order! Not shuffled) i linked while reading. Double ouchie.

Their relationship is very much a constant push and pull.

Keith pushes james away because he doesn’t even know if he can love and doesnt want to lead james on (aroace spec keith for the win) and because of his perceived faults and flaws, james tries to pull him closer because keith has been one of the only people to like him for him, not for the facade he puts up in public and because he doesn’t care about Keith’s small flaws he makes out to be huge

James pushes keith away out of fear that his constantly suppressed anger and jealousy will rear its head and hurt keith (and also because of internalized homophobia), keith tries to pull him closer because james was the only one who stubbornly stuck by his side even through all the years where he was horrible to james

Basically one of the fundamental differences i feel exists between jaith and klance is the idea that james and keith grew up together and only had eachother for a significant period of time. Keith lost his father and tried closing himself off to the world, but james refused to let that happen. Keith saw right past james’ charade of charming smiles and well ironed shirts to see the real him who was in desperate need of a significant connection. For every insecurity one of them has the other vehemently insists on loving them despite (or because of) it. For every bad thing one of them does the other will insist that its alright and that people grow and change.

They exist together through mutual respect, mutual rivalry, mutual love for eachother, and mutual hatred. They’re complicated little guys but no matter how much they claim to hate eachother they know that if they were separated they’d miss eachother desperately, almost violently.

Only when they’ve matured emotionally do they finally realize just how much they like eachother lol. Things get much better when teenage hormone’s aren’t in the mix

Only when they’re older do they realize how much they needed, and still need, eachother

Theyre made for eachother but the universe seems hell bent on tearing them apart.

They are mirrors of eachother but also opposites. They love eachother so much but dont dare to let that love fully show. Im in pain i hate them sm 😞

Here is a sort of masterlist of my headcanons ive made, and also heres a few more: 1, 2, 3

[ao3feed-klance]

From Loss to Love

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/3gKHWVU

by Keithisgay

Lance and Keith have been dating for three years. Keith's planning on proposing tonight. James and Kinkade are best friends and roomates, but lately, Kinkade's been acting weird. He stays out late, and always has messed up hair. One night, James come home to find him and a "guest" having a heated argument, and he finally learns what's going on.

Endgame Jeith/Jaith

Words: 18533, Chapters: 14/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: James Griffin (Voltron), Keith (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Lance (Voltron), Ryan Kinkade, Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk (Voltron), Nadia Rizavi, Ina Leifsdottir, Veronica (Voltron)

Relationships: James Griffin/Keith (Voltron), Adam/Shiro (Voltron), Ryan Kinkade/Lance, Allura/Lance (Voltron), Keith/Lance (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Gay Keith (Voltron), Falling In Love, Marriage Proposal, Cheating, Alternate Universe - College/University, Everyone Is Gay, Pining James Griffin (Voltron), Sloppy Makeouts, How Do I Tag

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/3gKHWVU

[aravosinhighheels]

Ok ...so why is everyone so convinced Kaxca is end game? Like this isn't to shit on the ship or anything. But like for people who don't like the ship they seem convinced the writers are trying to make them endgame. And maybe they are right maybe it is endgame but ...what convinced you of that?

Like....from what I can tell its because of the he looks at her here

And her showing up again at the end

Which ok....

But he looks at Hunk like this

And James like this

Hell he even hugs Hunk

But like no one is convinced or paranoid Jaith /Jeith or Heith is end game.

My theory was Axca might secretly be related because in that end scene where she shows up Keith and Krolia are at Keith father's grave. It's not like the Hunk and Shay scene where its anyone who cares comes to visit. It's this very personal family moment the family that could have been, all together again.

And then theres Axca who looks on from the distance a part of that scene but still disconnected from it.

Which to me implies that shes connected to that family yet still distant from it.

Which hey I could be wrong but like it's not like this clearly unambiguous end game ship everyone seems to be making it out to be.

And this is especially weird to me since the other ship people think is a unambiguous end game ship( whether they like or are afraid of the idea ) is Allurance.

Which you can argue that they shouldn't have had Allura realize her feelings so quickly after Lotor, or there should have been more ovbious indications of her feelings, because otherwise it makes Lance look like a rebound. You can say that you always just saw them as platonic .

Fine but what you can't deny is whether you see it as platonic or romantic this relationship has has been explored

They had moments together

Their relationship progressed

They became very close whether you see that as romantic or platonic.

This is the other relationship many are convinced is endgame now.

Maybe Keith and Axca will have a boat load of moments next season and end up together I dont know. But as of now given how you have seem one potential example of how voltron handles romantic relationships I just dont get why people are so convinced that Keith and Axca destined to be together from this season alone.

Like I said nothing against the ship if you do think it's going to be a thing or want it to be a thing . I'm not saying you are wrong. I'm just saying it's far from gaurenteed that you are right based just on what shipping fuel you got.

Similarly I'm not saying that allurance has no chance of not being canon. I'm just saying its unlikely they won't be canon with how much build up it got.

[ao3feed-voltronlegendarydefender]

From Loss to Love

read it on the AO3 at From Loss to Love

by Keithisgay

Lance and Keith have been dating for three years. Keith's planning on proposing tonight. James and Kinkade are best friends and roomates, but lately, Kinkade's been acting weird. He stays out late, and always has messed up hair. One night, James come home to find him and a "guest" having a heated argument, and he finally learns what's going on.

Endgame Jeith/Jaith

Words: 2678, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: James Griffin (Voltron), Keith (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Lance (Voltron), Ryan Kinkade, Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk (Voltron), Nadia Rizavi, Ina Leifsdottir, Veronica (Voltron)

Relationships: James Griffin/Keith (Voltron), Adam/Shiro (Voltron), Ryan Kinkade/Lance, Allura/Lance (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Gay Keith (Voltron), Falling In Love, Marriage Proposal, Cheating, Alternate Universe - College/University, Everyone Is Gay, Pining James Griffin (Voltron), Sloppy Makeouts, How Do I Tag

read it on the AO3 at From Loss to Love

[xvypera]

My opinion on Season 8 of Voltron

I'm just going to write down my honest opinion on this season, so for those who are not interested or don't want to be spoilered: DON'T READ THIS!

I'm not writing this to receive hate or anything, but I have to get this out of my system.

First if all: I've always loved Voltron. I really enjoyed the first 7 seasons (although many people hated s7, I actually liked it (I did hate how they killed off Adam (if they wanted to kill him they could've done it in a better way) or how Allura suddenly seemed interested in Lance after always telling him off but overall I enjoyed s7) but let's be real: S8 was just poorly done (they forced Allurance, had no good plotline during the whole season, there are still too many unanswered questions ...).

I loved the show, I really did (and still do, if you ignore s8) but not only did they hint at a ship (Klance) throughout the whole show just to force Allurance and kill Allura off at the very end (honestly I kinda guessed they'd kill her after S7 but after S8E1 I knew for sure ... The way they made Allura and Lance canon made it obvious (I never shipped Allurance and I never will (in my opinion they just don't fit each other) but even if I did ship them, I wouldn't have been happy with how they made them canon ... Allura always tell's him off, then falls in love with Lotor and just a few month later she suddenly loves Lance? This doesn't make sense at all)

I mean what was the point in this show? I don't get why they ended it like this.

They said we would be happy: who could be happy with this kind of ending?

They said Lance would get an endgame and Allura wouldn't get one: Allurance is forced canon and she's killed.

Now, where is Lance's endgame? He's single, surrounded with things that will always remind him of her and has these altean-marks for some reason (I'm a fan of altean-Lance theories but why and how did he get these marks?! Because he and Allura kissed "one last time"? It was never explained, probably never will, and just doesn't make sense). He'll probably never be able to let her go and that's just sad and definitely not healthy. Lance should move on and not stay trapped in the past.

They also said Lance would be someones first choice but who's first choice was he exactly? Allura choose Lotor first, THEN she "fell in love" with Lance. In the end he was a rebound for her, nothing more, and that's just sad.

This is not about "my" ship not being canon, this is about a overall poorly done plot and lovestory, and a show which had so much potential, which was just wasted away.

They could have done better. While I was watching the season I was bored to death half the time, the ending was just unsatisfying and too many characters ignored.

Let's talk about Honerva for a minute: she was simply a side character throughout the first few seasons, just to end up as the main villain? Why? And she get's redemption and Lotor doesn't? He would have deserved redemption but Honerva? No, she's done too many bad things to deserve this.

Then there are the original paladins: they weren't mentioned much, but apparently their souls were hold prison by Honerva? ... If Voltron hadn't traveled into her mind, they would've never known ... And why was Zarkon there too? I mean wasn't he killed for good by someone else? And if it wasn't his soul but simply a projection of Honerva's mind: how was Voltron able to save him? Just because, at that moment, Honerva didn't know they were there? I'm confused (but maybe that's just me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Let's move to the MFE pilots: what exactly were they there for? Don't get me wrong, I really like them (James is one of my favourite characters) but that's exactly why I'm confused. They are all great characters but it seems like they only had "major" importance in S7 and were just kinda "there" in S8 and I'm sad? It feels like great characters were just wasted away .... Why?

And what about Shiro? He deserves happiness and I am happy that he found someone to be happy with but there was no real interaction between them. We never saw Shiro and Curtis talking outside the Atlas and it just feels like after killing off Adam and seeing the major backlash they received they wanted to make sure Shiro ended up with at least someone so they could say: "We have LGBTQ+ rep!"

Another thing I'm salty about: from the very beginning they hinted at Bi-Lance and Gay-Keith: why? Why did they hint at something like this, give us hope (not only to shippers but to people who wanted LGBTQ+ rep) to reduce everything to Shiro ending up happy with a guy who had almost no screentime? Seriously, if they knew from the start they would end it like this they shouldn't have had Lance hold the sign in this one picture. In the end there was no reason for him to hold it, that was no more and no less than queerbating. They wanted us to get excited, to get more and more people to watch the show, to earn more money or whatever.

The only one who seems to have gotten a "real" character-development throughout the whole show was Keith:

Season 2: we learn that he's part Galra

Season 3: he becomes the leader of Voltron

Season 4: he leaves for the BoM because he thinks he's not good enough as a leader

Season 5: he finds his mom

Season 6: they bond for two years, he safes Shiro and he returns to Voltron

He's my favourite character (I can relate to him so much it's almost sad) so I'm not really complaining about that, but why only him? Is it too much to want this kind of development for the other characters as well? For example: what about Romelle? What was she there for in s8? I like her but in the end she didn't really do anything.

Everything just feels rushed and unfinished. Like, no love was used when they thought up the storyline and they just wanted to end it. If that's the case, I would've been happy if they had simply dropped the show after s6 or s7.

Especially if they leave so many questions unanswered:

What about Keith's (almost) sacrifice in s4?

What about Lance dying in s6?

Where is Keith's reaction to Lance using a sword? (What even was the point in him having a sword if he's not going to use it after obtaining it?)

Where is Lance's earth arc?

Lance wanted to be a pilote but in the end he became a farmer .... Why?

Why did James never apologizing to Keith? Did everyone forget about it or was it just unnecessary?

Voltron is supposed to be the defender of the universe, right? Then why do they need to fuse with the Atlas to safe everyone? So Shiro could be a "real" part of the boss-fight? For old times sake, when he was still the black paladin?

Keith somehow changed his bayard to some kind of canon: why did no one talk about that? (Would have been a great reason for Keith and Lance to talk about Lance's sword ....)

What happened to Kova?

Why was Altea back?

Why did the Atean's just accept Voltron after being told by Honerva that Voltron killed Lotor?

What did Lance take from the castle?

Where did the Olkari go after their planet was destroyed? We saw some of them escape but where did they go? Were they killed?

There is even more (I'm sure all of you could add a few things) but I'll stop here.

In a nutshell: Allurance was forced, Klance wrongly hinted at, the plot in s8 just poorly done and rushed, many great characters ignored and there are too many unanswered questions left.

If you don't like my opinion, that's fine. I didn't write this down to receive hate. I simply wanted to get these feelings of sadness, anger, hurt and betrayal out of my system.

I won't stop loving or shipping Klance, Shadam, Jaith, Griffkink, Shatt, Katt, Thulaz, Romura, Veracxa and Zezor but after this season I need a break.