#keith's ramblings

[lizbix]

out of all the different types of anime guys i chose black haired emos and main characters

[klanceogies]

make vld characters more disabled in fics 2025 campaign. more than one of them are definitely hard of hearing after so many explosions and gunshots. give one of them a limp from a bone that healed incorrectly for a while before they got to a healing pod. scars and burns that limit someone’s mobility. show how some have to deal repeated long surgeries after they get to earth to improve some of those things. dealing with chronic pain, eyesight loss in at least one eye, not all 10 fingers at least! there is just no way they could get out of all of that the exact same they got there. show how some things have good days and bad days and others pile up to being just another part of their routine. above all: make them deal with change. the war changed them in too many ways to count and left them with much more than just haunting memories.

give them fucking history, things to show for what they went through. being defenders of the universe doesn’t make them immune. at the end of the day they are too made of muscle and flesh and bone.

[narniasclosetvoltron]

SWORD UPDATE (also dont mind the angle back camera is broken)

[goth1c-pinki3-pi3]

something i can't stop thinking about is how keith had no one to welcome him home. his only connection to earth was shiro, and he was in space, then he found his space mom. So i'd like to offer the idea of keith and lance dating, yes, but when they get to earth and lance gets hugged by everyone in the family, he brings them to keith and is like "this is my boyfriend! and his alien mom! and his alien dog! love him!" and his family does.

[thisantithesis]

klance fic that focuses on the time keith spent on the space whale and the horrors that he went through and then learning how to reintegrate with the team again after being gone for two years when for them it was only a couple months pls save meeeeeee

[grapefacegrfa]

Keith when I get my hands on you Keith

[hazbinshusk]

me when other people question my spotify wrapped:

[leajoyrambles]

Idk but I sorta felt like the entire earth arc was such a waste in some ways. 

Like in many ways, throughout the series, Earth has become a ghost story. To those left behind, the Paladins are all but dead, but to the Paladins, the people they remember are amorphous, otherworldly, alive in some ways but dead in others. 

To Lance and Hunk, they haven’t thought of how time passes. They’re both afraid of how they’ve changed, but they haven’t realized how much their families have. Haven’t let themselves realize, really. 

Shiro cut his ties with earth, so to speak. He never really believed he was going back. This isn’t a dream come true for him. This is just another impossible thing, just as important and impersonal as any other mission. 

Pidge is a strange case. She never believed the people out there were dead, and she’s seen some of her family, some of her ghosts, more recently than the others. And they’ve seen her. There’s a sense of connection there that the others don’t have. 

As for Keith, he has nothing to return to. No one is grieving him, and the only ghost he left behind is a grave. He’s not going home. He found home in space. With the Paladins in the Castle, with the Blade in secret, and in the Quantum Abyss with Krolia. 

For the Alteans, Earth is nothing but a story. To Krolia, a planet to house her little place of peace. Not home, certainly. 

Home is a prison and a graveyard, as far as Romelle is concerned. Home means combat training and artificial light and tradition to Krolia. To Coran, it’s a bittersweet memory. To Allura, a gaping hole in her chest.

just. idk. something something a house is what you haunt and home is what haunts you. or whatever.

[dicenete]

I repainted his face more times than probably necessary but something always caught my eye and still does, but it is done. is done. It's fine. xD IkePri Tagteam:

@scummy-writes @goustmilk @solacedeer @m-mmiy @mxrmaid-poet

@pawnkyyy @ludivineikewolf @violettduchess @floydsteeth @wistfulwanderingone

@sh0jun @lorei-writes

A little bit of rambling of him below the break, spoilers (Keith's route, and little bit of Nokto's route) and such :0 so you have been warned.

TL;DR: I enjoyed the route despite its questionable elements. MC is too forgiving at times, but other than that, romanctic route was cute. Licht, the third wheel, was funny but sad.

Okay first about Keith's visual design: I really love how his design is the most asymmetrical from the suitors. Like the jacket and the vest he has. The jacket is very interestingly layered, almost like you aren't sure which part is the main thing and what is the accent. The green or the gold? The host or the alter? : D Same with his vest. His duality is battling in his clothing too hahaha

Keith's route was interesting. I had heard lots of differing opinions about it and I had my own reservations.

One mainly about the portrayal of DID and how the route does it. First things first: I'm not an expert at all. I won't even humor the idea that I had any say in anything regarding it. But overall, it could have been worse? Of course it might be very extreme in the way Alter Keith is hostile towards Host Keith. And of course you shouldn't take this as the only way the alter systems work. But as I said: I'm not an expert.

I had heard that the dramatic route follows Alter Keith and romantic route host Keith. I picked the romantic one. I had my personal reasons for that tho. But aside from that, it was nice to be with Keith that who struggled with self-worth. It was nice to see him grow as a character and find that strength to stand up for himself. (The fact that the host Keith seems to think that he is inferior to Alter Keith and that people would prefer the alter over him. The amount of stress that will bring. )

Keith's uncle was your very generic villain/antagonist without any real depth. He was a spoiled noble and so on. But since this was more about Keith inner journey I thought it was fine that it was like that.

The drugging scene… Well. That's a… a topic. Hmm… Host Keith himself felt very guilty about it and was full of remorse. Not that it was his choice to do it. Alter Keith well… He might justify it because he was gathering information about a rumor that might endanger his home country and people if it were true. I kinda can see where he is coming from, but also...IT CERTAINLY WAS DESTROYING OF TRUST. Like that time when Nokto "accidently" gets MC drunk. but hey ho. Since there is limited time frame for the chapters, I do understand they can't really jam all the things there, but I wanted Belle be more angry with him with Alter Keith for longer.

Maybe that's what bugs me sometimes. That Belle/Emma/MC is sometimes too forgiving and too much of a doormat. It works in routes like Yves and Licht (from the routes I have played, Leon seems like the most respectable gentleman too), because they are not being insulting towards her. I would even think that she works with Clavis, tho I would love to see him with someone who shares his chaotic gremlin energy. But with characters like Chev, Silvio or Alter Keith the their "power" doesn't feel balanced. MC seems to be completely on their mercy even if they stand up to them in some way. (Gilbert is another can of nasty things.)(With Chev's route, well, that is also a rambling for another time. But I haven't finished his route yet. so I will keep my ramblings to myself for now.)

Is Keith's route more about acceptance then? Accepting the good and the bad of a person? Possibly. I would think that is a good way to put it. Both Keiths have good and bad sides. And it seems that they are working on them.

[littlebagoflemons]

made klance on this picrew AUGH MY HEART I LOVE THEM

[narniasclosetvoltron]

candles

Klance reference?????

[goth1c-pinki3-pi3]

keith learnt from an early age that being angry got attention. it was easy to ignore a calm kid who was lightly tapping you and asking for attention, but it was much harder when the yells of a kid were like the sound of nails on a chalkboard.

of course keith learnt very early on that yelling and being angry was a form of sure way of getting his foster families attention.

he didnt learn that not all attention was good, later on. after his fifth, he started making a tally on how different families reacted to anger. or, any emotion. really. he treated it like it was a study. anything, so make sure he didnt get attached.

then shiro. shiro didnt react. well, he did. but not like how keith was told adults reacted. sure shiro was maybe 8 or 9 maybe years older total, but he was an adult. and keith wasnt.

but shiro was fine with his anger. was fine with his emotions. was fine with keith. keith started to feel at home. i mean, who wouldnt.

Meet the Kerberos accident. The home wrecker.

[sleepycheesecakeowo]

Me when klance

[xxxregulusblackxxx]

I'M BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN

Klance has me in a chokehold AGAIN

[rosalineandrosemary]

she could have been him. most people think it with this sense of horror, as if being like keith kogane is the worst thing that could have happened to them. pidge thinks it passively, a fleeting thought as they sit together, like ever moving lines of data. if things were different, she could have been him. the same central event, the same loss of their family to the sky, the same drive to find them at any cost. katie had had the support she needed. she was scared and she was angry and she wanted her fucking brother and her fucking dad back but she still had her mom and she had her dog and she could cut off her hair and pretend to be someone else and get somewhere.

keith didn’t have that. keith didn’t have the support systems, didn’t have the ability to try to hack their systems for information, didn’t have somewhere to go. he had focused himself differently, had honed himself into a weapon, angry and violent, because he didn’t have the ability to become something else, not back then.

they had both been desperate, been willing to throw everything away for a chance to get their loved ones back, and isn’t that something. maybe, he could have been her if their circumstances had swapped. he could have been a “prodigy” he could have been “brilliant” he could have been supported. while he had foster homes and an empty shack in the desert she had family that ruffled her hair and taught her to code and told her about space with awe in their eyes, and so she loved it. space had called to keith but it had taken from him and taken from him, krolia first and his dad and shiro, and him becoming a voltron paladin is by the sheer strength of his will as opposed to any adoration of it. but it could have been. god, it could have been. the thought rings hollow in her mind.

she loves him, not quite a brother but not quite a friend, but the thought of keith, small and alone, makes something ache in her chest. she shifts, presses herself into his side, and he stiffens before relaxing against her with a soft hum.

[riceisgood123]

A couple hours late, but chapter 7 of A Shot of Deceit is up!!

Only one more to go now :,)

Rating: M // Words: ~50k // Pairing: Klance

Link:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65164696/chapters/167609758