#polyam!keefe

[the-way-astray]

if you were the author of kotlc, what would be different? (besides keefe)

i'm so sorry this is so late, anon, but every time i feel like i'm done and up to posting i feel the urge to add something else. here's a (long) list:

representation/diversity stuff

it would be completely normal to be queer in the lost cities. you tell the matchmakers what your sexuality is and if you don't know then they just assume you're pan and are cool with any gender. also, they don’t care if you’re trans and there are plenty of elixirs (temporary and permanent) to help with transitions and dysphoria. the elves are still scared of blood and sharp things though, so instead of top/bottom surgery, there’s permanent elixirs that can change . . . what you’ve got down there. recovery time is also zero

fitz and dex becomes canon. but don't you ship keefitz- yes, sir, i do indeed. but the sad truth (for me) is that fidex is more suitable for canon and keefitz is more of a fanon daydream. it brings both fitz's arc about learning the world isn't perfect and dex's arc about not judging vackers just for being vackers to a satisfying close

stina is non-binary and goes by they/them

sophie is a (straight) trans girl, mostly because it would be funny as hell. alden and fitz spend twelve years looking for a boy, but sophie’s on puberty blockers and goes by sophie, so they miss her completely. forkle has to send alden the article on sophie three times before alden realizes the “boy” they’ve been searching for might be a girl. sophie’s transness was the best defense against being found by the neverseen all along. sophie’s also alienated by her senior class’s transphobic thoughts towards her. when she goes to the lost cities, they treat it like it’s completely normal and della gives her a gender-affirming elixir with her birth fund. this is never brought up again and is completely irrelevant to the rest of the story

talked about this a tiny bit in my keefe rant but the sexism in the supposedly un-sexist world really grates on me. i would take it all out. sophie wouldn't be forced into wearing girly clothes all the time, either by herself or by anyone else. women frequently do/wear "masculine" things and vice versa. oh, and alden wears a dress at one point. also, foxfire uniforms are unisex. definitely no weird sexist comments made by keefe or anyone else. the lost cities are truly and really gender-equal

alden and della are t4t

the women aren't all housewives that get like one over-the-top girlboss-y moment because shannon realized she was being unintentionally sexist

female characters are allowed to be angry instead of sad more and are allowed to yell instead of cry more

della is a more prominent character. edaline is a more prominent character. juline is a more prominent character

cut down on poc stereotypes (like quinlin and livvy's crumbling marriage, prentice being in jail for his son's entire teenagehood, tiger parent songs, comparing tam and linh to both k-pop idols and anime . . . )

the main vacker family are all poc

the main heks family are all poc

bronte is a poc

tiergan is a poc

the elves have normal-colored eyes and the thing that makes sophie different visually is that she's the only elf not to have pointed ears (and i would erase the whole “elves only get pointy ears as they age” thing). all the poc have brown eyes, including the vackers (i'm so sorry, fitz). sophie tries to cover her non-pointed ears with her hair as a sign of insecurity, which could be related to the way she used to hide behind her hair in her high school senior class

the poc don’t all have dyed hair (tam, linh, maruca) and are allowed to keep their natural hair color

despite the lost cities’ progressiveness when it comes to gender and sexuality, polyamory is not socially acceptable because it is considered “imperfect”. sophie learns about this and campaigns against it

there's two polyam relationships: alden, della, grady, and edaline, and tiergan, prentice and cyrah

vacker stuff

alden and della's trust issues and generally fucked up relationship are explored (but minus the forced gender roles because i took out the sexism)

alvar is closer emotionally to sophie (kind of like alden), making his betrayal feel less cheap

the pressure for vackers to be perfect in every way is explored more

fitz is not demonized just because he and sophie didn’t work out

fitz and biana are twins, actually. alden and della just hid it really, really well

alvar knew that fitz and biana were twins and tried to use this as blackmail to get them to join the neverseen because he genuinely loved his little siblings and hated betraying them (his gripes were with his parents and the immense pressure put on him because he was a vacker). when they refuse, he makes good on his threat, leading to actual repercussions that affect the story (alden and della are kicked out of the nobility)

brant is a vacker and that's why his name is redacted (could still happen) and alden and della know his parents

tiergan and alden used to be best friends canon for real for real (could still happen, i guess)

biana's scars arc is given the time it needs to feel like a full arc and not a half-baked two-scene wonder. also she has scars on her face, too

fitz actually kills alvar (could still happen, i suppose)

biana's feelings with regards to alvar are explored more

keefe and alvar lore is expanded upon

ruewen/dizznee stuff

more stories of jolie. we don't really get to know her for her. maybe from brant, or grady and edaline, or someone. stories of mundane things, like her worst subject and her hobbies and her ex-friends and her conjuring classes and what she got her friends for midterms and how she got in trouble and grady and edaline's parties and how she picked a fight with anyone that put brant down

grady and edaline's parties are talked about more when people bring up how different they used to be

the fact that jolie died in an everblaze fire is actually acknowledged

the ruewens are just as prominent a family as the vackers because on the original council, just like fallon vacker was a member, there was also a ruewen

ruewen is juline and edaline's name, which is why grady took edaline's and also why juline took kesler's because that is a sign that she's literally forsaking her incredibly prominent noble family for a life of scorn. it's also why edaline and grady hoped jolie and brant would end up together (because a vacker and a ruewen together is like. the ultimate noble couple)

juline's struggles with adjusting to a life of scorn are acknowledged because it couldn't have been easy to be the top of the top falling all the way to the bottom of the hierarchy. she beats herself up about this, too, thinking it means she doesn't actually love kesler. he reassures her that he understands but she still feels guilty

the triplets act like actual twelve-year-olds instead of six

dex's family is more relevant, as the primary bad match couple and an example of the lost cities’ injustices (the main point of the story)

the lost cities inequalities/other worldbuilding stuff

sophie campaigns for rights for pyrokinetics, shades, talentless people, twins, bad matches, polyamorous people like the moonlark she's supposed to be and the entire point of the story isn't forgotten

the fact that councillors are the only ones allowed to elect and impeach other councillors is called out and fixed (could still happen, i guess)

the elvin justice system is fixed (vackers are not let off easier just because they're vackers, the council's say isn't what decides a person's fate) (could still happen, maybe)

exile is made out to be the horrendous prison it is and in the end, is banned. sophie heals the minds of everyone with a broken mind in the end (i honestly don't think shannon's going to do this. but hey. she might)

controversial: the elves' relative beauty is emphasized more. i think it should be immediately obvious to humans that something's off when an elf is around. they look too beautiful, almost ethereal, and it makes humans uneasy, but they can't quite put a finger on why that is. this is also why sophie had no friends and even her family felt strange around her. that scene in nightfall where the girls are staring at tam and fitz? well actually, they’re trying their hardest to avoid the group. humans are fleeing left and right at the sign of the group, but they can’t really put a finger on why they feel so off

shades are not allowed to take the elite levels. the ability isn't banned or anything, but they are barred from the elite levels anyway. sophie and co call this out

vanishing and flashing is one ability. hydrokinetic and cyrokinetic is one ability. mesmering and beguiling is one ability. empathy and inflicting is one ability. also there's an earth ability and it's not just given to the dwarves because man, that's cheap

the dwarves and gnomes are one species that can control plants and are really good with minerals. they are still in charge of exile, though, because plants roots can go that far deep or something. this means there are no gnomish slaves servants

there is confirmed to be a third school where you go if you aren't a noble and also not a criminal

the segregation that happens between the classes with regards to mysterium and atlantis is acknowledged

other types of couples are explored, such as talentless-talentless matched couples and talented-talented bad matches. nuance is acknowledged

that rule about councillors not being allowed to be married is challenged. i don't care whether it actually gets revoked or not, but i want it to be challenged (could still happen, i suppose)

if it does get revoked, councillor fitz! (could still happen, maybe)

at the end of the series, a multispecial council with two representatives from each species is formed with the goal of promoting equality among all species. this is different from the actual rulers of each species (could still happen)

talentless people are allowed to serve in the nobility at the end (probably will happen, would be weird if shannon didn't do that. but just saying in case)

controversial: cognates are erased. i don't like the concept of cognates very much. i find it makes telepathy too overpowered compared to other abilities. i'm so sorry, keepblr

the council are called out publicly for their unfair treatment of talentless people, pyrokinetics, shades, twins, bad matches, and polyamorous relationships by the neverseen. this leads to the sophie and the black swan being conflicted

black swan/neverseen stuff

gethen is kenric and oralie’s secret child. this gives gethen an interesting motive, makes us question kenric and oralie, characters we are supposed to like, makes sophie have to grapple with the fact that her half-brother by blood is a neverseen member, and gives oralie an internal conflict

glimmer is keefe's twin sister and lady gisela's daughter, explaining why she's so loyal and how she ended up with the neverseen (she was kicked out by cassius, who didn't want the shame of twins). keefe is forced to grapple with this

. . . or maybe glimmer just. wouldn't exist. i don't know

brant, vespera, umber, and possibly alvar wouldn't have died such anti-climatic deaths

vespera and biana face-off. brant and edaline face-off. umber gets a proper backstory (which still might happen). umber and trix are a bad match (which still might happen)

cut the keefe’s legacy plotline. fintan stays the main villain the entire series instead of randomly being hijacked by gisela halfway through

cut the forkle twin reveal

cut the trolls and everglen plotline. fitz kills alvar a different way

cut the timeline to extinction plotline and silveny/greyfell. i'm sorry, but it adds nothing to the overall story besides "the neverseen are evil and want to control the council"

cut the lodestar symbol plotline. it was interesting, but took too much page time for a plotline that effectively ended up changing nothing about the overall story

cut the criterion plotline. it's never brought up again anyway and takes too much time for something that goes nowhere

cut the gnomish plague plotline. it didn't have much of an impact on the overall plot. all it proves is "the neverseen are evil", which is kind of the point of the story. also dimitar's project is never brought up again

cut team valiant. it never should've happened

cut the lodestar initiative plotline. It’s too vague and hasn’t affected anything important to the overall story in a while

cut the boy who disappeared plotline. it added nothing except "alvar is evil". also, don’t have fintan purposefully spill the beans about alvar. the black swan find out he's part of the neverseen a different way

cut the unmatchable sophie plotline. instead have the elves do matchmaking by dna. the point of this plotline is to show why matchmaking is unfair, but the system targets talentless people and pyrokinetics more than anyone else, so it feels forced to try to have sophie be a victim of it. sophie has a (non-pyrokinetic) ability, so she can’t be oppressed by the matchmaking system. sophie isn't affected by the matchmaking system in the way that it's supposed to target its victims, so the plotline fails to showcase the real reason matchmaking is unfair

instead, have the black swan and sophie actually listen to the povs of characters who are directly affected by matchmaking and fix it

marella's dad pushed marella's mom off the balcony (he’s not trix, though) (could still happen, i suppose)

fintan ends up being sophie's biological father (could still happen. pretty likely actually. but just in case)

the black swan are actually competent and don't throw away the entire point of their organization by working with the council

the black swan actually fight for change instead of hiding in the shadows

sophie realizes that forkle sucks over the course of the series and never talks to him again after the end

fintan is confirmed to have long hair and a flat ass from the start

fintan and vespera are confirmed to be childhood friends and fintan is confirmed to be the councillor that threw her in the dungeon. this means that there is tension between them when fintan breaks vespera out

the black swan learn about this and sophie comes up with a plan to divide and conquer by taking advantage of this rift and worsening it. this gives sophie a chance to actually use her brain to fight the neverseen instead of her abilities. the black swan hatch a plan to subtly worsen fintan and vespera's relationship: through the use of a double agent, keefe

this leads to the keefe double agent storyline, where keefe learns to listen to other people and consult them on his plans, and actually works toward a very specific goal (try to split the neverseen into two neverseens: fintan’s neverseen and vespera’s neverseen by subtly turning them against each other). the plan actually ends up working, but there are serious repercussions that actually affect the story (in the process, keefe is slightly indoctrinated by the neverseen and starts to sympathize with them and even bonds with fintan a little bit, which alarms sophie and co)

the neverseen actually act like a found family (with the exception of fintan and vespera)

the collective hire people to throw the council off their scent

bronte and fintan are confirmed to have had a thing that didn't work out

fintan is thrown in jail by a heartbroken bronte at the end of the story

after fintan’s captured, he still trains marella in pyrokinesis

livvy opens up a medical school

instead of dying, vespera is locked up again. this is her worst fear, and a fate worse than death for her

the neverseen are not a large group, like shannon implies. it's no more then twenty people. this actually makes them more terrifying than not, because if such a small group can cause such large scale damage, then that is alarming and the council looks extra incompetent

writing stuff

multiple perspectives. but not evenly. like 80% of the story would still be sophie's pov, but here and there there are chapters sprinkled in from other characters' perspectives as a break

a few chapters from the adults' povs that go into stuff they got up to before the series

a few chapters from the neverseen members’ povs

a few chapters from sophie and co's povs

the love triangle takes a backseat to the actual plot

keefe and fitz actually act like best friends

the cast is cut down significantly to just sophie, fitz, keefe, biana, dex, marella, stina, and wylie (i’m so sorry tam, linh, maruca, and jensi). there are just too many characters. instead of tam and linh being from exillium, have marella manifest earlier and get kicked out to exillium, highlighting the injustice against pyrokinetics through someone in sophie’s own friend group and making the injustice much more jarring and in-your-face. sophie, biana, fitz, dex, and keefe go to exillium later as well and meet marella there

stina's arc would not have been undone. instead, there would be a conversation between her and dex about how stina apologizes for bullying him and we learn that the reason she did that was to deflect attention off of herself and her own parents' shaky match status by pretending she was better than dex, a "real" bad match's child (the book would be multiple povs, so this would be possible)

dex and sophie never kiss and remain purely platonic friends for the entire series. erase dex's crush on sophie entirely. because we need a single purely platonic male-female relationship goddammit

sophie ends up single, but takes away something from both her relationship with keefe and her relationship with fitz

prentice and sophie's first conversation after prentice wakes up is actually meaningful

the series is only four books long because please shannon i can't handle this anymore

move the lumenaria-collapse climax to the second-to-last (third) book. that plotline slapped so hard and shannon had no business losing it in the middle of the series like it was just some random neverseen plan. it needs to be given the proper weight, so it needs to be the climax that truly showcases the neverseen's might and wit that finally kicks sophie and co into gear and motivates them to knock out the neverseen for good in the last book

i don't know where shannon's going with this yet, so this is tentative, but: move the elysian/ability-to-strip-elves-of-their-abilities plotline to the third-to-last (second) book's climax, so that sophie and co can have a proper reason to not rely entirely on their abilities all the time and actually use their brains for the rest of the series (like the divide-and-conquer-the-neverseen plan)

first book's climax is still the kidnapping

last book's climax is they take the neverseen down for good and fix the lost cities' problems (i assume this will still happen)

miscellaneous stuff

terik is talentless. i'm going to be so honest: i don't think shannon's going to do it. the series isn't done but i feel like i know shannon's style well enough to be able to tell how far she's willing to go with regards to plot twists

keefe is adopted by elwin (could still happen)

the great gulon incident was such a great triumph that it actually made alina quit. she's elected to the council a few years later

whatever stina's parents did to get matched is finally revealed and they fall out of favor with the public. stina gets character development and a reason to help sophie fix the world

alden and della and grady and edaline actually all act like friends (partners?) with inside jokes and not coworkers that only come to each other with problems. sophie wakes up and comes downstairs for breakfast and della and grady are chatting about dinosaurs. she goes into grady and edaline's room and alden's there, helping them pick a new wallpaper. she goes to everglen after school to play with fitz and biana and goes inside and edaline and alden are chilling on the couch talking about how that team got absolutely crushed at the latest bramble match. she goes outside and sees della getting thrown around by verdi and grady, edaline, and alden are laughing at her. and this is like. normal stuff. they're the kinds of friends where they can just show up to each other's houses and it's not a big deal. edaline and grady's dna is on everglen's gate

everglen's gate is explicitly said to also have security measures protecting it from levitators, because that is currently a plot hole

alden is not a century older than della. this is not because i think it's toxic. this is because i want alden, della, edaline, grady, tiergan, prentice, cadence, and quinlin to have all been foxfire friends and that's kind of not possible if alden and della are a century apart

grady, edaline, della and alden's blind spots with regards to the way society is laid out is acknowledged and actually a major part of the story. they are prominent nobles, after all. at the end they all become more aware of the lost cities' problems and are at the forefront of change

timkin and kesler end up best friends by the end of the story somehow. they realize they are in the same situation in different lightings. timkin (and vika) help out at slurps and burps by the end of the story as an apology

that's all for now, but there's probably something else that'll come up that'll make me go "oh, shannon should've done this instead!!!" so. there may be a part two, i don't know

[camelspit]

Alright, so I mentioned before I would host a ship contest, and I decided to split the ships up by character and have you vote for your favorite ships with that character. After that, I'll throw the top ones into a new poll for ultimate champion.

Heres the links babes <3

Sophie

Keefe

Fitz

Dex

Maruca

Marella

Biana

Linh

Tam

Stina

(Not putting polyam ships in partly because it would complicate this a bit and partly because we all know theyd dominate. who can oppose sokeefitz or the 4 horsegirls of the apocolypse lets be honest)

I'll probably post the results on Decemer 23rd

[synonymroll648]

I mean. if you're willing to share....then yes I am all ears on that sokeefitz angst fic...just saying *eyes*. I put this in a separate ask to give you a space to talk about it, but only if you want! Also no clue what I would want if I was sick, it's genuinely been so long I don't. I don't know what my sick safe foods are? life is so so so hard for people with strong immune systems i'm suffering so much /s

also hi hope you're feeling better! or that if you're still sick that it packs its bags and kicks its own ass to the curb soon <3

i'll answer the other stuff in the og chain; this one's juuuuust gonna be the sokeefitz angst fic lol.

basically: au (that's technically canon compliant, esp since the series isn't over? idk man don't ask) where like the shadowflux echoes in (fanon) fitz's knee, the echoes in his heart end up developing into a chronic condition. but the heart echoes are a significantly bigger threat to his health, like in canon (we don't ever see him get wiped out from the pain in his knee, but we do see him get wiped out from his heart echoes going haywire. there's examples throughout flashback of what i'm talking about). a year or two after canon ends (i'm approximating fitz'll be 18 or 19), livvy and elwin sit him down and tell him that from what they can see, they doubt he'll be able to live past 100.

they tell him that they'll do everything they can to make that statement false, but it falls on ringing ears.

from there, the premise would mainly be exploring how fitz would learn to manage his emotions to keep his heart echoes in check as best as he can - particularly anxiety and anger - plus him learning to accept that he's gone from having a shot at being a famous ancient to bring pride to the vacker family, to an elf that's become the closest to mortality that one can get. and ableism in the lost cities too, because i think realizing that a lot of the people he looked up to when he was younger valued him less as a disabled person would be a good motivator to break away from the golden boy mold and become who he actually wants to be, whoever that is.

and then there's also learning to accept almost-mortality through sophie's unique perspective on it, and helping her accept almost-immortality. slowburn exes to lovers on that front, through the power of - as keefe dubbed it in the books - cognate rawr. i'm also thinking this would be set in level 7 for fitz, so he could be roommates w/ keefe and have an '(unofficial) ex (childhood) best friends to lovers' arc.

sokeefe would be established already in this, but have a conversation fairly early on the fic where they're like 'ummm so i actually haven't moved on from fitz and it's freaking me out-' 'omg SAME' and then help each other figure out they're bi and polyam (that would be a side plot of its own, because, like. you can't do that in one scene lmao). and then once they'd reached that conclusion they'd be like 'hey so you wanna see if we can flirt our way into getting fitz to join our relationship?' 'worth a shot, sounds better than endless pining'.

ofc fitz is super dense though so he doesn't see keefe's advances as flirting until the obliviousness starts getting ridiculous, and he makes up ten million platonic excuses for sophie's actions because we broke up, there's no way she still sees me like that anymore - not when she has keefe the way she does. because as an aro i would do that in his situation and i have decided he's aro-spec <3 but they all get it together eventually. and get a cottage somewhere and fitz gets to be a baker and they just. have their happily ever after.

uuuuuuuuntil fitz is on the cusp of turning 100 and dies. because i'm evil. and i want to explore how much worse keefe's oh my god please don't leave me please please please i'd do anything to make you stay complex would get if he lost a lover and the situation was out of his control. and how much it would differ from sophie's acceptance. and how sophie's acceptance could turn into world-crushing anger and stuff after she stops feeling the need to stay strong for keefe.

and then maybe how much worse the whole please don't leave me alone please i'll do ANYTHING ANYTHING ANYTHING JUST STAY STAY STAY would get if sophie died centuries after fitz from some mission and keefe was truly on his own. just after he started feeling solid about having her in his life for a long time after the present. if i'm feeling particularly cruel by the end.

(there's a lot of scenes that made go OWOWOWOW that my brain conjured up, but. those stay in my brain until i write them. no spoilers :) also ik i'd need to do a lot of research on heart conditions to make fitz's arc more accurate to real life because even if shannon doesn't care about medical accuracy, i do lol.)

[gay-otlc]

Ok so for 2021 I’m pretty sure they were

Stina- lesbian

Marella - pan

Sophie - bi

Biana - bi

Fitz - Aro

Linh - ace

Tam - trans

Keefe - non-binary

Dex - gender fluid

Hmmm okay I am a Trans Sophie (Finn!) truther ofc so that's the headcanon I'm gonna recommend for him. And aro Tam perhaps. Polyamorous Linh bc four horsegirls and the polyam flag is cool.

[bookwyrminspiration]

I would like to present a new ship

Sandor x Keefe

Enemies to lovers

And I’m so sorry for telling you about this cursed ship

Have a nice day

You woke up and chose violence, nonsie

I feel like I've seen you before, like you sent this to Nattie or something. I must say, this is an extremely cursed ship. Has there ever been an interspecies relationship before? Would they be making history?

Enemies to unwilling allies (to protect sophie) to friends to mutual pining to fake dating to lovers. this is the arc I propose. This would, of course, all occur when Keefe was much older and more mature and an adult.

the worst part of this is my brain is trying to explain and justify this and in the process is coming up with actual lore and backstory for them rn. i'm thinking the fake dating part is like a "we need to have a meaningful connection otherwise one of us will be slaughtered" kind of thing. I don't know if that makes sense when I say it outloud but it makes sense in my head, unfortunately.

like a "he's my responsibility" thing. Adult Keefe is working trying to gather intel but he gets caught and is going to be killed/imprisoned for it, but Sandor plays the "actually he's mine and don't worry I'll punish him myself." and that's how they get out of it. but then they think they're in a relationship and have to play it off. this is an incredibly loose idea so I'd need to develop it further to actually make it make sense.

thank you so much for this cursed ship. now i can't stop thinking about them. I hope you also have a nice day !!

[when-all-hope-feels-lost]

47 layers and weeks of avoiding posting this later have some sokeefitz

[theunmappedstar]

sick things w/ sokeefitz

“a uh sophie/keefe/fitz sickfic or christmas/birthday oneshot bls im content deprived❤ ” (submitted by @asexualfandomsalt )

this isn’t a sickfic and i’m sorry, but it’s sick headcanons and i hope that doesn’t totally suck. (also: i’ll consider your christmas/birthday request, too!)

 fitz is a total fucking mom when it comes to keefe or sophie being sick. when sophie and/or keefe gets sick, fitz won’t let them leave the house. you’ve got a headache? the sniffles? a Slightly higher temp than usual? well guess what, it’s a self-lockdown on the vacker-foster-sencen household. 

keefe likes it a lot -- he’d do anything to get out of work or general responsibility and sleep the day away. sophie, on the other hand, tries to fight it. (spoiler alert: she always loses. fitz ends up calling in sick to work for her every time, against her will)

fitz is  a l l  over them. he makes starkflower stew! and fluffcreams! and other comfort foods! and he makes sure they’re comfy in the bed/couch and he’ll fluff their pillows and tuck them into the covers! he adjusts the temperature in the room to help them get comfy!

sophie finds it kinda blush-worthy getting fussed over, but keefe really loves it. he m e l t s (sophie does too but she’s extremely flustered the whole time). you know keefe -- he enjoys the spotlight. and getting coddled when you’re sick is the best!

keefe tries his best to help out sophie and fitz when they’re sick, but he can’t actually do too much. he’s an empath, after all, and when he comes into contact with fitz or is in the general proximity of sophie, he’s hit with his own wave of pain/nausea/whatever else his s/o is feeling (isn’t that fun?)

though keefe still wishes he could physically soothe them, he isn’t scared away. keefe does what he can to help distract them from their sickness. he’ll let them request little things for him to draw. he’ll build a pillow and blanket fort around them. he’ll have a picnic with them on the bed. he’ll binge shows with them. and if he’s feeling up to some physical contact, he’ll braid their hair (little braids for fitz! :3) or run his hands down their back or hold their hands.

okay but even though keefe’s ability can be a little unhelpful in that situation (rip to keefe) it’s also a major asset?? he knows exactly how they’re feeling. i hate to say it, but you know how good it feels to be able to empathize with someone during a time of pain? 

also!! he can get them the exact medicine they need because he knows what they’re experiencing

oh but speaking of medicine

did i mention that sophie is the medicine m a s t e r

with all her trips to the healing center she knows precisely what remedy her boys need to take for whatever they’re experiencing

also, when sophie is the Certified Caretaker, she’s really big on the physical affection part. you wouldn’t think so because she tends to be shy with showing her affection through touch, but she secretly loves it. and fitz/keefe being sick is just an excuse for her to hold them in her arms

sophie really enjoys cuddling with them in bed!! and when they’re sick, sophie gets to do something she rarely can: she can be the big spoon. 

she lets them nuzzle their heads under her chin and lay their heads on her chest as she embraces them. she lets them listen to her heartbeat. she runs her fingers down their back and through their hair... :3

oh and she holds their hands!! and gives them little caresses!!

kisses are also her J A M. forehead kisses! nose kisses! cheek kisses! kisses on top of their head! kisses on top of their hand!

a lot of times keefe and fitz try to advise her not to come into contact with them because who wants to get their s/o sick?? 

but like.

sophie just doesn't care.

“i mean, we’re all stuck in this house together, so it’s probably going to pass around”

“plus i know you’ll be there for me if/when i get sick, so” :)

another thing! they might get a note or two out of sophie. though sophie gets a Little embarrassed, what she’ll sometimes do (when they request) is hum a little song for them. usually slow and sweet ballads that she listened to when she was younger.

think ‘a thousand years’, ‘all of me’, ‘you are my sunshine’, ‘count on me’... those stupidly cute songs!

sophie’s REALLY good at narrating stories, too. she’s like a little portable library because of her photographic memory! also, mimicking comes in handy for character impersonations :) (that makes fitz smile. keefe fucking loves it, too)

hello are we just gonna graze over the fact that sophie can inflict positive emotions on them when they feel like hell?? imagine her!! filling them with a sense of peace!! and happiness!! and safety!! and her overflowing love!! to help them drift off to sleep!! im SOFT

[steal-nightmares-leave-dreams]

polyam Keefe rights

[thefruitsaladdemon]

kotlc characters and their sexualities

sophie: demigirl they/ey/she, bi/demi

fitz: cis he/him, bi

keefe: queer he/they/she, pan but thinks they’re straight.

dex: cis he/xe, bi ace

tam: trans he/they/ghost, gay

linh: cis she/fae, bi aspec

biana: demigirl she/they, bi 

marella: nonbinary ae/they, sapphic ace

maruca: agender they/them + neopronouns, sapphic

elwin: enby all pronouns, aro/ace (i can only imagine them single i’m sorry) 

fork: doesn’t pay much attention to this type of thing

tiergan: genderqueer he/they/xe, homoromantic ace

prentice: cis he/him, bi & polyam

wylie: nonbinary transmasc they/he, pan ace

fintan: genderfluid he/him and she/her, omni

bronte: trans he/him also very very gay.

thanks for coming to my ted talk :P 

[bronte-deserves-better]

since you agreed with my sophie-biana-marella-linh ask, i present to you: dex x keefe x fitz x tam. polyam. gay as fuuuuuuuuuuu-

DUDE I need to meet you off-anon because I want to find out who’s coming up with these galaxy brain takes. I 100% approve of this ship. Just, imagine it. You have the Kam dynamic -rivals to reluctant friends to lovers- and the Detz dynamic -enemies to sort-of friends to lovers- but also Keefitz, best friends to fighting over the same girl to lovers, and Tam/Dex, the ones who always felt on the outside. And don’t even get me started with Keefe/Dex or Fitz/Tam. Just a fascinating dynamic between all of the people in the relationship and it could be so sweet! Kisses stolen and smiles. And Dex makes gadgets for them and Keefe cheers everyone up and even once, sketches them all, and Fitz brings little gifts and Tam blushes and is fiercely protective. All of them have a different language of love that they speak and it’s gorgeous to see combined. They’re the gayest quartet in the whole of Foxfire and everyone knows it.

[aphelea]

I have. So many questions. Jolie is alive? There are 2 Dexes? Not Niki?? Smallden? Nikismall? Not Brant?????

yes Jolie is alive and married to Brant

there are two dex’s and Fitz is dating both so I don’t know if he’s polyam or not-

niki is Alden’s sister

smallden and minikita are kid versions of Alden and Nikita that were brought through the five machine Dex made

Brant is a good guy now

As she deserves, Jolie revival arc

Ohh is it like the Forkle situation? Or are there just. Two of the same guy

Ah, makes sense

Wait. So you're saying that Dex made a time machine and he used it to bring kid versions of Alden and Niki back? Is this time machine still around? Could he use that to save Keefe?

I figured, since he got married to Jolie lol

[happyk44]

YFIP: Ollie, Part Nine

yoooooooo, im at fudging nine, @spacejasontodd

HAS NEVER SEEN A ROOSTER EVER

has seen maybe one (1) chicken

can't be bothered to check what part they're on for my YFIP list (laziness is a sin, ollie, and it was 5)

cares about Keef (disgusting)

thinks i almost cried when I EXPLICITLY SAID I MEANT IT IN AN EMOTIONAL WAY (fool, I have never cried in my life, ever)

thinks i care about jason todd bc i experienced emotions once for him

10/10 would slap (gently pwaps tho, ur face probably bruises like a peach)

confuses me almost every day

their entire life is confusion

daddy issues

mommy issues

sibling issues

literally has enough issues to cover every family member

defs the type to look uncool on a motorcycle which automatically notches anyone's coolness up by five points (ur like negative one million cool)

is so uncool, their coolness is negative one million

me: i gotta get dressed for work ollie: good luck!

why the fuck would i need luck for getting dressed

ollie i get dressed all the time

it's not rocket science for me

why are you like this

LAZY

won't call me daddy (offense, ollie. i'd be a great father)

claims that reading porn and looking at it elicites two different responses for them and that's why they won't read my smut but will look and send me different pornographic pics of voltron characters

ollie, my writing is not as explicit as seeing a dick physically go into someone's ass.

is that it??

ARE YOU SAYING U WON'T READ MY SMUT BC IT'S NOT EXPLICIT ENOUGH (offense)

married me and trying to hook me up with a gf

polyam for the win, bro

hates angst but intentionally went back and changed their prompt to an angsty prompt for two of the angstiest characters ever

the meme that goes person a "do you have this thing", person b who visibly has the thing "no" - that's us.

ollie's usually person a bc they are soft like a watermelon

how the fuck do u save weed tea? why are you saving it anyway?

wants me to message them about things but frankly that would decrease my problems for them and i cannot have that

"where are my effects" - ollie immediately after taking a hit of weed

im like 500% sure it was actually grass

claims to have smoked 1 weed

actually has more likely smoked 1 grass

told me they had wi-fi and then didn't tell me when their wi-fi access stopped and then promptly complained when i kept sending them data-eating shiz

u should've told me, fool

this is your own fault

honestly, im still stuck on the fact that they wished me good luck at getting dressed

im very able-bodied and also not a child

i did not need good luck

thinks i stopped tagging them in stuff

fool, relax, i got shit in my queue for you

has no idea what they're gonna do in their future

speaks like twenty languages (unnecessary)

wants to speak like fifty more (doubly unnecessary)

made a post about the fact that i sent them every emoji i had available on my phone in consistent stream

doesn't know their zodiac and astological bullshit but had the nerve to tell me i was wrong about mine (i was not so haha)

blames me for being the reason why lance is piloting red and allura for piloting blue

look, ollie, you fuck, do you think i knew what they were planning?? no??? I WAS JUST TRYING TO WRITE ANGST MY GUY

“I’ll wait for u bro” (i was going to the store)

always dramatic

hates antis but would probably be annoyed by the lack of drama if they didn’t exist

cares about inifity war and probably doesn't worry it will be a disaster, despite the fact that it has 20+ characters and stuff with 20+ characters interacting is always a hit or a miss

the saltiest potato chip

follows the politics of their government like some kind of fool who cares about the direction their country is going in (loser)

once claimed that i, a native english speaker, was speaking the language wrong

ollie

ollie, bro, this is literally the language i grew up with, what did u grow up with, polish, that's right, you fool, you know nothing about english and everything i say is automatically correct by virtue of me being native to this damn language so ha

defs gay for me

also a goddamn nerd

got excited because someone messaged them about jason todd out of the blue

i mean what kind of nerd

bigass nerd

hugeass nerd

the nerdiest of all the nerds

has comic books??? (the nerdiness just mass increases)

reblopped a post i made after it reached like 500 notes just to tell me in the tags that i was doing a good job

i mean

they literally stalk my notes and progress on posts

and i don't even udnerstand why??

are u waiting for me to get famous off a shitpost??

is ur goal here to be famous by association???

i feel like ur goal here is to be famous by association

why

they were made like the powerpuff girls but inside of chemical x, it was chemical NERDINESS

such a nerd

also got a huge dose of "cries about jason todd in the middle of the night" in the middle of their creation process

i once started to make a joke post about us but deleted it because i didn't feel it was accurate only for the post to actually come fricking true three days later

probably a meme

most likely wants to become famous by association

get on my level bro, look AT ALL UR PROBLEMS

their username is spacejasontodd, which implies shiro, but their icon has only ever been jason todd, damian wayne and lance in the eight to nine months that i've known them (petition "change ollie's icon to shiro from voltron so their damn username is accurate 2k17" is now in motion)

abandoned me, their husband who lives six hours behind them, to go to sleep. what kind of disloyalty? smh

[synonymroll648]

I love the bestie

i mean they sound like keefe (bi polyam bestie) so. i'm not surprised

[gay-otlc]

wait wait wait canon keefe polyam where? please? where help need?

Well, Alvar has multiple partners, and Keefe says that makes Alvar his “hero” implying that he aspires to also have multiple partners.

Semi canon.

[gay-otlc]

bisexual polyam keefe?

Keefe has a habit of drawing his crushes

A lot

Sometimes he draws his crushes and him on a date

From a pretty young age, his sketchbook had elves of all genders

The guy elves, the girl elves, the probably genderqueer elves.

He wanted to smooch 'em all.

Somehow he managed to convince his dad that all the guys he drew himself with

(cOUGH, Fitz, COUGH)

Were just date ideas for bros, you know? Super hetero bros. No homo dates.

And his dad bought it???

I mean Cassius is literally an Empath so like he Knew what was going on but

Cognitive dissonance and extreme denial is a bitch.

He didn't really know there was a word for it until Sophie, he just kinda knew that he liked more than one gender.

He didn't even know there needed to be a word for that; didn't everyone like all the genders?

Keefe was thoroughly convinced that all elves dated around all the genders when they were teenagers/young adults and just married an elf of the opposite sex to make ✨elf babies✨

But yeah anyway Sophie came out to the gang as bi at some point.

And Keefe responded with "Cool, I'm happy for you, but what the fuck does that mean?"

She explained it and he went "Ohhhhhhhhhhh, me too."

(Sophie later decided omni fit her better but yeah)

(The two of them are just two mspecs in an m/f relationship)

He started dating Sophie first because Fitz was still pretending to be straight honey you're not fooling anyone but okay

Once Fitz comes out (wow shocking), the power of the TEAL EYES captivated him and he found it difficult to only love Sophie, but he also felt very guilty about that?

Like a good partner who understands the concept of communication, he talked to her about it.

"Understandable. Fitz is really hot, I see why you would like him."

They talk for a while and decide they want Fitz in their relationship.

So yeah, Sokeefitz!

Bonus headcanons:

Keefe has a t-shirt that says "I put the bi in bitch."

(Fitz got it for him)

Everyone assumes Keefe is good at math because he puts the pi symbol everywhere

He knows nothing about math. He just likes it because it's on the polyam flag.

Keefe is shit at remembering which joke/funny story he's already told which partner so he'll often tell things to the same partner twice and the other partner not at all.

But he tries.

If he has to wear a cape, they're going to be either bi or polyam flags.

I saw a post once that said Settlers of Catan is polyam culture and I think about that every time I play Settlers.

But yeah, Keefe is pretty good, he just hoards sheep and shows no mercy with the robber.

This is long and I am tired. Thank you for the ask.