#someone please help takashi shirogane

[justaz]

wrjrithi gon the greind THE COICES THE VOSIBCE THE COICESSSS

haha ha haha what if i rewrote. all. of voltron.

[ohyoufool]

Writing Patterns

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there’s a pattern!

Tagged by: @doggernaut and @montrealmadison my besties!!! I am so touched!!!!! and aren't we lucky that I just hit 10 posted fics?? And because I can't stop yapping, I put a little note about each of them.

austin (check, please!, bitty/jack)

"Jack comes to Georgia like a summer thunderstorm."

(this one is alternately titled 'I went through a lot of breakups last year and got into country line dancing and it shows')

call of the champions (check, please!, lardo/camilla)

"It’s Lardo and her board."

(THE FUCKING FIC. I AM SO PROUD OF HER. and also I bought a sick salt late city 2002 olympics leather jacket because of it and it's basically my whole personality)

creation myth (check, please!, bitty/jack)

"It goes like this."

(this is me and @montrealmadison's magnum opus, and I learned how to bind books just to immortalize it)

sloshed with gold (check, please!, bitty/jack)

"Jack’s phone starts ringing halfway through his Tuesday morning jog."

(if you like nhl!bitty and photographer!jack, she's your jam. not sure if I will ever like the way I wrote this one but eyyyyyy it exists)

rocket man (voltron, keith/lance)

"The fireflies were flickering above Keith’s dark hair to light the path. He stood on the porch as Lance looked out from the doorway. There was a moment of silence. “You will help me keep him here this time, won’t you?” he asked."

(I won't apologize for voltron. I am too far past the shame. i wrote a paper on voltron queerbaiting and it got me into college. I owe her everything.)

season of the witch (check, please!, bitty/jack)

"Sometimes, Bitty gets carried away with baking."

(um fun fact there's apparently been a typo in the first line of this one for the last THREE YEARS ?????? its fixed now but dear god. I would delete this if it didn't have the second most hits of any check please fic i've written. I cant reread it it makes me want to die.)

don't waste another mile or minute (not kissing me) (voltron, keith/lance)

"Light. An unusual amount of light. Keith throws his elbow over his face as he peels his eyes open, wincing as the sun blasts through an open window."

(an OLD banger that I wrote at my first internship because it was so boring. some clever lines but my writing has improved tenfold since 2018)

and all I can taste is this moment (voltron, adam/shiro)

"There is absolutely nothing like flying, Takashi Shirogane, sixteen, almost-professional pilot, assumes. He assumes because he hasn’t been allowed to fly (yet), but if the simulator gives him any idea of what flight is like, Shiro is going to be hungry for it for the rest of his life."

(my magnum opus before creation myth, and the longest thing I've ever written (48k). yall ever yolo on a rarepair and write a biblically accurate cold war fic? no? just me? ok.)

last sunrise in the wasteland (voltron, keith/lance)

"The first time that Keith kisses Lance, the sky is the color of cotton candy. "

(this is my fic with the most hits which is great except there's a softcore porn scene in it I forgot about and subsequently subjected my grandpa to when he was reading it and making edits for me. so now it makes me want to die a little thinking about that. no he never brought it up.)

In my veins (carry on, baz/simon)

"On the worst day, Baz wakes up in Simon’s arms, the cursed tattoo glaring at him in the morning sunshine. Simon is still passed out, body curled into Baz, chestnut curls bouncing with each heady breath. The mark bitten onto his neck from the night before flashing like a highway sign on his neck."

(once someone bookmarked this with the tag 'out of character' and it has haunted me every single fucking day since I read that. WHY DID THEY BOOKMARK IT IF THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT. sorry it drives me crazy. I DONT UNDERSTAND.)

Tagging (no pressure, and anyone else can also jump in!): @justlookfrightened @bittysthesis @chaoskiro @zimbits-my-love @parseisflat @a-very-gay-disaster @dessertwaffles

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

hi! feel free to ignore this ask, but if you were searching for an excuse to talk about kuron(or anyone else) in your post s8 au ........👀👀👀

*Deep breathe* Do i ever!!!!!!

I actually have an unneccessarily long post in my drafts i am typing out talking about Kuron, (Kuron babygirl please get help😭😭), but the entire thing can boiled down to this- Kuron is someone who desperately wants even needs a semblence of control in his life. Like the entire possession by Haggar and than merging with Shiro? Finding out you are a clone created to replace this guy to destroy the team inside out and be a weapon? Everything you used to think about yourself was a straight up lie? That a recipe of a whole bunch of issues baby!

This man has lost any and every form of agency since the moment he was created. He isnt even sure that he can trust himself or his memories anymore because how can you when you are literally created to be someone else? He doubts every thought he has, every first instinct, every want, because he is never sure if that is him being himself or him being Shiro/controlled by Haggar.

What he is sure about is how angry, hurt, and betrayed he feels by his friends. He is especially hates Keith (who effectively killed him and is the one putting the most emphasis on him being Shiro), Allura (who put Shiro in his body), and Shiro (literally face of like so much of his trauma, the entire "evil clone who replaced me" shit he talks about while in HIS body, and just being merged and locked in his mind was just not a great experience, 0/10 will not recommend) (he also hates Haggar so much, he will throw hands). And this anger is pretty much a crutch to him, because it is the one thing that kept him from fully merging, and is pretty much an assertion of his identity.

He has this weird complicated feeling about Lance, cause well Lance is the one who saved him and he is very grateful for that, but also he has been nursing that hurt for a really long time and just has a really hard time letting it go and he just doesnt trust Lance, he wants to but he really cant. The problems between these two can be solved with few honest conversations because both parties are more willing to listen to each other, but problem is Lance is kinda in a coma and Losing it which is a major L.

He is also trying to find what to do and who he is. He did not expect to survive or get out or get his own body but now that he is out he just doesnt know what to do with this second chance. He's going through motions, trying out new things, anything and everything that just gives him a purpose or something, anything

He wants nothing to do with Shiro, so anything resembling Shiro has to go. He is getting tattoos, piercings, changing his whole aesthetic. Space? Cosmos? The fuck is that? He is Not Interested, no matter how cool as fuck it is, no sir, absolutely Not/sarc. He is doing things Shiro would hate which consequently he also lowkey hates but says he likes it through gritted teeth. These things range from reading classic Lit to getting into bar fights at 3am and it is just "Really! It Is So Fun!!! Shiro is a Massive Wuss and a Little Bitch for Missing Out while i am cool as fuck 😎😎😎😎😎😰- i mean 😎😎😎😎😎😎. Love having individuality and making my own choices under my own violation that have nothing to do with Takashi Shirogane, a guy whom i absolutely Do Not Care about and has Nothing to Do with This or Me" (dont tell him that by doing things against what Shiro would have done he is still letting him influence his decisions, he has to figure that out himself)

So to summerize- Kuron my guy is having a midlife crisis, an identity crisis, a what to do with your life crisis, a teenage rebellion phase all at the same time, which is a real Bruh moment of him.

[kidgetrash]

Monsters and Mana 2 - Save The World, Get The Girl - Chapter 4

Character:  Keith Kogane, Pidge Gunderson/Katie Holt, Lance McClain, Hunk Garrett, Shirogane Takashi, Coran, Princess Allura, Matt Holt

Pairings:  Keith/Pidge

Warnings!:  This is going to be one looooonnnggg fic! I think? So far I'm barely into the plot and I have four chapters, so let's see how far we go! I'll add warnings as they come up!

Summary: Information is shared.

A/N: Heyo! I am feeling somewhat human (as human as I get!) and have been able to do a tiny bit of typing and feel well enough to properly get this chapter up instead of just a link and I'm about to put up a masterlist! Enjoy!

Allura walked across the throne room to a large table bearing a map.  To the west lay the largest of the three countries, Prince Keith’s own Qiomend, to the south east Snagrore, and finally between the two lay the smallest country of Ephbe.  An area of the map where all three kingdoms met was marked with a green flag.

‘My intelligence shows that the princess is being held in this region.’

‘Then what are we waiting for?’  Keith asked, looking between the group.

‘For Allura to finish her report.’  Matt reminded him they had only just began to hear it.

‘Right.’  Keith deflated a little.

‘I appreciate your keenness, my friend.’  Matt patted his shoulder before beginning to walk around the table.  ‘Continue.’  He nodded to Allura.

‘As I was saying,’  she carried on as though she had never been interrupted, ‘the border where the three countries meet is a wasteland, desolate and roamed by gangs of bandits, used as a hiding place, a meeting spot, all away from the prying eyes of polite society.’

‘I know a bit about bandit gangs.’  Shiro spoke up for the first time.  ‘And the wasteland isn’t a place you want to be.  It’s lawless, brutal, certainly not somewhere a lady should go.’

‘I assure you, I am more than capable.  And the lady we are concerned with is the princess.  She must not be allowed to suffer even the barbarity of being held in the wastelands, for longer than is necessary, let alone what the Snagrore fiend have planned for her, no offence, Greyarrow.’

‘None taken.’  Hunk waved his hand.  ‘As long as she’s not held too close to Snagrore itself, I can move around freely.  No one will suspect someone like me, or him,’ he nodded to Shiro, ‘wandering around the wastelands, the problem is pretty boy and his companion here.’

‘Pretty boy?’  Keith asked while Lance commented; ‘Damn right, I’m pretty.’

‘He meant Keith.’  Allura poked him.  ‘Carry on, Hunk.’

‘We need these two to look more like they belong in the wastelands.  And you, Allura, because you don’t look like you belong in the wastelands either, but these two especially don’t.’

‘I can provide you with supplies and disguises.’  Matt waved a hand and servants brought in packs and clothes, seemingly he knew what they would need,  ‘Help yourselves, dull your weapons to hide their true fortitude, but please, bring my sister back alive.’

‘I vow on my life that she will come home unharmed.’  Keith swore seriously.

‘I appreciate it.’

‘Then let’s suit up and move out.’  Shiro was the first to move to the servants, taking the first pack and sorting through its contents.  Rations, flint and steel, rope, clothing, and everything else an adventurer may need.  ‘This will do nicely, Your Majesty.’

‘Good, then safe travels, to all of you.  May the gods go with you.’  Matt spun on his heel with a flourish of his cape, leaving through the doors he had come through with a wail of; ‘My poor sister!’

Chapter 3

Masterlist

[amorremanet]

did you write the book of love (chs. 1-3/?)

Teen. 23k. Canon-divergent AU, with eventual Black Paladin!Hunk & Yellow-then-Red Paladin!Shiro.

Keith/Shiro (romantic pining & dumb, disaster boys being dumb disasters). Adam/Shiro (established & romantic). Shiro/OMC (platonically in love & sexual). Iverson & Shiro (familial/gen). Eventual James/Keith (sexual; mild trash fire) & Keith/Pidge (romantic).

***

“It’s really not much,” Shiro tells him, brushing his fluffy forelock away from his face. “But… I got you something—”

“It’s April. Not Christmas. Or my birthday, either.… And most people don’t give out presents for Easter, do they?”

Shiro shrugs. “I just wanted to give you something? Like, something to keep you busy while I’m gone—”

“You’re spending a long weekend in Seattle. Meeting Adam’s parents for Passover, right? It’s not a big deal—”

“I mean when I’m gone to Titan, Keith. Six months seems like a pretty big deal.” Giving him a sad smile, Shiro whispers, “Open it? Please?”

***

In between running around the bureaucratic maypole about graduation, family drama, and fighting the depression gremlins, I have nominally been doing NaNoWriMo. It mostly consists of Shiro and Keith pining, being emotionally dysfunctional dipshits at each other, and making questionable life-choices, because that’s sort of a staple in my brand.

read it here on the ao3

[chubbywangji]

okay but modern AU where Shiro’s poor therapist (Ulaz) is actually very open to things like the potential benefits of light, recreational use of marijuana, to the point that he eventually recommends Shiro try smoking a couple times a month (maybe once or twice a week, at most) to try and ease his perpetual anxiety and stress about everything

and yeah, friends and housemates Allura, Hunk, Keith, Lance, Matt, Ryou(/Kuron-inspired twin who we’re calling Ryou after GoLion!Shiro’s brother), and Pidge have to sort of nudge Shiro into even trying it instead of dismissing the entire idea as totally pointless, and someone generally has to sit with him or he might not actually smoke like he’s supposed to? but they can take turns and he does eventually listen, and it gets to the point where having people to smoke with is a, ”personal preference because Shiro loves being around people” thing, not a, “Shiro won’t do it without someone watching him” thing

either way, this does end up having a positive effect on Shiro’s mood and well-being, and stoned!Shiro is seriously the cutest shit that everyone has ever seen

for starters, stoned!Shiro is much more relaxed about his sense of humor, which everybody already knows is Questionable but he usually keeps buttoned up…… until he’s high and then he’s happily making jokes so bad that Lance cringed at them, and laughing as much as he wants at Lance’s bad jokes, which is a lot of laughing, and it’s all real, full-bodied laughs, too, not that restrained little chuckle that Shiro usually does unless you catch him way, way off his guard with something really funny

for another thing, stoned!Shiro is an incredibly affectionate little lovebug (as much as you can call him, “little” when he’s 6’3” and pretty buff). he hugs people all the time and loves to snuggle up to whoever’s closest and/or most willing, then showers them in compliments and tells them how much he loves and appreciates them. I’m not saying that Lance becomes his most frequent smoking buddy once he realizes that sharing a joint makes his Shirito want to cuddle and give pep talks that are less, “I believe in you, you can do anything you set your mind to” and more, “you’re good enough exactly as you are”…… but I’m certainly implying it loudly. stoned!Shiro also loves kissing more than sober!Shiro, and he’s so glad that he has a circle of datemates and/or close friends who are often game to make out with him

one time, Pidge and Allura walk in on stoned!Shiro hugging pit-mix shelter rescue!Rover and telling her that she is such a Good Dog, she is the Best Dog, and he’s so happy that she’s safe and loved with them. another time, Hunk walks in on Keith sitting on the couch, with Shiro sleeping while snuggled up to Keith’s lap and stomach, and Keith is crying because he’s known Shiro longer than anybody else but Ryou (since the two of them are twins) and Keith legit cannot remember the last time when Shiro was ever this relaxed or happy

probably the most noticeable difference, though, is that, even when he doesn’t exactly have the munchies, stoned!Shiro actually admits to being hungry and doesn’t give a fuck about his usual low-carb, lean-protein, calorie-counting diet. Also, his idea of a good workout is running around the park for fun or playing Dance Dance Revolution, not, “busting ass at the gym until he is in literal pain and: Allura, Keith, and/or Ryou have to go be Disappointed in him for pushing himself nearly to the point of passing out; Hunk gets sent in because he can do a good Stern face and physically, he has the easiest time of manhandling Shiro; and/or Lance, Pidge, or Matt pull out the sad puppy eyes and wibble about how Shiro’s making everybody worry about him until he feels guilty and stops for the day.” but it’s still the food thing that everybody notices first

stoned!Shiro lets his sweet tooth out, when it’s usually buried unless it’s a cheat day, and even on his cheat days, he doesn’t really indulge. the first time that he smokes up, he actually asks Keith and Allura if they can get pizza or ice cream, maybe, and looks like he could kiss both of them when they go, “Well, why not both.” he might need a moment to puzzle out what he wants because, sadly, he has gotten very good at ignoring or willfully misinterpreting his body’s signals, but he still openly says that he’s craving things that he often doesn’t let himself enjoy or wouldn’t think of (“can we get some nachos and cover them in udon noodles” “Shiro, why” “I don’t know, I just really want both of those things, then some Ben and Jerry’s, pleeeeeease just drown me in Phish Food and Chunky Monkey”)

sure, he’s only smoking up a couple times a month, but all of this does result in Shiro learning that the world isn’t going to end if he eases up on his diet a little. Which is a bit of a work-in-progress for him when he’s sober — but after a few months, Shiro’s getting a little bit chubby. not by too much yet, but he’s losing his thigh gap and gaining starter love-handles, his chest isn’t looking quite so ripped, and there’s more of that beautiful ass to grab when you’re making out with him. then there’s the pudgy tum that’s increasingly stretching out his shirts

to everyone’s surprise, though? Shiro doesn’t even mind. Actually, he kinda likes this

[autisticsheith]

Okay, so this meta/headcanon is brought to you by, “I just have a lot of feelings about Shiro and his body and his time with the Galra,” and, “Blue @shidgephobe asked me to post it on tumblr after they got to see it”

So, this post is building a lot on this meta post, but it has such a Sheith-y slant that I felt weird about adding it onto a gen post. But I need to acknowledge that meta from demenior, wrecked-anon, and bleedingfandoms, as it influenced a lot of my thoughts about Shiro’s time with the Galra and how it might’ve influenced his physique and relationship with his body

Generally speaking, I buy more into the idea that this meta brings up, where Shiro’s post-Galra/post-Champion physique wouldn’t actually be quite as beefy as fanon likes to make it out to be. Like, he’s clearly muscular and by no means scrawny, but the beefcake!Shiro idea doesn't quite mesh with the facts, to me. I don't think it's something we can call wrong either, given the way that he's drawn; it's just not how I personally interpret his body type

THAT BEING SAID: there is a pretty notable difference that can make it feel like that post’s MMA fighter comparison feel like it’s kinda missing something about just how much his body changed?

Which, before I go on, is…… well, two things of relevance to Keith: 1. assuming he had Shiro’s old clothes for personal intimacy reasons (whether because they were romantically together pre-Kerberos or because they weren’t dating but were close enough for Keith to keep Shiro’s personal effects for him, or possibly steal them back from the Garrison), this probably kinda explains why everybody else has clothes that fit comfortably while Shiro’s look like they were painted on

I mean, Shiro hasn’t seen those clothes in at least 15 to 18 months (because the first episode starts a year after he, Matt, and Papa Holt are taken by the Galra, and it takes a few months to get out to Kerberos on top of that), and he’s spent the majority of that time as the Champion and then as the Druids’ favorite new guinea pig, getting noticeably bigger and more muscular in the process. So, it makes sense that clothes which fit him more comfortably before he went on the Kerberos mission would be passable but tight on him, afterward;

and 2. yes, any scars Shiro acquired as the Champion are definitely of interest too, but like…… what about Keith trying to get familiar with Shiro’s body again, just on the level of remembering how he used to look, possibly what being with him used to feel like, etc., and trying not to compare Shiro-of-now to how he used to be (because Keith’s so grateful that he’s alive and here at all, and Keith also doesn’t want Shiro to devalue himself or get feeling like Keith preferred how he looked before)

—but on the other hand, having trouble not doing that to some extent, because yeah, Shiro was fit before his time with the Galra, but he wasn’t quite so hard, physically (which Keith doesn't want to make sound bad, because he’d rather have a Shiro to sleep next to than not, but putting his head on Shiro’s chest used to feel a lot cozier, and he thought that maybe, Shiro would ease up on himself and get back there, but that hasn’t happened and with how seriously [to the point of it being kind of self-damaging] Shiro takes being a Defender of the Universe, Keith’s not holding his breath).

And yeah, he worked out regularly before the Kerberos mission, but he also let himself relax more often, and while he was lean and toned, he still had some kind of discernible body fat

(—which Keith doesn't really want to bring up, because he's not sure he knows how to say it without sounding cruel, but he's getting Concerned over here? Not that he can really talk, since he's pretty lean himself and he is well aware of that, but so much of how Shiro's body is now makes Keith worry about him, and the relative lack of body fat is one of the things Keith keeps coming back to when he worries)

And yeah, Shiro's beautiful to Keith no matter what, and he really can't stress enough how much it means to him that Shiro is alive, and he's here, and Keith has him back

(—but he’s seriously getting worried that Something Less Obvious isn’t okay about Shiro and hasn’t been since he got back, and it’s not as easy to pinpoint and identify as A Thing That Exists And Is Not Right In The First Place as, say, Shiro’s flashbacks and his nightmares, and Keith is just…… so at a loss for any ideas of what to do about any of this).

But back on the more general topic…… I actually put together shots for the sake of comparison. Because this seemed like a good use of my time, and I wanted to. And because tumblr resizes things, you can find the full resolutions over on imgur.

First up isn’t my comparison shot, and it does show visible differences between pre-Kerberos/pre-Champion Shiro and Shiro when he gets back to Earth, but my big issue with it is that it doesn’t try to compare similar shots/angles so much as it contrasts two images that are incredibly different for multiple reasons, not just because Shiro’s body has changed.

Next up, just some overview shots of Shiro before he became the Champion (with one from when he, Matt, and Papa Holt were captured, and the rest from either when Shiro was fighting the Myzax or when he was trying to get Matt out of the arena so Matt wouldn’t die)

vs. different shots of how his body looks throughout the first episode

Then getting into more specific shots, Shiro’s face doesn’t always make the difference obvious, and it can be difficult to tell the difference with his waist when the angles aren’t always comparable

But when you do get shots that you can compare more easily (from his capture on the left, and from Ulaz breaking him out on the right), his face does look different for more reasons than the scar (though I’m also going, “Okay, but maybe he looks heavier there because we’re looking at his face from a different angle; it’s close enough for government work but it’s not exactly the same”)

Next, it’s not always easy to tell how Shiro’s body changed when we look at his torso, because there aren’t very many straight-on shots of it from before he became the Champion, but even with the forced perspective we get with Matt up front, we can tell that Shiro isn’t exactly small beforehand.

Plus, the way the Galra slave outfit fits might also help make him look smaller, while his outfit after the fact being so tight makes him look bigger

But even accounting for forced perspective (and Matt being in the way) here, when you look at details like how Shiro’s chest and arms look next to each other, and how much his upper arms crowd in on the rest of his chest, it does look like he’s gained weight and specifically muscle (like the meta above says, it probably would’ve been difficult for Shiro to really bulk up during his year as the Champion)

Like, unless the Druids started dosing him with quintessence steroids or something, he would get strong and there could (and I would say is) a discernible difference between how he looked before vs. now, but he wouldn’t really get huge and beefy (especially given that he’s ungodly tall, I mean? He’s also shorter than Sendak and Zarkon, if they were here, but on this comparison chart, he’s literally only shorter than Zethrid and Lotor)

Exactly how tall Shiro is comes down to headcanon (my headcanon is 6’3”, but that has less to do with actual consideration and more to do with, “6’3” is one of my favorite heights for fictional guys, thanks to a lot of early exposure to shoujo anime and manga where all my favorite bishie sparkle love interest boys were 6’3”, like Kashino Rei from MARS [and I misremembered Mamoru from BSSM as 6’3” because he was always standing next to 4’11” Usagi]”) — but, yeah. Shiro would still probably not end up super-bulky from his time with the Galra

Except then you have the issue of his biceps, which are probably the biggest, most visible difference between pre-Champion Shiro and Shiro when he gets back to Earth, and really do lend themselves to the idea that Shiro got super-beefy as the Champion

Again, there are some issues of angle and perspective in these shots, but on the left, we see Shiro’s bicep when it’s relatively flexed (pulling his arm back so he can grab the weapon) and relatively relaxed (holding the weapon while hiding from Myzax in the arena, so he’s not perfectly at rest, but he’s also not exerting a lot of energy right at that second), while on the right, we see his biceps in multiple positions/states as well as in comparison to Keith and Hunk

Here are the full glimpses of those caps with Keith and Hunk, though, because I think it’s useful to see them in full (as opposed to how I had to shift them around to focus on Shiro in the collage)

Like, we know that Shiro is bigger than Keith, that’s not news. The biggest point about that cap, to me, is how Shiro’s waist is notably bigger than Keith, but it doesn’t seem to have as much of a size difference on Keith’s waist as Shiro’s arms have on Keith’s arms.

Like, they’re not close enough in size for Shiro to be able to wear Keith’s jeans (I mean, unless Keith lives in black leggings or something, Shiro’s thighs would probably destroy his poor boyfriend’s jeans, just bust all of the seams wide open, before he even had to deal with the issue of whether or not he could zip and/or button them — and if Keith does live in black leggings, then they would essentially be painted onto Shiro’s body and no one in a five-mile radius would be able to focus on anything), but still.

There does seem to be a bigger size difference between Shiro’s and Keith’s arms, than between their respective waists. I don’t know what I make of that exactly, but I find it interesting.

But I’m somewhat more interested in the size comparison between Shiro and Hunk:

—because their biceps come out looking relatively similar in size — if not exactly the same, then definitely pretty similarly-sized. And we know that the composition here is different because Hunk has more body fat than Shiro, but that just makes it even more of a big deal, to me, that Shiro’s biceps seem to be about the same size as Hunk’s

And it all makes me have look at it like this: okay, so Shiro’s body did visibly change from how it was before he went on the Kerberos mission, whether we want to say that he’s like Chris Evans!Cap, an MMA fighter, super-beefy, borderline-bara Space Daddy, or whatever.

I know I still lean more toward the MMA fighter interpretation because: 1. I think that meta I linked above made several really good points about the more practical considerations of what kind of workouts and nutrition Shiro could’ve expected as a Galra slave turned gladiator, and about how Shiro’s body looks when we see it in canon, what that might mean, etc.

(also, the above-linked meta’s point about how Shiro’s waist is pretty narrow compared to the rest of his body changed the perception I’d had of his physique before reading, because I hadn’t really noticed it myself. But then I did the math on a few different screencaps of him from different episodes, and…… yeah, Shiro’s waist is about half the width of his shoulders, for whatever that means to anyone but me);

and 2. ……I mean, no, a lot of MMA fighters might not be as obviously huge as Chris Evans!Cap or the way some people draw beefy borderline-bara Space Daddy!Shiro, but have you seen some of the MMA guys out there? You totally can find some who have waspish-looking little waists and huge biceps without being super beefy in any way.

But however we interpret Shiro’s body type and the changes in his body from his time with the Galra, the difference between pre-Champion!Shiro and post-Champion!Shiro still raises the question of how the Hell he managed to gain a noticeable amount of weight (keeping in mind that even if 6’3” is just my headcanon, he is still probably at least six feet tall, based on how his height stacks up to the other characters’) and get it cut into more muscle

(I wouldn’t personally call what he did “bulking up,” because that tends to imply some kind of intent behind it that I don’t think Shiro would’ve had when his primary concern always needed to be just on surviving — but at the same time, I don’t really know what else to call it, so? *shrug emoji*)

Druids playing around with Quintessence steroids is always an option, as is, “well, they were experimenting on him even before they took his arm, right?” — but I think he probably would’ve had to gain at least some of the weight and muscle by then, because his time as the Champion is implied to be the reason why Haggar and the Druids ever took interest in him in the first place

The way I see it, Shiro getting any weight he put on turned into muscle probably wouldn’t have been as hard as actually gaining it in the first place, because even if his “workouts” were far from ideal (i.e., either preparing for or taking part in literal life or death situations where he’s fighting in an arena against opponents who are considerably bigger than he is), they were workouts and Shiro had necessity as his motivation, so based on what scant bits we know of his time as the Champion, he probably put a lot of work behind trying not to die

Gaining the weight on a slave diet would’ve been next to impossible, but Shiro first became known as the Champion (at least to some people) after he took out Myzax, which was (as far as we know) his first battle.

We may not know any hard facts about any culture or practices that have been built up around the arena and the gladiator fights, but we know that getting to sit with Zarkon is considered an honor, and we can look at some historical precedents (like the Roman Coliseum and the culture of celebrity that could crop up around some of the gladiators)

And I don’t want to say that Shiro probably had “patrons” and “benefactors” paying to feed him better, or that maybe they did more that I kinda want to go into and think about more, but also keep scare myself off of thinking about too much because I know that I’ll go to some of the same feels that I kick myself in whenever I do anything with Finnick Odair, and that I’ll probably make myself crossover ship Finnick/Shiro more than I already do

……But that’s exactly what I’m saying because that’s how I feel about the changes to Shiro’s body during his year as The Champion, and I’m sad about it, the end

[hope-vs-disbear]

So we're all in agreement here

Shiro suffers

He need a break

Someone (Keith, Allura, all of them) needs to hug him

He needs a good spa day

Someone call 911 this is child abuse he's like 6 years old my dudes

[blackblood1872]

i need help

i was going through either the takashi shirogane or sheith tag on august 18th (or 17th idek anymore) and i found this one post

it was talking about a theory that there might have been a sheith scene somewhere in the first half of season 7, but it was cut because they couldn’t have that much blatant gay in the show yet

but it was going on about how shiro and keith might have had a conversation, it might have gotten awkward, and that was why shiro ended up moving to the green lion instead of staying with black for the trip to earth. also it might have said something about this being the reason they don’t talk much for the rest of the season, but my memories of the show are honestly starting to fade and i don’t know if that’s actually a thing or not so it might not be in this post

anyway, i was inspired and wrote a conversation that fit this situation, but i wanted to link to this post, only i forgot to like that post and now i can’t find it anywhere.

please, please, please, if anyone knows the post, can you link it do me? i’m dying, i really am, i need to find this post again.

i’m going to tag all the things i think the other one was tagged with, maybe someone in those tags can help me out

update: the post has been found! thank you so much!

https://iota-in-space.tumblr.com/post/177223037661/waaait-you-know-what-would-make-perfect-sense

[justanotherhijabio]

Me thinking about how Shiro and Adam felt after the Kerboros Mission, how Adam must've felt like he wasn't enough for Shiro, how they were both probably crying their eyes out at night thinking about each other, feeling guilty over their last interaction, knowing that they would never see each other again, Adam wishing he convinced Shiro harder to stay because if he did, he'd be home but instead he's dead and people are blaming him for the Mission failing, Shiro wishing he listened to Adam because now he's going to spend the rest of his limited life trapped on an alien ship in space and being experimented on, how he decided to choose the Kerb Mission (and other one's) over his own fiance and now he would never get the chance to tell him how much Adam meant to him, how they both wished they could be together again:

...I hate myself... 🙃

[voidalchemists]

when is someone going to make an adashi/shadam animation to “i hate you” from If/Then because i’m still waiting

[retrogradestarlight]

someone please help him 

[lilflowerpot]

Speaking of keitor soulmate aus, I just imagined the red strings of fate style aus and Keith and Lotor’s strings just going off into space and it cracked me up

In all seriousness though, that would probably be pretty normal for Lotor, but Keith is just staring at his string going up into the sky and trying to figure out which astronauts are currently in space right now because that’s the only alternative to aliens he has (and then he finds out it IS aliens but space is huge and there’s a lot of aliens so he’s still kinda has a string to no where for a while)

Okay but this is actually the cutest thing anon please ♡

So let’s say that in this au people aren’t born being able to see their string; if they were, Keith would have figured out his soulmate couldn’t possibly be an astronaut way earlier on, because while space excursions can last a for extended periods of time, vld established that Shiro’s mission to Kerberos (on the very outer edge of our solar system!) would last several years... but if that is true, then by the time Keith hit 10/11 he’d know there was no way his soulmate had been on a mission for a decade, because where would they even go that took that long??

Instead, maybe people’s strings start appearing just before puberty, and Keith - being part galra, which obviously tweaks his biology a little - is something of a late bloomer, but finally (finally!! After months fearing he’d have nobody at all, and that this would be yet another thing that sets him apart from everybody else!!) freshly-turned-thriteen Keith wakes one morning to find a red thread stretching to the stars.

Of course, his immediate response is to skip school that day - to hell with it, he has a soulmate - and sprint straight to the local library to frantically research astronauts currently stationed off-world... and though a horrifying majority are more than thrice his age and remind Keith more of various foster parents he’s had over the years (many of whom he’d really rather not be forced to recall every time he looks at his supposed other half), he finds one potential candidate who makes his heart squeeze with terrified hope.

Takashi Shirogane.

Though the youngest pilot to ever lead a mission to space, he’s still older than Keith by a good seven years, but... but he’s undeniably handsome, with kind eyes and a nice smile, and after devouring every second of interview footage starring the Galaxy Garrison’s so-called golden boy, Keith decides he wouldn’t half mind a soulmate with a laugh like that.

So of course the universe has to go and ruin it.

After months of following Shirogane’s career like it’s his new religion, Keith finds himself counting down the days until his maybe-soulmate’s present mission returns to Earth.

And then it does.

And it isn’t him.

Because the footage of Shirogane’s glorious return from helping to establish a small research colony on Juno is clear as day, and yet Keith’s thread remains stubbornly skyward.

Keith allows himself a few days to mope, but no sooner has he resolved to try again - because there must be someone out there who isn’t old and crotchety and might actually look at him like he’s worth something - does the golden boy himself waltz into Keith’s classroom looking for recruits. And, wouldn’t you know it, just because he’s not got the other end of Keith’s thread tied to his finger doesn’t stop Keith’s heart from jumping to his throat when those soft grey eyes turn right to him and ask “think you got what it takes?” as an invitation and a challenge rolled into one.

But then “discipline case” is being whispered behind him in a tone he knows all too well, and Keith just... snaps.

It wasn’t even Shirogane who’d said it, but he’d heard it and from past experience Keith knows that that’s the damage done, so he slips out from the midst of his crowding classmates and into the seat of the military-issue car all in under thirty seconds.

If they want a discipline case, then he’ll damn well give them one.

The thrill of the chase is short-lived, but he’d still managed to out-drive the cops for a good fifteen minutes, and it’s almost as easy as out-flying his classmates. The surprise isn’t being taken down to the station. The surprise isn’t even being dragged before a frazzled Shirogane and being forced to apologise.

The surprise, Keith learns, is that a laugh like that is even more disarming up close.

It’s whole year later, filled with applications and examinations and Shirogane’s - “call me Shiro” - warm hand squeezing his shoulder to ground him when it all becomes a little much, that Keith finally admits to himself that maybe it’s okay to have a crush on the handsome, kind, incredibly nerdy, idiot who’s become his best friend and mentor.

It’s two before he admits as much to Shiro.

It’s embarrassing, the way it slips out and leaves Keith fumbling over his own words, because he knows it won’t go anywhere- he knows Shiro sees him more as a kid brother than anything else- he knows that he and Adam literally just broke up and this is really probably the last thing Shiro wants to hear-

“I just mean-” Keith flushes, takes a breath, and doesn’t dare meet Shiro’s eye, “I just mean that if Adam can’t see what a huge mistake he’s making then he’s an idiot. And he doesn’t deserve you as a soulmate anyway, because anyone would be lucky to have you as a soulmate, and even though I only thought you might be mine for a few months I was really proud, so-”

“You thought I was your soulmate?” Shiro cuts in quietly, and Keith’s shoulders hitch high around his reddening ears. “Keith, hey, look at me.”

He does because it’s Shiro, and he’d give Shiro the stars if he asked for them.

Gunmetal eyes crease at the corners, fond and fragile and a little bit in awe.

“You were really proud? To think it could’ve been me?”

“Obviously,” Keith breathes, and is scooped up into the biggest hug imaginable.

“Thank you.”

They talk it through a little more: Shiro ever-so gentle in letting him down, and Keith trying not to laugh at how guilty his friend (Shiro still wants to be his friend!) looks the entire time. Then, the inevitable question comes.

“Why did you think it was me?”

“More like hoped,” Keith shrugs, “everyone else up there is old.”

At the odd look Shiro gives him, Keith explains: his soulmate’s in the stars, has been since his string appeared, and at the time Shiro was too, and though he knows he’s supposed to love them no matter what a part of him can’t help but squirm uncomfortably at the idea of such a large age difference.

“They’ve been up there the whole time?” Shiro clarifies, still with that strange crease to his brow, “For the last twenty-eight months straight?”

Keith nods.

And this is how he finds out that his soulmate is an alien.

It’s not that Shiro says as much, not explicitly, but apparently the pool of astronauts that have been off-world for the aforementioned twenty-eight-month span is a small one, and of them there are none so far as Shiro is aware who have yet to meet their soulmates (after-all, if one’s string is skyward bound, one tends to find their other half rather quickly, for obvious reasons).

“They could be from a private program,” Shiro murmurs more to himself than anything, scratching absently over his own jaw, but Keith can tell he doesn’t really believe it by the lack of conviction on his tongue.

So... alien it is.

[tyrezlangst-blog]

Langst scenarios:

What if Lance's real father on Earth was extremely abusive towards him, so when he meets Shiro and Shiro becomes a dad like figure to him, Lance is extremely happy, but he is haunted by the memories, so he is also very terrified of Space Dad. And like, nobody knows he was abused but Hunk, but Hunk won't tell anyone because he promised Lance. So Lance starts to beat himself up about being scared of Shiro for no reason and his thoughts become really bad like on Earth and he tries to kill himself for like, the third time?? Hunk finds out and feels terrible for not warning the others. But Shiro finds Lance and saves him, and then they have a bonding moment after he gets out of the healing pod and Lance tells Shiro everything. (A platonic friend relationship, no sexual or romantic)

[officialredlion]

Okay so I was having a sweet thought today in terms of post voltron after war stuff.

So, okay, Keith and Lance continue BoM humanitarian stuff. On a break during the fall they stop by the Garrison where Shiro, the headmaster 😌, is hosting some kind of 5 year anniversary for the day the universe defeated Honerva and thinks meeting the paladins might be a really exciting thing for the students. Allura and Lotor even make it as well! Wow!

Keith, still not super comfortable with all the celebrity being a savior of the universe brings, kind of tails behind Lance during the lunch period and lets him answer most of the questions for them. It's a lot of sensory overload and scary in a way that bringing back the universe from the edge of destruction isn't.

He's mumbling through answers and quickly signing autographs when he sees a young teenage boy, who desperately needs a haircut, a faint bruise underneath his eye, sitting in the corner alone with a scowl on his face, messing with his food but not eating it. A scholarship kid, he's told. Ward of the state who doesnt have exceptional grades but is here after a scout noticed his talent (James??? Maybe?) but can't keep his act together.

Next think he knows, Keith is sitting across from this kid, being told to fuck off and that he's not interested in talking. Keith responds with that's okay, I don't feel like it either, also kind of tired of listening anyway.

By the end of the day, Keith has a pen pal (begrudgingly at first on the teen's end) he gets "letters" (emails?) from on occasion so he can check in and give guidance where he can. The kid let's him know that everyone wanted to sit with him the next day, but he wasn't ready for that kind of attention. He's even working on making a friend! A shy girl who says she'll help with out with calculus and physics if he helps her with her piloting. And when Keith visits a few times a year, they both train together in combat and flying, sometimes with the caveat of please don't tell shiro I showed you this but check this out *steals hoverbike*

Of course Shiro knows, it's his school....and his bike (again Keith really?)

The teen doesn't have a family to be with during the holidays. Keith didn't either, but now he has Lance and his huge family who are absolutely esctatic to hear that Keith wants to invite someone. There's too many people, too much extended family and friends to sit in one area. It's a little overwhelming, but Lances already has a plan and introduces the kid to his cousin, who just started in August as a freshman in the cohort below his. The kid thinks, hey they're not so bad...and only a month later for winter break does the cousin invite the kid back for holiday dinner before Keith even had the chance.

He reads over his next few updates that the kid now has two friends! His grades are up. He's not sitting alone. He's using the techniques Keith taught him in class and he's absolutely crushing the rankings.

Of course Shiro recognizes them immediately, he taught them to Keith.

By the time he's graduating, the lonely kid goes from no family to having an entire voltron family complete with amazing badass older brother he can tell everything to, because finally someone understands him and he finally knows what it means to be wanted.

And on Keith's end, maybe he starts to finally understand just what in the world (universe, even) THE Takashi Shirogane ever saw in him. And that maybe he means as much to his chosen older brother as his chosen little brother does to him.

And of course during this entire thing Shiro is watching from the background like 🥺🥺🥺 I love full circle moments

[amorremanet]

“brand new shoes, walking blues” (chs. 5/5, mature, ~54.8k)

Relationships: Lance & Shiro, Sendak/Shiro, twins!Shiro & Ryou.  //  Characters: Lance, Shiro, Matt, Hunk, Ryou, Sendak (“Maurice”), Ulaz.

CW’s: Emotional/Psychological Abuse (in the Shiro/Sendak relationship), Emotional Manipulation, Gaslighting, Victim Blaming, Trauma & PTSD, Depression, Eating Disorders, Substance Abuse.

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe (College/University, Punk, Modern Setting). Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Mental Health Issues, Recovery, Therapy, Flashbacks (related to Shiro’s PTSD). First Meetings, Friendship. Unhealthy Relationships, Abusive!Sendak, Bad BDSM Etiquette, Collars. Minor Hunk/Lance & Pining!Lance. Past Keith/Shiro & Pining!Shiro. Mildly gratuitous pop culture references.

Summary:

Lance has admired Shiro from afar since the first time he found Shiro’s old channel on Youtube. He’s spent years enamored with both Shiro’s music, and with his idea of what Shiro might be like, if they could meet in real life—which they won’t, or so Lance thinks.

What he’s less enamored with, is Matthew Holt and his insistence that he really does know Shiro. Allegedly, they went to college together, and Matt knows why Shiro’s spent most of 2013 being so weirdly quiet. Allegedly, Matt can arrange a meeting between Lance and his musical idol, but surely, Matt’s just lying for attention, right? There’s no way he knows Takashi Shirogane.

Shiro, meanwhile, is eight weeks sober, two weeks out of rehab, and still not used to the fact that he isn’t in Chicago anymore. Recovery’s a difficult process that he’s only just beginning, and he still expects Maurice, his ex, to find him and take him back. Another part of him doesn’t want to give up his old coping mechanisms, thanks.

It makes no sense to Shiro, why any of Matt’s other friends would want to meet him—but loneliness isn’t working out for Shiro, either. So, hey, maybe meeting this Lance guy will be a welcome change of pace.

Part of the a gnawing feeling leaves you quite unsure series.

Read it here on AO3.