#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

[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

[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 

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]

*posts this on a sideblog, then decides to rb it over on my main anyway because fuck it, i like my little cranky tirade about characterizing slav (who is legit difficult to write, actually, or at least he gave me a lot of trouble in that last chapter, but i guess i just have a lot of feelings about his characterization so here we are??)*

“slav has been greatly and painfully misunderstood by this fandom” - a manifesto, by me

Okay, this started in a fandom saltiness discussion on — in which I literally said, “I AM ALWAYS UP TO BE SALTY ABOUT SLAV.… More specifically, about how fandom treats Slav” — so that’s where it’s coming from, and I have done very little to clean it up after copy-pasting.

TL;DR: The VLD fandom tends to treat Slav as either hilarious or completely above reproach (sometimes both), which annoys me — because he actually is a fascinating character (at least, he is to me), and I dislike the way he is boiled down to either a joke about, “LMAO SPACE OCD!!!” or turned into a “~pure precious cinnamon roll uwu~” who only resembles his canon counterpart kinda vaguely, if you tilt your head a bit to the left and squint

As a character, I think Slav can be fascinating because, if you actually examine his actions? He is a fucking dick

He’s a reclusive genius who has the intelligence and skill and talent to get away with being a fucking asshole, and yes, he clearly has SOME kind of issue (whether it’s ““space OCD,”” literally seeing all of the possibilities in alternate realities, or some cracked out combination of both)…… But he also isn’t an ~uwu precious cinnamon roll~ and his legitimate issues are not an excuse for the ways that he treats other people (which are largely abysmal)

Keep reading

[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

[quarter-past-eleven]

Voltron Keith Fics

Mainly involve Whump fics

The Galra capture Pidge and present her with a choice. Either she makes the weapon they want… or someone dies. Pidge prides herself on her genius, on her logic. But this? This is not a choice. This is torture. She’s being forced to decide if the universe’s fate outweighs the lives of a few individuals and no one, no one, should be allowed to make that call. She has to though. Again and again.

But when a familiar face is dragged before her she can feel her resolve crumbling. Because Keith is not a nameless prisoner. He is her friend, her family. And yet his blood is already dripping from her hands.

Biiitch. I cried. This fic shows a great bond between Keith and Pidge (brotp for life) and how Pidge deals with Keith getting hurt and. oh my god just read it please. @icypantherwrites

Everyone told his pop not to run back into that building. He did anyway. Keith let out a choked sound as he sprinted into the burning complex in search of Lance. Like father like son. He just… just hoped this had a happier ending.

This is a short one but it features Keith being a reckless idiot as usual.

While responding to a distress beacon from another ship, Lance and Keith become prey for something evil hunting in the dark.

Featuring dying Keith and BAMF Lance.

An encounter with an ancient creature leaves Keith a child and Shiro reliving the past. While searching for a way to get their red paladin back, the team uncover a connection between a savage race of aliens and one of the universe’s oldest mysteries...and learn the past is never truly behind anyone.

This fic is AMAZING. It shows how Shiro and Keith met and why their bong is so different to everyone elses. Featured Abused Keith, just a warning.

Keith's path to recovery after his abusive past in the foster system. Featuring art, ballet, bonding, and a whole lot of Shiroganes falling into Keith's life

A different take on how Keith and Shiro met and features Ms Shirogane, which I haven't seen before.

After Red gets damaged in a battle with the Galra, Keith crash lands on -or rather in- an ice encrusted water planet. With Red sinking fast, Keith is able to make it to the surface, but the freezing water pulls him back under. He's saved from the water by a certain blue paladin, but the effects of being in that freezing alien water take its toll on Keith. Lance must help his friend while also trying to locate the Red lion, for Keith's sake and Voltron's.

Keith and Lance almost die, Keith gets hypothermia and wears Lances clothes. What more could you want! Also this has Klance so if that's not your thing I wouldn't recommend

The fics in this series are NOT connected to one another. They're just my dump of fic ideas with platonic relationships and are strictly gen (with a little pinch of bromance cuz I'm weak for that)!

My personal favourites in this series are To know One's Family, One week off from Savinf the Universe (features Keith and James becoming friends, which I don't usually like but you know it's a good fic), The Enigma of Number 4 (this one's funny as fuck, seriously youse should read it) and The Lost Red Paladin.

First-year Garrison cadet Keith Kogane stands out like a shark in a tidal pool. Ruthless. Explosive. Focused. Rude. The other cadets can’t beat him, so they try to take him down any way they can.

Despite the constant churning of rumors and accusations surrounding Keith, Senior Officer Takashi Shirogane offers to mentor him, showing the boy kindness and patience. Slowly, Keith is drawn out of his defensive shell. Slowly, he learns to trust Shiro.

But time is running out.

Tonight, the Garrison will be infiltrated by a group of anti-space militants and Shiro is at the top of their hit list. Unfortunately for them, Keith isn’t even on their radar. And there is no way in hell he is letting his friend die tonight.

Another amazing fic featuring BAMF Keith. I don't wanna spoil but all I can say is Keith is fucking clever and dangerous when Shiro is in trouble.

All Galra have nine lives, if there are enough pieces of them left to revive after death.

Keith doesn't understand what's happening to him.

This was the very first fanfic I ever read and it is still one of my favourites. It goes through how Keith died each time and him not realising he should be dead. The Klance isn't really a focus here, like it's towards the end and there isn't a big confession or anying. It's just mentioned in passing.

Getting their cover blown and having to sprint full-speed toward the exit of a Galra cruiser was not on the Paladin's list of things to do. But neither was Keith's inability to open his eyes after he was struck in the back of the head. Today was just full of surprises.

[banditoswift]

After remembering that Keith actually likes the outdoors and the forest, I can't stop imagining what it would be like for him and Lance to go camping.