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it's leap day and you know what that means

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‘I can’t do this without you…' 

 I could not stop thinking of this sorry

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Can we all appreciate the pretty drawing i did for the voltron T shirt contest ":3?

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Got stalled by life just as I started season 4, thinking about circling back and going through the whole series from season 1 again with proper note-taking.

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My bbgrl

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A WIP that i have no intensions of finishing in this life or another blablabla I LOVE THE JACKET THOUGH lit sold my soul to make it

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yet another piece I made for the Galra zine [I don't even remember how many I've posted at this point]

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Garrison-era Paladin Headcanons

Despite all appearances, both Keith and Lance were pretty up there in terms of grades. Neither of them hold a candle to Hunk or Pidge, but they were good enough to easily stay in the Garrison— which is absolutely not an easy thing to do.

Keith was ahead of Lance, which was why he was in the fighter program while Lance was in cargo. The gap between them wasn't enormous, so when Keith dropped out/got kicked out, Lance was pushed through to fill his spot.

Pidge doesn't just sneak up to the roof, they study there a lot. If caught, she'd say it's because there's nobody to bother her, but really it reminds her of spending time with Matt.

Hunk used to be Lance's body double/accountabilibuddy because there wasn't shit getting done if nobody helped him keep his brain accountable.

On the above note, Lance gives strong ADHD vibes— actually very smart, but with self-worth in the negatives and god help him if he failed at something he was usually good at.

Keith's competitiveness was usually enough to motivate him to study (that and not wanting to waste the opportunity that Shiro had given him), but Shiro also used to sign off on extra flight sim time for him when he did particularly well.

I also like to think about the sorts of electives that the Garrison had; they were probably suited to the kids who might not make the space program but who maybe had the skills to become military or commercial pilots. So things like meteorology, air law, general aircraft knowledge...those sorts of things.

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Alright, but what about Keith training with Pidge early in their tenure as Paladins to show her how to take down opponents several times her size?

It's one of those small ways I think I'd make the team a team— a unit that's made of people with unique skills that can come together and be better together.

Keith can't offer her emotional support the way Shiro can, he can't be a tech nerd with her like Hunk, and he can't be a general nerd or easy for her to hang out with the way Lance can, but what he can do is help her learn the skills he had to find out the hard way.

He can show her how take a hit, how to use her greater speed and agility against anyone she can't risk getting caught by. How to take what she lacks in physical mass and turn it into something just as deadly. It's something he can do for someone he cares about.

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I posted this on tiktok like two months ago and I wanted to see how it’d be received on here

this was inspired by @alluruh on tiktok, please check her out, I love her edits

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Attempting to get back into the swing of writing for Voltron after so long but finding that most of my ideas will require me to be warmed up to actually complete (and there are a lot of ideas. quite good ones too, if I say so myself). Considering doing oneshot requests to bridge that gap.

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Thought of the night (as I've begun season 4): a facet of Kuron's mission could very well have been to drive Keith away from Voltron.

It makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Keith's the only other person capable of piloting the Black Lion and thus leading Voltron. He's shown that he has the potential to be an effective leader, even though he started out with neither experience nor willingness to do so. He also knows Shiro better than anyone; if there was a single person on Team Voltron who could have realised something was off, it would have been Keith.

There's also one more point that's probably the most important: Keith is relentless. He understands the stakes of the war they're fighting better than any of the other Paladins, and he's been shown repeatedly to be able to play those stakes— it tends to be the others that prevent him from doing so (see him advocating for leaving Allura rather than delivering Voltron to Zarkon, or him pushing to chase Lotor rather than focus on evacuating refugees in 4.01). Had he grown and matured as Black Paladin, it would have spelled trouble for Haggar and the Empire, because that's the same kind of tactical ruthlessness you see in someone like Lotor, who is a pain in the ass to go up against.

Enter Kuron. Kuron who has the face and the voice and the memories of the person Keith trusts most in the universe. Kuron who's enough like Shiro that any differences will be brushed off.

Kuron whose differences from Shiro are absolutely devastating.

On the surface, it seems like Shiro! He encourages Keith to accept his position as Voltron's leader...except his actions don't reflect that. It's very manipulative in my eyes, how he simultaneously praises Keith's growth and puts him down. How he tells him that "Voltron needs a strong leader" but repeatedly undermines his strength by issuing orders that he knows the others will listen to over Keith's.

Kuron tells Keith he needs to be a strong leader while doing everything he can to make him seem a weaker one.

All of this comes to a head with Keith feeling like he doesn't have a place with Voltron, especially not as the Black Paladin, and definitely not once 'Shiro' can pilot Black again. Instead of being brought into his own as a leader, he's had his insecurities reinforced, and the only option he feels he has left is to leave for good, and taking with him the only person on Team Voltron who could have posed a legitimate threat to Kuron's infiltration.

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No thoughts here, just how ridiculously pretty Keith looks when he's sad.

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Did it ever occur to anyone else that in 3.06 ("tailing a comet"), Shiro/Kuron could very well have gotten the Paladins injured or killed?

It's their first encounter with a Sincline ship. The first time they've faced a weapon that comes close to being on-par with the lions. One hit from that ship's canon blasted a hole through the Castle's defenses, defenses which have been shown to be remarkably strong, even for being centuries out of date compared to the weapons they're being hit with.

I won't argue that taking out the teledav part shouldn't have been a priority, and I also won't argue that Keith's chasing of the Sincline ship was the better move. What I will argue is that Kuron ordering them to turn their back on that ship to focus exclusively on taking out the teledav could have gone very wrong for them had Keith not moved Voltron out of the way at the last second. Even Lotor seemed fairly confident that a direct hit from that ship would do serious damage to Voltron; there's a version of that situation that went far worse for the Paladins.

Keith is, again, not as polished a leader as Shiro, and you can't really fault the other Paladins for wanting to fall back on the advice of the leader with more experience. He did manage to make the best out of the bad situation they were in— he came up with a plan on the spot that ensured the teludav was destroyed while also not blatantly disobeying Shiro's orders.

The entire episode is really interesting character-wise. Watching it again, I find it almost inevitable that Keith would end up stepping down from the team just as soon as 'Shiro' managed to pilot Black again.

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man and his 500 lb galactic space best friend