#{mullet keith: au}

[discordiansamba]

For the identity crisis AU, do you think their fashion sense changes any?

Oooooh, good question.

Well first off. Hunk's definitely wouldn't. This is because Hunk and Keith have exactly the same fashion sense. Seriously. Look at their outfits side by side. Cropped vests/jackets? Fingerless gloves? Boots? Belts with pouches? Literally the exact same fashion sense.

Lance probably wouldn't change much, but I think he'd develop more of a sense for comfort while still trying not to look like a slob. There's some part of him that wants to start wearing shorts, but he is not listening to that part of him. That's the devil talking. He would not look good in shorts, and he knows this. Stop trying to make him wear shorts, part of him that's Pidge.

Pidge gets a cropped jacket. She sees one at the market and she can't resist. It's got deep pockets- what more could a girl want? The fingerless gloves come after. Also when was anyone going to tell her how convenient having a belt with pouches was? She resists the urge to buy a headband, but it's there. She's not going to say that's the devil talking. That would be a rude thing to say about her friend.

Keith buys a non-cropped jacket and stops wearing the fingerless gloves. God himself could not force him to stop wearing his dad's old belt, though. Everyone's watching him like a hawk to see if he'll cut off the mullet but he just stops cutting his hair instead, which turns out to grow weirdly fast. He gets Allura to teach him how to braid it, which is a very weird bonding experience for her. She'll take it?

[boyfrillish]

Okay but all my Unova (esp HughNate) feels also got me thinking again about my wayyy old klance AU where they meet at a con cosplaying nate and hugh and they immediately hit it off and being all cute and like they’re dating. Then later they meet again at school and are both pining idiots, thinking all the affection was just being in character for their otp but really they’re falling in love. Their pour friends have to listen to their pining and peptalk them to just confess already

[ariseresound]

“WooooOOOoooo!” [[Shiro]]

"Just stop."

[thisapplepielife]

Written for the @steddieholidaydrabbles December challenge.

Sleeping with Spiders

Prompt Day 12: Only One Bed | Word Count: 1000 | Rating: T | CW: Language | Tags: College AU, Meet-Cute, Only One Bed, First Kiss

"I think you're in my bed," a voice says, and Steve looks up from the class schedule he's studying while he lounges on his new dorm room bed. 

There's a long-haired guy standing in his doorway. 

“Uh, what?” Steve asks, staring at this guy. 

Steve's room is a single, so this is definitely his bed. It's the only one in the room, and surely this guy can see that. It’s kinda hard to miss. The guy waves a paper at him, and steps inside, dropping his bags to the floor with a thud. He hands the paper to Steve, and Steve skims it, and sure enough, this is his room assignment, too.

Steve fetches the same paper with his name on it, and hands it over. Same room. 

"They've fucked up," Steve says, comparing them, seeing the guy’s name at the top, “Edward.”

"Eddie,” he corrects, then adds, “and you don't say…”

“Steve,” Steve offers.

“They've definitely fucked up, Steve.”

They probably need to tell their RA, so this can get fixed.

Keith, the RA, is spectacularly unhelpful. His only advice was to wait until Monday to take it up with the housing department. It’s Friday night. Or, there’s an open bed in room 704, he offered. They both go look into 704 and there’s a shirtless guy with a mullet, cigarette dangling from his lip, stomping around like he’s mad at the world. They both look at each other. Hard pass.

Steve thinks taking their chances with each other has to be better than whatever that situation would be, so he nods his head back towards their double-assigned room.

They both sit on the bed. They can make this work for the weekend. 

“I can crash on the floor,” Eddie says, “since you’ve already put on all your bedding.”

Steve nods, “Maybe we can get an air mattress?” 

“I’m not buying an air mattress for three nights, rich boy,” Eddie says, teasing, but Steve can tell he’s serious. "Floor's fine." 

And the first night does go fine, and they spend Saturday hanging out in this single room with two occupants. Eddie's fun, Steve likes him, even if they are nothing alike.

Eddie has a guitar, so he tries to teach Steve to play, but finally gives up once he realizes it's a losing game. But Eddie plays, and their floormates stop by the door Eddie propped open. 

Steve wouldn't have thought to do that, but they're meeting people, even if none of them look like anyone Eddie would want to be friends with. 

"I have a band, back home. They're younger than me, so I promised my Uncle I'd at least try college, while I wait for them to graduate."

Steve nods, "That's cool."

"I'm in the music program," Eddie adds. 

Steve points to himself, "Business." 

"Good, that's good. That means I can call on you to be the money man, when we get rich and famous." 

Steve laughs, "Sure, you do that."

That night, Steve offers to switch bed for floor, but Eddie refuses. Which was fine until Steve bolts upright, startled awake. 

"Spider! On my face!" Eddie screams, and someone next door bangs on the wall. Great. This asshole is going to make his neighbors hate him before he gets gone to the right room on Monday. 

"I'm coming up!" Eddie says. 

"You're not coming up!" Steve hisses back. 

"It's my bed!" 

"I think not!" 

"You can share, or you can sleep with the spiders!" 

This bed is a single, a twin XL, whatever that is. There's not room for two guys in it, no way. At least not two near strangers. Steve likes Eddie, and wouldn’t be opposed to a little company from him, not at all. And Steve doesn’t need dinner first, not really, but he also doesn’t just crawl in bed to actually sleep with random dudes. No way.

But he scoots towards the wall, trying to make room for Eddie.

 

Steve wakes up in the morning, and Eddie has a leg slung over his thighs, teetering on the edge of the bed. Steve puts a hand on Eddie's back, just to make sure he doesn’t fall and break his neck.

Eddie leans into the touch, and Steve scratches his blunt nails against the thin cotton of Eddie’s t-shirt. It’s kinda nice being close to someone, even if they’re a random stranger that’s just stuck in your room, with nowhere else to go.

Steve feels when Eddie wakes up, because he tenses. 

“Shit. Sorry,” Eddie says, but there really isn’t much room to escape.

Steve rubs his back, “It’s fine. Honest.”

Eddie takes him for his word, and slings his arm across Steve’s bare chest. Steve likes it. He’s probably digging himself a hole here. 

What else is new? 

Eddie strokes his chest, running his fingers through the hair there, before moving down to the hair leading into his shorts. That's. That's interesting. He's interested in that. Definitely. 

Steve rolls onto his side, scooting towards the wall to make more room, and Eddie follows. Steve reaches forward and tucks Eddie's wild morning hair behind his ear. He wants to see his face. 

"This okay?" Steve asks. 

Eddie nods, so Steve leans forward to kiss him. Eddie meets him, and Steve's loving this. 

Eddie kisses him like it's all he wants to do in the world, and Steve clings to him, breathing hard and heavy into his mouth. He hopes his breath isn't terrible, but if it's, neither of them seem to care. 

He keeps kissing him, touching him and thinks this room mistake was the best case scenario, now. 

Eddie rolls on top of him. 

Steve suddenly has a thought, "Was there even a spider?" 

Eddie cackles, "No." 

Later, Steve poses a question, "Maybe we just don't tell anyone we were both assigned here?"

"Only if you think we can sneak a double bed in here," Eddie says, grinning. 

Steve thinks that's totally doable. Robin will happily create a diversion for that to happen. 

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[autisticlancemcclain]

fic rec friday 47

hello and welcome to fic rec friday! where, on friday, i rec five of my favourite fics.

Damnit, Pidge by spirkylurkey

Pidge has some top-secret-classified-don't-tell-Keith-info that she accidentally lets slip to, you guessed it, Keith. Lance is an embarrassed mess. Keith isn't faring much better, to be honest.

this one made me LAUGH the way that this all pidge's fault and she's literally like. well. you shouldn't be so gay then. and she's right!! they're so dumb i love them

2. Operation: Faking It by @writeonclara

“What the hell, guys?” Pidge squawked, wrestling away from Matt. “Why are you pretending to be a couple?” Or: Matt and Lance pretend to be a couple because Shiro and Keith are clueless as hell.

do you guys remember shatt?? i remember shatt. adashi will always have my heart but shatt will literally always be funny bc ofc thats ur fic name. anyways. this fic is mostly klance but the entire concept is just so ridiculously goofy that u have to laugh. do you like lance and matt? do you like fake relationship to real relationship? do you like inverted tropes? do you like pining? do you like comedic jealousy? then this fic is well and truly for you because it has all that and more

3. all's well that ends well to end up with you by @coruscatingcatastrophe

Keith's jacket gets ruined, so Lance decides to be a good Samaritan and give him his. This is the beginning of the end.

megan's fic literally make me want to eat cement i'm so serious. i've read and been obsessed with TONS of her stuff but this one???? this fucking one???? oh god the slowburn kills me. the blossoming realisation that oh god we've been dating this whole time huh. the CHIVALRY...............a romance novel in the truest of senses and i am going to fry

4. as long as it won't separate you from me (i'll be fine) by @coruscatingcatastrophe

A little intrigued—not that she’d ever admit it—Pidge begins to climb the stairs. But before she even reaches halfway, the door—slams shut. All on its own, or so it seems. Pidge pauses, brows creasing in confusion, as she turns to look down at her dog. “Did you see that?” she asks. Peculiarly, she notes that Bae Bae’s fur is bristled, and he growls at the door before barking twice. That’s weird. Bae Bae never growls. Turning back to the door, Pidge feels unsettled, but she tells herself not to jump to ridiculous conclusions. There’s a logical explanation for everything. Maybe there was a gust of wind from the air conditioner, or the doorframe isn’t level. Whatever it is, she’s going to figure it out. - Or, a Beetlejuice au (kind of). Pidge isn't a fan of her new house, Lance and Keith are the ghosts haunting her attic, and together they hatch a plot to convince Shiro and Adam to skedaddle out of the house. There may be demon summoning involved. But seriously, Adam. Getting your hair set on fire really isn't that bad.

HAPPY (late) HALLOWEEN!!! ive been thinking about this fic all october and finally let myself reread it. ive never loved beetlejuice more than when i read this. it's so fun!! so interesting!! pidge gets a chance to shine!! klance are so!!! the way it had the story of beetlejuice but adapted well!! im!!

5. never thought i'd see the day in my life by @coruscatingcatastrophe

But Keith has somehow gone even paler in the short amount of time he’s been at the table, and he shakes his head. “No, something is . . .” His gaze flickers back to Lance, and he’s startled to find that Keith’s eyes are purple. They’ve got to be contacts. Ridiculous. As if the mullet and gloves and personality weren’t enough. Keith pushes away from the table abruptly, looking incredibly put-off now. “I, uh—gotta go,” he mutters, before angrily gathering up the backpack he’d dropped into the chair next to him and storming out of the cafeteria. “Huh,” Hunk says. “Well, that introduction could have gone a bit better. Don’t take it personally though; sometimes Keith’s just like that.” - Or, a Twilight au starring Lance as Bella, Keith as Edward, and the rest of the Voltron gang as themselves. Lance is insufferable, Keith is awkwardly trying to figure out why Lance is the way he is, and along the way they fall in love, or something. It's probably, definitely the best love story since Twilight itself.

now ive never read twilight and i refuse to on principle. but i didn't find this one creepy and instead it was super fun and dweeby and lance is indeed a ray of sunshine, thank you megan for noticing, and it turns out when the story isn't a hetero mormon wet dream it's actually a good time!!

that’s it for today!! i’ll see y’all back next friday for the next fic rec post!!!

[nostalgicish]

thinking abt fic ideas as someone who can’t write is painful…. like. i’m obsessed w modern aus rn

(i have a few mutuals that write so if you guys wanna……….. 👀 take inspiration from this…… 👀 tag me so i can read it !!)

Lance and Hunk work at a library and like to people watch, guessing what genres they like to read. a grunge/punk guy with the worst RBF walks in and they’re really surprised to see he’s checking out classic romance literature.

idk something with public transportation? like they take the same train/bus/subway every day but they never actually talk— just eyes that meet occasionally and a polite smile but nothing more. until one day, the other guy just.. stops showing up? and Lance is pretty bummed but what can he do? (and then he sees a familiar mop of black hair at the grocery store or a café or something and is like “!! it’s you!!”)

The trio go out to see the next installment of their favorite movie series, but Lance keeps sneaking out of the theater to buy more snacks (and definitely not to talk to the hot guy running the concession stand)

Keith works at a convenience store/gas station and this tall, beautiful man comes in occasionally, but no matter what he buys, he always always always gets a bag of candy that just so happens to be Keith’s favorite too— he always has a bag at his station so he can snack on it throughout his shift. One day, the man is in line without the candy and he honestly looks like shit— he’s definitely not his usual, happy self. Keith asks about the candy. The man replies, “Oh, i couldn’t find any today... You guys must be out.” So Keith gives him a bag from his stash. “You look like you need it more than me.”

Lance goes to the campus library to check out books for his literature class, but every single time, without fail, someone else has taken the last copy. “What do you mean someone else checked out the last copy?? Who??” “That guy.” *insert Keith* (it would be funnier if Keith isn’t even reading them for class, he’s just reading classic literature for funsies)

Lance checks out a novel from the library and there’s an envelope inside with a name written neatly on the front of it. it looks like it’s important so he resolves to find and return the envelope to K. Kogane, whoever that is (another library one?? yeah sorry idc i love public libraries and books and love stories . sue me.)

Keith is a barber/hairdresser and Lance’s regular stylist isn’t available so he’s stuck with Keith -OR- Lance takes his nephew to get his hair cut and Keith looks kinda scary but he’s actually?? really good with kids?? (insert mullet joke here)

Keith meets Pidge’s friends from a different class. Keith is super into Pidge’s hot, tall friend but is discouraged from acting on it because he’s constantly glued to Hunk’s side and making comments like “this is why I love you, Hunky” and (wrongfully) assumes they’re dating (but Lance is just that kind of guy! yk! he says “ily” to his friends all the time!)

bartender Keith is so good but think abt bartender Lance……… yeah….. need i say more??

[shatterinseconds]

College

Klance AU month ‘23 day 8

“Uno, Mullet. Suck it.”

Scowling, Keith almost crunches the multitude of cards in his hands while Lance laughs. Keith should have known better than to play Uno with Lance, who has become an expert from battling his siblings when they were all younger.

“Mm, did you really think you would win?” Lance grins, too smug for only winning a simple round of Uno. He props up his chin in his hand, staring at Keith fuming.

“I almost had you if you didn’t put down that stupid card.”

“That sounds like sore loser talk,” Lance teases him. “And I think my prize was a kiss?” He smirks, and Keith’s gaze finally snaps up to him and not the cards.

Keith rolls his eyes but stays true to the conditions set before the match. Lance doesn’t care about the edge of the table digging into his stomach when he leans over to meet Keith halfway. He still smiles against the somewhat chaste kiss before Keith breaks away too soon. Chuckling a little, Keith mumbles between them, “I think the deal was that we finally start studying for our final.”

Lance pouts. He brought out Uno with the sole intention of distracting Keith from studying. Their test is in three days. Lance only has one more paper to finish in the meantime; Keith has already completed the rest of his final assignments. They have plenty of time. “One more game?”

But Keith is already pulling out flashcards from his backpack, tapping the thick stack on the table. “How about for each question you get right, you get another kiss?”

Lance pretends to ponder it for a moment, already knowing his answer. “I can agree to that.” He leans over the table again and kisses him one more time. He holds Keith’s face in his hands; his fingers stretch into his long hair. When Lance pulls back, Keith’s eyes slowly opening, he says, “For good luck.”

Keith smiles at that and starts to quiz him. Lance gets every question correct.

[sixteen-sugars]

klance - a review

Credit: @clink0maniac

This couple was my Wattpad phase, If there was a moderately popular fic of these two around 2020-2021, odds are I had probably read it.  But, embarrassing middle school years aside. This ship had the tea. 

My interpretation of the creators decision (and said tea) is that they wanted to make Klance endgame, or at least have Keith or Lance be canonically queer. Since Voltron is a absolute clusterfuck that didn't end up happening. So, that left them with a very flirty very bi-coded Cuban on their hands. To combat this, they made him flirt with more women, and made him look even more bi. And Keith noped off to space with his mom, and stifling any romantic or platonic chemistry they had in the first place. There is something to say, as someone who joined the fandom late and just sat in the wreckage. I got to enjoy with almost none of the cons associated with shipping. 

Now, back to the ship itself. I enjoy it immensely, they are both endearing little guys. They have contrasting color palettes, red and blue y'all I can't even. So, besides the drama I genuinely enjoy this ship and the plethora of popular AU's  spawned by it. To name a few my personal fav's were; Mermaid, GalraTransformation!Keith, Roommates/College. But, one thing that always felt a little off was the Langst. I know that the widest smiles hold the most pain, but to some point, its important to also stay in character and pull inspiration/character traits out the canon and not out of your ass. All in all, it had its fair share of bumps but both of our boys had great chemistry (in season 1-3) and some people saw it and shared something super personal and gifted us with many great fanworks. :D 

Tropes/AU's Commonly Associated: 8/10 

Most of the AU's are super cute, like mermaid or dad!Lance. But it does get points down for Langst, because it seemed OOC and little like you were dragging him through hell for no reason. And the tropes, enemies/rivals to lovers along with mutual pining. That's the tea!

Dynamic: 9.5/10

If you get a good dialogue writer, this ship can really shine with them, because of the bickering being their love language. Along with them being opposites attract, so there are many little nooks and crannies to explore regarding their differences. 

Looks: 7.5/10

tbh, they look a little boring. They are 2 guys???? Yes, the art done of them is absolutely beautiful, and they do get points for contrasting color palettes. But, they are literally just a mullet with legs and a bi man lol. 

All in all; 25/30

[silentwillowwhisperer]

Keep in mind that this is a Modern AU, Voltron never happened. All characters are around 21, except for Pidge (18) and Shiro (26).

Also, I SWEAR this is not Kallura.

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4 years. That’s how long it took for Keith to officially open his self-owned tattoo business.

The parlor was his pride and joy, and the only things more important to Keith were Shiro and Kosmo.

Keith had even managed to make a few friends along his path to tattoos, most notably a woman named Allura who been his emotional support throughout art school.

They had met via tinder. Keith, of course, had been completely humiliated to find that she was girl when they first met.

Explaining his sexuality to a stranger was quite awkward. It was worth it, though. She was his best friend now. Of course, she had always been friendly, likable, and social. Three things that Keith absolutely was not. But it made him happy to see her happy around other people.

(Lance)

Lance would follow Allura anywhere. He no longer hosted his initial embarrassing crush on her. Now, she was an older sister to him, someone he idolized.

This was a little too far, though.

Everyone stood outside of a tattoo parlor, dubbed “Marmora” by the flashing neon sign above the door.

Allura was holding a bouquet of blood red poppies.

Apparently her edgy tattoo artist friend had a soft spot for them.

The only reason Lance hadn’t turned tail and ran yet was that it was over a hundred degrees out, and Lance would rather not have a heat stroke.

Suddenly, Allura gasps.

“Oh no! I forgot food! I’ll be right back, guys. I need to find acceptable sustenance for Keith. Go on ahead, I’ll catch up!”

They reluctantly filed into the shop.

Lance was pleasantly surprised. Sure, there was MCR playing softly throughout the speakers, but the place looked homey. The dog, however, is what won Lance over.

It ran over, yapping excitedly. Also, was huge and probably very huggable.

Right when it looked like it was about to tackle Lance, a voice sounded from the next room.

“Down, Kosmo.”

Kosmo immediately settled down and padded over to the new figure.

Lance almost started staring at the tattoos covering the man’s arms, but he was distracted by the guy’s hair.

“Is that a mullet? What are you, sixty? And anyway, it looks like you don’t have any space left on this ink stained noodles you call arms, so why are you here?”

Ok, so Lance came off a little mean, but he had a habit of speaking his mind. Especially around wannabe Gerard Ways. The guy’s ears turned red. He opened his mouth like he was about to say something when the front door opened. In bustled Allura, with two bags of takeout hanging from her arms, and the flowers cradled close to her chest.

The looked up, his gaze softening.

“Oh, hey ‘Llura.”

Lance realized with horror who this was.

“Keith! Darling, it’s been much too long! Here, I have peace offerings for you! You know, in exchange for you not killing Lance because I see you giving him one of you death glares, and wow, I’m rambling, aren’t I.” Everyone stared in shock. This was Allura’s “absolutely adorable friend?”

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I’m 80% sure that the next post will be a part 2 to this. Or maybe I’ll loose interest and do something else instead. What do you guys think?

Part 2

[kaayeniine]

4 more voltron aus

WOOOOO yay

AU!Angel Keith - Keith is a seraphim with a human like form (but with ram legs/eyes on his body and a long white mullet/white eyelashes) who his crazy interested in humans, talking about them for hours and getting judged by other angels (He also sees lance from earth and gets all embarrassed by seeing him, that’s the main reason he goes down to earth in his “human form)

AU! 80’s Keith and 2000’s lance - Keith is from the 80’s (AND HAS A MORE FLUFFY MULLET OH MY GOD) and Lance is from the 2000’s (he’s a big fan of Beyoncé too), but accidentally get teleported to the 90’s together and meet, they’re judging each other hardcore for what music they listen to + their outfits (Walkman VS iPod..)

AU!Sweeney Todd - Keith is Sweeney Todd, while lance is Ms Lovett, Pidge is Tobias/toby!! Big fan of this one because I’ve had it since I’ve watched the broadway version and the movie, love the soundtrack too

AU!RENT - Keith is Roger, Lance is Mimi, Lotor is Benjamin, Hunk and pidge is Angel and Tom (and sadly they’re shipped together erm), Romelle and allura are Joanne and Maureen, Shiro is Roger (Keith’s) ex (but in this au; he’s his brother, not his girlfriend like in the musical) and one of my galra ocs is Mark!! Technically, mark would’ve been lance cause he dated allura, but then again.. klance..

and these are all in my mind baybee, WOO

oh and also my skinwalker au but we don’t talk about that (mostly cause lance gets fucking killed by one and Keith goes insane but shhh..)

[atlas-accidental]

New Light

a klance one-shot for @autisticlancemcclain! she asked for fic recs the other day and I offered to write one for her so here it is!

its a refurbishment of sorts of the first fic I ever put on ao3. I'll probably be putting this up there as well later today, with a bit more formatting.

(edit: finally edited and posted the fic to ao3. you can find it here)

2.2k words, soulmate au, no warnings. i hope you enjoy!

All humans are born colorblind, and with a soulmate. This pairing is meant to compliment each individual in the best possible way, romantically or otherwise. When someone meets their soulmate for the first time, they are granted the ability to see color. This experience is meant to signal to the soulmates that they have met their destined match. 

When Lance's life finally did change, it wasn't what he'd expected. The first major change in Lance's life wasn't a soulmate, but an opportunity. Lance had been accepted into the Galaxy Garrison Flight Academy. He'd only been accepted as a cargo pilot, but you had to start somewhere, right? 

Now, technically, he'd never officially met Keith. Or even talked to him, really. Only watched from afar as, because of him, Lance had only ever held silver at everything. He never quite could catch up to the flight prodigy. Keith’s scores were second only to the famous pilot Takashi Shirogane’s at the same age. Lance actually had tried to meet Keith on multiple occasions. Keith managed to slip away each and every time, without fail. Eventually, Lance stopped trying and accepted that Keith was unattainable. His last attempt was the closest he'd gotten to an actual introduction and Keith had waved him off with a "Yeah, whatever. Don't you have cargo to deliver or something?" Lance's smile had fallen immediately. He decided that he hated Keith.

"Lance, don't you think you might be overreacting? Just a bit?" Lance frowned. 

"Of course not, Hunk! He literally said, and I quote, 'don't you have cargo to deliver or something?'" Hunk sighed at the mocking imitation of Keith, having heard the same thing from Lance dozens of times since it happened last week. 

"Yeah, Lance. I know. 'Who says that,' right?" Lance rolled his eyes at Hunk, who chuckled under his breath. 

"I'm serious, Hunk! He's a jerk!" Hunk assured him that he was aware, and insisted they go get lunch.

***

"I'd recognize that mullet anywhere!" Lance yelled, an aggravated tone to his voice as he let himself slide down the side of the hill three of them had perched themselves upon. 

Lance heard Pidge wonder aloud who he was talking about and ignored him. By the time Lance had made his way into the facility, far ahead of Hunk and Pidge, Keith was already there slipping the man's arm around his shoulders. 

"Nope! No, no-no-no, I'm saving Shiro," Lance announced. Keith frowned. 

"Who are you?" he asked and Lance scowled at how bored he sounded.

"Uh, the name's Lance?" He blinked at Keith expectantly and received a blank look in return. "We were in the same class back at the Garrison! You know, Lance and Keith, neck and neck!" Keith frowned even harder.

"Oh, I remember you,” Keith finally said. Lance perked up a bit. “You were a cargo pilot. " Hunk and Pidge appeared at the door. Lance opened his mouth, ready to come back with a biting response of his own when he paused. 

"Mira, wait, do... do you see that?" Keith frowned. Did he ever stop frowning? Was it all just one continuous frown? Lance feared he may never know. 

"See what?" Keith asked in that same bored tone. Lance's wandering eyes snapped back to Keith, his mouth slack. 

"Everything." How could Keith not be seeing this? Keith, obviously not understanding, huffed a sigh. 

"We don't have time for this. Let's go." 

And so they went.

There was a bit of struggle involved in getting everyone on the two-seater hoverbike Keith had rode in on. Hunk ended up on the back holding onto the bike itself, Pidge sat in front of him holding Shiro on his lap. Lance swung up right behind Keith, hesitating only a moment until Keith jerked the bike in warning and Lance grabbed his hips tightly. As they sped up, Lance slowly shifted until his arms were wrapped in a tight grip around Keith’s waist. It would’ve been romantic if everyone but the driver weren’t screaming their heads off.

By the time they had gotten to Keith's desert hideout, Lance still wasn't over everything he was seeing. The world had once again shifted while Lance had been clinging to Keith with his eyes screwed tightly shut. At first, everything surrounding him had been different, but now it was just Keith. Of course, Lance had realized that Keith was attractive but that was before he'd made up his mind to hate him. Now, though… Now, Keith had something new, something different. It didn't just make him stand out– though God knows he already did– it made him beautiful. Lance didn't know what it was, just that it made him want to laugh and cry all at once. This, Lance decided, is what his mamá had told him about. It had to be.

But that meant Keith was his soulmate.

"I'm screwed."

***

They were in a lion. A giant, blue lion, though none of them knew it’s color but Lance. It was strange; as soon as he’d touched the surrounding forcefield, he saw images, in full color, of this lion and four others. He had a connection with the lion, not quite the same as with Keith but just as intimate, maybe more so. It had proven as much by being the only other thing in color in Lance’s world. The lion was spiraling through outer space faster than any human technology has ever been able to do. They passed Kerberos in minutes. The feat would’ve been amazing if everyone would just shut up. Instead, four pairs of hands grappled on any surface they could to keep their balance. Lance himself was apparently the only available surface for grappling. He glowered, staring straight forward and concentrating on… 

“What is that?” The yelling stopped, all attention focused on the oncoming object. Gracia a Dios. The iron grips were incessant, though. Lance would have to take what he could get.

Lance would not take what he could get, mostly because what he was getting was an alien warship. The lion’s voice– was voice the right word? Lance wasn’t sure–  rumbled in his mind, sending instructions to Lance. He smirked, the lion’s confidence burned like ice through his blood, and they knew exactly what to do. Lance dove at the battlecruiser hovering dangerously close to their home. Turning at the last second, he smashed the lion into the ship, dragging its claws along the length of it. The gashes along the sides of the ship lit up, minor explosions happening along each abrasion. The ship took little damage, but it also took the bait. Lance shot away with the enemy ship in tow. The lion growled in his mind again and a massive, intricate disk appeared before of them. A wormhole. 

“I think the lion wants us to go through there.”

Lance frowned. He didn’t want to admit it, but he was afraid. Not enough to stop, but it was there. Maybe he was less afraid and more nervous. Anxious? He wasn’t sure. English had too many words. Whatever he felt, it was bad. He couldn’t help but focus on Keith in his peripheral. It was hard not to when he stood out so obviously. Not like a sore thumb, it wasn’t a bad thing, it was more like he stood out like an intricate painting in the center of a large, blank wall. Like he was there specifically to grab Lance’s attention, as though there was something Lance was supposed to do. 

“What am I supposed to do?” He mumbled. 

“Whatever this is, we all have to face it together,” said Shiro. Lance was sure he wasn’t alone in his relief at not having to decide. “Wherever we end up, we’ll face together, too. That being said, we’re a team now. We should all agree.”

Together, they went through the wormhole.

***

Between mind-numbing training and life-threatening battle, color bled into Lance's world over the next few weeks. Through an oddly-translated book, he learned the names of colors. It seemed like the book on soulmates had escaped Earth somehow and been translated into an alien language only to be translated back by the Castleship, leaving the words broken. The colors were spelled oddly and the sentences often made little sense. They were all words Lance knew, so that made parsing their meaning easier, he'd just never seen the concepts they described before. He learned that Alteans didn't have soulmates like humans. He learned that the Galra do.

Another new discovery was that the longer he spent around Keith, the more color he saw. It always began in his eyes, that first spark of violet. It quickly spread to the rest of him; his ivory skin, cropped red jacket, the way light played on his hair. He could've sworn it was tinted a shimmery purple, but he was new to the rainbow; it could be nothing. Best of all, Lance watched and the satisfying flush that crawled over Keith’s face and neck when he realized Lance would be performing his daily stare-down for longer than strictly necessary.

After he'd absorbed every shift in hue Keith had to display, the rest of the world faded in around them. Colors became more saturated (a word Lance only just learned the meaning of in reference to color) the longer Keith was around him. Lance wasn't sure what had to happen for the color to be permanent, but he'd heard it was supposed to eventually. 

He still hadn't told Keith. If Lance had changed, Keith must have, right? But he never said anything, or even seem to see it. Could soulmates be one-sided? Lance's book didn't say anything about unrequited soul bonds, but Lance had never read any books about the crazy things he was living through, either, so he figured anything was possible. Maybe Keith was Lance's soulmate but Lance just… wasn't his. He'd heard about a theory once, that everyone had multiple potential soulmates, that the match was a biological skill humanity had for survival. Maybe Keith had a soulmate already and didn't need Lance.

The thought was a painful one and it made Lance scramble for Keith's attention in any way he could. Lance didn't know how to appeal to the things Keith liked. He could easily do the opposite, though. Keith wasn't hard to antagonize and when it happened, all of his attention was on Lance as if the universe faded away and he was all Keith could see. The feeling of being noticed, looked at, seen by Keith was intoxicating despite the sting of their arguments, so Lance kept doing it. 

Maybe Keith wasn't Lance's soulmate in return, but he still noticed him. Even if it was a waste of time, it was time Keith wasted on him. That would have to be enough, especially as Lance battled the dichotomy of envy and adoration he felt for his soulmate. Keith was amazing, Keith was better than him, Keith was showing off, Keith was impressive, Keith was out of his league. Lance's thoughts were a mess, and the pressure exploded in the exact way to make it messier.

It became a cycle that Lance was trapped in.

***

Keith was trapped in a cycle. For his whole life, he'd been baffled by a mysterious birthmark; two patches of skin a few shades darker than the rest and both in the shape of perfect handprints, one on either hip. His father had said they were a sign, proof that he would be loved. The longer he spent being passed between homes and dismissed for "behavioral issues", the harder that story was to believe. 

Now, though, these marks had begun that cycle he was stuck in. Every morning, Keith woke up, lifted his shirt to stare at them, rolled out of bed to prepare for the day, spent another few minutes staring at the marks, and left the room completely unprepared for his regular morning "encounter" with Lance. 

The thing is, ever since the night they found Shiro, his marks have been different. Lance had swung up onto the bike with Keith and the rest, had grabbed him when he jerked the bike in a sharp warning, and the skin under Lance's hands had burned instantly. It ached where Lance touched him, a warm sting that faded into an strange tingle by the time Lance had shifted forward enough to press his chest to Keith's back and wrap his arms around his waist instead. 

Later, Keith had pulled up his shirt to examine the marks. He found them irritated, or so he had assumed. They had bloomed into an odd swirl of colors; colors he had always been able to see. Blues and violets swirled and bled together like a watercolor painting within the crisp outline of hands on his body. It was alarming, but stunningly beautiful. They looked like outer space, the deep hues melding in a way that reminded him of unbroken skies, of nebulae and galaxies. As if these hands held the universe within them. 

For the next few days, Keith's handprint markings itched nearly constantly. They would burn feverishly at odd times, especially during his spats with Lance. He chalked it up to an emotional response, his blood pumping in his irritation causing a warm sensation. The feeling gradually faded and stopped happening at all over the next few weeks, but Keith still hadn't stopped lifting his shirt to stare at the celestial-looking marks on his hips a few times a day. 

That night, just like many before, Keith lay in his bed staring at his ceiling and traced the too-perfect hands branded onto him with gentle fingers and wondered what they truly meant.

[discordiansamba]

I think the thing about Galra prince Keith is that while I think his overall basic facial structure (mostly his overall face shape/jaw structure) still derives mostly from Keith's appearance, he also looks a lot like canon Lotor, complete with the long white hair. He looks like a strong mix of the two, since that's kind of what he is.

I do picture him keeping his hair in braid, instead of just leaving it down- and he definitely has actual bangs, as opposed to Lotor's one fabulous strand of hair that hangs in his face (something it is way too easy to picture someone with Keith's personality getting annoyed at). I think the biggest change is that his eyes are a solid yellow, instead of having pupils.

[uniquecellest]

This is for my Klance people:

AU idea for when Allura becomes a Paladin. Lance has been dealing with his insecurities and spot on the team for a while before Allura became a Paladin and Lance always thought of taking a break from Voltron but never did until Allura. One night he tells the others that he's been having thoughts of just taking a break (Keith is not present). Pidge and Hunk try and get Lance to stay but Shiro interrupts saying that everyone has their own moments of rest and for Lance it's now until he's ready to come back in which the others will be waiting for him.

Lance leaves early the next morning, as everyone has already said their goodbyes (ne Keith because no one informed him). So at first Keith thinks Lance is just in his room in a depressive episode and goes to cheer him up only to find Lance nowhere in the Castle of Lions. It's then that Shiro realizes what happened and informs Keith, which ticks Keith off more that Lance told everyone but him.

Now here are two ways I can see it diverge:

1) with a small space pod from the Castle, Lance makes it back to Earth and (after the extreme quarantine) goes back to his piloting classes and even beats James and ends up becoming a protégé to Adam for MFE's. The two talk, and Adam helps Lance deal with being on Earth while the ones he cares about are in space. Then the Galra invade and Sendak remembers Lance from his time as Paladin and kidnaps him as bait for the others (Sendak also kidnaps Adam, Veronica, Rachel, Lisa, Marco, Luis, Nadia and Sylvio to bait Lance); so when the others find out the Earth has been invaded it stresses them out even more. When they get to base Sanda informs them that Lance's family that was captured along with Adam are considered dead. When inquired about it, Sanda shows them a video they received earlier that day of Lance being alive but any videos about Adam and Lance's family have stopped coming as quick as Lance got captured, which has been months with Colleen and Sam trying to think of ways to save them.

The Paladins still get on the ship with being captured themselves and Sanda still betraying them. Eventually they get free and who's shooting at them? Lance. Clearly, they think, he's under some mind control. Until he calls Keith mullet. Lance informs them that he has to do this. He has to fight his friends. Which Hunk, Allura, and Pidge are not happy about and are ready to fight. Even Shiro can't believe what he hears. Then they hear young children crying. The voices calling out to Lance that they're scared. Lance says he's got them. That he'll protect them until the end.

That's when it dawns on them that Lance is working with/for Sendak for his family (in which Sendak is hospitable - as he can be - to Lance's family so Lance doesn't turn on him and angering the other Paladins more). Sendak calls Lance back to him. Lance leaves a key for the other Paladins to get his family and Adam out. Once they're off the ship, Lance starts fighting Sendak and when Keith goes back to Lance because they can't leave him behind, the ship explodes. Lance didn't die though, his Paladin armor got some upgrades that's to Sam and survived the explosion.

Once they're all down on the ground the group celebrates.

Bonus: once the celebration of the Galra being gone and they survived Adam and Keith call out to Shiro and Lance respectfully in which Shiro and Lance look at each other due to the furry in Adam and Keith's eyes. Those two run, because Adam definitely was the one to teach Keith how to fight and Shiro never won in hand-to-hand combat with Adam. Ever. Or even verbal combat. Keith confronts Lance on leaving and not telling him. Keith doesn't have an issue with the fact he told everyone, he just wants to know why he was excluded. Lance admitted that his feelings for Keith at the time were being weird and he didn't know what was going on and he did want to tell Keith but with his confusing feelings he wasn't sure if telling Keith was the best idea. Lance then confesses that aside from their rivalry also being a friendship he was starting to see Keith in a romantic way and he wasn't sure if they were genuine or if it was because they were in space and Allura was the only girl - Lance considers Pidge a sibling so gross - so he needed time to clear his head. Keith inquires about Lance's current feelings for him, Lance admits that he does have romantic feelings for Keith still but he's going to start talking to someone so he can move on, leaving Keith confused so Lance informs him that he's sure that Keith, that he's sure Keith has no feelings for him whatsoever in which Keith tells Lance to shut up because yeah, Keith does love him and any minute that Lance wasn't there was torture and not knowing where or how he was was even worse and knowing Earht got invaded then Lance got captured to the brief moment that Keith thought Lance actually turned on them was worse than any hell could conjure up to torture him with.

Added bonus: Matt makes a comment about what Keith did in s4 ep 7 and Sam remarks when Adam was in his plane and nearly died and father and son remark how Adam and Keith did not seem to have a care in the moments leading up to their potential deaths so Shiro and Lance then and go scold their boyfriends for being idiots.

2) Lance still helps out in space but not in anything major to not overstep Voltron. He goes to some smaller planets/systems and typically stays for a few days after he's done helping sometimes a week. Eventually the other Paladins encounter him on a planet he's been staying on for the last several months, all the aliens on the planet are androgynous and hermaphroditic and there's this one person that Lance seems particularly close to. Keith has come to realize with Lance gone he loves him and vowed to tell him when he saw him next. But seeing him again and with a potential partner, Keith couldn't do that. Not to Lance or himself. So while Keith trains more to work off his jealousy so he can be around Lance and his partner. At some point Lance and Keith get to be alone and have a sunset moment and Keith, realizing how beautiful Lance looks in the setting sun, has to leave because if he doesn't he's going to ruin whatever little relationship he has with Lance. Lance gets irritated because Keith is running away, Keith remarks he's not the run who ran. Lance shoots back with what Keith have done had Lance not left? Besides Keith never voiced to anyone else about leaving Lance did. Lance took a break he wasn't leaving Voltron forever but for Keith, all their adventures without Lance felt like a lifetime. The two continue to argue to which leads them rolling down a hill and kissing. Keith is stiff. Lance is frozen. Both enjoy the kiss but don't know how to progress. Keith goes back to his room in the Castle trying to process everything because while he enjoyed the kiss he could've practically ruined a relationship, one Lance actually seemed genuinely happy in and ruined even his own relationship with the former Paladin.

Meanwhile Lance goes back to his best friend on the planet that Keith mistook for Lance's partner. The bsf freaks when they hear Lance and Keith kissed amd congratulates Lance only for Lance to stop them. Despite having enjoyed the kiss Keith most likely didn't because he ran off.

The next morning Lance is seeing his friends off. "Have you made your mind up about coming back with us?" Wonders Allura.

Keith's head snaps up. Eyes now focused on the former Blue Paladin. "You're.. . . . You're joining us again?"

"N-not this time. But I'm sure I'll be joining you guys again soon." With that everyone but Keith and Lance hug and say goodbye. Just days after Team Voltron leaves another alien species (not the Galra) invade as they have had rocky balance remaining peace between the two alien species. Lance gets into his former armor sending a distress signal that instantly goes to the Castle. However, something goes wrong so Team Voltron doesn't get the distress signal until months after so when they go back the planet is completely demolished. The kind species and Lance are nowhere to be found. Hunk is the one to find the piece of armor that Lance sent the signal with but there's no Lance. It looks as if there are no survivors. They then come across some guards from the invasive species that is keeping the kind one as slaves. The kicker? Lance is set to marry the heir to the throne to keep a peace between the two as he is a Paladin and to them a Paladin is as good as royalty. Everyone else tries to volunteer to take Lances place but since Lance offered first he is the one to be Wed. The only thing that can stop it is if they find a rare item (gem, flower, etc) that shows true love. It glows differently for different people. They go and find it. When Keith touches it is glows red and blue.

Meanwhile, Lance is in his own separate room from the heir having doubts. Yes, he came up and still plans on going through with the marriage however, he can't help but think of Keith when he pictures himself getting married. The heir uses magic to spy on Lance and sees Keith in his heart. Frustrated the heir slips a love potion into Lance's drink at dinner and Lance thinks he's been in love with heir this whole time. He gets excited to see his friends again and goes on and on about how fantastic the heir is. This crushes Keith. When Lance sees Keith holding the rare item he asks to hold it. It doesn't change. Team Voltron wants to stop the wedding but if their friend seems to be genuinely happy how can they? They don't want to seem selfish when Lance only asked for a break/space only to drag him back if he doesn't want to. Later, Hunk and Allura over hear the heir plotting to take out the kinder alien race which they want to put a stop to. In fear that the other members might find out their plot the heir grabs the others - Pidge from some of the techs, Coran with the cooks, Keith training with some of the fighters, and Shiro as he's just simply walking around - and throws them in a dungeon to prevent them from intervening at the wedding.

Cut to Lance with his bsf and the spare. They see the rare item and interested they ask to see it. That's when Lance notes it changing colors as his bsf and their lovers colors are a yellow-green color and lilac. That's when Lance gets informed of what the item really is. Taking it back, Lance goes to confront the heir. He asks the heir to hold the item. It goes from Lance's blue and red to pure obsidian - no room for any type of love in their heart. Lance is furious. Despite knowing that Keith is now his soul mate he's still under the love potion and still has love for the heir. The heir then makes Lance take the rest of the potion which makes him forget about everything and anyone else aside from the heir.

In their prison Team Voltron is frustrated in what to do. They need to escape but their cell is made up of lasers that could burn them easily if they try to escape. Keith doesn't care, even if Lance does genuinely care for the heir it's clear the heir does not return his feelings and wants to free Lance from a marriage that will eventually go down. Shiro has to stop him from being an idiot and getting hurt. Soon a sound similar to a bell chimes meaning that the first part prior to the actual ceremony for 'I do's' is about to start. Even if they were lucky enough to get out there was no way that they'd be able to make it to Lance in time. Just then the spare comes and sets them free with four speed bikes and they set off to the ceremony (Keith and the spare going at ungodly amount of speed).

In his room getting ready, Lance feels down and he doesn't know why; he loves the heir utterly and completely so why does it feel wrong? Because his friends and family aren't there? That's when his bsf talks about Keith. Lance is confused because why Keith? Yes they've gotten to a point of rivalry and friendship but why not bring up everyone else? Bsf then reminds Lance of everything Lance has ever mentioned about Keith. This infuriates Lance because if he ever did feel or Keith in the romantic way whatever happened to that? How did he stop and start falling for the heir? However, Lance starts feeling ill and that's when bsf realizes that Lance has been given a love potion and an exaggerous amount which his body is not handling well. Lance insists on going through with the wedding potion or no potion. At the altar, Team Voltron arrives just as the ceremony is getting started. Lance is happy to see his friends but they aren't happy to see the couple. Lance then starts hiccuping to the point that he passes out. The heir laughs and says that the only way Lance will wake is if the person his heart beats for kisses him. The heir looks smug as she taunts that Lance's heart only beats for them. The heir then kisses Lance on the lips which also solidifies their marriage. Lance doesn't wake, doesn't make a sound. The bsf, their lover, and most of Team Voltron looks at Keith. Keith kisses Lance's forehead begging for the former Paladin to wake up. Everything is still for a few moments, Keith thinking that the rare item got it wrong and that he and Lance aren't meant to be together. Lance then starts stirring and is confused about what is going on as the last thing he remembers is sending out the distress signal then offering the marriage of convenience. The heir is frustrated then starts telling the guards to take away the Paladins and start executing the kinder aliens. The spare then comes in and challenges the heir to a fight so the spare can take the throne. The heir laughs but accepts the challenge. The heir loses. In a irritated cry asks how the younger sibling what they plan to do with the other aliens. The now crowned heir remarks 'peace' and proposes to bsf.

Happy, Lance promises to come back for the big day. Which isn't that necessary since most things are already set up so they marry that day.

Afterwards, the two alien species start rebuilding the damaged planet with some guidance from Lance. As the Paladins get ready to say goodbye the newly wed couple starts saying goodbye to Lance, wondering if they could convince him to stay just a little bit longer. Keith, Pidge, and Hunk are confused that's when Lance reveals he's going with them again, if they don't mind. Pidge and Hunk tackle him to the ground happy to have their best friend/brother back. Lance informs them that he still doesn't remember much only offering the marriage: Shiro, Pidge and Hunk get a similar look on their faces as they know they're going to be teasing Keith for a l o n g time for the whole true love/soul mate thing. Keith gets irritated and starts chasing them to they can knock it off.

Later that evening when Lance is alone on the bridge he pulls out a small piece from the rare item still glowing red and blue, because Lance remembers most of what happened just not who kissed him. He decides to keep it to himself. Until he's sure both he and Keith are ready to talk about it. Shiro goes to the bridge and catches Lance with the piece. Lance then confides in Shiro most of what he's comfortable with (meaning the first drop of the love potion) Keith spots them and instead of joining starts eavesdropping. He hears them. That when Lance confesses to a gap in his memory of his bsf reminding him off all the things he said about Keith. And Shiro, like the big brother he is, calls Keith out for eavesdropping and forces the two alone together to talk.

Lance starts chasing Pidge and Hunk the next day for their teasing with Keith chases Shiro.

[ariseresound]

❛ hey you need a… hand? ❜ [[Shiro lol]]

&. 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

"Not funny."

[seldomscilence16]

Whumptober day 26:

"Sometimes I get so tired, I don't even know myself."

Seeing double | working to exhaustion | "You look awful."

Fandom: Voltron (Carmen Sandiego au)

Prompts used: all

It's so short I'm sorry. Explanation at the end. But my brain wants to do long fics despite never letting me finish them. This was a shower thought AU, literally wrote the characters on my mirror as I panned them out. This one and day 28 are both probably gonna get some lore someday cause they excite me.

…

C thinks about the Isle a lot. It had been all he'd known, for the first 10 years of his life. Then he'd been failed. And he'd snuck out. And he learned what VILE really was. He'd met Player 1 and 2. He'd worked his way through another year of schooling, until he was able to escape, and with the Players' help, he found his new calling.

But the Isle had been his home. His family. And now… now he looked over his shoulder at every turn. Now he wondered if allowing Keith and Hunk to join him was a good idea. Now he had to keep four people safe, the world from being taken over, to steal things before they could be stolen, to keep his head on his shoulders and his mind his own andandand-

"You look awful." Keith's voice breaks him from his thoughts.

"Your eloquent thoughts always make my heart sing Mullet." He returns in deadpan.

"I think he meant," Hunk cuts in, elbowing the pale boy, "that you look like you could use some rest."

Keith looks both chagrined and annoyed, a true talent really, but nods anyway.

"Hey Blue, we got something from the VILE drive, you up for it?"

"Go ahead Player 1." C turns towards the nearest screen, the two siblings' faces pop on either side as the middle displays what they need.

"Alright so,"

Carmen Sandiego completes another successful mission, Carmen Sandiego outruns the Inspectors, Carmen Sandiego foils VILE's plans once again, Carmen Sandiego-

C runs along the rooftops, fleeing another mission- successful, but when the Inspectors were involved, there were flashing lights and headaches ugh, he didn't need that right now- his foot falters on his next landing. He could have sworn the building had been closer, but it was fine- oh… now there were two Keiths… that, that can't be good. His health cant take two Keiths.

"Uh you good Blue?" Oh gods they speak in unison. "You don't seem your usual self…"

"What am I usually like? I have so much to do, I can't… stop now." C holds a hand to his head as the two Keith's seem to spin, a gentle hand on his elbow steadies him, but he can't stop the flinch that comes with the action, "Ya know…Sometimes… I get so tired, I don't even know myself. I… don't know if I even… have a thing."

"Hey! Shit, you're not, UGH!" Keith has taken most of C's weight, face flushed as frustration burns in his eyes, he looks around the roof briefly, pulls them to the shadows before continuing. "Look. I'm so not the one who should be having this conversation right now, and you're probably not going to remember anyway, but,

"You've given four people who had nothing, something. You took your upbringing, and you're using it to save people. But you're holding the world on your shoulders, just… I don't know, rely on us or something…" he trails off in mumbles towards the end, burning from his roots to his toes.

C looks up at him with awe, it had taken them awhile to get along, past the weird competition they had going on. The Players and Hunk had been exasperated to say the least, but if they could see them now, he's sure they'd be just as surprised as him.

"How long have you been going Blue?"

"Since that night… when they almost killed the archeologist… they raised me, they're gonna outsmart me eventually… I have to be prepared-"

"You literally couldn't tell me how many fingers I have if I asked right now."

"I'd just need to know which one is askin'!"

"Not helping your point here. If you work yourself into exhaustion-" Keith pauses, seemingly remembering something, "You'll have no work left to give. Patience… yields focus… just let us help you."

"...wanna know my favorite… weapon…?" C's eyes are heavy, too long without motion and his body has decided it likes this new position and warmth.

"Sure."

"The lance…"

"Very stabby. 10/10. And it can double as a name."

"....'ts pretty cool. 'Etter than 'black sheep'." C's face twists up in disgust at the name he'd gone by for so long.

"Black sheep who? You're Lance Carmen Sandiego."

C- no, Lance's- eyes widened, staring at the pale face above him framed by dark locks with even darker eyes locked on his own- three of them, but they weren't spinning anymore so he'll take it.

"I like that…" His eyes slip closed, snuggles further into his blue trench coat and towards the warmth emitted from the race car driver.

VILE was always around the corner. But with Red, Yellow, Green and Grey lights shading his Blue, he could get some sleep.

[ I had like a whole plan, but it would have been so long. So here's a fragment of a maybe bigger fic someday if anyones interested. And yes I know, Keith would be a perfect Carmen! But Lance is my baby. Characters below for your pleasure.

Zack/Ivy: Keith and Hunk

Players: Pidge and Matt

Shadowsan: Kolivan

Inspector/Julia: shiro and adam

Director: Allura and Coran ]]]

[chibi-pix]

Continuing from this AU thought, Keith of VF, with a mullet that he deserve, being from the future and being landed in the past. He may know Lance and Pidge well enough with their sassy remarks, but he is not prepared for Katie’s.  So, here we go.

Anyway, I hope y’all enjoy this one! Until next time!