#antok x kolivan

[galraluver]

Your pregnancy cravings _________

~ Kolivan ~

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~ Antok ~

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~ Thace ~

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~ Ulaz ~

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~ Regris ~

[smutdrunk]

keep thinking about BOM x trans Keith where it's not quite a/b/o but the Blades are just absolutely enamored with Keith. (🥵✂)

they want to protect him, they want to make him feel good, they want to see him succeed. like they'll force Keith to rest between missions and ensure he eats and sleeps properly but other times they'll take turns fucking him.

maybe each Blade even has their unique thing:

Regris loves using his tail--binding Keith's wrists, teasing whichever of Keith's holes isn't stuffed full of cock, loves binding Keith's wrists together while he slowly and tenderly eats Keith out.

Antok loves lying back and letting Keith ride him at his own pace, but he absolutely doesn't mind eventually taking over by placing his broad hands on Keith's hips and fucking Keith on his cock.

Ulaz and Thace tend to sandwich Keith between them, just stroking his body while they affirm how strong and handsome and smart he is until all three of them are sweaty and worked up and grinding against one another.

Kolivan knows Keith best, of course, but his duties as leader keep him from giving Keith as much attention as he'd prefer. making time for Keith means finally clearing a few days and issuing an order that they're not to be disturbed unless it's an absolute emergency. he fucks Keith all over his quarters, lets him soak in the bath while he prepares small meals, curls up with Keith like two content cats when they're spent.

and Keith found all of this overwhelming at first but over time it helps clear his head during missions, helps him remained focused because he knows his fellow Blades have his back. knowing that he'll never spend another night alone doesn't hurt either!!!

[ao3feedsheith]

By Choice By Chance

By Choice, By Chance https://archiveofourown.org/works/47591707 by imtiredandcantthinkofanything At 23 years old, Keith made the choice to become a single mother, and ever since, she’s been happily raising her little girl, Nova. Not everyone in her life understood her decision to pursue motherhood as a young, single woman, but she’s fortunate that her friends and family have been supportive and love her daughter unconditionally. She’s never really bothered to think much about romance since she took the plunge into parenthood, but when Nova’s principal calls her into the office for a quick meeting, Keith is knocked off of her feet by the only-slightly-older woman. Too bad it could never work, with Keith being a tattoo artist and Miss Shirogane being her daughter’s elementary school teacher . . . or could it? Words: 2036, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of By Choice, By Chance (SMBC Keith x Shiro) Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F Characters: Keith (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Lance (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk (Voltron), Allura (Voltron), Shay (Voltron), Coran (Voltron), Kolivan (Voltron), Antok (Voltron), Thace (Voltron), Ulaz (Voltron), Regris (Voltron), Keith's Wolf (Voltron) Relationships: Keith/Shiro (Voltron) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, cis swap, but also genderbending, here watch this, Female Keith (Voltron), Female Shiro (Voltron), Trans Shiro (Voltron), Trans Woman Shiro, Mama Keith, mom keith, Keith is a Mom, Keith is a Good Parent, Single Parent Keith (Voltron), Single parent by choice, Single Mother by Choice, Parenthood, Tattoo Artist Keith (Voltron), Principal Shiro - Freeform, Teacher Lance (Voltron), Baker Hunk (Voltron), Biomechanical Engineer Pidge, Superintendent Allura, Dads of Marmora (Voltron), lesbian keith, lesbian Shiro, Female Pronouns for Pidge | Katie Holt, queer platonic relationship, Minor Antok/Kolivan (Voltron), Background Lance/Allura, Background Hunk/Shay, Background Thace/Ulaz, Background Relationships, Original Character(s), Cute Kids, Pining, Mutual Pining, Awkwardness, Flirting, Pining Keith (Voltron), Pining Shiro (Voltron), hand holding, Kissing, Girls Kissing, Cuddling & Snuggling, Fluff, Alcohol, But Only a Little Bit - Freeform, Dorks in Love, Falling In Love, Orphan Keith (Voltron), Minor Angst, just a little though!, I promise this isn't a really an angsty fic!, Happy Ending, Air Force Vet Shiro, Found Family, paladins as a family via AO3 works tagged 'Keith/Shiro (Voltron)' https://archiveofourown.org June 01, 2023 at 09:42PM

[ao3-feed-shadam]

The Three Of Us

by urfavtransrat

Avatar x Voltron AU

Shiro, Matt, and their friends were given a mission by Sanda, a secret mission. The mission was to get close with the natives of the planet. Close enough where they'll do anything that the group asks. They all found the mission odd so they went to someone else, Sam. Sam gave them a new mission that would work for them all. Learn about the planet and the natives. However it wouldn't be easy because Kuron, Shiro's twin, was taking over their old mission. This causes trouble for Shiro, Matt, and their friends.

This AU will be vastly different from the first movie. I might make a fanfic about the second one once I watch and when I finish this one.

Words: 132, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi

Characters: Adam (Voltron), Matt Holt, Shiro (Voltron), Keith (Voltron), Lance (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Allura (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Coran (Voltron), Shay (Voltron), James Griffin (Voltron), Veronica (Voltron), Acxa (Voltron), Sam Holt, Colleen Holt, Sanda (Voltron), Iverson (Voltron), Krolia (Voltron), Kolivan (Voltron), Thace (Voltron), Ulaz (Voltron), Antok (Voltron), Kuron (Voltron), Minor Characters, Original Female Character(s), Other Character Tags to Be Added

Relationships: Adam/Shiro (Voltron), Adam/Matt Holt, Adam/Matt Holt/Shiro, Adam & Matt Holt & Shiro, Matt Holt/Shiro, Adam & Allura & Coran & Matt Holt & Hunk & Keith & Lance & Pidge | Katie Holt & Shiro, Adam/Kuron (Voltron), Minor or Background Relationship(s), James Griffin/Keith/Lance (Voltron), Allura/Romelle (Voltron), Hunk/Shay (Voltron), Acxa/Veronica (Voltron), Thace/Ulaz (Voltron), Adam (Voltron) & Other(s)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Na'vi (Avatar - Cameron), Na'vi & Human Interactions (Avatar - Cameron), Trans Adam (Voltron), Fluff, Angst, Kuron & Shiro (Voltron) are Twins, Adam (Voltron) Lives, Established Matt Holt/Shiro, Matt Holt & Shiro Friendship, Gay Adam (Voltron), Protective Adam (Voltron), Keith & Shiro (Voltron) are Siblings, Protective Matt Holt, Protective Shiro (Voltron), Minor Character Death, Bisexual Matt Holt, Gay Shiro (Voltron), Gay Panic, Mating Bond, Na'vi Language (Avatar - Cameron)

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/45707995

[wajjs]

Antok / Kolivan, Emotional Hurt / Comfort, Smut!

An old wip I decided to revisit while procrastinating my current wip because procrastination apparently leads to being productive-

You can read it on ao3 HERE

[shiroallura]

Summary: There is so much more of the universe, and so many more children of the stars, than we can ever know. / Sidefic and companion oneshots to my The Space Between Stars verse. 

Some ships that will be featured: Shallura, Antok/Kolivan, Thulaz, Klance, and many others. Wildly AU.

Ch1: Antok and Kolivan through the years. Also consider reading and reviewing on FFN.

[amorremanet]

Okay, y’know what, none of this, “I don’t make the rules” pretense right now

In my headcanon, I do make the rules, and in my headcanon, Kolivan and Antok are married, and Antok is constantly worrying about his husband’s not-that-secret Extra As Fuck™ tendencies because Antok is enduring a very long recovery at the space hospital and isn’t there to rein Kolivan in on missions

This is the reality that I choose to live in, and in this reality, I do indeed make the rules. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

[chibi-pix]

For the Galra AU, Lance’s appearance was based mainly off of Kolivan and in part, his tail, of Antok. As such, it is possible knowing me, extremely possible that his parents are Kolivan and Antok. So! Here he is with them as a little tyke trying to grab Antok’s tail.

[galraluver]

I finally have the next two chapters of my BoM Parent Scenarios published and Krolia's finally joining the story on a more full time basis. Also, you (the reader) and Ulaz end up with a third surprise

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And here's the two soundtracks used for mood music

[edda-grenade]

[librarian!kuron au]

at some point kuron’s libido decides to wake up bc he finally feels safe and happy and (mostly) at home in his body again and everyone’s very willing to indulge him

(also listen if you think the blades don't soak up all that intimacy and affection like the softness-starved war survivors they are, you would be WRONG)

[full versions on pillowfort]

[mizulekitten]

Paperwork Hell

So anyone remember that one post I made about my Nothing Ever Goes Bad AU? (You shouldn't have to read it to understand the ficlet) Yeah, finally got the nerve to write for it so... yeah

My ships may be a slight turn off for some, but... Loving and respecting Zeith (Zarkon x Keith) ahead!!! -OT3 of Zeith+Honerva is heavily reference but like no actual interactions-

Keithal sighed and fought the urge to hit his head against the table. He was tired of sitting in place all day, tied to his desk like he was married to it (not even his actual partners demanded this much time from him). Normally, he was tasked with the more physically demanding aspects of the Blade, his team knowing that he prefered it. The never ending reports and logs weren’t something he often interacted with outside of necessity. Otherwise he left it to his secretary, who somehow enjoyed the paperwork. His secretary wasn’t an option right now. 

There were a lot of things that he wanted to blame for this moment, the red tape halting his every move, the never ending numbers that didn’t add up the way they needed to, and the constant changes to plans that had been perfectly fine not even a varga earlier. Namely, he blamed Kolivan and Antok. He was happy for his long term friends, but Kolivan's pregnancy and eventual parental leave (that Antok, Thace, Ulaz, and Keithal were forcing him into for his own safety) were throwing a wrench in a lot of their plans.

Around this time, he was generally overseeing the training of new recruits, but in preparation for Kolivan's leave he had taken on part of his friend's workload, a lot of which his secretary didn’t have the clearance to look at. Stars abound knew that Antok would be more or less useless the moment Kolivan's pregnancy went into it's late stages, and so he would have to find someone to replace, or at least pick up the slack of Kolivan and Antok until they were both ready to return to work....

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[aceofdaibazaal-blog]

Dads of momora love interest ( request pt 3 )

Request: May I have a HC for the dads of marmora reacting to their foul mouthed and ill tempered female human medic (love interest) being extremely good with kids/kits, particularly the orphaned ones since she knew what it was like to be abandoned since she and her bother were orphaned and when she’s with kids it’s the only time she’s calm and sappy, even getting attached to a certain young cub who will cry is she leaves, they think she’ll make a great mother one day 😏

A/N: I wonder if this is the same person requesting all of these... if it is you're awesome, and if not you're still awesome 😂😘

Kolivan

- It's surprised him at first, he never would've thought you liked children seeing as how you treated the other blades.

- Loves to watch you play with the orphans, think it's adorable that they love you so much

- Likes how patient you are with them, wishes you were that patient with the other blades

- Secretly loves all the children who love you, because most of them have a testy personality like yours

- Can't stop himself from think about someday having children with you, even though he tries to push those thoughts away because to him the idea seems impossible :(

Thace

- Loves to play with the children with you, if your with the orphans he's with the orphans

- Since his childhood was much like yours he understands why you get sappy when your with them, and sad when you have to leave them

- Likes to think about his future with you and wonders if it will ever happen

- Was a little surprised when he first saw you with the orphans

Ulaz

- Think it's adorable when you play with the orphans, especially since no one would expect it from you

- He wasn't really surprised you got along with the kids really well, Kolivan may have told him about you past

- Sometimes if you ask him he'll come be with you and the orphans

- When he does the children like to hang on him and play with his ears ( "I think someone likes you." You said playfully as the little ones played with his hair and ears. "Our children will never be allowed to do this." He muttered trying to gets the kids off him. "O-Our?" You stuttered making Ulaz turn a deep shade of purple. )

- Knows that you'll be an amazing mother one day, even if it's not his children

Antok

- Teases you when you say your going to go see the orphans

- Thinks it's very cute when you play games with the orphans, sometimes he will come and play with you

- Loves to watch you try to teach the orphans how to sword fight

- think that one day you'll make an amazing mother

[wajjs]

can we get some uh kolivan and antok being adorable little shits when they think no ones looking??? Its tea

Kolivan’s surprise is quickly replaced by a nervous shyness that has Antok diving in for more.  But Kolivan stops him this time, his ears twitching twice.

“What—what are you doing, Antok, we are right in—”

“Come oooooooooooon,” Antok whines, his tail swaying behind him from side to side, “no one’s here, no one’s watching!”

“Need I remind you,” Kolivan shivers yet he doesn’t pull away, instead cradling Antok’s face in his hands, “that what you just said is completely untrue?”

“The hallway is clear!”

“There are still security feeds…”

“That we can properly edit later.  Kolivan, I just,” he swallows once, but doesn’t make another move to approach the other, “I just really want to kiss you…”

Kolivan looks at him for a long, drawn out moment.  After it, he just smiles and kisses Antok’s lips before his partner can react.  "I know,“ he says, smiling as he continues kissing Antok’s jawline, "I’ve been thinking about it, as well…”

—

Ulaz sighs then, and he dutifully turns off the cameras of that section.  After all, that was not something meant for anybody to see.

[shiroallura]

kolivan/antok is... So Good

[voltronreaderinserts]

HC for galras having human hybrid daughters, like how they'd raise them and how protective would they be?

THIS ONE IS CUTE OMG– I’m gonna do some generalized headcanons, but feel free to ask for a specific Galran, and I’ll be more specific!!

– Ryan

• They panic• They’re used to how a Galra baby is supposed to be raised• They’re used to how a Galra baby is supposed to look• But this… This fleshbag has skin?? where’s her fur??• God save them if they have more than one• They’re not quite sure how to raise them in the beginning stages• They rely on you, their human counterpart, to raise them for the most part• But they know raising more than one child on your own is too much to ask• So they step in once in a while• They constantly forget that they can’t groom their babies• But they’ll do it (on accident) anyway (and continue to do it later on in their adult lives)• Giving their daughters baths, they’re the ones more soaked than the babies are• Hahaha• Overprotective to the mAX• So they don’t know how much Galran they have, but it’s evident that they don’t have their structure, nor their strength• Not that their fathers will view them as weak (“You’re my daughter, I know you’re strong”)• They’re so scared that they’re gonna hurt themselves somehow• As a baby, they’re hovering over them 24/7• As children, they’re given more freedom, but when they return they’re thoroughly checked for bruises or cuts• As young adults, they’re protected at all costs, no one is good enough for their baby girls.• Honestly, they would do the whole thing over again• The worry and the constant stress that human needs require• They love their children, and they’ll spoil them rotten

[amorremanet]

Hiya ! Super late but : 5+ headcanon thingy about...voltron college au if you wanna ? :)

aksfkgdfgh, I did mean to get back to this yesterday, but I got distracted writing and watching House reruns (but the, “give me an AU and I give you 5+ headcanons about it” meme is basically always open, because I am always good to go on AU headcanons)

idk whether to go with the college AU side of the fic that’s actually updating on AO3 or the one college AU that has Hunk/Keith/Lance, Matt/Shiro, Allura/Shay, and Lotor being a pain in the ass because Shiro doesn’t want to date him (and for multiple other reasons, but Shiro not wanting to date him is a big one) — so heck, let’s do both

the AU that doesn’t have a fic at present

Shiro has spent two separate Christmases in the hospital for one reason or another. The first one was when he was in high school: he was working out too hard without actually taking care of himself, putting way too much stress on himself about literally everything (from being allowed to play varsity lacrosse as a sophomore to worrying about his PSAT scores to trying to handle Keith’s first crush for him when Keith literally didn’t ask and just wanted to talk to Shiro about it because he was 13 and didn’t think the guy he liked knew he existed), and after seriously exhausting himself and throwing his electrolytes way, waaay off, Shiro passed out.

The second time was during his sophomore year of uni, and Shiro was so certain that he just had a nasty cold but actually, he was down with pneumonia. And as it turns out, stress from finals week, not eating right, and trying to keep to the same gym schedule that you have when you’re healthy? Not the way to handle pneumonia.

That first time is also the reason why Shiro first started visiting his and Keith’s therapist in a capacity other than, “Shiro had to escort Keith to make sure he got to the appointment and Keith asked him to come into the office too (or possibly emotionally manipulated him into it, maybe both)”

There is probably a 95% chance that Pidge will find a stray cat and try to hide it in her dorm room, despite all of the, “no, you may not have pets in your dorm; exceptions can be negotiated about for disabled students but the rest of you are not allowed to have pets, get over it” rules

When Allura finds out, there’s like a 65% chance that she just won’t report anything as part of an awkward attempt to befriend Pidge

When Hunk/Keith/Lance actually sort out the polyamory thing, Keith is going to want to tell Shiro immediately. The only reason they won’t is that Lance doesn’t believe that Keith can successfully tell Shiro about this by using a Parks and Rec meme — but “successfully” here means, “telling Shiro the thing AND getting him to say the line that is a response to said meme.”

So, they go to Shiro’s room and Keith is all, “This is my boyfriend Hunk and this is Hunk’s boyfriend Lance.”

“Sorry… what’s the situation?” Shiro plays along because he knows that sometimes, you just have to let Keith communicate through borrowed words.

“Hunk is bi and he’s into me, and he’s also into Lance, and Lance is really into Hunk, and I don’t actually hate Lance.”

Hunk: “It’s not that complicated :)”

Shiro: “Okay, but seriously, what is the situation”

Keith: “I’ll tell you everything but only if you say the other thing”

Shiro: “*siiiiiiiiiiiiiighs* …The thing about youth culture is: I don’t understand it”

and then Lance, Keith, and Hunk celebrate because haaaa, Shiro said the thing

Lance really doesn’t mean to be an asshole, most of the time. Like, okay, yes, sometimes, he DOES mean to be kind of an asshole — for instance, when The Paladins get beaten at ultimate frisbee Lotor, Acxa, Zethrid, Ezor, Narti, and Lotor’s coterie of overly similar frat-bro bodyguards, and Lance feels like Lotor definitely cheated somehow despite the complete lack of evidence, so he starts cussing Lotor out and accusing him and the gals of cheating

—but most of the time, Lance just doesn’t really know what to do with his feelings. Especially when a lot of them are things like, “All of the pressure he’s putting on himself to succeed and do well because all his older siblings are awesome and he doesn’t know what he’s good at like they’re good at stuff”

and, “All of his little nieces and nephews look up to Cool Uncle Lance and he wants to be a good role model, and he doesn’t want to let them down and doesn’t realize that the tiny humans love him regardless of how he does at school or what a loser he feels like he is and about the only way that he could ever let them down is if he promised them something and then didn’t deliver on it”

and, “Lance knew that it was going to be hard to leave home and go to school, and he thought maybe it’d be easier because he and Hunk were going to the same place so at least he’d have his best friend — but then he had to room with Keith instead of Hunk, and Keith is THE WORST, but Hunk actually kinda likes Keith and Keith sucks at flirting and Lance feels like he has no right to feel jealous because obviously he’s not in love with Hunk or anything don’t be stupid they’re just best friends and Hunk probably wouldn’t want to be with Lance anyway, and oh god why does everything hurt”

—all of which sort of boils over into Lance crying on Shiro’s shoulder when Shiro tries to sit him down in the Cool RA Single for a Talk about how he and Keith’s mutual antagonism has been steadily escalating (and the whole, “let’s sit all three of us down and hash out your differences and make a plan to handle this” idea went over like a lead balloon because Keith and Lance were both on the defensive, so nothing got discussed in a constructive fashion)

Granted, Lance was on the defensive during the one-on-one chat too, but mostly because he assumed that Shiro was going to take Keith’s side in this by default because they have history together and apparently Hunk is going out with Keith on Friday night so why wouldn’t Shiro take Keith’s side, too

This boiling over of emotion ends with Shiro feeling like he is in way over his head about trying to get Keith and Lance to just…… not even, “get them to be friends,” but, “get them to please stop it with deliberately antagonizing each other, for the love of god, please”

—but also with him going, “Okay, I’m not saying that you need to go to therapy or talk to me about your problems or anything? But if you want to talk to someone, there’s no shame in doing that and it can help a lot, if you let it”

—which in turn results in Lance hugging him tighter and crying a bit more (at least in the short term)

I mean, look, things will get better after this but Lancey-Lance has a LOT of pent-up emotions and Shiro gives nice hugs and says that he doesn’t care about people crying up his shirts, so. We’ll get to an okay place, but Lance has to cry it out first.

Shiro is the only person who doesn’t think the, “world’s okayest dad” mug that Lance and Hunk got him for Christmas is hilarious. He is NOT anybody’s father. Big brother figure — okay, sure, he can deal with that, but he isn’t anybody’s dad, will you please stop calling him that, saying things like, “I’m not mad, I’m disappointed” doesn’t make him any shade of paternal okay.

I mean, he drinks out of the mug anyway because coffee is coffee and as long as the coffee gets into his mouth safely, Shiro doesn’t mind what its container looks like. But still. He’s not your dad.

Everyone else still thinks the mug is hilarious, though (well, okay, Keith thought it was funny for a little bit and has since gotten over it, and Pidge only thought that it was mildly amusing and now she wishes that everyone would just shut up about it).

But yes, they get that Shiro isn’t literally anybody’s dad and that strictly speaking, he is more of an older brother figure than a dad — it’s just that nobody makes, “world’s okayest brother” mugs as far as they know, and Shiro still does things like the whole, “I’m not mad, I’m disappointed” thing until he tries to put conscious effort into NOT doing them (and even then, he still does them)

So, if you ask anyone but Shiro (and Keith and Pidge), that mug is hilarious

the tall, smart, good-looking AU

Shay organized an anti-M//ilo Y//iannopoulous protest back in February because Dean Zarkon was going to let that fucker come to campus and speak. It didn’t turn into full-scale riots like the protests out at UC Berkeley, but there was nevertheless resistance from the student conservative groups, and although the “presentation” was sparsely attended, it also wasn’t canceled like Shay was hoping to get.

Keith thinks that this is a perfectly interesting story about things that actually matter and doesn’t get why the other people in his creative nonfiction class with Dr. Ryner think he should skip writing In Cold Blood!Capote-inspired reportage about the protested and instead write a fucking BuzzFeed Lives piece about how he had this one abusive douchebag foster grandfather who got bitten by a Texas coral snake and died and it was the best day ever

Kolivan is head of the history department. He’s married to Antok, who is also a history professor, and they have a dog called Rufus. They’ve been calling their relationship status, “married” since 1997 (and they’ve been legally married since 2004, when they took advantage of the ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health to make if official). Here is essentially how their proposal went:

Antok: “The only reason you’re trying to pull away is because you’re too scared to marry me!”

Kolivan: “I am absolutely not scared of anything, I LOVE you! If you truly meant the proposal, then you would stand behind your alleged convictions, so I can only conclude that YOU are too scared to let yourself marry ME and are projecting your insecurities because—”

Antok: “WHY WOULD I PROPOSE AT ALL IF I DIDN’T MEAN IT”

Kolivan: “I DON’T KNOW EVERYTHING DO I LOOK PSYCHIC TO YOU”

Antok: “WHAT DOES A PSYCHIC EVEN LOOK LIKE”

Kolivan: “YOU SAID YOU’D GIVE ME TIME TO THINK IT OVER”

Antok: “YEAH. I AGREED TO A WEEK. YOU’VE HAD THREE. JUST ADMIT IT, YOU ARE TOO DAMN SCARED TO MARRY ME”

Kolivan: “I AM NOT SCARED, I’LL MARRY THE SHIT OUT OF YOU RIGHT NOW”

Antok: “OH YEAH? PROVE IT”

Kolivan: “FINE I WILL *fumbles about trying to put on Antok’s engagement ring and refuses help until he finally gets it right by himself* …There! ……Uh, do you know any jewelers that are open right now or would a Ring-Pop from the bodega on the corner be an acceptable stand-in until morning”

—at least they didn’t have to do that again in 2004. Antok just got home really late on the day the ruling was announced (because he’d had an unexpected hospital visit and had hung around to see if his sister would need him and Kolivan to watch her kids for the night) — which she didn’t, in the end, but it still took a while to decide that it was all okay and he called to say that he’d be late but couldn’t keep up as much as he wanted because cellphones circa 2004……

So, when Antok got home, he found Kolivan asleep on the kitchen table, surrounded by a dinner that had gotten cold, a cake he’d made himself, balloons that seemed totally out-of-place in proximity to Kolivan, one of Antok’s scented candles (which had burned down enough that it was like five minutes from setting off their smoke alarm), and a Ring-Pop because he thought it would be a fun callback to their original proposal

(I mean, Kolivan also had another ring to give his husband and had successfully kept it under-wraps for three weeks because he usually doesn’t let himself hope so much — he would tell you that he always hopes for the best but experience, unfortunately, tells him to expect the worst [and if you get that this is a reference to Deep Space 9, you are Kolivan’s friend now] — but he was incredibly, unusually hopeful about how the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court would ultimately rule in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health)

Anyway, this was all so sweet that Antok just…… didn’t wake his husband up until after he’d gotten his camera and taken a picture for posterity’s sake

—and yet, they still periodically have incidents like, “Antok comes and interrupts Kolivan’s class for, ‘serious department business’ that is actually more like, ‘personal issues that are significant but could have waited until after class’ and Kolivan proceeds to spend seven minutes telling his students about why intra-Departmental romances are a bad idea”

or, “Kolivan forgets his own birthday again and, the next day, Antok starts off his class by calling some historical figure an idiot and yeah okay, maybe it sounds like he’s just picking on Napoleon in order to break down the whole, ‘Seeing these historical personages as Huge Important People, rather than as actual human beings, which in turn makes your scholarship less reliable’ thing… but then he gets to the part like, ‘I mean, if you think about it, Joséphine de Beauharnais probably only had her alleged affairs, if she did indeed have them, because Napoleon was a buffoon who was too absorbed in his work to remember his own birthday after she worked so hard to make it nice for him’ and everybody is just like, ‘oh jeez Kolivan really screwed up this time, didn’t he’“

But their dramatics aside, they eventually calm down, talk, and work it out every time because okay yes, they’re both disasters when you get to know them, but they’re disasters who love each other and care about this relationship

(Still, it is generally agreed that Thace probably made the best call by marrying a therapist who is affiliated with the college literally only because Ulaz is married to Thace, and because he sometimes gets clients referred to him by the mental health folks at student health services)

You know that old Arrested Development bit that goes, “Get me a vodka rocks.” / “Mother, it’s breakfast.” / “*sighs, rolls eyes* Fine, and a piece of toast” — yeah, no, Lotor and Honerva have done that exact bit before

One time when they were in undergrad, Ezor and Zethrid tried to make Lotor watch Arrested Development with them because they thought he’d probably find it funny and it might be like a therapeutic outlet for him. They ignored Acxa’s multiple warnings about how this was a terrible idea and it wasn’t going to work……

When Lotor made it through exactly four episodes before kinda breaking down and demanding to know what was so hilarious about a bunch of horrible, self-absorbed people screwing each other over and treating each other like garbage, these parents don’t even see their children as human beings how is this FUNNY, what the fuck is WRONG with the people who made this show, why does everyone love it so much, THIS IS HORRIBLE WHY ARE YOU EVEN MAKING HIM WATCH IT?

……Yeah, it was all Acxa could do not to tell them, “I told you so”

Mostly she didn’t because having known Lotor the longest means that she’s usually the one who has the easiest time of getting through to him in a constructive, helpful fashion when he’s being an even worse mess than usual, or having some kind of meltdown, or similar

Trying to discuss any of the show’s redeeming qualities with Lotor still will not end well. Because…… no, seriously. The Bluth-Fünkes and their misadventures hit waaaay too close to home for him, and remind him of Zarkon and Honerva most obviously (but also of all the extended family members who he pretty openly hates), and just

Don’t go there

Please for the love of God, I’m begging you: do not go there with Lotor, it’s a terrible idea for everyone

If you want to do any dysfunctional family comedies with him, your choices are Little Miss Sunshine and, “absolutely nothing, that is the only option, you can have Little Miss Sunshine or you can pick a genre other than dysfunctional family comedies”

Keith is going to be slightly confused when he gets to the Battle of the Bands on November 3rd and sees Acxa there. Because they have met before, while they were trying to switch between hiding and fighting back against some of the Conservative student groups that were antagonizing at Shay’s protest, and Keith hasn’t seen her around since then. Mostly, he hasn’t seen Acxa because she isn’t actually a student or in any way tied to the college; she just showed up for the protest because she agreed with Shay about not wanting that fuckhead anywhere near her city

Keith is not going to be confused by Zethrid, when he meets her, but basically everyone else is going to be confused by the fact that the two of them actually get along, because both of them have bad tempers and neither of them is really known for having stellar social skills

They’re going to talk to each other because Zethrid is all, “So how do you know my girlfriend and why did you two just have a sort of awkward moment of recognition” so Keith tells her, and aside from both of them thinking it was totally awesome how Acxa threw a brick at some skinhead and didn’t get caught, Keith is all, “*shrugs* You don’t have to apologize for assuming anything and getting defensive or whatever, I totally get wanting to protect the people you love and being willing to beat the shit out of someone to do it”

Zethrid: “*eyebrow arches because…… uh huh, Keith, you are 5’9” and you certainly look skinny even if you’re pretty strong, so you’ll excuse Zethrid for being skeptical* When have you ever beaten the shit out of anybody in your life, little man”

Keith: “……Do you want a romantically relevant example or my favorite example”

Zethrid: “………idk, let’s say both”

Keith: “Okay, well, the romantically relevant example was this one time in Chicago? Shiro, his old roommate, and I went out to a bar, and when we were all leaving, there were some skinheads going at these other guys. So, Shiro’s pretty drunk at the time and has even less impulse control than I did, and he runs right in to play big damn heroes, which ends up with him getting stabbed. Next thing I know, I’m pouncing this skinhead who’s like about Shiro’s height but built bigger than you, pummeling him because he stabbed Shiro. Apparently, I actually did some good damage before he shook me off, but I was kinda drunk too and got a concussion out of it, and my memory of it is a little fuzzy”

Zethrid: “Okay what about your favorite example”

Keith: “I had this foster one brother who liked to do shit like locking me in the cupboard under the stairs or locking me out of the house for several days so he could fuck his girlfriend. At the time, I also had a crush on this girl I went to school with. I mean, we were like 13 and neither of us had very many friends, so it’s not like we dated or anything, but she had a shitty home-life too and we got along. Anyway, I had her over one afternoon so we could work on a thing for our science class, and Bryce started being an asshole, so I kicked him in the nuts so hard that we had to go to the ER and get them pulled back out.”

Zethrid: “NICE. ……I like you. :)”

Keith: “……thank you? ……I think I like you, too.”

Lotor, probably: “Zethrid, nooooo, don’t like the street rat, please, I beg of you, it’s bad enough that Shiro likes him and Acxa thinks he’s okay, NOT YOU TOO ZETHRID, ZETHRID WHYYYYY”

Shiro and Acxa: “*facepalming forever because: 1. they know that they should encourage their Keith and Zethrid in making friends because they both do that so rarely, but… 2. for fuck’s sakes, why are you two bonding over a shared appreciation for violence, like? sdkffkhr, Shiro and Acxa are not outright OPPOSED to violence but can you two please find something else to bond over… and 3. ugh someone really has to go deal with Lotor before he has a full-blown temper tantrum and neither Shiro nor Acxa wants to be that person tonight, they really, really don’t*”

Coran does more active work with the students as the Assistant Dean of Student Life than Zarkon does as the full Dean of Student Life, but it’s an open secret that Zarkon doesn’t want this job — he’d rather just be the President of the University, but in lieu of that, Dean of Faculty is his ideal position — and that he makes Coran deal with more shit while inventing a bunch of bureaucratic reasons why he can’t do it himself.

Strictly speaking, Zarkon could probably get away with a lot more than he already does if he said something about his Chemistry professor wife being a high-functioning alcoholic while their son is sort of perpetually up at the edge of a meltdown cliff, but that would require him to:

1. acknowledge that Honerva has an actual problem instead of trusting that she totally has it under control because she’s a genius and he’s suspending good judgment because he loves her;

2. take Lotor’s problems seriously instead of dismissing him as a little more than a spoiled brat and an overly entitled pain in Zarkon’s ass;

and 3. care about his family’s actual health and overall well-being more than he cares about what the neighbors think and what the other people on campus think and, in general, about what kind of image his family projects to everybody else

—which means that this is basically never going to happen, since even if one of those things came to pass, the other two almost definitely wouldn’t unless Honerva was like, actually dying right here, right now, and Zarkon could not possibly find a way to escape dealing with the consequences of his bullshit choices and how much familial dysfunction that he’s allowed to fester by not taking any of it seriously, thinking that everyone could handle it fine, etc.

After a mix-up with his scholarships and grants that resulted in him losing his student housing, Keith did a lot of sleeping on campus couches while showering at the campus gym and he somehow managed to convince most everyone that he was totally fine…… until he relied on his old trick of sleeping in people’s cars, broke into Alfor’s, and got caught by Allura (who was his girlfriend at the time) and her fancy diplomat father.

The retort, “I mean, you should be glad to see me, I broke in while sleep-deprived and strung out on potentially heart attack-inducing amounts of coffee, so you clearly need a better security system on your Benz” did not go over well

Like, Alfor appreciated Keith’s attempt at humor, and the point about needing to get the security system checked on his car, and Keith’s sense of self-reliance…… but on the other hand, Allura’s boyfriend was all but passed out in Alfor’s backseat and tried to leave when Alfor offered him one of the guest rooms at their place uptown, so

That was kinda worrisome, yeah

Also not really the best way to meet your girlfriend’s father for the first time

Whoops