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hi! I'm Khai!
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I am a 23 yr old Mexican artist that looooves drawing trolls
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hi ! I'm Khai, a mexican artist and animation student. Welcome!
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Inspired by this diva
posting this i just thought ughhhh i could read about them becoming bamf like a hundred times over - like lance getting black lion privileges and keith having marmora a phone call away, them leading the new generation of paladins almost accidentally and whole planets breathing a sigh of relief when they show up in times of trouble - I want EVERY. ANGLE. OF THAT.
this is also the last month to get this charm linktr.ee/mezzy
Season 4 klance you're so peak to me ough
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Context: They got hungry late at night after a performance and the only place that was open at that hour was a fast food restaurant, the employee that's used to dealing with a mostly empty restaurant has the most memorable shift of her life
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Why Lance is fire and Keith is water
A big mischaracterization of Lance is that he's not a fiery guy, when in fact his personality resembles fire in so many ways. He's hot-headed, far more than Keith, and that's something that's easily missed because Keith is such a reactive guy. Majority of the fights between Keith and Lance are started by Lance. Lance is also quick to always call out bullshit. He's very passionate about what he does and he always has something to say.
Lance has a temper and I think its so crucial to his character and his dynamic with Keith because without it, their relationship becomes a lot more mellow. Most of the time Keith is just standing like an NPC and Lance will get irritated by that and have something to say, hence causing a fight. Lance has the fire, always has, and it simply reflects on Keith.
I'd like to second this point by saying Keith's personality resembles water. Not that he's completely chill and passive, although he can be. But he's extremely turbulent and malleable. If Lance will start a fight he'll match the energy-he'll shape himself into a fighter. Keith has always been moving around from place to place and he's always had to mold himself into what's most suitable for survival, the same way water clings to a glass. He's got a lot of emotional conflicts within him. The fact that Keith's characterization is very similar to water is also alluded to in the fact that Lance is very drawn to both the ocean (water!) and Keith alike. He can't stop pursuing either.
Now I'm not saying that Lance and Keith are opposites when I call them fire and water because I don't think they're opposites at all. Both can grow/spread to great lengths, both carry a storm, and both can also be kind and gentle and necessary to live (ex: a fire provides warmth and water provides sustenance). Water can fuel fire, the same way Keith grows Lance's fire. Fire can also make water steam and boil, the same way Lance makes Keith react. If the water is greater than the fire, the fire will fizzle out; but if the fire is greater than the water, the water will evaporate. They'd have to be on equal levels for this cause-effect relationship to work. And Lance and Keith have always been on equal level (despite any internal insecurities). They always been neck to neck.
Keith and Lance had great characters that could've been explored more. Regardless of if you ship them or not, they had the potential to be very well written foil characters. Unfortunately that didn't happen :(.
the insane thing about voltron: legendary defender 2016-2018 featuring esteemed actor Steven Yeun is that it was honest to God CRAZY queerbait. like. it's the only time I've ever been fucking GASLIT by a TV show. because they were showing you scenes that were so OBVIOUSLY written to be part of a rivals to lovers story, like, scenes where these two twinks were quite literally an INCH away from each other's faces, having heart to hearts in bedrooms and at SUNSETS, waxing poetry about how they secretly thought the other was actually very important and wonderful, smirking at each other, and saying shit like 'ha. like that?' in a voice like he's sucking someone's DICK (NOT JOKING). and they show you all these scenes and they're like 'heyyy see these guys? you like these guys? they're kinda cute together, huh?' and you're like 'yeahhh they kinda are! wait so are they endgame?' and then they spin their heads like the cop in the lego movie and they say 'NO. WHAT? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? THEYRE FRIENDS! DUDES! BROS! AND THEIR BEAUTIFUL CONVERSATION ABOUT SELF WORTH AND HOW MUCH THEY CARE FOR EACH OTHER IS ACTUALLY JUST THE GAYER I MEAN ALTERNATIVE LOOKING ONE PREPARING THE OTHER FOR HIS DATE. WITH A WOMAN. A GIRL. A FEMININE LADY. fuck you. you're insane. also we killed the actual canon gay character. SUCK A FAT ONE LOSERSSSS !!!' and it was 2018 and you just had to deal with it. cause everyone else was apparently fucking insane and started 1. shitting on the woman 'stuck in the middle' of the not-gay guys (who also drew the short straw, being one of the only women of colour in the show and getting killed off at the end for funsies) and 2. SENDING GLASS CUPCAKES TO THE VOICE ACTORS. and you didnt want to be associated with them. so imagine that. and now imagine you're esteemed actor Steven Yeun. and your character is the not-gay gay one. jesus christ.
Often ppl will call two same-gender characters with chemistry not getting together queerbait but this was Not That
Voltron: Legendary Defender was genuinely Such a fever dream of an experience, it is what I use as a STANDARD when defining queerbaiting
I truly don’t know about any other show in which (SEVERAL) official accounts tagged things with the gay ship name, had the crew posting official ship art of them, POSTED FUCKING THIS
In which the half-galra and poc are under race and the two women in gender and the canonically gay character under LGBT next to Lance because- HUH FOR NO REASON JUST THE POPULAR QUEER SHIP GUY WHO WILL NOT BY ANY MEANS BE MADE CANONICALLY QUEER NEXT TO EVERYNE HOLDING THEIR DESCRIPTIVE CARDS RIGHT YUP GOTCHA
Also, in addition to them killing the canon gay character, not only did they do that but it was after giving him MAYBE 30 seconds of screen time total. Like were they doing gay rep on a speed run what WAS that lmao
This show HAUNTS me. I think about the Voltron Official Instagram account every. single. pride month. because I cannot get over when they posted this image
It is so so baffling because not only is that THE crustiest image I have ever seen but also?? the show is full of rainbows, they are Literally a rainbow robot why did the get the one picture where the colors look very much Not like a rainbow
they make me so insane
this feels like an opportunity to mention two-parter series on youtube that i absolutely love. it’s by The Sin Squad and it’s called How Voltron Became a Tragedy. here’s part one if you want to start watching.
in part one, they get into some theories as to why the show production crashed and burned, mostly focusing on the cut and paste theory of shiro over keith and then after the real shiro comes back, kosmo over shiro, and then shiro over allura…it makes more sense in the video. they also reference this post by @/janestrider called the wolf, the atlas, and the bayard that outlines it pretty well.
part two focuses on the story (and characters) themselves and what seems like extreme dissonance between what the showrunners actually wanted to present to the audience and what they were allowed both time and plain permission for. like, for example, the above image that LM posted after the 2016 elections (shiro was not gay yet!!!) that blatantly and inherently insists that both shiro and lance would have their own queer identities discovered in the show. obviously that went a certain way for ONE of the characters, but in the end, lance became the only odd one out in this image that feels like a genuine relic of the political tension of the time. lmao. keith and hunk have their moment in discussion about keith’s newfound identity as galra, pidge and allura have their moment about gender early on in the show when the mice reveal to her that pidge is, in fact, a ✨🌸girl🌸✨💁♀️. lance is the only one there who didn’t get the. ahem. awakening? that the image is suggesting he would’ve had.
i know it sounds like your typical instance of blaming executives for throwing off everyone’s groove by forcing whole new storylines to be written despite storyboarding and production being nearly done for most of the middle seasons, but there is solid concrete evidence that that exact thing happened! and despite LM and JDS’s insistence, the middle seasons were embarrassingly short and honestly lackluster in comparison to seasons 1-2 (which is not the fault of the creatives involved! don’t get me wrong!) but there was NO way they didn’t have to cut anything out of there to make shiro and keith’s flip-flopped, redirected plot lines fit.
why is this relevant??? you may be asking. why are you going off on this tangent???
well. it wasn’t just dreamworks execs that had a finger in the pot. there’s netflix and also, the people involved with the Intellectual Property of Voltron itself. not that i am pointing a finger at particularly anyone in this instance, but these characters are NOT original characters (except technically shiro). voltron legendary defender is a reboot of the original voltron: defenders of the universe. originally kallura was the romance angle, maybe LM was fighting for her life just to get allurance to be canon. who’s to say how much they were actually allowed to DO with the characters in the show?
—which is not said to delegitimize the queerbaiting accusations!!!! simply put, if you’re not sure you can put the characters together without someone higher up having a shitfit about their original characters being gay in this one iteration of the tv show, then DONT DEDICATE FULL BITS OF THE SCRIPT TO THEM ACTING ZESTY and then fan the flames online when people catch on!!! only to shit on them later!!!!! we were still genuinely queerbaited! on multiple fronts, not just with keith and lance!! it’s the textbook definition of the word!
anywho here’s the links again to part one and part two. i genuinely believe in this theory and im so supportive of it that i kind of forget sometimes, in talking about the show to other people, that they have no idea what I’m talking about
I’m so checking these out, also I thank the gods this didn’t happen to she ra despite the similar format of 80’s show rebooted by dreamworks, I do think that would have brutally murdered me
sharing differences in how i write keith and lance because why not??
keith
- staccato sentences, thoughts divided sharply and colliding. lots of periods!
- often does not recognize or understand emotions coming at him. less “lance looked scared” and more “lance had wide eyes and looked pale”
- self doubt manifests as questions.
- action, THEN retrospection
lance:
- run-on sentences, connecting ideas, flowy inner monologue
- overreactions and overanalysis! equally unreliable as keith, but tends to explain what he sees wayyyy beyond what is actually occurring
- self doubt manifests as fact. “he’s not worthy/he’s not ready/others are better.”
- thinking, then acting, unless in period of high emotion
There is only one bed. It’s a rather large bed at least, in Lance’s opinion, with thick blankets and an assortment of both sleeping pillows and the decorative kind. The Olnari set them up with their best guest suites after Voltron liberated their continent of the Galra. Unfortunately those best suites only numbered six, which meant two would have to share a room, which somehow lead to that pair being him and Keith.
Like he said, a nice place but the problem is still the lone bed.
Neither of them make any attempt to step further into the room than past the door that had closed silently behind them. Keith turns to Lance with a grimace. It’s a mirror to Lance’s own expression.
“You don’t snore, do you?”
Lance scoffs. “You know I don’t, asshole. Do you hog the blankets?”
“I sleep hot. So no.”
Lance prays his brown skin conceals the heat staining his cheeks. How the hell is he supposed to respond to that? ‘I sleep hot.’ Lance bets he does; he’s hot all the time; sleeping wouldn’t make him uglier. He’s fully aware of what Keith meant, but better word choice next time, please. He’s begging.
So yeah, the other problem? Lance's big, giant-ass crush on his fellow paladin who is currently breaking the barrier they set between themselves and the room by toeing off his boots and jumping onto the bed. He bounces slightly and seems enamored by that. A smile pokes out on his face that is somehow directed right at Lance, if unknowingly.
Jesus Christ, that’s cute. How the hell is he going to survive one night?
“Really?” Lance says instead as he crosses his arms and drags himself closer. “You’re sleeping in your day clothes? Didn’t anybody tell you that’s gross?”
Keith glares but that stupid, cute smile hasn’t fully vanished, almost like he wants to laugh at Lance or maybe this entire situation. “You’d prefer me sleeping naked? Because that’s the only other option. They didn’t lend us pajamas.”
Lance splutters. “First” —he holds up one finger, the middle one— “I didn’t say strip naked. Boxers are perfectly acceptable sleepwear, jerk. And two, I prefer you not sleeping here at all.”
Keith pats the open space next to him. “Come here, scaredy cat. I don’t bite.”
Lance grumbles something unflattering under his breath but heeds the command, though not before stripping off his clothes—except his boxers—like a normal person.
Unfortunately, the bed is not as spacious as previously thought. Somehow, now matter how Lance shifts himself, one of his limbs knocks into Keith. They’re practically on top of each other; it’s ridiculous. Keith grunts at the seventh time Lance flips his position to try to get comfortable and grabs onto Lance's stiff arms, dragging him forward until he’s spooning Keith.
Spooning Keith.
“W-What—”
“This is better, right?” Keith says before Lance can stammer his way to infinity.
It is better. Because Keith does sleep hot—a goddam furnace—and Lance’s cold feet have somewhere to go—between Keith’s calves—and he hasn’t made a single complaint about it. Lance grumbles as he buries his nose into Keith’s stupid mullet that somehow smells like flowers thanks to Altean shampoo.
“Good night, Lance,” Keith mumbles with a laugh, his voice trailing off as if this new position is already lulling him to sleep.
Lance breathes out through his nose and tries to calm his racing heart. “Good night.”
If he wakes in the morning and accidentally kisses Keith because his brain is still half asleep and his desires gain control, and if Keith kisses him back, equal parts pleased and surprised, that is a future-them problem.
For now, Lance falls into a blissful sleep, hoping they won’t have to mention this ever again.
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Julance Day 10: Broadsword
Lance unlocking a third weapon with his bayard was so iconic, wish we could have seen more of it.
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