why klance is still, indeed, canon king
( K/LANTIS DON’T INTERACT )
you all know the official art lauren montgomery drew. yeah. you know the one.
^ THIS bad boy right here. there is a common pattern with the pairs. this is probably a reach but the person that is supporting/helping the other with their issue has their arm wrapped around the one being helped. in case my wording threw you off:
• allura helped pidge come out as a girl, hence the gender sign. allura has her arm around pidge.
• hunk and keith had that whole scene where they discussed keith being galra. hunk has his arm around keith.
• lastly, it is WIDELY theorized that lance is bisexual. he happens to be holding the LGBT+ sign, and shiro’s hand is on his shoulder.
it is shown that the person with the issue has both hands on the sign, and the person helpig with the issue has one arm around the one being helped. this could, in fact, be a reach, but i doubt it’s a coincidence, especially w/ the detailing of the show. don’t @ me.
this also may be a reach:
• with both hands, lance uses only two fingers to grasp onto the LGBT+ poster, which may be hinting at bi!lance.
• the others use all four fingers to grasp the sign, which is actually a lot easier when holding a damn sign. lance uses 2/4 fingers that he should be using. yet again, this is probably a reach, but it’s something i want to point out.
• shiro is incredibly self-aware, so i highly doubt that the LGBT+ issue will be around him. with all these points, i introduce to you;
while we all believe that the voltron writers are queerbaiting by neither confirming nor denying LGBT presence in the show (and i’m salty about the lack of a hint in s6), i believe that they will, because lance is extremely, and i mean extremely, bi-coded. i could dive into every single way that the writers bi-coded lance, but i’m a bit too tired for that, so i will bring up one thing and one thing only for that bi-coding:
lance is often seen with another boy character with the colors of the bi flag in the background. you can see all of lance’s bi-coding in Fictional Crystals’ “Is Lance Bisexual? - LGBT Rep in Voltron” video (can’t link, i’m on mobile), and that boy is usually keith.
lets talk about their dynamic.
• lance, who is a normally friendly guy and loves to make acquaintances, immediately begins a one-sided rivalry with keith, highly contradicting his personality.
• lance has been stated to have admired keith and looked up to him (shada, i believe, but i dunno the actual source)
• lance is overly flirty, a sign that he is overcompensating.
a lot of what lance does points an attraction to keith, but people think that it’s impossible for lance to be attracted to keith, because he has a crush on allura.
allur@nce is heavily hinted in season 6, i can’t lie. but that relationship won’t last even if it does set sail. it’s literally set up to fail. sorry allur@nce stans. your ship is cute, though.
both allura and lance are going to realize that lance is merely a rebound for lotor, if allur@nce is established. their development points to nothing else.
so if lance is in fact LGBT, most likely Bi, let’s review his remaining options:
• pidge has shown no romantic attraction to lance and her relationship to hunk is a lot tighter than her relationship to lance.
• we don’t know if hunk still has his relationship with shay, but i’m pretty sure he does. even if he doesn’t, hunk is way closer to pidge than he is to lance, with concrete evidence for this is s6.
• i’m not even gonna get into what kind of trouble DW could get into if they have a teenager date a full-grown 25-year-old man. don’t mistake me, no hate to shance, but it’s the risk that comes with making it canon that makes me HIGHLY doubt they’ll even consider going down that road.
• they could pair lance with an outsider, but that’s highly unlikely, especially with lance’s closeness with the paladins. if they pair him with an outsider, it’ll be temporary.
• here’s our last option: keith.
now, keith and lance have a really interesting relationship. they are one of the relationships (platonic or romantic) that honestly have the most chemistry out of any other relationship in the show. the way they are developed puts a heavy emphasis on their relationship as fellow paladins. while they were enemies at first, with admittedly really funny and petty arguments, that developed into a special bond (haha) pretty quickly.
from nearly constant petty bickering to lance and keith depending on each other, their relationship honestly shows the most development out of any other relationship in the whole series.
as well as that, allura (lance’s canon love interest) and keith have endless parellels, the most obvious that i will point out:
allura literally had to act as keith for the voltron shows.
parellels are also shown with interactions between the two of them and lance. lance is explicitly bi-coded, so let’s talk about the klance relationship.
edit: a binch forgot to add this in so. let’s add i.
lance actually recognizes keith from his mullet. he knows what the back of keith’s head looks like so well that he recognizes him immediately after? what? one year of not seeing him? and he talks about keith so much that hunk knows who he is, too. we could assume that hunk knew keith bc they were in the same class, but keith called hunk “big guy” so 🤷♀️
clearly we are talking about the bonding moment. we can’t not talk about the bonding moment.
so, keith goes to help lance, right? no big deal?
with shiro’s confirmed brotherly relationship with keith (“ shiro, you’re my brother, i love you”) you’d think that keith would go over to shiro first. even if pidge had shiro covered, keith would still wanna check up on his “brother”, which is why it’s so weird that keith goes over to lance first.
the setup: pidge and shiro are a bit blurred out, emphasizing keith and lance’s prescence. why is this scene so important?
• lance and keith, grasped hands, holding each other’s intense gazes
• purple background and lighting, which is commonly used in voltron scenes to establish romance, and has been used in inherently romantic klance scenes in following episodes
• To Go Home playing in the background
• strong gazes and soft smiles
if this was a hetero ship, there is no way in hell that it would be percieved as platonic. that shit was gay as fuck.
following day in which lance was in the cryopod-
• keith is impatient to get lance out of the pod and seems even more upset after allura says it’ll only be a few more ticks
• he is literally not willing to wait for a few ticks. ( Impatient tapping on the cryopod, “How much better do you think he’s gonna get in a few more ticks?!)
• smiles when lance gets out
• mood immediately darkens when lance flirts with allura. this is obvious by his face. there are also a handful of instances where lance has flirted with allura and keith is always shown as upset by them. hmm. suspicious.
• sits directly in front of lance, butt on table, waiting for confrontation
• how distressed does he sound when he says “We had a bonding moment! I cradled you in my arms!” (his voice literally cracks, so) and i really do not know how that specific line can be taken in a platonic manner. we also did not witness this cradling.
• Lance remembered the bonding moment was NOT READY for this development (hedrick), suggesting he was not ready to face his feelings
• speaking of the bonding moment, there are countless. times. where it has been parelleled with inherently romantic scenes ( allura rescuing lance in his own lion, krolia and texas kogane standing in front of the blue lion )
• “i think we make a great team!” lance says while cradling himself in his own arms and flirting with allura, a direct parellel to the bonding moment, suggesting “we are a good team” is a romantic line
season two doesn’t really have anything except for the elevator scene and the scene that directly follows, and both scenes show lance and keith working together extremely well with keith having lance’s back and lance having keith’s
• keith leaving voltron left a void in lance’s heart (shada)
• lance became keith’s stability (montgomery)
these developments are shown clearly in season three, where lance has to step up to be keith’s right hand after shiro disappears. when keith loses his composure, lance is the one shown to cool him down. (fire and ice! fire and ice!)
• i almost forgot to add this. the talk. that goddamn talk.
• lance, without prompting, goes up to keith to comfort him despite being upset about not being chosen for the black lion. he reassures keith about taking the black lion. he genuinely tries to make keith feel better and doesn’t half ass his comforts. i’m pretty sure he didn’t even see all of the paladins turn to him.
• speaking of which, everybody turned to lance to comfort keith. lance. there were people with a stronger relationship to keith than lance, but they thought lance would be the best option. interesting.
• [gay gasp] never forget
• when keith is about to plunge them into danger, lance is the only one that manages to make him stop, even though the other paladins were yelling for him to stop, too
• when keith goes to the blue lion after the lions are separated, there are the colors of the bi flag in the background. literally. the coloring of the scenes is no accident, it’s a method to convey feelings and tone
• keith confides in lance about his insecurities, the first time we see him break down as an audience
• lance says, “we’re gonna fix it”. we, as in a team.
• lance goes to keith’s room to confide and keith recognizes that he maybe didn’t say the right thing
“leave the math to pidge”
• that shot. that shot honestly means so much. his confidence, his beauty, is portrayed in his posing. we see directly through lance’s eyes, a character’s eyes, which is very uncommon for voltron to do
• when keith leaves, you can see the literal pain in lance’s eyes. those lines under his eyes signify distress, and are used pretty often when characters are upset in any way
• lance says “yeah, who am i gonna make fun of?” in response to “we’re really gonna miss you”, in which he is indirectly saying “yeah, i’m really gonna miss you too”
then keith leaves and doesn’t come back until s6. i’m not gonna lie, this season didn’t provide a lot, but we were starving and took what we could get
• the first thing lance notices about keith is that he’s bigger. seriously.
• lance is the only one to step up to keith when keith lands and honestly? that shows so much? why is he the only one to walk up to their friend that they haven’t seen in months?
• he greets him in a friendly manner, teasing and open, and is visibly upset when keith shuts him down. if you watch his movements, you can see that lance went in for a handshake/hug and his face immediately dropped when keith just walked by him
• “hey everybody, keith’s back!” when keith responds to him
• “bigger, grizzled older brother”. christ. i can’t even describe how fucking gay this line is. i really can’t. just call him hot, lance.
• first thing lance notices about keith is how attractive he got. it’s literally canon.
• also sh@ith is dead. i don’t really dislike the ship, but after dropping that “you’re my brother, i love you” there is no way dreamworks can spin that romantically, especially since shiro canonly raised keith since he was a pre-teen. there is no way they can spin that familial bond into romance. sorry.
Lance is in the closet and even he doesn’t know.
EDIT: there was a review with Montgomery and JDS in which it is stated that lance is gonna find that special someone and settle down. it is also stated that HE IS NOT GOING TO GET WHAT HE INITIALLY WANTED (allura). if allur@nce doesn’t happen, and lance is bi, there’s literally no other option other than klance. (discussed more in the klible, which i HIGHLY recommend reading).
ANOTHER EDIT: a BINCH forgot to mention
anyways bitches, worry not. klance is far from dead. this relationship had way to much development and was emphasized so heavily that it can’t be reversed. they gay as fuck. do not lose hope. stick together. read the klible to reassure yourselves. get through this dark time together and pray that we get more content in s7.
this was so messy i’m sorry i’m sleep deprived
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