Stray Heart by Green Day is a bi Keith anthem, sorry, I don’t make the rules.
“Everything that I want,
I want from you,
But I just can’t have you”
Applies to Acxa. During the time Acxa was one of Lotor’s generals and Keith was quietly pinning over her, but they can’t be together because they’re enemies. Even after Acxa becomes good, they’re relationship gets delayed even more because they’re still fighting a war, and they never know when they could lose each other.
But Keith is also very conflicted because
“Everything that I need,
I need from you,
But I just can’t have you”
Applies to Shiro. Keith knows he is happiest and healthiest when Shiro is around, but he’s still mourning over Adam. Keith wants what’s best for Shiro, and that’s not having a relationship right after fighting a war and finding out his ex fiancé is dead. Keith is satisfied just having Shiro in his life, platonic or romantic.
I really want more Bisexual Keith. I want a Keith who goes through periods of time feeling attraction to girls and thinking he's straight but never feeling comfortable with that label. I want Keith to realize he can be attracted to guys and girls. I want Keith to have a period of time being attracted to guys more and thinking he's gay but that doesn’t feel right either. Keith finding he’s Bisexual and feeling comfortable with a label for the first time. Keith refusing to let any one define his sexuality for him. Keith dealing with self doubt and rising above it. Keith finding both Shiro and Allura so beautiful and attractive at the same time. Keith being attracted to some one non binary. Bisexual Keith is so great and I wish bisexual characters were appreciated in fandom out side of “ Make straight acting character gay.”
So when trying to think of an idea for this, I kept thinking of Keith and I’ll be honest, I don’t really see a lot of bi Keith stuff. I could be totally wrong and just not be looking right, but I hope everyone likes this.
Discovery/Journey
Why was he doing this to himself? If he leaned back a bit, he could just look past his locker where he could see the two of them. God, why did it have to be her?
Lance forced himself to look back inside his locker where he was supposed to be grabbing his books for his next class. The history teacher did not like him and he didn’t want to give her an excuse to dump more work on him.
“Come on, skip with me.” Lance heard her say.
“I can’t. The teacher is really observant despite how old she is.”
“But I want to be with you. Besides, all those girls will be staring at you. Plus those poor unfortunate gay guys who think they have a chance. And you’re all mine.”
He couldn’t take it anymore. He slammed the locker door shut, locking it. The noise drew attention from the other two people.
“Eavesdropping McClain?”
Lance scoff, putting the key to his locker in his blazer pocket. “Like I’d be interested in whatever you and mullet would be talking about Nyma, but honestly not hard to hear your pathetic begging when your screechy voice can be heard all the way down the hall.”
Nyma, in her blonde hair purple eyed glory, could be considered the most beautiful person in the whole school. But their school was very well known for not only focusing on gender when looking at beauty, which was why Lance took the spot as the most beautiful person in the school. Everyone knew how much it annoyed her, which is why Lance was sure she took such an interest in Keith Kogane, who Lance would totally go after. If he wasn’t so sure Keith was completely straight and flirting back with Nyma.
“Jealous McClain?”
“Of what, your horrible attempts to be appealing? As if. If you’d excuse me, I have better things to do other than watch the gag fest of your mating call. Hi boys.” Lance waved to a group of guys who just happened to be passing.
“Hi Lance.” They called back, watching as he went to the steps. He heard Nyma try and get their attention but no replies where heard. That made him feel slightly better.
Lance didn’t know how this crush started. Oh no wait, yes he did. He saw Keith and that was it. He was perfect in every way. Well except he was completely straight, not at all interested in boys. So what did Lance do? He picked a fight with him every time until Keith was so sure Lance was nothing but a spoiled brat. Lance didn’t know what was wrong with him. He knew Keith was straight and should of lost interest but he still wanted it and went so far as to get Keith to pretty much hate him and see him as an annoyance just to keep Keith’s attention on him.
‘The sooner I get over that crush, the better. He’s straight and interested in Nyma. Besides, even if he was interested in guys, he wouldn’t be interested in the guy who is always annoying him.’
Time in class seemed to drag on, though it might have had something to do with their teacher. A sweet woman who actually looked past their trouble making side to actually look at the kids in it, but it didn’t mean listening to her teach wasn’t a drag. She would go on and on about their subject, diving deeper on parts that weren’t mentioned in the textbook. Lance was hiding behind his textbook to doodle in his notebook, not even trying to stop himself from drawing little drawings of Keith’s face.
“Gay.” Pidge whispered from the desk next to him. He just stuck his tongue out at her, not even bothering to correct her that it was bi like he always did when she’d make the comment. He liked Pidge, but her being friends with Keith was bound to kill him someday with how often Keith joined in on their hangouts. He looked over his shoulder where Keith sat in the back, actually looking like he was paying attention. Lance could vaguely make out smudged lipstick on his neck. He turned back around, ducking lower in his seat. What was he doing? Why was he torturing himself like this? Keith wasn’t interested so why could Lance get over it?
“Excuse me, Mrs. Opal?” Lance looked up, eyes automatically narrowing at the sight of Nyma, “the principal is calling Lance McClain to the office. He has a phone call apparently and his secretary was a bit busy.”
Phone call? The only person who’d call him at the school was his dad and he knew when Lance was in class and would usually call him on his cell. He only called the school when Lance was in trouble and Lance knew he didn’t get into any schemes recently.
“Mr. McClain go ahead, don’t spend the whole period talking on the phone ok?”
“Uh, yes ma’am.” Lance got up and walked out the door, Nyma following him close by. He expected her to leave now that her message was delivered but she was following his every step to the office of the principal. He got the hallway past the lockers when he turned around and faced Nyma. “Can I help you with something?”
“You could stop pinning over my boyfriend.”
“Excuse me? Someone is actually dating you? Who is that poor soul?”
“Very funny. I see the way you look at Keith, its sad really.”
“What sad is how you can’t seem to function without your mullet around. The only way I look at Keith is in annoyance on having to see you two together. It’s honestly sad and pathetic to see.”
Nyma scoffed. “Oh please, you are so in love with him, it’s sickening to watch. It must annoy you so much that I have a chance with him and you don’t. Of course, you're such a slut with any other guy, he must appreciate it.”
“Oh I get it,” Lance said, rolling his eyes, trying hard to hide how Nyma’s accusations hurt him. He flirted but he never slept around. People could call him a tease, but he wanted an actual relationship. “You’re jealous that all the guys like me more than they like you, so you’re just making insane accusations to make yourself feel better. Wow, I knew you were desperate, but this is so sad.” Lance turned around and continued on his way to the principal’s office, glad that he didn’t hear Nyma’s footsteps behind him.
Strangely though, there was no phone call waiting for him. He guessed Nyma was just trying to annoy him and just did it so she could bother him out of class. It was slightly annoying when the principal came out of his office and accused him of skipping class. He was walking back to class when his phone buzzed. He decided to take the chance to stop and check it without any teachers to yell at him for having his phone during class hours.
“Lance move!” he heard before somebody crashed into him, pushing him back but still somehow making sure he didn’t fall back. He also heard the sound of some sort of liquid falling and hitting the titled floor. Once he got his bearing back, he saw it was Keith who pushed him out of the way. Lance couldn’t help the blush that came to his face, as he pushed himself away from Keith.
“w-what the hell? What are you doing?”
“You’re welcome.” Keith said, crossing his arms. “God knows we wouldn’t hear the end of it if you got hit by that.” He moved out of the way so Lance could see the large puddle of dirty and muddy water that stained the floor. Lance looked up to the walkway on the floor above where Lance’s locker was located. “I saw Nyma dragging one of those mop things the janitor uses upstairs a little while after you left, so I reminded Mrs. Opal about attendance sheets to figure out what she was up to. What did you do?”
Nyma, of course. But why did Keith try and figure out what she was up to and then try and save him?
“My apologies for pissing off your girlfriend.”
Keith sighed, “She’s not my girlfriend. I was interested and flirting with her yeah, but I’m not interested in people who do petty things like that. It’s one thing to give harsh words, but just trying to mess with people like that can get dangerous.”
A small part of Lance felt elated that Nyma lost her chance to be with Keith. He tried pushing it down but it wasn’t listening.
“Maybe next time you should flirt with a girl who doesn’t get annoyed when a guy gets more attention than her. No one likes it when you need that much validation.”
Keith shrugged, “I mean, you can’t blame the guys for being interested.”
Lance let out a forced laugh, why was he playing with his emotions like that? Other straight guys complimented him on his looks but hearing it from Keith. It made him happy but then he remembered it wasn’t really an interested compliment. “Right, no homo though right?”
“Well a bit. I’m not blind.”
Wait, what?
“Huh? But you’re straight.”
Keith blinked before bursting into laughter. Lance felt almost insulted at the fact that he was laughing at him but also liked listening to him laugh.
“Lance, I’m not straight. I’m bi.”
“What, no you’re not. I’ve only seen you flirt with girls.”
“True, but only because most of the guys here are straight, fuckboys if they are gay, bi or pan or just not my type. Besides, I’m more used to flirting with girls since it’s safer but the one guy I’m slightly interest in doesn’t seem to like me.”
“What, who?” why was that the first thing out of his mouth. It was like he wasn’t trying to hide how he felt.
Keith gave him this sort of smug look and stepped closer to him. “Oh trust me, you know who he is. You know him really well.” He said, poking Lance on the nose before turning around and walking off. “Maybe you’ll see me flirt with him next. I grantee you won’t be upset about it.”
That small blush from before felt like it took over his whole face. Keith was bi, Keith was interested in guys, Keith was interested in a guy and for some reason, that guy sounded like it was him. Yeah, that crush wasn’t going anywhere.
I was playing around with a lineless style and the palette up there and when I accidentally mixed bi colours I couldn’t not use them so here we go: a confused bi!Keith :D
