How do you think each of the Paladins would celebrate birthdays? What about Coran & Allura?
I think Lance makes the biggest deal about birthdays like if itâs your birthday and you didnât tell him a minimum of three weeks in advance heâll complain about it and scramble around trying to plan something. In general, this is something from his family, where like- basically anything remotely approaching a holiday is taken as an excuse to have a big family gathering, invite all relatives and the neighbors you like, party.
This is a bit of an adjustment to the rest of the team.
Hunkâs used to it, since heâs known Lance, but his family was a little more like... âitâs your birthday, weâll have a really nice dinner and cake/presents and maybe one or two friends if you really wantâ but it was more of a quiet family affair.
With the Holts, things were also confined to the family which could be just a little bit lonely because sometimes Pidge would have birthdays while her dad was gone on a mission. Heâd always try to make it up to her either before or after depending on the time. Theyâd usually go to somewhere exciting like a theme park.
Shiro is more of âcelebrate with friends and familyâ, unless he was on an assignment heâd usually visit his parentsâ home. He likes to put effort into othersâ birthday parties since he sees them happen a lot.
Keith forgets about his birthday, basically all the time. Shiro is better at remembering his birthday than he is, like at least once in their relationship Shiro got him a present and it took Keith a while to remember what day it was. He basically doesnât really get why birthdays are that big of a deal since he rarely had someone to celebrate with so itâs Just Another Day to him. Once he discovers this is not how the rest of the team, especially Lance, feels about birthdays, he kind of panics because how is he gonna remember everybodyâs birthday, heâs gotta get presents. Where? How? Theyâre in space. Everybodyâs gonna think heâs some kind of birthday-hating goblin what does he do aaaah
Having to Actually Think About Birthdays is something partially heartwarming for Keith but mostly, really stressful.
Since Alteans live as long as they do, celebrating birthdays is seen as kind of a youthful thing- Allura still celebrates but itâs considered a bit of an indulgence at her age. When she has her first birthday since the loss of Altea Coran totally drags all the paladins into making sure itâs a nice one, no you donât have a say in the matter do you want the princess to be lonely on her birthday were you people all raised in a barn.
At Coranâs age they celebrate decades rather than every year so itâll, uh, be a while before he has a birthday party.Â
