hi there nerds and peeps alike.... i haven’t been contributing enough to my fave voltron ship. i do have a few wip kidge fics but that’s all they are for the time being. works in progress so please take these headcanons meanwhile
pidge and keith are the ultimate discovery couple.
like, we’ve all basically established that they are super into conspiracy theories and cryptids and aliens right??? well, ever since joining voltron, their outer space dreams have been more than fulfilled. aliens are real, what more could they ask for?? yeah, they’re fighting a war, and it’s super hard and mentally and physically draining, but there are countless alien worlds out there. and while they may not have the time to explore them all now, they definitely plan to in the future.
sleeping schedules are a nonexistent concept to them
something we’ve already established, yeah, but consider-- pidge staying up late, working on a project. keith walking in and telling her that it’s late. pidge retorting that he’s the one to talk-- it’s not like he sleeps anyway. keith telling her that once she goes to sleep, he will go to sleep. pidge 100% taking up the challenge. “i’ll go to sleep when you do.” “no you.” “no you”
so it’s basically a contest of who can stay up the longest. great job keith you totally deviated from your purpose in the first place
so they go round and round in a never ending circle until some outside force interrupts the cycle (ahem shiro), or one of them straight up passes out.
study sessions. oh man, study sessions
keith finding pidge in distress about the fact that, since they’re so far away from earth and fighting an evil alien overlord, their brains are slowly turning to mush. like, they’re gonna be pretty uneducated once they return to earth. yea, they’ll be physically very fit and strategically developed, as well as having gained very good teamwork skills, but what are they actually gonna do once they got back?
plus, she kinda misses studying
queue days where she and keith kinda. sit down with a menagerie of space snacks and teach each other stuff. pidge teaches keith about technology, a subject he can easily get into because she’s so dang enthusiastic about it.
keith discussing with pidge different combat strategies and getting her more familiar with piloting techniques that she couldn’t quite nail down while at the garrison
coran actually finds himself finding all the books he can about any subject he comes across and giving it to these two cause they really love learning together !!! it warms his heart to see these two earthlings so excited about knowledge.
keith and pidge slowly learning to trust each other with their feelings. to become the other’s rock and comfort in the time of need. to be a shoulder to cry on.
keith can’t ignore the times he sees pidge holed up in her room, pretending to be working on coding when she’s actually trying so hard to keep in her tears. she misses her family, and he knows that. he knows that all too well
eventually he gathers the courage to walk in and just. stand by her. let her acknowledge his presence or ignore him.
and after some time, she just. pulls him into a hug. and from there letting her feelings out to him gets easier and easier
as for keith, he doesn’t usually cry when his frustration and sadness builds up. he forces the feelings out through exercise, or by standing off by himself, waiting for it all to dissipate away.
pidge learns to recognize when he’s feeling terrible. and, like he did for her, she approaches him but says nothing, letting him decide if he wants to talk or not
they’re both so in tune to each other’s feelings. they’re the arms of voltron, they gotta get in each other’s heads. they know when the other is feeling really down. and they quickly learn exactly how to make the other feel better when that happens.
falling asleep on/ next to each other
whether it be reading a book, holding a study session, or watching movies pidge managed to find on her laptop, keith and pidge sometimes fall asleep next to each other.
sometimes pidge will totally be leaning all her weight on keith. her head’s slumped on his shoulder, her arm’s splayed across his knee, and she’s out cold. keith is trapped. he has no choice but to snooze in that position because pidge is a cat. once she falls asleep on you, there’s no getting up.
sometimes keith uses pidge as a pillow. she’ll be working on coding when he stumbles in, completely worn out from training. he’ll flop next to pidge, resting his head on her head/ shoulder. they’ll engage in small talk, but inevitably keith dozes off. he’s tired. and pidge silently suffers cause teenage guys are heavy. but, deep inside, she doesn’t mind. at all
pfffffft imagine how flustered they’d be once they woke up. the first few times their faces are brick red and they’re stammering like crazy.
imagine the day pidge and keith finally decide to admit their feelings to one another
of course, it’s gonna be awkward. they’re gonna be nervous. but i can kind of see pidge just going, “hey keith. i’m pretty sure i have a crush on you,” one day. this would probably be when she realizes that , with the way she and keith have been acting for so long, that it’s way past obvious they like each other. so it’s better to address it now than let the charade of “we’re just friends” continue.
keith would be caught off guard poor guy. but he wouldn’t be able to lie his way out of it either
so now they’ve admitted it. they like each other. time to act like they’re in a relationship then
queue the random hugs and kisses
not right away, though. after they’ve been officially together for a while. at some point, pidge gets into the habit of giving keith quick side hugs. she’ll high five him and embrace him in the hallway. when she’s super duper excited, she’ll crush the air out of him. when she’s sad and in need of snuggles, she’ll shuffle over to him and burrow underneath his arms, clinging to him in a hug.
keith is 100% on board with this. while he’s not the biggest hugger in the universe, he can’t deny that he absolutely loves being hugged by other people. a little sun of pure delight will flare up in his chest whenever pidge wraps her arms around him and squeezes tight.
and what’s a kidge relationship without constant sass, inside jokes, and endless roasts??
“keith-i-love-borrowing-pidge’s-stuff-when-she’s-not-looking-kogane”
“pidge, i’m gonna have to confiscate your caffeine before. y’know. you die.”
pidge splaying her entire body on the couch in the lounge “finders keepers keith. looks like you’re out of luck.”
keith straight up picking her up and setting her to the side. “too bad you’re the size of a stuffed bear, pidge.”
