#sam holt

[garden-secret-ao3writer]

You know what I find hilarious in AUs where both Pidge and Matt are trans? The way their parents just straight-up start gaslighting everyone around them.

Like:

Someone: “But didn’t you say you had an older son and a younger daughter?” Colleen & Sam Holt: “What? Absolutely not. We’ve always had an older daughter and a younger son. What nonsense are you talking about?” Someone: “But… but…”

[pidges-lost-robot]

Playing around with The Holt Parents features and lore a little (look if just think the family, their style and designs could be a bit more interesting, whether I've achieved that myself will be up for debate)

(Side note, I wish I could draw in a style that at least suggested I was the same person)

[kaijuna]

i promise im working but i gotta give myself a stupid treat sometimes

[mydadthinksimalesbian]

Wake Up Dead Man Family/Relationship Headcanons:

Nat Sharp:

Divorced from Darla Sharp (Canon)

Four children, three daughters one son

His father abused his mother, which left him with severe anger issues.

Jefferson Wicks:

Never married but slept with a lot of women

Has six illegitimate children (including Cy Draven)

Geraldine Scott:

Married to the town librarian

She and her wife don't have any children, but they do foster dogs and have adopted two of them.

Close to both of her parents

Lee Ross

Estranged from his wife but haven't divorced because he keeps delaying it.

He has two kids, and one has gone low contact because she's trans

Mother was a literature professor, and father was a high school english teacher

Martha and Sam:

Married for thirty-four years

Couldn't have biological children but did raise their nephew

Martha's father died when she was young

Simone Vivane:

Never married but was in a long-term relationship before her nerve pain (still loves them, though)

No children

Mother taught her how to play the cello and piano. Her father taught her how to sing.

Jud Duplenticy

Orphaned at a young age and raised in the fostercare system but ran away at fourteen after being abused by his foster parents. Started boxing for money at sixteen.

[olkari]

okay, so, i saw this post circulating that mentioned that it seems like the garrison HAD to have some idea of the galra's existence pre-kerberos and it has been living in my head rent free (EDIT: link found! inspo here). i love how the idea that the garrison, and by extension, sam holt as a high ranking science officer, complicates the kerberos mission and sam's relationship with the rest of his family.

this post got really long really quick bc i can't shut up. see my thoughts under the cut :)

first, a note on matt's (and colleen's) role here: i agree in a world where the garrison has access to galra tech that sam would totally know about it; i don't think matt or colleen would. matt is a graduate and the ultimate nepo baby, but even if the garrison uniforms were not horribly designed and had clearer ranks (that's a rant for a different post), i doubt matt would actually be high ranking enough to unlock The Alien Tech We Have That The World Can't Know About Under Any Circumstances. especially because matt is probably known as a bit of a security issue--everything that goes to him goes to his sister, and anything that he doesn't pass on, his sister finds out herself. and i think it's important to preserve one of the few core things we know about matt's character--that he desperately wants to make first contact. if he knows about the alien tech in advance, his visible joy on the kerberos mission is less impactful, and i think it's worth preserving that. colleen also seems to be SIGNIFICANTLY less attached to the garrison than the rest of the family, and seems to drink the kool aid of the garrison less overall. they wouldn't want to give that info to someone who wasn't a zealot.

what i think is so interesting about this theory is this: sam holt clearly has a heavy hand in the selection of the candidates for the kerberos mission, since we see him arguing about being able to keep shiro on the team, and matt's on the team. if the garrison has access to galran tech or evidence of their existence, this is the information sam probably has access to:

aliens are real, and they are vaguely humanoid and certainly not the microscopic bacteria that matt seems to expect on kerberos (evidence: basically anything they could find)

the aliens that are real are advanced and war-focused. (evidence: anything from krolia's wreck or the scouting group that came after her. these ships are war ships. the scouts brought weapons, and armor.)

the aliens have a presence in the solar system, especially on the edge of the solar system. (evidence: pidge was able to pick up on radio chatter from across the solar system with like, their personal laptop, some scrap satellite equipment, and a dream. there is no way the garrison did not catch any of it.)

if all of this is true, holy shit, why did sam holt let his son and takashi fucking shirogane on this mission? kerberos is the edge of the solar system and presumably in a hotbed of activity. sam takes his unknowing son and the best pilot the garrison has (who is likely his son's close friend) into the belly of the beast of activity from a militarized alien society. my main theory is that sam didn't have a choice re:matt; sam doesn't seem like the type to regularly deny his children things they've rightfully earned with a "because i said so," and if matt was denied entry to the mission by a sweeping motion like that, would probably start digging around. maybe it was an operational security thing--matt wouldn't snoop if he was approved, and thus he wouldn't risk exposing this secret. maybe shiro was chosen because if something went wrong when they were in the spacecraft, shiro might be able to navigate them away. but that's a hell of a burden for sam to carry.

and IMAGINE what that conversation ends up looking like when matt/colleen/pidge figure that out. because they WILL find out, whether it's matt realizing his father has been selected to be sent to a specialized work camp because has the mind for it and he's already worked with galra tech, or at the end of the series when presumably these old documents decrease in clearance and suddenly pidge finds sam's name is on documentation that doesn't line up with the timeline. the holts are close enough (and locked together by trauma enough by the end of the series) that i don't think it would tear the family apart forever, but i'm sure there would be an intense feeling of betrayal. and i think that's a very new feeling for most of the family, especially towards sam, who is framed in such a can-do-no-wrong way in the eyes of his children.

i could keep going forever, but i will stop for now. pls shoot me an ask if people want to hear more, i have been fleshing out this concept for like 24 hours straight and there's bees in my blood about it.

[yuhi-san]

underrated funny thing about matt we don't talk enough about

when the galra captured him, sam and shiro they called them all "primitive scientists".

then they saw sam and figured yep, thats a weak old man, put him with the other scientists.

they saw shiro who is young and fit and well built and decided he fit the arena.

and then matt. poor matt. the galra took one look at this scrawny nerd with fearful, big doe eyes and decided, yeah, put that one also in to the arena rather than with the other nerds

[multishipper87]

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers in the world.

Also happy Father’s Day to:

Paul Blofis, Apollo, Cyril Harlow, Ata Essam, Gill, Mory Tolo, Conley Murdock, Runaan, Ethari, King Harrow, Sam Holt, and Takashi Shirogane 😊

And Leopold Dumont ig-

[rileyh20]

What do you think Colleen's reaction was when she realized her husband and both of her children were missing, assumed dead?

While she was alone for years, her hope dwindling day by day as no news comes up

When she realizes all three of them are actually okay

When she realizes none of them are actually okay like they look at first glance

When she realizes nothing will ever be the same

When she realizes she'll be okay with that because all of them are now back home