Romantic Parallels: Klance and Allurance, which will become canon??
I don’t see a lot of people talking about this at all, so I want to talk to my thirsty klancers out there about a seemingly not-klance scene.
That’s right. This scene.
This screenshot is right after Lance says “we make a great team”
Sound familiar?
Now I know this seems consequential at first, but hear me out.
The reason this is so important is because one scene his feelings aren’t completely shot down, and in the other, they are. The romantic coding of this phrase is essentially confirmed when Lance gets all blushy after saying it to Allura. However he is shot down, essentially closing a potential pathway to get closer with Allura, the only thing that makes it different from the moment with Keith is that he delivers the line in a completely softer way, and Keith remains emotionally open to him, smiling at him with acceptance. However different the deliveries are, the choice of words is where the parallel lies. Writing is a deliberate art. ESPECIALLY in television shows, where creators drop foreshadowing left and right. I think the comparison of Keith and Allura being referred by Lance as being a part of his “team” is intentional, and meant to imply that Lance wants a partnership, he wants to get closer to them whether he believes it explicitly or implicitly. And the rejection he receives from Allura implicitly shoots down this possibility of a partnership in any more than a platonic sense. While the emotional readiness of Keith to be a part of his “team” could be foreshadowing for a possible non-platonic relationship to come. Essentially, the parallel between the phrase said to Keith and Allura is made. The “door” to Allura is shut immediately at her own volition, however the “door” to Keith is left open and ambiguous, possibly foreshadowing something between them in the future.
This might seem a tad bit deep for just a one-liner, but I beg to differ. Parallels are added to characters with intention. In this case, I believe the intention of the creators to connect Allura and Keith in this way ties to Lance and his eventual love interest. So while it may be just a one liner, if you think about it, the one liner is meant to connect something ever larger together that could possibly happen in the future.
The other reason as to why I am so confident about this theory is that the connection between Allura, Lance’s initial crush, and Keith, has been made many times. So it’s not that much of a stretch to say that they would do it again. I’m sure I’m not the first to point this one out, but the connection made between Keith and Allura has been made pretty clear over the course of the seasons.
in season four, with the most blatant connection:
Also, his use of the words “The two of us” to refer to both him and Allura (in the same scene that I’ve been talking about) was said in a dreamy voice. While he said the EXACT SAME WORDS to refer to himself and Keith helping Shiro out of the Garrison hospital (back in S3 ep1, during the ‘hey man’ scene)
I probably could find some more parallels but finals are coming and I don’t have that much time on my hands to rewatch the show, so I’ll leave you to find the other ones ;)
One final note:
This is not to say that it confirms any existing feelings, rather, it foreshadows them. I know a lot of Klancers out there who want a definite answer as to if Klance is Cannon King™ but the best I can offer is foreshadowing. Because if it’s foreshadowed, that of course means it’s going to happen later on. So while I can’t confirm for sure that Lance has feelings for Keith, I can sure as hell convince you that that is where the writers are headed.
