omg i saw that ur back!! i love ur writing so i wanted to send a request ^^
can u write ab keith kogane and reader (you can make this hc or a fic!! whatever u feel fits the most)
i would love to see him crushing on reader, like that phase before the relationship where all he does is deny that he has a crush but cannot stop getting nervous and blushy when being around her?
keith kogane x (implied) female reader
a/n: this was a super cute request! it’s been a minute since i’ve written anything voltron-related so hopefully it’s to your liking!! (it is a little rushed lowkey…)
keith kogane absolutely, positively, most certainly does not have a crush on you. that was fact. he never has, and he never will.
he was familiar with you, though. back at the garrison, he recognized you in the hallways and classes that you coincidentally had together. you were a pretty girl, with bright eyes and a fiery passion to become a fighter pilot. it was truly hard not to notice you, but obviously, that didn’t mean he had a crush on you. guys can recognize an attractive girl without it meaning anything, right? and that’s what he was doing.
no one knows about his inner turmoil but himself. keith thinks he’s done a good job of ignoring it—whatever that feeling was in the pit of his chest. he pushes it down, pretending that his pulse doesn’t quicken and his cheeks don’t warm when you’re in his vicinity. it’s embarrassing—how can a girl reduce him into a mushy, blushing mess? it was so unlike him. it’s like you’ve completely rewired keith’s brain, to suddenly make him forget how to act even in such small interactions (like when you greet him with a simple ‘hi’ and then his ‘hi’ back gets stuck in his throat).
for years, he thinks he’s manage to escape the whole bubble of you. he was kicked out, living in his tiny shed, tracking weird frequencies in the area and trying to piece what that meant, more important matters to focus on. occasionally his mind does drift back to you when he lays awake at night, recalling those fleeting moments with you, and his entire body gets hot.
but much to keith’s surprise, you show up with these garrison cadets (claiming to to save shiro, too). he freezes in that moment, staring at you wide-eyed and felt as though he was taken back to his days at the garrison, becoming that awkward boy in an instant.
he doesn’t get an actual moment with you until you’re all launched into space, finding solace in this foreign castle. you looked so different but still so you. taller, older, but still bright-eyed and beautiful just exactly as how keith remembered you.
there’s a part of him does enjoy the way you hug him in your arms, and the gentle, feather-light laugh after you say “i thought you were gone forever! but, gosh, i’m so glad to see you again.”
when you pull back to look up at him, keith does not take note of the way your eyelashes seem to flutter when you blink, and he definitely does not glance down at your lips. as he’s always done before, keith ignores, ignores, ignores the alien feelings you manage to bring out of him, and reminds himself to stop being so tongue-tied in front of you.
because, keith does not have a crush on you. and that was fact.
