Keith for hcs!
(I’VE BEEN SITTING ON THIS FOR A WEEK AND I JUST KEEP FORGETTING TO ANSWER IT. IT IS A MIRACLE PEOPLE STILL SEND ME ASKS AT ALL!) A: Keith is actually a decent mechanic? Like, he’s not a natural with it like Hunk is, but someone’s gotta maintain the bike and the old tech he’s got out there in that desert shack of his, right? And who else would do it but Keith.
B: Keith has a weird, mostly fear-based, relationship with birds because when he would go out on his hikes, assorted birds would follow him. He got into the habit of sharing the crust off his sandwich bread with them. Until one day he sat still for too long looking out over a canyon or something and a vulture started stalking over to him. He tried feeding it some sandwich meat and…well…….. Let’s just say there’s a Garrison guard who has a story about a former student he saw running away from a flock of birds screaming about sandwiches that no one else really believes happened.
C: I can’t tell which of these is worse, so here’s two sad HCs. 1) Keith totally recognized Krolia as his mom. Either because he has vague enough memories of her from his childhood or because he’s not totally face blind and can see some of his features in her. But either way, he acts like he doesn’t quite recognize her because he’s not quite ready to face her, and the emotions that she is bringing back up inside him, again just yet. Like Lance with the bonding moment. 2) Keith was kicked out of the Garrison not because he got violently and explosively emotional, but because he went completely catatonic. He stopped going to classes, he would only go to meals once or twice a week, he just completely let everything kind of go. Iverson and the other teachers tried to get him to go back to class and do his work, but he just ignored them and everything and eventually it got to the point where they had to expel him because of it.
D: The lizard that so many people in this fandom want Keith to have as a pet? He literally wandered into Keith’s bed one night in the desert because it was safe and warm and Keith was an idiot and left the door to the cabin open and it just called dibs on Keith’s stomach. Keith woke up the next morning, saw the lizard and thought, “Okay, this might as well happen. Adult life is already so goddamn weird.” He names it Joe and Joe sits on his shoulder while Keith adventures until he aforementioned Vulture Incident.
