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[utopia226]

A klangst AU where lance dies And before his death, the last thing keith told him that "I just dont wanna be stuck here for eternity with lance".

If anyone looking for klangst this for them.Idk why but I literally cried while making this( I like to torture myself).😭😭

[utopia226]

A klangst AU where lance dies And before his death, the last thing keith told him that "I just dont wanna be stuck here for eternity with lance".

If anyone looking for klangst this for them.Idk why but I literally cried while making this( I like to torture myself).😭😭

[utopia226]

Keith's galra side shows up whenever he is with lance

[utopia226]

Just passing their time

[utopia226]

Some sketches

[freckled-moss]

She hopes one day, it won’t be the voicemail she hears

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[depressocafe]

VLD Debate: Lance's Endgame Was Perfect For Him, And Here's Why.

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Summery: something you're passionate about isn't always what's going to make you happy or give you a good life. Lance comes to understand this as being an astronaut fails to make him happy, but the simpler things he's always adored have and this comes to show how the life he's given at the end of the series is ultimately the best for him and gives us the best version of lance.

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The end of season 8 left many fans feeling distraught and unsatisfied. One event that caused these feelings was the ending given to the fan favorite character, Lance Mcclain. Fans felt he was cheated out of a possible better endgame and that the ending he received was not respectful to his character. But I'm here to challenge that opinion.

Lance is one of the main characters of Voltron and makes a strong impression on the fans by the first episode. He presents himself as confident, humorous, arrogant, and kind-hearted. His outgoing personality and ambitious nature immediately threw him into the hearts of fans across the globe. However, as the story progressed, fans seemed to note a distinct change in his behavior. As Lance comes to face more of the reality surrounding him, his nature begins to change to a more depressive yet humble version.

By the end of the show, Lance's desires seem to change and instead of being and ambitious individual bent on a desire to "shoot for the stars", he finds his joy in life in agriculture and farming with his family. Many fans were angered by this ending for the character as it is such a stark change to who Lance is or who we've come to understand as Lance. But what if I told you that this perception surrounding Lance was actually false, and that the Lance we get at the end of the series was not only the best version of him but provided a better life for him.

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Let's back track.

While we know who Lance was at the beginning of Voltron and who he became at the end, what did we come to learn about him throughout the series?

Well for starters, we first learn that Lance comes from a large family, one that he treasures deeply.

We've also known from season one that Lance values the simpler things in life. When confiding in Coran of his sorrows, Lance remarks on the aspects of earth that he misses. Such aspects being the beach where his family would take walks, the way it rained on earth and its bright blue sky. We also come to find that Lance is a natural when it comes to animal care and that his family have always been fond of animals, owning and fostering many pets.

This shows that though Lance likes to live life in the fast lane, a large part of him is tied to simpler values. While Lance seems ambitious, he mostly just wants to experience what truly living is like. Which is something that many of us can relate to, as there is so much In the world and you're so young you just want to know and see it all. The thing is, what may be living for one person, is Hell to another.

Though Lance adores space and wanted to be an astronaut, that's ultimately not what will make him happy, and though it's upsetting, it's a very real thing that many people go through in life when choosing a lifestyle or career. There are many cases of college students who chose a major they were interested in, only to find that what their passionate about is ultimately becoming their downfall as they are not as happy as they thought they'd be. But what are they supposed to do? They can't just drop out, so much money went into this. Could they just change their major then? But if this doesn't make them satisfied then what option could.

We see Lance suffer through this very dilemma within the series, struggling to make do with his position the team, wondering about his place in life, who he is, what does he want then if not this, this is the start of his depressive nature and what ultimately helps him grow further into a matured mind.

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What many people seem to also neglect is that all of the paladins, excluding Shiro, are children. It doesn't matter if they are in their late teens or early adulthood, they are still young, they are still figuring out the world and who they are. And I know many watchers have grasped that when it comes to Keith but I feel the focus on his struggles ultimately overshadowed Lance's character growth, to the point even, that fans made conclusions as to Lance's problems and where he was headed with no grounds to support their claims. But this is just a personal observation.

As Lance grows he's going to change, we all do. It's been clear since season 1 that being an astronaut was going to break him. This is especially previdente when taken into consideration in which any point he's enjoying his life, it has less to do with Volton, and more to do with other aspects surrounding him. Such as the fame and attention from his career, spending time with the other paladins, playing video games, or even when he milked Kaltenecker.

True it can be argued that the other paladins felt the same as well but much of them certainly didn't feel the gravity of the situation as much as Lance did, aside from maybe Hunk. But then that is another thing, Hunk enjoyed space and wanted to be an engineer but ultimately found his joy in life as a culinary mastermind and a bureaucrate.

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Even though Lance had his ambitions, he was young and still learning. What he wanted out of life was joy and experience and what was given to his character by the end of the series puts that into perspective and I find is very respectful to his character overall.

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Post made: 08/28/24

[daniwry]

Day 6 of JuLance: Garrison Days

[bluemantics]

JULANCE DAY 27: LOVE

Keith was never sure what “love” was supposed to look like, growing up. He saw it on television screens, read it in books, and glimpsed it at parks and the grocery store. Still, he couldn’t make sense of it. In most stories, love was said to be this grand, consuming force, moving mountains and crossing rivers to pull together two separate people.

However, he knew from experience that love wasn’t actually enough. His father claimed his mother loved him, and she left anyways, leaving behind nothing but a weapon and a heartbroken man. Love wasn’t enough for her to stay, or for his father to hesitate before entering the fire that stole his life. It wasn’t enough for Shiro to keep his feet planted on Earth.

So Keith didn’t believe in love’s mystical power for most of his life. He thought of it as an abstract fantasy to play up in fiction; cute, sellable, but unrealistic.

Then, he went to space. He met Lance. Overdramatic, flirtatious, and explosive, Lance wasn’t like anyone he’d ever met before. Instead of trying to calm Keith down or calling him crazy, he fed into Keith’s strangeness, brought out this competitive fire in him that wouldn’t seem to rest. At first, he pissed Keith off unendingly. Over time, though, they grew up, and Keith learned so much about the strange boy who’d whisked them all off-planet in the first place.

When Pidge was down, Lance had an easy cheer and steady presence that pulled her off a ledge of despair. Allura could rely on him to relax her with face masks or conversations about Altea. If Hunk was spiraling in his head, Lance begged him to try garlic knot recipes again, giving him an external task to distract. Coran shared parts of the castle with Lance that Keith only knew by association. Even Shiro sometimes laughed amusedly at his poor attempt at humor.

And Keith? Well, when Shiro disappeared, he relied on Lance more than anyone else. Lance was the voice of reason to his ideas, the shoulder to lean on, the ears to listen to his fears, especially when Keith couldn’t explain well with words. Every part of Keith relied on every aspect of Lance.

That must have been when Keith realized: Lance knew love. He knew how to speak its language, knew how to alter his approach and show deep care depending on his loved ones’ needs. Somewhere deep down, Keith found himself jealous. Incredibly envious. Here was the difference between a boy who grew up with everything and a boy who was abandoned on the side of the road, left stray. Keith flinches from the hand that offers comfort. Lance, despite rebuke, is that hand.

This time, Keith leaves first, and when he comes back, Lance isn’t the same. It frightens Keith to his core. He tries to hide from this angrier, tired version of Lance. Like a magnet, Lance pulls, until finally Keith can’t help but fall into place once more.

More than ever, Keith sees Lance speaking the language he can’t understand, but at a new frequency. Lance speaks love into his desire to go home, then into his embrace with his mother, then into his relationship with Allura. It drips off his tongue like honey.

Keith tries and fails to avoid feeling hurt by the fact that he never receives any of it for himself. Maybe once, before the Blade, he would’ve. Back when they were co-leaders. Keith left, though, and now he can’t expect that same consideration.

Everything builds up. Keith, learning from Lance, finds a way to be moved by his small Voltron family. It spurs him to lead them to the end of the war, sword slicing past enemies and toward a brighter day. Hope is a bright, warm sun in his chest, and, when they come out of it, he wonders if Lance will have actually forgiven him. He can be worthy of that honor.

Plans never work out. Allura, fiercely loyal to her royal duties, dies. For them.

Keith watches helplessly as the disparate pieces of Lance fall apart. He wonders if he was right, as a kid, when he believed love wasn’t enough for people to stay. If loving Lance wasn’t enough for Allura, how can love be enough for anyone?

The world celebrates, but Lance is frozen, and Keith watches. He’s never spoken the language with which Lance so easily uplifts and understands them all.

No one seems to. The whole team fumbles with awkward silences and nervous expressions during their godawful press tour. Keith would have left Lance alone entirely, too panicked to respond, if not for the silence.

Lance is barely living, outside of their public appearances, and when he does, he’s angry or melancholy. Keith recognizes grief, knows that anger like it’s his own hand. Allura sacrificed herself, and Lance isn’t speaking at all, of love or otherwise.

Keith tries to help. He brings him out to the ocean, lets Lance seek catharsis. It feels like a step in the right direction. A few words, uttered by Keith, show that Keith sees Lance the same way Lance always made sure to see Keith. For a few, perfect minutes, he sees that spark reemerge in him.

But sparks terrify Keith, and he retreats into himself. His self-doubt and skittishness stands in his way, renders him silent once more as Lance returns to their tour emotionlessly, then after, goes to his family home. Keith lets him leave, like a coward, and disappears, too.

He avoids thoughts of Lance McClain like the plague for as long as he can. Months. Years. They see each other at a reunion, and it’s brief and awkward and full of Keith’s inability to string together sentences. As if nothing happened, they separate again. Lance doesn’t contact Keith. Keith makes no effort to call Lance. Their lives are so separate Keith begins to think they’ll drift forever, until they become nothing more than strangers. The concept leaves him hollow.

Then, he gets a message.

Dear Paladin Keith Kogane,

We hope this email finds you well. At the Universe Guardians Historical Society, we endeavor to preserve the legacy of our planet’s most esteemed heroes. As part of this, designating historical sites has become a key step in our mission.

Recently, we became aware of a property in Garrison possession formerly belonging to you. This property is your residence from the time before Voltron, in the desert outside the Garrison Academy.

We were wondering if you might be willing to let us transform this property into a museum about the origins of Voltron and the team.

In addition to its preservation, the Society will pay you a regular dollar sum for use of the land.

Thank you for your consideration,

The Universe Guardians Historical Society (U.G.H.S.)

Keith doesn’t like this group very much. They have Lance’s stolen shoe on display in one of their paid attractions, for one. Despite their hack nature, he considers the message heavily. Shiro wants Keith to visit soon, anyways, and he’d just planned to stop at his house briefly. However, this could be the perfect excuse to see Lance again. Lance is one of the few people who knows about Keith’s childhood. He’d never say no to helping unravel Keith’s past, and having an activity to do might smooth over the awkwardness. Together, Keith and Lance could clear out the desert home, and Keith could….

Well, he isn’t sure what he would do. He just knows he wants to talk with Lance.

Keith radios Acxa and tells her to step up in his absence from the Blade— the Zarkonites can wait.

He’d try to be better than the people that failed him. Keith’s feelings toward Lance might be enough, this time, to pull him back in.

[freckled-moss]

Post canon klance save me. Save me post canon klance

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[knacke]

I love when they work well as a team and support each other

[torveiglyart]

Chapter 2 has been posted!!!!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

We love the lions 🥺

Chapter one:

Light as a Feather, Heavy as the Sky - Chapter 1 - AralineDelia, torveiglyart - Voltron: Legendary Defender [Archive of Our Own]

Chapter One is UP! An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works Everyone give a HUGE THANKS to Aralin

Chapter three:

Light as a Feather, Heavy as the Sky - Chapter 3 - AralineDelia, torveiglyart - Voltron: Legendary Defender [Archive of Our Own]

Chapter 3!!! An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works I feel so proud of that chapter title.

[darylarry]

Why I love Lance

Lance because he reminds me so much of myself and he’s the most relatable character. His anxiety and insecurity are depicted very accurately and makes him the most human out of everyone for me. He puts other’s needs in front of his own and always thinks of others first. 

He’s loud and “annoying” but also serious and has a lot of depth. He boasts and tries to be the best at everything because in reality he thinks he’s a good for nothing and always compares himself to others to put himself down. He cares too much, he wants to be I included. 

I relate most to him in terms of him not having “a thing”. I don’t know either where I stand in life, what my passion is, what I’m good at, what my “thing is”. I’m confused and lost and don’t know where my place in life is. I’m just kind of doing what everybody else expects me to do and hope I’ll somehow discover what I can do best. Just like Lance.

He loves too deeply and the people he loves never love him back. He cries a lot and easily. He’s a flirt but he’s terribly insecure and as soon as someone flirts back he’s caught off guard and doesn’t know how to respond because he never would have expected someone to show interest in him since he thinks so lowly of himself. He’s self sacrificing. 

He wants to show the world what he’s made of despite not being sure of that himself. He’s always there to support others but when he needs comfort or support no one is there for him.

[still--kicking]

Do you know any good fics where the team or just keith and lance talk about that time lance died? I still can't believe they never address it in canon smh

Lance fully dying as like foreshadowing for Allura being able to put Shiro's soul back in his body at the end of the season is one of my many roman empires from this show because why the HELL did no one ever mention it again !!!

so YES anon I gotchu <3

Seeing in the Dark by Write4love (9,163 words, rated G) during the season 7 road trip, Kosmo is the ultimate wingman and teleports himself and Keith into Lance's lion at night. I love this fic sm I reread it all the time

Now Will It Matter (After I'm Gone) by negativefouriq (3,231 words, rated T) Lance outright tells Keith in this one, immaculate vibes no notes 10/10

and, of course, THE Addressing Lance's Death Fic:

life after death by taylortot (90,074 words, rated T) Lance wakes up after Allura revives him with absolutely no memory of who he is and what he's doing there. He doesn't remember or recognize anyone on the team, but when someone mentions the name Keith, Lance remembers that he loved him

lastly, if I ever don't recommend this fic when given the opportunity assume I've been replaced with an imposter:

My soul has your claim, my soul is in flames by queen-of-voltronian (146,137 words, rated T) this fic is not Only about Lance's death, but there is an important scene where Keith learns about it and absolutely loses his shit and ultimately forces the whole team talk about it, I adore it so much <3 the fic takes place during the season 7 road trip where the paladins make a "quick" pitstop on one planet and then so much plot happens and just asfkrdcfvgdbjnsm it's so good please read it ty

I loved this request, thank you anon! I hope you enjoy <3

[parslynne]

I imagine that it’ll take some time before they can communicate properly.

I’m so proud and I know that Krolia is too

Keep reading

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  ♫  <3   :)

[violetrance]

Keith and Lance are literally the outsiders of their group

Pidge highlights this when she calls Lance the goofball and Keith the loner after saying pretty nice things about everyone else’s roles on the team

And it’s pretty clear that these comments shaped their mindset about who they are. Keith became doubtful of leading because he believed he wasn’t capable enough because he’s a loner

And Lance thought he wasn’t a valuable part of the team after Blue rejected him because he thinks he’s only a goofball

Let me also also add on that the episode that this all takes place in is called “Red Paladin”, and that’s literally in reference to both Lance and Keith as a whole…Interesting

But other than that you have this “loner” and “goofball” who feel they aren’t capable of being valid or even have potential because they lack confidence in who they are. Keith and Lance are immediately singled out in this way, and I feel like that is important

That’s why when they don’t have their main support group around (Hunk and Pidge for Lance, Shiro for Keith) who are they drawn to for help and support? Each other

Lance could have easily confided in Pidge and Hunk about his insecurities on the team, but he showed his vulnerability to Keith instead

(I really don’t find it a coincidence that he felt more comfortable going to Keith over Shiro as a leader. He most likely felt that Keith could relate with him more. They both have similar emotions, even though they think they’re opposite)

When Keith is regretful about his decisions, who does he go to first out of everyone on the team to confide to

And in general when Shiro was gone, who was Keith’s main support system? Lance, because he can get through easily to him for the same reason, because they have a relatable connection

Hunk and Pidge are both brains combined, and we’ve seen so many times how even though they’re good friends, it’s evident that Lance because he’s more goofy and not as skilled in that area, doesn’t feel as if he fits in with them too much 

So even though he wouldn’t admit, it I wouldn’t be surprised if he was really that hurt to see Keith go. As a matter of fact it’s painfully obvious, you can see it all over his face

He tries to cover it up by saying “Who am I going to make fun of?” Since that’s typical Lance, the one who’s supposed to hate Keith. But he generally looks worried, because apart from Hunk and Pidge, Keith is honestly really the only one who could truly understand Lance the most in this sense

And you can imagine how he feels when Matt comes along, someone who’s so similar to him and is just as smart as Hunk and Pidge

He literally holes himself up in his room by himself being antisocial, which is so unlike Lance, while they hang out

I saw a similar post to this and I honestly think it’s true. We know Lance is not one to show his emotions or vulnerability too much, but I do believe that when Keith was gone he was feeling alone. He may have had his friends yeah, but they’re not outsiders like both him and Keith felt they are, they can’t relate to how he feels. And he doesn’t seem to have any intentions of showing his weakness to them either. I just feel like this fact might become really important in the future