Wolfstar-is-goals

Wolfstar with a dash of Drarry. Will also be posting some incorrect quotes and headcanons. Will also post other pairings, all timelines.

[meetcuteprompts]

#250: the meet cute

A is standing at a bus stop and accidentally drops their last token down in the water drain! As the bus nears, A starts to panic, until B offers to pay their fare. A sits in front of B and turns around in their seat to stare them down until B takes off their headphones and A asks how they can repay B’s kindness. “You can leave me alone,” is B’s answer, but A won’t take grumpy-pants’ answer!

[meetcuteprompts]

#251: the meet cute

A is in their backyard enjoying the nice weather when an animal saunters into view. A looks for a collar and finds nothing, but it lets A have a few cuddles before going on its way. The same thing happens for the next few days until one day, B appears trailing behind! “Aha! So this is where you’ve been running off to.” 

Ah, one more thing. The animal is B’s familiar. 

[meetcuteprompts]

#252: the meet cute

A is in the public library and notices a strange book that looks like it doesn’t belong in this section. A moves along to another genre, but it seems that this book is in every section… almost like it’s following A. How peculiar! When A finally picks it up to see what exactly it is, B appears out of thin air, and simply says, “I’ve been waiting fifty years for you.”

[whatthehellami]

Artwork is not mine.

[fiery-mullet]

Why I love Kacxa fans so much even tho I personally don’t ship them. They are extremely supportive of posts about Keith, and their actions are so reflective of their ship, regardless if it’s romantic or not.

Acxa is the one (1) and only character in canon who has risked her life, twice including s8, to save Keith, as it was also her friendship with Veronica that saved Keith from Zethrid.

It’s just my own observation, but genuine Keith fans seem to naturally gravitate towards Krolia, the cosmic wolf, the Blades, and Acxa because they protect him. But Krolia and the others are a given because they’re family. Acxa had no obligation whatsoever to repeatedly save him and even risk her life for him, especially since she was once Lotor’s general and has already paid her “debt” for Keith saving her in the weblum, both during the Kral Zera and during Keith’s rescue of another Voltron member. She protects him because she chooses to do so, just like Kolivan completely abandoned his mission to regroup the Blade of Marmora and flew galaxies away just to be by Keith’s side when he almost died.

This is how Galra love. They love with everything and protect fiercely.

[shipping-isnt-morality]

Okay weird question but do you or your followers know of pro-shippers (or just non-antis) who do art commissions? I'm trying to commission something but it seems like a lot of artists are antis on here. (The thing I'm wanting to commission isn't even "problematic" its just an outfit but I try to avoid interacting with antis if I can due to past harassment.)

I’m not comfortable reccing people if they haven’t specifically invited me, and many pro-ship artists are covert bc of those same harassment issues

However if you’re pro-ship and take art commissions feel free to promo yourself on this post!!

[lilflowerpot]

I’ve only just seen the ask about Galran suffixes, I just want to quickly add onto it. Kitah could also be plural for kit, just as children is plural for child?

Anonymous said: What terms of endearment do Galra have? Galra add -ah (which is so cute) and adding it to Keith’s name sounds a lot like kitah. Could this be an equivalent to calling him baby?? Cause Keith is baby.

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((due to these two asks being so closely related, I’ve chosen to lump them both together))

The old Zaalkh word, Kiitah [[ k-ee-tah ]] is translated into the common tongue to mean either child or children, depending on the context: to have it serve as both the singular and plural form was my original intention, which is why it’s recorded as such in my fantasy dictionary. Then, as a direct result of the suffix ask, I decided that as the Galra Common Tongue evolved it took from Zaalkh the syllable at the end of Kiitah (-ah) which audibly softened the word, and the Galra people began to utilise -ah as a diminutive suffix for a plethora of other words, including the names of their loved ones.

As for other terms of endearment, many of them would translate (sweetheart / dearheart / darling / love), and I simply adore the idea of Keith-ah being very much the equivalent of calling Keith baby. Other than those, however, the Galra do have some more specific petnames stemming from the old tongue, such as:

Dynah [[ d-ee-n-ah ]] - tenderfooted one; a deeply affectionate term originating from the Kyx tribes of Daibazaal who historically traversed the hot sands of the Great Wastes during the day, which posed the risk of burning the delicate feet of young children. As such, kitlings would typically be transported within a litter (a large covered box supported by two horizontal poles, carried by four bearers) and later this became the fashion for the nobility of any given clan.

L’vaanu[[ ih-vah-n-yoo ]] - beloved, or, technically, “one who is adored above all others”; this is an old romantic term of endearment, and its earliest use is believed to be the inscription upon a shared tomb in the Dox catacombs, where two of their finest warriors were buried long before Daibazaal became a united planet.

Maar tron Liirah [[ m-ar / t-ron / lee-r-ah]] - fragment of my heart; as the heart is, according to the Druidic Faith, the cradle of the soul and therefore where all of one’s quintessence energy stems from, the concept of someone else possessing (let alone being) a fragment of one’s own heart is a deeply intimate one.

Rhyahl [[ r-ee-y-ah-l ]] - though now extinct, this was once Daibazaal’s apex predator, revered by the Druids as Sa incarnate; less a petname and more a term of admiration, reverence, and respect.

Tsaiiah [[ ts-eye-ah ]] - divine one; an amalgamation of Tsai, the oldest word the Galra have to express the concept of a god or divine consciousness, and  the affectionate suffix -ah. Much like Rhyahl, this is a term steeped in reverence and adoration that speaks volumes of the user’s devotion to the recipient.

[lilflowerpot]

most people tend to agree that keith started suspecting about his galra heritage after he saw ulaz's knife - except, at the end of the episode, we see that keith has ALREADY been covering the blade's insignia even BEFORE meeting ulaz (and he wasn't covering it in ep. 1 so this is def a new development). which makes me that keith recognized it as a galra symbol very early on and spent a LONG time worrying about how the team might reject him if his suspicions were true, even before ulaz.

So I was very intrigued by this, and ended up scanning through every episode right up until the “The Blade of Marmora” (s02ep08) to ensure I had my facts straight, the result of which was this post becoming far longer than anticipated.

First thing’s first: I’m not sure what lead you to believe that Keith didn’t initially cover his blade’s insignia in s01ep01, because it looks pretty well wrapped up to me? The shot below is from immediately before Keith breaks Shiro out of Garrison custody, but every other one I saw was very much in the same vein of having the hilt bound and sigil fully concealed, even when it isn’t in its sheath.

But regardless, the very earliest point at which Keith could have theoretically entertained the idea of there being a link between his knife and the Empire is actually in this same episode at around the 53-minute mark when he’s searching for the Red Lion and first lays eyes upon the Imperial emblem pausing to glare up at it:

Personally, and despite the stylistic similarities between this symbol and that of Marmora, at this point I don’t think that Keith has necessarily made any connection at all between the Empire and his blade, and while this moment might contribute to his realisation later on, at the time it’s more about his acknowledgement of “these are the people who took Shiro away from me.”

In s01ep07 we see the show’s first major nod to Keith’s Galra heritage, and I believe this is where Keith himself initially starts to connect the dots. When he activates the Imperial landing bay doors, Lance exclaims “Whoa! How’d you do that?” and Keith is visually hesitant in his response of “I... just put my hand on that handprint,” because he had simply done what seemed most logical to him (and it worked!) but Lance’s reaction implied that the issue at hand (ha) perhaps shouldn’t have been so easily resolved:

Ultimately, Keith’s smart. It’s not a social intelligence, true, but throughout the show Keith displays an incredible intellect and natural aptitude in more practical terms, such as resolving problems through physical action and logical progression, meaning that Keith likely cottoned on pretty quickly to the fact that his being able to activate Galra tech with a touch was abnormal, something which then becomes overtly relevant when team Voltron break in to the quintessence conversion facility (s01ep10) and Pidge remarks that “Shiro’s hand is made from Galra tech, it’s the only thing we have that will allow us to interface with their systems and gather intel.” This comment is then very shortly followed by Keith coming into physical contact with druidic quintessence (violet lightening energy) which temporarily turns his hand purple, only for that same hand to be seemingly “healed” when it is later doused in raw quintessence (golden liquid):

So truth be told, I think that by the end of s01ep10, Keith was less in doubt of whether he was Galra, and more struggling with how that could possibly be the case.

I briefly want to mention s01ep11, because while it’s not exactly concrete evidence, coming off the back of all the above I think that hearing the Emperor of the Galra Empire remark on Keith’s fighting style being “like a Galra soldier” must have only reaffirmed everything Keith already believed about himself (and as an aside, Zarkon & Keith’s battle is still one of my favourite to date):

Moving into the second series, Keith spends episode one fighting for his life and Shiro’s, resulting in him piloting the Black Lion for the first time (this will become important in a moment), and isn’t present in episode two at all. The second he has a chance to digest the events discussed above, Ulaz appears (s02ep03), and immediately Keith recognises the emblem on that Blade as the mirror of his own, confirming for the audience once and for all what Keith himself is already well aware of:

What’s interesting about this is not Keith learning he’s Galra - I’m quite sure he knows that - but that Ulaz’s existence proves to him that being Galra doesn’t equate to being inherently evil; something I think Keith might sincerely fear and struggle with due to having been bounced about foster care for so long, a period in which he was implied never to have formed a lasting emotional bond with anyone until Shiro.

The very next episode (s02ep04) Keith is again shown to be deep in thought as he stares at his reflection in his definitively alien heirloom, before questioning Coran on whether the Galra could possibly have visited Earth. Again, I don’t think this is Keith doubting his Galra heritage, only his attempts at puzzling out how this is possible:

The end of this episode breaks my heart, because while its primary focus is Olkarion and by association Pidge, Keith has his own epiphany - “So, that means we’re all related. This ship, those stars, the Olkari... even the Galra.” - and for a moment seems truly at peace with the idea that not only might being Galra not be a bad thing, but it also might give him a sense of family... only for Hunk’s ill-timed (though not ill-intentioned) joke to see him physically curling into himself as everyone else laughs:

Don’t mind me I’m just suffering from a broken heart over here.

So from this point onwards Keith tries to get answers from the shady-knife-guy in the space mall only for said shady-knife-guy to try and steal his blade and call security on him (s02ep05), and then just broadly has a Really Bad Time (s02ep06) including a general sense of self-loathing, horrific night terrors that have him eaten by Red only to suddenly find himself wearing Imperial armor (which is clearly symbolic of Keith considering himself “one of the enemy”)...

...while being personally threatened by Zarkon who appears in his knife’s reflection (as a direct parody of that earlier shot with Keith’s own reflection, echoing Keith’s fear that he is “like Zarkon” specifically, which is why the fact that Keith has piloted the Black Lion is relevant as another key point of comparison), and blaming himself for potentially putting the entire team at risk simply by existing in close proximity to the people he cares about:

This leads into him self-isolating with Allura, at which point Keith makes a real effort to impress upon her that not every member of the Galra race can be evil, citing Ulaz, but more than likely testing the waters for himself. As she does not respond particularly positively, claiming that Ulaz’s death could have been a deliberate ploy and that “any offer of help from the Galra is merely a prelude to a trap,” as she knows “all too well how quickly they turn,” and so she would “never count on them for help.”

Finally, we have the Trials of Marmora (s02ep08) which, aside from the obvious, are important for the fact that we have several lines from Keith expressing his desire for knowledge about his blade’s history, and confirmation of what he already knows - “I saw Ulaz had a knife like this. Tell me what it means.” / “Somehow, one of your knives ended up with me on planet Earth. Tell me how.” / “Where did it come from? I have to know.” / “It’s the only connection I have to my past. It's my chance to learn who I really am.” - and the reason I can say this with relative certainty, is that when Keith dreams of his father, Texas Kogane says: “Don't you wanna know about where you came from? Your mother gave [the blade] to me.” Importantly, Kolivan doesn’t know this. Antok doesn’t know this. Nobody present in that hall knows this, because if they did they wouldn’t have accused Keith of theft, therefore Keith remembers being told of his knife’s origins (and therefore his own heriatge) by his father, and so simply wants to hear someone other than himself acknowledge and validate it as fact.

As my last note, the above moments are particularly important because, when threatened, Keith immediately turns to Shiro and states “you know me,” before insisting that he didn't steal the knife; to Keith, the knife itself is secondary to receiving affirmation that Shiro knows him as a person (and therefore won’t abandon him upon learning the truth, a fear that is actualised by the hologram-Shiro later on). By the episode’s end, of course, Keith proves himself willing to give up the knife as a symbolic gesture, but not the part of himself or his history that it represents, which is really the first step to him accepting his Galra heritage despite having known of it for so long.

TL;DR  There’s strong evidence to suggest that Keith had already realised he was Galra as early as s01ep10, and everything after that point was simply him trying to deal with the emotional fallout of not only being an alien but also one of the “bad guys”, while simultaneously attempting to fill in the obvious gaps in the narrative and work out whether his newfound family would abandon him for his heritage.

[kosmo-mckogane]

ok i know we're always on about the klance height discourse™ or whatever but we all know the true superior headcanon is that lance thinks he's taller, and is 100% sure of this fact for months, until one day he realises that keith's habit of either slouching or leaning against walls actually makes him appear a little shorter than he really is, and that when he stands straight, they are, in fact, exactly the same height. cue lance's subsequent identity crisis.

so here's lance, under the unquestionable impression that he's had at least a good inch on keith since the garrison. they've stood next to each other, he's seen it, he's experienced the feeling of having to glance down to meet keith's eyes.

and he'd know - he's got a mental tally of every victory he has against his rival, and this is a one of his favourites. if keith scores higher than him on a test? doesn't matter, lance is still taller. keith beats him in the simulator? well, at least lance is taller. keith insults his piloting? whatever, lance is still taller!

and, it continues like this, in lance's head, until eventually, he brings it up in conversation, casually, albeit a little smugly, mentioning their slight height difference. keith, stopping in his tracks for a second, just blinks at lance in confusion and goes, "wait, you're taller than me?" to which lance looks down at him and is like um. yeah dude obviously. and then, in a moment that shatters lance's entire worldview, keith straightens up, gains like an inch, meets his eyes and replies, "no, you're not." and lance promptly goes through the five stages of grief

[takeiganeart]

“And it’s a long way forward, so trust in me

I’ll give them shelter, like you’ve done for me”

S7 divergence where the paladins “Sleep” while on the journey back to Earth.

[chanchanchanchanchanchanchan]

[hopahopa]

키스 생일축하해~~!!!

[thevoltronpilots]

Epic moment!

[kyojurotchi]

[erithel]

Unpopular opinion rant, but there's something very unpleasant about how the current community characterizes lotor. He's a decent antagonist and interesting as the two face double crosser he was set out to be, but the fandom making this grown man and soft imperialist character the "oh poor baby, :'(" feels so icky. Especially when they use him as an example of a wayward abuse victim and dismisses his more despicable canon actions, all of which are plain to see on screen since his introduction,

Anonymous also adds:

as a byproduct of the writers being "ablest" or even in some reaches,"racist". His seasons long participation in colonization and subjugation of other races, the way he knows how to manipulate his way into others good graces in other to get them to do what he wants without impunity, senseless murder and unethical experimentation, those actions are his responsibility. His past can explain what he's doing but to try to pass it off "bad writing" and painting him as the poster child of poorly written abuse-victim character, when he's no better than any irl ruling class or politician, is such an unpleasant hallmark of this fandom and speaks of wildly poor judgement on fans part. He's very well written as far as antagonists go, better than zarkon and haggar, but I especially can't even with the 'draco in leather pants"-ing of his character.

So I will admit, right off the bat, I always liked the potential of Lotor. It was as if I could almost see what they were trying to do with him, rather than what was actually presented in the show. That's why I've never hated him as much as some others.

The best example I can think of is the character of Regina from Once Upon a Time. I watched the first season of that a while back, and by the time they got to her "redeeming" tragic backstory, I could not have cared less. They had shown her doing horrible, irredeemable things for too long, and by the time they tried to justify it, it was too little, too late.

And I believe like this is how some people feel about Lotor.

(I also think that a lot of people feel bad for him and excuse what he did because – to be absolutely blunt – he was attractive and that is a very real thing.)

I do see, to a certain extent, the comparison you're making between Lotor and "the ruling class or politicians" but the thing that seems to fit a little more for me tends to toe the line of psychopath. - Pretending to care while manipulating. - Committing horrible acts and being able to justify them because there is no real sense of guilt tied to the act. - Using people for personal gain until the point they are no longer useful.

If I'm being honest, this would have been a fascinating angle for them to have chosen for him – just fully committing to the choice of Lotor actually being a psychopath.

That being said, however, the reason why I tend to hang onto the idea of Lotor being redeemable is that he could have been the most interesting character in the show. I mean, his potential was a literal goldmine for character development, and a character arc.

Even if we list the barest of facts, this is what we have to work with:

1) He was the son of the Galaxy's dictator. 2) He was 100% neglected as a child; never shown actual love. 3) He was ordered to subjugate planets by his father. 4) He was exposed to whatever that thing was that made Zarkon and Haggar "turn evil" because she was pregnant with him when she was exposed (I don't remember exactly what that was). Now here's what I think they were going for with Lotor. I think they wanted to give him all of that tragic backstory, and they wanted him to still show an innate sense of good, despite it. I think they wanted something in his very nature to be nagging at him to do the right thing – to find peaceful, diplomatic solutions despite the orders and the example he was given. I think they wanted to take Lotor and say "Here is this kid who was destined to be evil. It's in his bloodline, it's in his DNA, it's been with him since his birth… Except – Except he cares about people. Except he has empathy and compassion, and despite everything inside him that is screaming at him to do evil, his true nature – the goodness of his own heart – was the more powerful thing in the end." And shit, that would have been powerful. Could have been powerful, if it had been portrayed correctly on screen. And that's where the argument for bad/lazy writing comes in. Because Lotor had so much potential, but because his character and his story was not fleshed out to the extent it should have been, he comes off to many of the fans exactly how you described in your post. We were shown too much of the bad, and when we were finally shown the true good they wanted us to see all along, it was too little, too late.

[vldkeith]

⚔️💢🔥🤖

[miramaramora]

Friendly reminder that Coraan had an emo phase as a teenager

So there's every chance Keith will be just like Coraan when he gets old 👨