First off, Allura is not dead
She has ascended to Godhood and is an all-powerful, mystical being like Bob
She watches over the universe with Lotor by her side and sometimes visits the other paladins
Keith and Lance got together some time after the war (I’d say they probably got together not long after that dinner in the last episode, and they’ve been a couple for some time by the second photograph)
They live together, but Keith still goes on Blade missions
That’s part of why Lance chose to get a farm; it helps ease the loneliness when he’s missing his bf
The other part is because Keith keeps bringing home stray alien animals to keep as pets because, “they needed a home, Lance!”
Lance: Keith, babe, why is your jacket zipped up?
Keith: It’s cold! Of course my jacket will be zipped up!
Lance: I have seen your jacket wide open in the middle of a blizzard, Keith. Why is it zipped up right now?
Lance: You brought home another one, didn’t you?
Keith: He was cold, and hungry, and scared! I couldn’t just leave–
Lance: OMG give him here jfc
Only one day, it’s not a stray animal Keith brings home
This time, it’s not a laughing matter
Lance is shocked, but before he can get a word out, Keith is explaining
Keith: They were going to let her die, Lance. The planet she was orphaned on still has a stigma against Galra, so they thought they’d be doing the universe a favor by letting her fall to the wayside.
Lance is outraged by the cruelty of it all and is instantly at Keith’s side, telling him he did the right thing and that they’d make it work
And, upon closer inspection, Lance has to admit that the baby is friggin adorable
On top of that, the idea that he and Keith are parents now just gives Lance a warm and fuzzy feeling inside
(Keith definitely felt this, too – all the way home, in fact – and he had a hard time keeping the fond and cheesy smile off his face.)
(Krolia teased him good-naturedly and pretended to chastise him for becoming a parent before becoming a husband.)
(Keith swore he’d rectify that soon.)
(He has the ring hiding in his knife drawer – oh not the drawer that holds silverware knives, no he has a drawer dedicated to the ornate and deadly knives he’d acquired over the years.)
(Lance never goes in there because the one time he did, he ended up needing Allura to heal an almost-completely-severed finger.)
(So, perfect hiding spot.)
Lance: So… I guess that makes us parents now.
Because he HAS to say it out loud, as if doing so will make it permanent
Both of them have these lovesick dopey grins on their faces and it’s adorable but diabetes-inducing
The baby starts babbling lightly then and Lance, cooing, pokes a finger at her to placate her
She begins sucking on the proffered finger and Lance is swooning
The tears of emotions pooling his eyes turned into tears of pain and it takes everything in him to keep the smile plastered on his face so he doesn’t scare the baby
Keith chuckles a little and eases the baby away from Lance’s finger
Lance’s head collapses on Keith’s shoulder with a relieved yet agonized sigh, and Keith laughs again because he’s a dick
Then the baby curls more into Keith’s chest like a cat and Lance swoons again
Keith also makes good on his promise and he and Lance marry before they’ve had Luna for even a year
Keith wanted the proposal to be absolutely perfect and romantic, like proposing in Cuba or on Valentine’s Day
Instead, it catches them both off guard
Keith walks into the kitchen one morning to see Lance cooking breakfast with Luna on his hip
He’s singing some kind of Spanish lullaby to her and at one point, nuzzles their noses together
Heart full to bursting, Keith comes up behind Lance and wraps his arms around his boyfriend’s waist
Lance just goes into shock for a moment, dropping his spatula, before spinning around and asking Keith if he’s serious because you can’t joke about this kind of thing
But when Keith tells him he’s serious, that the ring is upstairs and he’ll give it to him later, Lance bursts into happy tears
He’s smiling so widely, Keith thinks it must hurt, but then his own smile isn’t much smaller so he’s not one to talk
Lance presses forward to kiss his fiance – fiance! Keith’s his fiance! – but they break apart at Luna babbling
So they turn to her and give her mutual kisses on the cheeks, putting her into a fit of giggles
With her placated, the two turn back to each other, foreheads pressed together, smiling goofily at one another and giggling
They just decide to go out for breakfast – as a family
Sometime after their wedding (which was more on the perfectly planned side than the initial proposal), Kolivan shows up at their doorstep
Keith had taken an extended leave from the Blade to help raise Luna in her early years
So he was thinking Kolivan was going to put up a stink about it
Kolivan hands over a brand new Marmora blade and tells Luna’s dads that it’s for her when she’s old enough to wield it
Keith has to actively hold back his tears
Meanwhile, Lance hands Luna over to his husband and brings Kolivan in for a hug, whisper a thank you into his chest (the highest point Lance can reach)
Kolivan returns it tentatively, but at least he returns it, so Lance is satisfied
On their first Valentine’s Day as husbands, Keith attempts to cook Lance breakfast, Luna on his hip – much like Lance was doing when Keith proposed
He, uh, isn’t as proficient at this as Lance is
Yeah, breakfast gets burned again
Lance eats it anyway and says that Keith’s love sweetened it enough to make it edible
Keith is grateful to Lance for trying
They still go out for breakfast when Keith can’t stand to watch his husband choke down the literal charcoal on his plate
Lance still says it’s the best Valentine’s Day he’s ever had
On their first anniversary, Lance takes a good selfie of him, his husband, and their daughter
It becomes Keith’s phone wallpaper indefinitely so he can look at his family no matter where he is
His family is his home, and Keith is home for good
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