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Black Paladin Keith and Red Paladin Lance is a really interesting dynamic to explore just as much as Black Paladin Lance and Red Paladin Keith are. 

Black Paladin Keith is fun bc it’s forcing Keith to essentially replace Shiro and accept that Shiro is gone which is smth Keith has denied to possible since the beginning of the series. It would force him to face his very obvious fear of abandonment. Shiro is probably the only person that has stayed the longest in Keith life making it exponentially difficult for him to accept cause in my mind when Keith gets attached to someone, it takes a while for him too, but when he does, he gets attached hard. He now has to deal with that but also the burden of being the leader and the responsibility that comes with being the person that makes life or death decisions involving the ppl he cares about the most. This also adds to the pressure. Keith could force himself to be so much like Shiro he loses sense of who he is as a leader, or just flat out ignore his responsibilities in retaliation to prove he’s not cut out for it. 

On Lances side, he’s in Keith’s shadow again. It plays on his insecurities of being useless or just a replacement. He wants to achieve something great, but he always finds himself as a replacement for Keith. He’s been in this position since the Garrison, and has probably felt this way since he was a kid. Having a bunch of possible older siblings always there to do something before you makes it really really hard to do anything for yourself and make a statement to be different. That’s probably why Lance joined the Garrison. Being the Blue Paladin was the only real original thing Lance had. Being the leader gave him a chance to set back his insecurities, but instead, he was rejected and that probably doubled his insecurities. 

For this case, both Keith and Lance can support each other. Lance can help Keith cope with his fear of abandonment, losing Shiro, and new role as leader via emotional support/support as being Keith’s right-hand. Keith can help Lance feel more confident and sure of himself as the new right hand, help him feel like his own person outside of being Keith’s replacement or just another member of his family. It’s an interesting, angsty dynamic to explore. In the process of them healing and trying to help each other there is a lot of room for restless emotions to clash, causes stressful arguments and situations which are always in fun to write. 

Then, with Black Paladin Lance and Red Paladin Keith, it’s a bit less conflicting. Lance gets what he wants, he gets to be a leader, he gets to be like his idol, but maybe he doesn’t feel fully fulfilled. He has everything he wants on paper, but maybe he feels guilty over taking the spot from Keith. Maybe he still doesn’t feel himself worthy of being the leader, despite wanting it so badly. He knows how much Shiro ment to Keith, and by becoming the new Black Paladin, he’s replacing Shiro. He doesn’t feel like he can fit into Shiro’s shoes and tries to avoid Keith over the situation of replacing Shiro. He’s still painted as ‘the dumb one’ or ‘the goofball’ despite being the leader. He doesn’t know how to manage the seriousness without abandoning his personality, but when he keeps said personality, he’s suddenly to childish. So, he just becomes a shell of himself, believing his only value is when he is like that.  

For Keith, Lance becoming the Black Paladin would either force him to stay with Voltron or leave for the blades permanently. In both cases when he comes back as the red Paladin, it’s strange because he wants to believe that nothings changed. He wants it all to go back to normal and be like how it was. But now, it’s not Shiro leading him. It’s a new dynamic. At the start of Lance being the leader, I would assume that Keith would be a bit indiferente about it. He doesn’t want to be the leader and Lance so badly wants too, but seeing someone like Lance who isn’t anything like Shiro—who is the exact opposite of Shiro—take his place would probably be really conflicting. On one hand, he’s glad he doesn’t have to lead. On the other, his still distraught over losing Shiro and would probably accidentally take it out on Lance, hate Lance for replacing Shiro, as Lance replacing Shiro just confirms that Shiro is gone. This all ties back to Keith’s fear of abandonment and not wanting to lose the one person to believe in him. 

In this scenario, Keith and Lance can still help each other. Lance can help Keith with his fear of abandonment and losing the people he loves again. Keith can help Lance by making him feel more confident as his role as a leader and always be there for support as his right hand man. In the process of it all, there are so many conflicting, misread emotions that make great writing fuel. 

Both situations have very interesting, fun, and angsty dynamics to explore, no matter where you swing on the opinions (I’m a bit more on black Paladin Keith cause I love the Keith/Shrio dynamic it has and also all the material it provides to explore lances insecurities)

This is complete opposite compared to Keith who has narrower, smaller shoulders. 

Due to this, Keith can wear just about anything of lances cause they are similar in size, when he wears Lance’s jackets/tops, it’s like two sizes to big on him but Keith loves the bagginess of it. 

I headcannon that in the Ninjago world when you get possessed by a ghost based on how long the ghost possesses you, you can start to develop features of the ghost possessing you. Ex: change in hair color, gaining freckles or birth marks that the ghost had, change in eye color, hair length, etc. 

In Lloyd’s case, he was possessed for at least a week if not more 24/7 except for that one time Morro left him to possess Ronin. That’s a HELLA long time to have some dead guy controlling you. Hence Lloyd having a streak of Morro’s hair color in his hair and a an increase in Lloyd’s hair length after the incident. Bc it’s magic, Lloyd can’t dye it out or get rid of it. He tried cutting it off but the hair grew back that color. So yeah, Lloyd with that in his hair. In simpler terms, the Ana Elsa thing from Frozen but with Morro and Lloyd. Kinda like how Lloyd will have the save for the rest of his life.

One night, Lance was spilling tea about ppl from the garrison and Keith passively said smth about what he heard/gathered, and suddenly, Keith is now the new source of all tea on the ship. 

I know it’s popular but I also really like the idea that Keith likes to read. He’s incredibly literary inclined and would read a lot when his dad was at work and later to drown out foster parents and boring teachers—unless it was bio (I also headcannon Keith as a huge bio nerd and is really fascinated by the way the human body/nature works but he doesn’t tell anyone cause it doesn’t match his vibe). Keith’s favorite genre is poetry. Doesn’t matter what kind. Poetry is poetry. Probs one of the only ppl that can fully grasp Shakespeare. He also really enjoys horror, all time favorite author is Steven King AKA the GOAT of writing horror

Adam is also a huge book nerd and when he found out Keith liked to read started taking him to libraries/book stores to bond. They started a min book club and eventually enlisted Shiro and Matt into the club 

After the paladins got shot into space, Keith was thrilled to find out that the castle had a huge library, only to find out that it’s all in Altean. After weeks of debating, he finally asked Coran for a translator to read the books. After that, he started learning Altean to read the books and was one of the first paladins to become completely fluent in Altean. 

Allura discover how much Keith liked reading the books, so she started reading with him. Eventually their little book club roped Shiro and Coran. Pidge listens to audio of the books when she can, Hunk reads too just not as seriously, and Lance has given up. He has a hard time understanding a lot of the super heavy language and doesn’t have the patience to read books. He still hangs out when the group is reading, but instead spends his time kitting or crocheting. Hunk is always there and Pidge spends her time on her laptop. Eventually, the Paladins and the Alteans started dedicating an hour+ every week to the club to read. 

When Keith left for the Blades, they stopped doing it. The club wasn’t the same without Keith. 

When Keith joined the blades, he was pretty disappointed to find their wasn’t a lot of writing that people wrote just to write, so he started picking up books from all the places he’d go when he was allowed. The rest of the blades are kind confused at first, but Keith eventually started the book club again in the Blade, this time with books from everywhere. You can’t be a blade and not hear about the infamous book club. Practically the whole Blade has joined, and the few that don’t just hang around to hang around. 

When the Paladins get back to earth, and Keith meets Lance’s fam, he finds out that Lances mom like reading just as much as him, and they start another book club back on Earth 

One time Lance startled Keith in the middle of the night and Keith screamed so loud + high he woke up the entire ship 

Lance never let him live it down and after finding out about Keith’s rage he started calling him Mariah Carey

Occasionally Lance will break in into verses of ‘all I want for Christmas is you’ to piss Keith off

AND bc of said range combined with humans mimicking ability (we’re kind like parrots if you think about it tbh) Keith can almost PERFECTLY mimic anyone’s voice 

Sometimes, when Lance or one of the other paladins are feeling homesick Keith will listen to what their voices sound like and speak to whichever paladin is feeling homesick in their loved ones voice to make them feel better

Keith also had prefect pitch, his ears are really sensitive to diffrent noises so he can distinguish the diffrent growls/clicks Galra make cause even the slightest difference can make a sound mean smth different. 

I also headcannon he plays piano, cause his dad did and when he would leave Keith at the fire house when he was at work Keith would mess around on the piano which led to one of the receptionist teaching Keith how to play. He picked it up really quickly and can play a lot of stuff off memory. He stopped when his dad died and was forced into the foster care system. Eventually, Shiro caught him messing around on a piano at the Garrison and got him back into lessons. When they were shot off into space Keith found out that the Alteans had an instrument really similar to the piano and Keith started practicing on it 

Bonus Klance headcannon:

Lance, and like everyone else, is very aware of this. 

When the paladins come back to earth, Lance is all high and mighty, not because he is a paladin of Voltron, not because he’s been to space, not because he’s a super badass warrior, no it’s because he bagged Keith Fucking Kogane, the Garrison heartthrob.