He struggles with knowing what to call her. Mom? Mother? Blade Co-owner?
Krolia, deadpan: “Just call me Special K.”
Keith, turning around and walking away immediately: “No. I’m not doing this. Goodbye.”
Long silences that aren’t awkward. Just two broody broods walking the halls.
They both have terrible insomnia. Krolia tries to give Keith medication for it but it’s some Galra stuff that just makes him KO for 14 hours like a deadman and is thus entirely ineffective.
“Keith fix your shirt.” “I didn’t come here to be lecTURE-”
Krolia: *arrives anywhere after Keith does* Keith, with that shit-eating smirk: “You’re late.”
They both like quiet places like Olkarion. When she goes there for the first time, she remarks that she loves it. Keith tells her that it’s one of his top 5 planets he’s been to. She asks him what the other 4 are, and gets several lovely hours of listening to her son talk about his special interest. She gives him a soft look the entire time, not sure how to convey how grateful she is that they found one another again.
After the war is done, Keith actually gets to go back to Earth as his home, since he’s found not only his mother, but also gained a family of his own.
Krolia, seeing Keith’s shack: “Bitch you live like this?”
Krolia notices Keith’s little crush on Lance like, instantly.
At first she doesn’t say anything.
*After a conversation with Lance leaves Keith blushing softly with a wistful smile: “So!” “No.”
“Your Dad reeled me in with his jokes as well, it’s okay.”
“Keith this is getting embarrassing.” “Yeah well, guess I’ll keep doing it until I die.” “…No?”
She tells him all the stories she has of his childhood. Keith learns how to cry over someone coming back, instead of leaving him behind.
Krolia constantly wonders if she’s being a bad mother to Keith. She knows she has a lot of work to do; that Keith being closed off isn’t annoying, it’s natural considering what happened. The beginning of their relationship features a lot of misunderstandings and unanswerable questions.
They work it out. Eventually.
The first time Keith calls Krolia “Mom”, it’s after her ship goes down during a battle. He’s the first one there, prying open the hatch. She hears his voice call down through the dark, and wants to tell him she’s fine.
“MOM? MOM, are you alright?!”
Krolia? Oh, she gets him the FUCK out of the Blade when she learns her son has almost died not ONCE, but TWICE over the course of his service.
Krolia, bursting into his room: “Pack your bag. Now.” Keith: “You can’t tell me what to-” “Did I stutter, Keith?”
5 minutes later: “I thought I told you to pack your bag.” Keith: *holding up his jacket, pants, shirt, and go-go boots and nothing else* “I did…?” Krolia, trying not to cry: “This is fucking ridiculous. We’re going to the mall. Fucking cannot BELIEVE you have NOTHI-”
“Hey, Mom?” “Yes?” “How did you tell Dad…how you felt?” Krolia, hiding the fact that she waited until he said something first: “W…with courage…”
She doesn’t get the Voltron chant either.
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