CRYING IN THE CLUB WITH KEITH'S VLOG ON REPEAT

now that we know matt and shiro graduated together, i bet they were the local meme legends of the garrison 

matt and shiro used to walk past iverson and give a salute, then run into a hallway, swap some clothing, and walk past him again to confuse him

for a year, matt convinced everyone, including his teachers, that he didn’t know how to read

“mr holt, please tell us how to solve the equation”

matt, on the verge of tears: “sir, you know I can’t read that. I’ve told you plenty of times before”

shiro in the background laughing silently while tears stream down his face

everyone thought there was a ghost in the garrison but it was just takashi shirogane and matt holt stealing food from the cafeteria at 3am, wrapped in bedsheets to hide their identity

matt taking off his glasses: “wow shiro you look so much better now”

shiro: “you can’t see shit, can you?”

matt: “just a blur, this is definitely an improvement” 

every time matt got a high score after a flight simulation, shiro would, without fail, say “mamma mia that’s a spicy meatball”

“sorry, commander iverson, shiro is sick and can’t come to class today. he’s got a bad case of updog” “what’s updog”

matt with tears in his eyes: “wELL-”

matt would inscribe random words onto every available surface. one day shiro almost passed out from laughter because he was in the library, getting a book, and on the shelf in tiny handwriting it just said ‘celery’

shiro: “if we ever meet aliens in space i’m telling them your name is poot” 

matt used to point at every unflattering image in his textbook and say “look shiro, it’s you” 

years after they graduate, lance finds in his textbook the phrase ‘look on page 57′ and on page 57 it just says ‘you are a fool for looking, signed, matt holt’

“It was really selfish of me…”

“Promise you’ll never do anything like that ever again.”

“…I promise.”

I had a whole load of other scenarios and reasons why the ‘rift’ would happen, what would cause it, and what the fallout will be. But this is the one that hurt the most, I think. 

Because… Keith doesn’t belong anywhere. He said it in S3: they ask him to lead, and then complain about how he leads. When he gets a purpose, something worthwhile and important to him, it’d played down. “We’ll discuss it later,” Shiro said, more than once. 

His feelings never seem to matter. And you know what? He’s used to this. 

So he’ll shoehorn himself into a space he doesn’t fit in until something lets him escape. He’ll hurt himself just until something comes along that might hurt less. He was happy with Red. But they shoehorned him into Black, hell, they forced him to shoehorn himself in there. And then complained. Even Shiro overrode and undermined him. 

He’s good at being a Blade. He realizes that he fights and moves and acts in a way that suits their function. Autonomy with purpose. And the Blade are used to death. They’re used to not maintaining deep bonds, because they can die at any moment. 

And that suits Keith fine. Who’s gonna miss him, right?

Whenever Shiro or Allura say, “Voltron / We need you,” who do they mean? The Red Paladin, or Keith?

Answer: it’s not Keith. 

Hell, in the above clip, Allura says even the Blade don’t really need him. Thanks, Allura. Race of diplomats, yeah?

And the team are going to miss him, are they? They didn’t even say hi to him when he was on the screen. No one asked about him. No one said, after he leaves, “Hey, I wonder how Keith is doing?”

But that’s okay. Keith is used to being forgotten about. He’s fine, right? That’s why he’s been pulling away. This was his plan all along. Maybe.

And he comes sailing in at the last minute, ready to die for the cause, knowing that, hey, everyone will be fine. No one is going to miss him, right? No one ever has, and so why would it matter?

He doesn’t tell the team what he’s doing. Matt knew. I think Coran knew. 

So if Lotor hadn’t shown up, and the whooping and celebrating dies down, and “Good work, Keith!” comes through the comms, what are they going to hear?

Matt saying, “He’s gone.”

He’d be gone, he’d have never said goodbye, because, hey, it’s fine, right? They’ll be fine. 

Then what, huh, Team Voltron? 

Then what?

Learn to miss him more, Team. Because that boy is losing himself, and if you don’t tell him – someone, anyone – that you love him and you don’t want him to die or go or that you can’t imagine a world without him…

some call him a mary sue or over powered - but all of that doesn't matter when all of his character growth is shot down and he's back to square one, feeling lost and trying to find and grab onto any piece of purpose he can find.

holy shit i just realized lance has a “NEW RIVAL”……at first I was exited but now that I think about it, keith….keith is kinda being replaced by matt. that kills me. also i know lance is jealous of matt i mean…he wasn’t spending as much time with hunk or pidge the matt comes in and is super smart and amazing and.. well lance seems to be hanging out with them less and less. I just bumed myself out, what if lances “i’m just a boy from cuba” is him talking about how he is inferior to matt and wants to leave with keith. i mean the blade seem to like lance (and i know keith does) so like…………………..

Lance: *Is seen as annoying*

Matt: *Is smart, flirts a lot, makes a lot jokes*

Matt: *Is seen as a generally well-rounded character*

THIS SHIT WORKS OKAY, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.

The last time I saw this on my dash, I didn’t think it would happen, so jokingly I wished I could go to a fun. concert.

AND GUESS WHAT, I WENT TO A FUCKING FUN. CONCERT.

I SAW THIS ON MY DASH THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT “ITS WORTH A TRY” SO I WISHED I COULD GET A 3DS

LITERALLY LIKE 4 DAYS LATER MY DAD SENT ME A PICTURE OF THE 3DS XL HE BOUGHT FOR ME WHILE I WAS AT SCHOOL

GUYS.

HE FUCKING CALLED ME 20 MINUTES LATER

20 FUCKNG. MINUTES. LATER.

matt holt is a weeb.

BONUS:

literally i’ve seen two (2) posts talking abt that allura/lance interaction in the last episode, and that shit was so important, it told us so much abt allura and lance

i’ve only seen a couple if posts where ppl talk about hunk’s fight scene and way too little posts with way too little notes where they talk about hunk being EXPLICTLY and BLATANTLY treated as a joke and how he HIMSELF said he didn’t like it

it’s so obvious that nobody gives a shit about lance, allura and hunk i’ve seen so many keith-related posts with 2k+ notes GOD yes i do realize he’s an important character but we’re in the FOURTH SEASON, keith has had A WHOLE GODDAMN SEASON FOCUSED ON HIM AND HIS ANGST and we STILL don’t know shit about hunk, allura and lance, we STILL haven’t had the lance development we were promised, and even now that allura’s a paladin, and lance and hunk are (supposedly lmfao) main characters the fans STILL aren’t willing to talk about how important to the team their roles are like lance literally made a speech telling allura why she’s essential to the team and how powerful she is and how she shouldn’t doubt herself and people STILL haven’t talked about it in depth, STILL don’t give a shit about it!!!!! wow!!!!!!