Sheith Participation Week

oh, man, here are some fics that have left the most impression on me since starting to read sheith fic

hover over the links for summaries.

Glimpse of White Cosmic Dust by dimplelegacymila  this is probably my favorite of the sheith big bang last year. it really drives home struggles of a lot of interracial people, their struggle for identity, self-acceptance, and keith’s struggle to be around people cause he faces backlash from people who only see the part-galra of him and ostracize him. this actually became extra personal cause as an interracial person, i don’t know any interracial person who hasn’t struggled with identity and where they belong amongst their their own heritage. and then here comes shiro, who doesn’t see keith as evil, who doesn’t pull away, who doesn’t try to change keith. it’s such a sweet and angsty fic, and it’s a really good keith pov, i think.

raise me to your lips by eunzos boy, during the early part of the fandom, dark shiro was a semi-popular thing, people were interested in kuro–i’m not sure how the name came about, but it def stuck. even though keith loves shiro’s gentle nature, he still wants shiro to go all animalistic on him and oh, man, it still gets me to this day. i think it was the first real big dark shiro fic that i came across and it’s lit as fuck.

my heart is (actually) trembling by rat (orphan_account)  so, around the beginning of last year, some antis thought it would be a good idea to spam the sheith ao3 tag with legit-sounding stories but were just long wikipedia copy/pastes. so, someone ended up taking one of the fic titles and turned it into a real fic. this is probs my fave porn fic, if not, top five, and iit’s just really good tbh.

primal by velociraptors  oooooh, my god, this fic is near and dear. it’s a werewolf au where keith is a high school kid and shiro is a werewolf, and there’s little hints that drop that keith is part-werewolf and shiro knows but doesn’t let keith know. they spend time together at keith’s shack and it’s honestly so domestic? and it’s adorable? shiro having to adopt human mannerisms and it’s just??? so adorable??? i love it so much (plus they wrote a real good gladnoct fic and i love it)

my right-hand man by orphan_account  holy shit, this fic. this fic is beautiful. like.the writing is so good, it’s so pretty, and it’s angsty and sad. it’s shiro struggling to remember keith and feeling so awful about not being able to. it is major character death, and honestly, it made me Feel Things. i want to emphasis how it’s really angsty and i fucking love angst fic and it’s not a happy ending, but please, don’t let that stop you, the writing is so beautiful for it.

captive red lion series by awkwardspaceturtle (CastelloFlare)  i love this series, and i do hope the writer would come back to it and continue you it cause i am interested in this, even two years later. keith is an infamous thief and it’s what you would expect for a shith aladdin au but i love it so much

i’m lost in faith (oh how true it is) by ShirosRedKnight (SweetFanfics)  let me preface this: my dick is still mega hard for dark shiro aka kuro, and i was really loving the trend of fics that appeared for it. this one? keith gets dp’d by shiro and kuro and boiiiiiiii,i have never been more thankful for discovering it.

LAZARUS by Glossolalia  can you tell i like dark fic?well, i do, not gonna lie. but anyways, i love how this fic is done, i love the tone, the darkness, the morality of it, how keith morals are compromised because he desperately wants shiro back. and kuro knows this. i’m always hoping that one day, one day, the author would consider coming back to this but last year, antis rolled through the fandom really hard and a lot of darker material stopped getting produced as people didn’t want to be put on antis’ radar. but i’m just hoping that this fic could be possibly continued.

et in arcadia ego by tootsonnewts so let’s talk about my new interest in shiro being a demon or incubus that keith summons. there’s nothing like summoning a very powerful but mega hot demon that utterly destroys and wrecks your ass. this is my new Thing, and i enjoy it without shame. 

An addendum to day 2! Recommending fics!

faith and sanctuary by commodorecliche

Rating: M

Vampire! Keith and Priest! Shiro. This fic has a wonderful mood about it. Things happen quickly, but still feel like they have a natural pacing, nonetheless. Wonderful read~

Whenever, Wherever by Tatsuha21

Rating: E

*blush* you will have to find out for yourself!

85mm by Lycoria, Mool

Rating: E

Shiro is a photographer; Keith is a model.

This story is currently still a WIP, but it is written very well with believable pacing. As it stands, it’s rating is more Teen, so far. I am very eager for more, if it is to come~

Temporary Fix by lordzuuko

Rating: T

Fake dating pools over into developing real feelings~~

Dancer in Blue by luvcmpunk314

Rating: E

@sheithparticipationweek  : Day 7 - Share your story

Sorry for being this late, but this ended up being much much longer than expected, as it seems to be a rule each time I write about Voltron. Woops.

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Ok, so just to give a bit of context : I’m NOT usually a shipper. At all.

I totally respect people who do like shipping by the way ! It’s just I personally don’t do it that much. And I do in Voltron, otherwise I wouldn’t be posting here about Sheith !

Most of the time, I just don’t have that much interest in romance in stories, be it canon or fanon. I don’t dislike it either, but I don’t favor it over other types of relationships. I’m often more easily invested in friendships, team dynamics, and just strong platonic relationships of all kinds.

I watch /read stories for the character developments and relationships in general as well as plot and world building. Who ends up romantically with whom is rather low on my priorities, unless it’s a big part of the story and character arks. Often I see it, but just as a plot point “oh, they’re setting those two characters up so they will end together” or “well it’s not canon, but I get why people ship those two”. It’s quite rare that I get emotionally invested. I think for me to be interested, it has to be really built up… not a “oh and by the way, they interacted a bit, so now they’re love interests”.

When I started watching Voltron, I knew nearly nothing about it.

I was watching a drawing livestream, and someone in the chat had mentioned that it had a great cast of characters and that they were all lovable. That’s exactly the sort of selling point to give me if you want to interest me in a story. I had nothing to watch at the moment. So I started Voltron. I think it must have been about a year ago (why does it feel so much longer ?!). The first 2 seasons were out, but not the third.

While watching the pilot, I did rise an eyebrow when Keith’s expression softened when he recognized Shiro, but I didn’t dwell on it because, for some reason, at that moment, I was way too busy trying (and failing) to NOT like Keith. [me, @ my past self : ?????].

It was the “good to have you back” scene that got me. Suddenly, they were both so different from what we’d seen so far… So soft and emotional… The inflexions of their voices, too…

And Keith looked at Shiro like he meant the world to him, and I started to think to myself “Aww, are we having ambiguous feelings here, Keith ?” lol.

Shiro too seemed really fond of him, but I was less sure how to place his feelings. They did seem to have some kind of dynamic, as if Shiro had been an older student who would have taken Keith under his wing, back at the Garrison. And who now found himself in the situation where his protégé was the one to rescue him. And I loved this, I thought “he must be so touched and proud !” lol. But I wasn’t sure if it was necessarily romantic (which wasn’t an issue to me). Still, I wanted to know more.

And I started connecting the dots ; I realized that Keith had been booted from the Garrison at around the same time as the Kerberos mission had failed, that Shiro was a part of said mission ; and that Keith didn’t seem to have anyone else in his life, living alone in a shack in the desert and not even remembering his classmates (so he must not have been very social at the Garrison). And I started to want the back-story (still do !!!).

Aaaand…the rest is under the read-more because I couldn’t help getting in way too much detail…

you know, there are a ton of caps that can be applied to this, but let’s visit this gem:

and mirroring this shot from keith’s pov:

because this shot was deliberate, as i think bex said it herself, like you were meant to see these two in this sequence, they were meant to be seen together like this. this is a deliberate shot, and i love everything about it.

Ok. 1st I heard about Voltron WAYYYY before I saw it. Since I sell in conventions as an artist, I heard about VLD as soon as it got out because people keep asking me if I had any voltron stuff and I was like ‘what, this mecha anime thing ?’ and was wondering why so many people who clearly were normally my yaoi content buyers were tripping over this. 

Then one day I saw the character designs passby on the internet and instantly fell in love with Shiro as a character. Mostly because he has every trope I love about a character (If you don’t believe me, look at my OC named Kaerbasi and compare them lol. Tbh Kaerbasi has been existing for 14 years now, so it wasn’t intentional). So I eventually sat down and checked the 1st episode and got hooked. 

When was the moment I knew ? When Keith turns Shiro’s face after kicking iverson’s butt to rescue him and the face Keith does. It was instant. I fell in love with Sheith right there and it just went on. 

I love Shiro very deeply as a character because I identify with him completely. We have the same personally literally and … a lot of other stuff in common (Sadly not the god built body tho). Our tragic story has much in common (sadly I wasn’t abducted by aliens no). I do dad jokes and he is also everything I am aiming to be as a person if I’m not already. 

And of course I LOVE Keith. I love him as a character and .. OK I GOT THE HAWTS FOR THE GUY OKAY ?! There, it has been said. Do I really need to say more. I love him and everything linked to him. 

oh, boy, do i have some fanarts that have struck me in the dingle and have continued to stay with me and still think about to this day

first, this one [ x ] by siriusdraws, which was the first sheith art that i saw, and sort of invoked a short sparring fic trend after it during the early sheith fandom. and following up with [ x ] and [ x ] which are masterpieces.

second, this one [ x ] by drisrt. it’s so soft, the lighting is so nice, and it’s so tender and makes me softer than a melted stick of butter.

third, this one [ x ] by volpr0nart (warning nsfw) cause boy, the look on keith’s face and his pose and shiro entire presence and you know my dick iis immediately hard for bottom keith, fuck

fourth, this one [ x ] by yuutayo (warning: implied nsfw) because is there anything better than sleep rumpled shiro with morning scruff cause the answer is no, don’t even try it

fifth, this one [ x ] by hyaakuya (warning: nsfw at the end). it’s so cute and shiro and keith just rolling around and nuzzling each other and just being love-y dove-y? and then it gets steamy in the end like boiiiiiiii, i’m here

my laptop is being a pissy shit as always, so mobile version as always

in ‘some assembly required’, s01e02, that scene, after hunk remarks about everyone being brothers and keith sees shiro go and he gets up, supposedly to go somewhere, and he runs off screen like he has somewhere to go

what??? is??? keith doing??? where is he going, what is his objective, what does he plan to do? he just… sees shiro go and he just gets up and looks pretty enthusiastic to get moving?

where did shiro go? where did keith go? what is happening? this has literally troubled me for almost 2 years, it’s kept me awake at night, wondering what, exactly, transpired after.

just tell me that keith followed shiro cause he knew shiro was in the Mood to make a bottom boy scream and blow keith’s back out

Soooooo…. I probably have way more than this, but these were the top three that came to mind with each character

https://archiveofourown.org/works/13546422/chapters/31080279 

Sweater Vests & Cigarettes by Marmorashadows

i’m in a post-food haze right now and halfway there to falling asleep but let’s do this

i think there might be something more to keith’s past than what has been shown.

alrighty, so we know keith has shown hints of being quitessent sensitive. he has sensed the energy of the blue lion, he found red without knowledge of the galra ship, etc. the lions never revealed themselves to their pilots until they were right there, at that moment, but keith remarked that something reached out to him and he couldn’t ignore it.

when keith was in his dreamscape, with his father, who’s identity hasn’t really been revealed–there’s no origin there, there’s no name, essentially he’s a blank character outside of being keith’s father. what really sticks out is him handing keith the knife, saying everything will eventually be explained as there is chaos outside, destruction advancing. what if that was something that was happening but it happened in the past that was removed from keith’s memory?

keith is part galra (god bless, love me some canonically interracial characters), and it can be implied that galra may have been on earth, as keith asked questions about it, lotor saying that his first planet he governed, he left them to their freewill and self-governing, though zarkon didn’t approve and it could have been earth, and krolia possibly being stationed there which could have led to her meeting keith’s dad.

but, looking at the outside of keith’s dreamscape and the war going on, cold that have been some fleeting memory? who says that keoth’s dad may nit have been on earth when meeting krolia? what if keoth’s dad and krolia met somewhere else, not on earth? what if the galra never touched earth, what if keith was born somewhere else and krolia and his dad relocated somewhere else to protect their child?

now, back to keith’s sensitivity to quintesence, we know that allura another being that can sense the lions, but we don’t know if she is the only other being that can. so, it may be just her but i have a feeling that she may not have been the only altean that can, which leads me unto my next point.

from what we do know, keith hasn’t had contact with alteans outside of allura and coran, we don’t know how old krolia is or his dad’s age and i’m pretty sure neither of them have been alive long enough to have known the alteans before theor demise, andbgg i’m pretty sure the galra aren’t quintessent sensitive which leads me to another point.

how is keith quintessent sensitive? what happened to him that allowsvhim to lowkey sense energy? is there something in his line that may have led to this? what if keith has altean in his ancestory? did simething happen to krolia, was she exposed to something that led to this? what if keith isn’t even from this reality?

we have seen him lock onto energy without prompting, so what is in his line or heritage that allows this? keith could possibly be from an alternate reality. krolia has her pupils as it is shown that all galra have none, however it is shown that half-galra also retain pupils, so krolia could be half-galra, or she could be from somewhere that galra have not been been affected by quintessence exposure that turned their sclera yellow. what if krolia came from a universe that the galra conquered and is trying to save it? what if keith was from another place, not earth, where his dad and mom could have met, what if keith never was from the galaxy earth inhabits?

however, something must have happened to give keith a sensitivity, something earthlings and galra don’t seem to possess, only alteans based on allura but that’s only one person, so could something have happened to krolia or does his father jave somethig in his family line that suggests he’s not fully human or human at all?

where does sheith tie into this? ok, so there is some reason to believe that keith might not have been from earth, that based on his dreamscape, he could be from somewhere else that the galra attacked, his own father might not even be from earth. keith did choose to give up where he could have come from, that he would eventually have those answers, but still chose to pass it over. what keith came from a place where the exact thing happened–losing people to the war, destruction everywhere, and he is trying to not repeat it but he was purged of those memories and and only a glimpse was revealed through the dreamscape?

what if keith is trying to make sure the same doesn’t happen to shiro, like the instincts are there but keith dowsn’t know it’s coming from a pre-existung situatiom? but keith is so emotionally attached to shiro, that along the way, he started to feel more than platonic feelings for shiro?

Ok I’m not familiar with the term meta, so I hope I’m doing this right. In fact the one I was about to say is along the lines of one suggested in the description of the event (dammit XD) 

Keith and Shiro met at the orphanage. Shiro’s parents died when he was young in a car accident (or something related) and he was sent temporarily to an orphanage while people were looking for any relative he had left to take care of him. His family being in part still living in japan made it a bit more difficult. While he was there, he got to befriend every kids in the place (I mean it’s Shiro come on), but then one day, a new kid was brought in named Keith. The kid kept silent and refused to talk with pretty much anyone. 

After some time, and a lot of work, Shiro finally is able to tame the beast and get to talk with the other boy. They soon become friends, although Keith does not seem to fit in with any other kids. Shiro tries to help him, but does not push too far. 

Then some day, someone comes for Shiro. His grand-father that was hospitalized until recently has been found and picks him up to come live with him. Keith remains at the orphanage, but with a promise from Shiro that they will still see each other. 

Every one of these moments, the moments when Keith went out on a limb, when his vulnerability came through, when he allowed himself to laugh with relief, when he had the courage to find out who he was and the strength to come to terms with it, when he was able to leave the loner-emo-kid box that everyone else seems so determined to push him into. All those moments were brought to you by Shiro.

@sheithparticipationweek 

So this is my first time ever participating in the fandom, so here goes nothing lol.

But anyways, I’m partially in the closet, which means growing up I’ve only came out to only a handful of people since I’m living in a god-awful homophobic Arab society, and the internet was my only window to explore through my sexuality and the gay movements around the world. Basically, I got addicted to the internet for years, and it hindered my social, emotional and physical development. But I also discovered many things, exposed myself to many tolerant and different ideals and gave me the insight of what a beautiful and healthy relationship is and it heightened my expectations when it came to relationships. And at some point, I stumbled upon Voltron.

It started as interest in the show solely for the expectation of a gay relationship happening in it seeing how a certain ship (Kla*nce) was so widely popular in the fandom that I entered the show convinced that I was so going to find a beautiful, rare gay representation in a kids tv show, but as you might’ve imagined, I was disappointed, HARD.

But one thing happened: I immediately got my eye on Sheith. Knowing myself, it wasn’t surprising since I tend to ship guys I find most attractive (as shallow as that might seem), or, to a lesser extent, the relationship and dynamic that they have.

At that point in my life, I was like no matter how attractive I find the characters, if there wasn’t any gonna get out of my way to watch it (but I still watched TV shows/movies that don’t include gay couples, but it wasn’t like I was that enthusiastic to do so). but there was something different about Sheith. Not only they were, in my eyes, the most beautiful looking guys in the show, but the relationship they had, whether you view it as romantic or platonic, was truly gorgeous. 

The delicacy, tenderness and the clear importance of each one of them to the other in their relationship isn’t something you can easily, find anywhere on TV. Like even if you viewed it as platonic, you’d find it really hard to find any m/m relationship that don’t include any of the stereotypes infested the usual m/m relationships.

Not only that, but the fact that I could relate to the some of Keith or Shiro’s characteristics really pulled me even closer to the ship. Keith’s stubbornness or being hot-headed and being a loner was something I shared with him while growing up. On the other hand, Shiro’s more calm, collected and caring traits were things I aspired to have and found myself trying to have growing up. Then there’s the thing about how they balance each other out and bring some of each other’s walls down and help build part of themselves to become better. That’s way more than anything done to gay relationships in most gay “inclusive” media and a more healthy relationship than most relationships given to most straight men in media.

(I’m late because I was in a convention this weekend ;_; … )

Not sure what I should write here because there are a few things that keeps popping in my mind all the time because of this serie all the time … I think I can go up with 2 (indulge me a little here lol). 

= 1st =

What would happen if along the way with the coalition, a paladin is asked for an arrange marriage to deepen their link or promise in an alliance ? I would imagine quite clearly what it could look like if Shiro was the one asked, I mean, we all know Keith would become super irritable and will just walk away because he won’t want to be part of it and ‘it’s ridiculous’, etc. 

But IMAGINE if the one asked was Keith ? That for some reason, he’s the one the politician or king or whatnot would be interested into making an alliance of for whatever reason ? Have his oldest daughter let’s say marry the best fighter in the paladins or just because the daughter flashed on him (because Keith IS a pretty boy). Imagine Shiro’s reacion ? I believe he will try to react totally under control and try to reason with the other party, like it is something exagerated, that they will be gone for a long time after this alliance and back on the front lines, etc. Try to find logical arguments to discourage them, but ultimately start to sound irritated when it does not work. Strickly speaking in a setting where Shiro and Keith have not declared themselves to each other, that would turn out to be something really interesting I think. Shiro would drag Keith on the side and argument with him into not accepting the deal while Keith would be likely to just say that he could just say yes and that Shiro’s arguments from before were sound and that he would not be there anyway and that they would gain a great ally if he accepts. Putting Shiro into an even more desperate state. 

Ultimately, Keith catches on something in Shiro’s behavior, but do not want to assume he guessed right, so he refuses the offer as politely as he can and suggest someone else and it all works in the end. When Shiro starts acting like normal again, or even a little happier than usual at that point, Keith can’t still figure it out, but someone else in the party put all together at seeing them (Lance maybe ? Or Coran ?). 

= 2nd = 

What will our boys do ? I mean we all know they will be safe and sound, with the real Shiro back and have won the war right ? (Being hopeful here ok). 

I would love to see them leave together and just go and explore the universe. Like … Zarkon’s reign will have left so many worlds dying and in need to help and also to pass on the news that they are all free and can start to rebuild. So I believe Shiro and Keith would just love to be part of helping all those people get back on their feet (most likely the others as well, but their own ways). They could just leave in their lions and fly through the universe and explore those planets, update the intel they have of every places, meet the people and help them however they can.