(Get it? Because it's a high school AU and also Keith finds a home)

@sheithbigbang 2018 entry 

Rating: Mature

Words: 23k

Pairing: Shiro/Keith

Tags: angst, hurt/comfort, slow burn, alternate universe: high school, child abuse, jock!Shiro, fosterkid!Keith

Accompanying artwork by the lovely @brighteststarus <3 (please go reblog and support her!)

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Not to be dramatic, but as far as Keith is concerned, his life is shitty enough without having to add high school into the mix.

It's halfway through Keith's freshman year. He's in a new foster home, one of many over the last ten years, and he has no delusions that this will last longer than the others. He tries to keep himself distant; from his aunt, who came out of the woodwork to take him in, from his classmates, who keep insisting he join them for things like lunch and movie nights, and from the handsome older jock that just keeps popping up around every turn he takes. But of course, these people try to embed themselves in his life anyway. Keith's trying to come to terms with the fact that these people care for him. He's trying to come to terms with the realization that he may finally have a home.

I think one of the sad things is, in many latinx cultures, we're told this and somehow that makes us "accepted" in society. A lot of my family had been told that no one(specifically men) would like us unless we're dressed so "sexy" and pretty all the time just like they always view latinx ppl. Jsownwiw sorry i just get so heated about ppl disrespecting or being racist and nasty towards our culture

oh god i feel this

my family used to always tell me that my skin color, my ass, and my tits were my best qualities. the blanquitas i went to school with wished they had a body like mine because i was so much more gorgeous than them and i was always going to get more men than them. 

and for half a second that feels great because you’re like “oh my god i’m so much prettier than these white girls, i’m more desirable than these white girls, i have something over them.” but i distinctly remember when i made this horrible realization that the reason we’re taught to value our skin color, our thick bodies, our asses, our breasts, etc. is because it’s so desirable to white men. and being desirable to white men is seen as the perfect way to adelentar la raza. men sexualize us for exactly those physical qualities that our family raised us to flaunt, emphasize, and shove in people’s faces. 

and it’s sort of sick because then you start to think that it’s those things that make you beautiful. i lost so much weight in college because of stress and naturally i started to loose it in my butt and in my breasts, and the first thing my family said was that i was prettier before and that i lost the one thing that made men drool over me. in the same moment, i felt ugly and i felt like i had nothing that people were going to value me for. 

as much as i want shiro to suffocate me with his galra hand and then throw me into a wall crushing my entire skeletal system instantly i know that he wouldn’t. he’s too good for that. dark shiro isn’t though........... that’s why i like him....... 

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