#galran keith

Crazy art upgrade too

“What are you doing here?” demands Keith, very much embarrassed about being caught.

“Stopping people like you from sneaking around the castle,” says Lance. Then he gestures beside him. “Also guarding the princess.”

He is very much not as Lance and Allura both know who would win nine times out of ten in a combat situation, but that’s the excuse they’ve been using for years, always sticking by one another’s side, and so it sees its use once again.

(They know King Alfor has seen through it. But he seems too amused to stop them.

As he’d once said to Lance, he appreciates that he’s been there for her as a friend. She’ll grow up in a world of suitors and political allies, so a friendship is one to be treasured.)

Allura brings up that the simulators can only train you so much.

Lance offers to spar with Keith. It’s a close one, but he’s still perfecting his skills with the broadsword, and when Keith gets too close in range (a little too close), he lets his guard down.

“Not much of a guard, are you?” Keith taunts. Lance glowers and immediately berates himself for getting flustered over a pretty face.

Allura goes against Keith next. Lance can’t take his eyes off. It’s like choreography, a lethal dance of weapons. They match each other’s movements perfectly.

They end up seeing a lot more of Keith after this, basically going out of their way to see him again (Lance says he wants his rematch and has been improving his skills with close range weapons because of it. Allura sees right through him before Lance even realises things himself. With Allura he’d been sure of what he felt, and can barely remember a time he didn’t like her. It’s just how it has always been. But his crush on Keith feels different and unsure).

Lance at first doesn’t know how to feel when the evidence of Allura’s crush on Keith becomes undeniable. He knows he’d hissed at that olkarion called Matt when he’d tried flirting with Allura (which she had dutifully ignored in the moment, and teased him about later on), but this is different. He’s not jealous??? It throws him through the loop until he realises why. Then it throws him through several more.

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It's Not Personal (It Isn't)

Summary:

“I wish to see you prove to me, Black Paladin Keith, half-Galran, if you are what Voltron has proclaimed itself to be,” the king spoke. “You will remain here and join in our alliance discussions. However, out of respect to my queen and my people, I must insist that you are cleansed of your Galran stench that reeks of death and darkness.”

Or; A budding Voltron alliance goes sideways when the aliens take literal offense to Keith’s presence. Keith agrees to their request of a bath in the best attempt to smooth things over, but embarrassment turns to shame when he’s treated as something instead of someone and now the heritage he’s still trying to come to terms with is forcibly on display for all to see.

Story Snippet:

A prickle went down Keith’s back as this…

This didn’t look like it led to guest quarters or a bathroom.

And he was proven somewhat correct as the Ekacnap opened a creaking door into a dark room that was lit by only a high window and the faint outline of a large, almost barn-style door on the far wall, and while there was a large, tiled floor and equally tiled walls that indicated a shower, it was the entire room and while Keith had heard of some insanely stupid luxury bathrooms this one seemed to be lacking in fancy waterspouts or decor or anything else that would make it so.

In fact, the only water spout Keith could see appeared to be hooked up to what looked like a hose. 

Rettub beelined for a set of cubbies next to the door and emerged carrying a coarse looking washcloth, an equally rough towel (large enough for an Ekacnap but still too small for even Pidge let alone Keith) and a large jug of an indistinguishable colored liquid in the dim lighting that Keith could only assume was some sort of soap.

But—

“This is where we bathe our steeds,” Rettub sneered, setting the items down on an empty cubby shelf at Keith’s waist-height, “and a fitting place for your filth to be cleansed.”

The heat that time crept down the back of Keith’s neck too even as something far colder twisted in his stomach and he wondered if this was what the king had had in mind.

He couldn’t find the words to ask.

Despite now being an adult, a leader of Voltron, he felt as small and helpless as he had as an unwanted kid in the foster system and in a way almost worse as if he complained or said something it wasn’t just a beating or punishment awaiting him, all of Voltron would become involved and this alliance was important and as he’d kept chanting at himself, it wasn’t personal.

It wasn’t.

“Wash everything,” the servant ordered, eyes raking Keith up and down and Keith found his lowering, “and do not miss a spot. I will return shortly.”

A moment later the alien was gone, inner hall door closing behind him with a resounding thud and leaving Keith straining into the low light that he knew he could only see as well as he could because of his Galran half.

He bit his lip and squeezed both his fists and his eyes shut.

No…

No crying.

I meant to finish this back in August, but I lost motivation for a bit. But. Here I am, finally finishing this piece. Does it seem familiar? If so, there's a reason. This is a redraw of this old piece. With changing the Galran designs of Keith and Pidge because Pidge has gone through so many designs and changes and I wanted Keith to look like his Mama. And markings and better colouring to Thace and Ulaz. So. Here we are. Pidge and Keith as Galran kiddos, probably transformed in an incident, as was on the brain when the original version was being worked on, with Thace and Ulaz taking care of the kiddos.

- Galra are all intersex (if you want ABO moment then feel free to change it) and the genes for this is dominant so it shows up even in half galra

- the smaller the Galra the more fertile (took this idea from magic wielding Jotunn)

- Keith is very very tiny according to the bom

- when lotor first met Keith he immediately started attempting to court him