#keith analysis

I have anger issues, though it's nowhere near as bad as my brothers' or my mum's or my dad's anger issues. Everyone in my family has anger issues - I handle it the best. And I can say with confidence that Keith does not have anger issues.

Unless Keith throws something across the room.

Unless Keith slams the table.

Unless Keith screams his head off.

Unless Keith hits someone or something.

I will always say that he does not have anger issues.

Plus, when you actually watch Voltron, you'll see that Pidge and Lance are far more volatile than Keith. Being reckless does not mean that you have anger issues. Being stubborn does not mean you have anger issues. Breaking and hitting people and things does.

Keith does not have anger issues. It's very concerning that so many people misdiagnose anger issues. If you think Keith has anger issues, you've clearly never seen anyone who does have anger issues.

If he had anger issues, he would have done much more than just argue back whenever Lance started some shit. He would be yelling and telling him to fuck off without really explaining why he's gotten so mad.

To summarise:

Lance: I hate you.

Keith: Okay, whatever.

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Lance: I hate you.

I already made a post about it here but I wanted to add something. A lot of people see Keith’s answer in the feud as intended to be mean but personally, I don’t think that was his intent at all. Why? Because of his expression (face + body). Look at him here:

We already saw Keith angry or annoyed and it just doesn’t fit. But let’s talk about some stuff real quick: for me his expression/words are representing pride and his body language is showing closed emotions. What the fuck does that mean? Well, hear me out:

His face and words: I’m someone who is very prideful lmao and a common reaction I will have when embarrassed or in an uncomfortable position is brushing it off or changing/diverting the subject. Here, Lance put him in an uncomfortable position, he put him under the spotlight with his kind words. So how Keith reacts when it’s his turn? He tries to “change” the subject and bring back the “anyway I hate Lance”. Admitting how he truly feels about Lance (I’m not talking about romantic feelings but admiration or something similar) would be too much emotionally especially after being put under the spotlight like that. If he really wanted to hurt Lance or show that he really dislikes him I do believe his face would not be like that, his reaction would be different. His face is just showing how prideful he is. He’s not ready to say the truth. Also, his reaction is one of the most typical one in shows/anime/cartoons with strong and prideful characters: *character does something nice/is nice towards that one character* —> *character immediately brushes it off with “it’s not like I’m doing it for you/I still hates you/don’t go thinking I likes you or anything”*. Sounds extremely similar.

His body language: it is well known that body language means a lot. Don’t you notice? When you’re asked something you don’t want to answer, something embarrassing, something humiliating or something that has to do with emotions... didn’t you notice that sometimes you’ll close your arms around your chest? Like a barrier? It happened to me multiple times, when extremely stressed or conflicted about my emotions as I’m talking about them and you know what the psychiatrist told me? That I was creating a barrier, an armor to somehow protect my emotions because it made me uncomfortable. Where am I going with this? Well, look at Keith's body. Can you see it? His arms are closed over his chest. As I said before, he’s under the spotlight and he doesn’t like it and he has to answer to a very personal question. All the others were open about their feelings on why they chose that particular person. Keith is not ready to be that open and especially about Lance. He physically closes himself, he doesn’t want to answer, he’s not ready yet so he creates that barrier.

He said because of your treachery

What treachery?

Is there something special about Keith? Something that he did that counts as treachery?

I also think he meant Keith specifically here and not the whole team since he continues with:

He singles Keith out here. 

There is something special about Keith, I feel it must be, since they had a character from the first season return here and have this kind of interaction with him. They had a battle during season 1 in which Keith got his hand burned/turned purple..

...and now several seasons later that same character returns and reminds us of that moment. 

Suuuuspiciouuuusss

He aslo brings up Haggar, which could mean that she is planning something and it is going to involve Keith in some way. We’ve seen Keith having a strong bond with energy/quintessence during the whole show:

He felt the presence of the Blue Lion 

He connected with the Red Lion while being in a whole other part of the universe, something that as far as we know no one else except Zarkon has been able to do

He seems to know where Lotor is going to appear before anyone else during the battle in season 6

He senses where the Druid is going to appear (something he seemed to be able to do even in season 1 during their first battle before his hand got burnt)

This whole scene

No one expected it to happen. Not even Allura seemed to know it could happen

The way it is shown with him concentrating reminds a lot of Allura when she is using her abilities with quintessence

(While this might not be as much proof, Keith was the first one to be able to connect with Allura during the final showdown with Lotor

Which might point to him being close to her level of quintessence abilities? I don’t really know about this part, but I found it interesting so I’ll add it in here.)

The point is, Keith has shown a lot of abilities and sensitivity when it comes to energy/quintessence and maybe (HOPEFULLY) we’ll get the answers to why this is next season.

I have a feeling Haggar knows about his abilities. She already pointed out his relationship with Shiro

This could hint at her having taking note of/taking an interest in Keith, perhaps seeing him as a threat. Or perhaps, after the battle with Kuron, she sees him as an oppurtunity, someone she could use or experiment on - since she still could see through Kuron’s eyes until Keith cut off his arm she might have seen this:

What if she finds that she could use this? What if she has the means to turn Keith into a weapon? Streightening/powering up his Galra senses and making him lose control?

What if?

We can only wait and see.

(forgive my crappy screen shots)

^These here are where Hunk is saying “We’re brothers man.I love you guys”

Look at Keith’s face in the first one, he’s shocked and surprised by getting hugged (as anyone might be from spontaneously being hugged) and probably also a little shocked at being told that he’s like a brother to Hunk.

Because as we learned from Keith’s vlog, he kind of expects people to leave him, and so just think how important that would mean to him.

But do you remember what Keith says right after that?

“G-forces mess with your head a little bit?” (Why is Shiro crossing the screen at this moment?? he’s blocking my shot, and also I feel like this means something for staging and stuff but i don’t know what :/)

Like, how sad is it that when Keith hears someone say that they’re like a brother to him and that they love him, he immediately thinks that something is affecting that person’s thoughts in that moment??

And then Hunk replies that “yeah, maybe (the g-forces are messing with his head) a little bit, it’s been a long day”.

Look at Keith’s face at the end. Do you think that for a moment he really hoped that Hunk had truly meant what he said? That he wanted Hunk to say that No the G-forces weren’t messing with his head, and that he could be loved and considered a brother by this group of people?

(Also look at the fact that even after Hunk releases them from the hug and puts his arms back, Keith still has his arm behind Hunk in a partial hug? Even Lance had moved out of the hug. LOOK AT HOW MUCH KEITH JUST REALLY ACTUALLY WANTS TO BE HUGGED)

But then as Keith starts to get up he’s slightly smiling again, and I bet you that he’s thinking something along the lines of “Well at least he thought I was a brother for a minute, and maybe, who knows, these people might actually stick around and care about me”.