#otp mistletoe

i love college au’s okay here we go

keith and pidge live in dorm rooms right across from each other

does this mean that they both have accidentally walked into the other’s room at any given time because they were too tired to distinguish whose dorm was whose? yes

keith finds himself spending more time in pidge’s room than his own. he visits her whenever he needs help with homework, whenever he feels lonely, if he wants someone to share his ramen with. and pidge totally welcomes the company

they both have made a habit of watching their favorite movies, like lord of the rings-- or narnia or any other fantasy themed film that’s super epic-- in pidge’s room every saturday. it’s sort of like a reward to themselves for another week of hard work. pidge usually ends up falling asleep on keith. as endearing as keith thinks that is, he’s pinned until pidge wakes up

pidge can and will steal keith’s shirts and jackets. she especially loves his jackets. during rainy days he’ll find her curled up on her bed, in one of his sweaters, doing homework or reading or working on some weird little gadget. and he knows he’s not getting it back for a few months at least.

both of them are actually doing really well in their studies. like, top-of-the-class well

keith’s studying to become a pilot. this involves a ton of math and physics and science and whatnot. those aren’t his strong suits, but it’s a great thing he’s ambitious enough to thoroughly study the material-- and that he has a genius girlfriend

pidge wants to become an electrical engineer and she absolutely loves the material she’s studying. her passion for technology definitely carries her far. she’s actually excited to complete her assignments, to study from her textbooks. the things she learns interests her the more and more she learns them, so she throws herself head over heels into them. her teachers love her

keith’s pretty sure if he didn’t have pidge to ask for help he wouldn’t be doing too well in his classes. pidge is the one who reminds him, each time, to perk up. he’s putting in all the effort he can, and that’s what counts. asking questions isn’t cheating. getting his girlfriend to guide him along specific areas that he isn’t too comfortable with is perfectly alright. he’s getting good grades through his own efforts

they get into so, so many shenanigans

once, during a thunderstorm, keith walked into his dorm soaking wet and shivering cold. pidge heard his footsteps (which she had memorized by heart by this point) and popped in to his room to check up on him. as he walked into the bathroom to shower and change, he told her to look in his sweater pockets, which he had laid out on his bed. turns out, he’d brought in a wet squirrel. pidge, immediately feeling sorry for it, dried it off in her own room, wrapped it in warm towels, and resolved to call animal control to come over and pick it up. unfortunately, the streets by that point had flooded, so she and keith resolved to study for a bit and take turns looking after the squirrel until morning. but by that morning, the squirrel seemed to have recovered all on its own. pidge and keith set it free on campus, but the squirrel had had a “bonding moment” with the two humans who’d saved its life. for the rest of their time at the college, pidge and keith had to put up with being followed by that squirrel. after 3 weeks of seeing the squirrel stalking them right outside of keith’s window, he and pidge decided to name it rover. rover the squirrel almost got them both in trouble. more than once. once he followed pidge to class, and she had to do everything in her power to make sure her professor did not notice that she had a small rodent squirming around under her desk.

it was during finals week that pidge suggested the coffee challenge-- whoever could down the most  amount of coffee without landing themselves in the hospital  won a trip to the nearby theater that they didn’t have to pay for. a new movie was coming out  that keith and pidge were absolutely itching to see, as soon as holiday breaks rolled around. and with that, they both brewed themselves a few gallons of coffee, sat down, and prepared to study for the entire night. for the rest of the week, this became routine. study, take a test, go back to the dorm, and chug coffee. keith won in the end, but it wasn’t to say that pidge didn’t try. she lasted until the second to last day of finals before she walked to her dorm after her physics test, ran into her door, turned around, entered keith’s dorm thinking it was her own, and passed out on his bed. keith would have woken her up, moved her to her own bed, and gloated, if he hadn’t taken one look at her before immediately falling asleep right next to her. but despite his win, keith felt too bad about making pidge pay for the entire movie trip, so he pitched in with the funds. 

during the school year, when keith and pidge were hauling their luggage up to their new dorms and helping each other unpack, they accidentally settled themselves in the other’s room. it wasn’t until a week later, when pidge was checking over the paperwork, that she realized the dorm assigned to her was actually where keith was staying, and vise versa. she walked into keith’s room, laughing, and told him about their mistake. after laughing for a solid minute, they both decided to just go with it. they were too lazy to take apart their rooms and re-settle in anyway.

it was around christmas time when some goof decided to nail random pieces of mistletoe all around the school, hoping to get students to kiss each other. pidge was hovering near the cafeteria door when she noticed that she was standing right underneath a bough of mistletoe. to her left, she saw a boy she didn’t know approaching the doorway, and she panicked.... until she saw keith standing a just a foot away. she yanked him over to where she was just in time, right before the boy she didn’t know stepped underneath the mistletoe. and of course, the small crowd of students around them called for them to follow the christmas tradition, so pidge planted a kiss on keith’s cheek, refusing to give the ogling crowd anything more. 

halfway through the school year, keith got sick. he shrugged it off and called it a mere cold-- everyone else called it the flu. the poor guy was shaky and weak through all of his classes. he had to get up every five minutes to blow his nose. at around midday he developed a headache that pounded in his head and made it very difficult to concentrate. even his teachers told him to go and get rest. pidge, concerned for her boyfriend, spent the afternoon slowly guiding him through his homework, and then taking care of his health. the next morning, she woke up with a sore throat. when keith apologized for getting her sick, she simply chuckled weakly and mumbled something along the lines of, “if we go down, we go down together.”

mythological creatures kidge au

hi there nerds and peeps alike.... i haven’t been contributing enough to my fave voltron ship. i do have a few wip kidge fics but that’s all they are for the time being. works in progress so please take these headcanons meanwhile

pidge and keith are the ultimate discovery couple. 

like, we’ve all basically established that they are super into conspiracy theories and cryptids and aliens right??? well, ever since joining voltron, their outer space dreams have been more than fulfilled. aliens are real, what more could they ask for?? yeah, they’re fighting a war, and it’s super hard and mentally and physically draining, but there are countless alien worlds out there. and while they may not have the time to explore them all now, they definitely plan to in the future.

sleeping schedules are a nonexistent concept to them

something we’ve already established, yeah, but consider--  pidge staying up late, working on a project. keith walking in and telling her that it’s late. pidge retorting that he’s the one to talk-- it’s not like he sleeps anyway. keith telling her that once she goes to sleep, he will go to sleep. pidge 100% taking up the challenge. “i’ll go to sleep when you do.” “no you.” “no you”

so it’s basically a contest of who can stay up the longest. great job keith you totally deviated from your purpose in the first place

so  they go round and round in a never ending circle until some outside force interrupts the cycle (ahem shiro), or one of them straight up passes out.

study sessions. oh man, study sessions

keith finding pidge in distress about the fact that, since they’re so far away from earth and fighting an evil alien overlord, their brains are slowly turning to mush. like, they’re gonna be pretty uneducated once they return to earth. yea, they’ll be physically very fit and strategically developed, as well as having gained very good teamwork skills, but what are they actually gonna do once they got back? 

plus, she kinda misses studying

queue days where she  and keith kinda. sit down with a menagerie of space snacks and teach each other stuff. pidge teaches keith about technology, a subject he can easily get into because she’s so dang enthusiastic about it.

keith discussing with pidge different combat strategies and getting her more familiar with piloting techniques that she couldn’t quite nail down while at the garrison

coran actually finds himself finding all the books he can about any subject he comes across and giving it to these two cause they really love learning together !!! it warms his heart to see these two earthlings so excited about knowledge.

keith and pidge slowly learning to trust each other with their feelings. to become the other’s rock and comfort in the time of need. to be a shoulder to cry on.

keith can’t ignore the times he sees pidge holed up in her room, pretending to be working on coding when she’s actually trying so hard to keep in her tears. she misses her family, and he knows that. he knows that all too well

eventually he gathers the courage to walk in and just. stand by her. let her acknowledge his presence or ignore him.

and after some time, she just. pulls him into a hug. and from there letting her feelings out to him gets easier and easier

as for keith, he doesn’t usually cry when his frustration and sadness builds up. he forces the feelings out through exercise, or by standing off by himself, waiting for it all to dissipate away.

pidge learns to recognize when he’s feeling terrible. and, like he did for her, she approaches him but says nothing, letting him decide if he wants to talk or not

they’re both so in tune to each other’s feelings. they’re the arms of voltron, they gotta get in each other’s heads. they know when the other is feeling really down. and they quickly learn exactly how to make the other feel better when that happens.

falling asleep on/ next to each other

whether it be reading a book, holding a study session, or watching movies pidge managed to find on her laptop, keith and pidge sometimes fall asleep next to each other.

sometimes pidge will totally be leaning all her weight on keith. her head’s slumped on his shoulder, her arm’s splayed across his knee, and she’s out cold. keith is trapped. he has no choice but to snooze in that position because pidge is a cat. once she falls asleep on you, there’s no getting up.

sometimes keith uses pidge as a pillow. she’ll be working on coding when he stumbles in, completely worn out from training. he’ll flop next to pidge, resting his head on her head/ shoulder. they’ll engage in small talk, but inevitably keith dozes off. he’s tired. and pidge silently suffers cause teenage guys are heavy. but, deep inside, she doesn’t mind. at all

pfffffft imagine how flustered they’d be once they woke up. the first few times their faces are brick red and they’re stammering like crazy.

imagine the day pidge and keith finally decide to admit their feelings to one another

of course, it’s gonna be awkward. they’re gonna be nervous. but i can kind of see pidge just going, “hey keith. i’m pretty sure i have a crush on you,” one day. this would probably be when she realizes that , with the way she and keith have been acting for so long, that it’s way past obvious they like each other. so it’s better to address it now than let the charade of “we’re just friends” continue.

keith would be caught off guard poor guy. but he wouldn’t be able to lie his way out of it either

so now they’ve admitted it. they like each other. time to act like they’re in a relationship then

queue the random hugs and kisses

not right away, though. after they’ve been officially together for a while. at some point, pidge gets into the habit of giving keith quick side hugs. she’ll high five him and embrace him in the hallway. when she’s super duper excited, she’ll crush the air out of him. when she’s sad and in need of snuggles, she’ll shuffle over to him and burrow underneath his arms, clinging to him in a hug.

keith is 100% on board with this. while he’s not the biggest hugger in the universe, he can’t deny that he absolutely loves being hugged by other people. a little sun of pure delight will flare up in his chest whenever pidge wraps her arms around him and squeezes tight. 

and what’s a kidge relationship without constant sass, inside jokes, and endless roasts??

“keith-i-love-borrowing-pidge’s-stuff-when-she’s-not-looking-kogane”

“pidge, i’m gonna have to confiscate your caffeine before. y’know. you die.”

pidge splaying her entire body on the couch in the lounge “finders keepers keith. looks like you’re out of luck.”