I don't even know

he likes people and he isn't really emo or even particularly withdrawn when we meet him in season 1 (i guess emo and sullen and withdrawn applies to what little we see of him when he was in middle school)

hes not even really a lone wolf like other archetypes like that. he calls himself that once in season 3 but thats really more of him looking for excuses not to be black paladin.

keith is quickly ready to do the whole voltron saving people thing and doesn't resist working or even hanging out with the others at all!

hes just not good at socializing in the sense that he's a bit awkward and socially stunted from how he grew up and all that. he struggles with deeper and less surface levle of relationships and opening up because hes weary and he's bad at being mindful and of others feelings and the effect his actions have on them.

he is clearly in the cicle of people generally not caring about him and therefore him not having reasons to be considerate of others, which in turn makes people not wanting to make an effort with him, which then reinforces to keith that there is no point in trying to get closer to others because they evidently dont care.

keith likes people and cares, conceptually, just on a personal levle his upbringing left him stunted and somewhat ill equiped to handle this.

he has to work on getting better at this and he does over the show, but he still falls into old habits sometimes. which you know. makes sense

(that is why he sucks so much as black paladin the first time around. though honestly i think he wasn't trying super hard then because his staunch believe that it was temporary anyway and they'll find shiro and he'd be the leader again. its not all of it obviously but i think part of why keith does so much better the second time is also because a) he takes the position willingly because he feels ready and also he goes in deciding yes i will do this and ill put all of me into it rather than seeing himself as stepping in for a bit)

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

it sucks. its dumb as fuck and it shouldn't be like that and i haate it so so much but like. but at least the "i need to do the dumb censoring because otherwhise i dont really get money and i need money because everyone needs money" is like. a reason.

but this? the censoring for the sake of it? the being a fraid to say words as f they are dirty and will stain your soul or as if it makes you a bad person?

hunk and pidge are like, no thanks we don't need a demonstration (they don't know allura has like super strenght but you know, they have enough clues so far to know that shes probably not bluffing. they don't need a lession in humiliation)

and lets be real. early season 1 lance absolutely would be silly enough to think of allura as a helpless princess who cant fight obviously because, well shes a princess. (never mind that first thing she did to him was low key fuck him up).

he gets his ass kicked in 5 seconds flat.

keith on the other hand doesn't discredit alluras claims. however while lance underestimated her keith overestimated himself since he is pretty good at close quater combat.

so imagine things getting better on earth again and the paladins suggesting for allura (yes she lives she deserves better) and coran to go see earth lions, for the fun of it.

they are like: ... what do you mean, earth lions?

paladins: you know... as opposed to altean lions?

allura and coran: lions aren't real. they are mythical magic creatures.

paladins: what do you mean they are mythical magical creatures??

Because the moths themselves don’t eat and only live long enough to mate and then starve to death, the entire culture is made up of children and adolescents. The older children raise the younger ones, with families being made up of hatchmates from different years.

Because molts and eventual transformation into a short lived adult happen on a set schedule, families have a cycle— when your oldest set of siblings cocoon to become adults, you wait at the mating grounds and try to adopt their newborns after they pass. If that fails, you take any ‘orphans’ you can find.

Because death and birth are nearly simultaneous, they have a religion based around reincarnation, and infants with markings similar to a parent are often given their name. Claiming the offspring of a beloved family member is vitally important, because you want to be able to protect their soul and keep them close.

Because it’s hard to track the offspring of your male family members, there are sometimes major fights when a family sees an infant with familiar markings in another family’s clutch.

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