🐈 After Their First Big Fight It Worries Both Lance And Shiro... They Had Been Doing So Well What

If we’re bringing back the citrus scale can we also bring back terms like notp and crack ship instead of sending people death threats for ships you don’t like

Fics where one or both of them are teachers? Preferably complete ❤

Give Me a Sign - avidbeader @avidbeader

ongoing, ¼ chapters, 4k. (Mature).

Shiro is the new science teacher, still dealing with some culture shock in adjusting to a school four times the size of his previous one. At graduation, he’s still meeting other teachers for the first time, including his first look at one of the ASL interpreters.

It’s Purely Educational, I Swear - cherryburlesque

10k. (General).

Keith is a volunteer at the school library, where he holds reading sessions for the kids who might not normally read otherwise. His motivation for being there is solely, one hundred percent genuinely focused on encouraging creativity and imagination in his young charges.

The smoking hot Kindergarten Teacher has absolutely nothing to do with it. Really.

Storytelling and Honey Buns - Holyangelheart @holyangelheart

11k. (Teen). Contains: minor Lotor/Allura.

Keith is a librarian at the local library but every Friday he volunteers his day towards reading for the kindergarten classes at the Garrison Elementary school nearby. For a year Keith continued to read to the kids, but one teacher always caught his eye.

It was nothing but a crush, but after Mr. Shirogane asks Keith if he wanted a honey bun, Keith finds himself second guessing that.

Ride My Firetruck - otayuriistheliteralbest @otayuriistheliteralbest

2k. (Explicit). Contains: NSFW content.

Keith takes his students on a field trip to the firehouse to learn about fire fighters and the lieutenant giving the tour is entirely too hot for his own good, especially when he slips his number into Keith’s jacket pocket, telling him to call him later…

Heart, could we bear the marvel of this thing? - Szoraya @szoraya

19k. (Mature). Contains: NSFW content, background Allura/Lance

“Healthy snacks. You got it.” Shiro nods, doing his best to look as devoted as the woman with the pumps and the Victoria Beckham-hairstyle did talking to Keith before. “I prepare Kiki’s lunchbox myself, and I always make sure she eats a varied diet and gets her, you know, five-a-day. You can count on me. You can count on us for sure.” Another nod for emphasis.

Keith’s mouth twitches.

“I must’ve heard wrong today when she complained about how her dad can’t even prepare frozen tater tots without burning them, then.”

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Shiro magically discovers that he’s very much a PTA dad when his daughter starts first grade. It has nothing to do with her teacher, Keith, unrighteously hot for a stupid name like that. Obviously.

Sweater Vests & Cigarettes - marmorashadows (onecharredwings) @pining-sheith

38k. (Explicit). Contains: NSFW content, mentions of abuse & suicide

Takashi Shirogane is a sensible man who drives a sensible car and has a sensible job – that is, until he meets Keith Kogane.

The AU where Shiro is a professor and he thinks Keith is a student. But he isn’t.

no one else has ever fit the equation quite like you - janie_tangerine @janiedean

39k. (Teen). Contains: Hunk/Lance

in which college maths professor Shiro takes a break from teaching after an accident that almost lost him an arm, but in order to keep himself occupied accepts to supervise the maths class for the local community college. He doesn’t expect to find in between his new students Keith, one of the uni’s janitors (incidentally, the one he might have been crushing on for a while, to his TA’s amusement). Then it turns out the guy isn’t just good at maths - he’s actually beyond gifted. Shiro might be over in his head here.

(Or: the sort-of-Will-Hunting-inspired AU you probably didn’t know you wanted.)

Also, check out our teacher tag.

- Kel

keith is probably a bad kisser…or at least a really awkward one.

oh my goodness how is it possible that in the five seconds i posted that allura thing i have three people telling me that i’m “racist” bc i don’t care that a woc was killed. like bitch, of course i care, she was a phenomenal character and i hate to see her die. but i’m not gonna sit and complain about how voltron is a lousy series bc that shits wack

it truly makes me wonder why i even write for this fandom bc no matter what i say i’m always gonna fucking get flamed and at this point idc

so to reiterate: it fucking sucks that she’s gone. i’m sad as hell bc she was my icon, but she didn’t die in vain, and she helped to preserve millions of lives. don’t come for me just bc i called some of y’all out on your bullshit

excuse me if i don’t feel like writing for voltron rn

Why Keith is actually 16+ in the S6 flashbacks and why he’s so small:

Okay, so lets start with this screenshot:

THIS IS NOT AT THE GARRISON. Look at the teacher, she’s in plain clothes, so are the students. This is a high school and Shiro is here to recruit students. Assuming the Garrison works like a Service Academy, it’s like a college and requires a high school diploma. The minimum age for service academies and ROTC programs is 17, and it’s safe to assume that that is the Garrison’s minimum age requirement too. I guess they might make exceptions for extraordinary students, but I honestly doubt it.

This next scene is also not at the garrison, and occurs shortly after the classroom scene:

Now, we know that is Keith’s bike. We also know he and that he can probably fly it at this point. Why does that imply he is at least 16? Because he lives in a group home, and any younger than that and there’s no way he would have a chance to get away and learn. At 16 he could get a license, which his caretakers couldn’t stop him from. Even with a license I doubt he has insurance though, meaning he can’t fly the thing in public.

My personal headcanon is that one of the workers at the home knew about his passion for flying and turned a blind eye when he snuck out to the desert to practice. This person is the same one who points Shiro in his direction, where he sees Keith fly for the first time and convinces him to join the garrison.

It’s this last scene that really has me convinced Keith is in his mid to late teens though:

Here, when he’s sitting outside the teacher’s office with the other kid he presumably got in a fight with. The other kid is obviously an older teenager, and is Keith’s classmate, meaning they if they aren’t the same age they must be at least close to it. How do we know? Look at the gold stripes on their shoulders. The strips mark rank, and presumably how long they’ve been there. They each have one stripe on each shoulder, marking them as younger students. Older students have two stripes. In the first episode the garrison trio all have two stripes on each shoulder, and so does Matt at the launch in Pidge’s flashback.

The stripes are also used for officers. Look at Shiro, in this scene he only has two, and the officer he’s defending Keith to has three, it’s his superior.  At some point Shiro gets promoted because in the picture from the Kerberos news report he has three.

Anyway, back to the point. In this scene Keith also talks about going back to the home. Home refers to a group home for children in foster care. Generally teens that get placed here, usually due to a lack of foster parents or because of behavioral issues, though there can be other factors. I’m not going to go into all that in this post, just wanted to note that these homes tend to house older kids because they are harder to place than younger ones.

So that’s why I believe Keith is 16+, but why is he so gosh darned tiny?

There are a few potential explanations for this:

Keith could just be a late bloomer, potentially due to his Galran heritage. We haven’t been given a lifespan for the Galra, so if they live longer and age slower they probably grow slower too. I mean, Krolia looks the same in the flashbacks as she does now, and 20 years have passed. Keith’s growth could be stunted due to lack of food. He was a foster kid, and it is quite possible he just didn’t get enough to eat, either because there wasn’t enough to go around, or because food was used against him as a punishment. One or two bad experiences could have left him scared to ask for more or take seconds even when offered.

He’s also half Galra. The Galra are also more muscled and most look like they have a very low body fat percentage. Muscle tissue burns two to three times as many calories as fat, meaning Galra need to eat a lot to maintain their weight, and kite need to eat even more, because they aren’t just sustaining what they have they’re adding to it. There’s also the possibility he needed vitamins and minerals to grow that couldn’t be found on earth. His caretakers may have unintentionally been underfeeding him because they were treating him like a human, not a Galra

So yeah, pre-Garrison Keith was tiny, but he didn’t stay that way:

having a crush… is HARD.

IT’S JUST A CARTOON WHY ARE WE ALL LIKE THIS?!

I came a long way to find you.

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The Emperor’s Downfall

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you. It’s strange what desire will make foolish people do. I never dreamed that I’d meet somebody like you. And I never dreamed that I’d lose somebody like you, No, I don’t wanna fall in love No, I Don’t wanna fall in love With you

- “Wicked Game” (cover) by Ursine Vulpine feat. Annaca

So… I had this color palette… and I escalated. Because I was in dire need of some fluff, but I also wanted some more angst and yeah. This happened.

At some point Keith fell in love with the Champion who in return loved his Emperor. And with “love” I mean he’d burn the whole damn universe to ashes for Keith with an almost animalistic kind of conation. His heart might be shattered, a blackness festering at its very core, but it will always know where it belongs.

So Keith fell. And he fell hard. Despite the tragedy he knew this was bound to end in.