Hello! New-ish Sheith Fan Here. I’ve Been Having So Much Fun Exploring All The Content! Thank You Guys

Hello! New-ish Sheith fan here. I’ve been having so much fun exploring all the content! Thank you guys so much for running this amazing blog! I was wondering, what are the “must read” Sheith fics that are considered a staple for the majority of the fandom?

Hi there! Welcome to the Sheith fandom! We’re happy you’re having a lot of fun, there’s so much amazing Sheith content out there. While we don’t really know if there are those “fandom staple” kind of fics you might find for other ships, we’re always happy to recommend some of our favorite popular ones to get you started:

Where the Light Doesn’t Reach - rosegardenlake

230k. (Mature) Contains: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Blood and Gore

Football Captain Takashi Shirogane always looked like he had a charmed life. A full ride scholarship to a top university, worshipping fans wherever he turned, never wanting for a single thing. Keith’s never needed to have anything to do with him. Keith has his own problems, his own friends, his art. They’re from two different worlds.But one day, Shiro doesn’t come home. One day, there’s blood all over the streets but no body. And it’s Keith, and only Keith, who can see Shiro, shirt splattered with blood, panicking through a hallway of people who ignore and pass right through him.It’s only Keith who can see his ghost. And it’s only Keith who can help him find who did it.

Between the Shadow and the Soul - magisterpavus

161k. (Explicit). Contains: nsfw content, violence

The most terrifying things in the desert were the men. Of this, Keith had no doubt.

Until Keith found him.

Another Word for Forever - stardropdream

61k. (Explicit) Contains: nsfw content

Shiro knows better than to expect love in an arranged marriage. This is all for the sake of universal peace, after all, and solidifying a Terran-Galran alliance. At the very least, Shiro can hope to make a friend out of this.

Becoming friends would be much easier, though, if he and his husband could actually communicate. With a language barrier and a mountain of cultural differences between them, getting to know Keith proves to be a challenge.

Luckily, Shiro’s always worked well with challenges.

The Uncertain Hour - Sol1056

269k. (Mature) Background ships: Allura/Lance

In the wake of Keith leaving the paladins, Kolivan is left with sole responsibility for the boy, until an outsider intervenes. When the empire ramps up its attacks, shifting alliances and growing factions put the entire rebellion at risk.

Keith trudged from the room, his steps heavier, but still barely audible. He was easily half the weight of any full-grown Galra, and only a little over half the height. He had a speed and agility that rivaled Kolivan’s best, but nowhere near the reserves. Kolivan had learned to respect that ferocity, but it did make missions exhausting. Of all the orders he’d given, had Keith ever followed one to the letter?

to go, to follow, to kneel at your feet - arahir

12k. (Explicit). Contains: nsfw content.

They think it will be funny to leave him with a Galra in heat.

It whimpers. It's a sound of pure pain, one Shiro's heard a hundred times now in the arena. The sound of something wounded and helpless; the sound of something that knows it.

"Are you hurt?" Shiro asks in the bare silence of the cell, and moves a few steps closer.

The creature on the floor twitches violently at his voice. It's not dressed like the other prisoners. It's hard to tell in the poor lighting but the back of its skin-tight suit is glowing in circuits, the same purple he's come to associate with the Galra. "I won't hurt you," he says, softer.

It doesn't make a sound but its back arches, head lifting from the floor, dragging black hair along the floor. It's dripping wet with blood or sweat. Shiro realizes the small sound he's barely been registering is breath—it's panting. It rolls, just enough to eye Shiro through its dark bangs.

He. It's a boy, and he's beautiful.