try to breathe under the water
- 4k words
- fluff n angst
- or, my initiation into vld ao3 😭
#klance find out about how the other almost/actually died and talk about it. softness and keith being keith ensue
🌥 link below, rt's appreciated
thinking again about the guilt keith harbors for doing what he thought was the right thing (leaving) for the right and wrong reasons (he was scared) but reasons and justifications don't matter when he was the only one who could've prevented the situation with kuron from +
@selena_din i love the others but the time that keith knew shiro compared to that of the others just doesn't allow for the paladins to be able to connect the dots like keith might've if he was there. he wasn't, and he knows there's no point ruminating on something he can't change, but still
@theakkue the need i have for that to be acknowledged and the impact of them being pawns and constantly so out of control of their situations to be explored
how could he be the one to lead voltron after that. how could he face shiro alongside the trauma of his and kuron's fight. how does he tell adam about any of this. how does he move one foot in front of the other without it feeling more shameful than anything
escalating to the point of everyone he loved almost dying, the only one to know shiro well enough to recognize the differences and potentially do something about it and he wasn't fucking there
reminder not to fall into whatever pinkwashing propaganda isr*el, western powers and brands do during pride month in order to justify and fund slaughters and genocide
this is the reality queer people in Palestine and other occupied countries are currently facing