Lullaby of my world

she got them to stay still for like 3 seconds

This is beautiful I love it! 😊❤

le portrait - a human AU (twitter)

keith’s father

Okay, we all love full Galra Keith. But if there is a full Galra Keith, then there must be one wonderful Galra father!

AAAAAAAAAAAAH ❤️🔥

I saw a man so beautiful I forgot to breathe…

- Krolia, probably

krolia and keith doodles <3

“Keith.”

Family dinner

This was supposed to be for @sheithnewyear 3rd day: family… I didn’t finish this for that week, but hey! it’s still January! In the image:

Krolia is not the cooking type, but there are things from her childhood she’d like Keith to try, so they reserved one of the ATLAS less used kitchens and set to work.

They all have a job, she directs them, Keith chops, Shiro stirs and Kolivan supervises…oh and kosmo will get to lick the spoon if he doesn’t destroy his latest toy. :P

Love me tender

“What do you want to be when you grow up, son?”

“I wanna be a space pilot!”

“A space pilot? Aw, not a fireman like me? Why?”

“Because you said mom went back to the stars. So I’m gonna go find her. I’m gonna bring mom home!”

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I want to see Keith become happy.

I don’t know English very well. Let’s just hope the message goes straight. 

<3 Love this! (Korean sound effects are the best) 휙!

Blade Family

It’s a day late for the deadline of Voltron Bingo, so I won’t @ mention them anymore ^^; But requested by @kitsune1818 . Prompt: AU, which I can actually also combine with Parents.

Ulaz and Regris were busy chatting about the latest upgrades they’ve made to the Blade suit as they entered the conference room, Regris typing down notes, when the sight of Thace halted their conversation. The fellow Blade was sitting there with his chin resting on interlaced fingers, looking very distraught. They frowned when he shook his head, completely oblivious to their presence, and their jaws dropped when he started mumbling to himself.

“This can’t be. He’s still far too young…”

Ulaz felt as if a bucket of ice cold water was poured on him at those words. He hoped with every fibre of his being that he heard Thace wrong. He didn’t know what he would do if something had happened to their littlest Blade.

“Thace, what’s the matter?” Ulaz walked towards him, Regris in tow.

Thace looked at them with a very grave face.

“Keith asked me for advice.”

‘So the young one is safe…’ Ulaz felt relief wash over him. “So then why-“

Before he could finish his question, Thace’s next words sent alarm bells ringing in his head.

“He asked where would be a good dating spot.”

Regris dropped his tablet.

-

Not even two minutes later, the entire Blade population in their headquarters was gathered in the conference room, with Kolivan and his right-hand man Antok standing in front of everyone.

“It has come to our attention that our youngest Marmoran Agent has asked for dating advice.”

Indignant murmurs and cries of opposition erupted in the venue.

“Silence!” Antok bellowed. Everyone noticed his voice faltered. Perhaps there was even a slight whimpering in there.

“We will give him the best advice, as we always do, and help him with the preparations.” Kolivan began, eliciting a collective gasp. Heads began to shake in disapproval. “However, we will be keeping him company, without his knowledge, throughout the whole affair.”

The atmosphere in the room changed from that of mourning to excitement, and the tension rapidly rose.

“I will be assigning teams to follow his fighter when he leaves the base, watch them from strategically positioned tables in the restaurant he’s going to, as well as those who will be right on their tail from the moment they leave the restaurant to follow them wherever they go afterwards- wherever in this universe.”

“Okay but. Can I please sabotage their dinner?” Antok asked, making all (glowy) eyes in the room turn to him.

-

“Agent 002 in position. Keith has been settled in the restaurant for thirty minutes now. The waiter has approached him a few times, and he looks very pleased with the items he has ordered. I’m starting to feel bad now that we planted an agent in the kitchen to ruin their meal.”

“Agent 004 here. I disapprove of his date. Granted, Keith is early, still no one has the right to make him wait.”

“Thace, calm down. Once we know who it is, you can lecture the bastard as much as you want. I’d like to give them a training or two about punctuality. Blade style.”

“Agent 003 here. Quiet, everyone! Or else Keith’s going to notice us.”

“Agent 001 from control room. Agent 003 is right. Be quiet or else Keith might… Wait, he’s standing up.”

“He’s coming this way. No more like, he’s zipping this way? What is going on?”

“Oh no, are we busted?!”

“Shhh! He’s stopping at the table beside mine and… covering his face with The Galra Times? Why?!”

“Is this how humans date?!”

“I don’t know, do I look like a human to you?!”

“I said quiet! I just heard Kolivan slapping his forehead over the comms!”

Keith peeked out of the edge of the newspaper to look, prompting the rest of the Blades scattered in all corners of the restaurant to follow his gaze. Just then, the door opened and the most gorgeous Galra lady sporting the most stunning eyes in the universe walked in, together with a rough looking, but very handsome human with the gentlest smile. They were holding hands, fingers interlaced.

The Blades were all frozen in place for three and a half seconds, until someone broke the silence over the communicators.

“Agent- Oh forget it. Ilun here, reporting from the kitchen. The chef’s ready to serve the meals. I have implanted all the specified ingredients into their corresponding dishes and-“

“No, Ilun! Abort! Abort! Abort!”

“What?!”

“Those are not for Keith’s date! It’s for Krolia and Keith’s father and if we let them eat that we are going to die!”

Seeing the server just in time before taking out the orders, she swiftly did a cartwheel to stop him, causing the trays to topple over and all the luscious food to spill on the floor. The chef, seeing this, turned red and roared.

“Why you, you’re fired!!!”

Beside him, Vrek, dressed in an apron, gave Ilun a thumbs up. She shrugged and left the kitchen.

The chef came out and walked towards Keith, bowing and apologizing profusely about the food. Keith looked disappointed, but quietly nodded to the chef. Seeing the puppy dog eyes, Antok clutched his hand over his chest.

“That’s it. Everyone! Assemble to the kitchen. Now.” Making sure to stay out of Keith, as well as- especially- Krolia’s sight, all the agents spying from their assigned tables reported to the kitchen.

Vrek activated his luxite sword and pointed it towards the chef, before making sign language with his free hand.

“What, what?! I don’t understand, what is he saying?!” The chef whimpered.

Ilun, now back in the kitchen with an army of Marmoran agents, was happy to interpret for him.

“You will let us help you make all those dishes once more, with the best quality and as quickly as possible, or your restaurant will never be heard of again.”

The food was prepared in record time, and as requested by the client, served along with a bouquet of flowers, chilled wine, and a card with a very cute doodle of Keith’s parents. Below it he scribbled the words “Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad! Love, Keith”.

The chef was surprised, and grudgingly pleased, at how good the Blades were at following his instructions. By the time they were done cooking, he was on his knees, begging them to stay and work for him for ten times the salary he normally offered. However, the Blades declined his offer, saying they already had the best job in the universe.

And that was making sure their littlest Blade was always happy.

  The End.  

Awwww! Funny! You can put "The Blade of marmora" and "adorable dorks" in the same sentence. <3

Like gorgeous mother like gorgeous son.

Day 21: Drain

for Inktober2018

The war is tiring 

I had to screenshot your ask because this is going to be long (AND YOU HAVE ALL MY LOVE FOR SENDING ME THIS) because your lovely message forced me to get off my lazy ass and write about one of my favorite things ever. Keith and Kolivan. Here we go.

I want to break the fanon mentality that Kolivan is cold and heartless and doesn’t care about Keith. This guy is so complex, and this is coming from someone who loves to talk about Keith and Krolia who are Complex personified. Those two are the tip of the iceberg whereas Kolivan is the iceberg.

He stands at the top of the most powerful secret organization in the universe. Their organization is built in secrecy and trust, and for them to have existed for so many years- perhaps even centuries- completely undetected by the Empire and with one of their most noble agents working right under Zarkon’s nose, it says a lot about what kind of man Kolivan is to have founded this group, led it, and above all, earned their trust and loyalty. For them to be willing to lay down their lives for their mission speaks of complete faith in their leader, in what he wants to achieve, and believing he can achieve it even though they have to pay the price.

And yet in the Blade of Marmora episode, he lets strangers into their headquarters. Granted, they were Paladins of Voltron, but even so I honestly don’t think they would’ve even been granted entrance had it not been for Ulaz. And more than that, he actually lets a human boy take the Trials of Marmora, just because he possesses a Luxite blade that can only be awakened by someone with Galra blood. So can you really blame them for suspecting that Keith stole it? Even Keith himself didn’t know he was Galra. How were they to know he had Galra lineage judging from his (very not Galra) appearance?

Had Haggar used Shiro already as early as then, can you imagine how great a price the Blades would’ve had to pay? That’s the risk Kolivan took in even letting them in. And this paid off greatly when Keith proved himself worthy of his mother’s blade.

During their intel gathering in s1e4, he tells Keith how the mission is more important than the individual (iirc the exact same words came out of Allura’s mouth btw), scolding Keith for saving Regris only because Keith put his own life in danger in doing so.

People think that Kolivan doesn’t give a shit about agent after agent dying, and it hurts to see that because he isn’t like that at all. This is war, and with war comes sacrifice.   

Also, what did he do on their very next mission? He breaks his own protocol and waits for Keith.

In Bloodlines, he tells Keith “Emotions are a luxury we cannot afford”. But honestly? Coming from someone who knew Krolia well enough to anticipate she would blow up her own base if it came down to it just so she could destroy Ranveig’s super weapon, and sending Keith because he knew that was the only way to stop her from doing so? I wonder who else lets his feelings get in the way. Heh.

Also look at the way he words Keith’s mission. Infiltrate the base, extract our spy, and destroy the weapon. Which, to me, translates to 1.) extracting the spy comes first, destroying the weapon second 2.) if you read between Kolivan’s lines, whether he meant it or not it just naturally came out that getting Krolia back was more important to him. 

In the s7′s The Ruins, Krolia says  “I recognize every one of these blades. I trained many of them myself.” It wouldn’t be a reach to say that it means so does Kolivan. It then makes complete sense why Kolivan took Keith under his wing and personally trained him. He is, after all, the son of one of his closest- if not closest- friend and comrade. 

And if after all these things I wrote you guys are still not convinced how much he loves Keith? The Blade of Marmora- the very organization that Kolivan himself founded, were massacred. But because the universe needs them, Kolivan has to find the surviving agents and gather them. This mission is so important that even Krolia had to break her promise and leave her son a second time. 

And yet when Keith’s life was in danger, they abandoned all their duties and obligations and flew from galaxies away just to be by his side. 

This is so important.

Excerpt from my quantum abyss fic, Embers:

The cackling of the firewood was the only sound that could be heard in the small den. A young man sporting dark mullet locks sat across a Galra soldier, who was turning a stick skewered through a gigantic space lobster they just fought together a while ago. The cosmic wolf pup, who would’ve been the space lobsters’ dinner, was curled up in between his saviors.

“This one’s done, Keith.”

The fellow Blade, who Keith learned was his mother not too long ago through their shared flashes of the past, offered a chunk of grilled space lobster to him. Keith’s face softened and his lips curled upwards as he took it. “Thanks, Krolia.”

He opened his mouth to eat but, right before he popped it in his mouth he noticed the pup eyeing him curiously. Or maybe the pup was just eyeing what was in his hand. He cut off a small piece with his knife and offered it to the little creature. The wolf walked towards him, sniffed it curiously at first, and then ate. Keith chuckled when he saw the pup wag his tail.

He shifted his gaze to his mom, who was wordlessly eating her meal.

‘She’s completely different from the warrior who was so focused on her mission. Not too long ago, she had no qualms about traveling the quantum abyss practically barefoot, without any food and water,’ he thought absently.

He had so much more that he wanted to ask. But seeing her so relaxed- eating heartily like a child- all the questions just dissipated. And it was okay. After all, who knew how long it would take before they reached their destination. They had time.

“Keith, when you’re done eating, rest. Tomorrow, we’ll explore this thing we’re on and see what resources we can live off of. Our suits will recycle our body’s moisture, so we’ll be fine for a while. But that still won’t replace our body’s need for water.”

“Got it.” Keith nodded.

He didn’t know where or what it was exactly that they were headed for, but he wasn’t worried. He was with someone, and it wasn’t just a random Marmoran agent. He was with the one person who had constantly protected him from the moment they first met.

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