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Oh no. The flashbacks are setting in.

Can ya'll guess which one's faceless?

Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching // Legends of the Dark Knight (2021) #16 // Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water: A Memoir // Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh // Batman (2016) #52 //  Michael Kinnucan, The Gods show up // Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, An Iliad // Cover for Detective Comics (2016) #1046, by Dan Mora // Yves Olade, Bloodsport // Batman: Damned #1 // Anne Carson, H of H Playbook //

Keith’s visceral fear of abandonment when it comes to Shiro makes so much more sense now because he always knew he was going to lose him someday,, this wasn’t some far off thing–even if they survived everything with the galra and Voltron, Keith knew Shiro wasn’t going to live a long life. He knew and lived in absolute terror of the fact that Shiro was living on borrowed time, that he could be torn away from him any day. 

It’s why he’s so angry and defensive when other people tell him to give up on Shiro, it’s why he’s so fired up when Shiro nearly gives up on himself. Shiro telling Keith he’s finally died in season 6 is the bomb Keith has been waiting for the universe to drop for literally years. He’s facing his absolute worst fear, and like a miracle, he still manages to find a way to bring Shiro back. 

And Keith has seen others give up on Shiro the way people have given up on him–whenever he promises not to abandon Shiro, not to leave without him, to save him as many times as it takes–that’s so powerful given their tragic pasts. They have both been left behind by loved ones, but they’ve finally found a home with each other. They love one another unconditionally and neither will ever abandon the other. It’s a link that they both ached for and need.