Lance loses his ability to speak. And it’s fine; no one talks to him anyway. He’s not losing much. He’s not even sure they’ve noticed. Team Punk is doing team punk things, Lotor and Allura are infatuated, and he doesn’t want to talk to Shiro. Maybe Coran has noticed
Lance has been cursed to only speak when spoken to. His voice is totally gone otherwise. It shouldn’t be a problem, right? There’s only 7 of them on the ship, he should find someone to talk to, easy!
Lance hasn’t spoken in two months.
“I just don’t want to be stuck here for eternity with Lance.”
Keith doesn’t understand why Lance has shut down. They passed the test, were proven worthy. Lance should be captain ego right now!
Lance isn’t stupid, okay? But compared to Pidge and Hunk, he sure looks it. Anyone would look dumb next to team Punk. But Lance himself is intelligent, intuitive, and a quick study. The Garrison doesn’t admit genuinely stupid people.
Lance wanting to keep their relationship from Shiro because he’s afraid Shiro will say he’s not good enough for Keith but really Shiro would just be like “you love Keith? Ha, good luck.”
NOT jealous Keith.
He isn’t jealous. No, really. He isn’t. He is, however, watchful. Lance is a charming, sweet person, and he tends to attract the worst of the worst. (Keith included.) Keith watches, and hovers, because if any of these
Keith is a terrible boyfriend. He puts in maybe a quarter of the effort Lance does. But Lance has never complained. Lance says he loves Keith just the way he is, so Keith takes Lance at his word.
In all the “Lance leaves Voltron” fics, Keith takes Red back. But what if Red says no? What if she won’t open back up for ANYONE, because she’s pissed and she’s hurt and she just wants Lance back. So Voltron is completely out of commission.
Keith finds a book in Lance’s room:
“How to make friends”
And Keith sees a lot of highlighting and dog ears, so it’s clearly well read. He opens it, and thumbs through it until he sees-
“Playful competition”
Pizza delivery guy Lance and barely making it college kid Keith, who scraped together enough change and coupons to get a large pepperoni. Lance feels bad and starts bringing Keith “mess ups”.
Keith getting MAD jealous over Ryan Kinkade. Like, not normal levels of jealous. He activates the alarm just to get them to separate from a conversation in the hall. They go out to lunch and he pulls the fire alarm. Just batshit crazy jealous.
Keith confesses, and asks Lance out on a date.
Lance is so happy he starts crying, saying “yes! yes!” over and over.
And then he hears the snickers, the click of a camera shutter.
And Keith looks… guilty.
Keith is told Lance is dead, so he has to come back to Voltron. But, Red will not open up, and instead informs Keith that her bond with Lance is still very much intact, and it can’t be intact if he’s dead. It takes a long while, but Keith eventually deduces that Lance was
I must be in a mood tonight.
Keith shuts down Lance’s confession. Their friendship survives, mostly out of proximity. Lance gets a boyfriend. Keith is jealous and hurting. he can’t say anything because he flat out rejected Lance. So he has to watch. And watch. And watch.
Imagine- Keith has a crazy high pain tolerance because Galra, but he’s still human so he’ll just faint from blood loss and be super confused. Lance is just done with this and declares himself in charge of Keith’s after battle care
How about comically oblivious Keith- he’s CONVINCED Lance is out of his league, he’s just a dorky punk who can maybe pass as a 5 on a good day.
Not realizing he is model worthy hot and Lance is just *heart eyes*
After the “prank”, Lance is silent. Dead silent. He communicates in yes, no, and I don’t know answers. Hunk and Pidge have tried everything to get him to talk. He ignores them. He just stares. Shiro has lectured them all to hell and back for being so cruel.
Hot Stuff Keith- Keith gets all the boys. Any boy he wants. Until he meets a blue eyed boy at a bar, and gets completely shut down. Lance laughs at him. LAUGHS. “Come back when you’ve got game.”
It’s a game he wants? It’s a game he’ll get.
And I’m sorry but you can’t tell me Keith with the abandonment issues isn’t super possessive of Lance. Never in a toxic way but he gets genuinely upset if Lance puts coverup on a hickey that’s not plainly visible, like on his collar bone.
Klance is on a break- they both said things they didn’t mean, doors were slammed, tears were shed. Lance goes over to Keith’s apartment to talk, apologize, cry some more, when he sees a total stranger walk out, sporting tons of hickeys.
Keith rejects Lance’s confession, so Lance just goes out of his way to flirt and bang as many aliens as he possibly can. And Keith really quickly learns the difference between Lance flirting for fun and Lance flirting for sex.
Accidentally/not purposely toxic relationship Klance in their teens, where Lance is insecure and Keith is self absorbed and emotionally distant. They break up relatively amicably, and then BAM, run face first into each other at an event 10 years later.
After a while, the team uses Lance as the vibe check guy. If he says something’s not right, they go, almost no questions asked. He has yet to be wrong.
Keith ruins their first anniversary by being a reverse snob. He doesn’t want to waste money at some fancy restaurant, he doesn’t see the point in buying flowers, and what’s wrong with regular Hershey’s chocolate?
In reverse:
Lance isn’t used to romantic gestures. He’s used to making them, sure, but receiving? He’s maybe gotten flowers once in his life. He doesn’t expect them! It would just.. be nice. Once in a while.
Enter Keith.
The worst part is, even Keith isn’t speaking to him. He never realized how many of their interactions he started. Are they even friends, or is that wishful thinking?
(Repost)
Klance growing closer. Forming the best kind of bond- a mix of closest friendship and devotion, adoration.
Shiro pulls Keith aside one afternoon, and tells him Lance is a player, a flirt, and not to get too invested.
Lance overhears.
Keith listens.
The next tweet:
Finally, the team just gives up. Lance won’t talk. There’s a wall between them in the Voltron bond, like they’re connected to just Red, not Red-and-Lance. One night, Keith breaks down sobbing in front of red, after begging for over an hour for Lance to just talk
I think the lions had a legitimate conversation about the lion swap. Black was all “only two are capable of bearing the burden” and blue and red were like “they work well together” and black was like “I don’t think Keith would be a good right hand for Lance”
I really want a fic where Lance is just like “hey, princess? You know you’re not actually /our/ princess, right?”
Because I HC that Allura starts out as a total dictator and it’s Lance that chills her tf out.
(Lance smiled up at Keith after the procedure, and said thank you. The lump in Keith’s throat finally won, and he cried. He kissed Lance’s forehead, uncaring about embarrassment or rejection. He’s not good with words. He acts.)
(They held hands as they left the lab.)
Lance who dresses like a frat boy but pulls it off so good, with a snapback and a gold necklace, and high tops. Keith hates his style but loves how hot he is
Lance has vanished. Dissolved in the gaps between stars. There and gone when the sun rises. He left his family farm one evening after dinner and disappeared. Pidge can’t track him. Shiro hasn’t heard anything over the comm channels.
Keith uses cold logic to fight Lance’s anxiety and insecurity. “Top 5 in the entire universe is nothing to sneeze at.”
“Snipers are never not useful. We’re just less combat heavy right now.”
And it doesn’t always work, because anxiety doesn’t work like that. But it helps.
Keith isn’t one to wait. He has Kosmo poof him into Red, where he finds Lance sobbing like his heart is broken.
Lance doesn’t want Keith here. But, he supposes, they should clear the air.
“I won’t get in your way,” Lance says. “I know you don’t want me around.”
Keith thinking Lance is dead. There was too much blood on the ground, all of it is, for him to have possibly survived. He’s gone. Keith goes through the stages of grief-
Denial: there’s no body. He could still be alive
The SECOND team Voltron touches down, Lance takes off for Cuba. There is a trail of dust in his wake.
Allura and Shiro sigh and send Keith to go fetch him.
AND THEN Lance who dresses a touch feminine, in soft sweaters and bright colors and form fitting pants, looking so soft and so pretty and Keith is just “hnnnnnnnnng”
(Disclaimer: clothes are clothes, there is no gender in clothes, I’m using feminine as a visual descriptor)
Klance growing closer. Forming the best kind of bond- a mix of closest friendship and devotion, adoration.
Shiro pulls Keith aside one afternoon, and tells him Lance is a player, a flirt, and not to get too invested.
Lance overhears.
Keith listens.
Lance flirts with men by starting joke competitions with them and keith is watching with his jaw on the floor like -
“Wait, what? HE WAS FLIRTING WITH ME?!”
Keith actually needs glasses, but he never wears them because they make him look nerdy. Lance sees him in his glasses and goes insane over how cute he is.
Keith wears his glasses more.
All right, I’ll say it.
Keith didn’t mean “I don’t want to be stuck here for eternity with Lance” he meant “I don’t want Lance to be stuck here for eternity.”
Lance plans a fancy-ish date night for him and Keith for their one month anniversary. Nothing too crazy, just a nicer restaurant and then a walk through the park on that side of town where the lighting is more romantic. Lance forwards Keith the details of the reservation
The muteness comes with perks.
At least until Keith shows back up, mother and altean and wolf in tow, and brushes off Lance’s attempt at a hug. Then, Lance aches to make noise. He wants to hear himself sob, to get that cathartic release that comes from crying your guts out.
Lance has visions in the moments when his soul is detached from his body. He sees himself, over and over and over again. Happy, smiling, crying, bloody, scared, enraged, insane.
And always, always with Keith. Keith kissing him, holding his hand,
Bob twisted Keith’s words so Lance heard “I don’t want to be stuck here for eternity with Lance” but he actually said “I don’t want Lance to be stuck here for eternity.”
Blame Bob!
thirsty assholes lay an unwelcome hand on *his Lance*, well. He is half Galra. Violence is in his blood.
Don’t get him wrong, Keith wants Lance. He wants Lance every day forever, and beyond forever, into the next eternity. But jealous? Nah. He’s not jealous. He can be patient.
But Lance doubts it. He got out of the healing pod alone, and discovered his muteness right after. He’s completely alone in his own silence. He doesn’t hate it; no one makes fun of him or tells him to shut up. He already knew he wasn’t listened to or valued, so really,
Inspired by that wonderfully angsty fic:
Lance goes out of his way to minimize himself for Keith, while simultaneously being the best boyfriend possible. He does his damndest to anticipate Keith’s wants and needs, like coffee or snacks.
College Klance, Keith gives Lance his jacket all the time because Lance CANNOT do the cold.
But Texan Keith can’t either, so he suffers so Lance can be warm.
But no. He cries silently, his chest heaving, as they pack up the lions and prepare to blow up the castle. It isn’t until Krolia, of all people, asks him a direct question he can’t answer with a nod or a head shake, or other gesture.
Lance feels insecure about being second best to Keith, but Keith uses logic to fight it.
“You’re a better pilot than me!”
“Lance, you’re one of only FIVE people who can pilot a lion. I don’t know about you but top 5 is pretty fucking good to me.”
Lance is THIS CLOSE to being able to afford a divorce from his awful wife.
Keith mugs him, empties his bank account with help from Pidge.
Lance sees Keith again, tells him off, and two days later gets a call from Shiro, telling lance he’s taking his case pro bono.
Continued:
The team arrives on Earth without further progress. Their relationships with Lance are changed irrevocably. He disappears with his family, only showing his face at mandatory meetings.
During one such meeting, Iverson makes a comment.
Gang member Keith, enamored by the goody two shoes college boy Lance. Keith has constantly cut up knuckles, and Lance has a perfect manicure.
Keith takes Lance to the seediest dive bars. Lance gets off on the danger.
Cultlike Blade of Marmora, slowly isolating and assimilating Keith. It would be working, but Lance keeps in contact with Keith, reminding him of his human half.
The training is borderline abusive. The brainwashing is intense- so intense that Keith tries to take
I will PAY someone to address Shiro’s blatant favoritism. No nonsense, no guilt, just “yo, Shiro, you kinda play favorites and that isn’t cool.”
He knows nothing about Lance and AFAIK nothing about Hunk. And it’s just upsetting.
Lance is sobbing in his lion. He’d poured his heart out, and Keith had stomped on it. He’d had one blissful moment of hope for -something, something more- and now it was in pieces. Every part of him was in agony.
I think Lance really would be susceptible to abusive relationships. I also think Keith would drag Lance away from toxic boyfriends and girlfriends by his hair.
I love the idea of Lance’s family reacting badly to Lance being bi, in the canon universe. He’s saving the literal universe and his mamá is telling him he’s going to hell for being “gay”.
It’s the kind of shit homophobes would pull 🤷🏼♀️
Sokka and Yue only had two and a half episodes and they still managed to be a better couple than Lance and Allura. Further proof that Klance is canon king.
Klance is on a break- they both said things they didn’t mean, doors were slammed, tears were shed. Lance goes over to Keith’s apartment to talk, apologize, cry some more, when he sees a total stranger walk out, sporting tons of hickeys.
I can’t get enough of country boy, ranch hand, thick accent Keith who is as gay as the day is long, and then city slicker Lance who doesn’t mind dirt but very much minds the half hour drive to the nearest Walmart.
Krolia brings the matter to Keith’s attention immediately, despite Lance clinging to her arm, silently begging her not to. He can’t bear the thought of being made fun of again- he’d finally found some goddamn peace!
So there was this one fic. at one point, Keith tells Lance to put his safety belt on as Keith is flying, and he’s so genuinely upset about Lance’s safety. Obviously Lance had just gotten out of a pod, but I don’t remember why. Keith is just suddenly psycho about safety.
Left behind. You wouldn’t think it’s possible, considering there are only 7 of them, but somehow Lance gets left behind at an abandoned Galra base. He has to scrounge for food, avoid the droid patrols even though this place is EMPTY-
Omg!
Keith being possessive of Shiro/Shiro’s affection, because he doesn’t understand that there’s a limitless amount of affection but he’s jealous of Lance getting a hair ruffle because he’s afraid it means Shiro doesn’t love him anymore
(Obviously familial/platonic)
Lance obsesses- and it’s not Keith’s fault, really. Keith just made the unfortunate mistake of looking, SEEING Lance, and after that, Lance was addicted. As the middle child of 5, he fought and clawed for any bit of unshared attention.
No one really expands on Keith feeling like he was made for war? Like. Putting it into words is hard, but Keith feels at home training and fighting and flying, and he berates Lance for not feeling the same way, because Lance’s place isn’t war, it’s at home with his family
Keith: no, Lance, baby; I trust you. I just don’t trust anyone else. Everyone wants you, and they can’t have you. You’re mine, baby boy, that’s all. I trust you, I promise.
Lance: you’re basically implying I can just be taken, like the last ham at the store.
He starts immediately after work that day. He runs to a florist, not a grocery store, and gets a bouquet of the reddest roses they have. He fills out the card simply with “I love you always”.
And when Lance cries happily, and fusses over getting them in a vase-
Keith is speechless- ha, ha- because… because he didn’t even notice. He’d become so accustomed to tuning out that he hadn’t noticed when there wasn’t anything to tune out. He’d.. stopped caring about what Lance had to say.
When did this happen? How did this happen?
His fears are somewhat realized, but somewhat not. Keith doesn’t say anything. They pack up the next morning and continue on, with Lance panicking and Keith brooding.
Keith with a dragon tattooed on his side, and he wears those real loose tank tops. Or any tattoo, really, and every time lance sees it he blows a gasket.
Lance’s lover boy persona gets him in trouble
And Keith takes it upon himself to act as Lance’s personal bodyguard. Totally not out of jealousy or anything psssh
Continued:
Keith “bought” (appropriated) the property next to the McClain’s farm. Instead of building a shelter where the power and water hookups were, he built a shack right on the edge of the property. As close to Lance as he could get, without trespassing.
Does anyone else think of Lance when they do self care stuff?
I have a body scrub that smells heavenly, coconut and sandalwood, and I think about him using it. Makes me smile.
Langst incoming.
The Coalition needs this alliance. This planet has thriving agriculture, and they are willing to share- on one condition. The king demands “the pretty blue one” consummate the alliance with him.
And Shiro forces Lance to agree.
Shiro just fucking decided that Keith should be his successor?? And never asked ANYONE ELSE what they thought. That’s not leadership, buttface! You don’t get to make that call exclusively! Fucking rude.
While Keith is screaming internally, lance is quaking with fear. He knows what’s coming. “Oh, finally! Lance is quiet!” like the loss of his primary means of connecting with others is something to celebrate. He can’t take it. So he turns and slowly walks away, back into Red.
I NEED more clone abusing Lance fics.
Because Lance is so intuitive? He’d absolutely be a threat to Kuron’s position. So he wrecks Lance’s credibility and his confidence, using shame and fear to keep him quiet.
I. NEED. MORE.
Langst idea: Lance is so broken up about Keith (post breakup, pining, whatever) and he turns to space drugs. Like, narcotics. And the whole team is worried sick because he’s constantly strung out, doped up, or passed out. Anything to forget.
Quietly murderously protective Keith. Someone a few feet away at a party are pointing and laughing at Lance, and Keith draws his finger across his throat behind Lance’s back, and pretends to itch his ear when Lance turns to look