so to sum up, keith…

• refuses to call himself the black paladin
  
• is painfully self-aware and analytical about his own flaws and apologizes for them repeatedly
  
• is aware he can’t connect with his teammates and remembers examples of that happening even months later
  
• knows he has anger issues, is ashamed of that, and thinks it’s intrinsic because he’s galra
  
• knows he has trust issues and identifies his mom leaving him as the reason he’s afraid of rejection
• knew he would cry if he talked about it?? what the fuck
  

and keith:

• was called a loner by the people he’s been living with for months
  
• identifies shiro as the only person who never gave up on him and canonically connects with him on a level separate from anyone else in his life
• has lost shiro twice so far