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larathia:

I think the thing that really thumps me in the feels about Shiro and Keith is how they both consistently and utterly underestimate how much they mean to the other one, while at the same time making no secret of how much the other means to them.

I mean Shiro was totally willing to tell everybody off for Keith’s sake in “Blade of Marmora”, from Lance all the way to the whole Blade organization and screw this whole alliance thing if you’re not going to let Keith keep his knife.

…And he completely failed to grasp that, yanno, telling Keith ‘if anything happens to me, I want you to lead the team’ wasn’t an honor, or a kindness, and that it was entirely possible Keith would be grieving far too much to cope with his own life never mind looking after everyone else’s. (People who rag on Keith for being a bad leader often don’t seem to realize we only get one episode where he’s both unequivocally in charge and not overtly grieving, and most of the stupidshit that went on in that ep was actually Allura’s doing. The kid was grieving for a fair chunk of S3. Like…utterly-not-coping-with-existing levels of grieving. Bet you anything, Shiro had no idea Keith would take it that hard.)

But the reverse is true too. Keith will immediately spring to Shiro’s aid, whether it’s Shiro freezing in a PTSD flashback or holed up in a cave with chunks ripped out of his hide, and he’ll pull stunts that would have trained ninja stuntmen demanding danger pay to do it. 

But he honestly thinks he’s got to prove his worth to Shiro all the time, that Shiro’s only a breath away from ripping him a new one for being selfish, or angry, or generally Not Good Enough, and that Shiro doesn’t notice or concern himself with little things like whether Keith is injured. It took only two episodes of butting heads before Keith decided he needed to leave the team so Shiro could lead it properly, and all of one episode before Keith was withdrawing like mad. And Keith is probably going to kick himself hard to find out that Shiro (or Kuron, or mindwarped!Shiro or whoever it is we have right now) is losing time, and feeling off, and having a hard time confiding in anyone.

And…there’s just something kind of real about both of them being kind of equally boneheaded on this front - like, anyone else could probably tell either one of them Hell Yes, You Mean The World To HIm. But they don’t see it, themselves. And while I love to speculate about it, I’m honestly not sure they ever will.