captainharunanase:

Hey peeps I noticed something…

So barlee posted those amazing sheith sketches earlier and I noticed something.

Shiro has the outline of what looks like two stripes on his grad uniform. Which of course we knew from the flashbacks in s6 but now look at Keith.

He also has what appears like two stripes on his cadet uniform. Interesting right?

In this shot you can see the lines more clearly as both Shiro and Keith having two stripes on their uniforms.

This could imply that Shiro must have gotten his third stripe before the Kerberos mission and hadn’t been a third stripe grad student for too long before going missing?

And that could also mean Keith must be in the same level as Matt? Or he had just gotten his second stripe before Shiro left?

And Matt could have graduated first and was about to start his grad program once he came back from Kerberos like Shiro did?

‘Cause we know Hunk, Lance, and Pidge had two stripes at the start of s1 (well Pidge hacked her way in but that’s besides the point) and everyone assumed Keith got kicked out of the Garrison before the Trio got their second stripe.

But it looks like Keith DID succeed in obtaining his second stripe but lost Shiro and through his grief took his frustration out on Iverson who definitely didn’t help his mental state with whatever he said about Shiro.

Either way now we know what stripe Keith had in that Holt Family flashback.

Keith had two stripes and Shiro must have just gotten his third one right before the Kerberos mission.

smolsarcasticraspberry:

it’s some kind of magic? Altean Shiro meta

throughout the series, Shiro has done some pretty amazing things, and i’ve pointed at some of those things and said “that seems magical, i’m just saying”. and usually people go “haha good ol’ Berry back on the crack theories again” - but then later in the show we get Allura doing the exact same thing, but in a context that specifically frames it as Altean magic or alchemy. this has happened so many times now that i get to compile a list of things that Allura has done in a magical context that Shiro has also done, at some point:

the Eye Glow

i talk about this magical Eye Glow thing so much i should just rename my blog ‘ask me about eye glows’, and i’ve already compared Shiro’s Eye Glow with Black to Alfor’s Eye Glow with Red in 3x07 (see {here} and {here}). S6 gave us a scene of Allura doing the same thing - but this time, it was specifically framed as something magical. it happens when Allura supercharges Voltron with her Altean magic, and calls on the Paladins to lend her their energy. once she’s done this, she is able to command Voltron (”form sword!”) and create an alchemy circle centred around Voltron’s heart:

so alongside the fact that (a.) King Alfor, known Sacred Altean, did the same Eye Glow as Shiro; (b.) Pidge didn’t do it when she bonded with Green; (c.) Keith {also didn’t do this in S6, but rather Shiro did it through Keith when he helped Keith make Black’s wings}; and (d.) Allura, another Sacred Altean, did the exact same glow with the exact same framing – you can add the fact that when Allura did this, it was presented as a magical power-up that allowed her to use her alchemy through Voltron.

and like… Shiro did this Eye Glow at the end of S2 when he unlocked Black’s wings, and {i said at the time i thought it was magical}, but dude… D U D E.

lighting up the cockpit

Shiro did this in 2x13 when he used the black bayard to form the Blazing Sword, and it looks like a flood of quintessence/energy running through the cockpit. Allura does a very similar thing in 4x06 when she’s supercharging Voltron for the first time with her Altean magic.

forming Blazing Sword

up until S6, we hadn’t seen Blazing Sword since Shiro formed it in 2x13, using the black bayard (and making the cockpit light up). i used to think Blazing Sword was a Shiro-only weapon, but then Allura formed it in the sequence where she’s using her magic. this is the same sequence in which she does the Eye Glow. this makes me think the Blazing Sword is actually a magical Altean weapon.

there are some other things that Shiro has done throughout the series that i think might be magical - {i have a whole list here} - but these three are things that (a.) Allura has definitely also done; and (b.) when Allura did them, the show presented them as something magical involving Altean alchemy. we don’t have an in-canon explanation for how Shiro was able to do these things; he does them and people say “that’s cool!” or “how did you do that?” but Shiro never knows how, and the show just lets it slip by without comment. but the fact that Allura later does similar things in her arc about discovering her Altean alchemy makes me think we are headed for a reveal about Shiro’s Altean heritage and his own gifts.

see also: {proof from S6 that Shiro is part-Altean} and {all the proof of Altean Shiro leading up to S6}

keithsgurl:

keithsgurl:

Why is Kallura great?

Because if Keith and Allura would be together (which they will probably be in the future) then it would be a character development for Keith (and for Allura,too but i will make a separate post for Allura)

Keith, the boy who had trust issues, who thought that nobody will ever love him, who was scared to care about people bc everybody left him in the end…he learnt to trust others, he realized that he’s loved and that he’s cared for

Keith, the boy who never thought that Allura will like him, who thought that the girl that he actually admires hates him, who thought that Allura will never be friend with him bc of his galra heritage…he didn’t just win Allura’s friendship, but he also won her love which he doesn’t think he deserves it.

Keith, the boy who never thought about getting the girl, who never tried to “win” Allura, who thought that Allura is way out of his league…he got the girl.

Keith, the boy who never thought he would be happy…he got happiness.He has a family and people that care about him and he has Allura, the single person that never stopped believing in him, even when he stopped.The girl that was there for him and that fought for him.The girl that never gave up on him.

So don’t tell me that Kallura is problematic or awful.This ship is the most beneficial ship for the characters, for the story, for Keith’s character development.

Just imagine yourself having a person there for you who fought for you, who never gave up on you, who believed in you even when you didn’t.Just imagine having a person that loves you, even tho you never thought somebody would ever fall for you bc you don’t see anything good in yourself.Imagine that you finally have someone who didn’t leave you when they saw your bad parts.Imagine having the person that you loved but who you thought was waaaay out of your league.

Having that person would completely change your life.Because now you have something to always go to.Something good,something you never expected to have.

And that’s exactly Allura for Keith.Allura is the good in his life and seriously, doesn’t Keith deserve happiness and everything great?

I’m actually really proud that I wrote this post and this post is still accurate and will forever be true

longhairpidge:

So I wanna talk a little bit about Keith’s personal growth as a leader and how grounded he is this season, because I absolutely love it and how it shows how his recovery from personal trauma through the development of a strong relationship with his mother helped him mature in ways that he might not have been able to achieve without her presence.

“I left you once. I’ll never leave you again,” Krolia says when she meets Keith, and though he doesn’t know it at the time, she means it— and she stays. It’s the start of the establishment of a foundation and the kind of solid relationship Keith has never once had in his life, that’s going to change his life forever.

Because Keith is the product of the kind of emotional trauma and abandonment that you wouldn’t want to wish on your worst enemy, and despite his natural talent as a paladin, his drive, and his focus, it isn’t until he has a chance to reconnect with his mother and heal the holes and gaps he’s had in his life that he’s truly able to unlock the potential and confidence that has been buried within him until now.

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