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〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Keith
CHARACTER AGE: 21
SERIES: Voltron: Legendary Defender
CHRONOLOGY: End of Episode 7.1
CLASS: Hero?
HOUSING: With Shiro please? If both of us are accepted :)
BACKGROUND:
wiki link 1
wiki link 2
The wikis are a bit light on history, so here's a quick rundown:
Keith never knew his mother. We later learn that she is a Galra agent from the Blade of Marmora who was stranded on Earth when her ship was shot down trying to protect the location of the Blue Lion from getting back to Zarkon. Keith's father rescues her from the wreckage, they find the Blue Lion, she decides to stay on Earth, and they fall in love. Some time later Keith is born, and for a few precious months they're a happy family. Then more Galra scouts show up. Keith's mother (Krolia) and Keith's father defeat the scouts, but Krolia realizes the only way she can keep her family safe is to leave and work from inside the Galra Empire to keep them away from Earth. Krolia leaves Keith when he is still an infant, so he has no memory of her, only the dagger-like blade she leaves him. Keith's dad raises him but dies on the job as a fireman when Keith is still very young.
From there grows up more or less an orphan. As a teenager he's initially shown as withdrawn and distant when we first meet him, not engaged with anything going on in the class or the demonstration that Takashi Shirogane (Shiro) the Galaxy Garrison's poster boy has shown up to give in order to recruit potential cadets. Despite this, Keith shows a high level of talent for piloting, managing to beat more simulator levels than any of his classmates. It's going well until he overhears his teacher tell Shiro that Keith wouldn't be a good fit despite his talent due to his discipline issues. So Keith steals Shiro's car. As you do. Despite this, Shiro has seen something in Keith and is willing to take a chance on him.
Not long after, Keith is enrolled in the Galaxy Garrison to train for space travel, thanks to Shiro vouching for him. Keith is a very talented pilot, the most talented in his class, but he has disciplinary issues that seemingly escalate after Shiro is lost on the Kerberos mission. Keith is expelled as a result.
After being expelled, Keith lives alone like a crazy desert hermit (conspiracy theory wall and everything), tracking down a strange energy that led him to mysterious carvings of a lion out in the otherwise empty desert. When Shiro escapes the Galra and lands back on Earth, Keith is the one to rescue him from the Garrison (who planned on quarantining the frantic Shiro and ignoring his warnings of alien invasion). From there, Keith and the others track down the source of the strange energy and find the first of the five lions of Voltron. Lance awakens the lion, and Keith along with Lance, Shiro, Pidge, and Hunk flee Earth to draw the Galra invasion force after them, wind up traveling through a wormhole and arriving at the Castle of Lions where they meet Princess Allura who tells them about the Galra and Voltron and informs the five of them that each will be the chosen Paladin of one of the lions. Keith becomes the Paladin of the red lion, Voltron's right hand.
Fighting against the Galra Empire and its leader Zarkon, Keith and the other Paladins wage battles and gather allies. Keith discovers that he isn't entirely human, that he's at least part Galra, and begins training with the Blade of Marmora -- a group of Galra resistance fighting against the Empire. The Paladins eventually manage to defeat Zarkon, but during the battle, Shiro disappears. While their leader is gone, Keith is chosen by the Black Lion as the new leader, despite his own misgivings. He leads Voltron until Shiro seemingly returns. After Shiro has reconnected with the Black Lion, and after a bit of friction rises between Keith and Shiro, Keith chooses to leave Voltron and cede the position as Black Paladin back to Shiro. From there he joins up with the Blade of Marmora full time, still fighting in their war, but no longer a Paladin of Voltron.
Keith continues fighting with the Blades alongside the Paladins of Voltron, but he seems to spend less time with his friends given their missions send them all over the place in separate directions. On one of his Blade missions, Keith meets Krolia and discovers that she is his mother. The two follow a lead on a strange strain of quintessence and wind up journeying through the Quantum Abyss, and two years time passes for them while barely any time passes with everyone else. Keith, through a series of shared flashes of their past, comes to understand why his mother left. The two bond. Keith makes friends with a teleporting cosmic wolf, as you do. Eventually they make it through the Abyss and discover a secret Altean colony that Lotor has created. Then they discover the dark secret that Lotor has been using these Alteans to drain their quintessence and lying about it. Keith, Krolia, the giant space wolf, and their new Altean pal Romelle, head back to regroup with Voltron and tell them Lotor is a dangerous liar.
This goes poorly. Shiro, who has been a clone since his return (surprise), is activated by the with Haggar and controlled. He steals Lotor and takes off. Keith and the other Paladins follow with Keith resuming his position as Black Paladin. He chases after Shiro and confronts him on a cloning facility, full of other sleeping cloned Shiros. Eventually Keith defeats him, severing the mechanical arm that had been the bridge for the witch's control, and the facility crumbles around them. Black saves them both and in Black's consciousness, Keith speaks to the spirit of the real Shiro who has been trapped in the Black Lion since his body died way back when in the confrontation with Zarkon. Keith wakes up in Black, with the help of Shiro's consciousness gets himself back to the others in time to defeat Lotor and prevent reality from tearing to pieces.
Then Allura -- with a bunch of Altean space alchemy magic -- manages to transfer Shiro's consciousness from the Black Lion into the clone body. It's touch and go for a bit, but Shiro's consciousness manages to settle in and he wakes up. And here we are.
PERSONALITY:
Keith is, at his core, very emotional. He feels things strongly and often, and as much as he (sometimes) tries to keep them in check, his emotions tend to rule him, though he learns more control as he grows. Allura calls it out on first meeting him. As the Paladin chosen by the Red Lion, Keith relies more on instinct than planning or logic or even learned skill. This isn't just in flight or in battle, but in his every day life. When we first meet him, Keith is prone to outbursts -- of anger, of frustration, of annoyance. He reacts strongly to just about everything. From his butting heads (repeatedly) with Lance to his going off at various members of his team when there are disagreements, Keith is the one to start yelling rather than try to reason through things. Even when Shiro disappeared (...again...) Keith has a full on breakdown of an outburst at a dinner with potential leaders of the coalition about the fact that they can't form Voltron because Shiro is gone. Later, Kolivan calls him out point blank for letting his emotions get the better of him on more than one occasion. There is a change in Keith recently though, after reuniting with his mother and spending two years getting to know her, he seems to come to a more certain and comfortable place with himself. He still flies on instinct and emotion (none more obvious than when he chases after the mind-controlled Shiro without hesitation) but in a way he's better learned to harness this emotion and use it rather than letting it always rule him.
The truth is, Keith feels deeply and doesn't always easily address those feelings, so they tend to come out in sometimes outburst when he can't keep them in any longer. He also is accused often of being moody, and it is a fair accusation. After the time away from the team with his mother, he does come back more certain of himself and at home in his skin, and this eases some of his moodiness. Some of it. We still see him occasionally snapping (and at a slightly later canon point, battling his way out of an it's-a-small-world-esque carnival ride) and being short-tempered, but he's come a long way.
Historically, Keith has a reputation as hot-headed and leaps first and looks... well. Sometimes he never looks at all. On multiple occasions he's told to stay somewhere and hang back and instead finds a reason or a target to jump in and attack. He tries to steal quintessence. He takes on Zarkon one-on-one in their first encounter. Again, a sign of his growing up is resisting this. When he returns to the team and takes on piloting the Black Lion, he does show more focus and patience (one, as it turns out, yields the other) and concentrates on trying to do right by the other Paladins as they begin to make their way back to Earth. He also managed to forge a deeper bond and connection with his Lion, now that he's no longer fighting the role and who he is.
Keith isn't good at putting on the brakes and backing down. The first time we meet Keith, he's using explosives, breaking in to break Shiro out of Garrison custody and then launching a breakneck escape on his speeder, throwing himself and all his passengers off cliffs, trusting in his piloting skills, but still taking intense risks. He pushes himself through the Trials of Marmora despite the beating he takes, despite everything. When he takes on leadership (reluctantly, when Shiro has vanished), he stubbornly pushes the team into pursuit and battle even when they aren't ready for it. Later, his leadership style settles, and he considers his options and sometimes even defers to others (such as Allura) when they are better positioned to be calling the shots due to knowledge or otherwise. He even seems to come to more of an understanding with Lance, putting some of their more bickery rivaly behind them.
But, he also tends to act with the best of intentions. He wants to end the war, to keep his friends safe. He takes his responsibilities as a Paladin and then as a Blade seriously, though he has some trouble with the Blade's policy of not going back for fallen comrades, of putting the mission before anyone. Keith chastises Krolia at saving his life instead of keeping to the mission, but he's also the one to go back for a fallen comrade or to scurry and defuse the bombs that they had just set because Shiro happens to show up and could be injured. When he returns from the Quantum Abyss, he doesn't hesitate to leap through a closing wormhole alone to pursue the Clone Shiro, willingly risking his life to try to save him even as the clone is trying to kill him. He's then desperate to make it back to the other Paladins, in obvious distress hearing their pain and struggles, enough that he's able to tap into the Black Lion and Shiro's help to unlock a new ability and make it to them on time. For Keith, the priority is the people he cares about and the mission, generally in that order.
Keith has a streak of selflessness in him that seems to permeate everything he does. He can be moody and temperamental and fight with his team, but he will do anything for them. He yells at Pidge when the green Paladin is threatening to leave the team, yelling that Pidge is not the only one with a family, that the whole universe has families. Keith is wiling to fight for the universe, even if the truth (so far as he knew it at that moment) is that he has no family waiting for him. Later, Keith is fully ready to sacrifice himself by flying his fighter into a ship to stop the Galra druids from exploding a planet and taking out countless lives, including the Voltron paladins. At the last minute someone else intervenes, but Keith is fully ready to sacrifice himself for the greater good and for those he cares about.
During the Trials of Marmora, however, Keith is very nearly ready to sacrifice his duty in order to find out about himself, and about his family, but as he starts to see the consequences of it (within the artificial mindscape the Trials created) and later in the real world, Keith is willing to give up that chance and surrender the blade that is literally the only thing he has left from his parents. It's this acceptance of who he is and his willingness to give up this piece of himself that awakens the blade and lets him pass the Trials. There's still conflict in Keith, and a tension that builds because of it before he leaves Voltron to work with the Blade full time -- but even that choice is one motivated by what he thinks will be best for everyone, for the other paladins. Eventually Keith does connect with this part of himself, by joining the Blades and meeting his mother, he puts to rest some of the inner turmoil that he's lived with for so long.
Once someone earns Keith's loyalty, there aren't any lengths he won't go to for them. This is most evident with Shiro. Keith has a tendency of dropping everything -- in simulation, in battle, in missions, to go to the Black Paladin's aid. But then, even if the history between them hasn't been fully elaborated on in the series, it's clear that Shiro is one of the most important people to him. Keith tells Shiro that his life would be very different if he'd never met him, refuses to believe that Shiro is gone and insists that Shiro never gave up on him so he can't give up on Shiro. His relationship with the other Paladins is also evidence of this. Initially, Keith holds people at arm's length. He's even the one to suggest, a bit coldly, that when Allura is captures that maybe bringing Voltron to Zarkon even to rescue her is a bad idea. As time goes on, this changes, and Keith comes to see the other Paladins as important friends and family.
Before finding himself swept up with the other Paladins and Voltron, Keith has spent a lot of time alone. His mother left before he has any memory of her, and his father died when he was very young. He got himself kicked out of the Garrison after the Kerberos mission disappeared for "discipline issues" and lives by himself in a small shack in the desert. Keith has had too many people leave him -- by choice or otherwise -- and tends to hold the world at arm's length, with a few exceptions. But this also translates into some social awkwardness. He never really seems to know how to deal with some of the more playful casual moments with the other paladins (seriously Lance, that cheer makes no sense and you are all professionals stop making laser noises), though he's certainly shown himself able to joke and tease and laugh with his friends as well, he's still the least likely to participate in the sillier teenage shenanigans. Even later, he still resists letting loose and relaxing at the Clear Day fair, though he certainly seems to still enjoy flying and training.
Over all, Keith has come a long way. At heart, he's still very emotional and not always sure how to approach people, but his confidence and comfort in who he is has grown. He's stepped into his position as a leader and come to trust and rely on the friends and family he's found out in the reaches of space. He even (later than his canon point but not very long after) manages to make nice and apologize with Iverson at the Garrison, admitting that he hadn't been the easiest cadet to deal with. He's dedicated and loyal, but can be stubborn and difficult still.
POWER:
1. Paladin of Voltron (canon power)
As a Paladin of Voltron, Keith comes in with his Lion (the Black Lion) who he has a mental connection with. The Black Lion will be reduced in size to the size of an actual Lion instead of a giant spaceship. He also comes with his Paladin Armor (capable of sustaining him in space and/or under water, scanning and technical readouts, communications, energy shield generation (a small shield that appears usually on his left arm), jet pack (small bursts of thrust or maneuvering in space, not enough to fly in atmosphere). He also has his bayard, the black bayard that in Keith's hand takes the form of a sword.
2. Cosmic Wolf Pal (canon power)
Keith's big fluffy space-wolf who glows a little bit and can teleport. The wolf is also capable of teleporting objects and/or people with him as long as they are all in contact. Teleport is limited to short distances (no more than a quarter of a mile) though line of sight is not necessary.
3. Healing (non-canon)
As a non-canon power, healing! Keith will basically be able to feel injury/illness in those around him and can heal by touch. This take a lot of energy, and he's going to have a learning curve on how to use it.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[The video turns on showing a young man, a scar streaked across one cheek, dark hair falling in a genuine mess around a fairly intense gaze. Keith doesn't look uncomfortable, exactly. He's too used to mission communication and being on screen for briefings between Voltron and the Blade and the coaltion or otherwise. But he doesn't look at ease or like this is going to be a social call. There's the sense that he's treating this very much like business, like a mission briefing.]
We all come and go through the Porter.
[Yup straight into it.] That makes it some sort of gateway, one that spans between multiple realities. Back home, in the universe I'm from, I've known a couple things that could do that. But nothing on this scale.
[Not even close.] But even on a smaller scale, it's been... dangerous. Travel between realities weakens the walls between them. The rifts that form, they can't be good.
[Maybe that's stating the obvious.] From what I hear, weirder things keep happening here, showing up where they shouldn't exist.
[A pause as he puts together the best way to ask this.] Has anyone looked into how the Porter works? Or how to turn it off if something goes wrong?
[And on that cheery note, he's done.]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
TDM threads
FINAL NOTES: Keith will be bringing his space wolf (included as one of his powers given the pup's ability to teleport). He's also coming with his/his mother's blade.
NAME: Daisy
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〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Keith
CHARACTER AGE: 21
SERIES: Voltron: Legendary Defender
CHRONOLOGY: End of Episode 7.1
CLASS: Hero?
HOUSING: With Shiro please? If both of us are accepted :)
BACKGROUND:
wiki link 1
wiki link 2
The wikis are a bit light on history, so here's a quick rundown:
Keith never knew his mother. We later learn that she is a Galra agent from the Blade of Marmora who was stranded on Earth when her ship was shot down trying to protect the location of the Blue Lion from getting back to Zarkon. Keith's father rescues her from the wreckage, they find the Blue Lion, she decides to stay on Earth, and they fall in love. Some time later Keith is born, and for a few precious months they're a happy family. Then more Galra scouts show up. Keith's mother (Krolia) and Keith's father defeat the scouts, but Krolia realizes the only way she can keep her family safe is to leave and work from inside the Galra Empire to keep them away from Earth. Krolia leaves Keith when he is still an infant, so he has no memory of her, only the dagger-like blade she leaves him. Keith's dad raises him but dies on the job as a fireman when Keith is still very young.
From there grows up more or less an orphan. As a teenager he's initially shown as withdrawn and distant when we first meet him, not engaged with anything going on in the class or the demonstration that Takashi Shirogane (Shiro) the Galaxy Garrison's poster boy has shown up to give in order to recruit potential cadets. Despite this, Keith shows a high level of talent for piloting, managing to beat more simulator levels than any of his classmates. It's going well until he overhears his teacher tell Shiro that Keith wouldn't be a good fit despite his talent due to his discipline issues. So Keith steals Shiro's car. As you do. Despite this, Shiro has seen something in Keith and is willing to take a chance on him.
Not long after, Keith is enrolled in the Galaxy Garrison to train for space travel, thanks to Shiro vouching for him. Keith is a very talented pilot, the most talented in his class, but he has disciplinary issues that seemingly escalate after Shiro is lost on the Kerberos mission. Keith is expelled as a result.
After being expelled, Keith lives alone like a crazy desert hermit (conspiracy theory wall and everything), tracking down a strange energy that led him to mysterious carvings of a lion out in the otherwise empty desert. When Shiro escapes the Galra and lands back on Earth, Keith is the one to rescue him from the Garrison (who planned on quarantining the frantic Shiro and ignoring his warnings of alien invasion). From there, Keith and the others track down the source of the strange energy and find the first of the five lions of Voltron. Lance awakens the lion, and Keith along with Lance, Shiro, Pidge, and Hunk flee Earth to draw the Galra invasion force after them, wind up traveling through a wormhole and arriving at the Castle of Lions where they meet Princess Allura who tells them about the Galra and Voltron and informs the five of them that each will be the chosen Paladin of one of the lions. Keith becomes the Paladin of the red lion, Voltron's right hand.
Fighting against the Galra Empire and its leader Zarkon, Keith and the other Paladins wage battles and gather allies. Keith discovers that he isn't entirely human, that he's at least part Galra, and begins training with the Blade of Marmora -- a group of Galra resistance fighting against the Empire. The Paladins eventually manage to defeat Zarkon, but during the battle, Shiro disappears. While their leader is gone, Keith is chosen by the Black Lion as the new leader, despite his own misgivings. He leads Voltron until Shiro seemingly returns. After Shiro has reconnected with the Black Lion, and after a bit of friction rises between Keith and Shiro, Keith chooses to leave Voltron and cede the position as Black Paladin back to Shiro. From there he joins up with the Blade of Marmora full time, still fighting in their war, but no longer a Paladin of Voltron.
Keith continues fighting with the Blades alongside the Paladins of Voltron, but he seems to spend less time with his friends given their missions send them all over the place in separate directions. On one of his Blade missions, Keith meets Krolia and discovers that she is his mother. The two follow a lead on a strange strain of quintessence and wind up journeying through the Quantum Abyss, and two years time passes for them while barely any time passes with everyone else. Keith, through a series of shared flashes of their past, comes to understand why his mother left. The two bond. Keith makes friends with a teleporting cosmic wolf, as you do. Eventually they make it through the Abyss and discover a secret Altean colony that Lotor has created. Then they discover the dark secret that Lotor has been using these Alteans to drain their quintessence and lying about it. Keith, Krolia, the giant space wolf, and their new Altean pal Romelle, head back to regroup with Voltron and tell them Lotor is a dangerous liar.
This goes poorly. Shiro, who has been a clone since his return (surprise), is activated by the with Haggar and controlled. He steals Lotor and takes off. Keith and the other Paladins follow with Keith resuming his position as Black Paladin. He chases after Shiro and confronts him on a cloning facility, full of other sleeping cloned Shiros. Eventually Keith defeats him, severing the mechanical arm that had been the bridge for the witch's control, and the facility crumbles around them. Black saves them both and in Black's consciousness, Keith speaks to the spirit of the real Shiro who has been trapped in the Black Lion since his body died way back when in the confrontation with Zarkon. Keith wakes up in Black, with the help of Shiro's consciousness gets himself back to the others in time to defeat Lotor and prevent reality from tearing to pieces.
Then Allura -- with a bunch of Altean space alchemy magic -- manages to transfer Shiro's consciousness from the Black Lion into the clone body. It's touch and go for a bit, but Shiro's consciousness manages to settle in and he wakes up. And here we are.
PERSONALITY:
Keith is, at his core, very emotional. He feels things strongly and often, and as much as he (sometimes) tries to keep them in check, his emotions tend to rule him, though he learns more control as he grows. Allura calls it out on first meeting him. As the Paladin chosen by the Red Lion, Keith relies more on instinct than planning or logic or even learned skill. This isn't just in flight or in battle, but in his every day life. When we first meet him, Keith is prone to outbursts -- of anger, of frustration, of annoyance. He reacts strongly to just about everything. From his butting heads (repeatedly) with Lance to his going off at various members of his team when there are disagreements, Keith is the one to start yelling rather than try to reason through things. Even when Shiro disappeared (...again...) Keith has a full on breakdown of an outburst at a dinner with potential leaders of the coalition about the fact that they can't form Voltron because Shiro is gone. Later, Kolivan calls him out point blank for letting his emotions get the better of him on more than one occasion. There is a change in Keith recently though, after reuniting with his mother and spending two years getting to know her, he seems to come to a more certain and comfortable place with himself. He still flies on instinct and emotion (none more obvious than when he chases after the mind-controlled Shiro without hesitation) but in a way he's better learned to harness this emotion and use it rather than letting it always rule him.
The truth is, Keith feels deeply and doesn't always easily address those feelings, so they tend to come out in sometimes outburst when he can't keep them in any longer. He also is accused often of being moody, and it is a fair accusation. After the time away from the team with his mother, he does come back more certain of himself and at home in his skin, and this eases some of his moodiness. Some of it. We still see him occasionally snapping (and at a slightly later canon point, battling his way out of an it's-a-small-world-esque carnival ride) and being short-tempered, but he's come a long way.
Historically, Keith has a reputation as hot-headed and leaps first and looks... well. Sometimes he never looks at all. On multiple occasions he's told to stay somewhere and hang back and instead finds a reason or a target to jump in and attack. He tries to steal quintessence. He takes on Zarkon one-on-one in their first encounter. Again, a sign of his growing up is resisting this. When he returns to the team and takes on piloting the Black Lion, he does show more focus and patience (one, as it turns out, yields the other) and concentrates on trying to do right by the other Paladins as they begin to make their way back to Earth. He also managed to forge a deeper bond and connection with his Lion, now that he's no longer fighting the role and who he is.
Keith isn't good at putting on the brakes and backing down. The first time we meet Keith, he's using explosives, breaking in to break Shiro out of Garrison custody and then launching a breakneck escape on his speeder, throwing himself and all his passengers off cliffs, trusting in his piloting skills, but still taking intense risks. He pushes himself through the Trials of Marmora despite the beating he takes, despite everything. When he takes on leadership (reluctantly, when Shiro has vanished), he stubbornly pushes the team into pursuit and battle even when they aren't ready for it. Later, his leadership style settles, and he considers his options and sometimes even defers to others (such as Allura) when they are better positioned to be calling the shots due to knowledge or otherwise. He even seems to come to more of an understanding with Lance, putting some of their more bickery rivaly behind them.
But, he also tends to act with the best of intentions. He wants to end the war, to keep his friends safe. He takes his responsibilities as a Paladin and then as a Blade seriously, though he has some trouble with the Blade's policy of not going back for fallen comrades, of putting the mission before anyone. Keith chastises Krolia at saving his life instead of keeping to the mission, but he's also the one to go back for a fallen comrade or to scurry and defuse the bombs that they had just set because Shiro happens to show up and could be injured. When he returns from the Quantum Abyss, he doesn't hesitate to leap through a closing wormhole alone to pursue the Clone Shiro, willingly risking his life to try to save him even as the clone is trying to kill him. He's then desperate to make it back to the other Paladins, in obvious distress hearing their pain and struggles, enough that he's able to tap into the Black Lion and Shiro's help to unlock a new ability and make it to them on time. For Keith, the priority is the people he cares about and the mission, generally in that order.
Keith has a streak of selflessness in him that seems to permeate everything he does. He can be moody and temperamental and fight with his team, but he will do anything for them. He yells at Pidge when the green Paladin is threatening to leave the team, yelling that Pidge is not the only one with a family, that the whole universe has families. Keith is wiling to fight for the universe, even if the truth (so far as he knew it at that moment) is that he has no family waiting for him. Later, Keith is fully ready to sacrifice himself by flying his fighter into a ship to stop the Galra druids from exploding a planet and taking out countless lives, including the Voltron paladins. At the last minute someone else intervenes, but Keith is fully ready to sacrifice himself for the greater good and for those he cares about.
During the Trials of Marmora, however, Keith is very nearly ready to sacrifice his duty in order to find out about himself, and about his family, but as he starts to see the consequences of it (within the artificial mindscape the Trials created) and later in the real world, Keith is willing to give up that chance and surrender the blade that is literally the only thing he has left from his parents. It's this acceptance of who he is and his willingness to give up this piece of himself that awakens the blade and lets him pass the Trials. There's still conflict in Keith, and a tension that builds because of it before he leaves Voltron to work with the Blade full time -- but even that choice is one motivated by what he thinks will be best for everyone, for the other paladins. Eventually Keith does connect with this part of himself, by joining the Blades and meeting his mother, he puts to rest some of the inner turmoil that he's lived with for so long.
Once someone earns Keith's loyalty, there aren't any lengths he won't go to for them. This is most evident with Shiro. Keith has a tendency of dropping everything -- in simulation, in battle, in missions, to go to the Black Paladin's aid. But then, even if the history between them hasn't been fully elaborated on in the series, it's clear that Shiro is one of the most important people to him. Keith tells Shiro that his life would be very different if he'd never met him, refuses to believe that Shiro is gone and insists that Shiro never gave up on him so he can't give up on Shiro. His relationship with the other Paladins is also evidence of this. Initially, Keith holds people at arm's length. He's even the one to suggest, a bit coldly, that when Allura is captures that maybe bringing Voltron to Zarkon even to rescue her is a bad idea. As time goes on, this changes, and Keith comes to see the other Paladins as important friends and family.
Before finding himself swept up with the other Paladins and Voltron, Keith has spent a lot of time alone. His mother left before he has any memory of her, and his father died when he was very young. He got himself kicked out of the Garrison after the Kerberos mission disappeared for "discipline issues" and lives by himself in a small shack in the desert. Keith has had too many people leave him -- by choice or otherwise -- and tends to hold the world at arm's length, with a few exceptions. But this also translates into some social awkwardness. He never really seems to know how to deal with some of the more playful casual moments with the other paladins (seriously Lance, that cheer makes no sense and you are all professionals stop making laser noises), though he's certainly shown himself able to joke and tease and laugh with his friends as well, he's still the least likely to participate in the sillier teenage shenanigans. Even later, he still resists letting loose and relaxing at the Clear Day fair, though he certainly seems to still enjoy flying and training.
Over all, Keith has come a long way. At heart, he's still very emotional and not always sure how to approach people, but his confidence and comfort in who he is has grown. He's stepped into his position as a leader and come to trust and rely on the friends and family he's found out in the reaches of space. He even (later than his canon point but not very long after) manages to make nice and apologize with Iverson at the Garrison, admitting that he hadn't been the easiest cadet to deal with. He's dedicated and loyal, but can be stubborn and difficult still.
POWER:
1. Paladin of Voltron (canon power)
As a Paladin of Voltron, Keith comes in with his Lion (the Black Lion) who he has a mental connection with. The Black Lion will be reduced in size to the size of an actual Lion instead of a giant spaceship. He also comes with his Paladin Armor (capable of sustaining him in space and/or under water, scanning and technical readouts, communications, energy shield generation (a small shield that appears usually on his left arm), jet pack (small bursts of thrust or maneuvering in space, not enough to fly in atmosphere). He also has his bayard, the black bayard that in Keith's hand takes the form of a sword.
2. Cosmic Wolf Pal (canon power)
Keith's big fluffy space-wolf who glows a little bit and can teleport. The wolf is also capable of teleporting objects and/or people with him as long as they are all in contact. Teleport is limited to short distances (no more than a quarter of a mile) though line of sight is not necessary.
3. Healing (non-canon)
As a non-canon power, healing! Keith will basically be able to feel injury/illness in those around him and can heal by touch. This take a lot of energy, and he's going to have a learning curve on how to use it.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[The video turns on showing a young man, a scar streaked across one cheek, dark hair falling in a genuine mess around a fairly intense gaze. Keith doesn't look uncomfortable, exactly. He's too used to mission communication and being on screen for briefings between Voltron and the Blade and the coaltion or otherwise. But he doesn't look at ease or like this is going to be a social call. There's the sense that he's treating this very much like business, like a mission briefing.]
We all come and go through the Porter.
[Yup straight into it.] That makes it some sort of gateway, one that spans between multiple realities. Back home, in the universe I'm from, I've known a couple things that could do that. But nothing on this scale.
[Not even close.] But even on a smaller scale, it's been... dangerous. Travel between realities weakens the walls between them. The rifts that form, they can't be good.
[Maybe that's stating the obvious.] From what I hear, weirder things keep happening here, showing up where they shouldn't exist.
[A pause as he puts together the best way to ask this.] Has anyone looked into how the Porter works? Or how to turn it off if something goes wrong?
[And on that cheery note, he's done.]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
TDM threads
FINAL NOTES: Keith will be bringing his space wolf (included as one of his powers given the pup's ability to teleport). He's also coming with his/his mother's blade.
