Red and Blue make Purple

*whispers* saw ur angst pidge and keith headcanons so HOW ABOUT ANGSTY KEITH AND LANCE HEADCANONS

bc i don’t know if u want romance or platonic headcanons im gonna go for the gold and do ambiguously both! as patron saint of platonic love it is only right that i live up to my title…

*plays numb by linkin park* ok so

lance and keith are sort of…in this weird limbo where neither of them thinks the other likes them which is due mostly to the fact that keith is very impersonal and lance takes everything personally. bad combo. like skittles and ramen. my sister ate that once.
so lance realizes one day when he sees keith talking to the others that he’s just…like that. it’s probably nothing personal because he’s the same with everyone else too, so he feels a little better.
but keith never gets that closure because he doesn’t ask and he doesn’t know what to look out for, what indicates that lance likes him or at least, doesn’t hate him
and even though keith seems recklessly confident in his own abilities sometimes he doesn’t actually like himself that much, and he doesn’t really think his life has much purpose
like, he lived in a desert shack alone and no one noticed…he could just drop off the face of the earth and it wouldn’t matter
and when the blue lion is found he does just that
so one day they’re in a battle and it’s getting ugly and this galra is coming at lance so fast and lance is just frozen with fear thinking “oh god oh god” but then no pain ever comes
because it wasn’t lance who got hit
it was keith
and lance is just going “why”
and keith is hurting real bad but he manages to say “they’re waiting for you back home.” and lance’s heart breaks into a million pieces but he knows he has to focus on getting keith to safety
keith survives but nothing is ever quite the same after that
lance keeps trying to do nice things for keith just because he wants to and keith is like “you don’t have to pretend you like me. it’s okay.” and lance is so hurt!! he’s so hurt because he means it!! but keith doesn’t get that. he’s the kind of guy who says “what was that for” after he gets hugged and when ppl are like “just ‘cause” he’s like “just ‘cause what”
keith thinks…lance is really admirable and when he sees him being so close to everyone else his chest aches. he wants to be right there with him.
once in a while keith gets an ache in his hip where he got hurt really bad protecting lance and lance sees him wince when he walks and just feels so so awful inside, sick and cold and nauseous
keith keeps pretending he never risked his life for lance, which is really not something you can just pretend didn’t happen, so lance asks him about it
“why did you…take that hit for me back there?“ and keith is just like “you’ve got a family to get home to.” like he didn’t just offer up his life so that lance could hopefully, maybe see his family again one day, like it’s a completely logical explanation and maybe it is…but it shouldn’t be because keith matters too
“what about you? what about the people waiting for you on earth?” and keith almost laughs because like, that’s ridiculous? and he’s just like “i’m pretty sure no one even noticed me missing.” and that makes lance mad and he’s like “i noticed. when you left the garrison i noticed immediately. i noticed that you were gone then, and i thought about it all the time. i missed you.” and keith doesn’t really know what to say to that so he’s just looking at lance. really, really looking at him for once.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.