Red and Blue make Purple

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I’m calling it right now: This is Keith’s biological father.

Now I know this theory has been floating around the fandom for a long time, but I feel like throwing in my own interpretation of Keith’s parentage and race.

In Episode 10 of the series, we see Keith’s hand get severely injured from his fight to obtain quintessence.

Notice how the skin looks more PURPLE than it is red like you would associate burn marks with? Notice how it looks more like a bruise instead of a horrific burn mark from his enemy’s blast?

What if Keith isn’t just half Galra but also half ALTEAN. Since that could explain why the purple skin he would obtain from his father be concealed on Earth since as Allura put it, “The Alteans were a camelion like race that made for excellent explorers and great diplomats.”

What if Keith has been concealing himself without even realizing it in order to fit in with the population on Earth?

That would explain why he would have no idea of his Alien roots and why he would convince himself he’s a normal human just like his friends.

And that would also explain why his healing rate is faster than his friends and why we see him with no family at the beginning of the series. Because as his description says on his character profile: He’s an orphan.

Now think about this: Why would this Galra soldier be defying Zarkon to allow Team Voltron to escape alive? BECAUSE HE WAS PROTECTING HIS SON.

There’s absolutely no other reason why any of the Galra would allow them to leave unless someone they deeply cared about was among them. None of the team has any deep connections with the Galra empire other than deep hatred, so that cancels out any possibility of a truce or a debt.

Now why do I think Keith is also part Altean? Because even though Allura and Coran speculate that they’re the last survivors of their civilization, they must’ve underestimated their own abilities that they’re BORN with. It’s highly plausible that a young female Altean could escape her planet as a Galra impersonator and slip away to safety. Generations go by and finally we have the fated Altean survivor meet up with a Galra citizen. Who thinks all of the Alteans have been destroyed by Zarkon years ago. But it turns out that it isn’t the case. They get to know about each other and eventually fall in love, committing treason against Zarkon and having a child with both Altean and Galra blood in their veins. That child being Keith.

Zarkon even mentions that his abilities make him fight like a Galra soldier. A compliment that seems to come out of nowhere during the middle of their fight. Now compliments like this can be used as foreshadowing in storytelling and with a ending shot like this with a GALRA SOLDIER saving them.

Now this is just a conspiracy for right now. But this is my long post explaining why I think like this.

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

Red and Blue make Purple

I’d say I was Voltron, but then I’d be lion.