catch-all

[spaceassassin]

WHO: Keith + "friends"
WHERE: The Netherworld...? LISTEN. All over.
WHEN: December
WHAT: Event shenanigans + other
WARNINGS: Language??


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Comments

lance pls. lance really need to give the mullet life a shot. perhaps he'd change his opinion

[spaceassassin]

[ strike two: still using the shiro-clone lingo. or is this strike three? because lance’s dramatics are always worthy of earning a strike. maybe not this time, though. keith will not be saying as much aloud, but there is a certain level of bittersweetness to be found in being confronted with the familiar here. he doesn’t want lance to be here, due to what that means, but since he is here… – well, maybe keith can cut him some slack for old time’s sake. they do, afterall, have some history of bonding moments.

besides, keith can begrudgingly see that his delivery left something to be desired. something something patience; there is an art to breaking bad news. keith’s simply never learned it. why dance around what can and should be said? why waste the time when it doesn’t actually change anything? so his double-back clarification isn’t that much better. only marginally.

he skips over the sigh and goes right to the frown, voice detached with a business-like quality, like he isn’t actually outlining the details of his death. ]

We were fighting in a facility on some asteroid. It started falling apart and… we fell.

[ his shoulders roll up, like a shrug, and then stay tense. ]

I don’t know for sure if I died but… I dunno, not a lot of options to get out of something like that.

[ according to shiro, there had been. black. shiro trapped in black. but keith isn’t sure he lines up with that keith. see, he remembers the freefall and the forearm tightly clasped in his deathgrip. he remembers thinking of arizona and hoverbikes and shiro. mostly, he remembers closing his eyes and thinking, this is okay. that this could be the end and that while he couldn’t let go of shiro, maybe he could let go of everything else in that universe. ]

.... no >c

[particlebarrier]

[ there's precious little that keith has said about the fight with the clone. famously tight-lipped about his personal affairs, team leader hasn't exactly been particularly forthcoming. so even this sliver of information that barely amounts to anything? it holds lance's attention, softening his expression as he listens.

and even so, it's a little close to the cusp of being insulting. would keith really have him believe that an asteroid they were on just conveniently, spontaneously started falling apart? lance sighs deeply, knowing better than to take a shitty hedge personally, but not quite rising above the slight either.

the point being: keith thinks he's dead. and maybe that's true in his reality. maybe it's arguably kinder to let keith think that instead of casually telling him, nah bro. pretty sure we all die a few weeks/years later stranded in deep space without the lions after a fight you instigated with the other paladins.

again, lance wants to sigh, sometimes having to be the mature one really sucks. ]

Okay.

[ he'll let that sit nice and quiet for a beat.

I'm pretty sure Black saves you and the Shiro-clone from that bad situation though because you totally come back to the Castle of Lions with him. Then we had this crazy fight with Lotor where he started ripping holes in our reality and we had to blow up the castle to keep space-time from tearing any further. Then afterwards Allura used magic or something to pull the real Shiro's soul out of Black and put it into the Shiro-clone. [ none of which gets a missed beat, despite the inherent wtf nature of it all. ]And then... then we were going back home. Earth, I mean. To try and regroup after we lost the castle.

[ and finally, he pauses. ]

So uh... definitely not dead in my reality.

[ at least not at that moment. ]