Fitz Vacker is Nothing New, Taylor Swift, Rory Gilmore coded

-Expectations and the promise of perfection. 'They tell you while you're young, girls go out and have your fun' Balancing precariously on a tightrope that was always too thin. 'Then they hunt and slay the ones who actually do it' A rope that was never strong enough to hold anything more than dreams. 'and my cheeks are growing tired, from turning red and faking smiles' Realizing reality is heavy and the rope is fraying. 'Am I only biding time, till I lose your attention?' It's a long way down. And people are betting on the moment you break a sweat. 'Will you still want me, when I'm nothing new?'

Keefe Scencen is Matilda, Harry Styles, Lorelai Gilmore coded

-Expectations and the promise of rebellion. 'And you're trying to lift off the ground with those old two wheels' Dangling precariously off a tight rope 'Nothing about the way that you were treated every seemed especially alarming till now' and white knuckling it to the other side. 'So you tie up your hair and you smile like it's no big deal' But the wind through you hair feels like flying, and you don't know how to land. 'You can let it go. You can throw a party full of everyone you know. And not invite your family 'cause they never showed you love' Never feeling fully secure, one misstep away from plummeting into the abyss. 'You don't have to feel sorry for leaving and growing up.'

They're on the same rope. But Fitz is too afraid to look down, and Keefe too is scared of what he'll find if he looks up.

Hi! I have two questions for you and it would be awesome if you could answer them! 1. If you could change anything about the pre existing Kotlc books what would you change? E.g. Alvar is not evil, Dex dies, Sophie and silvery never meet, etc.. 2. If you could write the next Kotlc book what would the plot be? What would happen? (The answer can be as short or long as you want, a sentence, paragraphs, bullet points or other! Have fun!

Oh boy of course I’d love to answer these, anon! 

1. This one is pretty tricky...I feel like everything would be less straight, mainly, but if I had to chose just one thing it would either be making Sophie canon bi or giving Fitz a better character arc.

2. OK SO 

I think I’m going to do bullet points because I like bullet points. Fair warning I am very sleep-deprived and not entirely coherent. I will type up a better version of this tomorrow but here:

- Sophie and Oralie find out what’s in the cache- which turns out to be Very Helpful and clues them into how the Neverseen were able to use that fancy stone to change Keefe.

- Keefe wakes up and manifests as an inflictor (which is my headcanon for his ability)

- Keefe starts training with Bronte (which is less of a trainwreck than one would expect, but still a little bit of a trainwreck. It basically ends up beingKeefe, t-posing in the doorway: hello parental figureBronte, not looking up from his coffee: good morning problem child.)

- Lady Gisela tries to check on how Keefe is doing with his new ability, but she’s careless and they’re able to capture her. 

- They try to extract information from Gisela, but she refuses to tell them much.

- Fitz gives Sophie another apology and starts to grow more as a character because my boi deserved better.

- Sophie never finds out who her bio dad is because I have no idea.

- Ultimately they form a plan of some kind to trap Vespera (potentially using Amy as the bait or something of the sort), which succeeds. At some point during the battle Sophie enhances both Keefe and Bronte and the three of them take down a lot of the Neverseen as an inflictor trio of terror because they deserve it.

- Oh and at some point Oralie gets to bitchslap Fintan because she deserves to slap him. This isn’t relevant to the main plotline but it’s included because it would be awesome. 

- Because of Sophie and Oralie’s actions in opening her cache saving a bunch of people, the Council decide to open some more of the caches. They find out a shitton of stuff that’s really important and while they are risking their sanity, it turns out to be worth it.

Anyways that’s where the main story ends I think but if I were to do an epilogue:

- The Black Swan’s plan for how to handle humans turns out to be ‘make humans one of the intelligent species again’

- The Council comes clean about a bunch of stuff and then decides to contact the humans. (With some forceful convincing by Sophie)

- also they un-ban pyrokinesis, also with convincing by Sophie, surprisingly supported by Bronte. (Because his brother and/or best friend, depending on whether Pyren bros is canon in this, went insane because he couldn’t use his power, also based on Bronte’s past decisions in not supporting the ability restrictor it seems like something he’d support.)

- Elves make contact with humans, which is surprisingly not a shitshow. Or at least less of a shitshow than one would expect.

- The humans end up an intelligent species again and a lot of disaster is averted.

- Sophie never does end up registering for matchmaking but that’s okay, she gets to marry whoever the fuck she wants anyways because Fitz and Keefe don’t care (and Sokeefitz is canon in this ofc).

- everyone gets therapy because they need it

AND THEY ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER AND NO ONE DIES BECAUSE I’M SOFT OKAY

Keith’s Galra Biology

Anon: (1/?)What kind of huge changes do u think keef will hafta get used to after he goes full galra? (I was reading your trio about it and wanted to know more ^_^)Personally, I think the eyes would be a big one...Like he can't see that well in normal lighting but when it's dark he has vision like a hawk! And then the ears too! Like he's more prone to motion sickness and the mice's squeaks make more sense...Then there's the problem of claws accidentally scratching everything and feet he's not used to!

(2/?) then there's the possibility of a tail, and getting used to that thing moving around and doesn't know control, and fur would be hard to live with when ur used ta plain skin!Especially when u hafta wear clothes over it and what if since his blood is different then it hurts his human heart? Argh so many angsty ideas!!! .·´¯`(^▽^)´¯`·. Another thing... you mentioned, allergies... Can you imagine if he was allergic to his own fur? Then that'd be terrible until he wasn't human at all anymore...

(3/3) so many things! Well sorry for nothing you! The post wanted anima so here I came to talk about sick fics ヽ❨｡^▽^｡❩┘

(cracks knuckles)

We have much to discuss.

I’m assuming when you said the trio, you meant Being Galra: Without You, Teeth and Diet. I have nine more pieces planned out for this series, and I wouldn’t hesitate to add more if the muse strikes me. I’m not gonna tell you what each of them is gonna be, but I will tell you that you hit the nail on the head in your first ask, and I will tell you that the next one is titled “Ears”. It just kept getting put on the back burner because I had requests I wanted to fill, and Being Galra was much more for me than anyone else so it could wait.

The thing about me is that I’m a selective perfectionist. Stuff that interests me and that I’m doing has to be perfect because that’s apparently who I am. And it kind of sucks. But in this context, it’s perfect, because I love Keith, I love biology, and I love fantasy/sci-fi creatures. Imma go down your list one by one Anon, we’re gonna have a grand ol’ time. This post is almost 2000 words long, you asked for it.

We’re gonna talk about the shit we know about Galra biology first. And by know, I mean what we can see.

Eyes. Absolutely, if Galra have night vision, his daylight vision would be much worse. And I’d believe Galra to have night vision to be somewhat canon, because of how goddamn dark all their ships are. Alternatively, since all their shit is purple, they could be seeing a different spectrum than we are (towards violet and ultraviolet). If Keith were to have that, he’d potentially lose some of his infrared and red vision if the size of the spectrum is the same. His suit and lion would be gray to him. I also like to consider the advanced biology option, where Galra are just more evolved and are better than humans in most ways. So he could have 20/20 day and night vision and see past the visible spectrum. But since he’s transforming and the human eye is the most complicated thing ever, any sort of change would probably warp his vision somewhat, making it worse than normal human and normal Galra vision. He’d probably end up with some form of astigmatism and have to wear glasses (can someone art that? I would like that to be art’ed).

Ears. Gotta give you props on this one for being more prone to motion sickness, I hadn’t considered that (me, a sickfic blog, go figure). I might wiggle that into the next piece if you don’t mind. I don’t think the mice’s squeaks would make more sense since they squeak in Altean? Mouse Altean? But they’d at least be a lot louder. I’m more worried about him and the ship. BIG-ASS SHIPS MAKE BIG-ASS NOISES. Maybe the other paladins would tune it out or get used to it, but he’d hear every little gear and crank moving in the vicinity. Not to mention, whenever an actually loud noise happens, his ear drum would have the potential of being completely shot. Again, he’d probably hear into the higher and lower spectrum. Something else to consider: ear muscles. We all like it when his ear twitches or moves to express his emotions, those new muscles would get sore fast. I remember learning to wiggle my ears, and they hurt.

Claws. Could we even call them claws? Maybe just nails? They wouldn’t come in with the initial transformation. They’d grow in afterward just with his nails. His nails would get thicker and thicker, and since I really doubt they have nail trimmers on board, he wouldn’t have any decent means to cut them without getting hella hangnails (and I personally headcanon Keith as doing anything he can to avoid hangnails because that shit hurts). So he’d let them grow. If they grow with him, he’d be able to adjust, and probably not scratch up things as much as he would if they were suddenly just there. It’s just like growing your own nails out, you get used to them as you go. This implies something interesting, though - nails are made of the same stuff hair is. This doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll correlate, but Keith’s hair could potentially be much thicker/rougher. Again, this would happen over time because his hair doesn’t just fall out.

Which brings us to Skin/Hair/Fur. This is the last thing we really know about, and we don’t even know all that much. There’s a lot of variation on Galra skin/hair/fur, etc. Ulaz has a lot less hair/fur than Thace or Kolivan, but that could be a personal preference of his. But he also has these white markings. The white markings could also be part of a Marmora thing, since Kolivan has them, and Thace wouldn’t because he’s a spy. But Ulaz also doesn’t have fluffy ears like Kolivan or Thace. There is no cookie-cutter Galra skin and hair/fur template that we could apply to Keith. But we see across the board that they have both. There’s a clear line on every Galra where the hairline begins. So Keith wouldn’t necessarily be sprouting fur everywhere, but he could certainly get a lot more when he already has it (interpret that however you like). Would he be allergic to this hair? Potentially. There are some instances where the body rebels against its own cells, and that would make life a living nightmare for him. Unless Coran has some wild antihistamines, he’s in for a bad time if he’s allergic to the fur. His skin might turn a shade of purple, and I personally like to think that different Galras have different shades of purple like humans have different shades of flesh color. He would probably lean towards a lighter purple because of the paleness of his skin in the first place. He might also adopt some white markings because he’s part of the Blades (which is also a thing I want to be art’ed). But the thing about skin is that your top layer is completely dead. He’d turn purple after a week or so, or he’d get incredibly itchy and exfoliate it all off in the shower at once.

So here’s Part 2. What we don’t know. And that can be more fun and more infuriating at the same time.

Tail. The only Galra we see with a tail is Antok, and we don’t even really see him. For all we know, he’s not Galra, and he’s just like Keith - a different species with a splash of Galra blood in him to awaken his blade. As fun as a tail would be, I don’t think that would happen. It’s not a staple of Galra biology that we’ve seen so far. But honestly? Give him a tail, I love that shit.

Feet. FEET HAVE BEEN BUGGING ME EVER SINCE S2E8. The suits on the Blades have room for what we could assume would be toe-claws, but the suits also have very decorative pieces all around - the eyepieces, the hoods, the boob-plates. Zarkon’s suit doesn’t have them. But Sendak’s suit looks like he might. Could it be a Blades thing to have room for claws for decoration? Sure. But I’d be willing to bet they have freaky Galra feet under there and I wanna see them bad. Maybe some Jurassic Park velociraptor shit, I’d really love that. That might necessitate a tail for balance, and would help explain Ulaz’s speed when we first meet him on the castleship. If Keith were to adopt these hypothetical feet, his bones would have to shatter and reform, or something like that. Do you remember that version of The Little Mermaid where it felt like every step was walking on glass? Talk to me about The Little Galra.

Allergies. The only one that I can think of that we can pull from canon is lactose. If we assume that Keith has some sort of Asian heritage (not really a lot of evidence except his name), and we assume that the Galra are very similar to our earth cats (again, not much evidence except the teeth and the fur), he’d have a really hard time with milk and other lactose products. But this is all assumption, so it goes in the unknown category. I’ve definitely played with the idea, I think it’s great, but there’s not a lot of things to back it up with. But if the Galra race as a whole can’t tolerate a certain material, it’s likely that would carry over as well. Keith may already have some allergies he has to manage. But consider the idea: Galras being allergic to humans somehow.

Other Internal Stuff. You mentioned blood, which is REALLY FASCINATING. Because bad shit happens when blood isn’t compatible. Even within human standards, the wrong type of blood in a transfusion can kill you. And I imagine Galra blood doesn’t abide by A/B/AB/O +/- rules. So I’d say the reverse of your idea might be true. His heart may physically change, but his blood may stay the same because otherwise blood changing types inside of him would kill him. Other internal organs, I’d LOVE to know about, but we haven’t seen any Galra sliced up and examined, and I don’t think we will. But any shift in any organ would be absolutely hellish to experience for our poor Keith. The same goes for bones and muscle. How dense is Galra bone? Do they have the same muscles as we do?

Other things I love to consider because I’m a HUGE NERD

Evolution of Galra. They’re clearly an advanced lifeform, I can only assume they evolved similarly to us from tiny microbes.

On that note, could they not be a carbon-based life form? They could be silicon-based, or any other element-based. In that case, Keith is FUCKED.

The sheer amount of food Keith would have to eat to keep up with this transformation, especially if he’s growing a tail and weird feet.

He really wouldn’t adopt any Galra mannerisms without being around Galra 24/7. In fact, he might stay away from those because he wants to prove he’s still human and part of the team in all that shit.

It’s very rare for species to be able to cross-breed and have a non-deformed child, much less an alien having enough human biology to birth a human child, assuming his mother was Galra and procreated by human means. That can link back to the evolution and the carbon-based life form thoughts. Legitimately tell me about Keith’s birth, I wanna know exactly what went down in that hospital room.

Galra genitalia, anyone? Keith would probably be infertile, no matter what junk he ends up with.

Brain rewiring for ANY of the traits mentioned above. New tail? Rewire. New ears and eyes? Rewire. If he has weird feet, he may have to learn to walk again.

Conclusion

This is why you don’t ask me about Galra Keith. You get about 2000 words at 1 am. I didn’t expect to write this much about one topic in one ask, but I had a hell of a time.

I totally left out some stuff that needs to be put into consideration. I actually purposefully left some thoughts out because I’m putting it in Being Galra. Is Being Galra going to be as comprehensive as this? Absolutely not, I just wanna put Keith in interesting situations.

Thank you for theorizing with me! If anyone else wants to yell with me about any of these topics or a topic I didn’t mention, please do!