We're back for Year 3! Our event where it's Shiro's turn to save Keith welcomes fanfic, fanart, and other media featuring Shiro coming to Keith's rescue! The event is modded by Sheith fans but genfics are also welcome.
Posting will begin May 19, 2024. If you remember to tag us here or on Twitter, we'll keep sharing your contributions through June 30 (and probably beyond).
This year's prompts:
Day 1 - Shiro saves Keith from boredom
Day 2 - Shiro saves Keith from an attack/enemy action
Day 3 - Shiro saves Keith from embarrassment/unwanted attention
Starting to plot out my @shirosaveskeith fic because May isn't that far off. It'll be for the Day 5 theme and a multichapter sequel to "Symbiosis". If I can come up with little one-shots for the other days, I will.
thinking about how Shiro never really knows for sure what Keith thinks about him. By the time they meet, Keith's already closed off his emotions. Shiro's not naive enough to think that Keith doesn't still have them, but he's suppressed them to the point where he might as well be emotionless. Nothing good has ever come from them, and they just get in the way of what the Garrison wants him to be- a weapon.
A weapon has no need for emotions. No need for attachments. All a weapon has to do is obey the orders its given.
But Shiro? Shiro cares about Keith. There's so much that he wishes he could give him that he can't. Until one day, suddenly he can. Aboard the Castle of Lions, they couldn't be father away from the Garrison if they tried. They're also in the middle of a war, which... isn't ideal for convincing a kid that they're not actually a weapon, but he'll make do. At least Allura and Coran are willing to help him.
The truth is... Keith doesn't know what to think about Shiro. Some tiny part of him that still recognizes his own emotions realizes that he thinks of Shiro differently from the other members of the Garrison's command. He tries to not dwell on it- he's his commanding officer, especially out here. He's glad It's a good thing he's here. He's not sure what he would do without him who he would take orders from. Allura? It's not like he can't think for himself, but he's not... used to it. There's always been someone to give him commands.
Except for Shiro.
It's not Shiro who commands him to take an Altean pod and use it to ram the black lion to keep it out of Zarkon's hands. It's not Shiro who commands him to face down Zarkon himself either, in a situation where he has the clear disadvantage. But Keith does that anyways. It's easy enough to rationalize- the black lion is critical to Voltron. To the universe. He is not a paladin, but Shiro is his commanding officer- therefore their mission is his mission.
He's not a paladin. This is the only thing he can do to protect Shiro the mission.
(The red lion quietly observes. Not yet, it decides. There's a spark, but it's quickly doused again.
I am once again thinking about Keith being protective of the people he cares about. He’ll take a bullet, stay up all night to watch over, and tear people apart with his bare teeth to protect a loved one.
I have finally finished my fic for @shirosaveskeith Week! I may come back to this story and add a new work, but that would require upping the rating. In the meantime, thanks to everyone who participated with art or fic and everyone who gave it an audience.
good evening, thinking about weapon AU again. thinking about how Shiro still promises to never give up on Keith, even when it seems like there's not much of a person left in him to save. Maybe others don't see it, but Shiro does. He saw the slight way Keith's eyes went wide when he saw the stars again for the first time in years. Keith might have himself convinced that he's nothing more than a living weapon, but Shiro knows that in there somewhere, is still a person who wants to break free.
He'll find him. He'll keep holding out that hand for as long as he can.
(In the end, it's Keith who pulls him out with that hand. He found himself on his own, and then rescued him.
I hate how voltron writers completely discarded the fact that Lance was the only one who actually wanted to pilot voltron, being a pilot was his DREAM
when they joined voltron shiro just felt obligated to save the world, pidge wanted to leave, Hunk was just an engineer, and Keith was a dropout, but Lance worked so hard to be a pilot he WANTED to be one,
and the writers decided that it would make sense for him to completely drop that dream to be a farmer because he "matured"???? GRAHHH