You cannot convince me that Keith likes coffee.
Sure, he’ll force it down his throat in order to stay awake, but it’s torture for him.
Shiro, bless his soul, is oblivious to this. He sees Keith chugging coffee and assumes that the smol bean wants more.
Keith end up going on a WHOLE LOT of alien coffee tasting sprees.
Why are there so many types of disgusting bean water?
Lance, on the other hand, is a whole-hearted Latino boy who grew up drinking coffee. It tastes like comfort and home to him.
But he has enough siblings to know when someone finds a drink revolting.
His niece specifically has a steady dislike of anything that has ground coffee beans in it.
Lance once helped her get rid of a dozen coffee infused cupcakes given to them by some relative they weren’t aware they even had. (Their garden produced an extra healthy yield that year thanks to the baked fertilizer they buried in the dirt.)
Anyway, the next time he sees Keith struggling to down a cup of caffeine, he snatches it right out of the guy's pale hands and dumps it right down the sink.
Keith yells at him thoroughly, but Lance can see the obvious relief on his face.
Lance shakes his head and makes Keith a new drink:
Hot chocolate complete with marshmallows, sprinkles, and a generous dollop of strawberry whipped cream.
Thank goodness Hunk keeps a fully stocked fridge.
Lance hands the sugary drink to Keith, and tries very hard not to explode at the wide-eyed wonder on Keith’s face as he takes his first sip.
The next morning Lance is woken up by a bleary-eyed Keith asking for (demanding) more hot chocolate.
And is it even possible for Lance to deny that hopeful, pleading, chocolate deprived face?
Yeah, hot chocolate mornings are pretty common.
(Lance is having a really hard time hiding his blush whenever Keith gives him a rare smile paired with a milk mustache, though.)
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im amused by those comics I sometimes see that are just two people talking without making a specific point or having a clear punchline so here’s mine
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Crush
Almost everyone in the fandom seems to agree that Lance made up the rivalry because of his repressed emotions towards Keith. Because he's a disaster and Keith's a disaster and their emotions are a disaster.
I feel like Keith would have some kind of sorting system in his head where he categorizes people by their importance and threat level. Shiro, for example, would be given an importance of 5/10 (that's really high) and a threat level of 3.5. (that's pretty low, Shiro may look scary, but Keith learns really fast that he's just a pile of emotional mush trapped in a disproportionally body.)
All of the students at the Garrison are automatically categorized as -3/10 in both importance and threat level, except Griffin who gets a -300/10 for importance and 8/10 for threat level. (he's evil and is absolutely asking to be punched anytime he opens his mouth, except adults will favor anyone over Keith so Griffin can get away with crap while Keith has to deal with his temper, hence the high threat level.)
So, Lance would automatically be place really low, and once you're placed low, it takes a whole lot to get Keith to notice you. He doesn't do it on purpose, even the categories are automatic and he barely thinks about it, also he's face blind and really honestly hates the Garrison and has only stayed this long because Adam is nice and a good cook (and Shiro is kinda ok too).
At most, maybe Keith would go, 'hey that dude's kinda cute,' at some point while people watching, but he thinks that fairly often and would forget the face in seconds. (He's not picky, okay?)
Like, compared to Keith, Lance's obliviousness is NOTHING. All it would take for him to realize the dumb crush is for Hunk to go, 'Lance, bud, I love you, but please for the love of garlic knots, stop your aggressive flirting with Keith.' And Lance would get all red and sputter out, 'What??? No! Keith? Ew? What no! He's so hot-headed and stubborn and can't talk to people to save his life, and sure objectively his eyes are kinda pretty and he seems to have some messed up-half dead sense of humor in in him and, oh. oh. OH.' And that would be that. (Pidge would pop her head into the room and pass a $10 bill to Hunk. (Where did the money come from? What are they gonna use it for in space?? No one knows.))
Keith would be some sort of repressed demiromantic or maybe he just doesn't give enough of a crap about people or maybe he gives too much of a crap and all of his feelings are too muddled up for him to identify the crush. Whatever it is, he does not get it till Shiro grips him by the shoulders and yells it in his face.
And then Keith can't look at Lance without his whole face turning red.
He's a mess.
They're both huge stupid messes.
And the team is sick of them.
(Keith moves Lance's threat level up to 38/10)
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