Player: Jami Character: Keith Current Canon Point: End of Season 4, Naxela Updated Canon Point: Season 7, Episode 9
Updated Background: BUCKLE IN.
So when we last left Keith, he was hurtling towards an impenetrable space shield with his cruiser in hopes at making a last ditch effort to break it and stop an explosion from taking out ten solar systems. Lucky for him, at the very last moment Lotor swans in and breaks it for him, saving Keith from becoming splattered space debris.
From there, since Keith is still not a part of the team anymore, he falls to the background and goes back to his Blade missions. We don't see him again until he's with the Blade secretly planting bombs all over the Kral Zera because hey, what a great opportunity to take down the empires worst people, than at a battle royale where they've all gathered to fight over becoming emperor.
It's going great until Shiro shows up with Lotor, which was definitely not apart of the plan. Keith immediately starts trying to deactivate the bombs while the other Blades leave his ass behind because the odds of him actually succeeding are fucking slim. He's not entirely successful and winds up having to bodily tackle Lotor out of the way of a blast by the end of it. He spends the rest of the ensuring chaos fighting off generals and making meaningful eye contact with Axca until Lotor's able to light the Kral Zera himself, declaring himself emperor.
This is not the worst case scenario, but it does create one hell of a power vacuum as factions of the old empire either swear to Lotor or fight for their own power. As such, Keith is assigned a mission to extract an agent out from under one of these conflicts. A high ranking, undercover agent who served as the next in command to a general taken out at the Kral Zera. Kolivan sends Keith off with a lecture about controlling his emotions to which the intention becomes increasingly obvious when we meet this undercover agent.
Turns out she's Keith's fucking mom! Kolivan you absolute bastard. In any case, despite the whole thing going to shit, the two of them make it out by unleashing a experimental hell monster on their attackers. They quickly move onto their next mission while Keith is still reeling from the fact that his fucking mother is right in front of him for the first time in his entire fucking life.
The good news is that their next mission leaves them traveling through space that's concept of time is grossly distorted and broken, and to get to their destination they have to travel right through it on the back of a space whale for the next two years while time doesn't move back home. In that two years, Keith and Krolia get to actually bond and Keith adopts an adorable cosmic space wolf. Once they finally reach where they are going they are surprised to find that it is a weird space compound and the inside of it is an entire colony of Alteans. They meet Romelle who tells them that Lotor brought all of them here generations ago to when they had thought was to protect them from the empire but no, actually, it turns out that he's been using them for awful experiments and that weird spooky quintessence that Keith's been tracking for a few seasons was extracted out of them! Oh shit.
So Keith, Krolia, Romelle, and the Wolf all get the heck out of there to go tell Voltron that Lotor is a fucker and they need to yeet his ass out into space. Which is what they do. They show up, explain what the deal is, and then Allura personally yeets Lotor so hard he bounces several feet off the ground and goes unconscious. Nice. Unfortunately Haggar decides this is the right time to totally override Clone Shiro and so he goes rogue, scoops up Lotor and takes off while the rest of them come under fire. It's a huge mess. Luckily Keith takes up the Black Lion with no hesitation and they form Voltron to fight.
Eventually Clone Shiro and Haggar try to escape through a worm hole and Keith makes it through just barely in time for it to close on him. Keith is then lead to Haggars spooky ass clone lab where he throws down with Clone Shiro. Keith, not entirely realizing its a clone yet, spends the entire fight trying to reason with him. It does become pretty obvious that the clone is doing this against his will, because up until this point, he was pretty damn sure he was Shiro, and its honestly really upsetting.
The fight reaches a dramatic end as the lab breaks apart. Keith is left dangling over a piece of debris holding onto Shiro, refusing to let him go in favor of pulling himself to safety. Accepting that he'd rather die than let go of the one person who believed in him. As it all goes white, Keith instead wakes up on the astral plane and finally talks to the real Shiro.
Shiro explains that he has been fighting a clone this entire time and he also explains that back during season two, he disappeared because he straight up died. The Black Lion has kept his consciousness safe all this time but he doesn't have a body anymore. Keith is pretty upset about this! And also it turns out the rest of the team is having a really hard time holding off Lotor, who's back now. So, Keith has to really get moving back to them before it's too late. Keith unlocks the Black Lion's teleportation wings just in time by going full guren lagann and bursting onto the fight scene. They form Voltron and have an incredibly epic fight with Lotor and his mech.
The fight ends with Lotor trapped on the other side of the quintessence field and with the fabric of reality fucked up beyond all means. To fix the mess, they sacrifice the Castle of Lions to close the breach. Once reality is safe, they settle down on a planet so Keith can address the Shiro problem to them. Allura takes Shiro's essence out of the Black Lion and sticks it in the dying Clone body and Shiro wakes up!! With white hair because somehow he is even more tired now than he was before. The team then decides they need to head back to Earth because the only one who could rebuild them a new castle ship is in fact, Sam Holt.
So Voltron goes on a road trip. During this road trip they find that space is somehow stranger than when they left it. Which, they found out, is because their fight with Lotor propelled them three years in the future and the resulting power vaccuum left by Voltron and Lotor vanishing has left the universe kind of a mess. They learn all this from Axca who has become their ally while fighting off the other two of Lotor's generals who have become space pirates in that time.
They also find that the Blade had been greatly decimated, and they land on a planet following a distress code, which Krolia picked up and recognized as a code only senior blades would know, and find out that one of Haggar's druids had kept Kolivan chained to a ceiling barely alive and used him to draw blades to the druids lair so he could pick them off one by one. That's fucked up!! After defeating this guy, Krolia ends up leaving the team with Kolivan so they could go out and the remaining blades and reform them properly. Keith and Krolia have a very heartfelt farewell, and Keith gives her back her knife as a promise that she will see him again.
They continue on to Earth but are disrupted by a weird ass space storm that leaves them stranded in space without their lions. All of them nearly go mad from it, particularly Keith who just loses his complete shit at all of them over a lot of upsetting reasons! But Hunk is the one able to talk him down and inspire them all to keep it together and eventually they are reunited with their lions in time to finally!!! Reach Earth!!!
Only to find out it's been conquered by Sendak. What the fuck!!
So, very sneakily they get down to earth without their lions and touch base with the Garrison about how everything has gone to shit. Keith makes up with Captain Iverson, Shiro finds out his ex-boyfriend is fucking dead, and Hunk finds out his parents are being forced to work in some awful Galra work camp. It's a huge mess!
Keith is going to be coming back right after he gives Hunk a peptalk about being strong for their loved ones so they can go in and save them at the right time. They hug and then decide to do some sneaking about.
Updated Personality:
Keith's last update left him pretty messy. For a long time he was convinced that he was not meant to be the pilot of the Black Lion and that his sad attempt at leadership was a huge disgrace and he was better off with the blade. He has slowly been recovering from that, but for the most part, that's where he's been.
Coming back, Keith has had the time he needed to sort himself out and work not only on his skills, but also his confidence. The biggest factor in this was Keith finally reuniting with his mother, putting to rest a huge chunk of his baggage about his early childhood. After he came back from his two year vacation with mom, whatever doubts he had about the Black Lion were gone, because when the team asked who's going to pilot with Clone Shiro gone, Keith doesn't even hesitate to say it'll be him.
While Keith is still absolutely a hot headed, stubborn force of nature who is incredibly awkward around people, there's a certain inner peace in him about who he is and where he comes from that wasn't there before. There's confidence in the way he holds himself not present in the Keith he was two years ago. This is a Keith who is able to lead Voltron in a way the rest will follow him. A Keith who is capable of giving inspiring speeches, and reaching out to comfort his friends as well as make peace with someone who wronged him in the past. He's grown into the leader Shiro knew he could be.
Updated Abilities:
Keith spent the last two years training with his mother, who is a senior member of the Blade responsible for training many of it's members. He's seamless in a fight, now more than ever.
He has also learned how to Give A Hug. I'm so proud of him.
Other: He's got a badass scar now, as seen in all his icons.
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Character: Keith
Current Canon Point: End of Season 4, Naxela
Updated Canon Point: Season 7, Episode 9
Updated Background: BUCKLE IN.
So when we last left Keith, he was hurtling towards an impenetrable space shield with his cruiser in hopes at making a last ditch effort to break it and stop an explosion from taking out ten solar systems. Lucky for him, at the very last moment Lotor swans in and breaks it for him, saving Keith from becoming splattered space debris.
From there, since Keith is still not a part of the team anymore, he falls to the background and goes back to his Blade missions. We don't see him again until he's with the Blade secretly planting bombs all over the Kral Zera because hey, what a great opportunity to take down the empires worst people, than at a battle royale where they've all gathered to fight over becoming emperor.
It's going great until Shiro shows up with Lotor, which was definitely not apart of the plan. Keith immediately starts trying to deactivate the bombs while the other Blades leave his ass behind because the odds of him actually succeeding are fucking slim. He's not entirely successful and winds up having to bodily tackle Lotor out of the way of a blast by the end of it. He spends the rest of the ensuring chaos fighting off generals and making meaningful eye contact with Axca until Lotor's able to light the Kral Zera himself, declaring himself emperor.
This is not the worst case scenario, but it does create one hell of a power vacuum as factions of the old empire either swear to Lotor or fight for their own power. As such, Keith is assigned a mission to extract an agent out from under one of these conflicts. A high ranking, undercover agent who served as the next in command to a general taken out at the Kral Zera. Kolivan sends Keith off with a lecture about controlling his emotions to which the intention becomes increasingly obvious when we meet this undercover agent.
Turns out she's Keith's fucking mom! Kolivan you absolute bastard. In any case, despite the whole thing going to shit, the two of them make it out by unleashing a experimental hell monster on their attackers. They quickly move onto their next mission while Keith is still reeling from the fact that his fucking mother is right in front of him for the first time in his entire fucking life.
The good news is that their next mission leaves them traveling through space that's concept of time is grossly distorted and broken, and to get to their destination they have to travel right through it on the back of a space whale for the next two years while time doesn't move back home. In that two years, Keith and Krolia get to actually bond and Keith adopts an adorable cosmic space wolf. Once they finally reach where they are going they are surprised to find that it is a weird space compound and the inside of it is an entire colony of Alteans. They meet Romelle who tells them that Lotor brought all of them here generations ago to when they had thought was to protect them from the empire but no, actually, it turns out that he's been using them for awful experiments and that weird spooky quintessence that Keith's been tracking for a few seasons was extracted out of them! Oh shit.
So Keith, Krolia, Romelle, and the Wolf all get the heck out of there to go tell Voltron that Lotor is a fucker and they need to yeet his ass out into space. Which is what they do. They show up, explain what the deal is, and then Allura personally yeets Lotor so hard he bounces several feet off the ground and goes unconscious. Nice. Unfortunately Haggar decides this is the right time to totally override Clone Shiro and so he goes rogue, scoops up Lotor and takes off while the rest of them come under fire. It's a huge mess. Luckily Keith takes up the Black Lion with no hesitation and they form Voltron to fight.
Eventually Clone Shiro and Haggar try to escape through a worm hole and Keith makes it through just barely in time for it to close on him. Keith is then lead to Haggars spooky ass clone lab where he throws down with Clone Shiro. Keith, not entirely realizing its a clone yet, spends the entire fight trying to reason with him. It does become pretty obvious that the clone is doing this against his will, because up until this point, he was pretty damn sure he was Shiro, and its honestly really upsetting.
The fight reaches a dramatic end as the lab breaks apart. Keith is left dangling over a piece of debris holding onto Shiro, refusing to let him go in favor of pulling himself to safety. Accepting that he'd rather die than let go of the one person who believed in him. As it all goes white, Keith instead wakes up on the astral plane and finally talks to the real Shiro.
Shiro explains that he has been fighting a clone this entire time and he also explains that back during season two, he disappeared because he straight up died. The Black Lion has kept his consciousness safe all this time but he doesn't have a body anymore. Keith is pretty upset about this! And also it turns out the rest of the team is having a really hard time holding off Lotor, who's back now. So, Keith has to really get moving back to them before it's too late. Keith unlocks the Black Lion's teleportation wings just in time by going full guren lagann and bursting onto the fight scene. They form Voltron and have an incredibly epic fight with Lotor and his mech.
The fight ends with Lotor trapped on the other side of the quintessence field and with the fabric of reality fucked up beyond all means. To fix the mess, they sacrifice the Castle of Lions to close the breach. Once reality is safe, they settle down on a planet so Keith can address the Shiro problem to them. Allura takes Shiro's essence out of the Black Lion and sticks it in the dying Clone body and Shiro wakes up!! With white hair because somehow he is even more tired now than he was before. The team then decides they need to head back to Earth because the only one who could rebuild them a new castle ship is in fact, Sam Holt.
So Voltron goes on a road trip. During this road trip they find that space is somehow stranger than when they left it. Which, they found out, is because their fight with Lotor propelled them three years in the future and the resulting power vaccuum left by Voltron and Lotor vanishing has left the universe kind of a mess. They learn all this from Axca who has become their ally while fighting off the other two of Lotor's generals who have become space pirates in that time.
They also find that the Blade had been greatly decimated, and they land on a planet following a distress code, which Krolia picked up and recognized as a code only senior blades would know, and find out that one of Haggar's druids had kept Kolivan chained to a ceiling barely alive and used him to draw blades to the druids lair so he could pick them off one by one. That's fucked up!! After defeating this guy, Krolia ends up leaving the team with Kolivan so they could go out and the remaining blades and reform them properly. Keith and Krolia have a very heartfelt farewell, and Keith gives her back her knife as a promise that she will see him again.
They continue on to Earth but are disrupted by a weird ass space storm that leaves them stranded in space without their lions. All of them nearly go mad from it, particularly Keith who just loses his complete shit at all of them over a lot of upsetting reasons! But Hunk is the one able to talk him down and inspire them all to keep it together and eventually they are reunited with their lions in time to finally!!! Reach Earth!!!
Only to find out it's been conquered by Sendak. What the fuck!!
So, very sneakily they get down to earth without their lions and touch base with the Garrison about how everything has gone to shit. Keith makes up with Captain Iverson, Shiro finds out his ex-boyfriend is fucking dead, and Hunk finds out his parents are being forced to work in some awful Galra work camp. It's a huge mess!
Keith is going to be coming back right after he gives Hunk a peptalk about being strong for their loved ones so they can go in and save them at the right time. They hug and then decide to do some sneaking about.
Updated Personality:
Keith's last update left him pretty messy. For a long time he was convinced that he was not meant to be the pilot of the Black Lion and that his sad attempt at leadership was a huge disgrace and he was better off with the blade. He has slowly been recovering from that, but for the most part, that's where he's been.
Coming back, Keith has had the time he needed to sort himself out and work not only on his skills, but also his confidence. The biggest factor in this was Keith finally reuniting with his mother, putting to rest a huge chunk of his baggage about his early childhood. After he came back from his two year vacation with mom, whatever doubts he had about the Black Lion were gone, because when the team asked who's going to pilot with Clone Shiro gone, Keith doesn't even hesitate to say it'll be him.
While Keith is still absolutely a hot headed, stubborn force of nature who is incredibly awkward around people, there's a certain inner peace in him about who he is and where he comes from that wasn't there before. There's confidence in the way he holds himself not present in the Keith he was two years ago. This is a Keith who is able to lead Voltron in a way the rest will follow him. A Keith who is capable of giving inspiring speeches, and reaching out to comfort his friends as well as make peace with someone who wronged him in the past. He's grown into the leader Shiro knew he could be.
Updated Abilities:
Keith spent the last two years training with his mother, who is a senior member of the Blade responsible for training many of it's members. He's seamless in a fight, now more than ever.
He has also learned how to Give A Hug. I'm so proud of him.
Other: He's got a badass scar now, as seen in all his icons.
Questions: Nah.