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@kkhrtvtron : did you guys finish  the latest chapter??  honestly, i expected better from lovix  but, eh, the recent chapters  have been bringing out the worst in everybody, especially  the symbolism in the new art 【 the lightening with the respective chara colors on one side, the  then black; meaning a dark side (?) & the  red eyes, which i’ve safely assumed means they’ve been affected by the liberosis  plant from the witch 】 is crazyy—like suddenly all the characters we’ve instantly assumed the best of have some secret dark side that could very well tear everything the teams worked on down,, in one go. i’m generally more excited to see how kei is gonna react to what lovix did to leandro  but well just have to wait and see....

 

ps/: new art inspired by this chapter coming out soon :) 

 

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@leandro_lover8000: k always on that good koosh with these theories i might tweak out..??????;,,

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@suathinker: LIKE IT MAKES SENSE????? ESPECIALLY  WITH RYDŌ AND HOW HE DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP LEANDRO YET WAS THE ONE WHO TOLD KEI LIKE... its  giving possession!!!! 

 

@keitittysuckaa: brah. rydō cannot be possessed i wil jump 

 

@savevifromcaitlynn2025: we cant have SHIT!!!!!!!

 

@seviikalicker: legitimately js crode. Bye. 

@ventiiiiv: LMFAAOO

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@ibunnyvan: thank you K we all saw in unison!!!!!! ( ω-、)

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@viioxven: thank you K

 

@iluvrgirls: THANK YOU K!! 

 

@leandro.bbgtruther: THANK U K! 

@keitittysuckaa: thank you k for ruininf my mental heatlh (again)/hj

 

@BE0M_gyuiv: ty k xc 

 

@keiarchives: thank ya my brother in christ 

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keith idly scrolled  through his Twitter, brain beyond  mystified & astonishingly melted  having spent the last—what  felt  like and  had to have been—at least ten years drawing on his  phone.

he didn’t even have to but it’s what kept him out of alcatraz & the psych so he did what he had too. even if it pissed his brother off finding him at 2am in the living room eating cheerios, dry—straight out a cup, cause shiro found that detail pretentiously important?—with his fingers moving an expediously along impossibly  blistering speeds across his screen, in a what keith liked to call—an artists induced frenzied state of madness & mental unawareness—

a state plan ol’little shiro would just not get, so yeah.

plus, sometimes it was a commission, something that paid him so, hey, he did what he had to! keiths life moto

anyways—there keith lied, brain melted & fogged, scrolling through Twitter seemingly braindead to the world around, pressing likes to the couple qoute tweets he actually agreed with, on his latest post—revolving around chapter cxxxvii which keiths brain barely processed  because WHAT?!

maybe he seemed calm but the ravenette could assure those around he was not. not by a long shot because what kind of fucked up universe was this? like come on? chapter cxxxvi was already a doozy half the fandom wished to forget because what do you even mean the leader—shui was being mind controlled all this time & has been since chapter cxxviii ?? 

but no, nonononono altean studios loved fucking up the lives of their dearest readers and decided they needed more pain, more angst & then some more pain because, hey, there was never too much of that?

but keiths swooshed up brain could barely acknowledge the fact he’s been laid out on his bed for the last six hours so no, he did not have time to fuck himself up—even more!—over the fake lives of characters that did not exist 

so he continued to numbly scroll through more qoutes liking and typing out quick replies to the ones he found most interesting 

keith honestly didnt twitter for connections or whatever “oomf”s meant, no. keith got twitter because his brother was sick of asking keith a normal question and him responding by  ranting about the recent chapters & how it affected his life for the worst

for hours on end

 & keiths old haggly brother could not keep up with the eevu 【 ever expanding voltron universe 】  he convinced him to make a little twitter account where others who actually knew what the hell he was talking about could correlate & connect with him

 so for shiro it solved two problems—the late night five hour long rants of keith barely breathing & him using up his daily, like, five thousand word count up on eevu and it gave keith that somewhat necessary social interaction the ravenette swore he didn’t  need 

so when keith downloaded twitter, bitterly may i add, he didn’t want to make friends or... oomfs....he’d rather make threads apon the thousands of ideas he had on his eevu. 

so when he posted his first one around the time chapter xiii just came out, the thousands—& keith wasn’t one for dramatics so he ment thousands, of voltron fans & theorist likewise agreed and smashed the follow button

like little malnourished mice to a block of cheese;the eighteen year old was preferably shocked 

in one night he had over 4k followers, all from one of his threads—one of the dozen of threads he had 

& the rest was, in simple words, history.

K. 【 keith’s online persona 】was a fresh new bottle of wine and voltron fans where alcoholics, every thread, every theory and post; favored and adored, getting at least over 5k—on the average 

and hey, maybe that wasn’t much but keith didn’t know shit about social media so he could only presume getting that many likes on every single tweet was not normal

he’d continue to grow his account sparsely, posting once or twice a day about his reactions and based opinions on the chapters—going on gravely  esoteric digressions about the characters & how he felt about them

and it was like that for awhile—till he posted kei fanart

 & then it all blew up.

49.2k likes 【 & counting, of course 】 it ending up rounding. keith had expected a couple thousand but his account surmisingly grew when even bigger voltron accounts reposted & shared his art all round; before keith even went to sleep he had at least 10.k new followers 

and by then he was known all around vtron twitter—K was huge and the people ate it up

keith honestly didn’t expect his account to grow much after the 4k—especially with his relatively blunt & dry personality but people didn’t seem to care—some even liked his what they called his......“mysterious nonchalant aura” ??so, whatever that  ment 

his followers barely knew shit about him but they liked him, truly liked him. all he had was a simple bio & a love for voltron but they loved him?

K.

he/him

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autistic 

following: 1                   followers: 20.7k 

the “autistic” which he only added after one of his followers asked for more information on the mysterious K & why not put the only reason he was even obsessed with voltron

the only reason the deep hyperfixation existed 

besides keiths new life in fame, he also started up commissions because apparently becoming eighteen ment he had to like, start working, or whatever?

so why not earn money with the thing he loved most? 

even though it caused him great pain & suffering keith purely loved it 

even if it was the reason he was—and had been for half the day, laid out on his bed put on temporary  bed-arrest because “sleep was necessary” and blah blah blah

so here; the famous K rested, lazily scrolling on twitter dot com. mindlessly in his own thoughts, floating through the motions of getting up & finally eating and then not moving a muscle to do so  

 until, a rather....,, peculiar..tweet struck his interest

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lancylance! :3

 

@lancylancesfancypants : i cant STAND THIS GUY!!!!!!!!!!! i just KNOW he thinks hes sooo cool for his little  analogies like i wasntthe one who first brought up the fact rydō was probably possessed and has been around the same time as shui! always stealing from small accounts this asshole...., fuck you K!! think youre so nonchalant & tough for having a one letter name and ominous aura,....,

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@pidgengineering: why i oughtaa>:(((( !!!!!!! lance you embarrass me more and more everyday and thats impressive 

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@ihrtmy_robotgf: bet he shook his fist around  writing that 

 

@alluring.ra: come on, ! i think lances rather peculiar personality differentiates him from the many!

 

@rorourboat: ALLURA IS TOO KIND 

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@hunkydory: lance....:( what is it this time,,,,

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@starg0thlvr: bro dont even know

 

@nnnbeatmyas.s: LMFAAOOO 

 

@curt1ss: hunk so tired  of lances shit bro

 

@pidgengineering: WE ALL ARE!!!!!!! 

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@keitittysuckaa: lance and his parasocial rivalry with K is actually hilarious icantbreathe 

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the ravenette jumped up in surprise 

he.... keith didn’t  know how to feel... scared ? befuddled ?? irate ? 

whatever,  that didn’t  even matter because all he knew is that he was confused—very confused 

who the hell was lancylance ?? and why’d he seem to hate him so much? he’d never even seen this guys account yet he seemed  quite unfavorable of keith 

especially with the whole proclaimed  rivalry keitittysucka 【 he was never thinking those words again 】mentioned 

nobody else in the replies seemed to agree with lancylance’s wild tangent so maybe he was just one of those kooky people on twitter but,... keith just couldn’t shake the feeling something was....—different ...about this guy?

lancylance!:3

( –> follow )

lance ! he/him ﹒﹒★  17  bisexual  cuban  american  !!  

#sharklover 🦈 &  #voltron fanatic  >_^ 

 following  1.6k                  1.9k followers 

his pinned tweet was a rather cool edit of leandro keith swore he’s seen before somewhere but didn’t have time to pay attention too since apparently half of lances page was full of more wild tangents—all containing him

was this guy some weirdo stalker? was he obsessed with keith ?? what was going on and why did this lance dude seem to care so much!

keith wasn’t  the type of guy to go through all the qoutes on his tweets—especially the ones with over 10k+ likes so maybe lance's  tweets flew over his head as over exaggerated threads apon threads of theories but no,.... they weren’t. 

& not to be pretentious, but keith didn’t much attention to others on twitter, so accounts with 1.9k—compared to keith’s 20.7k, didn’t stick out very much.

even though lance came across as someone whose constantly ingaged with his tweets.....,,,this was weird.

so, keith continued to spend at least another  hour and a half on twitter—though this time, scrolling  through Lance's  14.7k tweets.

and yeah, lance tweeted about all kinds of shit but whenever K posted kooky lance would come out of his little hole & go on and on about how much he hated keith

Every. Single. Time.

and  apparently everyone in the replies acted  like it was  routine, like it was just such a normal & typical  lance thing to do

some of lance's keith related tweets even had over 5k+ likes, people laughed and made jokes and some even made memes—calling lance's one sided rivalry with k the funniest inside joke within the fandom

some other fandoms even used lance's rather silly tweets as meme templates for characters & stuff alike 

how did keith never find out about this?? he had a rival? how did he not know this? not know of his  own rivalry 

lance had at least over 2k of his 14.7k tweets detected to keith & their appointed rivalry

frankly & in all honesty—What The Fuck?

keith, at this point had been sat up in his bed and leaned up against his wall—doomscrolling with his mouth slightly agaped in shock 

his eyebrows raised incredulously and questioning, brain plowing over the suggestions on what he where to do but he had no idea how to take this on? wha—..what did he even do !? 

did he take action and fend for himself  or did he relax and let lance continue on his wild bloviating rants—letting him assume k just couldn’t be bothered enough to care ??

would that only piss lancylance off more? only instigating more hate tweets towards k 

did he leave it alone; let the fire burn itself out & leave the water to the truly desperate  and cynical? 

and while, yes,  keith would’ve loved to sit in his bed for another four hours with his brain working overtime—beyond fried & a little crisp, running over the motions & propositions of what to do with a Twitter rival he didn’t know existed

but, as keith might’ve mentioned, he was tired  and hungry, probably stinky and in rather dire need of a shower & food 

moreover, he’d been thinking too much to blink anymore so this was definitely a situation for tomorrow keith—a cleaner more well fed keith

whose brain could function, he hoped 

so the ravenette turned off his phone and dozed off into dreams of twitter rivalries and random brunette’s; tall lanky with dark hazel eyes & tuffs of short hair 

....rather,,...cute brunette’s....& that, was that 

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it was around four am when keith woke up—it was random and jarring and keith felt like he could’ve slapped about ten different people silly but it happened. having slept half the day away he truly didn’t need much sleep so, waking up eminently early was his bodies way of telling him “hey! we better get up or i’ll lose my mind ”

so the ravenette; nevertheless slomberous & fabulously somnolent did get up, with his feet dangling off the side of his loft bed the boy stretched his arms wide and sighed

he climbed down the small ladder and to his phone on his desk, keith evidently sighed once more at the fact it truly was four am and his body wasn’t being dramatic, maybe he slept yesterday away but it really didn’t feel like it 

keith usually—on a good day....—woke up at five thirty, so four wasn’t  explicitly jarring  but today was,,,,.. different ??

he would’ve taken an ice cold shower, ate some eggs, drunk some coffee, go on a short four mile run with shiro around their neighborhood; take off for the gym  & spend the rest of his day at home doodling away

but maybe, since shiro was old 【 twenty–six 】and it was four am  he would skip out on the neighborhood run today and just complete the rest of the routine he’d spent the last year building up like usual

expect, as keith mentioned today, was different and for some reason the urge to spend his day differently was pivotal & torrid 

the ravenette sat on the steps of his ladder, feet dangling, shoulders tense destitute of an actual stretch, eyes foggy & blurred with a backward memory of dreams—all the while keith wondered what he would do  

he never went off routine

it would itch & burn and keith wasn’t ready to scratch red into his skin so he never ever did but..,,,.. things where changing and maybe his old therapist was onto something with that whole—change is Okay!—stuff 

so you know what ?? maybe keith would change today—and so what ? maybe it would burn, sting and nip at the barriers of his mind; vexatious.

vexing with ire but, he would 

so, unsteady, unstable  and half asleep,  the ravenette made his way to his bathroom for an early morning shower—hey, he was changing it up but, he also  stank & a first thing in the morning rinse was actually requisite to keiths routine of keeping safe & sane 

so halfway blind with his feet tripping among themselves, keith dizzily made it to the bathroom and aggressively flipped the switch on—& there stood in the mirror; an insanely pale boy with eyebags that could be rival a raccoon & actually have a chance to win 

the boys hair was a mess of black and white fuzz, tangled with rest and knotted fore a good brush it deeply founded a necessity in

his face was oily and grimmy and his mouth tasted wrong—as if something died in there ten years ago and finally rotted into one with his gums last night

keith needed to shower 

needed rid his skin of the sin that seemingly seeped in last night 

so the ravenette began his early morning routine—he turned on the faucet & splashed his face with the ice cold water that filtered through, now more aware and awake keith stumbled around the bathroom for facial cleanser

keith hadn’t originally used any soap to wash his face—relying on good ol’ water to do the trick but after moving in with shiro he was later recommended—forced—by his brother to use something, anything on his face 

so now keith was accompanied by a whole assessment of cleansers, soaps and oils in the morning, because apparently he wasn’t ugly and should take better care of himself or somethin’

eventually he found the Goat milk & soy bean cleanser shiro forced him to use and slathered it all over his face & neck

then wobbled around for his toothbrush & began his average morning routine 

now, shiro swore keith was stupid for his little routine but it made PERFECT SENSE!  for keith to do what he did every morning—it made sense for him to smear the cleanser everywhere, put on the cat–eared headband shiro bought him, and brush his teeth while the cleanser supposedly seeped & trickled into his skin because that’s what it did,, right?? 

it only made sense for him to put the cleanser on then brush his teeth with it on so it could sink into his skin—it wasn’t  stupid! it was perfectly logical and shiro was just crazy !!  

 【 re: old  】

keith finished up brushing his teeth & splashed his face clean of the cleanser then traipsed towards the shower, turning the faucet all the way to the right—ice cold.

the water trickled out faint before bursting into brumal cold streams of ice—the water spackled at keiths skin and burned in all kinds of ways—so the ravenette took off his cat themed pj’s—courtesy  of shiro, & forced himself into the small box of frigid water before his body could turn from the bitter prickle at his skin

keith stood under the shower head—relishing at the water seeping in & the sin that once was, gone again.

as...., whatever happened last night simply rid itself off his body, the ravenette pondered what to do what his sudden empty day—obviously  he could draw a bit...maybe write a little something on twitter—

& OH MY GOD, TWITTER. 

the boy jumped back & gasped in shock—as if the water turned to fire—at the sudden remembrance of his proclaimed  twitter rivalry 

KEITH HAD A RIVAL

ON TWITTER DOT COM? 

“WHAT THE FUCK?”

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after the teen finished up washing his hair, himself & his brain from the mess it had became over the last two days—keith ran out the bathroom and to his phone, in a desperate—dire need to make sure he hadn’t  accidentally gotten high last night and make up the whole rival thing in his crunked out little mind in urgency of entertainment 

keith slid under the frame of his loft and practically flew into the seat at his desk, snatching his phone out of the charging socket and into his hands 

quickly typing out his password, keith opened his recent tabs and smashed onto twitter the second that stupid X emblem loaded 

rushing to the search bar, keiths fingers slipped from the water that dripped off his hair; he didn’t have time to be bothered though, bigger problems where at hand & keith—someone who needed the answers to everything, was on a mission

last night was a fever dream and he’s like....40% sure he didn’t make up the whole lancey-lance thingymajig but he also couldn’t remember his apparent rivals username for the life of himself

what was it... what was it 

his brain turned itself inside out on ways to make lance into a username but all the lances that popped up weren’t it—he vividly remembers lancey-lance’s pinned post being a leandro edit and none of the guys he founded had that

+ the lance he was searching for was definitely a vtron fan and once again—none of the other lances where

either keith was thinking to tame in sake of ways to transform lance into a username and lancey-lances name was something completely out of pocket, something that was weird and made no sense because of course the guy who had an rivalry—a twitter rivalry with a man he didn’t know—had some wack ass username 

so, keith being incredibly acute savvy and astute if he must—searched for something stupid 

something only an idiot with rivals on twitter dot com over theories for fake characters; made up in the light of science fiction, from the mind of the aberrant—would have & type with unalloyed pride 

& lancylancesfancypants—was just that.

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after keith thoroughly re–stalked lances account and officially made sure this was his self proclaimed rival, keith had no idea what to do—one again.

should he actually just ignore him? let lance rant himself inane over him, watch it go down; never mention k ever knew about him and forget about his existence, that would unequivocally piss lance off even more though...which could be funny since lances rants where incredulously silly and stupid and they made keith laugh because;  who the actual hell had the time ?? 

oh man

did his followers know? he did share A LOT of followers with lance..,,, maybe he could tweet about it—like, you know, those indirect tweets people posted thinking it wasn’t all to conspicuous they truly only wanted a specific person to see; all the while their followers fretted over themselves ?? 

 that could work, + lance would definitely see it since he appeared to have a rather bizarre sixth sense for knowing whenever K posted, either that or he actually just had his notifications on

because lancey-lance was weird

gosh... keith  didn’t know stuff like this even happened ?! 

the ravenette sighed, it was barely rounding five & he honestly was beyond contentend to stay in his room all day and decipher whatever he where to do with all of this but keith needed to get out—he’d probably like, die or something if otherwise and that was like,, bad..

maybe keith would go on that run, come home eat something then spend the rest of his day on twitter—it was a sound plan and much more then he’d been doing for the last couple days so it would certainly satiate him

satiate that itch the one that would undoubtedly burn cresents into his skin; the itch his nails—torn & broken—wouldn’t be enough to purge 

keith had a feeling today was gonna be weird, besides diverging off his usual routine something else burned through his skin, cauterized itself on the brink of his mind, it settled odd and keith didn’t like new things but he would ignore it

in favor of getting up, and starting his day

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pidge 

 

＠pidgengineering : 

all  those in favor of me beating lance up, say I.

 

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@ihrtmy_robotgf: I :3

 

@rorourboat: I  ^ ^ 

 

@alluring.ra: Ooohh i say I !!! ;D

 

@keitittysucka: I!!! I I I I I I I IIIIII

@savevifromcaitlyn2025: whyre  yall so excited to see lance in peril ?? freaky ass shit

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@hunkydory: pidgeee :// cmon :( ;(((( how about we all just try to get alone okay? :( 

 

@hunkydory: I 

 

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@lancylancesfancypants: ?????????

@lancylancesfancypants: I JUST WOKE UP ..;;#??**,;;@# 

 

@pidgengineering: got bored

@pidgengineering: zzz  wanted to see if the rest of twitter hated you like i do 

@lancylancesfancypants: I HAVENT EVEN HAD TIME TO BE ANNOYING  >:O

@pidgengineering: i actually felt the second you gained consciousness and that alone pissed me off, so yeah, youve already  annoyed me 

@lancylancesfancypants: be lucky we live far far away from each other.

@lancylancesfancypants: ur about two feet tall and i totally wouldve stomped you out YEARS AGO 

@pidgengineering: 118.101.26.235 

 

replying to @pidgengineering —> @savevifromcaitylnn2025 already on my way 

@lancylancesfancypant: H0L Y  SHT 

@ihrtmy_robotgf: sorry bout them:/ pidge messed up on one of her projects and being mean to you (and u specifically, btw) is the cure to their anguish

@lancylancesfancypants: ??!!SHE JUSTLEAKED MY IP ADDRESS!

 

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lancey-lance :3 

 

@lancylancesfancypants : WHY ALL THE LANCE HATE?????  :(((((((((((((( :((( what has little ol’lancey-lance ever done  :<

 

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@alluring.ra: you broke my favorite makeup pallette, you caught my bathtub on fire (?) , youve ripped off chunks of my hair, you cut me “bangs” in fourth grade that turned out to be whatever the hell you do to your hair, you got me hacked after trying to stalk this guy you “hated” on my phone but got roped into a online pyramid scheme AT FOURTEEN just to get along with him, you got me grounded after eating poisonous altean shrooms out my backyard ....more 

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@lancylancesfancypants: DAMN!  for real?? 

@lancylancesfancypants: FORGET I ASKED FORGET I ASKED...

@keitittysucka: everyday i thank god i dont and NEVER EVER WILL KNOW LANCE IN REAL LIFE FUCCCKK ?????????

 

replying to @alluring.ra —> @hunkydory: ???????? HE DID WHAT ????  

@ffviz4ck: i wanna be gagged but i’m not, because of course lances weird ass did allat

@pidgengineering: LMFAAOOOO

@rorourboat: i  cant imagine what alluras gone through due to that monster ;(( my poor  princess 

 

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lancey-lance :3

 

@lancylancesfancypants : forget i asked :/

 

ALSO! daily j*lmno hate tweets will be back on as scheduled 

 

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@ibunnyvan: he did nawt just censor a letter. 

 

@keitittysucka: he did

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& that was that, lance decided. 

it was already seven am and he’d spent the last hour on twitter, the one before he used to do his whole morning routine—which was inordinately eminent. he usually woke up around the edge of six and prayed among the stars he at least made it out the door by eight, which, never happened but hey lance wasn’t one to be deterred that easily.

yet,

today he planed on skating to shcool because his mom was sick, she didn’t  trust him to drive because apparently, his drivers license ment nothing & her car did.

+ the bus was actually hell & his sister left at seven am—on the dot, which, was NOT happening because perfect took time and lance, as usual; every day, was perfect.

so the brunette hurriedly slipped his phone into his pocket and ran around his room collecting whatever he deemed necessary for the day—his headphones, obvi ?? tinted chapstick, a rubber band for fidgeting and his shark trinket—the cool awesome he won at an amusement park like, ten thosand years ago, and held dear to his heart ever since

he stretched towards the mirror on his wall and checked himself out—plucking off odd strays of fuzz that somehow surpassed his line of vision; pushing down wayward strands of hair and a couple cowlicks 

& allura was right...,,—oh god. she was right, he totally had micro bangs

at first the boy sighed, far too dramatically fore the sudden light shed on this reality, the reality his haircut was indeed quite wack. he was probably the only person in the whole galaxy its personality alone didn’t ruin—completely 

his shoulders slumped in defeat and he sighed long, full of inextinguishable tribulation and pure anguish

and yet,,...—the more lance stared the more problems his eyes found, his haircut suddenly looked even sillier and his face morphed into... something,, something ugly and wrong—something he couldn’t beileve wasn’t obvious before

like his eyes finally opened; truly opened and the visionary memory of himself; the one that was burned onto the lilum of his skull, & had been for the past seventeen years was suddenly,,. incorrect.

the brunette tried to steady himself and took a breath, force himself to beileve he looked fine & he was just being dramatically exhausting towards himself

& that his stupid mirror was just being crude; mean, a jerk even—because it was to early and seeing the boys face first thing wasn’t as pleasant as he wished 

lance knew he looked fine—that it was ok and he probably should look away and leave but oh god he was hideous ??

.......

and oh my god it was to early for an existential crisis, lance had places to be and classes to fail.

so he took a breath and pushed aside the thoughts of whatever was wrong, in favor of getting up—and starting his day