Despite being someone who’s very closed off because he’s afraid of getting hurt, Keith always wears his heart on his sleeve when it comes to Shiro.
He didn’t hesitate calling for Shiro when he thought Shiro was going to leave him (his hallucination in Blade of Marmora).
He said to Shiro that he’ll save him, “as many times as it takes.”
He said “I love you.”
That his “life would’ve been very different without you.”
He went against orders to call off the bombs, despite having been warned by Kolivan to not let his emotions cloud his judgement, just because Shiro was there.
He begged Shiro to come back to life because he couldn’t deal with losing Shiro again.
He admitted he has issues opening up because he experienced loss as a child. For Keith to allow himself to be so vulnerable with a man he’s lost so many times before, that shows a level of trust and yearning that makes me so damn emotional.
Keith’s love for Shiro is so unrestrained that it goes against the self-preservation method he’s built up to protect himself from heartbreak. To him, loving Shiro is worth the risk.
Not for anything, but on a subconscious level, Keith always knew Shiro had merged with Black’s consciousness. He does this very curious thing that whole time he’s piloting Black where he never refers to her as her own separate entity, but rather, an extension of Shiro. “I know this is what you wanted for me, Shiro. But I’m not you. I can’t lead them like you.” “Please, no.” “This one’s for you, Shiro.”
He talks to her like Shiro’s right there, like he can speak to him through her. Shiro says that he and Keith had the deepest connection, that only Keith could ever truly reach out to him through the astral plane. “I tried to warn the others about the imposter on Olkarion, but our connection wasn’t strong enough.”
Quintessence sensitivity and his unfathomable love for Shiro was a pretty formidable match. Keith’s heart led him right to Shiro, even if he didn’t fully realize it yet.
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