“how High, How High?” By Livennadin Is A Masterpiece And Has Taken All My Uwus♡♡

Why Keith is actually 16+ in the S6 flashbacks and why he’s so small:

Okay, so lets start with this screenshot:

THIS IS NOT AT THE GARRISON. Look at the teacher, she’s in plain clothes, so are the students. This is a high school and Shiro is here to recruit students. Assuming the Garrison works like a Service Academy, it’s like a college and requires a high school diploma. The minimum age for service academies and ROTC programs is 17, and it’s safe to assume that that is the Garrison’s minimum age requirement too. I guess they might make exceptions for extraordinary students, but I honestly doubt it.

This next scene is also not at the garrison, and occurs shortly after the classroom scene:

Now, we know that is Keith’s bike. We also know he and that he can probably fly it at this point. Why does that imply he is at least 16? Because he lives in a group home, and any younger than that and there’s no way he would have a chance to get away and learn. At 16 he could get a license, which his caretakers couldn’t stop him from. Even with a license I doubt he has insurance though, meaning he can’t fly the thing in public.

My personal headcanon is that one of the workers at the home knew about his passion for flying and turned a blind eye when he snuck out to the desert to practice. This person is the same one who points Shiro in his direction, where he sees Keith fly for the first time and convinces him to join the garrison.

It’s this last scene that really has me convinced Keith is in his mid to late teens though:

Here, when he’s sitting outside the teacher’s office with the other kid he presumably got in a fight with. The other kid is obviously an older teenager, and is Keith’s classmate, meaning they if they aren’t the same age they must be at least close to it. How do we know? Look at the gold stripes on their shoulders. The strips mark rank, and presumably how long they’ve been there. They each have one stripe on each shoulder, marking them as younger students. Older students have two stripes. In the first episode the garrison trio all have two stripes on each shoulder, and so does Matt at the launch in Pidge’s flashback.

The stripes are also used for officers. Look at Shiro, in this scene he only has two, and the officer he’s defending Keith to has three, it’s his superior.  At some point Shiro gets promoted because in the picture from the Kerberos news report he has three.

Anyway, back to the point. In this scene Keith also talks about going back to the home. Home refers to a group home for children in foster care. Generally teens that get placed here, usually due to a lack of foster parents or because of behavioral issues, though there can be other factors. I’m not going to go into all that in this post, just wanted to note that these homes tend to house older kids because they are harder to place than younger ones.

So that’s why I believe Keith is 16+, but why is he so gosh darned tiny?

There are a few potential explanations for this:

Keith could just be a late bloomer, potentially due to his Galran heritage. We haven’t been given a lifespan for the Galra, so if they live longer and age slower they probably grow slower too. I mean, Krolia looks the same in the flashbacks as she does now, and 20 years have passed. Keith’s growth could be stunted due to lack of food. He was a foster kid, and it is quite possible he just didn’t get enough to eat, either because there wasn’t enough to go around, or because food was used against him as a punishment. One or two bad experiences could have left him scared to ask for more or take seconds even when offered.

He’s also half Galra. The Galra are also more muscled and most look like they have a very low body fat percentage. Muscle tissue burns two to three times as many calories as fat, meaning Galra need to eat a lot to maintain their weight, and kite need to eat even more, because they aren’t just sustaining what they have they’re adding to it. There’s also the possibility he needed vitamins and minerals to grow that couldn’t be found on earth. His caretakers may have unintentionally been underfeeding him because they were treating him like a human, not a Galra

So yeah, pre-Garrison Keith was tiny, but he didn’t stay that way:

angelic voices here it is! My very first @SheithBigBang fic! This was so fun to write, you guys have no idea. Here are the drawings made by Mel and Lucia for this fic!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/15954230/chapters/37207127

I couldn’t find an A-Z one but this will work! Request up to 5 numbers and a character and I will write some headcannons for you ❤️

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Stories where Keith slowly starts trusting Shiro

Check these out:

Dirt and Iron - Stuff (rosegardenlake) @whoalookingcooljoker

131k. (Mature). Contains: torture, graphic violence.

Keith’s mentor, Krolia, has always warned him from the very beginning: show mercy to a vampire and you’re dead.  They’re snakes, they’re liars, they’ll kill you if you’re stupid enough to ever give them a chance.  As a beloved member of the Blade, Keith’s lived by this.  He’s never had any reason to question Krolia.  She’s always told him how his family was killed by them, after all.

Keith’s a good fighter.  Krolia’s trained him into the perfect weapon.  But when a newly turned vampire doesn’t fight back, Keith hesitates, and to hesitate is to be killed.  But the vampire doesn’t hurt him.  The vampire saves his life instead.  And from that moment on, Keith is gone.

Maybe vampires aren’t as bad as he thought.  Maybe Keith’s not who he thought he was.  Maybe Krolia’s been lying to him all along.

like crashing in slow-motion - amorremanet @amorremanet

31k. (Teen). Contains: self-harm.

After losing the Grandfather who raised him, Shiro throws himself headlong back into life at the Garrison. Desperate to believe that everything is fine, Shiro focuses on his extra studies, on working as Commander Iverson’s TA, on anything but dealing with his grief or giving himself space to mourn. For the most part, his façade fools everybody. Unfortunately for his desire to avoid dealing with his problems, compartmentalizing and denial can only last so long before something has to give.

On the other hand is Keith. A driven cadet who’s earned everything that he has to his name, Keith sees Shiro as little more than a useless pretty boy whose family has a legacy with the Galaxy Garrison. As far as he knows, Shiro’s only gotten so far at the Garrison through a mix of dumb luck and nepotism. Keith’s perfectly content not to question any of his preconceived ideas about the Garrison’s resident golden boy. Unfortunately for his resolve, he keeps catching Shiro in vulnerable moments and spotting details that other people miss.

Visitor from the Sky - rosegardenlake @whoalookingcooljoker

10k. (Teen).

The Garrison has captured an alien.  It’s the very first time.

Shiro is sleeping peacefully in his room at the Garrison when it happens, bundled warmly in dreams as light explodes through the night sky and the ground quakes and quivers.  A mile away, in the darkness of the desert, a boy who’s not all human, but not all Galra either, stumbles from his shuttle, disorientated, looking for his father.  

He’s apprehended immediately and it’s up to Shiro to get him to tell them what he wants.

-Cas & Kel

yeah can i get uhhhhhhhhh tender melt-your-organs fluffy n sweet good ole' BANGIN' or something like that lmao?

It’s Really You - Francowitch

3k. (Explicit) Contains: nsfw content.

Post everything, and they finally have a moment to talk, a second to confess, a minute to themselves to process everything…

Shaky Hands and Nervose Love - kagako @ninoujean 

4k. (Mature) Contains: nsfw content. 

“I’ve loved you from the beginning,” Keith tells him, ignoring the heat blooming on his face in favor of grazing his thumbs against Shiro’s cheeks.

Shiro hums, tilts his head as he shifts his hips, pressing inward, just to hear the exhale of Keith’s breath. “H—How’d you learn to be so cheesy, Keith?”

In the Distance Across the Universe - amoleofmonsters @sharkrinsoup

6k. (Explicit) Contains: nsfw content.

Everything is as it should be. Keith has Shiro back. The anger and pain that has been circulating in his brain is gone, replaced with relief and happiness. They’re safe and they’re finally going home.

But nothing is ever simple because it’s only now that Keith realizes he’s in love with Shiro.

-Cas

Me, shipping what I want, ignoring antis:

After shiro retires from the garrison he buys himself a big jeep truck that has a bunch of horsepower. He still likes feeling like he's got some sort of power in his hands while he travels, and even if it's not a lion or a huge ship, he gets beyond happy every time he hears the engine of his truck growl as he steps on the gas. Lance loves watching shiro get giddy over something as little as the engine purring, it's adorable and sweet and it reminds lance that they're in a better situation now

              This series of messed up coincidences did happen for a  r e a s o n . They brought us together as  p a l a d i n s . They brought us together as  f r i e n d s .

ig / twi

Y’all I uploaded the first chapter of my fic on AO3 if you could check it out and leave kudos that’d be great !