I got like 10 minutes into the first episode and I adore emotionally invested, deeply intimate relationships,, from their first scene together I knew they were integral to each other’s past and future,,
I mean, the way Keith’s glare intensifies when he sees Shiro restrained, like this is an incredibly personal fight. How he rushes in like a thief in the night and takes down everyone, then immediately bolts to Shiro’s side and just melts. How his first line is just “Shiro,” and right from Keith’s intro, we already know who he cares for the most.
“Rogue” character who came ready for a fight, but then reaches out and tenderly touches someone’s face, turns their head for a closer look? All while looking about ready to tear up? Felt like a classic way to introduce someone’s love interest.
Then there’s the “Good to have you back,” “Good to be back exchange,” these comforting little touches you always see between them, and that scene at the shack–that scene. Because Keith talks about how being kicked out of the Garrison made him feel “lost.” When VLD just came out, I was coming off a semester away from school for medical leave, and I was feeling pretty shitty about it. I felt like a “dropout” and I was all too familiar with this sense of being lost and isolated, so I really felt for him. But then he turns to Shiro and says, “And then you showed up,” and it was just…this incredibly sweet, hopeful thing for me to see.
And there are just…things, these little things that always fall between them. You catch glimpses here and there, but so much is left unsaid, and every faint echo you do get weaves back to this ever ellusive, mysterious backstory that was ever present between them. They had a history, they care for one another deeply–and you can feel that as far back as the pilot, little hints of this ever evolving, unconditional love between them. I love it.
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