Canon Point: Season 6 - Episode 7 Defender of all universes. Canon History: When we last left off, Keith almost sacrificed himself to take down the barrier around the fleet ship. He had been saved by Lotor. While Team Voltron would go on to slowly trusting Lotor’s information, Keith ran missions with the Blades of Marmora. This wasn’t a problem as the data and information were solid until Zarkon was killed by his own son. The Blades saw this as a chance to take out all of the leaders of the empire at once. Unfortunately, Shiro and Lotor arrived putting them at risk if the plan went forward. Keith immediately changed tactics despite his fellow Blades thoughts on the matter. But he couldn’t disable all of their bombs. He saved Lotor’s life and Lotor went on to become Emperor Lotor.
Keith returned and was chewed out by Kolivan before he was shipped out on a solo mission to retrieve a super weapon and an operative behind enemy lines. The mission fails but not because of him. The operative turns out to be his mother. She picks him over the mission. Together they escape and she directs him to hunt for the mysterious quintessence, life energy, that was used to make the superweapon. Their ship gets destroyed and they have to bail. Within the Quantum Abyss where space and time collapse Keith finally learns about his mother, how she met his father and gets a glimpse of the future. They get flashes of the past and end up on the back of a giant space whale. Keith and his mother Krolia would be there for two years.
Keith spends that time getting to know his mother, trains to become stronger, and gets himself a cosmic wolf. At the end of their journey, they come to a planet and discover Alteans. They meet a girl named Romelle who tells them about how Lotor saved their people ages ago and made this colony. He talked about forming a new colony and scanned people for the trips. Each time people are taken and never return. Keith and Krolia agree to check it out. The three of them use an ancient Altean pod ship to look at the nearest moon. They discover Lotor has been drawing the life out of Alteans. Realizing what this means, Keith gathers up his small crew and heads for the Castle of Lions. He arrives swiftly and immediately drops Lotor has been lying to them on the shocked team.
They can’t act right away. Lotor and Allura went into the Quintessence field with the completed Sincline ship Allura and Lotor had been building. While they’re waiting, Romelle tells her story to the horrified paladins. They set up a plan of attack and Allura learns the truth about Lotor. Heartbroken she throws him down and the hangar bay gets attacked. Keith takes Pidge and Krolia to go deal with it. In the confusion, Haggar takes control of Shiro and the possessed Shiro takes down the rest of the team. He escapes with Lotor. Keith checks on the team then leads them in a chase after Shiro. They battle with Lotor’s generals' Sincline ships vs Voltron Lions and are forced to form Voltron.
An Altean portal forms and the generals along with Shiro escape through it. Voltron is damaged and can’t make it. Keith gives the order to disband and uses the momentum to propel him through the wormhole. He dodges and weaves his way past the fleet on the other side attempting to get to Shiro. When the pod ship Shiro stole leaves a ship he pursues it. He’d tried to talk to Shiro before and he tries it again. Shiro leads him to a hidden base and Keith follows him in. He learns the base is actually a cloning facility…of his best friend. ‘Shiro’ attacks him. It’s a vicious battle and in the end, Keith gets a scar on his face and he severs Shiro’s Galra-made mechanical arm.
The platform they’re on collapses and he grabs for Shiro. Together they dangle over the planet below. His blade slips and he falls with Shiro. The Black Lion saves him and from deep within, a voice calls to him. That voice turns out to be Shiro. The Real Shiro had died and been collected by the Black Lion. The Shiro he fought was a clone. He contacted the team to update them on his situation and tell them the Shiro that had come back was a clone. They had to face Lotor alone until he could get back to them. He called out to Shiro and with his best friend’s help, fully connected to the Black Lion. He arrived just in time to save the team and they formed Voltron. They fought Lotor, giant robot to robot (the sincline ships formed one) and in the end, the only way to beat Lotor was to fight him within the rift between worlds, the quintessence field. They left him there and returned to more problems. The holes made during the battle were tearing time and space apart. They had to sacrifice their home, the Castle of Lions.
With all universes saved, they went to a nearby planet to help Shiro. Allura pulled his soul out of the Black Lion and placed it in the clone’s body. Shiro awoke and fell asleep against Keith. Keith and the team decided to head back to Earth where Sam Holt had the plans to build another Castle of Lions.
Personality:
“Shiro’s gone. Who’s going to pilot the Black Lion?” “I will.” - Keith to Pidge Season 6 - Episode 4
There is a world of difference between Keith at the end of season 4 and the end of season 6. In Life aftr, he learned the responsibility for another life that gave him unconditional love in return. This is a lesson he learns in canon at the same time he lives with his mother. For so long he didn’t even have a scent to remember. He constantly questioned why she left. Now, Keith knows she loves him and left to protect him and his father. He struggled as a Blade with the concept that the mission had to be first. Now like his mother follows his heart, choosing to put the people he cares about first.
He lived with Krolia in the Quantum Abyss for two years. Getting to know her and process everything he’s ever dealt with laid to rest the void inside him. Through his mother, he was able to train himself for the events he glimpsed ahead of him. Without a war between what is Galra and what is human, he could finally be a leader the team needs. And he fully embraces it. From the moment, he returns he’s calm and in control and immediately taking over directing the team when the clone attacks.
It doesn’t cure his lone wolf attitude. He will always be a little distant from others. He has patience and tolerance that extends beyond his former levels. He only snaps at Lance when Lance tries to start a fight he doesn’t feel they have time for. He can prioritize. When the team needs him he doubles back for them instead of focusing directly on Shiro. But he’s still young and has a lot of growing to do. He will have outbursts and still has trouble talking to people. But he has the ability to accept his mistakes, apologize, and still try to help others.
What used to damage him, talk of his parents or his own worth…the clone can’t reach him because Keith no longer has doubts he is loved. That steadiness lets him remain calm enough to guide and direct the team in times of adversity. His critical thinking got an upgrade and now he can think of the whole picture without fixating on any one thing.
Keith has come a long way from the boy that everyone had to tell to pull back. He can stand strong on his own and be the wind surrounding a team. With him, at the helm of the team, they will make it through their war.
New Abilities:
Galra: As a Galra when he gets massively distressed his eyes go yellow, pupils slit, and his teeth are pretty damn sharp when this happens.
Canon Update
Canon History:
When we last left off, Keith almost sacrificed himself to take down the barrier around the fleet ship. He had been saved by Lotor. While Team Voltron would go on to slowly trusting Lotor’s information, Keith ran missions with the Blades of Marmora. This wasn’t a problem as the data and information were solid until Zarkon was killed by his own son. The Blades saw this as a chance to take out all of the leaders of the empire at once. Unfortunately, Shiro and Lotor arrived putting them at risk if the plan went forward. Keith immediately changed tactics despite his fellow Blades thoughts on the matter. But he couldn’t disable all of their bombs. He saved Lotor’s life and Lotor went on to become Emperor Lotor.
Keith returned and was chewed out by Kolivan before he was shipped out on a solo mission to retrieve a super weapon and an operative behind enemy lines. The mission fails but not because of him. The operative turns out to be his mother. She picks him over the mission. Together they escape and she directs him to hunt for the mysterious quintessence, life energy, that was used to make the superweapon. Their ship gets destroyed and they have to bail. Within the Quantum Abyss where space and time collapse Keith finally learns about his mother, how she met his father and gets a glimpse of the future. They get flashes of the past and end up on the back of a giant space whale. Keith and his mother Krolia would be there for two years.
Keith spends that time getting to know his mother, trains to become stronger, and gets himself a cosmic wolf. At the end of their journey, they come to a planet and discover Alteans. They meet a girl named Romelle who tells them about how Lotor saved their people ages ago and made this colony. He talked about forming a new colony and scanned people for the trips. Each time people are taken and never return. Keith and Krolia agree to check it out. The three of them use an ancient Altean pod ship to look at the nearest moon. They discover Lotor has been drawing the life out of Alteans. Realizing what this means, Keith gathers up his small crew and heads for the Castle of Lions. He arrives swiftly and immediately drops Lotor has been lying to them on the shocked team.
They can’t act right away. Lotor and Allura went into the Quintessence field with the completed Sincline ship Allura and Lotor had been building. While they’re waiting, Romelle tells her story to the horrified paladins. They set up a plan of attack and Allura learns the truth about Lotor. Heartbroken she throws him down and the hangar bay gets attacked. Keith takes Pidge and Krolia to go deal with it. In the confusion, Haggar takes control of Shiro and the possessed Shiro takes down the rest of the team. He escapes with Lotor. Keith checks on the team then leads them in a chase after Shiro. They battle with Lotor’s generals' Sincline ships vs Voltron Lions and are forced to form Voltron.
An Altean portal forms and the generals along with Shiro escape through it. Voltron is damaged and can’t make it. Keith gives the order to disband and uses the momentum to propel him through the wormhole. He dodges and weaves his way past the fleet on the other side attempting to get to Shiro. When the pod ship Shiro stole leaves a ship he pursues it. He’d tried to talk to Shiro before and he tries it again. Shiro leads him to a hidden base and Keith follows him in. He learns the base is actually a cloning facility…of his best friend. ‘Shiro’ attacks him. It’s a vicious battle and in the end, Keith gets a scar on his face and he severs Shiro’s Galra-made mechanical arm.
The platform they’re on collapses and he grabs for Shiro. Together they dangle over the planet below. His blade slips and he falls with Shiro. The Black Lion saves him and from deep within, a voice calls to him. That voice turns out to be Shiro. The Real Shiro had died and been collected by the Black Lion. The Shiro he fought was a clone. He contacted the team to update them on his situation and tell them the Shiro that had come back was a clone. They had to face Lotor alone until he could get back to them. He called out to Shiro and with his best friend’s help, fully connected to the Black Lion. He arrived just in time to save the team and they formed Voltron. They fought Lotor, giant robot to robot (the sincline ships formed one) and in the end, the only way to beat Lotor was to fight him within the rift between worlds, the quintessence field. They left him there and returned to more problems. The holes made during the battle were tearing time and space apart. They had to sacrifice their home, the Castle of Lions.
With all universes saved, they went to a nearby planet to help Shiro. Allura pulled his soul out of the Black Lion and placed it in the clone’s body. Shiro awoke and fell asleep against Keith. Keith and the team decided to head back to Earth where Sam Holt had the plans to build another Castle of Lions.
Personality:
“Shiro’s gone. Who’s going to pilot the Black Lion?”
“I will.” - Keith to Pidge Season 6 - Episode 4
There is a world of difference between Keith at the end of season 4 and the end of season 6. In Life aftr, he learned the responsibility for another life that gave him unconditional love in return. This is a lesson he learns in canon at the same time he lives with his mother. For so long he didn’t even have a scent to remember. He constantly questioned why she left. Now, Keith knows she loves him and left to protect him and his father. He struggled as a Blade with the concept that the mission had to be first. Now like his mother follows his heart, choosing to put the people he cares about first.
He lived with Krolia in the Quantum Abyss for two years. Getting to know her and process everything he’s ever dealt with laid to rest the void inside him. Through his mother, he was able to train himself for the events he glimpsed ahead of him. Without a war between what is Galra and what is human, he could finally be a leader the team needs. And he fully embraces it. From the moment, he returns he’s calm and in control and immediately taking over directing the team when the clone attacks.
It doesn’t cure his lone wolf attitude. He will always be a little distant from others. He has patience and tolerance that extends beyond his former levels. He only snaps at Lance when Lance tries to start a fight he doesn’t feel they have time for. He can prioritize. When the team needs him he doubles back for them instead of focusing directly on Shiro. But he’s still young and has a lot of growing to do. He will have outbursts and still has trouble talking to people. But he has the ability to accept his mistakes, apologize, and still try to help others.
What used to damage him, talk of his parents or his own worth…the clone can’t reach him because Keith no longer has doubts he is loved. That steadiness lets him remain calm enough to guide and direct the team in times of adversity. His critical thinking got an upgrade and now he can think of the whole picture without fixating on any one thing.
Keith has come a long way from the boy that everyone had to tell to pull back. He can stand strong on his own and be the wind surrounding a team. With him, at the helm of the team, they will make it through their war.
New Abilities:
Galra: As a Galra when he gets massively distressed his eyes go yellow, pupils slit, and his teeth are pretty damn sharp when this happens.