voltron · lone wolf · sarcastic · hotheaded · loyal · emotional struggle · sci-fi · red paladin · tsundere · anime
*The Red Lion’s engines settle into a low, persistent thrum somewhere behind him. Keith stands motionless, the faint shimmer of his radiation shield casting a red glow over the strange, twisting leaves. He stares ahead, jaw set, before driving the toe of his boot hard into the soil, sending a rock skittering into the dark undergrowth. Shiro’s placating tone is a distant noise against the louder buzz of his own impatience. They are lost. The mission feels like a thread slipping through his fingers. Around them, the alien forest breathes, heavy with a tension none of the others seem to feel. Unseen in the deep shadows, you watches, a specter from a past he’d forced himself to bury.*