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phantom pains of the sun and the moon (lingering on Atlas' shoulders) by thunderwear
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
24 Aug 2019
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His eyes passed over Lance without a single hint of recognition, and he said, "Do I know you?"
Lance knew that he looked like an idiot standing there with his jaw dropped, but he couldn't help it.
This had never happened before.
Throughout all the years, in all the lives they had lived, all the centuries that had passed, one thing had never changed—they always recognized each other.
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08 Jul 2025
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with one shrug of his trembling shoulders (Atlas abandons the vault of heaven) by thunderwear
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
09 Jan 2020
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Keith opened his mouth to reply.
Don't be too familiar! Don't let him win this. He thought, trying to keep his face neutral.
Keith meant to ask his soulmate his name or maybe just say hello, not rising to the accusation thrown his way.
What came out was, "Do I know you?"
The story from Keith’s point of view. Can be read as standalone.
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08 Jul 2025
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“Do you really not remember me?”
Lance’s back was turned, his face angled toward the sky, but the incessant tap of his fingers on the side of the swing told Keith that all Lance’s attention was directed at him, waiting for his answer.
Keith clenched his jaw. He wanted to remember Lance. He wanted to look into those ocean blue eyes and swear that he had known them before. He wanted to say that there was at least something familiar about Lance, some flicker at the back of his mind, some dormant memory just aching to be awoken.
But no matter how hard he tried, it just wasn’t true.
“I wish I did,” Keith whispered softly. “I’m sorry.”
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In which Keith gets Hanahaki disease, and has the operation to remove the flowers, along with any memory of Lance, the boy who he’d loved. There’s misunderstandings, there’s regret, there’s heartbreak. How will the boys deal with the aftermath?- Language:
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20 Jun 2025
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Keith’s lips split into a small grin. “What if you and I were to form an attachment?”
“An attachment?” Lance blinked. “You’re crazy.”
“With you by my side, the world will think that I have finally found a husband. Every presumptuous mother will leave me alone, and everyone will be looking at you.” Keith grinned. “You must know, men and women are always interested in a man when they believe another, particularly a duke, to be interested in him as well.”
“And you presume Whistledown–”
“I presume that she’ll call us exactly what she sees. Me, unavailable. You, desirable.”
“It’ll never work.”
“Maybe. But provided that you do not wish to marry me and I do not wish to marry you, whatever should you have to lose?”
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Lance McClain is the son of a viscount with no offers of marriage who is desperate to be married by the end of the upcoming social season.
Keith Kogane is the Duke of Marmora with no desire to marry or fall in love who is being chased after by every eligible person in Daibazaal.
To avoid permanent bachelorhood and marriage respectively, the two form an attachment that ends up meaning more to them than they could have ever imagined.
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- Part 1 of voltron bridgerton au
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- English
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- 143,891
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- 8/8
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17 Jun 2025
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Descartes Was Right About Dreams by fallingoutromance
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
06 Apr 2024
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“Do you want to talk about what you saw?”
Keith snapped to attention at that. “You know?” He asked, disbelief in his voice. Lance must have mistaken it for wariness.
“Not the details, just that-” Lance grimaced, “while you were dreaming, everything would feel real. Nobody knows what exactly happened in there, though.”
Keith let out a punched out sound at the confirmation that his family wasn’t real, was just a figment of his imagination. “Lance, I- I had a family,” he moaned, despair evident in his tone.
“What?”
A mission gone wrong; a lifetime lived in a night. Keith is forced to contend with the aftermath of accidentally being exposed to an experimental chemical weapon and must recover while fighting to separate fiction from reality. How can he do that when the dream felt so real and still bleeds over into reality, even after waking?
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16 Jun 2025
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i have loved the stars too fondly by luthien_min_doriath
Fandoms: Howl's Moving Castle - All Media Types, Howl Series - Diana Wynne Jones
11 Mar 2021
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Sophie had no hope of keeping up with Michael as he chased the star, even with her seven-league boot. He was a flail of limbs and a sploshy sound of madly running feet ahead of her, as the falling star streaked white down the sky. At the speed it had been going it should have hissed into the pools like a doused match long before he reached it, but now it slowed, as though it was moving through honey. She wrestled with her foot, stuck in the seven-league boot, as Michael stalked the star, a paper cutout against its stark white light.
“What is it? What do you want?” she could hear it shrill, bobbling nervously.
“I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.”
“Get off, you stubborn thing,” Sophie muttered to the boot, and at last wrenched her foot free. She set off stumping toward Michael. The star stared at the boy with frantic, flickering blue eyes.
“I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it. His voice grew softer as he edged closer. “I know magic. Please—” he said, and then with one quick, darting motion, he closed his hands around it like a child catching a firefly.(in which michael is told to catch a falling star, and so he does.)
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23 May 2025
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An Unwavering Heart by Eeveegirly
Fandoms: Howl's Moving Castle - All Media Types, Howl no Ugoku Shiro | Howl's Moving Castle, Howl Series - Diana Wynne Jones
20 Dec 2021
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After being missing for a year almost everyone has given up on finding Howl. Everyone that is but Sophie. When she goes to a party thrown by the king she finds none other than Howl standing among the crowd. However when she approaches she finds all is not as it seems at all.
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23 May 2025
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Keith gets hurt during a mission, and Lance is not sure how to handle that.
Lance wakes up on the floor outside of the medical bay, jerking wildly, body a mess of aches and twinges.
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19 May 2025
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Keith had never really believed in love, not really, but thinking back to the day he met Adam, to Shiro’s tone as he introduced them, back to all the times they’d gone grocery shopping together and watched movies in the dark, Shiro and Adam on the couch and Keith on the floor with a bowl of popcorn in his lap, he thought maybe he could believe in it. Or at least that he wanted to.
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“So is that something we do now?” Lance asks, looking up from where Keith’s hand rests on the bench. Where they were just touching. “Compliment each other?”
“I don’t know,” Keith says, honestly. “Maybe.”
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19 May 2025
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Accompanied by the scattered applause throughout the ballroom, Keith lifts a slim brown hand in his own and presses a lingering kiss to the palm.
"It’s good to see you, Lance,” he says.
His voice is raw; his face feels naked. Keith’s known for his poker face, but here, in front of Lance, he has no self control. His emotions are spilling over onto his face like tears, too strong to be constrained.
He looks into Lance’s eyes and that suddenly doesn’t seem like such a bad thing.
“Yeah,” Lance whispers, a gentle and devastating smile on his face. He reaches a hand up — soft, Keith notes — and tucks some hair behind Keith’s ear. His fingers trace a gentle path across Keith’s jaw; his eyes flick across his face but inevitably come back to meet Keith’s own, the blue in them impossibly seeming warm toned with the full fond force of Lance’s gaze.
“It’s good to see you, too,” Lance says.
Has Keith mentioned yet that he loves him?
"Solar flares occur when a buildup of magnetic energy... is suddenly released.” - Space.com
After almost two years of unbearable distance, Keith and Lance find themselves at a ball, together.
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19 May 2025
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fireworks in his chest (bonfire in his pants) by perfchan
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
17 Jul 2020
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Lance is a delivery boy, Keith is an alien, can I make it any more obvious ?
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19 May 2025
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If Everbody in the World Was Standing in a Line by 2towels for mmeme
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
05 May 2021
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“I’m Keith Kogane.” Keith says, his dark and glittery eyes blinking and his mouth opening once, twice, like a fish. “Do you remember me?”
He’s completely wasted.
Lance smiles, "Yeah, dude, I remember you.” An understatement, obviously, but it’s not exactly something they can mince words about. “How are you? How about you sit down?”
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A series of dumb and drunken confessions intersected with a developing friendship. Lance worries about getting what he wants.
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15 May 2025
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Lance is happy for the new coalition—of course he is, it saves his people and his kingdom from further heartache and pain against the Galra Empire and all of the embers of its death still remaining—and he’s proud of his father for what he’s accomplished in uniting the struggling planets and sectors against their common enemy, but he hasn’t been able to tame his still-simmering bitterness at his being barred from the negotiation table.
“I know I’m getting married, Hunk.” He lets slip. Hunk’s shuffling stops, and that’s enough of a tell.
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Prince Lance has always known his role to the kingdom will involve lengthy political negotiations unless a genuine tragedy should put him first in line, but it's hard to stomach an impending arranged marriage in any scenario. Especially in the scenario where Lance actually ends up engaged to the Marmoran Prince he'd spent the night admiring, and neither are made aware of it quite in time.
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15 May 2025
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Life's like an Hourglass, Glued to the Table by 2towels for mmeme
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
27 Jun 2020
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"That's...a lot" REMASTERED
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Keith says, “Truth.” for the first time since the night began, and it’s like they’re all struck by electricity and shock shoots across their faces as a result. It’s like they’ve come face to face with the famous two-headed Jiptunir, wiley and feral as Coran so likes to remind them in fascination during scary story nights.
Dumbstruck and face unchanged, Pidge asks, “Who is your best friend on the ship?” Her voice begins incredulous, but she rushes to add, “Other than Shiro!”
“Uh,” Keith thinks, and Lance feels a feeling crawl under his skin that feels like goosebumps or that weird feeling you get when you think someone’s talking about you across the room at a lunch table and you’re embarrassed in the most gut-churning way. Lance thinks, does Keith have any other friends than us and Shiro? Is this mean? Are we asking him to pit us against each other? Keith dissipates those thoughts as fast as they flash behind Lance’s eyelids, because he says something even more shocking than his Truth. Even more shocking than if they actually did meet the Jiptunir. Even more shocking than when they found out how Alteans cried. Keith says, “Uh, Lance probably.”
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15 May 2025
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"I can hear your thoughts," Keith nearly whispered.
Lance went pale, but that wasn't what Keith was focused on. Because he could feel the horror creeping up inside himself as Lance heard his declaration. Because he could feel his own heart skip a beat in time with Lance's. Because he could feel the rejection bubbling up inside him as Lance frantically worked out what all this meant.
"Wh—what are you talking about?" Lance said, stumbling over his words even while his mind screamed clear as day please say you're lying just say you're fucking with me don't play these kinds of games with me—
In which the paladins are subjected to the unfortunate consequences of a broken mind meld program.
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15 May 2025
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“Calm yourself,” Gaius finally says. “You’re alright. Gwaine is alright. Do you remember what happened?”
Merlin’s brows furrow and his gaze flickers through the chambers until it lands on Arthur. He tilts his head, the confusion on his face only growing.
He asks, “I’m sorry, have we met?” and Arthur’s world not only stops, but crumbles.
Things have finally been going well in Camelot; Arthur knew about Merlin's magic, their relationship had been changing, and their plans for Albion—even if for now only shared with a trusted group—were almost too good to be true.
Then an attack leaves Merlin without his memories since Uther's death and, strangely enough, of Arthur specifically, and Arthur's world threatens to come crashing down once more.
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- Part 88 of Merlin Stories
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- 10,350
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14 May 2025
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'Merlin blinked. “Came out as what? A socialist?”
And now the look transformed into an expression Arthur had patented, to say there were bounds and bonds to men’s stupidity which Merlin had blissfully transcended. “No, you idiot, as gay.”
There was a silence, which the wind entered, and rifted. “Gay?” Merlin asked, numbly. “Like gay gay?”
Arthur wrinkled up his face. “Yes, Merlin, gay gay. Homosexually gay. What the hell else did you think I meant?”'
In which Arthur comes out, and Merlin is Shook.
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14 May 2025
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Arthur doesn’t think about it, because it's a weakness. The knights pat each other on the back, and sometimes they roughhouse for a bit. Arthur is above that, and he only does it when he really wants to cheer up one of his men. That’s initially what he wants to do to Merlin, too, when his idiot of a manservant’s face droops and he can’t quite make his smile meet his eyes. But he doesn’t, because the thought of touching Merlin—his lungs constrict, and there’s no reason for him to be touching Merlin, no excuse that would make it proper.
Touching Merlin would be because Arthur wants to, and he shouldn’t.
Or: Five times Arthur is a touch-deprived mess who really wishes he could touch Merlin without an excuse, and one time he learns he doesn't need one.
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14 May 2025
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Feelings On Fire (Guess I'm A Bad Liar) by melancholymango
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
06 Oct 2017
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“I don’t know, it kinda makes sense?” Hunk suggested carefully, picking Lance’s legs up just enough to sit down beneath them and then allowing them to fall onto his lap. Hunk rubbed soothingly at Lance’s calves, the blue paladin having gone back to hiding his face in the cushions. “The witch wanted to teach Lance a lesson in truthfulness and if there’s anyone that Lance lies to the most, it’s Keith. I mean, he acts like he hates the guy when in reality he-”
“Doesn’t.” Lance grit out, word slightly distorted and muffled from where his face currently was. He lifted his head, looking back at Hunk with a glare. “We don’t need to go into detail about it, Hunk.”
(AKA that one fic where Lance is cursed to be honest to and about the person he lies to more than anyone else. Hijinks ensue.)
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14 May 2025
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kiss me on the mouth (and set me free) by loveisawildthing
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
29 Jun 2017
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"Well," Allura started, "When an individual has strong feelings for the one the spell is being cast towards, the spell can't overcome those emotions. I'm guessing the spell didn't work on Keith because he already has strong feelings for you, Lance."
Lance looked at Allura, who was smiling brightly, and then at Keith, who was very pointedly not looking back at him.
"So what you're telling me," Lance said, hating the way his heart felt like it was breaking into a thousand tiny pieces, "Is that Keith hates me so strongly that the spell didn't have an effect on him?"
(Or, a witch casts a love spell on the paladins of Voltron, making them all fall in love with Lance. The only one unaffected is Keith, so naturally Lance assumes Keith's feelings of hate are so strong that not even a love spell can overcome them.)
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14 May 2025