ᴀʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ ᴏᴠᴇʀ. {Klance} 

❝ ɪ ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴡᴀɴᴛᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴋ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ... ᴡᴇʟʟ, ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ ɪ'ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴡᴏʀʀʏɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ. ❞
❝ ᴍᴜsᴛ ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ ʙᴇ ʙᴏᴛʜᴇʀɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜ ɪғ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴋ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ. ❞
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☞ First off: Dery, this is for you. I love you and miss you, I know I used some bits from our collab at the end of this but I intend to restart that when everything's calmed down. I'm SO relieved you're okay. ☜
Wow okay hello, HELLO, I am in fact STILL ALIVE. Scroll for a storyline, but first I'm going to fill you in loosely about why this took so long, because there are over 13.5 thousand of you now.. woah.
1. I actually started this the day after S3 aired, it's literally taken just over 2 months to edit. The first month I spent working, 8 hours a day 5 days a week, because I'm saving up to go to NYCC this time next year. That meant by the time I got home I was exhausted, and I also moved into a new flat so I had to sort all of that out. Plus a few weeks ago when I did have free time after freshers week, I fell down the stairs and got concussion so I think the world was telling me to rest :')
2. I'm in my third year at university, and that basically means that I have a LOT more work than before. I'm writing about music/TV for about 4 magazines now on top of my studies and other commitments such as radio. My mental health has also been fluctuating badly again, so motivation to even get out of bed is difficult for me these days.
3. This is.. my favourite song. Ever. I've wanted to edit Klance for it since August 2016, but I've been waiting until I had enough footage and Lance wasn't really in S2. I have to keep reminding myself that quality can be better than quantity, I hope that the kind of subscribers I have appreciate the time and effort that goes into every single one of my works even if they don't come out as often.
☞ S T O R Y L I N E
Warning: This edit is about a breakup. sobs lightly
Essentially, everything is the same as canon, but both Keith AND Shiro were on a mission together and BOTH got tortured by the Galra. Shiro escapes first, and then sets up shop in Keith's childhood shack, trying to find Keith via the lions etc.
Meanwhile, Lance recognises Keith, even with his galra heritage exposed whilst in captivity, and so they rescue him and follow his directions to the shack where they find Shiro. Then everything progresses as normal.
There are three major themes in this edit that I wanted to explore, because I really strongly believe that they're the aspects of Klance that still haven't been resolved in canon and NEED to be or something bad will happen.
1. Lance's tender feelings for Keith are eclipsed by his jealousy. He likes Keith, but as the youngest child at home he clearly has some deep-rooted insecurities that will take longer than a few seasons to heal.
2. Keith is constantly running away from things he doesn't want to deal with. He doesn't think things through, and he doesn't fully consider the impact of his actions on the rest of the team until it's too late. It happened multiple times in battle in Season 1, and we saw it explicitly in Season 3 when Lance had to once again manage Keith's impulses.
3. Lance isn't straight, I think we can be sure of that at this point. My own experiences liking the same gender as me are reflected in Lance's behaviour, but the difference is that I don't think this realisation will come easy for Lance. Whether it's a religious upbringing or something else, I think that the development of his relationship with Keith from friendship to romance is likely to be rocky and confusing.
So the story goes, Lance and Keith hook up, but those factors combined mean that they never properly talk things through. Lance is constantly the one left behind and struggling with his not-straight feelings, while Keith is left frustrated as Lance clings to the "idea" of him, from their fighter pilot days. It could all be solved if they admitted the truth, that they would die for each other, but unfortunately Keith goes off to tackle Lotor on his own before that conversation can happen.
It's a trap, and Lance ends up dying before they can resolve things. Keith is left talking to his AI, the ghost of a memory since the boy he loves is lost. Keith doesn't have a home back on Earth, so if you wanted to make it really dark you could imagine that he stays in space forever because he finds it too painful to let go of Lance's consciousness.
Last thing:
This has to be said again since a few people don't read my descriptions/have been asking: If I see/hear of a repost, regardless of credits, I will no longer share my Klance works. Case closed. For those of you who want more edits or manips be sure to alert reposters of my policy quickly. Thanks!
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