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I don’t mean this in a this ship vs that ship way, because it’s bigger than that, but I feel like more than anything S7 EP1 really finally showed that Keith is the greater love of Shiro’s life, even just as platonic friends. Like it wasn’t unintentional to parallel how Shiro’s ex-boyfriend treated him vs how Keith treated him, and it’s all about who could stay strong enough for Shiro. And yeah, loving Shiro and staying by his side clearly isn’t easy. We’ve seen that struggle for Keith over six seasons, and now we find out he was seriously ill and probably not going to last much longer. And he’s so worthy of someone fighting to love him and be there for him, but it’s a fight you gotta be willing to undertake.

But Adam wouldn’t do it for him. He gave up. And that’s okay, this isn’t me slandering him because I get it, he’s just an average person, and it’s hard to live through watching your boyfriend push himself to the brink of death and leave you behind. But Shiro needs that support, he needed someone to never ever give up on him because he can do it, he can survive and be stronger and be happy. And Keith NEVER gave up. This dude even fought death to bring Shiro back!!

And guess what?? Shiro could do it. He went to space, and he became a paladin and helped save billions of lives, including his own. Adam could have been there for Shiro, but he bailed. He didn’t have enough faith. And when you look at it from Shiro’s pov, staying with Adam would have meant unhappiness, sickness and eventual death for Shiro that he wouldn’t have come back from. But by letting Adam go and following his dream, even if it caused him more pain, also brought him a cure and a new, unconditionally loving family in Voltron. Yea I am very sad Shiro lost that beautiful relationship, but he would never have reached his full potential if he had stayed. It would’ve clipped his wings.

But like I said before, Keith was willing to fight. Shiro fought for him, so he returned the favour. Because he knew Shiro was great and amazing and deserved to follow his dreams without being made to feel guilty and selfish because Shiro WOULD pull through. There’s no doubt in Keith’s mind Shiro will always make it, that’s why he’s always searching for him and saving him even when it looks like there’s no hope. And we now see that the love that grew between them was so honest and supportive it even became stronger than what was between Shiro and the man he wanted to marry. I think Shiro absolutely knows this when he wakes up after he’s dreaming to see Keith still by his side. He’s probably known it all along. And man I’m so happy that after all that suffering Shiro went through, Keith was there to support him and help him become the man he was always supposed to be but couldn’t because his illness was stopping him. They really saved each other.