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Name: Kai Age: 36 Contact: plurk: kaitreides, or pm this journal Timezone: GMT

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Name: Keith Kogane Door: Door Pass Canon: Voltron Legendary Defender Canon Point: End of season 7 Age: 22 Appearance: https://i.imgur.com/knfGypN.png - Keith is six feet tall with shoulder length black hair with long, choppy bangs, and other characters have described it as being a mullet. He has blue-purple eyes, a burn scar from a laser-blade on his cheek, and a slender but toned build. History: http://vld.wikia.com/wiki/Keith Personality: Positive Loyalty - Keith’s main positive trait is his sense of loyalty and honor, not to some arbitrary standard, but to his own concept of what is right and wrong, and the people that matter to him. He will do anything to protect someone he truly cares about, even if it costs him his life. He goes back to save Axca on Ezor and Zethrid’s ship because it’s the right thing to do, because she’s risked her own safety to help him and the team to escape, and just leaving her behind to face the other ex-generals alone would feel wrong to him. He refuses to let go of the clone Shiro’s hand in order to pull himself up to safety because it would mean letting him fall to his death, even though it means that they’ll both fall together instead - he would rather die together with Shiro (even a brainwashed clone of him) than give up on him. Negative Temper - Keith is quick to anger, and quick to jump to picking a fight. This has improved over time, but controlling his emotions is still something he struggles with, especially his temper. We see that he’s always had an angry and violent streak when he punches out James for starting to dig at his parental situation when they’re both younger cadets, and while he doesn’t often start his verbal fights with Lance, he easily flares up and responds to Lance goading him. When the Paladins find out that King Lubo isn’t actually a hostage, but has been cooperating with the Galra to make his subjects work for them, Keith is the one that goes from shocked to angry, holding King Lubo at swordpoint and taking him hostage to try and get himself and his team out of there safely. It has been mentioned in interviews with the creators of the series that part of Keith’s trouble with his temper is because of his Galra heritage, and in the fight with Shiro’s clone during The Black Paladins, we see that his teeth and eyes turn more Galra-like when he’s under immense emotional strain and distress. There’s a moment when his eyes have gone slitted and slightly more purple with golden sclera, where he’s attacking Shiro’s clone, only to snap out of it and come back to himself - after that point, he tries to fight as defensively as possible, because he doesn’t want to hurt Shiro’s clone, even though the clone is trying to kill him. At the end, again, his teeth sharpen and his eyes change as he’s forced to the point of striking back, believing that the clone has quite possibly killed everyone else, and having a laser sword pressed so close to his face that it burns his cheek. Anti-social - Having grown up believing that his mother abandoned him, and dealing with being put into the care system after his father died, it takes a lot for Keith to open up to other people and trust them. He describes this in his vlog as “having some walls up”, showing that he’s aware of his tendency to keep people at a distance, but this awareness doesn’t stop him from acting on his instinct to push people away before they have the chance to reject or abandon him. While he is a good and loyal friend once he’s connected with someone, even after this, he can be brusque and gruff with them, and still push them away because of his insecurity. This is shown when he leaves the team to go train with the Blade of Marmora instead, a decision which isn’t just about learning more about his Galra heritage or going where he feels he’s needed the most - it lets him run away from his friends and the responsibility of becoming the leader of the team, something that he feels he isn’t really ready for yet, something that he doesn’t want and never asked for. He eventually overcomes that and takes up the mantle of the leader of Voltron, but it takes time, and he’s still unsure of whether or not the team are really his friends, as he reveals during the space madness episode, when everyone is facing their darker sides and being overcome with their emotions. While he does push people away before they can leave him, it should be noted that Shiro is something of an exception to this - he’s afraid of saying or doing something that will make Shiro hate him or leave him for good, shown in the trials of Marmora episode where he hallucinates a version of Shiro who does just that. After having gone through the grief of losing Shiro and believing him to be dead after the Kerberos mission was declared lost, only to find him again (and lose him again, and find him again, and then find out that was a clone and Shiro was dead but then find his soul and slam it into the clone body), Keith has realised just how important Shiro is to him, and will do anything it takes not to lose him again or let him get hurt. However, he still ends up leaving him with the rest of the team for a while when he goes to work with Marmora. Stubborn - Keith’s determination to do what he perceives to be the right thing can manifest in him acting hard-headed and rash. If he wants to do something, once he’s set on it, he will ignore anyone telling him not to, whether because he can’t or because he shouldn’t do it. We see this when he goes by himself to investigate the Druid transporting raw quintessence on the secret Galra base despite the others telling him not to go, and he ends up in a fight with the Druid because of it. We also see this when he charges in to fight Zarkon by himself, in the Red Lion, at the end of season one. He believes that, if he can just beat Zarkon, he can put an end to the war and all the suffering and fighting, and so he ignores Coran telling him that he’s outmatched, going so far as to shut off his communicator entirely. While it’s understandable that he would think that he should be able to defeat Zarkon with his giant robot lion, apparently Zarkon was powerful enough to stand toe-to-toe with it, and in fact he almost beats Keith with just his bayard. Powers and Abilities: Keith is a skilled pilot and sword-fighter, and is ambi-dexterous, as he is able to wield two swords at once. Thanks to his Galra blood, he’s also very strong, and agile, and he can interact with Galra technology, which is often coded to only give access to those of Galra heritage. There are some hints that he may be somewhat sensitive to quintessence, or otherwise has some kind of enhanced sense - he is able to sense Lotor’s mech coming out of the rift, turning towards where it attacks from before it actually appears. He is also able to sense where the Druid Macidus is when he’s teleporting, predicting where he’s going to be and throwing his blade to catch him by surprise, although he has to concentrate to do this. Right at the beginning of the series, he says in the first episode that he sensed some kind of energy in the desert, calling to him - this turns out to have been the dormant Blue Lion. He also bonds the most quickly with the Red Lion while he’s piloting her, forming a deep connection that allows him to call the lion to his aid over a long distance, and he’s able to pilot the Black Lion to save Shiro from hostile aliens at the start of series two, while Shiro is still the Black Paladin. This ability is undeveloped and innate, and functions more as a form of very strong intuition in most cases, so in a game setting, it probably wouldn’t come into play too much, aside from maybe making his energy appealing to the sorts of other characters who could sense that kind of thing, like Servants from the FATE/ series. Inventory: Black bayard, Marmora blade, Kosmo the teleporting space wolf (pet). Samples: Thinking Communicating