After having worked on this fic for a better part of 4 years, I thought ending it by just posting the epilogue on Ao3 was a bit anti-climactic so I decided to do a little companion piece by illustrating one of my favorite scenes from the epilogue too. thank you to everyone who read it along the way, or even if you read it because of this post, this fic means a lot to me and I hope you enjoyed this story as much as I did writing it <33
hey!!! i’m here to continue the klance TV Tropes series @kalinspace started :)
the Green-Eyed Epiphany is a common romantic trope in tv shows, and, like many other romantic tropes, describes klance perfectly:
The jealousy-spurred Love Epiphany of a character who’s in love with someone else, but has been in denial about this up until now.
this character is Lance: he was convinced he was in love with Allura, and has been in denial about his feelings for Keith for seven seasons.
Before the crisis, the character is perfectly fine being Just Friends or totally platonic bickering partners with another.
Lance was “platonic bickering partners” with Keith in s1-2, and it transitioned to “just friends” around s3.
But then, that other character gets romantically involved with an interloper, causing their not-at-all love interest to suddenly feel the sting of their absence.
Keith didn’t get involved romantically with Acxa at all, but it’s obvious that Lance THOUGHT that Keith liked her. he very clearly was hurt by Keith’s absence.
he thought Keith liked Acxa romantically, and was obviously jealous, though he didn’t know why at the time.
look at that face fkhajgfjkalkg he is pining SO hard
Once they finally admit to themselves their feelings, the Romantic False Lead’s got hell to pay.
all that’s left is Lance admitting his feelings to himself. once he realizes his feelings for Keith are NOT platonic, he’s basically there. at this point, we’re just waiting for s8 to finish up this trope, along with the many others they began way back in s1.
since ppl on tiktok rlly liked it and im feeling really giddy rn bc everybody is being so nice this is the little klance edit i made that people are yearning over bc of the intro 🙏
first doodles of an AU idea i want to develope for a comic i wanna draw, where future Keith (a future where klance got togheter thank u very much) get swapped with a past version of themselfs and their respective Lance version have to deal with it until they fix whatever interdimensional time-space mess future Keith got himself into.
whatever, doodle the first meetings! hopefully i get to actually start this and not just throw it into my proyects bucket and never touch it again, lol
