Keith One Shots

~Growing Up With The Blades~

HelloOoOoOOo. This was requested by P4L4D1N_GoddesArab and first of all screw you for having such a long and complicated username. Jk. I actually kinda like the username. Also I'm bringing back my two galra bois from my Mute Pt. 2 chapter because I love them and you can't stop me. This will be a pretty long chapter btw so grab some popcorn.

An AU where Keith was raised by the Blade.

Third P.O.V

Keith always knew he was different.

Ever since he was born he was aware that he didn't look like the other Blades.

For starters, his skin was completely the wrong colour. Instead of a dark or light purple, Keith's skin was a pale peachy colour.

On top of that, all the other blades had bigger, fluffier ears higher up on their heads. Keith's ears were small and more on the side of his head.

Height. Don't even get Keith started on height. All the other Blades were tall and well built where as Keith was short and slightly lanky.

There were a lot of other things that made Keith different from the rest, but if Keith were to sit here and tell you all the mental and physical differences, we'd be here for a while.

When he was younger, his carer, Thace, had told him it was a medical condition. Something about his DNA being faulty. As a child, Keith had believed it, but as Keith began to grow up, he realised the definition seemed incomplete, as if Thace was hiding him from something.

You may be wondering why Keith has a carer and not proper parents. This was because his mother had been sent away on an important mission that would last years and his father, well, Keith didn't exactly know. Thace had told him multiple stories of his father. Sometimes it was that his father had joined his mother on the mission. Sometimes it was that his father had died. Whatever it was, Keith had stopped asking questions, knowing Thace wouldn't tell him the truth anyways.

As of now, Thace wasn't in the Blade bases. He was undercover in one of Zarkon's ships. He had been there for about three years now. Keith had grown used to having no parent figure even though it did bug him sometimes.

Growing up as a Blade probably isn't as bad as you think. Across the many bases they had Hospitals (although they weren't used much), schools, Nurseries and more. Keith hadn't really been to many of the Blade bases. He'd only been to the one Thace used to stay in and the school. However, he mostly just stayed in the school one as they had rooms there and no one was really waiting for him back in the other one.

Being in school was hard for Keith.

You'd think everyone would be interested in his odd appearance. You'd think people would talk to him and he would be popular.

In fact, it was quite the opposite.

During his younger years of school, Keith was bullied. People made fun of his small ears and pale skin. They'd call him names like 'Shrimp legs' for his height and 'leaf ears' for his strange ears. It wasn't uncommon for Keith to call Thace in the middle of lessons crying in the bathroom, telling Thace how he just wanted to come back to him already. Thace would normally calm him down enough for Keith to go back to lessons but it didn't stop Keith from hurting.

During his teenage years, Keith hit his lowest point. The height difference between him and his classmates was embarrassing. Sometimes, Keith would add a slight heal to his shoes just to make him feel taller. He'd get in fights often and almost got kicked out multiple times but Thace somehow always managed to keep him in his school. However, Thace had to go on his own mission. Keith had no one to call late at night and no one to stop him from being kicked out. Eventually, he was transported to another school.