Hello and welcome to my kidge Ted talk. We’ve wrapped up season 8 and I’m sure everyone who wants to see it has seen it by now.
I figured I’d make a little post dipping into pidge and Keith’s relationship through the entirety of the show.
To my fellow kidge fans, we hear a lot of “kidge? They hardly interact.” Which is… not true. But even if they didn’t, why hate on creativity? I’m here to compile the moments that really set the kidge shippers into motion.
I’m on mobile, so unfortunately I won’t have too many pictures, but I’ll try my best. (I also have no idea how to insert a read more on mobile so I’ll apologize in advance)
Keith and pidge are often depicted next to one another.
Since the beginning of the show, the animators make it a point to depict them near one another. This is an obvious, as for half of the show they’re the “arms of voltron”. It makes sense, in the same way lance and hunk are depicted next to one another. However, after Keith is no longer piloting the red lion, these two are still always kept in a close proximity. Without getting too “shipper goggles” I’d like to point out that this displays a closeness between the two.
Now that we’re past the basic, surface level observation, I want to get a bit more into their character arcs.
Keith and pidge have one thing in common as kids: bullying. Pidge is picked on by kids in her class for being a nerd. Keith is taunted for being “emo” and the loss of his parents.
But they both have something else in common
They both have a similar “comfort person”. Pidge finds this in Matt (her brother). While Keith finds this in Shiro (someone he has regarded as being like a brother). These people inspire them and make them want to excel and do better, despite the bullies or feeling lonely.
Another big parallel is that these people who mean so much to them go missing and propels them both forward to start their arcs.
They become obsessed with finding them
While Keith finds shiro in the first episode, his journey is not done there. While pidge is looking for her father and brother, Keith is trying to discover where he comes from and how he’s related to the galra.
He ends up finding his mother around the same time pidge is reunited with her father. These arcs resolving around the same time is very harmonious and gives them both a sense of peace that makes them stronger characters.
Now that all that’s out of the way, let’s look into the big interacts they’ve had.
We get the Paladins learning to work together, which gives us this excellent “go loose, pidge!” Scene. They work well together from the get go. They are the arms of voltron, after all.
But there’s a dissonance when pidge tries to leave the team. Keith is furious. And I think this is more than a “The team won’t function” right sort of thing, but an abandonment issue. Keith has lost people. Being the arms of voltron, they are a team. If pidge leaves, Keith is alone in that regard and I think it’s evident in how happy he is that she decides to stay.
In the beginning of season 4, keith leaves voltron. They all go to hug him and pidge expresses how much they’re going to miss him. This is another display of closeness. As pidge is on the verge of tears at the idea of him leaving and he gives her a very soft smile that we rarely see from him. (I don’t have a picture of this my bad).
Keith returns to voltron. When he is down pidge helps him up. Not much to say about this but I liked this moment.
This is the big daddy of kidge moments for the show.
We gonna start with the obvious when they get captured. Lance is the first to move, being immediately taken down by Ezor. This is also huge for plance shippers, but I won’t get into that right now. Keith yells for them to let her go. He’s angry and panicked, but they have some sort of blaster pointed at him, showing that they deem him as a threat. He can’t do anything. This will connect to a point I’ll be making for season 8.
We get this cute little moment when pidge asks “what’s that?” And Keith tried to gently explain the drills to her, with a soft smile. This is behavior Keith doesn’t usually display. Zethrid was completely right when she says the team has a soft spot for pidge. Keith is no exception.
There is the scene when they’re fighting the Druid. From Keith’s vision we see him look from Kolivan to pidge. These are people he wants to protect and keep safe.
While they’re floating in space, throwing insults at each other, no one has anything to say about pidge. Because they don’t have negative feelings towards her.
In this same episode, we get the famous scene of pidge grabbing Keith while he’s hallucinating. I’ve talked about this in another post, but I’ll reiterate it here as well. Pidge is on the tail end of the chain when Keith starts swinging. She jumps up from the very end and goes to grab Keith, breaking the hold hunk has on him. This immediately snaps Keith out of it. The animators made it a point to have the person farthest away from him be the one to pull him back. Animating isn’t easy so this is something they had to have gone out of their way to do.
It’s another display of closeness. Much like in the scene with the Druid when he looks to pidge, this is someone he cares about.
Pidge and Keith didn’t get a huge focus this season (which I’m fine with. Gotta let the others shine). But there were two significant scenes that the kidge shippers lost their marbles over.
Not only do we see them sitting together through most of the season, but we get this cute lunch scene during episode 7. Judging by how most of the people kinkade and razavi interviewed were intruded on, I’d say this is probably no different.
There is a moment where Keith is looking at pidge, even afters she’s finished talking. He only stops when Razavi calls out to him. Through his portion of the interview, he visibly becomes more annoyed. At the end he’s asks “is this interview over now?” (Or something along those lines) indicated that he felt intruded upon.
Keith and pidge had seemingly planned to enjoy lunch with one another but were intruded upon, this accounting for Keith’s long look and continuos annoyance.
Then we have the hand grabbing scene. Keith could have reached for anyone; lance, hunk, allura. But as usual, pidge was closest to him. His focus in this moment doesn’t seem to be entirely on the team, but mostly in pidge. They’re clinging to each other and he’s trying with all of his strength to pull her back up.
When the Paladins finally disappear, Keith falls to his knees and begins banging on the ground in distress. Much like the scene with Zethrid and Ezor, Keith gets very panicked and upset when he can’t help those he cares about. He feels helpless.
But an important thing to note is that pidge is holding onto Keith as much as he’s holding onto her. This a mutual bond between the two. It comes back to the scene in space when she grabs him. They’re a figurative lifeline for one another. Both literally and figuratively trying to pull each other out of dispair.
Whether romantically or plantonically, I think it’s important to regard how close these two actually are. As Bex said and the writers and animators have indicated, they “secretly adore each other”.
Keith: I didn't understand why people care so much for their dumb friends until I got a friend myself.
Keith: *picks Pidge up*
Keith: I've only befriended Pidge for a day and a half.
Keith: But if anything happened to her, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.
one month ago I did “June bride” pictures for ShinRan and KaiAo and an associate kindly reminded me that one pairing was missing
Heiji: *appears*
Me:
has this been done yet
wannaone reminiscing their zero base memories in spring breeze m/v
I love Conan so much it’s unhealthy.
Allura: Okay paladins, you have some free time!
Shiro: *almost dies*
Keith: *almost gets arrested*
Hunk: *almost forced to work at an alien fast food restaurant for the rest of his life* *becomes space Gordon Ramsey instead*
Lance: *brings home a cow*
Pidge: *gets Lance to join them in digging for money from a public fountain*
Netflix but it’s just high-quality Broadway productions.
This can help you make a difference between shots in my masterlist:
Smut: It has not only sex but also slices of life, and there are described feelings and other things. Those will be the longest shots.
Porn: Starts with sex and ends with sex. It’s centered around the action itself, little to no feelings described. (4 to 5 pages)
Drabble: short scenario written on the spur of the moment ( usually up to 3 pages at max.)
Eros and Psyche: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]
Genre & Warnings: Romance, fantasy!AU, smut, slight angst, fluff
Tags: Vanilla, fingering, vaginal penetration
Summary: Inspired by the Greek Legend of Eros and Psyche.
2. The Prince and the Empress: [1] [2] [3 -coming soon]
Genre & Warnings: Romance, fantasy!AU, fluff, comedy-ish, slight yandere behavior.
Tags: none
Summary: A story in which Shouto is a bratty prince and wants the Empress.
3. Mommy: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Romance, Smut, fluff
Tags: Somnophilia, Praise kink, mommy kink, cunnilingus, vaginal penetration
Summary: Shouto is turned into a child, and s/o has to take care of him.
4. Tease: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Porn
Tags: oral (giving and receiving), deep throat, blowjob, vaginal sex, dirty talk, rough sex, spanking, anal fingering
Summary: You decide to tease Shouto during class. Bad idea.
5. Let me love you: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Fluff, smut, romance (?)
Tags: blowjob, handjob, shower sex, semi-public
Summary: Shouto accidentally walks into the girl’s showers.
6. Needy: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: yandere-ish themes
Tags: none
Summary: In which you are the controlling one and Shouto is the needy/submissive partner
7. Friday Night: One-shot
Genre&Warnings: Fluff, slight angst(?), smut
Tags: blowjob, handjob, sub!Shouto, cowgirl, vaginal penetration, dry humping
Summary: Every Friday night you have a special routine. But What happens when Shouto crushes it? Oh, I’ll tell you: SEX.
8. Mania: One-shot
Genre&Warnings: Fluff, slight yandere themes, smut
Tags: dubious consent yet consensual, blowjob, vaginal penetration, dom!shouto
Summary: In which Shouto is jealous and is ready to do anything he can to keep you to himself.
9. Rude: One-shot part 2
Genre&Warnings: Crack-fic(?), swearing
Tags: none
Summary: You don’t approve of the arranged marriage, and try to be as rude as possible.
10. Greedy: One-shot
Genre&Warnings: Porn (domestic at the very end)
Tags: fingering, cunnilingus, spanking, vaginal penetration, creampie, implied breeding kink.
Summary: Just Shouto being your horny husband.
11. Sex tape: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Porn
Tags: blowjob, cunnilingus, dirty talk, spanking, vaginal penetration, mirror sex, slight choking.
Summary: The title says it dear.
12. Midnight affair: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Fantasy/Renaissance!AU, Smut, Romance,
Tags: blowjob, cunnilingus, vaginal penetration
Summary: Shouto is a prince that is fascinated by mythical creatures. During a hang out with his friends, he encounters an Elf, and he cannot avoid falling for her.
13. Mistletoe: One-shot
Genre &Warnings: drabble
Tags: none
14. Of Groceries and Panties: one-shot
Genre&Warnings: Crack-fic(?), swearing, drabble
Tags: none
15. Coequal: one-shot
Genre&Warnings: Fantasy!AU
Tags: none
1. That’s my seat: [1], [2]
Genre & Warnings: Smut, slight angst(?), fluff
Tags: cunnilingus, slight dry humping.
Summary: In which Bakugou and s/o fight over a seat.
2. The Kinky Bookworm: [1] [2]
Genre & Warnings: fluff, smut
Tags: slight dry humping, blowjob, dirty talk, vaginal penetration
Summary: Bakugou is punished with library duty for two weeks, and during that time he gets closer to s/o, someone he considered to be just an extra.
3. Lust: One-shot.
Genre & Warnings: Smut, fluff
Tags: fingering, oral (giving & receiving), deep throat, shameless shit, read at your own risk.
Summary: S/o is a horny woman with a shitty sexual life; Bakugou, like the good friend he is, decides to help her out.
4. Speechless: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Domestic, Fluff, song-based scenario
Tags: none
Summary: Inspired by the song Dan + Shay - Speechless
5. Break up with your girlfriend: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Angst, song-based drabble
Tags: none
Summary: inspired by Ariana Grande – Break up with your boyfriend.
6. Lunch Break: One-shot
Genre&Warnings: Porn
Tags: Handjob, Blow job, cock worship (?)
Summary: Just you sucking off Bakugou instead of eating
7. Mommy: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Slice of life, Smut, fluff
Tags: dry humping, handjob, cunnilingus, fem!dom, praise kink, mommy kink.
Summary: Bakugou is turned into a child, and s/o has to take care of him.
8. Babyface: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Mature, Smut
Tags: quickie, light handjob, vaginal penetration, wall sex
Summary: In which Bakugou likes you but thinks you’re a minor due to your babyface and rejects all your advances.
9. Lovebirds: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Slice of Life, Fluff (kind of), bakusquad being nosy af, drabble
Tags: none
10. Complicated: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: slice of life, fluff, age gap (for reference, Bakugou is 19 while you’re 25)
Tags: some touchin’ but nothing too explicit, implied sexual activity.
1. Ugly Christmas sweater: One-shot
Genre &Warnings: AU, fluff, drabble
Tags: none
2. Dumb Texts: [1]
3. What nobody knows: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Slice of life, smut, fluff
Tags: masturbation, cunnilingus, vaginal penetration, blowjob, light bondage, cockwarming
Summary: In which nobody knows that you have an affair with a criminal.
4. Promised: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Angst, Fluff, arranged marriage!AU, romance, Yakuza!AU(?)
Tags: none
Summary: Your wedding with Overhaul
5. Babydoll: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Porn + a sprinkle of fluff
Tags: blowjob, fingering, vaginal penetration, pretty much vanilla
Summary: Overhaul loses his V card
6. Of Love and Crimes: [A date gone wrong];
Genre & Warnings: Comedy, Police procedural, romance, fluff, mentions of death, mentions of drugs, eventual smut, stand-alone shots
Tags: none
Summary: Inspired by Brooklyn 99
7. Sugar baby: One-shot
Genre & Warnings: Smut, sugar daddy/sugar baby dynamic (kind of)
Tags: dry humping, light spanking, blowjob, clothed sex
8. Stress Relief: one-shot (coming soon)
Genre & Warnings: Porn
Tags: Fully clothed, Handjob, Blow job, cock worship
1. Sugar and Spice: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
Genre & Warnings: Romance, slight angst(?), fluff, smut
Tags: Double penetration, verbal humiliation, slight dry humping, blowjob
Summary: Bakugou falls in love at first sight, but later finds out that s/o is already in a relationship.
2. Mommy: One-shot (coming soon)
Genre & Warnings: Slice of life, fluff, love rivalry, smut
Tags: dry humping, handjob, blowjob, cunnilingus, fem!dom, praise kink, mommy kink, double penetration, somnophilia, dub-con yet consensual.
Summary: Bakugou and Todoroki got turned into kids, and it’s up to you to take care of them.
HC: Todoroki with a s/o with braces
HC: Todoroki and Bakugou (sep) jealous of you spending time with the other
HC: Todoroki with a s/o who works at a flower shop
HC: Todoroki with a s/o who works at a coffee shop
HC: Todo x Reader x Bakugou (poly) with a s/o who owns a flower shop
HC: Midoriya with a S/o that hates him at first
HC: Bakugou with a s/o that asks him on a date
HC: Shouto with a s/o that is scared of her quirk
HC: Bakugou with an s/o that uses him as a reference for her drawings + brother Shinsou
HC: Todoroki with a s/o than can see spirits
HC: Overhaul in a quirkless!AU
Overhaul as a virgin
Overhaul preferences when it comes to s/o’s style
Baku and Todo with Fairy!reader
Artists Appreciation Post
What kind of lingerie they enjoy: [Overhaul] [Todoroki] [Bakugou]
Drunk Chisaki
Reacting to s/o sending nudes
The boys as cats
Updated on 11/02/2020
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