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[Good evening Temba! Tommy's back from another day in Not-Temba and on this video looking tired but thoughtful.]

Hey, sorry to bug people, but hoping I could get someone who was on the Adventure to Save the Agrii who might have gone to Not-Temba to tell me I'm crazy. Just...

I spent a lot of time in the greenhouse cataloging food and there was this one plant in particular that was SUPER bothering me. Because I knew I'd eaten some of it before, but not here. Couldn't remember what or why for the longest time. It was this stalk, not unlike a really tall piece of celery or something, and when I bit into it, the stuff tasted like buttered corn. Finally figured out where I'd had it before.

Not just that either. I think there might be Boar-bunnies in the forest. Don't quote me on it, but after you spend time hauling one back to a village to trade for meat, you sorta get a LONG look at those hooves.

Those two things put together means something very specific to me. Guys, someone tell me I'm just imagining things? Or don't and explain it. Because the two things are something I only encountered in one place before: the Graq homeworld. And the Agrii CLEARLY didn't know the Graq and it seemed like the reverse was true. So how am I running into that shit here?

[Not that he likes the idea of the reverse. If he's going mad, if he's gotten that family quirk going on, he's going to have a whole other mess of issues. And that is its own form of stress. But if what he saw was real, he has no ideas and that's freaking him out.]

I guess, what the FUCK is going on here?

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Nah. [Keith shrugged.] We had a hugger on the team back home. He definitely would have hugged me by now in a situation like this.

Yeah, my brother's a hugger too. Teddy as well.

[And Tommy would be if he ever let himself.]

Oh, yeah?

[Keith smiled a little.]

I'm not much of a hugger, either, but... it's not bad all the time. Hunk's the team hugger. He hugs for like... everything. [Keith chuckled a little.] And he's a big guy, too, so it feel a little like being smothered and crushed at the same time. But not in a bad way. If that makes any sense...

Smothered and crushed is nice sometimes. Billy's guy, Teddy? He is like that. But it's weird now because he's an Emperor and an Emperor all giving you serious hugs, picking you up, and almost crushing your bones? Weird.

Yeah. I could see that.

But... just because he's an Emperor... that doesn't mean he's not the same person. He's still your friend, your brother's boyfriend. He's still Teddy.

[Just like Keith was still Keith even though they'd all found out suddenly that he was half-Galra.]

My brother's husband.

[It's a stupid correction, but one Tommy's making anyway. He was at the wedding. Both times. But it was still weird to consider how important they were and how not Tommy was.]

And he's got titles out the ass. And my brother is a prince and space wizard or something. But the hugs are still good.

[Keith nodded. Got it.]

Sorry, didn't know they were married.

[But it was all good. He'd remember in the future.]

But, yeah... I can see that. It is kind of weird sometimes when someone has some big important thing, and yet they're still really normal sometimes.

[Getting used to being friends with Allura had been like that. At first, it was easy to keep some distance between them because she was the Princess, and they were the Paladins. Though, Shiro had never let being the 'leader' go to his head. They had all kind of deferred to him right away anyway because of their Garrison connections, and Shiro had been the senior officer in the group.

But, once Allura had taken a role as a Paladin, and Keith was technically 'leader' because the Black Lion had chosen him in Shiro's absence, well...]

With Voltron, Allura is the Princess of Altea. But, she's still our friend and teammate.

They are when I'm from. They aren't when he is from. It's just easier to think of them as an old married couple because they've acted like it since they were, like, fifteen or some shit.

[Teddy was just about one of the most big important people there was and Tommy didn't always know how to reconcile that with his nerd friend.]

Sounds like you get it. Was she supposed to bring peace too?

[Keith nodded. Yeah. That made sense.]

Yeah, kinda. I mean, her father created Voltron, and she was supposed to inherit everything when she became queen. Voltron was created to keep peace and protect races and planets who were unable to protect themselves.

[Was created to keep peace. Something told Tommy from that phrasing that it didn't, well, it didn't work like that.]

What went wrong?

The original leader kind of turned evil. He was the Emperor of the Galra, and he moved so quickly that no one was able to stop him. It took ten thousand years to come even close.

[The Galra? The thing that Keith was sorta partially?]

Fuck man, that's complicated.

Yeah... to say the least.

[Yup... Keith was half-and-half with humans and that big evil empire. Talk about awkward.]

Well, at least you're here intead right now, right?

I guess? [He shrugged.] That doesn't mean I still don't have to face everything once I get back home... if I get back home. It's something that still needs to be fixed.

[Back home. Something to long for, but also be sad about. Because from Tommy's experience, if Keith went home... he'd lose his guy.]

Is home even something you want?

[Keith shrugged.]

I mean, we're responsible for it and have things left to do cleaning up after the mess the Galra Empire made... and I still have catching up to do now that I found my mom... and I miss my other friends...

[It was clear that Keith was very torn between the two worlds.]

I hate that I have to make a choice between them... to stay or to go.

[But he also had a very deep sense of duty and self-sacrifice. If it came down to it, Keith was more likely to put the needs of everyone back home above his own, and choose to go back...]

It's not an easy choice. But... maybe you two will fall back in love there too?

Maybe. Lance keeps saying that, too.

I just... have a harder time being optimistic when it comes to how things work out in my life.

I know what you mean.

[Fuc does Tommy ever know what he means. Like, he's dating Kyle here, and the guy might not even exist in his world. But he still wants to maybe go home one day.]

But I guess we should just do what I'm told back home. Take it one day at a time.

[Keith nodded.]

Yeah... I mean, that kind of applies to a lot of stuff, doesn't it?

It's pretty sound advice.

[And he did manage a small smile, too. Kosmo made a weird grumbly type noise then, and Keith actually chuckled a bit.]

I should get him home and fed. [At that phrase, Kosmo almost jumped to his feet from where he'd been laying in the sand.] If you ever wanna play with him again, lemme know.

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move this toward wrapping up?

sounds good