Reflection and Analysis

Voltron - Season 6 - Brothers

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Hands down Klance fans in the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom can be obnoxious to toxic levels, but sometimes Sheith fans can as well. This season there are a few responses that honestly bother me yet make me wonder if Sheith fans are headed to the same toxic levels as Klance fans. Then again, I felt a little trepidation due to the fact writers like myself who like writing Shiro and Keith as full blood siblings and lumping us in with the Klance fans even though we don't have anything to do with Klance. There was no real proof that Keith and Shiro weren't full biological siblings until this season.

Here are the two issues which bother me.

Sheith is canon.

Anyone claiming Sheith is canon and doesn't mean in a platonic manner is delusional. Yes, Keith said he loves Shiro, but you can't take that out of context of the fact Keith very clearly says Shiro is his brother. Keith's literally gone from saying "like a brother" to saying Shiro is his brother, but antis who ship Sheith forget how much they nitpicked the fact it's not logical for someone to call their biological sibling "like" instead of "is".

I've already written multiple times that yes, there are people who do say their biological sibling is "like" rather than "is". I mean, look at Picard from Star Trek regarding his family and how he used the word "like". My point here is, Keith's now using a stronger word, but outright said he loves Shiro in a platonic manner. Can it become something else if they're not biologically related? Yes, it can. I'm sick and tired though that Sheith fans like to ignore the fact their relationship is in canon platonic and that canonically they are brothers.

The fact they're not biological siblings doesn't change this fact, but to deny such relationships is a slap in the face of adoptive and foster siblings and is majorly cruel on the part of Sheith fans. In fact, I'm reading the essays Sheith fans are writing regarding word choice and sadly they're on a major slippery slope taking things way out of social and cultural context attempting to push their meaning onto the words. Then again, they're the ones who insist nobody calls their blood related siblings "like a sibling" ...

I do.

No, seriously, my brother and I do all the time. It's about the fact we aren't just biologically siblings, but we act like siblings should as well. We've seen to many messed up families where the people are family, but they're not like family. One of the stunning things is I've heard Sheith fans say – but I don't act like that towards my siblings, and my answer is – that's because you are siblings, but not like siblings.

What it means when a person says you're like a sibling it means the bond with the person isn't simply some kind of convenience necessitated by blood relations, but that you would treat that person like a sibling regardless of whether hey were blood related or not. The fact they are blood related to you – that's a completely different matter with expectations which can be at times unfair to those involved.

Saying I'm not allowed to say my brother is like a sibling and vice versa undermines our personal experience as siblings, but that of others! The fact it's not this way for you doesn't mean it's not this way for others!

Of course, the fact Keith so far thinks of Shiro as a sibling doesn't mean it can't progress to romantic feelings if they're not blood related.

Shiro didn't raise Keith.

Yes, he did.

Krolia literally says Shiro raised Keith. Actually, I'm wondering where they're getting their definition of the word "raise", because I did a quick internet search. There's not a single online dictionary which defines "raise" with that wording, but in the small handful of things which did turn up it's not a reference teaching and mentoring like the Sheith antis are claiming. It's about becoming the parental figure in a child's life.