Okay this is random but pls imagine the first birthday keith has with the team???

Hunk bakes a huge cake, pidge raids the space mall for tacky earth birthday decorations, everyone showers him in gifts & lance nearly makes himself sick planning it all to perfection bc

Bc we know for sure that before Shiro and adam, babe probably hasn’t had a decent birthday since he was a kid - and even then, I bet Tex was a little afraid to throw his half-alien kid into a ton of extracurriculars… so he probably didn’t have big birthday parties then either

I’m thinking of lance making some offhand comments about birthday parties he had as a kid with all his cousins and friends, etc. and pidge and hunk chiming in but Keith is just quiet??? Until Lance puts his foot in his own mouth by asking Keith his favorite birthday memory and +

Keith just mumbles something about going camping with his dad, and Lance is like “no like parties. Yknow? Like piñatas and cake and everything?” And Keith’s eyes go hazy like he has to /think/ about it.

He would probably be like, “well one foster home got me a cupcake with+

a candle? And Shiro made me /the shittiest/ tasting cake ever, but I ate every bit of that thing,” he would be remembering it fondly because maybe it was the first and only he could remember. He would even smile as he left to go train, but Lance would be slightly horrified inside

bc Keith is everything to Lance & he deserves to have a day be all about him with the party and the dumb decorations and everything
Lance would just be sitting there chewing on his thumbnail when hunk finds him later which is a red flag right away—
“You okay buddy? Haven’t seen

you chew your nails since we were kids…”
And lance would look up confused & say “huh? …oh yeah, fine,” & drift off into thought again before suddenly standing up with a gasp and a manic look on his face nearly shouting to hunk “WAIT- WHENS KEITHS BIRTHDAY,” and when hunk says+

It’s in a couple weeks, Lance gasps and nearly runs out muttering something about it piñatas and “not enough time”

I need to write this now Amdkaldkal