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CR meme - Summer edition

CR MEME!
Another three months have come and gone, so it is time for another CR meme. This time, a warm and summery-themed one.
Please share your ideas of interactions you'd love your character to have, or plots you are rolling around in your head that might need a few more folks. Is your character looking for a friend? An enemy? A rival? You could find it all here. And remember, the more detailed, the better! We all want all the CR, but specific plans, or at least a specific direction you want to take something in, will really help out everybody involved.
Like before, this CR meme will also include a template specifically geared towards Rocket CR. Please fill it in to let our Rocket members know how you feel about getting your characters involved in some crime.
Please share your ideas of interactions you'd love your character to have, or plots you are rolling around in your head that might need a few more folks. Is your character looking for a friend? An enemy? A rival? You could find it all here. And remember, the more detailed, the better! We all want all the CR, but specific plans, or at least a specific direction you want to take something in, will really help out everybody involved.
Like before, this CR meme will also include a template specifically geared towards Rocket CR. Please fill it in to let our Rocket members know how you feel about getting your characters involved in some crime.
Keith | Voltron: Legendary Defender
Name Keith;
Canon: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Cliffnotes: Keith is the most recent Black Paladin (and team leader) of Voltron. Known as a troublemaker for acting out as a child, Keith had a temper and often used it to cover other vulnerable feelings. He's grown a lot since then, becoming a steady leader when it counts, but he's still a bit impulsive and reckless. He'll always be something of an adrenaline junkie, and relies heavily on his instincts to get him through. He's learning here in Pokémon World that he took a lot of his durability and endurance for granted since he didn't know he was half Galra until he was almost twenty years old. Go figure. So, as he travels the Gym circuit as a newly wed with Allura, Keith's been figuring out his new limits and just how far he can (and can't) push them.
Looking for: Keith is a little slow to open up to new friends, but he's a good friend if you can get there with him. I'm always looking for new friends, found family, mentors, mentees... Because Keith can be rough around the edges, I'm definitely open to some rivals and more antagonistic relationships. That said, though, I don't like negative CR just for the sake of negative CR. If it happens that way, awesome, but please don't force it.
Recent post: Tiny Grumpy Keith and Orthworm-catching, hole-jumping, waiting in the ER after one hole ended up deeper than expected Keith - super willing to backtag!
ROCKET PARTICIPATION FORM
Character’s trainer class: Trainer
Are you down for Rocket shenanigans?: Yes
What type of things are you okay with?:
✓ Battle encounters with Rockets
✓ Non-battle, but still hostile encounters with Rockets (think something like getting robbed of a rare item or getting scammed)
✓ Temporarily losing a Pokémon to a Rocket
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Gym Circuit with Allura, you say~?
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It kind of helps that their non-human heritages are both seen in a negative light in their respective canons [people tend to not like either Gar or Galra—deservedly or not], so there'd be mutual understanding there, too.
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It's also interesting to me that Keith had more trouble being accepted by other Galra, though I imagine that certain people finding out he's half-Galra would definitely react negatively to it. He's lucky, in a way, that's he's fully human-passing, because anti-Galra don't really pick up on it right away unless they already know who he is.
That said, he doesn't exactly keep it a secret. He's not exactly marching in pride parades about it, but he's not trying to hide who he is, either. He kind of has this philosophy of "This is who I am, and that's that." But, yeah... pure Galra have a history of looking down on half-breeds as inferior, and he's faced that more than he's faced being shunned by others for being half-Galra.
But! It's still a case of being shunned for his race, and that's something I don't get to explore with him very often, so I'd love to do it.
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Yeah, I'd say he's lucky. Keldor was never able to hide his Gar heritage—the blue skin is one of their defining features—and unfortunately Gar are pretty much Not Liked by the human populace [because of some things that happened in the past and that the humans need to Get Over It Already, Please], and even if we don't get much if any peeks into his past, we can still get an idea of how he was treated growing up; not just by the people but even his own father. He certainly had/has self-esteem issues even if he doesn't let it on, and which led to ... things.
At any rate, it'd be nice for them to have people who understand what it feels like to be born of two races.
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Tragic past is also something they'd have in common. While Keith didn't have a bad relationship with his father, he lost him when he was very young and ended up in the foster care system while he grew up believing his mother didn't want him because she left when he was still an infant. So, that sense of being unwanted and disliked by everyone is still there in a different way. Keith's method of coping was to get angry and beat people up, so... LOL. He tended to stick to what he knew he was good at, avoid things he wasn't confident about, and push people away with this put on air of superiority in regards to what he knew he could do well. Hiding those low confidence issues is also something they'd have in common.
SO! That said... we should find a way for them to meet up!
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But we're not here to discuss my opinions on how the franchise deals with a character and how developed they are within it.
Currently it seems they're both involved in the Lost World plot, and will have had a chance to see each other during all the action, and thus be able to recognise each other later on and begin properly interacting with each other, even if they've already spoken to each other over the network in the past, albeit briefly.
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But yeah. I get it. It can be hard to find stuff sometime for some characters. And, even as a main character, there's so much that's still left out of Keith's history (like his frickin' surname when other characters with smaller roles have full names, but I'm not bitter).