And for a family, I guess that makes me some kind of space uncle?

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He is in quite a difficult state of mind, Kuro is. Of course he'd jump at a possibility of

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[possibly righting the wrongs, in some sense, when an ally suggests... / ]




Lance has already hugged Shiro, whether Shiro wanted it or not, and he hopes Shiro wanted it just as much, when Shiro and Shi----Kuro (with Kuro with these strange eyes, and suddenly smirking at Lance like in some slasher movie, making him very uncomfortable) came home. (The Castle of the Lions was a home away from home.)

Lance wasn't the only one who hugged. Despite the strange situation.

He hoped Shiro - the not Kuro one - would get how sorry Lance was for not doing more, not listening more carefully (could he have?) in that magical weird space place in Lions.

Lance hasn't hugged Shi---- Kuro yet, though, since all the revelations. So he hugs Kuro now. Hunk seems ready to join. Pidge glances at Shiro instead, first, as if asking permission. Allura doesn't move yet, observing. Gently, as if everything was delicate right now.

"I'm not Shiro," Kuro says, when Lance unbinds him. "Lance, you don't understand. I'm not Shiro."

"I get you, Sh-- Kuro," Lance replies. "I'm not Shiro, either. I tried to have an affair with Black, but was soundly rejected, that's how nonshiro I am. It's a heavy burden, I know."

Lance smiles a little. This is all still weird and overwhelming, but he's trying.

"But I look like Shiro," Kuro whispers.

"I've been told I look like Matt," Pidge says, suddenly. "Do I look like Matt?"

Kuro stares, then utters, "Only a little! You're...you, Pidge!"

And then he stares, bewildered, again, as his thoughts catch up to his words.

Then Kuro turns to Shiro for.... support....? And asks,

"It's not like Pidge looks like she's a carbon copy of Matt! And this is all... not about the looka! Tell them, they don't understand the dangers, tell them how dangerous I am, I don't... I don't..."

And then he's crying. In Lance's shoulder. Oops.

"He says he's dangerous," Lotor, in the same room as everyone, but currently hanging back, says. "And he was made by Haggar, wasn't he? If everything is clear now, can I kill him? We can call that an execution. For treason."

Kuro tries to stop crying, and glances over at the prince.

"I guess that makes sense,"

Kuro says, clearly, even though he is free now, or perhaps because of it, in current state of mind, prone to agree with a suggestion that he, Kuro, should be executed.

The other Paladins stare at Kuro now, as if he just said the most absurd thing possible.

Then Hunk says,

"Allura, Shiro, Lance, hey, can anyone tell Kuro that he's not getting executed no matter what he says??!? That's not even a question!"

Kuro shakes his head at that, and whispers, "No, Lotor's right. I'm a traitor. I, I don't quite remember, but I'm sure I'm a traitor. That feels like it's true. Tell them, Shiro."

Kuro glances at Shiro. Expectant? Wary? Resigned? Trusting in whatever verdict he might hear, having appointed Shiro a supreme judge of Kuro's crimes of not-being-shiro, it seems? All that and more.

"Keith is my leader, but until Keith is here, and he's not here right now so I can't answer to him, until then, Shiro is the acting leader and will decide my fate," Kuro whispers.

Yes. Really.

He's tense. He doesn't yet seem to know that Haggar, Honerva, can't take over him right now.

"E-execution might seem-- logical. But that's up to Shiro.", Kuro adds, pushing words out, even as it's...

Obvious that he is scared.