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Jade @marmoooona
I feel like mic’d up is exposing so much 😭😭 idk it feels invasive
alex! ALTEA LIONS COMEBACK @goalgarrett replying to @marmoooona
yeah right, like did lance or keith approve of this??
VLD Sports ☑️
“Had to, sorry!” This one is for the books! NCAA Mic’d up doubles edition with Keith Kogane of @Marmora Hockey and Lance McClain of @Altea Hockey Lions for the final game of the Altea vs Marmora championship! 🏒
#NCAAhockey #Micdup
[Video opens with a face-off between Keith and Lance, both mic’d up, where they have to reset. The ref is checking them, letting them get adjusted]
Keith nods at Lance.
“Back up, McClain,” Keith says, his tone light and very different from his typical on ice chirping.
Lance inches back, making sure his feet line up with the marks, and says, “I’m in the right spot. It’s not my fault I’ve got a long, beautiful torso!”
Keith stares down and takes a moment to adjust his mouth guard. He looks up just as it settles into place. “Ready?”
“You know I am, mullet.”
[The Mic’d up logo appears on screen as their sticks clack with the puck drop and chaos erupts. It cuts away to a clip from warmups]
Shiro slides up next to Keith, his stick held in both hands near his knees.
“Did you see that sign?” Shiro grins.
Keith’s face drops. “No.” His voice is full of dread. “What sign.”
Shiro lets go of one side of his stick to point toward the away section. “Over there, it says ‘win… Marmora?’”
“Are you guys talking about the sign?” Pidge says while skating over, getting between them as soon as she’s in frame.
Shiro nods joyfully. Keith nods sadly.
“I reaaaally like the little Keith doodle next to it,” Pidge says. “The realism is impeccable.”
“Oh my god.” Keith passes a hand over the grate of his helmet and rolls his eyes.
“At least they’re rooting for us!” Shiro attempts to reassure him.
Keith’s brows furrow. “How did I become the funny one on the team?”
Pidge replies immediately with, “Eh… I’m not so sure about that.”
[Cut to the Altea starting lineup before the game. Blue lighting surrounds the players]
Rolleme starts singing a high pitched note, glancing at her teammates. Allura and Lance join in, each of them a different pitch.
They’re almost perfectly harmonizing.
Lance elbows Hunk, who immediately falls into it with a smooth baritone. James side eyes the idiots around him.
[Cut to Shiro, Keith, and Pidge at Altea’s goal. Shiro has possession of the puck]
“I’m open! I’m open!” Keith shouts from the right side of the net.
Shiro skates around the back of the net, Altea defenders following close behind. And just as he moves the puck around the other side, he flips it up onto his stick and flings it into the top corner of the net in a blink-and-you-miss-it moment.
As the goal buzzer sounds, Keith puts an arm around Shiro in celebration.
“A Michy,” Keith says in awe. “First one from you, old man.”
“I’m 22,” he scoffs.
[Cut to a line brawl breaking out around the Marmora goal]
A stray fist hits Keith. “F**k!” Heavy breathing crackles through the mic before Keith is throwing punches right back.
Meanwhile, Lance is ducking to avoid a shove, mumbling, “oh no oh no,” before shooting upward and using both hands to push his opponent so hard that their helmet comes off. He keeps swinging anyway.
[Cut to a tracking shot of both Keith and Lance being sent to the penalty box for fighting. They look annoyed and a bit rough]
They make it to their sides of the box, spitting out complaints, until a short player in Marmora purple skates in behind Keith, making him turn around.
“Pidge?” Keith asks, bewildered.
She only shrugs. A wide smile taking over her already bruising face.
“I just knew Pidge started it, didn’t you?” Lance seems impressed.
“It wouldn’t be a championship without a brawl,” she answers. Keith shakes his head and laughs, closing the door behind them.
[Cut to a clip of Pidge with the puck near Marmora’s goal]
Just past middle ice, Lance steals the puck from Pidge. He only has it for a split second, and then passes it to Allura.
Allura moves around Axca to shoot it between the goalie’s legs, a valid goal by an inch.
“Yes!” Lance shouts. He turns to Pidge. “Had to, sorry!” He does a small two finger salute before skating off to where his team is celebrating with Allura.
“Did you?” Pidge yells after him.
[Cut to a clip of Keith and Lance on Marmora’s side]
Keith reaches around Lance from where he is slightly behind him, attempting to steal the puck. Lance suddenly switches directions, and his stick is right next to Keith’s.
Keith doesn’t seem to see that and jerks his stick upward. It gets caught on the hooked part of Lance’s.
Instinctively, he brings it up and closer to himself, but Lance goes right along with it. Lance ends up pushed against his chest as they both try to free their sticks and get the puck that is now gliding away on the ice.
“Can you just—“
“I’m trying!”
“Hold on, let me—”
Once they’ve freed themselves, a ref blows the whistle and guides Keith away.
Half of Keith’s face is on camera, and his confused frown is clear. “What? What—come on, that cannot be a stick check. It was an accident!”
[Cut to a clip after Keith is freed from the penalty box, skating over to Lance on his side during a break for a play review]
Keith tugs at Lance’s sleeve, and he wordlessly skates a bit away from everyone.
“You know I didn’t mean to do that,” Keith clarifies.
Lance raises one eyebrow high. “Red, you literally slammed me into the wall during playoffs last year. A little stick check is nothing.”
“I wanted that goal!” Keith says defensively, his voice squeaking a bit.
“And you got it,” Lance sighs.
As Keith turns to leave, he says, without looking at Lance, “Sorry I slammed into you.”
“Oh, I can handle a little slamming, trust me.”
[Cut to a clip of Keith after making a goal]
Keith throws his arms up in celebration, grinning ear to ear.
All of his teammates on ice join in for a group hug, Keith against the board while they pile in on either side.
“Four to three, baby,” Ryan says.
“We’ve done it!” Acxa yells at Keith’s right.
“Alright, alright,” Keith says, “there’s still a while to go.”
“Always so serious.” Ryan rolls his eyes.
[Cut to Keith on the bench with Acxa beside him while they both watch the game]
An Altea player loses balance and falls into the board, tipping over fully into the Marmora benches.
She lands between Keith and Acxa, and their teammates audibly wince.
“Whoops,” Acxa says awkwardly.
“We got you Rizavi,” Keith adds as he and Acxa push her up by either side. She giggles as she gets back onto the ice.
“Learning freshman opponents' names—aiming for that sportsmanship award, eh?”
“Shut up, Rolo.”
“Keith the kind,” Acxa teases and is gifted with Keith’s glare.
[Cut to a clip of Lance skating through center ice, the puck perfectly controlled as players attempt to steal it]
A huge Marmora player is quickly approaching. Lance sees them and sends the puck to his left toward Allura, but he doesn’t move fast enough.
The player runs into him, making Lance’s knee give in at a bad angle and putting too much of their weight on his shoulder.
Lance collapses in a sharp gasp, curling in on himself and sliding across the ice. He doesn’t move, only holds his shoulder where it’s pressed against the ice, still on his side by the board.
The mic picks up muffled breaths every time that his chest heaves, pushing it against the fabric of his jersey.
The piercing sound of a whistle brings the game to a halt, and the camera tracks Keith as he moves toward Lance. A ref skates forward to stop him, but Keith is faster.
He kneels at Lance’s side.
“Are you okay? Is it—” Keith swallows hard. “Is it your knee? Or…”
Lance doesn’t answer, only his head moving slightly, but it could be from his shaking. His grip on his shoulder tightens, and Keith’s eyes train on the spot. He looks like he’s about to fix it himself but the med team gets to them.
“I need you to move back.”
Keith does as they say but keeps circling a few feet away. After a second, he shouts, “He can’t move his arm!”
A ref and Shiro skate over to Keith and bring him back to the bench so the med team can focus.
[Cut to Lance being led off the ice]
A medical assistant and coach Alfor support Lance, helping him past the benches.
Lance lets out a half-hearted, “Wooo, I’m up.”
[Cut to the other side of the court, the camera focused on Keith, looking nervous]
Shiro leans into Keith. “He’s gonna be alright. Look.” He points to the Altea side. “He’s already starting to move his arm again.”
“Mmm,” Keith hums in response without looking at Shiro.
[Cut to the camera tracking Lance as he gets sent back onto the ice with a little over one minute remaining before they’ll have to go into overtime]
Lance seems much better, no signs of favoring one side, and he gets possession of the puck when James’ pass to Allura goes wide.
He tries to get it back to Allura, but Ryan intercepts and goes speeding toward Aleta’s goal.
“Here!” Lance shouts when Lotor gets possession. With Marmora's heavy defense, Lotor is forced to send it down the board.
Everyone breaks off, chasing the puck.
The Marmora goal is surrounded, and Allura is closest to it. Lance manages to bring the puck away from the board, but as he skates in front of the goal, it’s too crowded.
He shoots anyway.
Everything is slowed, every move clear.
Allura must’ve known he would try, because she jumps up, both skates half a foot in the air, and the puck slides right under her and hits the back of the net.
Lance’s stick goes flying. “Holy S**t!”
The entire Altea lineup tackles Lance, nearly barreling over each other with excitement. Romelle half jumps onto Allura’s back, Lotor joins the group, and even James is smiling and yelling.
Ecstatic cheers are one muffled buzz of joy.
“Yeah! Let’s gooo!” Romelle screams, peaking the mic.
“We did it,” Lance breathes in disbelief, “how did we do that?”
Allura grins like crazy. “Because we’re champions, babe!”
[Cut to a clip shortly after the cup ceremony. Lance is taking another turn parading the cup around. Some upperclassmen are pouring beer on each other in the background]
Keith skates onto the ice from the away section, still in his Marmora jersey but his helmet is discarded, just like Lance’s. Lance notices him and his smile widens more somehow.
Lance turns quickly and passes the cup off to his team, and the camera tracks him as he skates up to Keith. They stand face to face, only a foot apart.
“Should you be hoisting the cup like that with your messed up shoulder?”
“Hey! I got a game winning goal with that shoulder. Are you jealous?” Lance moves closer.
“I,” Keith starts, slowly, “am so, so insanely proud of you.”
Keith pulls Lance in quickly by his good shoulder, wrapping him in his arms. Lance grips the nape of Keith’s neck.
They spin slightly on the ice, still holding each other.
When they finally pull back it’s only by a few inches, and then Keith nods and Lance closes the distance.
Their kiss is partially covered by the angle of the camera and by Keith's fingers as he cradles Lance’s face, but the accompanying cheers from the crowd makes it perfectly clear.
Nate𖦹
an out queer couple in hockey is life saving, truly
♡ 49.5k
amera
rivals to lovers is real i’ve seen it on my sports channel
♡ 15k
syd | in mourning @kinnykade_pilled
college hockey fans getting new confirmed yaoi even if their team lost
[gif attached of a woman trying a burger and then jumping excitedly]
Clancy @klanceylikeclancy replying to @kinnykade_pilled
I haven’t watched the game yet WDYM CONFIRMED
dio @koganebladezz420
and i always said klance had the most chemistry. guess who just got proved right in the funniest way possible
cloud ☁️@excesskeith
what if you were a HOCKEY FAN and you liked RPF and then your favorite one HARD LAUNCHED with AN ON ICE KISS and altea WON
sharksified7 reblogged
mcgane-spy 6h
did anyone else notice that in the mic’d up video keith is worried about lance’s knee at first. the same knee that lance injured at the beginning of the season and had to sit out for 5 games because of
lance has mentioned before about how that injury got in his head too. so this win proves just how strong he is
sharksified7 4h
This brings up the question of how long they’ve been together. Was Keith there for Lance during that hard time?
#fic writers get to work #keith and lance having to hide their relationship for months or possibly even years #homophobic hockey culture you will die #hockey #klance #sharkies thoughts
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ratthew-holt 1h
the goals and assists by lance and allura this game were absolutely insane those are my goats
#lance and allura for the number one overall draft pick next summer #and the blades were cool too ig #hockey #lance #allura
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lottie
i feel normal about them i feel normal about them #klance #edit #keithkogane #lancemcclain #fyp
[Description of TikTok video: an edit to a pop song, opening with the clip of Keith and Lance kissing and then changing between clips of them throughout their games together]
lanceymcclain and k.koganehockey
[Picture 1: Lance and Keith with their arms wrapped around each other while wearing their jerseys, both grinning with flushed cheeks and looking at the camera
Picture 2: A car with Keith driving his passengers, Lance, Hunk, Pidge, and Shiro all in their team USA merch from the Olympics
Picture 3: Lance holding the cup like a stuffed animal while resting his head on Keith’s shoulder]
grateful to get to share a bit of us with the world 💜
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hunkgarrett The grip on the cup (❤️by author)
rainedice more like his grip on keith LMAO
takashi_shirogane proud of you beyond words. so much more in store for you two 🫶 (❤️ by author)