
He is capable of loosening up and enjoying a good bout of fun, happily engaging in or instigating some of the team's playful antics. For all his seriousness, Keith is hardly stoic. In truth, Keith is prone to self-consciousness and fears being rejected by others due to his parents' loss as a child, feeling that he was abandoned, and he tends to keep people at a distance and shut them out before they can reject him first to protect himself.

This, coupled with his temper and emotional instability, is not aided by Keith's difficulty opening up to anyone personally on the Voltron team - though Keith knows very little about his own past to tell until meeting the Blade of Marmora and reuniting with his mother, Krolia, who helped him stabilize and find inner peace. His pragmatism causes disconnect and misunderstanding between himself and the other Paladins, making him seem cold, uncaring, and selfish. Keith has embraced his role as a Paladin to near extremes and places such high value on the stakes of the team's mission of defending the universe. While a grounded and logical thinker, he is susceptible to his honest emotions: his rebellious and impulsive nature leads him to be foiled by his own frustration, temper, and unwavering desire to defeat the Galra Empire he often must reel himself in with patience and focus or ally input to cool his head. He is not overly confident but is aware of his skills and strengths to trust them and ask others to do the same. He is a competitive and pragmatic person who favors following his instincts above all else and will take the initiative regardless of the danger and challenge, leading to impressive accomplishments. Normally reserved, quiet, and calm, Keith is quick to give sarcastic quips and blunt commentary. Allura describing the Red Lion, in " The Rise of Voltron" Its pilot needs to be someone who relies more on instincts than skill alone. It's faster and more agile than the others, but also more unstable. The Red Lion is temperamental and the most difficult to master. While Keith normally appears to be completely human, he has displayed Galran traits such as yellow sclerae, feline pupils, and sharpened teeth during moments of extreme stress and emotion. The blade is inscribed with a glowing purple emblem of the Blade of Marmora on its guard. Strapped to the belt at his lower back is a silver-colored and double-bladed knife with a black pommel, often kept wrapped in cloth and sheathed in a gray and silver scabbard. At his waist, Keith wears a brown utility belt with a silver rectangular buckle in the center and two lighter brown pouches at either hip. His black gloves are fingerless and expose part of his hand before strapping together over the wrist. Keith wears black pants that his shirt overlaps his boots are white with black and red accents. The collar of the jacket stands propped upright. When he is not in his Paladin armor, Keith wears a dark blue-gray t-shirt underneath a red, white, and yellow jacket cropped to his ribcage, with the large cuffs of the jacket rolled up to expose their white color. In his Paladin armor, Keith's uniform mirrors his fellow Paladins but with red accents to match his Lion. He gains a scar on the right side of his face after fighting "Shiro." Of the Paladins, Keith is the second-shortest, beating only Pidge in height, until he ages in the Quantum Abyss and becomes the third-tallest alongside Lance. He has two strands of hair that sprout from the top of his head. The rest of his hair reaches the base of his neck, wildly flaring out in curved strands that tend to sit on top of his coat collar or armor. He has uneven-cut bangs that tend to sweep to the left of his face, length averaging just under his eyes, but framing his face slightly longer and curled at his cheekbones. Keith has the appearance of a lean older teenager with pale skin, black hair, fairly thick eyebrows, and purple eyes.
