Current state of ships
There’s a lot of discourse over shipping in the fandom right now, once again (Oof™) so as a Multishipper I thought, hey, why not look at the proper canon side here.
- -Sheith: We know that there’s a strong bond between them, Keith said he loves Shiro. Considering that Keith has referred to Shiro as his brother multiple times, and judging from the flashbacks, it’s probably safe to say that this is what he sees him as now
- Klance: They didn’t really have any interaction or development since S3 and it’s been shown safely now that Lance is in love with Allura and is quite serious about these feelings. At the moment, I’m not sure how big the chances of endgame Klance are. Maybe there won’t be any endgame? Who knows
- Allurance: As said above, Lance genuinely is in love with her. Judging from Allura’s reaction she doesn’t feel the same way about Lance. She’s also in love with Lotor. Lance supports her a lot this season and Allura realizes & appreciates this and allows herself to get closer to him. However, she still has feelings for Lotor and I’m sure that her not-being-attracted-to-Lance that’s been elaborated since S1 won’t change
- Lotura: Allura is definitely still in love with Lotor, or at least cares a lot, since she wanted to save him still at the end. She’s been hurting a lot over Lotor betraying her and I’m sure it’ll take time to heal. We can’t really know which of the things Lotor told her were lies, but considering that he said “we’re meant to be together” (instead of saying “I want to be with you” or something similar) it kinda implies that he does believe in a connection between them. I felt this statement was genuine, but I suppose you can interpret it however you want
- Hidge/Punk: They started hinting at it last season, first we saw them solely growing closer as friends, but ever since Pidge’s father teased them, it seems the show might be leading into that direction. We got a lot of small background interaction that shows that they’re currently close and care a lot about each other. This ship is probably the one that’s most up to interpretation on this list, so you may disregard it if you don’t agree with there being a kind of romantic undertone
- Shatt: apparently they never reunited after all, since Kuron is the one that met Matt. I’m not sure what that does for their relationship, but since Kuron very much had the same feelings about the people around him as Shiro, the interaction between Matt and Kuron showed how Shiro feels about him too. I just added this one in because a lot of people pointed out that Shiro didn’t actually meet Matt yet
- Shallura: Someone pointed this out to me so I want to add this. The whole scene with Allura essentially reviving Shiro brought them back to balancing out each other, we had her reposition herself to give him a warm smile, we have him with completely white hair now which, character design wise, of course makes them look attractive together and makes viewers more drawn to considering them as a couple (someone made a post about this regarding Lotor and Allura and I think it applies for Shallura as well) I never really thought about Shallura much, so I’d say take a look at the Shallura tag, the shippers actually explain this really well. I think if Allura ends up with someone who isn’t Lotor, it could be Shiro. We don’t get much more than this though at the moment and it might be all speculations.
As I said, this is how I think the ships stand right now, canon-wise
If you feel like I’m bashing a ship, I’m really not, but if it matters, I’ll just come out now and say that my favorite ships are currently Klance, Sheith and Hidge/Punk (I guess that one was obvious lol)
Overall, I think all of us are reading too much into canon & trying to push our ships too hard and it makes us ignore the canon facts, the actual storyline and the characters we’ve come to love so much.
Shipping is fun, but we have to separate canon and fanon.
And guys… we’re not enemies. We’re all in the same fandom. Let’s stick together.