hunk:
- he’ll give everyone the play by play of how he’s feeling as the illness progresses
- no concept of tmi
- “okay so i just went to the bathroom and there are some things going on in my intestines right now that-” “oh my god hunk shut up”
- gets really freaked out at first because “what if this is a weird alien virus that makes my lungs explode or something!”
- but don’t worry! coran comforts him with Science!
- sorta!
- “there is a 75% chance your body will be able to combat the disease no problem!” “what about the other 25%” “you could die quite horribly! haha!”
- catch him in the kitchen with a 102 fever trying to make himself soup
- listen. he loves his friends. but. he has very high standards for caretaking and none of them come close to meeting them
pidge:
- gets pretty visibly sick so everyone knows when she’s sick without her having to say anything
- interact with humans? haha no thanks
- hates being around people when she’s sick because everything they do pisses her off lmao
- she’d rather just hole herself up in her room with her laptop
- don’t talk to her until it’s over
- at any given moment you go to check on her she’s probably laying face down on her bed and groaning miserably
- even on the lowest screen brightness her laptop is still giving her a headache
- betrayed by the one she loves most :’’’(
lance:
- he’ll tell everyone when he’s sick. like. he’ll announce it
- he’s… dramatic
- “i’m sorry princess i can’t train today i sneezed earlier and am probably dying”
- if he coughs once he’s like “this is it. this is where it all ends”
- [draping himself on couch] “everyone take care of me i’m dying”
- you know it’s serious when he shuts up
- when he’s really sick he sorta just lies down and does nothing
- but he’s not like pidge, he wants people around
- so he’ll go to the bridge and sit and listen to everyone doing stuff and just doze there (and get the couch all germy ew lance-)
keith:
- won’t tell anyone he’s sick but everyone can tell
- always vastly underestimates how bad it is, so he never feels the need to mention it
- it’s just a cold shiro?? yes i can walk in a straight line here i’ll prove-
- keith, in an on-fire house: “this is fine”
- galra have higher body temperatures than humans which scares the shit out of everyone the first time keith runs a fever
- no concept of what a sick person is supposed to act like
- unless it’s really bad he’ll just try to go about his daily routine
- but everyone keeps running into him and sending him back to his room >:/
- he actually likes the peace and quiet that comes with being sick though, so it’s not all bad
shiro:
- he’ll tell everyone he’s sick because Communication is Important Guys
- but he sort of? doesn’t act sick??
- so it’s confusing for everyone around him
- “hey just a heads up i have a fever today” [kicks ass in training, strategizes with allura, forms voltron to save a planet]
- basically he plays it off well
- so he tends to get worse because he’s not taking medicine or resting
- tied with keith for Most Likely to Collapse From A Fever Due to Stubbornness
- actually one of the worst patients out of the paladins
- he goes a little stir crazy, doesn’t really like sitting still and letting other people handle things
- “shiro go to sleep we can survive one day without you oh my god-”