Shurtis

Shurtis is the slash ship between Shiro and Curtis from the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom.

Canon
Shiro and Curtis both met in season 7, Curtis worked on the Atlas and would refer to Shiro as "Captain" or "Sir". Curtis stayed working on the Atlas in season 8 and aided Voltron in their mission. In the episode "Clear Day", Curtis was seen in the audience watching Shiro arm wrestling. He was not visible when Shiro won his arm wrestling competition, and was seen hanging out with the EMF pilots simultaneously.

In the ending of season 8, he and Shiro are married. Shiro is shown to be kissing Curtis. Lance, Hunk, Pidge, Coran and others are seen at the ceremony.

Fanon
Shurtis began to rise after season 8 as the two are now married, though it has faced a large intense backlash within the fandom, and has been criticized by multiple critics.

Fans of the ship often contribute works of a happy and healthy marriage or pre-relationship content to fill in the gap of how the ship came to pass. Much of the positive fan work have Shurtis adopting children or animals together. Many fans also have Curtis bonding with Shiro's friends, with some even going out of their way to play matchmaker for them.

Critical Response
A number of critics and fans characterizing it as poor LGBT representation. While Polygon reviewer Palmer Haasch praised the show's general plot, she criticized the show's depiction of Shiro and Curtis stating, “Shiro’s nuptials feel abrupt given that we’ve barely seen him and his husband Curtis, a member of the Atlas bridge crew, interact in any meaningful capacity over the course of the season. Following Voltron’s queerbaiting controversy following the death of Shiro’s ex-boyfriend, Adam, the ending felt neutrally effective at best and disingenuous at worst, despite being a groundbreaking moment for LGBTQ representation in all-ages programming.”.

Renaldo Matadeen of CBR in his official review, opined, "There's no love or warmth here, and it feels like the series retroactively tried to pony up a relationship in apology for the Shiro drama. But it's another debacle that feels fake, forced, and patronizing... Instead of being progressive, these moments simply come off like disrespectful, lazy patch jobs. Despite some attempts to the contrary, whatever Legendary Defender tried to do ended up being superficial and totally upended the social impact intended."

Schedeen of IGN wrote, "That said, it would be far more effective to see one of these animated shows acknowledge their LGBT heroes from the very beginning and not save moments like these for the literal last minute; with that rushed reveal (after spending no time establishing Shiro's new relationship or even hinting at it), Voltron relies too much on the audience's affection for Shiro to give the moment resonance, rather than earning an emotional response from its storytelling."

Sean Z. of Geekdad wrote, "The fact is: the wedding is a PR stunt–one that reduces queer people to marketing collateral and attempts to sell a last-ditch effort as 'groundbreaking.' That is why the scene is so reprehensible: the studio expects to be rewarded for it."

It was admitted in the final AfterBuzzTV interview that the entire conceptualization and creation of Shiro's wedding epilogue was added in less than a day, in attempts as an olive branch to the LGBT community. Dos Santos stated, "You know, we, the circumstances at which we sort of arrived at that scene didn’t allow us, we had like a day to really put that together... And we, I think sort of, wholeheartedly accept that it’s clunky. It’s hella clunky."

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Variations

 * Adashurtis refers to the ship between Adam, Shiro, and Curtis
 * Curtasheithrefers to the ship between Keith, Shiro and Curtis