I Just Work Here

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Anyhow…

For the plane crash, and for all that comes with it. I really, REALLY want there to be more drama with it. Like I need there to be more tension, more anxiety. Because while in the book it’s not BAD, it certainly left me wanted MORE. Ya know?

Okay but like imagine this:

The crash is worse. Maybe they have one of the landing gears go out, making the plane drag across the runway. Something where they get a lil more shaken up, not hurt but when the crash is on the news it looks ROUGH. Secondly, Shane hears about the crash from JJ like he does in the book. But instead of seeing Ilya’s texts that he’s okay, he only sees the instagram messages. Something could happen to Ilya’s phone, maybe it flys out of his hand when they hit the ground and gets stepped on or just shattered. He can’t text or call Shane until he gets to his hotel. Maybe even gets Troy to hand him his phone, and then having to explain why he’s telling Shane Hollander of all people he’s not dead.

Back on Shane’s end, he’s FREAKING OUT. All he has from Ilya is his goodbye, his final words. And when he tries to call Ilya? He gets that same voicemail from season 1: “Hi this is Ilya. I will never listen to your voicemail.”… THAT might just send him over the edge. Shane would be trying to figure out if Ilya is dead, the news not updating fast enough, or not saying if there was any injury/deaths from the crash. He would be acting weirder and weirder around the team, snapping at people or just generally freaking out. Hayden wouldn’t know what to do.

When Ilya is FINALLY able to call Shane the emotional relief and the IMPACT of the scene. I know Hudson and Connor would act that shit DOWN.

In the end I just feel like it would add so much MORE to the proposal, to his thoughts about coming out, about the horrifying possibility of losing Ilya and never being brave enough to love him openly. The way Shane knows he deserves, the way they both deserve. And it just adds so much more to Shane’s emotional journey, leading to his conclusion. Just a solid few hours having to face the possibility of a world without Ilya, without the one person who knows him more than anyone else ever will. His perfect match in every way. Who loves him for all he is, no matter what.

I think in contrast to the immediate ‘relief’ (because yes he still does panic and freak out in the book), the could have a lot more potential for connection and impact on both Shane and Ilya, as well as the audience.

∙ I’m still here (Jim’s theme)- John Rezenik

∙ The Night we met- Lord Huron

∙ Life Eternal- Ghost

∙ labor- Paris Paloma

∙ Gilded Lily- Cults

∙ Merry Christmas, Please don’t call- Bleachers

He expects to find her favorite toy, a squeaky toy of a hockey puck that’s seen better days, stuck somewhere she can’t reach. Or maybe Ilya fell down the well… okay that’s not very likely but knowing Ilya it’s a very real possibility. He really expects anything else than what he finds.

A little path of lights, very familiar ones as a matter of fact, leading down to the dock. He follows them, letting Anya bark happily as she runs around him. Eventually he stands before something that makes his heart swell with so much love it hurts. Ilya, standing alone at the edge of the dock. Surrounded by hundreds of electric candles. His hair is a little longer at the moment, but unlike Shane whose hair touches his shoulders. Ilya’s frames his face like a halo, like beams of sunlights around shimmering sapphires. From the candles or tears, who is to say.

Anya has calmed down at this point, content to roll around in the grass. Shane stands before Ilya now, stunned and surprised. Shane tells Ilya he doesn’t need to do this, Ilya nods face shifting as though he is mulling over Shane’s words. Shane knows better, knows that he isn’t. So he smiles when he sees that sly grin spread across Ilya’s face. Ilya takes Shane’s hands, thumbs rubbing over the backs of them. He tells Shane he knows he doesn’t need to. Know’s they are going to be married in less than a month. But he wanted to, needed to. Shane laughs, it’s a little wet, the tears are threatening to spill. Ilya is fairing no better as Shane’s laugh infects him, making them a pair of grinning crying fools.

Ilya sinks down to one knee, grabbing Shane’s hand. He tells Shane he is his light, his dreams, and the greatest thing he has ever had the pleasure of loving and being loved by in return. Besides Anya of course. He says Shane’s middle name, what gets a shaken laugh out of him after Ilya admits he asked Yuna what it was a few months ago. When Shane had proposed. From his pocket Ilya doesn’t pull out a ring, no, he pulls out a simple gold chain necklace. Ilya tells him when his father died he found a small box hidden in the very very back of his closet. He recognized it as his mother’s, not much was left inside. A pair of earrings, a decorative hair pin, and this simple gold chain. 

Ilya tells Shane that while his family might be broken beyond repair, he can still connect him to the one member of his family he loved. And who would’ve love Shane just as fiercely as he does. Shane cradles the chain in his palm, its light as air but gleams in the light of the candles. He hoists Ilya up to his feet, smashing their lips together in a desperate kiss. Hoping all his thoughts and feeling could be passed from his body into Ilya’s.

They pull apart, foreheads resting against one another’s. And Ilya asks if he will marry him. They both break out into a fit of giggling sobs, grins reaching from ear to ear. In slightly choppy Russian he tells Ilya yes of course he will marry him. There is no one else in this lifetime or any life time, who has his heart as fully and completely as he does. They kiss again, and head into the house.

‘Yes or No’.

Picture this:

The contestants are Ilya, Troy, and Shane. Much like Brennan, Shane is going full throttle. Always trying his best at every opportunity. Ilya is much the same in his competitive nature, but like Zac, Ilya is the first to figure it out. This infuriates Shane, he’s over there thinking of every possible thing he might’ve missed. All the while Ilya is smiling at him with the cheekiest grin known to man, and Shane doesn’t know if he wants to punch him or kiss him. Probably both. It takes Troy a little bit longer but it eventually clicks like with Ally and, much to Shane’s fury and despair, also wins. Shane would also have his own hilariously famous crash out over figuring out the rules.

I feel like in this reality Sam is probably Harris… but honestly I kinda think it would be funny if it was sill just Sam Reich. In his opening lines for each contestant either Sam or Harris would’ve said “three time Stanley cup all time champion” or something like that. Thus the Icarus speech would live on. 

I cannot picture a more perfect version of Shane hell than the contents of that episode. I would say it would be worse if Ilya wasn’t there, but let’s be honest. Ilya being there just decides what kind of anger Shane would be feeling. The anger of betrayal or the anger of disappointment. Ilya ok the other hand would find Shane’s crash out hot as hell, much like when he fought the elderly (Scott Hunter). And promptly jump his bones the second they get back the hotel room.

Essek and Pumat Sol are voiced by the same guy.

Spoilers ahead

Okay so. this has been floating around the past few days online. Making this is more so a combination of theories I've seen from various people in comment sections and the like. So while this take is mine, the initial idea is not. Just wanted to put my two cents on the matter.

So, uh, how we doin’? We all good?

Hanging in there?

That was um, certainly something!

Lotta nat 20’s…. Not where ya particularly want them to be.

So Occtis' dad made himself known, Lord Primus. And my Ghost rotted brain went "oh it's just like Primo and that whole numbering thing going on". Then I immediately thought, "oh this guy defo has a lot of other siblings..."