I canβt stop thinking about Miko. Like at all. So I propose to thee:
I know we said Shane is Mikoβs little brother whom she loves very dearly (read: heckles and annoys the shit out of him), but donβt you think Miko deserves a little sister? A girl HAS to have a sister!!
Yuna, who is part of a group of avid bird enthusiasts, learns about another bird who needs a new home. Sheβs the same species as Miko and her previous owner was also Japanese (this bird speaks Japanese!). There is no one else more perfect to take her then Yuna. So, one of Yunaβs friends from the group obviously had the great idea of mentioning this to her. Now Yuna canβt help but keep thinking about this bird who is all alone and needs a family.
βDavid! We have to! Itβs destiny! Shane just moved out!β
(In this verse this obviously happens when Shane starting his rookie season)
So empty nesters Yuna and David acquire a second bird, Mikoβs brand new little bird sister, Keiko.
Shane is not very happy when he ventures home for a long weekend and is swarmed by two birds shrieking his name.
βSHANE. SHANE. SHANE. SHANE.β
They sound practically demonic. Shane is very much NOT pleased at all. He now has to deal with double the trouble and teasing from his bird sisters.
Bird sisters. BIRD SISTERS. SISTERS. Sisters plural. He could cry.
Keiko has been learning from Miko, so now double the chaos ensues.
OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SO MUCH
i love keiko the parrot (in multiple senses lmao) who doesn't know WHY they're screaming this word, but miko started doing it when this strange man walked through the door so sure!! she'll join!!! SHANE! SHANE! SHANE!
shane goes home to visit for the first time after they get keiko, opens the door to a wall of noise, and then just. shuts it.
he has to take a walk around the block before he's ready to try again.
in actual fucking TEARS cackling about this
shane going through personal relationship war and can't even have the initial, "hey this is ilya. i love him." conversation beCAUSE THESE LOUD ASS BIRDS!! WON'T SHUT!!! THE FUCK UP!!!!
conversation gets derailed and poor ilya is now just. standing there. (because also didn't get a warning about the birds existing because shane didn't think about it when The Everything Else was more pressing, and also he played it off for shane's sake, but i do think he was a little nervous, too, about how this would go.) because now shane has to go over and greet the birds so they'll shut the fuck up and everyone can hear each other, but miko is mad they came to House Where Shane Comes Over Often and shane didn't come over often, so she starts climbing down her perch and extending her lil foot and going "SHANE! step up? up? pretty bird step up?" and shane is trying and failing to negotiate with the fucking bird WHO CAN'T READ A ROOM.
so now he has to be holding miko, and obviously keiko doesn't want to get left out if her sister is going to be hanging out on someone, so she skitters down, too, and pulls a "up? up? step up? SHANE! step up?"
like tbh might ultimately be good for shane in the long run from the tension broken by the accidental physical comedy of having to try and come out while holding two big ass birds who are also curious about New Person and keep going, "hello" "konnichiwa. hiiiiiiiii" "hello hello pretty bird? hello" "hiiiii" at ilya, who does not. know how to help shane rn.
NOT THE KISSY NOISES
ilya so ready to stand by and be supportive or be the bad guy if that made it easier on shane with his parents, but he truly just. does not know what to do about this bird leaning over from shane's shoulder and going, "kiss kiss? muAH!" (keiko is the one who wants kisses because her last owner did it all the time) (ilya, though, doesn't know how to take a bird?? hitting on him???? he's REALLY trying to stay focused and solid for shane, but there is a blue head leaning into his field of vision repeatedly demanding a kiss, and it's REALLY hard to keep his eyes forward past that)
and AAAAAHHHHH! I said in the original miko post that talking to miko like a person was how yuna knew david was the one for her, and I am SCREAMING and in my feelings about it immediately making her more open to ilya here.
meanwhile ilya is trying to decide if he should offer to hold one of the parrots for shane. because one is dangling upside down on his arm like a bat (one of miko's favorite things) and he is a little worried this is going to push shane over the edge.
Now Iβm imagining the coming out conversation going exactly the way it did in the show except Shane had a Big Ass Bird on each shoulder and they both start screaming LOVERS LOVERS LOVERS LOVERS as soon as Ilya says it and Shane is thisclose to just going back to the cottage and drowning himself in the lake
GOD the real reason he says everyone has to stop saying that word is that birds learn from repetition and he knows
he KNOWS
those two demons are going to pick it up
HE KNOWS IT
Wait I just thought of another hilarious scenario. Yuna has, obviously, been training the girls to say FUCK ROZANOV whenever they see a picture of him for the better part of a decade at this point. She's also added "Right up the butt!" to that phrase enough times to where they've also learned that one. So now, as if the situation wasn't chaotic enough, there are two giant birds sitting on Shane's shoulders screaming FUCK ROZANOV RIGHT UP THE BUTT directly in his face because they recognize him from the pictures

















