`*Fandom Barf*`

His Google search history that night:

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im talking book hayden here, we haven’t gotten much from show hayden so i’m not speaking about him. we’ll probably get something closer to show svetlana to expand his character.

hayden isn’t this fucking monster that some of y’all make him out to be. is he the perfect ally? no. but he’s the only person who’s actually had shane’s back in the books. okay so he hates ilya at first, but that’s because when you only know someone’s surface level that’s the ONLY opinion you’re going to get. building a friendship takes time, and in the long game we see that hayden and ilya’s friendship grows. they do spend time together, hayden trusts ilya with his kids. he lets ilya carry his wife when she’s hurt. the banter they have isn’t malicious in the same way it was when they started. their friendship just looks different.

and yall gotta remember that environment is a huge factor here. shane is notoriously a “bad gay”. they spend their entire lives with locker room culture and not being exposed to queer culture, what language to use, etc. arguably they’re ALL ignorant because they don’t know. they’re all fumbling around and trying to do what’s right but also fighting back against what they’ve been taught and surrounded with their entire lives.

and you might say “oh well they can google things, the internet is free”. yeah it is, but also they’re all the types who don’t explore outside of what’s in their daily lives. if they don’t see it, it doesn’t exist. a LOT of people are like this.

this isn’t even a stab in the dark, most of us are the opposite personality types to these millionaire athletes. we do care about things that go on around us, and a lot of online culture is queer. sometimes we project onto characters and assume that they’re like us. fiction or not hayden isn’t a bad person.

it’s so subtle but hayden is a character who grows. and growing takes TIME. i can guarantee hayden will show up more in unrivaled and we’ll probably see more growth from his character there as well.

it’s subtle but it really does make heated rivalry stand out from almost any other piece of media about sports. constantly there is a man (a father or a father figure usually) fighting for their younger prodigy to realize how much they’re worth and how much this really means while their mother is the grounding figure who wants to know how their day went outside of sports and what’s going on with the relationships in their lives. it’s actually kind of groundbreaking i don’t think i’ve seen it literally anywhere else.