genderphobe

like poor frazzled young mom yuna trying to get this allergen away from her tiny child at this family event because shane toddled up to someone putting together a fruit plate and got a side of mango to teeth on because he's newer to solids so not everyone had gotten the memo on allergies yet

Because what do you mean they went to the batting cages for some silly fun to watch everyone flail at an unfamiliar sport, only for Shane to need three practice swings before figuring out the force and timing needed to start hitting every single pitch? What do you mean he sets the course record at the mini golf place they have the Pike twins birthday at? What do you mean he learned how to play cricket over a long weekend in the UK? What do you MEAN your Canadian ass that grew up on a calm, tiny lake went to visit Rose in LA and just learned to surf from “some guy” one of the days she was busy??

Shane doesn’t get why they all think it’s so crazy. He’s a professional athlete, he’s good at full body and mind control as well as adaptability and hand-eye coordination, and he’s so used to being the best in the world at hockey that he views being mundanely good at anything else as barely noticeable. He argues with Troy over whether he counts as being good at basketball just because he killed them all at the basketball shooting game at a Dave and Buster’s

They all start making bets to see who can find a sport Hollander isn’t good at. Harris is convinced he’ll win with figure skating because Shane’s muscle memory will want to work against him with a technique that’s so similar but also so different, only for Shane to come out of an afternoon learning from his old friend who was at the Olympics with the ability to do simple jumps and spins and is insisting the whole team learn so they can incorporate it into plays. Harris is not allowed to make suggestions after that

It's honestly impossible to overstate what a big deal that is. Canada constantly losing their hockey talent to US teams and the Stanley drought...it doesn't fucking matter what went down with those French Canadians, the rest of the country is ignoring that, he's still their hero.

get the puck get the puck get the puck

faaaast i’m so fast

let’s gooooo!

[unintelligible noises]

go go go go

So I read With Bloodied Feet Across the Hallowed Ground by @nocoastposts and it was so good that this scene sprung fully formed into my mind and wouldn’t let go until I drew it

Shane is perfectly motionless as he watches his breath fog up the gleaming blade. The parts of his mind urging him to fight back go silent. The part of him that was a whisper now becomes a roar.

Submit. Yield. Obey. Be good.

At New Year's they throw a party for the whole team, everybody pretty drunk by the end of the night. The next morning, Ilya wakes up next to Shane, with Luca sandwiched between them.

In the end, all three of them decide that it was just a one time thing in a drunken haze - ignoring the fact that there had been chemistry between them for quite a while.

Four weeks later Luca calls, sobbing and desolate.