i‘m the one that you love & the one who loves you

[ilya voice] with a little umbrella?

I know we said Shane is Miko’s little brother whom she loves very dearly (read: heckles and annoys the shit out of him), but don’t 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. She’s 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 Yuna’s friends from the group obviously had the great idea of mentioning this to her. Now Yuna can’t help but keep thinking about this bird who is all alone and needs a family.

“David! We have to! It’s destiny! Shane just moved out!”

(In this verse this obviously happens when Shane starting his rookie season)

So empty nesters Yuna and David acquire a second bird, Miko’s 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.

“SHANE. SHANE. SHANE. SHANE.”

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.

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?"

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.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey. We're good here. Your family is here. Your boyfriend is here. You're good here, OK? - My boyfriend? - I mean, yes. I think so, probably.