☆not your bones☆

Grace: *Retroactively freaking out about Doing A Misogyny™*

"Shipping that canonically straight man with another man is misogynistic, why do you hate women?" Um...what if I just think he'd be hot with a guy?

"Making that character trans is fetishizing, that's so gross." Um...what if I just see myself in him, and I'm trans? Or...what if I just like writing trans characters?

"Shipping those two characters together is disgusting, in canon he did x thing and it's really bad." Um....in canon, he's dead, so...

Grace: It’s called time management, Rocky.

Because you're the only two seals in the sanctuary, and ghost has been struggling without a pod, stuck away from his own while he's in recovery.

When you first meet ghost, all you can think is that he's scary. Huge, bigger than any seal you've met and so so dangerous! He could tear you to pieces if he wanted! You expect him to do just that when the mer circles you, chuffing and churring, the tip of his tail grazing along your own curiously.

He opens his mouth, sharp teeth on display and coming right for you—

...nothing. no...no pain, no bite into flesh. Just...soft pressure?

You peek an eye open to find the strang scary seal gently gnawing on your fin, exploring it with his mouth. Only then do you see his heavily scarred hands. It must be difficult using those.

So you lie still and let him chew on you...just a bit. It is scary, but when you bark at him he instantly backs off so...not that scary.

From then on you and ghost are inseparable.

Grace is the funniest bitch in the project by accident. He's used to being around kids so he's forgotten that filters are a thing and just says the first, dumbest joke that pops into his head. He has no control over it. Nobody makes him feel bad about it because they're afraid of what Stratt will do if they hurt his feelings.

Except, Ilya has been trying really, really hard to flirt with Shane and get him a little riled up, and he was so sure that Shane was interested. He's chubbed up himself in front of him more than once, notably when they were panting at each other on the hotel gym floor, and he couldn't help but notice that Shane hadn't really had any... noticeable physical reaction. He hadn't meant to leer at him that way but he'd glanced and... it's fine. It's really fine, he hadn't been trying to get to him that much anyway.

But then at their CCM ad, he doesn't get to the showers in time. He's still not sure how Shane got in and out of it so quick but at least he was still on the bench of the locker room when he walked out of the shower, towel riding low on his hips, and look—Ilya saw him stare. Like, guaranteed hard-on stare. The tension was so thick Ilya himself had been rock hard, and unless he was completely mistaken he was sure Shane must be too. And, well, maybe he had been mistaken, because when Shane got up and left without a word there was still not the slightest hint of even a chub bulge through his sort-of-loose joggers.

Ilya has never, ever felt so unsure of himself. Was he somehow reading this all completely wrong? How could he be, Shane was so obviously interested, but... what was going wrong? Was he embarassed or did he not think Ilya was attractive enough?

It's finally at their first All Stars that he manages to get to Shane. They're chatting back and forth, he's pretty sure Shane is flirting with him... He throws his room number at Shane in a wild gamble, and is so surprised when Shane actually shows up that he almost doesn't know what to do. Shane is frazzled himself, seems unsure of why he's here exactly, mumbles about Scott Hunter being next door.

So Ilya does what he knows best. He closes slowly on Shane, who lets himself get trapped against the wall, and doesn't quite register Shane's breathless wait in time before his body is pressed against his from shoulder to knee and- oh.

After some flustered and slightly panicked explanations, Ilya is so relieved that Shane hadn't just somehow found him interesting but not quite attractive enough to get hard that he doesn't even hesitate to take it in stride. He'll just do some more research in the morning.

I just made some BULLSHIT.

Cut to Ilya Rozanov hundreds of miles away up at 3 in the morning almost breaking his phone screen from how hard he's gripping it after replaying the 7 second clip for the 200th time and he's never been more hard in his life.

And he's the only one who knows where Shane Hollander learned to ride.

THIS ONE DOES IT TOO!!

I found a bunch more!!