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it's important to me that ilya remains captain of the centaurs after shane joins, but i have a specific picture in my mind of shane being assistant captain and being generally harmless and super chill , so the centaurs see him as like the chill parent (something to be said about shane being content in letting someone else, specifically His Someone, have the reins and enjoying not being in charge) but then ilya has to be out for a few weeks for like health or smth so shane goes into Captain Mode and the centaurs are scared shitless by how intense he gets all of a sudden. the most intense drills of all time. the hardest plays they've ever heard of. the strictest practices on earth. and they suddenly understand why shane led the metros/voyagers to victory so many times and why ilya treats him like the boss in their relationship. and then as soon as ilya comes back he turns it off and the centaurs are like Oh Thank Fuck Because What The Hell Was That

i love how ilya asks shane whether he likes women and how he never hears about shane with women - out of genuine curiosity imo - and then the moment he does hear about shane with a woman he is like, Well I Guess It’s Time To Kill Everyone And Also Myself

Can you imagine how angry Ilya "Summer Before" Rozanov was when he heard about Shane's own teammates accusing him of throwing a game against him? Sure, the idea that Shane would need to throw a game in order for him to win is offensive in and of itself but the notion that Shane Hollander would voluntarily lose at a fucking egg and spoon race, never mind a deciding Playoffs game is so beyond insulting that it cannot be borne. They all suddenly think of him in a binary, sort him in his mind as "Shane before Ilya" and "Shane after Ilya", view them as two separate people and it's ludicrous because none of them have ever even met a Shane Hollander before Ilya Rozanov. Before Shane's skates ever touched NHL ice, he touched Ilya. Before the puck hit the back of the net on his first NHL goal, his cock hit the back of Ilya's throat and he's not allowed to tell them that?? What do you mean???

kinda feel like Ilya letting “Shane” slip out during the tuna melt sex scene was a result of Ilya letting himself moan Shane’s name during his jacking off seshs and he had gotten a little too comfortable letting it slip out whereas when Shane says Ilya’s name back it’s because it had never occurred to him he could say just Ilya’s name out loud so he tries it out and then it felt so good he spooked himself like a horse

The way Ilya shows his teeth when he says 'What. Color.' sends me to a whole other planet. He might as well be biting the scruff of Shane's neck. And then to make a mating call reference mere moments later? Ilya Rozanov went full lizard brain in that moment. Completely feral no thoughts head empty. No wonder he pestered Shane for the next two years about getting it in. He lost brain cells that night.