Kat :)

Ilya throws Shane a surprise birthday dinner. Only he doesn't actually tell any of their friends that it's Shane's surprise birthday dinner, they all just think it's a regular dinner party. When dinner is served, Ilya stands up, as though to make a toast and says "it's Shane's birthday! Surprise!" (It's not, Shane's birthday is in a few days but it wouldn't be much of a surprise if it was on the actual day).

I’m never over Ilya, still dick deep in Shane trying to be all sweet, kissing on him, stroking his leg, fully thinkin they’re basking in post orgasm glow, and the absolutely bewildered “What???? Shut up???” he lets out after Shane complains about the bed being messy now

Shane shouting "davai!" along with his normal "let's go!" at Ilya on the ice when he scores a goal or gets an assist with the widest fucking Canadian diphthong made even worse by his huge fucking goofy grin

i think i've posted this before, but ilya truly does deserve an award for his patience after getting woken up at fuck o'clock at the cottage for a five year plan strategy session when he was in the middle of a rem cycle.

this does make me think that if they have kids, ilya is going to be the default parent getting woken up for "i frew up"

this also does mean that shane rarely wakes up in a bed with the same number of people it had when he fell asleep

Ilya has always enjoyed baiting other teams into penalties. In fact, it's one of his favourite things about hockey. He's made it into a fucking art form. He has a long mental list of exactly what gets under other players' skin and relishes finding new and creative ways to frame their petty insecurities or asshole nature (crucially, he is not airing people's trauma, he's chirping them about their receding hairline and DUI). But after Shane joins the Centaurs, he starts going fucking wild with it. People thought he was bad before? Just you fucking wait. When the reward for getting a penalty out of someone else is that he finally gets to share the ice with his husband??? Oh, shit's about to go down.