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> it's good

> it's bad

they get matching tattoos (and are the ones convincing the centaurs to get a group matching tattoo when they win the stanley cup)

Ilya is Troy’s best man at his wedding

they constantly talk about the road trips they’re gonna take after they retire (shane and harris are the ones who make it logistically possible and troy and ilya are just adding more requests the whole time)

coordinated dance moves (“when did you guys even practice that?” “practice what?”)

“ilya rozanov and troy barrett being best friends for 8 minutes gay”

everything is somehow a two person job for them

somehow they accidentally match enough times that they get asked about it

they’re always paired up for social media content (and when they’re not, they mention the other way too much, “barrett would’ve picked the regular fries” or “rozanov didn’t like that movie”)

they make super dark daddy issues jokes

troy is kinda gullible and ilya is always giving him misinformation

they find out about an under funded women’s hockey team in ottawa and decide to sponsor it and start going to the games

Harris at some point: “this is my boyfriend Troy, and this is Troy’s boyfriend Ilya, and this is Ilya’s husband Shane”

“barrett when I was your age…” “shut up”

they don’t like hazing but they want to prank the rookies so they just take them out to dinner and the entire time the rookies are on edge that something is going to happen (“roz… barrett… just do it, just get it over with” “do what?” “the hazing” “we don’t haze rookies”)

Thus Ilya gets lovingly flamed, because Thee Ilya Rozanov didn’t get to hit on night one!? Thee Ilya Rozanov not only had to beg for it, but spent two years no contact begging for it!?”

please that man is a harlot (affectionate) he needs it so bad...

One day post TLG, Harris has the Cens doing a video for social media, it’s a competition for who can keep a straight face while the others try to make them break with a smile or a laugh.

Towards the end, only Ilya remains. No one can break him, so they go get Shane. He’s got a little smile while they explain and he starts thinking of what to say. Of what he can say for a video going on the internet.

He hesitates, because he knows what he wants to tell Ilya, but keep it their secret. No one else needs to know what this was about, but he’s saved this tidbit, waiting to play it at the right time. Ilya’s steeling himself. He loves Shane and usually would smile with him just in the room, trying do be earnest about anything, but he won’t let his husband break him for this. Finally Shane makes direct eye contact with Ilya -

‘The first time, after the commercial,’

Ilya tenses, eyes light up but he’s keeping his face neutral. He isn’t sure what he thought Shane would say but it wasn’t this.

‘ while I was waiting for you -‘

‘I put on a suit and tie.’

Ilya has never been so happy to lose at something