Have a medieval fantasy au brewing in my beautiful mind that culminates in Shane throwing himself in front of the sword to stop Ilya from being beheaded and it’s so buzzy to meeeee. Ilya is a banished prince who’s being tracked down by his brother sent to kill him by their father. Ilya is hiding out undercover as part of prince Shane’s personal guard. Ilya is there to kill Shane to regain his father’s favor (basically a zuko and the avatar thing where it’s an impossible task Ilya will most certainly die trying to do if his brother doesn’t find him firs) but he sees shane for the first time and thinks that’s the face they write love songs about. That’s the face that inspires poets everywhere. That’s the face that artists spend their lives trying to replicate the beauty of. he knows immediately he could never kill Shane. and Shane for his part is so enchanted by Ilya. Ilya who teases him and jokes with him. Ilya who pushes him to be better, because he tells Shane all the time he’s the best of them all and Shane wants to earn that praise. The fantasy comes in mostly with Shane having repeated visions of Ilya’s impending death that he keeps trying to convince everyone around him is coming, please, help, because he knows it’s coming. and everyone is like. Shaneeee it’s just dreamssss it’s so normal. And besides it’s literally his job to die for you lol? Calm down. You’re crazy. Except for Ilya who is very aware that’s Shane’s dreams are visions because he’s getting too many facts right— but still is trying to convince Shane not to worry about it (he has accepted his death since he laid eyes on Shane)











