so a fic where the media and other players and social media are shredding Shane to pieces after tripgate.
they are digging up interviews where Ilya called him boring and putting paparazzi photos over the audio of the couple where Shane is talking and Ilya’s yawning, rolling his eyes, looking blankly in the distance. lowkey racist sports commentators feel like they now have free range to rant about Shane’s lack of control in the Montreal dressing rooms. past flings of Ilyas are mocking Shane on twitter because this alleged timeline of their relationship sounds like bs because Ilya was in and out of their beds too for most of it, so Shane’s nothing special. some parasocial fans of Ilya blame Shane for the lack of content from him over the years and an absolutely bonkers Reddit thread deepdive of how controlling Shane is as a partner goes viral. a bitter vet Shane knew for a year at most when he was a rookie, does the podcast circuit sharing his hateful opinion on him. It’s the gleeful laughter when he says ‘Rozanov is right, he is boring!’ that hurts the most.
It’s never-ending, and Shane is diminishing in front of everyone’s eyes. Ilya learns quickly that dragging Shane into the trophy room won’t fix it (and actually, it never truly did).
