role model au where, about a weeks after troy is traded, wyatt starts nesting. in Toronto, Wyatt had only nested once, and because it was Toronto, instead of letting him nest with the team, they sent him home, which is a big no-no for goalie nesting. by all accounts, Wyatt should be traumatised, but instead he's chirping happily in the locker room and bounding around and stealing people's jerseys for his nest. troy is shocked at this, and he's even more shocked when Wyatt choses him to be his partner. he is still very much experiencing the post-trade-post-dallas-post-adrian horrors, still very much homophobic-dog side eyeing Harris' pins, and hasn't had any cryptic talks with ilya yet, and he believes that he is such a bad person it would be impossible for anyone to like him, let alone nest with him.
(meanwhile wyatt's little goalie brain is like 'troy!! I know troy!! he seems sad :(( and he hasn't been mean to me yet so Im going to make him feel better :)) im going to take care of him and cuddle him and things will be great!!)
and while troy has been in the league for many years, and seen and heard about nesting goalies, he hasn't actually nested with one yet and is veryyyy anxious about it. he also doesn't really know how it works (case in point–he doesn't know that goalies can actually understand him, and mostly remember what happens while they nest). after a few days nesting with Wyatt, when troy is more comfortable, he ends up spilling everything–about Dallas, and Adrian, and his dad, etc. Wyatt of course can't do anything while he's nesting, but afterwards, pretty much goes straight to ilya.
he tries to keep as much of troy's privacy as possible, but basically says, 'this is what happened, this is why he's acting like this, can we all pls support him'. the one thing that Wyatt doesn't mention is Adrian–instead, he tells Harris that troy isn't homophobic, and to keep an open mind around him.
when troy's dad shows up in the lobby, ilya carefully watches the exchange, and takes troy out for fast food instead of letting him get drunk. when troy starts asking Harris about being queer around the team, with what Wyatt said, Harris clocks him pretty much immediately, which moves the troy/Harris timeline forwards a few months, and helps troy accept himself earlier.
even after he's done nesting, Wyatt's goalie brain continues to recognise troy as someone that he must take care of, and basically forces himself into being troy's friend, which means the team warms up to him a lot quicker as well.
basically I just really love goalie nesting :)
