& Yet..

in chess the queens can kill each other which is toxic yuri and the kings can never get within a square of each other which is doomed yaoi

he's unironically 100% correct and i will hear nothing against him

heated rivalry au where yuna dies in a bombing at the metropolitan museum of art when shane is 13 and he spends a brief period living on park avenue with his rich friend hayden pike and becomes entwined with the owners of an antique shop due to having stolen a priceless work of art during the attack and they have a granddaughter named rose landry that shane queens out with before being sent to vegas to be with his deadbeat dad david where he meets ilya rozanov who also has a shit life and they do drugs and are homoerotic together before david dies and he escapes to new york again and then as adults shane is an antique criminal who took conversational russian in college and ilya risks it all to help shane recover his painting and pay off his debts from his art crimes. andalso they're playing hockey the whole time through this