Before Ilya moves to Canada, Shane tells him not to sell his house in Boston, and not to sell any of his belongings, just to ship everything up to a storage place Shane has pre-arranged in Ottawa.
Cue Ilya arriving in Ottawa for the first time, and Shane driving him to a secluded plot of land; out of the city but within half an hour of Canadian Tire Centre (the same commute time Ilya had back in Boston).
Where 'Mr Real Estate' Shane reveals that he hunted down the architecture firm who built Ilya's Boston house, and is currently in the process of having them re-create it for Ilya in Ottawa.
So one day soon, Shane will have given Ilya his home back. He even got them to extend the garage so Ilya won't have to sell any of his cars.
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inspired by this post, here are some headcanons and meta about Steve & Bucky and queerness pre-war.
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Sarah Rogers:
This idea of Sarah's awareness/acceptance of queerness, doesn't necessarily have to be a function of her living in NYC.
If we go with the idea that Steve's parents were Irish immigrants, and Steve was born in 1918... Well that gives Sarah time to have been living in Ireland during the Easter Uprising.
Steve Rogers's mother is obviously going to be involved with that, probably a member of the Irish womens' paramilitary group Cumann na mBan. (Would've also brought her into contact with Suffragists, Socialists, and Trade Unionists to pass that onto Steve, if she wasn't into all that already.)
And y'know who else were involved? A fucktonne of lesbians, that's who (including more than one female doctor and even one butch sniper!)
(My personal headcanon is that she was a nurse on the front lines in 1916, and actually left Ireland because she was in danger of getting arrested if she stayed. She met post-WWI-injury naturalised-American Joseph, either in 1916 while he was visiting Ireland (his home country) and they fought together, or in NYC, after he had been invalided home in 1917, then they married and had Steve in 1918.)
So if Sarah was a part of the Easter Uprising, she could've come into contact with/been accepting of lesbians, at least, long before she set foot in NYC.
You could so easily have her attitude as being like 'ah so there are men like that too, are there??'
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Gay-Community Steve:
It is hard for me to reconcile 'bloody-mindedly honest, terrible liar' Steve with being gay and knowing he's gay, and not being open about it, in a self-destructive-for-the-period way.
So either he was so deeply in the closet that he himself didn't know yet, and so hadn't been a part of a gay community with gay friends because he literally didn't know to look for one.
(Like, he and Bucky are a couple and sleeping together for years, but Steve is so naive or in denial he thinks it's just a thing all bachelors do in the absence of a girl they're going to marry.)
OR...
CATFA's view is the propagandised version of events, and Steve actually did know he was gay, and was out to his friends, and the real reason Captain America kept getting rejected for active service is not because of his disabilities but because... he kept admitting to being gay?
And it was only after he got serum (and got in the news), that his public records were expunged to cover up the fact that their darling supersoldier (good and pure and Therefore straight! or perhaps asexual!) ...had broken the law; both by being gay and by falsifying his enlistment forms multiple times.
(Kind of like how how celebrities get a suspect 4F or dodge the draft, and their PR team makes up a more-palatable lie to feed to the public. Like how Frank Sinatra got rejected for active service on psychiatric grounds, but pretended it was because of an inner-ear problem.)
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So, if Steve did have rainbow connections, where are they?
Possible reasons (beyond hate crimes, imprisonment or institutionalisation), why it looks like Steve only has the one friend:
Steve could also have had friends in the disabled community and lost them to illness?
Lost friends to the Depression/poverty, or had to move away from NYC for economic reasons?
Lost friends to internment (it wasn't just Japanese-Americans!), deportation, or lavender marriages (felt their new concentration on children and straight-passing made them strangers?)
had friends who were not enlisted, but we didn't see them because when we first meet Steve it's the middle of the day and they were all busy working?
had queer friends but: they were all enlisted by the time CATFA rolls around, and/or already died in the Spanish Civil War?
had queer friends but: they were all in the Navy and kept getting in fights with Steve about the Army being superior.
had queer friends but: they were introduced to Steve by Bucky, and 9/10 were actually friendzoned guys harbouring secret hopes and weren't exactly ecstatic to find out that Bucky was taken -- or, even worse, didn't see Steve as competition at all! -- and therefore never formed a good relationship with Steve.
('Jeez Steve why can't you n' these guys ever seem to get along? He was always so nice to me!' 'I know Buck, it's a mystery.' 😏)
had queer friends but: every time he went to a gay bar the men he could've befriended avoided him to hit on Bucky, or avoided him because he was hitting on Bucky, or avoided him because Bucky was hitting on him (and giving them the stink eye), or both of them were avoided because they were too... distracted to pay attention to anyone else.
(And/or the lesbians that talked to Steve all sidled up thinking he was a beautiful butch woman, then panicked once he opened his mouth, or were only there to ask if that friend of his was 'the double-date guy.')
imagine cops running Steve down outside a gay bar to arrest him for being a woman wearing pants… (Bucky would not let him hear the end of it.) And then being like 'oh! uhh sorry sir…' (two second pause before they suddenly clock that Steve and Bucky are a gay couple) 'Wait a second-' (Steve and Bucky already running.)
Maybe Steve would even become reluctant to go to the clubs, out of a fear of losing Bucky to someone else? Or Bucky reluctant to go for the same reason, and because Steve just attracts bad luck? (See: mob-related stuff below.) Both of them just sick of having run-ins with the cops?
had queer friends but: his views were so ahead of his time that even they found him too much.
(IE. barred from the gay bath house for protesting ableist body standards, the lack of POC, fighting the police too hard during a raid, and/or criticising the mob owners... Maybe Steve eventually couldn't go to any gay club, because he was in shit with the mob? Maybe the police actually thought he was straight, because they'd seen his photo up behind the bar as a persona non grata in gay clubs?! Future idiots will say this is 'proof' he stands for 'Traditional American Values.')
Banned from politics club for criticising Stalin's regime; barred from the jazz club for fighting a white dude there; banned from the radical womens group for bringing a trans friend; banned from the trade union for attacking the mob / wanting to fix union and police corruption. (Has he been excommunicated yet? It's probably only a matter of time.)
Picture hapless social-secretary Bucky helping Steve limp home from yet another Club that Bucky got him into, and having to listen to Steve rant about why 'they're all a bunch of hypocrites, Buck!' Perhaps homebody introvert Steve, secretly wanting to stay in, while extrovert Bucky keeps trying to help him get out more, and every time Bucky thinks he's found Steve the perfect place this time, Steve's all like 'we'll see.'
had queer friends but: he was so open about it that he was alienated by potential friends who wanted to remain on the DL and considered him dangerous.
(Perhaps especially so, if they were / or about to be enlisted and didn't want to risk a blue discharge, and couldn't sanction the way Stevee blatantly proclaimed his orientation at recruitment stations? 🤔 Whereas Bucky was so invested, and had cultivated such a lady killer rep, that he can not-worry about being seen with Steve.)
Or: he was on the DL and was alienated by potential friends who weren't, and looked down on him for passing?
Or: he was estranged from gay friends who did the same thing he did (ie. declared their orientation during recruitment) but because they actually wanted to dodge the draft, etc.
Also consider: gay Steve and gay Bucky, both aware of their sexuality but not out to each other yet... independently going to any of the numerous gay hot spots in Brooklyn, seeing each other there, and fleeing in horror before they can make any friends, thinking 'omg why was he there? did he follow me?? does he know?!' And not figuring it out... because they are just genuinely that dumb.
Likewise, both of them in the pre-out phase, thinking 'well I can't risk having gay friends because they'd have to be a part of my life and then Bucky/Steve will find out!!' ...because they are just genuinely that dumb.
There are actually loads of options!
You could definitely do a have-your-cake-and-eat-it version of events where Steve has been part of a wider queer community, made friends, and yet still wound up having only one who stood by him. (There has to be reason why 'even when I had nothing, I had Bucky' would be true).
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Other Possibilities:
Steve and Bucky double-dating beards / playing mirkin to lesbian couples? = Hell yes.
(Sidenote: I also headcanon Bucky as having a gay sister, so maybe she could've been Steve's plus one, or they'd take out all Bucky's sisters to act as chaperones?)
Shit, why not turn it into a business? Bucky the Escort who gives his lesbian client a cover date, a great night of dancing, and a second cover-escort guaranteed to not steal her girl!
(Service comes complete with beautiful handwritten love letters (dictated by Bucky, penned by artist!Steve), a personalised sweetheart-style photo of Bucky, and a messy Public Break Up Scene on her stoop.😉)
RE: them moving in together: everyone talks about how queer Brooklyn was, but what if the boys went above and beyond for their own safety -- February House style -- and lived in a building exclusively populated by queer people? Maybe by queer members of the forces, or people who occupied humble positions in creative industries?
If Steve has lesbian friends from BK, and lesbian friends in the chorus line... why not both at the same time? Why not have some of those lesbian friends be Brooklyn girls who signed up to be chorus girls because- y'know -chorus girls, and were then like 'Steve?! Wtf are you doing here?!'
(Why not kill three birds with one stone: one of those chorus girls is Bucky's sister? Cue Spidermenpointing_meme and mutual assured blackmail -- she promises not to tell Bucky what Steve did if Steve promises not to tell Bucky that one of his sisters has run away from home to become a showgirl.)
Bucky as the social butterfly of the two, more likely to be out and about, especially in risky places (ie. he worked on the docks; he could actually get and keep jobs in those places), and/or the safer one, and given their later pattern of Bucky's friends becoming Steve's (ie. the Howlies)... I think Bucky would be more likely to be the one making eye-opening introductions to Steve rather than the other way around. Which could have interesting knock on effects... (see above).
Maybe he got Steve a lucrative job illustrating queer 8-pagers (maybe there's an underground queer magazine out of BK, a la The Circle, and he illustrates for that, using Bucky as a model?
Cue hilarious 'what were you doing at the Devil's Sabbath?' moments when random men come up to Bucky in the street like 'where do I know your face from??' 😱)
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Re: Extended Family
I also headcanon that Bucky had a gay Uncle Jim (maybe a tailor?) who was institutionalized for being gay, and received harrowing medical treatments like electroshock therapy that eventually resulted in his death.
So by the time Bucky -- named after his dead uncle -- started showing signs of being bi, Bucky's parents had already had their eyes opened. Or maybe, like Sarah, they had already emigrated from a specific open-minded situation, so queer Brooklyn wasn't such a revelation.
Alternatively: In Stucky fic, people often seem to think as far as 'Brooklyn was queer!' but no farther.
But why not? Why does their queer education have to have started in queer Brooklyn?
Why not have Bucky's or Steve's (or both!) parents be engaged in Lavender Marriages, and open about it? One gay parent, or both?
(This might be another reason why Steve appears to not have friends outside Bucky; he might have got all the queer community he needed from his own family unit. Imagine it! Not just connected to Brooklyn queers but Edwardian queers, darling! The Herstory!!)
What if Steve's mother wasn't single but simply... 'never married?' 👀 Or maybe she was straight, but in love with her late lavender husband?
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And during/after the war:
Re: the Howlies.
(Have brought this ficbunny up elsewhere)
The Howlies knew and were fine about it, because... maybe there was an official investigation during the war to establish whether or not any of the Howlies were gay and/or in a relationship with Steve.
So, being a bunch of professional mischief-makers, and acting completely independently, the Howlies all pulled an 'I am Spartacus!' and claimed to be gay and in a relationship with Steve, under interrogation.
Steve also admitted to being gay, because he is terrible at lying and had to stand by them when he was told all his men admitted they were gay.
(Except for Bucky. He kept his head during interrogation -- sadly, not his first rodeo.)
So Bucky went down in hastily-redacted Army Record as somehow the only straight Howling Commando??
(The interrogators couldn't tell if they were being made fun of or not, and in any case the scandal was considered absolutely monstrous and a terrible blow for morale, so it was immediately covered up and no further steps were taken.)
Ironically enough, Steve & Bucky weren't even the only queer Howlies!
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The Future:
Seeing gay marriage legalised, the Stonewall riots, openly queer films and celebrities and tv shows, queer pride parades etc. etc. would be heart-breaking for Steve... because of course by this point he has become Captain America, deluded women he barely knows have spent decades claiming to have been his true love, and the people that did know him have been loyally covering up for him claiming he's straight. He'd feel like a hypocrite for not being what they said; or like he's letting them down by unmasking all their hard work.
And of course his real beloved isn't here any more, when he's finding all this out he's totally alone, no one to share it with, (doesn't know if any of his other friends are still alive, yet). And he doesn't want to have to relive that pain over Bucky by being interrogated on his love life...
Plus, after a century of being mythologised, he associates coming out with even wider public furore and a violation of the privacy that Steve Rogers never gets to have.
So all he has is the private escape of the 20th century's queer cinema, literature, tv shows, and porn (which all feel like an embarrassment of riches) ...but without being out to anyone - he feels he has to keep it a secret.
Until Bucky comes back, and isn't in a prudent enough mental state to realise all this. So for him, finding all this out about queer rights etc. is an untrammelled joy, and that's what finally gets Steve out of his negative headspace and into the light.
(And then, yeah, out and married. Try to stop Bucky getting his citizenship back when he's literally married to Captain America, assholes! Nowadays, the only women that hit on Steve are lunatics who think they can turn him, and Steve's only other problem is all the gay men who either want in on that threesome or think they can steal him away from Bucky!)
Current ficbunny revolving like a rotisserie chicken in my bitter black heart:
Shane and Ilya arranging for Rose and Sveta to come meet Shane's folks one day. Perhaps at the cottage. Shane and Ilya have to pop out for a while to pick up Sveta from the airport.
And when they do, Rose corners the Hollanders and says:
'I'm so glad I have this opportunity to speak to you guys because, God, somebody has got to...'
And proceeds to read them to absolute filth about how they've been failing Shane.
Ie. why is his mother managing Shane when he should've had an experienced pro from the get go. Now he's stuck with a manager he can't fire for fucking up without causing family problems. He can't ever have private family time without his manager being there. He cannot ever do private work stuff without his mother being there. No you cannot take Ilya's assessment of your parenting as proof of quality he grew up in Hell. Never mind what you've done to make Shane successful what have you done to make him happy. Yes Rose knows what she's talking about she's grown up surrounded by other peoples' pushy 'stage moms' who fixate on being a great manager until they completely fail at being mothers. Why is a 26 year old man feeling like he has to eat food and wear clothes his mother orders. Why did he have to lie about where he was this summer just to get some alone time. Why are you entering his house uninvited and without permission does he have to change his locks just to get some fucking privacy. If you're so great why didn't he want to come out to you. If you suspected he was gay for years then literally what the fuck have you been doing just leaving him to suffer in silence. David being 'chill' is nice but if you slipped into a coma tomorrow would Shane's life meaningfully change in any way. Have you ever even googled autism. Your response to your son coming out was to give him a panic attack, about which you both did nothing, have you even apologised. You have known for years that your son suffers from anxiety attacks has anyone ever even floated the idea of him getting medication or a service animal is it only the special son in law who gets mental healthcare or??
etc etc.
And then as David and Yuna are reeling from this onslaught, they suddenly hear the sound of the boys coming back, calling 'hey we're here!' and Rose says 'good talk! act natural!'
And in the boys come with Sveta and they all settle down for dinner.
Hours later, dinner over, dark has fallen, things have settled down.
Rose has disappeared while the boys show her to her room and make sure she's set for the night.
And Sveta sits down alone with the Hollanders and says:
'I am so glad I have this chance to talk to you because somebody has to…'
And proceeds to give them her very black opinions about how they've raised their interracial son without any sense of pride in his Japanese heritage.
IE. To speak French but not his mother tongue. Doesn't have a single asian or wasian friend (and from what she can discover never has). Has the kind of total erasure of any cultural references in his homes that suggests an undercover spy deliberately covering up their past like it's a dirty secret. No Japanese food, no art no music no movies no clothes no decoration, no sponsorships. And you're shocked he was able to hide being gay for a decade. You've made him feel he must somehow (impossibly) represent a whole group of people you haven't given him any connection to. No community to support him. He may as well have been adopted by white people. Do you see how unfair it is to stick him up on a pedestal all alone just because he's not white but then also expect him to be somehow better at whiteness than the actually white players. And he's supposed to just shut up about this and never think about it and certainly never speak of it to the press, or even to himself? This is not actually the aspirational example you think it is. Sveta's mother made damn sure she had a whole black Russian friend group as a kid to make her feel welcome and equally connected to both sides of her family, gave her black toys, media, music, etc. as well as and not instead of just the white stuff etc etc.
(The boys come back from helping Rose and are like 'Oh, hey, are you guys leaving??')
Shane and Ilya when Ilya wins the cup both having compatible cupday magic wishes:
Ilya thinking 'I wish Mama could've seen this'
and Shane thinking 'I wish I could've been there with him.'
Ilya waking up the next day to find he has been transported back in time to 2003; he's in his 12 year old body, back in Russia, Irina is still alive and he has a chance to save her.
(And he doesn't realise that the same thing has happened to Shane until he gets a pen-pal letter Shane has written him from Canada, trying to subtly work out if Ilya is stuck back in time too.)
And they both have to re-live the horrors of late childhood and puberty and wait five years before they can meet in person again in their teenage bodies, and the agony of interacting only via T9 texting.
But they also get to re-do their hockey careers and have everything work out great this time.
Pursuant to that post about how homoerotically straight dudes interact with each other
+ the fact that both the Mets and Raiders fans apparently burn effigies of the boys =
The Raiders prank Ilya one day by buying a male Asian sex doll (complete with badly drawn-on freckles), putting it in a knock-off Hollander jersey, and leaving it in Ilya's seat in the locker room.
Cue Ilya (who is immediately thinking, 'FUCK if Hollander finds out about this he will be horrified this cannot be allowed to reach social media') having to laugh it off while also get sexdoll-Shane away from his depraved team-mates.
Ilya *sitting with sexdoll-Shane in his lap* 'Okei new rule! No one is allowed to fuck with Hollander. This is my job! Anyone tries to fuck with Hollander is doing bag skates for the rest of the season!' *boos in background*
Cue Ilya pulling a heist where he has to somehow shuttle this thing across the parking lot and fit it into his mercifully window-tinted but impractically-low-on-trunk-space supercar without anyone noticing / realising what it is.
Cue Ilya speeding home, getting pulled over by Boston PD, and having to Slavic-Rizz his way through explaining why there is a Shane Hollander sex doll propped up in his passenger seat.
'...Why do you have that, sir?'
😶 'Emotional support?'
And, Plot twist:
The Mets also do this to Shane.
Only, unlike Ilya, this is his idea of a living nightmare, and Shane never manages to get rid of sexdoll-Ilya. It's too stressful to contemplate. He definitely has to enlist the help of both Hayden and JJ to get it into his range rover. His mother definitely calls while they're in the middle of doing it and Shane having an actual panic attack meltdown.
Cue Ilya, many weeks later, going through Shane's closet to borrow something to wear, saying, 'ohhh... Hollander... you have my jersey?!' 😏
And Shane realising, in absolute horror, that he still has sexdoll-Ilya hidden in the back of his closet.
Cue 'it's not what it looks like?!' and Ilya collapsing onto the floor weak with laughter.
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the toxic stepbros show which I have not seen except for in gifsets has me thinking of an Extended Family Hannigram AU where young surgical resident Hannibal is summoned to Lady Murasaki's deathbed, where she lets slip that Mischa was actually Hannibal's half sister, the product of an affair his mother had, and that Mischa's bio dad is American.
Of course once he's back in America, Hannibal sets out to find, meet, (and/or kill & eat?) this man, only to also meet his 18 year old son Will, a fellow half-sibling of Mischa's, and fall instantly in love (as in the ancient texts canon). So instead Hannibal is stuck with how to ingratiate himself with two full rednecks in order to get into Will's life.
Basically Hannibal being gifted a beautiful dark-woodnymph genderbent version of Mischa from beyond the grave and wanting to sugar daddy him SO HARD.
One of the times they are in Vegas during their situationship era, [instead of / as well as] kissing on a roof top or having miserable emotionally-distant sex in a penthouse shag pad, they both get wasted drunk and wake up to find they have got Gay Married In Vegas.
(Just pretend it got legalised there a few months earlier).
Hey, no problem! They can just get an annulment, right?
Wrong, because just seeming like he's been outed means Ilya cannot ever go back to Russia.
So now they have to stay legally married to each other to protect Ilya until they can figure out a solution.
(Even if it weren't transparently a mistake, as a Boston player Ilya won't be able to live in Canada, and certainly not long enough to qualify for citizenship - and anyway their relationship is not the 'end up married' kind... right? No way they'll be able to convince a government official this is a real relationship. 👀)
Bonus points if they somehow manage to convince everyone in the hockey world this really was just a drunken prank which could mean nothing, while simultaneously staying married to each other and claiming that it's just for temporary legal reasons.
(Perk: now all the Raiders are terrified of annoying Shane in case he causes their star player legal troubles.)
in 2012 the married guys in the team lose a bet with the WAGs and the forfeit is that the whole team now has to watch the movie Magic Mike together.
Shane is brilliant red from the neck up white knuckling that fucking chair clenching his jaw so hard he's chipping a tooth pretending that cushion is on his lap because of reasons.
Ilya is doing a watchalong with him via text and not helping.
