#heatriv

i have cracked the code. ilya is so convinced that he is a toxic poisonous shipwreck of a person and so he’s an asshole to people as a form of intimacy testing. what this means is that he goes sorryforpartyrocking mode and does body shots and then 30 minutes later he’s snot crying in an alley because he is #disregulated and someone is like “uh hey man are you okay” and ilya is like (scary face) “i am FINE” and obviously they can tell he’s not fine but also nobody wants to call him on it because there’s a large man acting unpredictably in an alley. and then shane’s deal is just that he is autistic and completely misses the social cue that he’s supposed to leave. so instead he’s like “ilya i don’t think it’s true that you are fine because i can see that you are snot crying in an alley. it’s really rude to lie to people ilya.” and ilya is like “oh my god for the first time in my life someone prevails through my masterful facade… he sees me….”

The Heated Rivalry and Interview with the Vampire crossover no one wants to see is Shane Hollander and Lestat de Lioncourt outbidding one another on luxury Montreal real estate.

hollanov is so youngggg it kills me every time i realize. like ik in sports the length of your career makes you seem older in comparison but like. they've been doing this seven years and they're still kids. they're only 25. their brains just finished developing. people are getting off their parents' insurance at their age

Ilya invites the team over for a get together. They all walk in except Marleau. Ilya says "come in! The whole team is invited!" and he's like "𝖞𝖊𝖘 𝖘𝖎𝖗 𝖇𝖚𝖙 𝖆𝖒 𝕴, 𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖞, 𝖎𝖓𝖛𝖎𝖙𝖊𝖉." Marleau is increasingly agitated as Ilya repeats "the whole team!" Ilya thinks it's a hilarious bit. This goes on for 20 minutes. The rest of the team has gone into the house to party and have fun. Marleau is pissed and Ilya is still laughing his ass off and refusing to explicitly invite Marleau in.

In my heart of hearts, Jackie le Fey and The Vampire Marleau just were absolutely blazing it at some point in the Middle Ages and Marleau made a bet with her about something (neither of them can truly remember what it was about) but Marleau won and THAT'S how he got the cursed mirror. Honestly, Jackie's just pysched to get out of her house, it was really killing the vibe