#rittich

NHL player David Rittich is a young fan who is heartbroken by his profession

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rittich is mad + also has some words for the refs

I don’t know why people seem to think I’m so anti-Matty/Ritter. I love Ritter, I love their hugs, I love their Skip the Dishes vid. Writing one Elias/Ritter fic doesn’t mean I don’t like Matt/Ritter. (Insert “Ritter has two hands” meme here.) I don’t do OTPs; I have favorite players and I then ship them with everyone (I do this in every fandom; back in SGA fandom I shipped McKay with literally everybody). It’s why I end up with OT3/4 fics so much. It’s why I ship any variant of Paulie/Nealer/Dicky and I headcanon that Mario Ferraro is banging all the Sharks vets in a really tender and committed way.

Basically never assume that just because I write fics of a certain pairing means that I’m totally averse to shaking it up.

RE: Ritter and Matt, it did actually come up before. I tend to lean towards Matty/Jake in this instance just because that’s part of the written “canon” of it now (as opposed to, say, TK/Nolan is something that’s been talked about but  never written into fic so it’s less concrete). So I’d probably end up calling it an AU to the original, which isn’t the first time I’ve written something like that because I’ve done it with the wolves a bunch of times.

I've only just discovered this entire storyline and I cant tell you how much I love it. It looks like you have already moved on from this but I was wondering how you thought Ritter would respond if he saw Elias being much happier but then discovering it was because he had moved on. Maybe a fellow Swede (Markstrom???) was looking after him. Would Ritter be happy and be able to move on too or would he be jealous and nest/pine again?

Oh man it’s been a minute since I thought about Ritter and Elias.

Elias is definitely done with dating goalies, or goalies in general, wants no part of them or their weird instinctual bullshit. If he was ever around a nesting goalie again he’d do his damnedest to be literally anywhere else. Nobody would have to worry about him getting too close because he’s booking it out of there.

Ritter was never consciously jealous. When he’s his normal self, he’s not interested in Elias. It’s part of why they broke up. Elias seems appealing when Ritter is coming off a nest and his hormones are out of whack, but once he’s settled back to normal he’s just not into Elias anymore (not the way he’s into Matty). The problem is that he’s subconsciously extremely into Elias and his goalie instincts cannot possibly fathom how he could ever want somebody else. So it’s kind of implied that Elias has no reason to expect that if he stays with the Flames, this pattern would continue of Ritter nesting, forcing Elias to nest with him, coming out of nesting him and dropping him for Matty until his subconscious got upset that Elias wasn’t around and forced him to nest again.