married shane does NOT play about ilya when it comes to the press. he's letting out a decade of pent up 'wheres the fucking translator? what do you fucking MEAN you don't have one?', instant 'rephrase that' to the offending journalist when ilya hesitates over a question, gets into full blown forget-the-media-training arguments when it's implied that ilya is somehow stupid for not speaking perfect english, n switches seamlessly between russian, french, and english to make interviews as easy as possible for ilya. meanwhile ilya is giving him the biggest wettest lover boy eyes n WILL be raw dogging him crazy style the moment its over.

ilya in the other books is going, “I see that you’re gay. I see that you like this person. I see that you are miserable. You should do something about that.” and he stands there and waits for someone else to say that they notice him too and nobody ever does.

"omg you remembered!" of course i did. I have a file on you

as a joke (not a joke) ilya writes an S on his stick tape during his first season with the centaurs (he was teasing shane about writing yuna on his stick tape). and when shane joins the centaurs they're sitting together taping their sticks, passing the scissors and sharpies back and forth and when ilya looks over he sees that shane wrote yuna on one side and ilyushka on the other. so naturally he grabs the sharpie back and changes his S into S H A N E.

"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me

i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive