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because everything about Shane in TLG makes so much sense if you understand that he came out to his team and it went BADLY.

Shane went from suggesting that if they had a charity together that it wouldn't be weird if they were seen out in public with each other - to being shocked that Ilya bought them tickets to a concert

Something that makes sense if Shane got extremely negative feedback to the news of the Foundation from his team.

Shane being so obsessed with food, his body's performance, and his need to outperform all make sense if you consider the fact that some of his teammates might have questioned his ability to lead or his focus if he was going to be "bringing that gay shit on the ice" or something like that.

Shane coming out to his team but then being terrified of the thought of Ilya coming out to his own team makes sense if his coming out was so bad, so deeply uncomfortable, that he both didn't want to risk Ilya going through the same and knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that Montreal would not have his back if the Ilya of it all was revealed. (With the way Scott's teammates immediately asked if he was dating Ilya - it wouldn't be shocking to me if some people at Montreal said the same and the locker room reaction was RANCID)

If Shane trusted his teammates of a decade to support him enough to tell them - but was hit with a wave of disgust and disrespect in the locker room, on the ice, and especially in the showers - it would make absolute sense to me that he would put a complete stop to the idea of them coming out to their respective teams. That he would shove them both firmly back in the closet to protect them both.

I was there with my mother, my sister, and my three younger brothers.

When the missile hit, everything turned to smoke, blood, and silence.

My mother and sister were killed instantly.

My brothers and I were pulled from the rubble, injured — but alive.

Moments later, my father arrived at the hospital.

He didn’t know if any of us had survived. He ran through the halls, searching.

Al Jazeera Mubasher filmed that exact moment — the moment he found us.

This video isn’t easy to watch. But it’s the truth.

It’s the moment my father found his sons alive…

and learned that his wife and daughter were gone.

source:

https://www.instagram.com/share/_qqk5pMrz

I’m sharing this not to cause pain, but because I want people to understand what we’ve lived through.

This isn’t just a story. It’s our life.

It’s the moment that changed everything.

I’m still here. I’m trying to raise my brothers now.

We are trying to rebuild something from what was taken.

If you can help — even with a share — thank you

Erik dies, Kristina soldiers on.

Wilhelm is the victim of revenge porn and CP, she soldiers on.

Wilhelm stops speaking to her after he finds out she covered up for the sex offender who victimized him, she soldiers on.

Wilhelm comes out of the closet in public, and she has a nervous breakdown a week later.

That's the difference here I think. She didn't stop once to ask how Wille was doing, how he was coping with everything, if he wanted to talk. She didn't even mourn Erik with him, they sent him to Hillerska quickly after and fucking asked August to take care of him. Like, lady, this is your child, I know you are hurting too, but that's your job to take care of him, not his cousin's job. When the video was posted, she gave him so little comfort and went straight away to talk about how are they gonna deal with this. Not once does she ask how he is doing, if he needs anything.

And the worst of all, when they know who posted that video, she doesn't even seek justice for her son. Even when Sara goes to the police and they have to deal with this, the Royal court is like "we don't want to go to court so let's just make an agreement". She doesn't fucking care about how her son is feeling about all this and it pisses me off.

Then she clearly sees how emotionally unstable Wille is during that phone talk at the beginning of season 2, but what she does is making go see Boris, which is honestly what Wille needed, but not once does she go and ask him if it's helping him, or even just how it's going. And she basically only sends him there so he can control his emotions better, not so that he could start healing from everything that happened to him.

So when Wille throws all of her hard work away with his speech, it strips her of her delusion that she could craft an Erik 2.0, essentially losing her only son (the perfect Crown Prince was the only one that mattered to her) again. It also means the loss of her legacy via direct heirs (really doubt she is up to date on how same sex couples can become parents) which was her purpose in life.

And I totally agree. Let's remember that, as a Queen, Kristina had no choice but to have children. She had to have heirs, for her legacy and the monarchy. Like Erik, she was a first-born and grew up with that role on her shoulders. So when she got Erik, it was perfect!

Now, let's first remember that there is an at least 4-year gap between Erik and Wilhelm, if not more. While we can argue that Kristina wanted a kid in the first place, considering how she treats Wilhelm, I don't think she wanted another one. She only got another kid because the monarchy needed a spare.

And, as tragic as it is, they did end up needing that spare since the first one died. So not only did Kristina lost her golden child, she is now stuck with the one she didn't want in the first place (this is my own interpretation based on how she treats Wille, but other views on that are welcome).