I'm always amazed by the amount of people who seem to believe that Ilya is allowed to be a complete jackass to Shane because his life sucks.
I'm sorry but the discourse around Vegas/Socchi is so... Ilya is very much being a dick in those scenes. On purpose! Because he is afraid of being vulnerable! That's a very important aspect of his character. And it's of course sad and understandable, as a matter of fact I relate to it a lot, but it doesn't change the fact that He was. Being. A dick! And Shane does not deserve it.
Shane's feelings shouldn't be the acceptable collateral damage of Ilya's unhappiness. It's not his fault that Ilya's life is awful. I mean, hello??
"But he's depressed!" Yeah I'm aware and I have to throw my Depressed Person Card here to say that being depressed does not give you a free pass to be an asshole to anyone. Trust me, I know how hard it is for mentally ill people to give themselves grace and not fall into self loathing when they're struggling, but that can't fall into a place of completely absolving yourself of responsbility re: the way you treat other people.
"But Russia! Shane shouldn't be talking to Ilya there!" I'm sorry, but that's just...Svetlana had 0 problems leaving Ilya and Sasha alone in a fancy event bathroom, and Sasha then tried to make out with Ilya in the same bathroom, and Ilya's main reaction to this was a polite and firm no, but Shane asking him if he's okay from a totally appropriate distance is too much for the russian government? To the point where you guys think it's okay for Ilya to be rude to him and yell about how they're "not anything"?
I just...sometimes I get myself convinced that the Ilya favoritism in the fandom is not that extreme, but then I get exposed to people saying shit like this (while also giving 0 grace for Shane's flaws, to the point where Shane is getting compared to Ilya's abusive father) and it really just dawns on me that no. It really is that bad.
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