They move in together full time and Ilya notices that Anya acts differently with Shane than she does with him, more quiet and less playful, and he worries that means she doesn’t like Shane or is jealous, so he hires a dog trainer to come over and see if there’s anything they need to do to help
After a while of talking about how Anya acts the trainer says there’s nothing to worry about, Anya likes Shane just fine, it’s just that she sees him as the boss and is acting accordingly
And Ilya is like. But. I’m the one who adopted her? And raised her before Shane got here?? And the trainer is just like yeah well she sees you more like an equal. And Ilya is like WAIT she thinks Shane is in charge of both of us?? And the trainer is just like well do you interact in a way that would make her think that?
Ilya’s life flashes before his eyes as he thinks of all the times Shane has come over with a snack for Ilya and a treat for Anya, or all the times Shane has announced they’re all going for an after dinner walk, or pets Ilya’s hair and tells him he did a good job at practice, or the fact that he uses the same warning tone with Anya when she misbehaves as he does with Ilya when he’s causing problems on purpose
Shane comes home to Ilya with his face in his hands going oh god I’m not Anya’s dad I’m her brother and she thinks we’re both your pets. And Shane just goes. What.
Baby Shane playing imaginary hockey and then pausing to give imaginary press interviews where he just says things like "gotta put pucks in the net" in his tiny little 7 year old voice.
cliff marleau and ilya rozanov are best friends not because they’re teammates or marleau was assigned to look after roz when he first got to the raiders, but because, even though it takes so much alcohol to get him drunk, when ilya gets drunk he can only be described as white girl wasted and marly is the EXACT same way. they are in the mens bathroom in front of the mirror like “is my shirt unbuttoned enough for people to look at my tits?” “yeah man your boobs look GREAT! can you tell me if these jeans look good on my ass i think i saw a girl eying me” “marly your ass looks phenomenal and you can trust me on this as i am a well known ass man” “aw man rozzy you’re making me blush”
You know I'm a committed Hollanov Regina truther, as in, they fell in love in Regina the second they met on person. I fully believe they were obsessed with each other before they even encountered one another (all that tape), and meeting tipped them into love.
Here is my latest random proof.
They trust each other so much.
In the book, Ilya has never told anyone about Sasha. Ever. He knows it's a bomb that could completely ruin his life, and he gives all that power to some boy who is enthusiastic but unskilled at sucking dick?
Nuh uh.
Ilya is a traumatized child, he's hypervigilant, he's a survivalist. He's not handing grenades to people he barely knows. Even at his most self destructive, this would not happen.
He trusts Shane completely.
How do we know Shane is in love?
He trusts Ilya completely as well.
We know, from.the books, that Shane has buried his attraction to men very deep (innu-what). Despite being a horny teenager growing up in Ottawa, which is in literal walking distance of Quebec, Shane has never once indulged with a man. He's had oral sex and apparently penetrative sex with girls prior to meeting Ilya, but he hasn't even once so much as gotten a bad hand job at a sleepover from a guy?
Impossible. Except we know Shane is extremely private.
So inviting over his supposed rival for sex? That is an absolute metric fuckton of trust (metric fucktons are larger than imperial fucktons, everyone knows this).
The hallmark of love isn't attraction. It's trust. These aren't two anonymous strangers cruising in a park. These are two people who could completely ruin each other's lives on a fundamental level, but they trust each other completely.
Regina, Baby. They fell in Love in Regina. Right. Fkn. Here.
TMI but I once made my boyfriend cum so hard in doggy that he fainted and fell forward and broke his nose and was bleeding everywhere, freaking the fuck out and anyway- that would 100% happen to Shane and Ilya.
Picture them at the hospital trying to explain what happened and Ilya is just grinning like a Cheshire cat while Shane is trying to explode him with his mind.
a moment of silence for the blogs we lost along the way, who somehow managed to move past their obsession with the gay hockey show. can't relate but hope you're living well.
andulkaphoto
turnnoffyourmind
janainaart
theartofmadeline
germansingergirl
