also please tell me about yuna and her load bearing brick
oh shit i forgot to answer this yesterday!! my bad 😭
but yes okay. so. more or less inspired by thinking of how much harassment and abuse sidcros received just for the crime of being better at sports than some other kids, and how that would compound for shane being visibly nonwhite in a very white space:
one day, when shane is fourteen and it's becoming more and more apparent that he's a cut above the other kids, david hollander gets a call saying he needs to pick shane up from his game. this is odd, because david had a big work thing that day, so yuna went to the game with shane. did something happen to yuna?
and, well, yes. yuna is at the police station, because she was detained after getting into a physical altercation with one of the parents screaming death threats at her fourteen-year-old child. but not just screaming death threats:
this man brought a tote bag containing a couple of bricks into the stands, waited for shane to skate near the boards to wave at his mother, and then threw a brick at his head. because surely if shane hollander just... got out of the way, then his son could play first line center and start getting noticed by future scouting opportunities and scholarship opportunities, etc., right?
he missed, and shane jerked out of the way and the brick crashed to the ice, and shane looked up with alarm but was fine. but that's why he brought three bricks! extra chances to make sure the job gets done--
yuna hollander, screaming bloody murder, grabs the second brick and slams it into this man's face so hard his jaw cracks.
uh oh!
so david has to go down to the rink and pick up shane, who is wide-eyed and jittery and withdrawn and upset. he wants to sink into the ground and disappear forever. he just wants to play hockey. yuna didn't even get to watch the game because she was talking to police. she's threatening to press charges. shane wants today to be over. shane wishes today didn't happen at all.
david gets him home, gets the story out of him as best he can, and makes him some tea (fancy green tea imported from japan, yuna's favorite), and then gets another call, this time from yuna asking if he can come pick her up from the police station and drive her to the rink to get her car.
shane is still quiet and upset: why does everyone have to get weird and cruel about him when he just wants to play hockey? and also now he knows everyone's gonna be talking about this when he sees his teammates again, and he already doesn't want to deal with it. they're gonna make all these jokes about how you have to treat him delicately, or his crazy tiger mom will kill you. he can hear the laughter already. he doesn't want to think about it. he curls up with his tea and says yes, dad, he's fine, you can go get mom.
so david goes to get yuna, who is still spitting sparks and ready to tear someone's head off, and has to take her hands and say, okay honey. you were right in every way. i'm with you all the way. i think that man should rot. but get all the anger out and rant at me on the way home, because shane needs us to act normal right now. yuna takes a deep breath. she's going to press charges, she says. that was premeditated. this man could have killed their baby.
so they get home and shane has kept the tea hot for her. he immediately hurries to greet her and asks, mom, are you okay?? and yuna tears up bc he's the one that some grown ass man just tried to assault, but he's more worried about her. her baby with his big ol earnest eyes, so much like her own. all he wants is to play hockey.
