since this is the give Shane our medical issues capital of tumblr, I have another malady for our boy- migraines. I am also going to be mean and give them to Yuna as well as many migraine disorders are genetic. His migraines are triggered by the things that trigger me: stress and barometric pressure changes. He also THINKS certain foods are a trigger, but research has come out that most "trigger" foods are actually things that the body craves when it can feel a migraine coming on but because the aura/prodrome stage is so misunderstood people got the correlation/causation switched. Which is also why he doesn't know that pressure changes are a trigger.
A typical migraine for him will start with moderate pain and nausea, but then his body does what mine does- it makes him dissociate from his body. His first season with the Metros he practically gets a migraine on every roadie that requires flying. Which was the most his body had ever dealt with, so it just sorta.... shut itself off. If he was stressed he would know it was a migraine as he has been dealing with that trigger for his whole life. But for plane induced ones he didn't know to use his coping mechanisms so his body would just peace out. This really added to his "cool detached" image the first couple years.
Shane almost never gets a migraine when Boston is in Montreal, but it can be pretty iffy when hes at an away game. He's never canceled a hook up due to a migraine, but when he does get one he leaves a lot faster than normal, which always confuses Ilya because it doesn't really line up with game performance or location or anything else.
I am a sucker for migraine reveal during the tuna meltdown. I am undecided if Shane has a migraine before he gets there, it triggers after their nap, or if he doesn't have one but has to tell ilya he doesn't want pickles on his tuna melt because the salt might trigger a migraine. All are delicious options to me, but I am also very partial to Ilya seeing his first migraine at the cottage.
Shane is pissed because ok yeah coming out to his parents was stressful, but not migraine trigger stressful. And its ruining his sexcation. Now he has to lie down in a dark room with an ice pack over his eyes and also use his weird head massager thing that look stupid and unxey. He can't even invite Ilya into his curative shower because he turns up the heat so hot he can barely stand it and he sits on the floor of the shower, also with the lights off. (these are all my go to migraine cures)
Lucky for Shane, there is one more cure that works for me and many other migraine sufferers- orgasms (specifically vibrator orgasms). Ilya is actually the one who discovers this and when he does he buys a prostate massager for the express purpose of migraine cure.
(I had a very bad migraine today and this was the only thing that kept me from crying)
first of all sorry for your migraine today!
second of all, the fluff potential of shane waking up from the nap with a migraine and ilya truly getting to fucking FULL SEND this "i could be such a good boyfriend" audition is delicious.
third of all, adore when these boys can get up to freak shit (affectionate).
(also the idea of shane in his lobster shower and ilya going "no is fine sweetheart i can take some hot wat--OKAY I WILL HAVE YOUR ICE MASK READY ACTUALLY" is sending me)