#headcanon time

[ratbuchet]

Yesod

[i-luv-tommatt-oh]

The day his life took a turn.

21/12/2025

[themenacewhowrites]

As far as “Who’s The Better Player?” between Shane and Ilya goes, I think Shane is all-around better.

And I think it really comes down to how they approach hockey that gives these results.

However, as far as talent and natural athleticism goes, I believe Ilya holds the greater share of that.

Now, hear me out for a sec.

Shane is the one who is more obsessed with the game. Playing professional hockey is his dream job, his ultimate goal, the thing he’s wanted consistently for the longest time. He’s the one who forms his life around bettering his hockey game. He eats the gross food, he grinds out the exercise, he limits his diet to only the things that will make his body feel and perform and work best, and there are few exceptions to that.

Shane is the one kid in the peewee classes who stood there in his tiny skates watching the teacher like a hawk, and he’s the one who tried whatever movement they were being shown that day over and over again, over and over, until it was right. He wasn’t the gifted kid at first, he was just the hardest worker. And he continued to be the hardest worker all throughout the years and classes of kids who came and went through going to hockey classes and enrolled in hockey camps because their parents forced them to or they just wanted to try it out because they thought it looked fun… until they found out that it was hard first. They never quite got to the part where Shane lived. The part where practice made it look natural. The part where hard work made it look smooth. The part where one extremely obsessed little boy found the spirit of “slow is smooth, and smooth is fast” to heart and skills he learned while repeating “I just gotta’ get it right” in his head turned into being the only kid in the class who got good at anything.

He’ll have half a dozen Cup rings and a full trophy room and still think to himself the moment his skates touch the ice for practice, “There’s this thing I really need to work on today, it still isn’t right.”

He’s smart. He works hard. He works for every scrap that he gets, and then he notices that nobody else does it like he does, nobody else bothers to show up early and hit shot accuracy drills. He’s the one who sticks around after practice to iron out as many kinks as he can in the new thing they learned that day, because he wasn’t satisfied with “good enough” from the coach. Hard work was the golden ticket to hockey.

That’s not to say he wasn’t talented. Ilya simply has the greater sum of natural talent between the two of them. Shane had the obsessiveness to drive himself further than any of his peers would. It’s why those two were alone at the top. It really was neck-and-neck as to who would be drafted first. It came down to the style of player that the teams wanted, not necessarily pure heights of skill.

I think Ilya is more naturally athletic, talented from the first time he got plopped in a hockey class. He took to it like a fish to water, and there was an easy hour and a half of his day free of his dad. It helped that he was good. Being good and smart and quick in class meant he could stay. Being good also meant he had to be better, because wasting his dad’s money wasn’t an option. And of course, no Rozanov could show his face as a failure and dishonor the family.

If Ilya wants an escape, the rink is where he goes. Coaches are happy to give him pointers because he learns fast. He’s the best out of everyone on the ice, and everyone knows it. Ilya Rozanov is the one to watch because he’s going to go far. He’s got a mouth, and he backs up every thing he says.

Ilya is good, and he spends a lot of time on the ice. Of course he rose to the top like cream. He’s smart and he picks up concepts like nobody else in the whole junior league. His long legs offer a perfect tool for the amazing coordination he’s got, so he’s fast and precise on the ice in a way that most teenage boys are not. He’s spends so much time skating, it’s like breathing. It doesn’t look like he’s trying, and next to everyone else his quickness and observation skills look professional. He’s the whole package. Ilya is everything a hockey player should be.

And then the year he hits the NHL draft pool, he’s drafted first.

There’s his golden ticket, straight to the U.S. and a legacy team that needs a shot of excitement and victory that Ilya can give.

Ilya likes hockey, he’s good at it, and he works, but it’s more natural. It’s less of something he could explain. It’s where he goes to be free, until it becomes another point of leverage and pressure and expectation. It’s not his obsession. It started as “hey, I’m good at this and I don’t have to go home yet.” Hockey was the golden ticket. (Eventually, hockey will give him a Home too.)

I think Ilya will only ever rise as high as his competition makes him, as far as that irresistible hit of fun will take him

Shane is the one who will reach further and higher and deeper for the sake of the game, for the high of striving and accomplishment unending.

They each approach the game differently, I think. This is the vibe I get.

I don’t know. Just some thoughts that have been knocking around in my brain.

[shootingstarsue]

[bigb4ll]

Lyon and kalymos V2

Kalymos knocking Lyon's things off the altar and Lyon wanting to scold her but she makes cute eyes at him and its all over

Kalymos sniffing and trying to bite at the candle flames and jumping so high Lyon thinks she gained the ability to fly

Lyon grabbing the thurible to smack himself and Kalymos attacks it like its a cat toy

Kalymos sleeping front and centre on Lyon's table and he cant move her so hes gotta pray above her

Lyon shouting at Roathe and Kalymos joins in and starts yowling at Roathe too

Lyon having another breakdown at the altar and Kalymos batting at him lightly to try and get him out of it. it works

Lyon trying to pray in peace but Kalymos is LOUDLY licking herself off to the side and its distracting

Roathe putting catnip on Lyon's altar so she rolls around on it all day (perchance a group scheme with Marie and Drifter. they can get along for a common cause: schemes and tricks)

Lyon losing some trinket on his desk and finds Kalymos chewing on it (alternatively, she retrieves is and brings it to him)

Lyon and Kalymos sitting in the same room, otherwise alone, doing totally seperate activities but occasionally he gives her a little scratch on the head

I just think theyd get along. Silly silly silly cat and wet rag priest whose just happy that she doesnt care that he doesnt talk very much

[crincran]

Day 6: Unpopular Character(s) (+Day 7: Piercings)

It’s actually surprising how many thoughts and headcanons I have about Garcias and their ears lmao (pretty big ramble under the cut)

Now let me tell you I have a LOT of thoughts:

Every. Single. One. was pierced with either a (questionably sanitized) sewing needle or a homemade piercing gun and with (even more) questionable materials but somehow they all healed perfectly???? nothing infected, nothing rejected, no scars, no bumps, nothing??? No antiseptics, no saline, nada???? i mean good for them🙄 i guess🙄

Selen is usually the one piercing everyone (including herself), unless the placement is tricky and she can’t see her own ear (then chances are it’s Ian who gets the honors with the needle). She’s also the most invested in the earstack curation and will go out of her way to steal piercings for her brothers if she thinks they will like them/will go with their vibes.

Anyways, a quick reference sheet:

Now personally I don’t see Argo with that many piercings tbh… Partly because it’s not his style but also because he strikes me more as a tattoo type. I could see him with industrial, maybeeee first lobes at most. But i think he would vibe with ear cuffs and jackets; they’re bulky and robust but more importantly they’re easily removable, which comes in handy later in life (he has retired most if not all piercings by the time Shogun rolls around). They’re all very solid and simple in design OR sea/ship inspired ((due to Ray Gil being based on Carina constellation aka keel of a ship)). I could also see him sporting facial and/or dermal piercings tho, specifically shark bites ((yes, another sea reference, I will NOT stop)) but honestly any other lip piercing also works.

Ian’s lobes placements here are directly taken from canon and i thought it would be fun if he had orbitals as his staple pieces (given that the whole cyclon stadium shtick looks like one (yeah okay, maybe that’s a bit of an abstract stretch but let me live))… and then i also gave him a vertical industrial, partially to match with Argo’s industrial but also because theyre super rare and unique. Idk I feel like he would gravitate towards uncommon and original pieces and VERY interconnected placements, especially if they enhance the ear shape. I can definitely see him having a rook or a bunch of snugs too, but mostly as complimentary pieces. Don’t see him being much for dermals tbh, but him having a labret speaks to me, so labret is what he’s getting. In my mind the whole “the only person who can predict the cyclon attack” manifested itself into the need to be Special and Extra and now Basic Stack™ is his worst enemy.

…Selen though is very much the opposite. Loves a Basic™ look and is 100% a regular piercing baddie. She has a whole matching stack and I WILL die on this hill (and what’s crazy about it is that she stole them individually from different places; my girl has an eye for cohesive stacks fr). Stacked lobes and daith are nonnegotiable, i REFUSE to back down on this, but I can also see her styling chains and connecting different piercings together. Its all very thought out and curated, even if the placements are taken from every pinterenst inspo pic ever... Maybeeee some dermals? I can definitely see her getting some lower back dermals. Oh and a belly button. She absolutely SCREAMS belly button energy to me.

Now Enso. God Enso. Bless my boy, but he can’t curate for shit. Selen refused to pierce anything beyond lobes and one (1) flat ((the only piercing that got infected between all four of them-> the scar is hidden behind the massive vertical helix on his right ear now)) until he turned 15 but once he got there it was pretty much game over. Very dangly pieces, multiple charms and just… a lot of noise whenever he shakes his head i guess? His ear is as obnoxious as his personality. But I also believe he would switch them up to tamer hoops and crystals once he grows up ((Argo said he can’t keep on wearing that in corporate, Selen said he can’t keep on wearing THAT anywhere (Ian refused to get involved but he did privately think it was starting to look ridiculous))), still keeps some of the dangly pieces, but now they’re functioning as the center pieces and the rest of the piercings are complimentary (yk small hoops, studs, small crystals etc) so theres not as much clashing going on. As far as facial piercings go I can definitely see him having a smiley or frenulum, but otherwise he keeps it mostly ear centered.

[miyakuli]

I have a Huskerdust theory that has been stuck in my head since the end of s2.

It's pretty clear that Husk's gambling addiction and alcoholism didn’t start in Hell and probably sent him there. So I keep wondering if his real sin wasn't just the addiction itself, but neglecting someone because of it.

Like, I can totally imagine Husk having been married, losing everything at the casino and destroying his home in the process. His wife leaves, he spirals deeper into booze, and eventually dies in some stupid accident because he was too drunk to function (and since he looks like a black cat, imagine it being something tied to bad luck like him literally dying because he walked under a ladder XDD).

In s3, I can picture Husk trying to reach out to Angel simply because he misses him and to try to bring him back. Maybe even slipping into some of his shows...."Still, you listen for her song. And pray that she missed you" is literally his whole state after their separation (;v;) Also, Vivz said that, Husk will realize that Angel's situation is way more different from his own than he ever thought. And I keep thinking, what if that becomes the push he needs to try freeing Angel from Val... through gambling!

And I reaaaaally think that Losin' Streak is foreshadowing this and that "You play your final ace for a pretty face" line would make so much sense this way ><)

If Husk ends up winning Angel's freedom, that would mean gambling not out of addiction or selfishness, but for someone else. To save someone. Which could literally cleanse his sin.

And THEN, if Husk actually reincarnates in Heaven, that would probably break his demonic contract with Alastor too, right? :o

So season 3 could end with Angel and Husk finally being free… But separated again x'))))))

BECAUSE THIS SHIP IS DOOMED TO BE SUCH A PAINFUL SLOWBURN x'DD