Thinking about that post thats like 'after the video of shane and ilya gets leaked half the comments are calling shane the calvin klein guy' and actually i have such a funny idea for an au now where homophobia is defeated by sheer virtue of the backlash against the NHL by random non-hockey fans who ONLY know shane and ilya from their various brand deals and modeling contracts?
some non-sports news source publishes an article about how shane and ilya are being scrutinized/investigated for their relationship and the vast majority of the internet is like 'the calvin klein and rolex guy? and the vman magazine and YSL guy? are Dating!!?' (or alternately, 'the Valencia Pocaterra guy and the XiOX magazine guy?' bc connor storrie your long curls will always be famous to meeeeee) (or alternately alternately, 'the reebok guy and the adidas guy') (or alternately alternately alternately, 'the aston martin guy and the porsche guy') and there's this huge thing where a lot of people are like 'why is this a big deal why are they being scrutinized?'
anyway the concept of 'two hot models dating' breaks the internet and they get to live happily ever after on the sheer power of people going 'those guys play hockey? why is it bad they're dating?'
Yuna Hollander Vindication Arc honestly, and i'm imagining this for Ilya too bc his agent/manager was only so aggressive about getting him into modeling/endorsements bc Yuna was so aggesive about getting shane modeling and endorsement deals
“THOSE GUYS PLAY HOCKEY???” truly a life saving sentence even though shane would self harm if he knew people associated him with anything OTHER than hockey first and foremost












