☕️ ej/landy
UNDERRATED. I WILL MAINTAIN THAT FOR THE REST OF MY FUCKING LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how come no one talks about them. HOW COME NO ONE FUCKING TALKS ABOUT THEM!!!!!!!!11 like what could you ever, ever ask for out of a pair.
you have ej, former 1oa pick who goes down with injury, comes back, gets hurt, comes back, always playing catch up, never the same. theres murmurs that surround him, that follow him like a raincloud wherever he goes, not yet raining but dark and grey and foreboding all the same. when he finally gets back to form, he gets dished off to the avalanche and has to come to terms with the fact that hes never going to be The One, he’s never going to be what everyone thought he was, he’s probably going to be relegated to a third line d pair and his name will be lost to time the way so many players are.
then you have gabe, who goes to a struggling avalanche team (you dont get to pick 2oa by being good, after all) , named the youngest captain in both franchise history and (at the time) nhl history. hes got the world on his shoulders and hes determined to prove his worth.
you wuold think there would be , i dunno, something, some anger or jealousy or something between them when they first get together, right? you have a shadow of a 1oa pick and a 2oa pick that has a whole life and future ahead of him , you expect there to be like a “welll, fuck you, i guess” sort of feel to these two.
they basically fell in love instead. ej took one look at gabe and took him under his wing and the rest doesnt fukcing matter anymore. and ej can be as weird a guy as he wants, he can be confusing with his words and his emotions and he can hide his feelings but he is always so vulnerable when its about gabe. he’ll talk about missing him, he’ll hug him and kiss him, he’ll say that he loves gabe, that’s fucking special okay . theyre such a perfect match for each other, theyre each others best friends, theyre one antohers other halves, theyre gonna be there until the end of time for each other .