🥹 Heated Rivalry | 1.06
Wow. So, when?
Since our, uh, rookie season.
Since your rookie season?
No, it's not true. Since before that.
Not helpful.
(insp.)
yuna hollander said “fuck ilya rozanov” to her autistic son and had the audacity to be shocked when he followed her instructions to the letter
Yuna and David had a valid concern when asking about Ilya's past promiscuity, because they need to know that their son's partner is taking it seriously
The "I have only loved one person" line from Ilya is beautiful and poignant and said without doubt or hesitation, to relieve all of the Hollanders concerns.
But what I think is important is that Shane's response of "Same here. Only one." Though this may seem unnecessary to his parents ("we know you pretty well, Shane"), it's NOT unnecessary to Ilya.
Ilya crashed the fuck out over Rose Landry. Ilya expected Shane to bring Rose to All Star Weekend, in the books Ilya even expects Shane's "can I tell you something?" To be an engagement announcement. Rose could be open and affectionate with Shane in front of the whole world. The whole world thought that Rose and Shane were in love.
Ilya isn't used to being loved. Ilya doesn't believe he can be loved.
Ilya needed to know that not only does Shane love him, but at no point, regardless of how much Shane denied himself or how hard he tried with others, at NO POINT did he ever give his heart to anyone else.
david hollander is the true winner of the idgaf war. he doesn’t know what youtube is. he doesn’t care about shane’s sponsorships. he understands why shane doesn’t wanna go to wimbledon and is just happy to go with his wife. he sees his son making out with his supposed arch enemy and turns 180 degrees, gets in his car, and doesn’t tell a soul. he pulls out the vodka when his newly out gay son is having a freak out at the dinner table. if shane had even 1% of his idgaf powers he would be unstoppable. unfortunately that boy inherited his mom’s gaf-ability, which is constantly set to 150%.
outside of the obvious reasons why the hollanov relationship reveal must be crazy to shane’s parents, it’s gotta be wild to them that their shy, awkward kid is dating the league slut. their kid, who cannot even say the word “sex” without blushing, has been fucking a man whose sexual reputation is a topic of conversation. for a decade. they are in fact on a sexcation together. if you want to see them, you need to text them that you’re on your way there, because even if they know you’re coming in advance, they cannot keep their hands off of each other long enough to properly keep track of time. david hollander sees things start to heat up between them and knows instantly that they have probably fucked against every window in that extremely glass house.
idk i’m obsessed with how shane bringing ilya home is not just him coming out as gay, it’s him coming out as an experienced sex freak.
Yuna and David having watched their autistic son be so isolated all of his adult life and never having a happy relationship or close friends who understand his anxiety and then finding out that the man they’ve spent a decade hating on his behalf can casually talk him down from a panic attack in less than a minute
Yuna Hollander when Ilya Rozanov walked into her house: the devil is amongst us.
Yuna Hollander 3 seconds later: Ok Ilya sweetheart my precious baby do you like your pasta we do dinners on Sunday text me your faves so we can get the groceries and we can cook together ok and we have a spare bedroom- no fuck that you'll sleep with Shane won't you ok then I'll get you some extra pillows when's your birthday what's your favorite color can you send me a baby pic of you I want to hang it on the wall next to Shane's what's your coffee order you'll always have a home with us you're my favorite son
