- Today on Blorbo Defense Squad: why was Ilya so cold to Shane in Vegas? Why didn’t they kiss? Why didn’t he get up and walk Shane to the door. Okay, yes, that was a dick move. But consider. He’s about to go home to Russia, a place he only associates🧵 #heatedrivalryJan 26, 2026 19:01
- with guilt and death and constant pressure from his family (more, more, more). Nothing he does is ever good enough. Being the number one draft pick wasn’t enough. Giving them all his money wasn’t enough. And for what I’m going to guess is the first time in his LIFE, innocent earnest Shane says >
- “Do you even like it there? Do you have to go?” AND THEN HE SAYS not in so many words “your happiness matters,” and friends, I know nobody has ever said that to Ilya Grigoryevich Rozanov before. Nobody has ever told him that his happiness matters. That he has a choice.
- He knows he has feelings for Shane and he also knows those feelings are dangerous, not just to his career but to his actual life. His father is a cop. His brother is a cop. He has been trained his whole life that his feelings and his happiness are irrelevant.
- I’m pretty sure that when Shane walked out and Ilya was in bed with his cigarette pretending he didn’t give a fuck, he gave sooooooo many fucks that he was paralyzed with them. And he didn’t have the luxury of time to unpack them. Not when he’s just going to have to pack them right back up again.
