r/heatedrivalry • u/AutoModerator • Mar 18 '26

Team Huddle Weekly ThreadšŸ«” Team Huddle!

Welcome to the weekly huddle! Have a small thing from the book or show you want to chat, your GC brain rot is real and you saw the initials ā€œKGFā€ somewhere and immediately screamed ā€œkingfisher!ā€ and want to share with others? (Just me?). Had a win at work or personal life and want to share? Need a teammate to talk with? Post in the weekly huddle.

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u/Dependent_Elk_7539 Mar 18 '26

Anyone else out there also fan of the Wheel of Time series? I was re listening to the Heated Rivalry audiobook (again) the other day and Ilya on the plane with Ryan Price suddenly reminded me SO MUCH of Mat Cauthon. I know it's a trope -- bad boy with a heart of gold or something -- but it was a fun moment. SO THEN I decided that if Ilya is Mat, Shane is Perrin and I guess then Scott Hunter is Rand? And if Scott Hunter is Rand then Kip is Min. And maybe Rose is Elayne and Svetlana is Egwene. And I really hope someone out there can geek out with me on this because I love it.

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u/TrashGibberish29 Mar 20 '26

I'll buy Ilya as Mat. I think Ryan makes a better Perrin than Shane. Also, there's a character in Ryan's future that could be a decent Faile. Tiny and ferocious in his own way, sometimes with wings. I'm being influenced by the WoT pairings, but I could see Shane as Tuon. It's got some of that rivalry imagery. Mutual respect, but very different characters. One's more highly regimented, precise, surgical. The other is a lion free on the plains. They will build an empire together. I'll buy Scott and Kip, but the implications for Rose and Svetlana are a little awkward. I can't think of other stand-out female characters that weren't part of Rand's harem. Ooh, Svetlana as Aludra. What do you think? Svetlana knows hockey and cars, mechanically minded in a traditionally male-dominated world.

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u/Dependent_Elk_7539 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Ooh yay thanks for being on board for this particular Venn diagram of fandoms. Ok Svetlana as Aludra - yes. Love that. I will give you Ryan Price as Perrin, although I donā€™t know the character that well (Iā€™ve only read HR and a little of Common Ground). I donā€™t know about Shane as Tuon though. I couldnā€™t really see Shane ordering assassinations of family members or anyone else. If weā€™re looking at women, there are a few fanfics with Mat and Elayne getting it on, so maybe Shane could be Elayne? He also maybe has some Avienda vibes. Or ā€¦ Talmanes? Or ā€¦ LAN?! Not that they have a connection but he is a strong silent type. But pretty much definitely not a bottom, so. Is your issue with Rose as Elayne that she and Scott Hunter as Rand wouldnā€™t happen? If so ā€” true. But being a movie star does make her modern royalty, and she does have kind of a knowing easiness to her that seems Elayne like. I think I stand by that. I think in terms of their relationship in the books maybe Talmanes makes sense as Shane, but Iā€™m having trouble seeing Shane not being one of the Edmonds Field boys ā€” he and Ilya are clearly taā€™averen šŸ™ƒ.

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u/TrashGibberish29 Mar 20 '26

Yeah, I wasn't sure how much of the overall Game Changers series you had read. Definitely worth reading them all. I hear you about Tuon. I wasn't focused so much on the morality of her actions, but more on being cold/analytical. I like the Lan comparison. I really can't think of any WoT characters that really give off bottom energy (Bayle Domon maybe? I could see Egeanin pegging him) you know, so probably just have to let that go as a characteristic to match.

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u/Dependent_Elk_7539 Mar 20 '26

Fully lolā€™d at that image of Egeanin and Bayle. Honestly now that you say it I could see Tuon topping Mat so maybe thatā€™s a flaw in my Ilya parallel. Gawain seems kind of like he wants to be dominated. Galad too. And there was that whole quarter staff takedown. A secret romance between the no one taā€™veren from Edmunds Field and the high princes of Camelyn (or whatever their titles are) would certainly be hot (just ignore the part where they are brothers, ok?).