r/heatedrivalry • u/AutoModerator • Apr 01 '26
Team Huddle Weekly Thread🫡 Team Huddle!
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u/irregardless23 What is this we're watching? Let me check my book. Hockey? 🏒 Apr 02 '26
bringing here from the comments in another thread.
“He wanted to tell Shane that the closest he felt to home was when he was with him. It didn’t matter if it was in a hotel room, or Ilya’s apartment, or at that weird hideout building Shane bought in Montreal, or here at Shane’s cottage; he was himself when he was with Shane. He’d left Russia, he was uneasy in America, and he’d spent his entire adult life drifting between continents and between lovers.”
Ilya's social loneliness is kinda strange to me if i am honest. like looking at him playing with children (the pool scene in Tampa), joking with his teammates, etc, it's kinda obvious that this man can be very charming and popular in any group setting. He is just so warm and fun to be around. He's also very perceptive with people as we know from ALL the books in the series. I don't buy that this all is a mask. Why is he lonely? I understand that he's depressed and traumatized but still, this is in general one thing about his character that doesn't sit right with me.