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smiling thinking about the prospect of seeing Troy and Ilya together on our screens, that’s MY emotional support active suicide risk #1 and active suicide risk #2 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Troy Barrett runs Ultra Marathons: A Headcanon
Inspired by Troy Barrett Loves to Run by @lady-bizarre
Troy ran his first half-marathon when he was 16, on dare, and he was absolutely hooked. He upgraded to full marathons when he was 18. He wasn't particularly fast, but he always finished; he's more of an endurance runner.
His first year on Toronto, he ended up running beside a woman around his age who told him she was training for an Ultra-Marathon. He listened to her describe the training process, the struggle, the highs of the race. She told him a story about her hallucinating in the middle of the Utah desert. They exchanged numbers and he signed up that night.
Usually, people take years to upgrade to Ultras, but Troy's love of running and physique as an athlete set him up pretty well for the challenge.
He has run:
- The Blues Cruise 30k — his first ultra. he ran it with his marathon friend (Helen) and they shared a pacer. He planned on running the 50k but changed his mind last minute because it was too close to the start of the season. Helen gave him a Blue's Clues patch for his race vest, for the whimsy, and he still has it pinned to his fridge.
- The Loup Garou Trail Run — his second Ultra, Helen was his pacer this time. he successfully finished the 60 mile route and he was so proud he almost cried. He & Helen met one of their favorite marathon bloggers around mile 40 and they took a mid-run selfie that is still his Strava profile picture.
- The Salt Flats Endurance Run — he DFLed the 100-mile path & it is his greatest achievement to date. he ran it 3 months after quitting drinking for the first time (he's an alcoholic) and credits the success with keeping him sober through the next 7 months, which is his longest stretch before Harris. He fully hallucinated for at least 30 miles
His dream is to finish the Barkley Marathon; he genuinely thinks that with enough training he could finish first try (he is, it takes 4 tries and he finishes it the same year he retires from hockey).
He has DNFed multiple races & he keeps those bibs in the same place as his completed race bibs, because, in a rare moment of self-love, he is proud of himself for trying.
Helen is basically his soulmate. They do not talk abt anything other than running, and they will not hear from each other for months on end, but they run every single ultra together. Helen paces for Troy, Troy paces for Helen. People they run with are convinced they are married; they are known in small ultra circles as Helen of Troy and Troy of Helen. She was Troy's only female friend for a very long time.
The first Ultra he runs after joining the Cens is during the summer, during the Irina Foundation camps. He does not coach his first year (i do NOT subscribe to the Troy/Shane eternal beef hc, but I do agree that he, and Yuna, might be a little hesitant to have him coach his first year, given his reputation and the fact they don't know him yet). He does not tell Harris, who is helping out with the camps, what he is doing; only that he is going to Romania (Harris assumes he's meeting his mom, hes running the Bucovina Rocks Ultra) and comes back 8 pounds heavier and barely standing walking. He is so concerned and Troy is like "oh yeah i ran 114km through the mountains" and Harris' gast is FLABBERED.
The rest of the cens don't find out until, on a whim, Shane and Troy exchange Strava usernames and Shane almost passes out. Troy later drops the lore in a cens Tiktok video and the internet goes crazy. Meanwhile, the Ultra community collectively goes "wait, Troy of Helen is a hockey player???" and start posting their selfies with the famous duo.
Troy's favorite fuel is raw potatoes, waffle cut and marinated in salt water. He eats them by the pound.
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the way that every man in hockey reacts to dallas kent’s accusations versus how gen and julia reacts makes it like so clear to me that this is rachel’s cause. You have Weibe telling Troy he’s sorry that he lost a friend and you have Chounard taking Troy’s word that the accusations are true over you know the multiple women making the accusations and then you have the “many of the centaurs hated kent but they didn’t say anything publicly”, and then Gen’s “what’s complicated. He’s a fucking rapist.” line and Julie telling Troy if he really feels bad then he should actually do something beyond feeling sorry for himself like platform survivors and victim advocacy groups. Like it feels very obvious that this is her “there is a rot at the core of this organization” manifesto where even on the happiness and rainbows team there’s still the misogyny.
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starting my troy barrett as a poorly socialized chihuahua agenda. the reason little dogs have a reputation for bad behavior is because you can get away with not training them. an untrained 5lb dog, all things considered, is still pretty easy to contain/control. fail to train a german shepherd and someone is gonna die, y'know?
therefore, i propose: troy barrett was allowed to become a raging douchebag because he is so tiny the average hockey player could simply pick him up and move him to another location if things get out of hand.
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Some Sundays, when he is home and not hungover, Ilya goes to church. Orthodox, Russian-speaking. He puts on a suit, likes the way it hugs his shoulders and his hips tightly. He sits in the rough wooden pew, body aware of itself. He lets the easy language wash over him, unthinking. He knows the prayers, mumbles them softly with the others.
During communion, he crosses his arms and receives a blessing instead. He doesn't go to confession anymore, he likely never will again. He will keep his sins to himself; they are precious to him.
After the service, he goes to the annex and indulges in the free, shitty coffee, mingles shyly with the other congregants. Breaks off a piece of fresh pirozhki, crumbs falling on a papery napkin, lets the babushkas tell him all about their lovely, single granddaughters. Recently, some of the children figured out he plays for the Raiders, shyly coming up to him to ask him to sign their service programs. Then, weeks later, they expect him and bring pucks and silver sharpies.
Sometimes, when gossiping with the women or talking hockey with the men, he has to lean in and ask someone to repeat something, not recognizing a Russian word, and he worries he's forgetting. He thinks to ask Shane if he ever can't recognize a word in English or French, but thinks it's too vulnerable, memory being a strange and painful topic for both of them.
He always leaves earlier than all the others, pocketing one more pirozhki for the road and sneaking out without saying goodbye.
The cathedral is the only place in Boston where he is reminded of home and mama and himself. He goes mostly just so he can be in a room where everyone speaks Russian, where he doesn't have to waste precious energy translating all this stupid English. Sometimes, when he is feeling particularly indulgent, he listens to the singing children and he allows himself to believe. In this brief belief-state, he is deserving of his lover, he will see his mother again someday. It barely lasts a minute, and then the heels of his feet start to hurt in his dress shoes.
After, he calls Shane.
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The concept of Shane and Ilya trying to phsycosexually torture Luca Haas only to slowly realize that they have stumbled upon the world's horniest most perverted little 20 year old man and he's not trapped in the motel room next door to them, they're trapped in the motel room next door to him
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it’s late 2016. shane hollander is dating rose landry. ilya rozanov is breaking every traffic law known to man in his hideous sports car and tearfully scream-singing DONTCHA WISH YOUR GIRLFRIEND WAS HOT LIKE ME….. DONTCHA WISH YOUR GIRLFRIEND WAS A FREAK LIKE ME…..
these two things, of course, have nothing to do with each other
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HAAS NATION
I am working on my own Luca/OMC fic i just have to google so much shit i barely make any progress.
Let's not forget Luca had to do military service. As far as i figured it out it was at least 5 months, and he can do these between his 18 and 24 birthday?
In my mind he did that immediately after school because he was already drafted to the NHL and wanted to have it behind him. Also apparently there are accomodations for serious athletes (as in time to train, maybe even to attend games?).
All of this has just solidified in my mind that everyone calling Luca a twink is so wrong. That boy is built as fuck, he just hides it with his clothes.
I imagine Ilya being like "Baby boy, baby!" at seeing Luca's Babyface, until Luca undresses in the Locker room for the first time and blinds them all with his 8th pack and 40 cm biceps.
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im on the side of haasnation that believes luca haas chirps and he’s good at it
you can’t grow up arguing with people on the internet without picking up how to absolutely roast people
even better he scrolls through hockey updates, so he always knows the biggest scandals and rumors around each player and where to hit them where it hurts
and he definitely grew up with siblings, he’s just a menace in general