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Shane Hollander

CANON

heated rivalry

CANON POINT

s1 ep6

PRONOUNS

he/him

AGE

26

Player

kait | kaitniss | est

Summary

Shane achieved some of the biggest goals possible for Canadian youth in the professional hockey league when he was only a teenager, but since then, he has been in permanent conflict with the two biggest parts of himself: the notoriously homophobic sport he excels at and has dedicated his entire career life to, and his sexuality. Or, more accurately, his nearly decade-long romantic situationship with his rival, Ilya Rozanov. Knowing that if he were to be honest about who he is, his professional life would be permanently altered, Shane has spent his entire adult life hiding in plain sight. He lives with high levels of anxiety and suffers from panic attacks when things threaten to get out of his control but despite that, Shane is an extremely high achiever. The second draft pick for the league, the youngest player ever signed to multiple high-end brand deals, and a two-time consecutive cup winner, on the outside Shane is accomplished, athletic, rich, and famous. And every day has been a struggle for him on the inside.

Managed by his mother since he was a kid, Shane has been very good at perfecting his role as a hockey player and team captain, but his situationship-turned-relationship with Ilya is where most of Shane’s personal development in his adult years has come from. Forced to accept that he’s gay after attempting (and failing) to sustain a sexual relationship with the movie star Rose Landry, Shane was finally able to confront this truth about himself with her support and after another player leading by example, Shane has managed to open himself up to the possibility that the two parts of himself might one day be able to come together in a full and complete life. He is feeling far braver these days than he ever has before.

IMPRESSIONS

HEIGHT
5'11"

WEIGHT
190lbs.

OLIFACTORY
soap, sweat, mint, citrus, hockey bag

AURAL
here

Shane is extremely media trained: polite, well-spoken, well-raised, humble, even a little shy. He is on the spectrum and so occasionally misses social cues and avoids eye contact.

Skills & Abilities

hockey prodigy

autistic sweetie

mr captain team leader

Servitor

Shane's servitor is a manifestation of his severe anxiety about who he is and what that will mean for his life - existing as an unknowable mystery in eventual isolation and misery; the lonely and singular yeti.

Description: Only seen in the brief moments before an attack, the yeti is huge, hulking, and while broadly humanoid it is in a very uncanny valley way which appears more ape than person. Shaggy and constantly crusted in ice and snow, it's nearly impossible to tell what parts of it are coat and pelt and which are the moss and bracken and ice crystals that have become one with it. It towers over 8ft tall and has crushingly brutal hands that can enclose a human head in its palm, legs as thick as tree trunks and it has wide, sloping shoulders. Dark, glassy eyes burn from under all that hair but its face is otherwise hidden - except its fetid mouth full of broken teeth, always hungry.

Behavior: The approach of the hunting (or wandering) yeti brings with it a feeling of deep cold, like the way an anxiety attack feels in the body, and the knowledge that something is wrong. Something is about to go wrong, there is unseen danger, but you have no idea how to flee from it or how to fight it. The cold gradually increases as the distance shrinks until the victim is unable to move or flee due to full-body tremors. Eventually, a smell arrives along with the yeti, and by that point it is too late. The hunt is successful because you are too cold and too full of dread to escape.

Abilities:

• the yeti brings a debilitating, terrifying cold that disables its victims and keeps them in place until it arrives
• like some predators, it can smell blood and fear and anxiety from miles away
• the yeti itself is impervious to cold and its thick pelt protects it from most weapons not wielded with extreme skill
• it is tireless, and can track its mobile prey without stopping until it is caught

Weaknesses:

• heat and fire, it may be strong in the cold but hot environments will weaken it or make it flee
• cacophonous, loud noise that doesn't stop can also sometimes run the yeti off

Permissions

Physical
yes, but he might be avoid it from strangers

Shipping
No. Shane is in a monogamous relationship with Ilya Rozanov.

Smut
Yes. If you're Ilya Rozanov.

Fighting
yes.

Injury
yes.

Death
yes.

Psionics
yes.

Powers
yes, with opt-in.

Fourthwalling
no.

Preferences

Threadjacking
I love a heads up for this.

Backtagging
Please! My schedule is sometimes unreliable.

Aversions
forced pregancy/breeding plots.

Tagging Style
present tense action brackets, but I'm flexible. I try to make time to tag a little every day!