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1. Ecology of Devotion by HH_Arrow

   Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   02 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
   • Shane Hollander
   • Ilya Rozanov
   • Ilya Rozanov Has PTSD
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Closeted Character
   • Protective Shane Hollander
   • Possessive Shane Hollander
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Hockey Fights
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Anger
   • Blood and Injury
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Devotion
   • Livestock Guardian Dog Shane Hollander
   • Character Study
   • Shane Hollander Loves Ilya Rozanov
   • Ilya Rozanov Loves Shane Hollander
   • Angst with a Happy Ending

   Summary

   A guard dog's submission isn't weakness — it's a whole ecosystem built around one animal's safety. Shane learns the shape of it slowly: which hunger to feed, which to starve, when stillness is the only right shape for his own strength to take. Ilya learns something rarer — that being watched doesn't have to mean being hunted. Then it breaks all at once: something Shane's own teammates were never meant to find finds its way into their locker room anyway, and the appetite that spent a year holding itself in check finds out exactly what it was protecting.

   Series

   • Part 5 of A Formal Study of the Heart

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