1 – 20 of 21 Works in Soulmate-Identifying Marks
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I give up, I surrender by Anonymous
Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-08-23
Ilya is no ordinary Russian: he hates his family, is desperate to leave his country, is attracted to both men and women, and believes in soulmates.
When he meets Shane Hollander and his hypnotising freckles, he knows his life will never be the same again. Maybe, at last, he could finally be happy.(Aka : What would happen if Ilya and Shane had gotten together at 18? How would they have managed their secret relationship?)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 184,634
- Chapters:
- 29/29
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82845211
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Love, Vodka, or the Sea by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-08-01
Recovery isn't linear.
Knowing this, and believing it, are two different things.Shane moves to Ottawa, ready to finally spend time with his soulmate, properly. Maybe the excitement is why he doesn't always notice.
Ilya wins the Cup with Shane at his side, but it doesn't matter as much as it should have. Not when his body hurts and his mind is fragile and he feels one moment away from collapse.
Timeline goes back and forth, but we start off one year after the events of the previous story.
In the end, everything will be okay.- Part 3 of This is Love
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 16,714
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88105341
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Every time your soulmate lies, their words are written on you.
Shane lies more than he's ever done, and Ilya lies less than he's ever done.
- Part 2 of Lies and Secrets
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,130
- Chapters:
- 1/11
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #88512076
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Ilya returned to the cottage after his final year with Boston content to get to have seemingly endless time to just be with Shane.
He was not planning to bring up Shane learning Russian in secret, no matter how obvious it was to him. He was excited to get to speak Russian with Shane, but that didn't explain why the thought of it felt so life-changing.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,694
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83636971
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They meet when they're just teenagers. They start fucking not too much longer after that. They also don't really allow themselves to get to know each other until much, much later.
(In which your soulmate will one day say something that proves they understand you. Shane and Ilya don't exactly make a habit of talking.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,473
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83139076
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Marleau, you motherfucker! by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-04-16
Because Pike had shouted, “Marleau, you motherfucker!” and the rage embedded itself on Cliff’s skin.
or: the one where Cliff gets his soulmate mark in 2017, and it's a long fucking time until everything is going to be okay.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 59,831
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #82563516
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Shane has been covering up his soulmark for as long as Ilya has known him.
Ilya doesn't have a soulmark at all.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,638
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #83148861
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it has a language of its own by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-28
Ilya learns very young that he has a soulmate.
Ilya's POV of the heart is hard to translate.
- Part 2 of all this and heaven too
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,725
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78749051
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The Knife You Turn Inside Yourself by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-28
They're soulmates. They're out to the world, for better or worse. Ilya is safe and learning to heal. Everything should be good.
And yet.SEQUAL to Safer in Chains than to be Free
- Part 2 of This is Love
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 30,679
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80973721
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Finding your soulmate is supposed to be beautiful. You stand in front of someone and you say their full name; they say yours. Your soulmarks appear somewhere on your bodies, and it's supposed to be beautiful. Life-changing.
It's not supposed to happen a week before the World Juniors tournament in a dirty Saskatchewan parking lot. It's not supposed to be Canada's newest darling hockey player and your future rival who whispers your name. It's not supposed to be a boy that your skin blooms for.
And if that does happen, despite the fact that it shouldn't, you're definitely not supposed to lie to your soulmate's face, refuse to say his name in return, and pretend that you never felt your soulmark appear at all. And if that happens, somehow, you're definitely not supposed to kiss him less than a year later. And then later. And then later. And then later, until you realize you never want to leave his bed despite the fact that you've never told him the truth about the bear tattoo on your chest.
or, finding out that his soulmate is Shane Hollander isn't beautiful. Ilya can't pretend that it's not life-changing though.
- Part 4 of my heated rivalry anon fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 35,631
- Chapters:
- 3/?
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #77278661
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your heart is a muscle (it has the strength of your courage) by eurydicees
Heated Rivalry (TV)
2026-03-09
It's not something that they ever talk about. They don't need to acknowledge it, and no one else ever needs to know. Or, no one else needs to know until suddenly Shane is in the hospital and no one will let Ilya see him. (Ilya and Shane are soulmates. It doesn't change everything, but it changes enough.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,717
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80892336
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Safer in Chains Than to be Free by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-03-09
The name of your soulmate only appears once your realize you are in love with them.
"Shane Hollander" appears on Ilya's chest before the Sochi Olympics. He tells nobody, and then he disappears.Six months later, Shane gets a call from an unknown number. Ilya. In Montreal, and completely different.
It doesn't matter, though, and the next morning there's a line of Cyrillic across his chest.Timeline goes back and forth.
- Part 1 of This is Love
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,589
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80627716
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Shane wasn't looking forward to meeting his soulmate like everyone else, but the letters still came. Four letters. Four Cyrillic letters.
Or
Five times Shane doesn't want to think about his soulletters and One time he finally does.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,098
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #80489176
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i've been playing dead my whole life by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-21
“We knew when his words came in that he’d–” Yuna’s voice cracked around the idea, that specific word escaping her. “That he won’t have to know what it feels like to lose his soulmate.”
Because Shane was always going to go first. How must it have felt, to look upon her son and see those words, and know with complete certainty he would go first? Maybe it was better, having as vague of a word as Ilya did on his chest. At least he couldn’t think about it, couldn’t imagine scenarios in which it could be said.
“I assume,” Yuna said, pausing to take a deep breath as though to steel herself, “he said yours last night.”
Ilya nodded, admitting what he didn’t dare say out loud.
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AU where the last words you ever hear from your soulmate are tattooed on your chest. Ilya and Shane still argue over the party, Ilya still already chose Shane, and everything goes so much worse after Shane leaves.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,373
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #79994411
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love letters on your skin by Anonymous
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-02-02
What was he supposed to say? Yes, Hollander. I have a soulmate. All I know is that he has played hockey in Canada before. Oh, that could apply to the entire league? Oh, that could apply to you? Oh, you are now having a panic attack in my bed?
Yes. That would not have gone well.
(Or: Soulmate AU where the marks that appear on your body appear on theirs. Ilya finds out that Shane is his soulmate long before Shane does. They are idiots in love.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 42,517
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78762926
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Every time your soulmate lies, their words are written on you. Shane doesn’t lie often. His soulmate does though.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 51,181
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Files:
- 4 versions
- AO3:
- #76418136
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Shane stuck his hand out. “Shane Hollander.” He waited for… well, he didn’t know what. A flicker of recognition. Possibly surprise? Delight was perhaps a bit much to hope for, but maybe some kind of excitement about meeting one’s soulmate, the same giddy feeling that was swirling in Shane’s stomach just from standing face to face. Ilya Rozanov gave him nothing. Just glanced between Shane’s face and his hand like Shane had offended him somehow, before finally taking it— —and promptly turning back around to light his cigarette. In which Ilya Rozanov is the name on Shane’s wrist, but Shane Hollander is not on Ilya’s.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,638
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #78667116
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Shane ignores the slow apparition of colours his sight was missing. Ilya does not understand why he keeps buying ginger beer. Or how to accept you are in love, one soulmark at a time.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,478
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #77634206
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the heart is hard to translate by catknives
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2026-01-07
Shane is twelve when he realizes he can understand Russian. Or, in a world where you can understand whatever language(s) your soulmate speaks, it takes Shane and Ilya an embarrassing amount of time to realize they’re soulmates.
- Part 1 of all this and heaven too
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 20,867
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Files:
- 3 versions
- AO3:
- #76741856
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The universe can't stop us by atlas22
Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
2025-12-27
Everyone has a soulmate. Your soulmate is your other half - someone who completes your life and makes you feel whole. On your sixteenth birthday, you receive your soul-mark: the first words your soulmate will ever say to you. Some people spend their whole lives waiting to hear those words. Others choose not to believe in soulmates at all. Then, there are those who hear their words from the lips of a rival and simply refuse to believe it. --- What if soulmates existed in the world of Heated Rivalry.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,297
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Files:
- 1
- AO3:
- #76520551