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Only Son of the Falling Snow
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sköldpaddorCommissioner Turtle Lord
I initially started to put this together just as a timeline, to pull together all of the media I’ve put out there over the course of Gunnar’s career (Including this and a few other things I will post later, it totals up to over 60K words). Over the past couple months of gathering links and filling in details, it took on kind of a life of its own, beyond just a timeline of media posts and into…whatever this is. As I said, there is a little more, this is not the end, but here in bonus media week, I decided it was time for this particular bit to see the light of day. It has been a labor of love through and through, and I hope y’all enjoy it even one tenth as much as I have enjoyed writing this story for the past three years. <3 (20% bonus pls? I will put it in the thread title if I absolutely have to but I would rather not for aesthetic reasons
 )S26: Gunnar Söderberg is born in Luleå on the first day of May in Season 26 at 3:23 A.M., in the midst of a week that is bitterly cold for late spring even by northern standards. He arrives three weeks earlier than anticipated, but he comes into the world nonetheless with a perfectly healthy pair of lungs and weighing 3.4kg. He is the final child of Hanna Eklund and Elias Söderberg, born into a family of six older sisters, and he is never in his life lacking for love. S28: Gunnar is nearly two years old when his father dies, late in the winter in S28. He doesn’t remember it, of course, but whether he’s aware of it or not at the time, it changes the trajectory of his life completely. S29: Gunnar is three the first time he puts on a pair of skates, and his mother will tell people later in his life that he really never took them off after that. That’s hyperbole, obviously, but it is very much a love at first sight sort of thing for him - even when he’s still small, all he wants to do is skate. S33: Gunnar is seven when Karl Norberg is his coach, and from the start, there’s something about his coaching style that Gunnar responds to. He has a gift for communicating with kids, with putting important lessons into terms that are easy for a seven-year-old to understand. And Gunnar is just a kid, so he completely misses the signals when his mom and coach Karl start looking at each other a little longer, start spending more time together. At first, Gunnar thinks that coach Karl is just coming around to their house for dinner a couple of times a week because he’s that dedicated to looking out for him, but then he catches them in the kitchen kissing and it all starts to make more sense. S35: Gunnar has just turned nine when his mother marries coach Karl and he gains a father. Gunnar’s sisters, who remember their father well, welcome Karl into the family, but they never have quite the same relationship with him that Gunnar does. Gunnar has never known another father, and maybe this one came along a little late, but it’s not even six months after the wedding that Gunnar starts using the word pappa and never looks back. S41: Gunnar is thirteen when he starts to realize that the people he is attracted to are not of any particular gender, and he is fourteen when he sits his parents down and puts a word to it. “I know something about myself,” he tells them, “and I think you should know it, too.” It’s the first time he says the word bisexual out loud, and even though his parents really could not take it better, it still feels like a huge weight off his shoulders, like he’s had a heavy blanket over his head and now he’s out in the fresh air, inhaling clean, cold oxygen into his lungs. S44: Gunnar is sixteen when he plays on the Luleå J20 team, and he is in far over his head. He has the raw skill, the talent is there, but he is sixteen, and he’s dealing with a lot. He’s just broken up with his first girlfriend, and it feels like the end of the world, and in addition to that he’s the youngest person on the team and has seemingly nothing in common with anybody else there. It’s during his time there that his coach calls him into his office and has a long talk that Gunnar never really forgets - tells him that even if Gunnar is still finding his footing, hockey, the game itself, knows who he is. His hockey has never been the problem, and if he relies on that as his constant when the other things get cloudy, he will find the way. S45: Gunnar is seventeen and playing on the MODO J20 team when the scouting really starts to ramp up and he gets ready to make the move to North America. He has no idea what to expect, no real concept of how his skill set will match up with what he finds there, but this is the path forward, and he sets out on it. S46: Gunnar is still seventeen when he is drafted fifth overall by the Kelowna Knights, and the city becomes his second home for most of the next three years. That’s also when he meets Aleksandr Scherbak and Vadim Malichov. He and Dima hit it off right away, but Sasha is another element entirely, and there are sparks of a different kind there. Their first real encounter with each other is at world juniors, where Gunnar’s Swedish squad take down Sasha and Dima’s Russian team in the bronze medal game. It takes a month or two on the same team in Kelowna before Gunnar and Sasha settle into a friendship that relies heavily on their mutual ability to tolerate being insulted by each other and to motivate one another to do better. The three of them live together for the next couple of years, and there are times when Gunnar wonders whether there might be something more between them, but in the end, they drift apart. Gunnar thrives in Kelowna, and eventually in the SHL, and Sasha and Dima go back to Russia to play there, and they keep in touch every now and then but it’s clear their paths have diverged. Despite that, those early bonds formed with some of his first teammates in North America give Gunnar a safe place to land while he’s figuring out the rest of it, and he will look back on that time fondly for the rest of his life.
S47: Gunnar is eighteen when he is drafted second overall by the Tampa Bay Barracuda. He is, of course, not called up right away, and remains in Kelowna, where he is named captain that season. That’s also the year he meets Corey Kennedy, and even though the two of them won’t actually play together for several years (and have no reason at the time to suspect they ever will), Corey very quickly becomes one of Gunnar’s favorite people, a person he shares his hopes and dreams and fears with. Gunnar has never had a brother; he’s had plenty of teammates who were very close friends, but Corey is the first who almost immediately feels like family.
S48: Gunnar plays most of S48 in Kelowna, but he is nineteen when he is traded to the Colorado Raptors as a playoff rental. He plays sixteen games in the blue and yellow before their playoff run ends prematurely, and then he’s called up to Tampa just after his twentieth birthday, just in time for them to be eliminated as well. Nevertheless, he forges some unlikely connections in Colorado, connections that remain in place for the next decade regardless of how short his tenure there was. That’s also the year Gunnar meets his first serious boyfriend, Noah, who plays for Anaheim, and despite living and playing in cities very distant from one another, they make things work for several years. Gunnar wins a gold medal playing for Sweden at worlds that year, and it’s a much-needed confidence boost as he prepares to really make the jump to the SHL.
S49: Gunnar is twenty when he plays his first full season in the SHL, and it’s a pretty good rookie year for him. Thirty-two points, and it’s enough to get him a ROTY nomination, although he loses out to his own teammate Olivier which he can’t even be mad about. The season is a massive learning experience for him, and so, so much work just to keep up, so the nomination itself is enough for him to be satisfied with his own performance. S50: Gunnar has just turned twenty-two late in S50 when the Barracuda take it all the way to the final, go up three games, then get reverse swept by the Calgary Dragons, and it’s not the cause of the downwards spiral his mental health takes, but it certainly doesn’t help when he’s already been struggling, to come that close to something he’s been wanting, dreaming of, his entire life, to be so close and go home empty-handed. He continues to struggle for most of the next two seasons, with his anxiety, with his production on the ice, with changes made to the game and the rules and the way it’s played. It will be seven more seasons before he surpasses his point total from S50, and life has many more twists and turns in store for him before he gets there.
S51-53: Gunnar plays S51 and S52 in Tampa as well, and while he continues to struggle to really find his game, he puts down roots. He learns to love the team, the city, the locker room, the sun and the ocean, all of it. In S53, Sweden medal at worlds again for the first time since S48, and it’s silver but it’s still nice to win something in the middle of a pretty rough stretch of hockey in Tampa. There is talk of a rebuild, and he knows there are more hard times to come, but by that point, he has so fully embraced his identity as part of the team, has wrapped so much of who he is into that; he is ready to be the kind of presence a team needs in the room when they’re going through the discouraging days of a rebuild. And maybe they won’t come close to a cup, he thinks, until later in his career, maybe things won’t come together for him until then, but if he gets to be a part of it from the start, he makes his peace with that idea. Management tells him he’s a key part of the rebuild, and Gunnar settles in after S53 and gets ready for the uphill battle ahead of them. Gunnar is newly twenty-five when he gets the call from management in the off-season between S53 and S54, telling him that he has been traded to the Chicago Syndicate. He gets through the phone call, somehow, while thinking I can’t breathe why can’t I breathe on a seemingly endless loop inside of his head. He hangs up finally and he drops his phone and he sits on the floor of his apartment in a city he has grown to love so much that it has become a second home to him, a city he has just been told is no longer his own. He goes through all of his breathing exercises until he finally has the mental capacity to pick his phone back up and scroll through it until he finds Corey’s name, taps on the call button, and prays to assorted gods he doesn’t even believe in that Corey will answer. He does, after three rings, and Gunnar struggles to find his voice before he says “Hey, it’s um, it’s me, Gunnar,” as if Corey doesn’t have his number saved, doesn’t already know that it’s him. “I think I just got traded to your team, and I can’t breathe.” He doesn’t know why he says I think when it’s a done deal, and he doesn’t know why he tells Corey about the not being able to breathe thing, but it turns out that Corey is, as usual, very good at talking him down from whatever disaster of a mental state he has worked himself up into. Corey tells him about the team, about the guys he knows there, about their outlook for the future, and by the time he hangs up this time, he’s feeling much better. Still absolutely heartbroken, but with a little more optimism about the situation he’s walking into.
S54: Gunnar is still twenty-five for most of his first season in Chicago, and the entire year is a massive upheaval of his whole existence. He and Noah break up - Gunnar simply cannot be a good partner at the distance that still stands between them when he is processing as many things as he is in his own mind, struggling with as many things as he is just to stay afloat. It’s a separation that’s been coming for a while, but it still hurts like hell, and warrants another despondent call to Corey, who may be the most long-suffering person Gunnar knows. And Gunnar falls in love with the city of Chicago pretty quickly, but damage has been done to his ability to trust in the good things in life, and he doesn’t really let himself start to count on staying yet. They make the playoffs, but lose to Buffalo in the first round in a series that goes to six games. He turns twenty-six just before he leaves for worlds after the season is over, and it’s during that off-season that Gunnar really starts to let his guard down, realizes while he’s at home in Sweden that he misses Chicago a lot, misses the city, the team, the energy of the hometown crowd. By the end of the summer, after another disappointing performance at worlds, he is more than ready to get back to Chicago and really see what he can do.
S55: Gunnar is twenty-six years old when they are once again eliminated by Buffalo in the first round of the playoffs. It’s a pretty sub-par regular season for him too, as he just cannot seem to hit his stride despite being in the point of his career where people are generally expected to be playing their best hockey. It might be a down season for him on the ice, but otherwise, he does make some personal progress. It’s the first time in a while he feels like he really has a handle on his mental health, feels like his head is clear and he’s focused. He takes time away from everything that isn’t right in front of him that summer - doesn’t write anything he posts publicly, doesn’t spend much time on social media, just focuses on being present with his family and friends, and getting his hockey in the best place it can be for the next season. It does him a world of good; he processes a lot of things he's been bottling up, spends a lot of time talking to his therapist, and by the end of the summer, he feels like he's in the best mental space he has been for most of his adult life. S56: Gunnar is twenty-seven when things finally begin to come together. They play extraordinary hockey that season, and make it all the way to the semi-finals where they are once again eliminated by Buffalo, and somehow, this one hurts more than the first-round exits of the past few years. But despite that, it feels like things have taken a distinct upward trajectory for him. He knows he’s older than he used to be, starts to feel things getting more difficult. Not terribly difficult, but his body begins to send him signals that say you’re going to have to work harder for this than you have in the past. And he does. He buckles down and he works his ass off that off-season; he doesn’t go back home to Sweden for the summer, although he does win another bronze medal at worlds with the Swedish national team. He comes back determined to prove that he is the kind of player worth the faith people have placed in him, determined to prove to Chicago that he is worth the additional three-year contract extension they give him that summer.
S57: Gunnar is twenty-eight years old the first time he feels like the hockey player he dreamed of being when he was a kid. He hits a career high fifty-four points that season, twenty more than the previous season, and although some of that has to be attributed to the length of the season increasing that year, he feels good, like he has unlocked something inside himself that had previously gone untapped. That’s also the season Jean-Uhtred Ragnarsson-Tremblay gets called up to Chicago. Jean-Uhtred is somewhere around six or seven years younger than Gunnar is, and he’s just at training camp for the first few seasons before heading back to juniors, but he makes the team in S57 and he immediately comes in with high hopes and expectations for himself and others, a fresh drive for the game that somehow feels like an injection of new energy directly into Gunnar’s veins. It’s during their playoff run that year that Gunnar and Jean-Uhtred start to hang out a lot more, to the point that it feels like they are just as much real friends as they are teammates, the point where Gunnar is certain that even if they both got traded to other teams they’d still be friends. They have a lot in common, as it turns out, despite their differences and the rivalry inherent between their home countries. Gunnar is twenty-nine years and seven days old when he finally lifts the Cup, and his whole soul sings with it. It is everything he has wanted since he was old enough to really understand the game, everything he has worked for his entire life, and there are no words for the unadulterated joy that lights up every part of his being. There is something magical about that season, something Gunnar knows in his heart of hearts he may never experience again, something charmed about the path they take to get there - defeating both Buffalo and Hamilton and finally winning it all in overtime of a game six that should leave him exhausted, but instead sends him so high on adrenaline that he forgets every ache and pain of the entire season, all of it swept away by the celebration of what they’ve accomplished. He wins the Razov that year, and there is a certain sense of completion, a feeling of relief and finality to it all despite the fact that he’s nowhere near done playing hockey yet.
S58: Chicago misses the playoffs in S58, and it feels like getting punched directly in the chest, to go from the highest high of the previous season to the disappointment of not even having the chance to defend their championship. Gunnar has too many emotions to be still, and on an impulse, he takes Harry Carpet up on an invitation to come and see the North Stars in the playoffs instead. He spends his thirtieth birthday in Toronto; there’s no party, just an off day between games in Toronto’s series against Manhattan, which they close out a few days later. It’s an escape Gunnar didn’t know he needed; it gives him space from his growing concerns that maybe this is as good as he will ever be, maybe his best years really are behind him. The North Stars fall to Buffalo in the semi-finals, but Gunnar is infinitely glad for the experience anyway, thankful for the fact that he has such good people in his life, regardless of what team they play for. He and Jean-Uhtred stay in touch over the summer, maybe more than they do with anyone else, and by the time they head back to Chicago for training camp, it’s possible Gunnar is looking forward to getting to hang out with JURT as much as he is looking forward to playing hockey again. It’s also during that season that Gunnar starts a game of Dungeons & Dragons with Jean-Uhtred and a few other guys from the league (including, eventually, Johnny Hamilton, who Gunnar has also come to know as a good friend and not just his juniors GM turned SHL player agent who responds to his nonsense tweets).
S59: Gunnar, who has been single for the better part of five years now, stops hooking up with people at some point near the beginning of the season. It’s mostly because he just doesn’t have the mental energy to put in the effort to go out and try to get somebody to come home with him. Probably. And if he turns down a few people here and there who come onto him when he’s out at bars or other social events, well, that’s just because the timing isn’t right, or he’s just not that into it that night. Probably. It’s definitely not because he has possibly developed feelings for one of his best friends, definitely not because at some point after they get back at the end of the summer he looks at Jean-Uhtred one night while they’re all playing D&D, watches him laugh at some truly deranged thing Simon has done in-character, and thinks ah, fuck. Gunnar has rules for himself. The first of those rules, and the one he has never broken, is that no matter what he feels or who he happens to be attracted to, he doesn’t date teammates. Doesn’t fool around with teammates, doesn’t date them, doesn’t act on any feelings even if they come up. It’s a line he’s just not willing to cross, because there’s too much at stake. So it’s not that Gunnar doesn’t know what’s happening that first time he looks at Jean-Uhtred and sees more than just a good friend. It’s not that he’s in denial about the fact that he smiles more when Jean-Uhtred is around, not like he doesn’t notice the little twisting thing his heart does when Jean-Uhtred says “hey Gunny” and gives him that smile that somehow feels like it’s just between the two of them even though they’re in a locker room with at least a dozen other people. He feels all of it, he just stays the course, keeps it to himself, because more than anything else, he values Jean-Uhtred’s friendship and their ability to play good hockey. Because he’s used to doing this - used to just figuring out how to process the feelings and keep them his own problem and nobody else’s. It isn’t even that difficult anymore - not that it’s easy, it’s just a necessary task, like doing the hard things he has to do to be a better hockey player. Gunnar has just turned thirty-one when he takes an awkward hit in quadruple overtime in the second round of the playoffs, and it’s about an hour later when he realizes something is actually wrong with his knee. He keeps it to himself at first, then tells Jean-Uhtred and no one else, because he desperately needs to play, but he can’t not talk about it to someone, so he calls JURT. It is Jean-Uhtred who helps him through it when it’s three in the morning and he’s having panic attacks alone in his apartment because he’s just had another nightmare about his leg breaking in half, or about a doctor telling him he’ll never be able to play again. It starts out as a well I can’t tell Corey or he’ll make me sit out the rest of the playoffs, but it quickly turns out that there’s really no one else he could imagine telling about any of it. He finishes out the playoffs (they lose to Buffalo yet again in the semi-finals), resigns himself to the idea of maybe having surgery and rehab in the offseason, and he goes off to worlds and tries to get things done for Sweden. And at some point in there, Jean-Uhtred also tells him that he’s probably getting traded before next season begins. When the actual trade happens, Gunnar is in Estonia, still at worlds. Sweden lose in the quarterfinals the next day and Gunnar would love to blame it on any of the things going on in his life at the moment but the truth is, they just come up short as a team. He could say it’s because he’s distracted, or because of the one time his knee absolutely gives out on him as he turns a corner, but his own play just isn’t that much of a factor. They don’t give up a goal because he goes down hard in a corner the once, he doesn’t make any stupid plays because he’s dealing with emotional distractions, they just…can’t get the win, and that’s that. He goes home and he has surgery immediately to repair his torn ACL and then he begins the long road back to being ready to play again. That summer is hard - at least a couple of times, he wonders if he’s even capable of getting back to even half the player he was before the injury. Once again, it’s the people in his life who get him through the worst of it, especially Corey and Jean-Uhtred. Corey comes over and helps him walk the dogs when he can’t even hobble around on his own two feet, helps him pick up groceries a few times before Gunnar is mobile again, but there are things he doesn’t even feel like he can tell Corey without actually worrying him. It’s Jean-Uhtred who ends up helping him through those things, listens to him absolutely fall apart over the phone more than once, further strengthening Gunnar’s conviction that there is something incredibly special about their friendship, even if he’s almost definitely not over the embarrassing crush or whatever it is that began to form at the beginning of the season. And it’s not like things are especially weird when he texts Jean-Uhtred because they wouldn’t really all be together and training at this point in the offseason anyway, it’s just…things are maybe a little weird in his head. The distance is exactly the same, but the idea of the distance that’s going to be there, the thought that Jean-Uhtred is not going to be at training camp when he gets back, all of that sort of lingers in the back of his mind as he prepares to go into the following season.
S60: Gunnar works his ass off, and by the time they get back for preseason, his knee is…well, not good as new, but it’s good as he would really hope for it to be at this point in his career. He struggles at the beginning of the season, trying to find his new normal, trying to figure out what his body is capable of at this age and coming back from an injury like that. He’s named captain that season, and he leans into that and it helps him keep his head on straight, but he struggles with a lot of things in the first half of the year, not the least of which is his increasingly confusing feelings for Jean-Uhtred. Halfway through the season, after an away game against Jean-Uhtred’s new team in Seattle, they meet up for D&D, and that’s the point when Gunnar has just begun to realize that the way he feels is not going away, when he has realized that he may need to take a step back from this friendship for his own mental well-being because it is much too distracting to be in love with someone who does not feel the same way. And just when he is ready to put his hands up and admit that he’s not strong enough to keep up the act, Jean-Uhtred kisses him and it turns out that he is very much not alone in the things he’s feeling. It’s like a weight has been lifted off of him, not because he’s suddenly in a relationship for the first time in six years - he was perfectly happy being single for most of that time - but because he is no longer losing sleep over the fact that he might lose someone incredibly important to him, no longer focusing on guarding his emotions so carefully lest someone figure out what’s going on in his heart. Coincidence or not, that’s also when he really settles in and once again finds some compete level in himself that he didn’t know was there. Gunnar is thirty-two when he finishes the best regular season of his career. They go all the way to the final again and go up three games to one, only to lose in game seven. It is, in a word, devastating, and it takes him some time to get over it, but he has a number of other things to throw his passion into, things to keep his mind and body busy instead of dwelling on what they couldn’t accomplish in Chicago that year. That’s also the year he spends a lot of time searching for (and eventually finding) confidence in his own abilities in management. He helps lead Sweden to another bronze medal at worlds, and realizes that it’s time for him to step away from playing international hockey and embrace the off-ice leadership responsibilities he has taken on there, focus on getting younger players the playing time he’s already enjoyed for so many years. He’s not done playing hockey yet but there’s something inside of him telling him to start tying up loose ends, start looking to the future, figuring out what life after hockey is going to look like for him.
S61: It is five days after Gunnar’s thirty-third birthday when he knows. Another game seven, another loss (in the second round this time), another season going home empty-handed, but this time, the fire inside of him feels as if it settles quietly into his bones, as if something is finally ready to rest. He’s been here before, been disappointed before, but there’s always been this little voice in his head, saying “get up, move on, let it go, you’ll get it done next year, or the year after, get up and move on.” Now, the voice has gone quiet. He takes that moment, amidst the disappointment of his own team and the elation of the team that’s just beaten them, on his knees on the ice where he found himself when the clock ran out after trying to block a shot that was never going to change the outcome of the game, his lungs still burning as he catches his breath. There is an unnerving stillness inside of him, something that seems to be at peace with the idea that if all he has is all he will get, it will be enough, that he can probably give this one more go, but this time, there is a definite finish line in sight. They fly home from Texas that night, get home from the airport pretty late and get back to the house even later. He hasn’t said much that evening, because he’s been thinking and as he and Jean-Uhtred climb into bed, he says “Hey babe?” Jean-Uhtred makes a sound, not really a word, just a noise of acknowledgment, and Gunnar swallows hard, because the words are there but they are so difficult to say. It’s not the first time he’s suggested something like this to Jean-Uhtred, who more or less knows all of Gunnar’s innermost thoughts at this point, knows all of his fears and doubts and dreams. But there’s something weighty about the words this time, like this time it isn’t an idea but a fact. “I think next season is really it for me.” Epilogue to follow
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WOW, good work! Just thinking about doing that much writing makes my brain hurt; good stuff like always !
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S68 PHI | 66GP | 7 G | 29A | 36P | +12 | 113sog | 6.19 sh% | 0 ppp | 141hit | 26 blk | 20 pim
S69 PHI | 48GP | 3 G | 27A | 30P | +9 | 53 sog | 5.66 sh% | 0 ppp | 91 hit | 21 blk | 14 pim
Career Totals | 1040GP | 258G | 476A | 734P | 2507sog | 10.29sh% | 100pp | 1082hit | 673blk S63 PHI | 6 GP | 5 G | 1 A | 6 P | 0 | 19 sog | 26.32sh% | 0 ppp | 6 hit | 11 blk
[align=center]S64 PHI | 4 GP | 0 G | 2 A | 2 P | -2 | 2 sog | 0.00 sh% | 0 ppp | 6 hit | 2 blk S65 PHI | 7 GP | 3 G | 4 A | 7 P | +2 | 19 sog | 15.79sh% | 0 ppp | 11 hit | 3 blk S66 PHI | 7 GP | 1 G | 3 A | 4 P | -2 | 12 sog | 8.33 sh% | 0 ppp | 8 hit | 5 blk
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AgentSmith630HOF Committee Hall of Fame Head
Incredible. I truly enjoy seeing this much love and personality being put into a player.
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Your media is always a joy to read. I feel like your work is the top standard for character building and roleplay that I've seen on the site.
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Really nice write-up. It was interesting to go through the career season by season - since mine has been just as long (but with a lot less success...let's not talk about losing to Buffalo anymore okay?). So many ups and downs. Feels pretty real.
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Hey I know that Corey guy.
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Love it as always
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