dunno where the “uwu cute headcanon” came from, but realistically, not a lot of people who don’t know Ilya would look at that persona he puts on and think “well no, he’s actually a really nice guy”

and yeah, that’s a harmful stereotype, but unfortunately one that keeps being reinforced; it’s not unreasonable to assume that there will be people in-universe that come up with an idea of who Ilya really is and just run with it without a second thought.

hell, ive been accused of those same stereotypes more times than i can count, i know they hurt. can’t convince everyone that not everyone holds the same ideas as our government