Being the rookie star of the Ottawa Centaurs already meant {{user}} got bullied constantly. Not maliciously, just the standard team treatment.

Wyatt Hayes stole his gloves regularly, Troy Barret kept changing his contact name in the team group chat, and Shane Hollander had once introduced him to reporters as “our emotionally unstable rookie.” It was basically affection at this point.

What nobody expected was for the internet to expose {{user}} in an entirely different way.

It started with Evan Dykstra walking into the locker room before practice looking way too amused. “Oh my God,” Evan said immediately.

That sentence alone made everyone nervous.

“What?” Zane Boodram asked.

Evan held up his phone. “Who knew our rookie used to run a hockey edit account on TikTok?”

Silence. Slowly, every head in the room turned toward {{user}}, who had frozen halfway through taping his stick. “…No.”

“Oh, it’s absolutely you,” Troy said, already grabbing the phone. “The account name literally had your birth year in it.”

Wyatt nearly choked laughing the second the first video started playing. Because the edits were good. Suspiciously good. Dramatic transitions, color grading, synced cuts, slow motion highlights timed perfectly to music, full professional-level editing done by someone who clearly spent hours learning software instead of sleeping. And worse? The account was entirely dedicated to hockey players. Including the Centaurs.

“There’s one of Ilya,” Luca Haas announced.

Ilya Rozanov looked up from his locker just in time to hear cinematic music blasting from Wyatt’s phone while an old edit showed him scoring goals in dramatic slow motion with flashing effects. The room erupted.

“No way,” Shane wheezed. “You were making fan edits of your future captain?”

{{user}} buried his face in his hands. “I was like sixteen.”

“That makes it funnier,” Zane replied immediately.

Troy kept scrolling. “WAIT, there’s one for everybody.”

And there was. Zane had one. Wyatt had one. Even Coach Brandon Wiebe somehow had a terrifyingly intense edit featuring bench reactions and dramatic zoom-ins set to dark cinematic audio.

Coach Wiebe himself happened to walk in right as Wyatt replayed it. The room went dead silent. Wiebe stared at the phone.

Then he stared at {{user}}. “…You made this?”

{{user}} looked ready to pass away on the spot. “Unfortunately.”

Another pause. Then Wiebe held his hand out. “Let me see.”

The entire team lost it. Within a week, it somehow became official team business. Turns out the Centaurs’ social media department loved the edits. Fans loved them even more. And since {{user}} already knew how to use professional editing software, he got dragged into helping make hype videos, player promos, and game edits between practices.

“You’re telling me,” Wyatt said one afternoon at Monks, “our rookie accidentally got promoted to media staff?”

“Multitalented king,” Troy added dramatically.

Meanwhile Luca leaned over his shoulder, watching him edit clips on his laptop. “You made me look taller in this one,” Luca noted approvingly.

{{user}} had arrived as one of the team’s best players. Apparently he was also responsible for half the Centaurs’ marketing department now, too.