#also i've only managed to ascend four classes in nethack

[droewyn]

YOI Video Games Headcanon (Partial Cast)

Yuuri:

Yuuri is mainly a console player and enjoys a wide range of game genres including action/adventure, survival horror, platformers, and walking simulators.  He prefers JRPGs over WRPGs, not only because of the comfort of familiar cultural tropes, but also because he finds in-depth stat micromanagement to be stressful.  When he does play Mass Effect or Dark Souls he winds up finding and following a level-up guide for his chosen role so that he doesn’t have to worry about it and can just enjoy the game mechanics and story.  Multiplayer games are where he really shines, though; he both loves and is jaw-droppingly good at them.  Yuuri rarely speaks over chat, and as a result strangers tend to assume that he’s a woman.  He never corrects them, and every time he gets a “fat/ugly/slutty” PM from a dudebro that he’s humiliated it’s like he’s been awarded a gold medal in video games (and then he reports them).  Yurio gets really pissed off on Yuuri’s behalf when he sees that behavior at first, but it’s not long before he’s in on the joke and egging the dudebros on to make them more complacent and easier to take out.  Even without taking advantage of assholes and their assumptions, Yuuri and Yurio are an unstoppable force when they’re on the same team, and there are all kinds of wild conspiracy theories and speculation on gaming forums wondering why they’ve never pursued professional e-sports.  Yuuri plays both cooperatively and competitively with Phichit, although they tend to gravitate toward more lighthearted fare like Splatoon so that it’s more fun for both of them. Victor flat-out refuses to compete against Yuuri because he won’t go easy on him.  Yuuri’s current favorite games are Overwatch, Final Fantasy XV, and Breath of the Wild, the latter of which he finds soothing (and likes to play while curled up in Victor’s lap).

Victor:

Victor likes games, and he can complete most single-player AAA titles on Normal difficulty, but he’ll never be on the level of Yuuri and Yurio and that irks him to no end.  He’s also more of a PC gamer, because his parents never allowed him to own any consoles (games were frivolous and might distract him from skating) but he needed a computer for school (his games collection was hidden more carefully than his porn was).  He prefers story-driven games, particularly if there is a romance, though the contrived press-X-to-sexytimes-if-enough-friendship-points interactions make him vaguely uncomfortable.  His favorite genres are strategy and simulations, mostly because he can pick them up and drop them whenever and doesn’t have to remember controls after being too busy to play for long stretches of time during the competition season.  He’s also recently discovered dating sims, to the horror of literally everyone after he spent a month and a half rhapsodizing about Hatoful Boyfriend and making bird puns.  His current favorite games are Sims 3 (do not get him started on why Sims 4 sucks – actually, best not to bring up Sims at all unless you really want to hear about ten generations of custom-profession skating sims descended from himself and Yuuri thanks to an mpreg mod), Rimworld, Civilization VI, and Long Live the Queen.

Yuri:

Yurio plays shooters. Shooters, and hack-and-slashers, and exploders, and other super badass hardcore games.  As mentioned above, he excels at competitive multiplayer, and Yuuri is his favorite partner. His Steam library is extensive thanks to sales and Humble Bundles, which is the sole reason why he has certain titles in his library.  He certainly didn’t go out of his way to buy To the Moon, nor does he play it at least once a year, and anyone who would dare to suggest that he might have shed actual tears over it is getting his stupid lying ass kicked, katsudon.  Gone Home and Brothers were also totally acquired as part of bundles.  Yurio’s current favorite games (that he’ll admit to) are Hitman, Battlefield 1, Overwatch, and Neko Atsume because fuck you it’s awesome that’s why.

Phichit:

Phichit plays a ton on mobile, naturally, but he’s also the group’s resident Nintendo fanboy. There’s a running bet among his Bangkok rinkmates about exactly how long it’ll take for him to drop his new Switch on the ice and break it (Yuuri just shakes his head at them; in all the years he’s known Phichit, his best friend has never once dropped a piece of technology). In addition to the usual first-party Nintendo classics (Mario, Zelda, Pikmin, Pokémon, Splatoon, etc.), he tends to gravitate toward the colorful and the cheerful, eschewing beige shooters or anything grimdark.  He’s an unabashed Kingdom Hearts fan and will happily discuss the ins and outs of the nonsensical plotlines until everyone’s eyes glaze over.  His current favorite games are Breath of the Wild, Dragon Quest Builders, anything Katamari Damacy-related, and, oddly enough, Nethack (in which he is currently working to ascend his eighth class!).