#baby yuri himself looking up to victor!

[stargazer-sims]

Victor & Yuri appreciation post ♥

My beautiful boys have aged well, and in my opinion this is the best they've ever looked. I will never not appreciate these two. Writing their "journey of discovery" story took me over two years, and I'm glad I saw it through, because these characters deserve it.

They were characters of mine long before I ever made sim avatars for them, but I've had fun with them as their sim avatars as well. A lot of the CC i've made over the years and a handful of builds have all been for them. Whenever I want to quit The Sims, I always come back to playing with these two, and whenever I'm discouraged with the writing process, I look at what I've done with these characters.

A lot of people ask if Yuri and Victor are that Yuri and Victor (from YOI). The answer is no; they are not fan fiction characters. If you're curious, Victor and Yuri's origin story is here.

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A little about Victor & Yuri...

Victor Thomas Edward Okamoto-Nelson birthday: 2 December gender: male pronouns: he/him occupation: paediatric nurse spouse: Yuri Okamoto-Nelson child: Caroline Lily May Okamoto-Nelson (adopted)

random facts about Victor

Victor is a former competitive snowboarder. He retired from competition to attend nursing school. He's still obsessed with snowboarding though.

When he was six, his father Thomas and baby sister Caroline were killed by an impaired driver driving through a crosswalk

He is terrified of thunderstorms and has been ever since he was a child

He has a hereditary genetic abnormality which caused his hair to turn prematurely silver. His hair was completely silver by the time he was thirteen, and by eighteen, his eyebrows, eyelashes, body hair and facial hair were also completely silver.

He always thought he had a mild learning disability, but it turned out that he actually had a correctable eye condition that made reading difficult for him

He and Yuri met online, on a forum for snowboarding enthusiasts. They had a long distance relationship for three years, during which time Victor threw himself into learning to speak Japanese in preparation for going to join Yuri in Japan.

He loves dogs and has a gift for dog training

His pain tolerance is very low and he doesn't do well with being sick. Yuri teases him about it, but would move the earth to take care of him and make sure he's as comfortable as possible whenever he's sick or hurt.

He cries easily, which is one of the things he likes least about himself

His favourite colour is red

Yuri Okamoto-Nelson birthday: 20 September gender: male pronouns: he/him occupation: communications professional spouse: Victor Okamoto-Nelson child: Caroline Lily May Okamoto-Nelson (adopted)

random facts

Yuri was born prematurely, at thirty weeks. Initially, he wasn't expected to survive the first forty-eight hours of his life, but he defied all the odds and survived. He loves his birthdays and always wants to make a big deal of them because he sees them as a celebration of another year of being alive rather than just being another year older.

He has a lot of health issues, but despite being chronically ill, he's determined to live the best life possible. He's physically active when he feels well, and loves snowboarding, yoga, swimming and dancing.

He's the oldest of three children. He's closest with his youngest sister Shirayuki and is estranged from his other younger sister Hana

He owns his own business, BRAVE Communications, which is a PR and communications firm. He runs it alongside his friend and business partner, James Fairchild, who is also disabled

Yuri is a survivor of intimate partner violence, from his one and only relationship before meeting Victor

He once made 1,000 paper cranes, and wished for happiness. Shortly thereafter, he and Victor met online.

He loves animals, but was never allowed to have a pet growing up. He was overjoyed when Victor agreed that he could adopt a dog, and he adopted a rescued Pomeranian whom he named Sango. Over the years since then, he's had a lot of pets

He likes to write, and has published three children's books so far, along with his friend Fox Abbottsford, who did the illustrations.

His favourite food is strawberries. He will eat just about anything that's strawberry-flavoured, but for him, nothing is better than fresh strawberries.

His favouite colous are yellow and pink

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*** Their married surname is Okamoto-Nelson. Victor's original surname was Nelson and Yuri's was Okamoto, but they couldn't decide who should take who's name when they got married, so they decided to combine them.

[yoificfinder]

I started building this thread two years ago but I always get so busy around his birthday, I could't finish collating everything. This has long been overdue but better late than never.

Happy birthday, JJ! 🤴🍁

Here are some JJ-centered fics to celebrate. Note the pairing for fics with romance for easy reference, otherwise it's JJ-centered.

after the fall by thankyouforexisting / @dragonagelesbian [T, 2K]

JJ isn't the first person to fall apart because of his anxiety.

“I just - I just heard something, and I thought maybe you needed some help?” Yuuri sounds like he’s a bit embarrassed, but he pulls through. “I’ve, uh, I’ve done my share of crying in bathroom stalls before, so don’t worry, I won’t judge.”

He doesn’t say anything, terrified. His knuckles are white against the porcelain. Yuuri can’t see him like this. Yuuri beat him. Yuuri broke a world record.

“If - I mean, if you want me to leave, that’s alright.” God, he’s still going. “But I won’t say anything, I swear. And Victor always makes me carry tissues and disinfectant cause he’s worried Yuri will get a cold, so I’m really good at clean up.”

Good Catholic Boy by Heavenly_Pearl / @kaleidodreams [M, 20K] JJ/Bella

Jean-Jacques Leroy always considered himself a good Catholic boy, but when he and Isabella give into temptation, his life is changed forever.

Irrepressible by tonberry [M, 8K] JJ/Otabek

For as long as he can remember, JJ has wanted to be liked.

(He's not very good at it.)

The First Cut by BoxWineConfessions [E, 27K] JJ/Yuri, Otabek/Bella

People made divorce seem like this long drawn out and ugly process, but it really wasn’t. He bought the town home for Isabella as a gift, and so it was hers. The flat down town would go to him, as it was closer to the rink. They paid off her medical school loans last fall, so that was done too. He had a few cars, which she unanimously agreed were his to keep, so long as she could keep her Corvette. She changed her vanity plate from Dr. Leroy to Dr. Yang. He saw it parked out front of the courthouse.

this is who i am baby, just follow me by kanoitrace [G, 3K] JJ/Bella

Theme of King JJ is his reminder to himself that he can do anything, but it has no meaning if she isn't by his side.

Timezones and Tricky Translations by ilien / @ili-here [T, 6K]

JJ gets a lot of texts from Yuri Plisetsky. He's aware that the ones that aren’t “Fuck you!” are actually meant for Otabek, but he answers them, anyway.

transatlanticism by copperwings [E, 11K] JJ/Yuri

It takes approximately two and a half minutes of video chat for Yuri to realize that JJ in public is completely different from JJ in a more private situation.

JJ in public is brash, loud and infuriating.

JJ in a private setting is still loud, but he’s also a huge blushing idiot who can’t sit still for more than thirty seconds and who stumbles over his words and chuckles nervously. His eyes are often lowered as if he doesn’t know where to look.

It would be annoying if it wasn’t so fucking cute.

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...or: how Yuri and JJ cope with an ocean between them.

we can't always be trailblazers by @mrscalculation [G, 2K]

JJ never meant for Yuri to genuinely hate him, but he couldn't quite pinpoint the root of the problem until recently.

[capsensislagamoprh]

The guests who were helping with last minute touches had begun to show up, leaving Yuri time to slip away. He had to get ready himself, because, for some unknown reason he had to be part of the wedding too. They were going to give him the role of flower boy, but he threatened to eat every arrangement without salt if they insisted. He was going to be cast as the ring bearer, but pointed out that was 'dumb as fuck' because everyone already knew they had their rings, and were they going to take them off long enough for that? No, they were not. So what was the point? He'd have been happy to just sit in a folding chair and watch everything with the rest of them. They were pushing the whole 'adopted ice parents' joke that had them wanting their 'ickle ice baby kitty child' (Victor)/ 'important annoyance' (Yuuri through tears, crying he didn't mean it - sort of) participating. He'd contemplated poisoning the champagne. No one could blame him if everyone got sick, right?                                     

In some fresh hell, Yuri wound up as both the flower boy and the ring bearer. They'd tucked the rings into a bouquet of roses uniquely dyed for the occasion. Once the rings were plucked from the bouquet by the best men, they would have him hold the bouquet while Yuuri and Victor exchanged vows. It seemed extra, to be meant to stand there, below the raised dias, holding the couple's bouquet and to not feel like he was in the way. He'd asked about being able to stand to the side, to simply hand over the bouquet and rings and sit. Victor would have none of it. Katsudon teared up again, accusing him of not wanting to participate in their big day. Phichit gave Yuri such a look he'd felt the size of a pea. He'd tried to explain. He just ... didn't want to stand in front of the grooms while they exchanged vows, holding the bouquet, like some sort of plaster garden statue. It was awkward. That was when the Thai man walked right past him with a sharp, "Don't move." Yuri was vaguely aware that Victor's door was ajar, but as no one jumped out to strangle him, he hoped he was safe.

Five minutes later Yuri found himself facing his own reflection in his shared room, his best friend quietly brushing his hair with that easy, unstressed air Yuri could just kick him for. His suit laid on the bed, a few sprigs of flowers on the dressing table. Yuri could feel his hands shaking. It seemed like it was all some nebulous dream just a few hours ago. Why was Victor and Katsudon's wedding so much more real, so much sharper now? It was eating at him. 

Everything seemed bigger, more important than it was. His eyes burned, heat in his cheeks, and he couldn't figure out why; which was the worst part of all.

Risking an indirect glance, Yuri's gaze was caught by warm, concerned eyes. He tried to look away, but it seemed cowardly. He couldn't be cowardly. Ever. Especially with his best, only real friend. Breathing in deeply, he squared his shoulders, then exhaled a word dump so fast it caused Otabek to pause for a few moments to process.

"It's too real. I can't seem to find the floor. It's like, if this happens there's no going back. Victor won't be there to defeat, and Katsudon won't be around much longer. And then they'll move into that domestic bliss nonsense they have, and just... just fade away. It happens all the time. They stop skating and then you see them one day and it's all 'oh, hey, remember when' and they fuck off to nowhere and you're left wondering what happened, but like, that's it. That's all you get."

Otabek watched the reflected eyes glisten with the fire of unshed tears. He could see the pain, the confusion, the sheer emotional desperation of the blond powerhouse. He was so electric he sometimes overloaded himself. Otabek knew he was here to be the breaker to Yuri's unchecked current, and right now he needed to flip the switch.

"Victor is coaching. I know he focuses on Katsuki. Probably always will. That doesn't mean he won't be there to help you when you need it."

"You don't know that."

"Do you really think he'd abandon you twice?"

"I..." Yuri looked at his hands, pale and slender. Trembling. He balled them into fists, pressing them into the meat of his thighs until they bent from the pressure.

"I don't. I think, when true love calls, you do what needs to be done to reach it. It wasn't the most graceful way to do things. It was what he needed to do."

"What?! He needed to go back on his word, run off to a whole other country because someone drunk danced on him at the after party, and make gross, sloppy kissy noises every time he crawls all over Pork Bowl?!"

"Yes." Yuri boggled. Stepping back, Otabek moved to grab one of Yuri's shoes. He had to jump to get it down from the top of the lacquered cabinet where it had been thrown in a fit of temper. He could feel the look of slacked jawed disbelief as it followed him around the room. Splitting his attention was almost second nature, unless it was Yuri pulling his focus. He was too magnetic, too much of a force of nature to ignore for something as mundane as the other shoe. No matter how much the blond would need it.

"Why?" Yuri asked.

"What would have happened if Victor did not come here?" Otabek asked, motioning to the room at large, by extension the onsen.

"Hell, I don't fucking know," the blond snipped, throwing his hands up in disgust. "Got me my choreography? Fucking not quit for a year? Won another fucking gold? Same shit he always does."

"I think, bit by bit, he would have died. Inside. Where it matters." Yuri looked at Otabek like he'd grown a new appendage. "You didn't see him at all the events the year before you leveled up. I did." Yuri pressed his lips tight. They were so close it was easy for him to forget sometimes that Otabek entered the seniors before he did. "He walked like a ghost. He smiled when it was expected. He looked distant, forlorn when he thought no one was looking. When he won, he sat answering questions, congenial as always. He draws attention, and I am grateful for it. He lets others around him rest, knowing he will be the focus. It's a lot, Yuri, to always have that much pressure subtly digging into your peace."

"What do you mean?"

Otabek threw his gaze around the room, trying to locate the missing shoe before answering. "Being alone is peaceful. If you have friends you can hang out with. Being asked questions is fine, if you have the option to decline to answer. Routine is all good and well, if you know you can break loose whenever you choose." His eyes rested on those luminous orbs, a quiet understanding slowly taking place within. "Victor doesn't strike me as one who has these choices for him at home, as someone who has ever got the chance, or choice. What did he look forward to? Who was waiting for him?"

"You always have a choice," Yuri scoffed, arms crossed as he broke away from the penetrating gaze. It was stirring something inside. He just couldn't deal with another emotion today.

"Only if you let yourself have one." Otabek's warm, sturdy hand slipped under the pale pointed chin, turning Yuri's beatific face towards him. "He's not like you. You'd make choices from dead ends and woe to any who get in your way." Yuri felt himself blush. "Victor feels the weight of his goals, not the fire of them. So much so he forgot for a while there were other paths he could take, detours waiting for him. He looked sad, Yuri. In his eyes, he looked like his soul was being pressed down by years far greater than he should know."

Yuri's eyes wavered, searching the dark depths before him. Had he always been this observant? Of course he was. Otabek was awesome, cooler than anyone he knew. That he'd have this kind of insight was just like him. He was a little scared of it, but Otabek had been right. He was full of fire, he wouldn't back down. Not even from the dangerous sensation of peace the older boy's words brought. Maybe he needed it more than he thought. "I mean, he is already prehistoric. It couldn't have been that many more years," Yuri sighed. Otabek's lips twitched upwards. Letting go of Yuri's chin, he swept his gaze over the room again, searching. "What would have happened?" Yuri's voice was barely a whisper.

"Hm?"

"What would have happened if Baldy didn't come here?" Yuri asked louder, trying to hide concern behind attitude.

"I do not know. I can say, given that Katsuki did not intend to return to skating when he met Victor here, it is unlikely he would have met him again at all." A glimpse of black and white peaked out from behind the massive lacquered cabinet. The missing shoe had been wedged behind it by the force of Yuri's throw. It probably would need polishing. Getting it out would take some maneuvering. Otabek studied the piece, considering his options.

"Right... but that would leave Victor in Russia, and he would have continued to skate, and everything would have been normal."

"I don't think so, Yuri."

"Why not?"

"Melancholy can only grow for so long before it kills you inside." He could see Yuri's confusion, feel it on his skin. His gaze returned to the deceptively delicate appearing blond who had bent his whole form towards him as he tried to understand. "Victor loves surprises."

"Yeah, so?"

"His joy in life is causing the unexpected."

"Yeah, because he likes fucking up a solid routine," the blond huffed.

"I think it's more. I think he doesn't have a lot of friends outside of the Russian team. He's been put on such a pedestal that it's almost impossible for him to really interact on a personal level. He was strained by his image, expectations, and those things leave little room for spontaneity."

"Yeah, well whose fault is that?" Yuri snapped.

"Yours." He could feel the knives in Yuri's gaze try to penetrate his skin. Fortunately, he was armored with a deep understanding of longing for something you may never get a chance at, understood the unfathomable relief when you do, the pain and beauty in the patience required to wait for it to see you too. "And Yakov's. And everyone who ever decided he was too good to fail. You all made him a champion, a god, infallible and inhuman. He is human, Yuri. He needs to be."

Yuri looked away, head bowing under the strength of Otabek's gaze. "Well, how was I to know that?"

"You weren't. I am not sure Victor understood himself. Not until Katsuki shocked him back to life."

"Ground up on him reeking of booze, you mean."

"It was quite the scene."

Yuri snapped his gaze back to Otabek. He forgot sometimes that the Kazakh man was there, quietly in the background, observing the absolute disgrace of that night. "Why didn't you participate? Most everyone did."

"Not my thing, Yuri. You know that."

"Yeah, but you didn't say anything when Victor showed you all those photos either."

"There was no need. He was happy. Why would I ruin his smile by pointing out something that didn't matter?"

Yuri puffed out his cheeks, arms crossed tight across his chest as he watched Otabek turn back to the lacquered cabinet, contemplating it. As his friend walked over, touching it here and there, pressing his fingers hard against the surface, he relaxed in slack jawed awe. Enviable muscle rippled into life, the force of them, the guided power tilted the cabinet just enough for the missing shoe to dislodge itself into a waiting hand. The cabinet rested in place again only a few seconds later, leaving Yuri in astonishment. Would he ever be able to fix things without upsetting them? Would he ever be that strong? Or was he bound to set everything to flames, letting the wind blow away the wreckage?

Otabek set the shoe next to its mate, then turned to Yuri. "One day Yakov will retire, or step back to train a replacement. Katsuki will retire. I do not know what he will do. I cannot see it being far from Victor. It is likely, if you ask, that they may take you on when the time comes." His soothing brown eyes locked into the burning viridian. "You only need to be brave."

"I am brave."

"I know you are, Yuri. It's not easy to admit you're afraid of change, the unknown future. Today you faced that despite the way it tried to cloud your mind. I am quite impressed with your power of will."

Yuri was going to scream that he wasn't afraid, change or no. He could make it on his own, but Otabek's complement rang with the sincerity the Kazakh had always radiated. It was an amazing compliment. He stared. Feelings. Fluttering. His best friend was amazing.

"Fine. I can take on that stupid ceremony. I can deal with standing in front, and being stared at while those two get sloppy with their kissy face slobbering. But if they try to hug me, I won't be responsible for my actions."

"Of course not, Yura. It would be far too much for people who care about you to show you public emotion."

"Yea..." Yuri went quiet. Why didn't that feel right? Pushing aside his questions, he stood, stripping down to put on his suit, shoes and all. Fortunately they were only mildly scuffed. A quick rub across his sleeve shined them into shape. Sitting on the stool again, he watched through the mirror as Otabek gathered his own suit, carefully laying it out, adding small accessories from the box he'd got that tie pin thing from before.

Pulling his gaze away, he reached for his brush, then began to plate his hair. It was lopsided. The crown puffed up. When he tied the band, it made it all lyst, or stand up funny. His frustration was growing with every attempt. Right as he was about to wildly throw the brush, warm, steadying hands rested on his shoulders. "Let me."

"You can do this?"

"Hmm," came Otabek's reply.

"Yeah, okay, fine. Nothing too complicated. I gotta stick these flowers in it."

"Nothing too complicated, Yuri. I'm a simple man, after all."

Yuri stared at Otabek through the mirror, mouth agape. Simple? After all that? "You ass!" he huffed through a smile, leaning back to bump his best friend's chest. Then, softer, his own smoldering flames a gentle ember, "Just fix it. Please."

As Otabek worked a simple double dutch from Yuri's temples to the back, interlocking them with a band, taking time to arrange the flowers into his hair, clipping them into place with a few small pieces from the box that seemed to add a richness to the delicate blooms, Yuri felt peace seep into his skin.

In the hall, Christophe, - having been sent by Victor to deal with Yuri before he exploded in blond Russian chaos - who would never admit he'd been eavesdropping, smiled.

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12

[halfdeadfriedrice]

Yuri!!! On Ice, a liveblog

Episode 5

Holy fuck i don’t remember anything about this show but there’s a lot of fanfiction for it and also i’m at home in bed eating icecream and feeling feelings so what better time is there going to be. NONE

Fifth Skate:  Face Beet-Red!! It's the First Competition! The Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu Championship

LETS SEND THE POWER OF SPORTS THROUGHOUT JAPAN! Let’s fucking do it show

Oh my god.

Oh my god Yuri has fanboys in the younger skaters in his division

Oh my god. I thought this little blond mess was crying but he’s just so EXCITED TO SEE YURI

Minami Kenjiro you are a small excitable gift, like a little lion of enthusiasm

And Yuri doesn’t even remember you BABE <3 <3 <3

Victor’s blithe confidence in Yuri, as given to the press, and Yuri’s subsequent “holy shit shut your stupid face i am Not Good” and victor’s just-- little “wow”

The way he says “wow” isn’t--- how i would expect? I know i’m projecting a little but Yuri was not being affectionate just then and Victor’s “wow” was like-- besotted. “Wow, look at all he can do! he can shout at me so well! wow he’s gonna kill it out there!” not “wow my would-be boyf/skater is Super Anxious!”

!!!! so MUCH is happening emotionally so quickly -Yuri is entirely in his own head, which is certainly focused but with a potentially worrisome focal point (focusing on not losing focus is Not A Great Headspace) -Victor is not doing things wrong per se but Yuri having to look for him, Minako looking super unimpressed that he’s so naturally flashy, and Victor’s own nerves about how to treat Yuri before skating (and all of the :D-face talking and confidence in Yuri that isn’t helping his nerves) -and just, Minako knowing Yuri better than Victor does at this point, but at a point/place where she doesn't know how to/physically cannot help -Yuri skating up and going “jesus christ why is he prickly at me”

And then

The Hug

All of the press clicking away at this public/publicly displayed moment!!! 

They are Literally Face by Face 

Seduce me with all you’ve got jfc

That’s certainly an Idea for how to de-nerve your skater. by making him self-combust instead

“I’m going to become a beautiful pork cutlet bowl” I LOVE HIM THO

“I AM A PORK CUTLET BOWL FATALE THAT ENTHRALLS MEN”

I paused and he has the FIERCEST FACE ON rn my son my soulmate i love him

VICTOR’S GAMBIT REALLY WORKED OUT !!! HE’S SKATING LIKE HE DOES IN PRACTICE!! :DD

God the inner ongoing monologue of Yuri focusing on the story and “jump like this” and nerves is !! so intense!

Victor fussin at him in the kiss and cry, FASCINATING (MACCACHIN TISSUE BOX PROP??? Oh my god)

Little Minami shouting about eros and being the loudest voice in the crowd, what a small gift he is to this episode

YOU DON’T HAVE A DARK PAST

I love this kid

I like that Yuri doesn’t actually go in for the friendly rivalry thing, it’s all just nerves. It’s nice to see that kind of subverted? (I mean, there’s still Yurio)

Horrible squeaking noises at Yuri pulling out of his own head long enough to wish minami good luck

Minami’s jazzy kinda tap-dancing thing was SUPER CHARMING what a sweet boy what a fun routine

(And Yuri’s got his headphones in and what seems to be a pretty positive headspace for his freeskate. Good luck baby!!)

Minami blushing @ Yuri’s focused walk/face/controlled body,Yuri’s confidence. God. Same.

THE CHAPSTICK here let me just make your lips glisten a little more

MINAMI IS SHAKING IN THE BACKGROUND 

MINAMI IS-- ALL OF US??

Is that Victor narrating what the arrangement means and the jumps?? FASCINATING. We’re too focused to get a yuri narrative for this one.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

BLOOD ON THE ICE

HIT THE WALL

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

STILL SKATing????????????/

Jesus that’s intense

ALMOST A VICTORY (VICTUURI) HUG BUT OMG VICTOR YOU ASSHOLE, watch the nosebleed indeed

SKATING OUT YOUR FEELINGS WAS FUN AND FULFILLING, HUH!!! Good. very good.

(i’m touched in the heart by Victor going “here he is skating the part when i showed up. He doesn’t look too happy.’ and like, nailing that shit down (emotions? no thank you) to care about the technical challenge of the rest of it. God!)

YAY MY FAVORITE SON THROWING HIS PHONE BECAUSE OF HIS FEELINGS HIIII YURIO I ALSO WANT TO DESTROY MY PHONE BECAUSE OF FEELINGS// IG didn’t capture the moment when victor let yuri fall on his face, maybe that would cheer you up

Everything about the love speech to the press is killing me (in all kinds of ways)

Did Victor not understand any of that?? AMAZING. TRULY THIS BILINGUAL BARRIER IS A BLESSING AND A CURSE.

(all this time we were abstract) sorry fam, sorry minako, it’s really -- it’s really not meant to hurt you at all

SO EXCITED TO MEET PHICHIT!! HEARD A LOT ABOUT WHAT A GOOD BOY HE IS

[keets-writing-corner]

I need to guuuuuuuuuuuuuush

I’m absolutely obsessed with Owari No Seraph/Seraph of the End. It has everything I want in a story

okay this got long so I put a cut

A romance I’m actually invested in: 1) it’s gay, like not even ambiguously gay, like very explicitly gay and it’s remarkable 2) it’s somehow enemies to lovers, best friends to lovers, and childhood friends to lovers ALL AT THE SAME TIME 3) the mutual pining is ridiculous, but manifests in “I MUST PROTECT” 4) omg they’re so devoted to each other???? 5) heavily implied in the anime and manga that they are each other’s reason for living after their trauma

Ambiguous characters: 1) we’ve got not one, not two, BUT THREE HIGH RANKING CHARACTERS within their respective organizations with THEIR OWN AGENDAS, screw whoever gets in their way 2) one of the said lovers from above pairing? Technically, he’s officially on one side, but he makes it very clear he actually doesn’t care about anyone EXCEPT his love interest and actively goes behinds people’s backs all the time to get what he wants. He has exactly 0 trust except for his love interest, which means he’ll literally fight both sides to make sure love interest is safe 3) THE FREAKING QUEEN, at first she’s like in a terrible one sided relationship with one of the characters with like... uh what’s it called? Power imbalance? Like she is 100% in control of this other person because they are wholly dependent on her, and she knows it, and often calls this other person her pet, and like, you think you’re supposed to hate her because she’s one of the contributing factors to the other character’s trauma but then it’s like, wait, actually, maybe she ALSO has ulterior motives and is one of the few people said character can actually trust with their wellbeing and their own interests being the only one who actively helps them with it 4) HMMM THAT SUPER SHADY DEMON/HUMAN ROMANCE YOU KNOW THE ONE IM TALKING ABOUT

Characters that suffer: okay listen, all of the characters have suffered through trauma, but special shout-out to Mika who has gone through my favorite kind of trauma to watch that develops characters. Spoilers for the rest of this paragraph so if you want to check out the show skip over it. okay gone? for real? you okay with getting spoiled if you haven’t seen yet? alright. last chance. Okay so first thing we know about Mika is that he’s an orphan and has a found family with his orphanage group right? even when they’re all being held captive by vampires underground, he at least has his family. Mika goes above and beyond to make sure that despite that they’re essentially just acting as the vampires’ blood-stock that their time there isn’t as bad as it could be. He offers himself up to one of the nobles, saying the noble can suck his blood if he gives him things, so he gets stuff like actual real food for his family to eat. In the manga, you can see that this is really draining on him, but he does it to see his family happy. Mika also knows that his crush absolutely hates it there, so he plans an escape, except oops they all get ambushed by the very noble he stole from and was swindling, and literally everyone gets killed in front of him except his crush, well I guess at the time he was too young for crush, so I’ll just call him Yuu. Anyways. Mika and Yuu manage to knock out the vampire noble working together, but Mika is fatally wounded so only Yuu actually escapes. AND THEN MIKA IS FORCIBLY TURNED INTO A VAMPIRE BY THE QUEEN, like he hates vampires, he considers them monsters, he doesn’t want eternal life or whatever, AND SHE FREAKING TURNS HIM TO KEEP HIM FROM DYING (the way she does it too could be considered traumatizing as well) and then he proceeds to be raised by people he considers monsters and hates that he’s become a vampire, and like does everything in his power to not drink human blood (resorting to drinking the Queen’s blood, and she’s fine with it cuz it keeps him completely dependent on her) like MMMM THAT POWER IMBALANCE IN A WORLD FULL OF THE MONSTERS YOU HATE WHILE BECOMING ONE YOURSELF IS ALREADY DAMAGING ENOUGH, and then he finds out that the very adults he used to trust as a child, were actually just treating him and his found family as guinea pigs and lab rats and that the only people who actually cared about him was his found family, who are all gone except for Yuu who isn’t there, so yeah oops, he hates humans now too. Like mmmm that is some tasty juicy angst right there. It manifests in him never smiling anymore, never speaking, just sitting there stoically. Like this was the little boy who was happy smiles all the time, either when he was genuinely happy with his family or putting on an act to deceive and he’s just so broken after the timeskip that we never see him smile until late in season 2. OH LETS NOT FORGET THE WHOLE VAMPIRE THING RIGHT? Mika doesn’t want to drink blood, but his body compells him to. He refuses to at least drink human blood, which works for a while but by the time the second season rolls around, the queen’s blood just isn’t cutting it anymore and there are so many scenes where his instincts take over and he almost bites someone only to snap out of it last second and start sobbing because he believes he’s becoming a monster. AND THAT’S NOT EVEN ALL OF IT, JUST THE THINGS THAT I LIKED THE MOST TO WATCH

spoilers over

the side characters: While I do think they could use a little bit more development, but that’s probably because they’re not quite rubbing me just the right way like Mika is, so they pale by comparison BUT there are some things I enjoy 1) we’ve got a literal troll on the team. I’ve seen some people call her annoying, but omg I love seeing her troll the others. also she uses a scythe and it’s awesome 2) OMG THERE’S A SWEET BABI BOY ARCHER??? slight spoilers, but my favorite part was when he reveals that his demon decided to give him more powers because he treats his demon like a friend, and talks to it at night before going to bed, sometimes asking it what it’s favorite color is?? 3) okay okay okay, listen, I already like the character by himself, the sniper dude, he’s already great as he’s written. But then add the fact that not only does he look EXACTLY like Victor Nikiverov from Yuri on Ice, BUT HE HAS THE SAME FREAKING VOICE ACTOR TOO that just cracks me up 4) I love the one vampire side character who keeps trying to befriend Mika, and Mika just keeps stonewalling him 5) honestly the queen is really badass, and as much as I hated her at first, I actually enjoy every second she’s on screen 6) There’s a vampire called Crowley and idk what it is with him but he just gives me “Big Fun” vibes even though he’s one of the most ruthless characters in the show

plot and arcs: it doesn’t drag itself on and on and on, it actually completes goals and important benchmarks fairly quickly so we don’t need to keep waiting on things to happen. But at the same time, is so drawn out that you still can’t help but feel like it’s taking forever to get to where you want it to go and it’s great because it means you get so much story to enjoy. Also, the fact that the protagonists always have one clear goal at a time, but us as the viewers see other things happening behind the scenes, without always understanding what they are, and we’re stuck seeing this collision path where everything is gonna intersect and you know it’s going to be terrible and there characters are going to suffer but you love that. 

anyways, Seraph of the end is super good, I loved it, the anime isn’t enough so I’m actually chasing after the Manga for once. Mika is officially one of my all-time favorite characters and he deserves to be happy. If you know what I’m talking about cheer with me, if you haven’t seen it yet, omgggggggggggggggggggg GO CHECK IT OUT IF ANY OF THE THINGS I SAID APPEAL TO YOU

[droewyn]

Yuri!!! on Sims (9/??)

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Before I get into the update proper, there is a small piece of news.  Yuuri can afford a maid now! 

THANKS VICCHAN

Right. So.  Victuuri!

Yuuri and Victor’s next day off is the day before a holiday.  Romantic weekend?

ROMANTIC WEEKEND

Yuuri invites Victor over, and this time he accepts.

They exchange a friendly hello hug!

Which Yuuri immediately turns into a romantic dip-kiss!

IN FRONT OF THE CHILD?!

(Yet another of the Aino-Chiba brood, I think, visiting Dave-Jeff)

Also, everyone is mad at the TV because it is broken.

After they’re done sucking face, an important conversation is had.

YES.  FINALLY.  I’M SO SORRY MAKO-CHAN BUT IT HAD TO BE DONE

Then Yuuri autonomously decides to ask Victor to stay the night

LOOK AT THAT FRIENDSHIP BAR AND MARVEL AT THE MIRACLE OF SCIENCE ALCHEMY

Except they can’t actually do anything intimate because it’s a one-bedroom house and Dave-Jeff’s bed is in the same room as Yuuri’s.

This does not stop Victor from wearing his usual “pajamas”.

Look, it’s just not a YOI story if Victor doesn’t get naked at some point.  It’s the law.

No shenanigans are gotten up to that night, however.  There is only adorable cuddling.

LOOK AT YUURI BEING THE BIG SPOON

Morning arrives...

Dave-Jeff got up early and went outside to play with Vicchan, giving the boys an opportunity for

Morning Woohoo!

Victor doing the I-got-laid strut.

Then they made out some more.  No, I have no idea why Yuuri was talking about heartbreak here.  Nothing bad happened.

They took a making-out selfie!  Phichit must be so proud from Sunrise Valley or wherever in Simland he lives.

They had breakfast together!  Victor eats with a fork while the Katsukis use their chopsticks.

They had to part briefly while Yuuri went into the bathroom.  Which also appears to have a leaky sink and/or bathtub.

THIS IS PEAK VICTOR.  HE COULD NOT HANDLE THE SOLITUDE OF HIS YUURI GOING TO THE BATHROOM WITHOUT HIM.

So after all that kissing and woohooing and everything, the day was pretty much spent.

Time to do some romantic stargazing!

And then there’s only one thing left to do in order to make this Love Day perfect.

A RING FLARE THAT WOULD MAKE MAPPA PROUD

*final fantasy “victuuri” fanfare*

And with that, we’re all caught up!  I haven’t played the game since.  I’ve actually changed computers twice since then, too.  The save file SHOULD be intact, though, and I’m definitely interested in trying to continue it.

Because now there’s a wedding to plan!

And they’re gonna need a bigger house!

And Yuuri is at a career crossroads!  He can continue to be a criminal, or he can go into business for himself as a career alchemist!  (Right now he is STILL being outearned by a toy poodle)

Regardless of what he chooses, he still needs to help dezombify the rest of the town!

Meanwhile, I’m gonna need name ideas for the Nikiforov-Kino baby, who should be born in a day or two?

For now, I’ll leave you with this image.  Which didn’t really fit into the narrative, but was too good not to share:

OKAYILOVEYOUBYEBYE

TO BE CONTINUED..?

[stargazer-balladeer]

Being Mistaken as a Couple [Yuri! On Ice]

Characters Included: Yuuri Katsuki, Victor Nikiforov & Yuri Plisetsky

Note: Got inspiration from a book I’m currently reading uwu. And I like the idea so much and thought about these bbies :3 Hope ya’ll like this one! (bc I had fun writing this :3)

Reader’s Gender: Neutral

Warning: none

Yuuri Katsuki

-Yuuri would definitely be embarrassed at the fact that someone mentions that you two look like a couple, he’ll quickly deny it while waving his hands profusely and face beet red. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you though! He’s just embarrassed! He just doesn’t show it, he just secretly keeps it to himself. But it’s obvious to everyone but you that he has a crush on you :) (much to his embarrassment)

-But he won’t deny that whenever he lays down on his bed, his mind will drift to imagining what its like to have you as his s/o. He likes the idea of it, but he figures that you’re way out of league (which is not true, I mean, hAVE YOU SEEN HIIM?!). But when he realizes that he’s thinking of that, he’ll quickly get embarrassed and shoo the idea away.

-If an elderly person state this, Yuuri would still have the same reaction. If someone like a cashier person, comment how cute you two are together, he might faint, so prepare your hands to catch him. If Victor, his coach, comment on this however, Yuuri might die from embarrassment.

-When this happens (all this scenario), Yuuri wouldn’t stop remembering it. Which results him getting hit by pole, slipping while ice skating and bumping into people. If he isn’t red before, well now his face is like a tomato. He doesn’t mean though, honest! It’s just that the idea of you being a couple excites him and get him distracted easily.

-Victor, along with Yuuri’s family, would tease him of course. They wouldn’t let this chance go past them, besides, its fun teasing Yuuri :D

Victor Nikiforov 

-Victor would probably tell them its true, you have to be the one denying it, which results into a pouting Victor. He’ll whine about it, “[Y/NNNNN]! Don’t you want to be with meeeeee~?”. He’s a whiny baby, but he’s your baby :) What you don’t know is that Victor LOVES the idea of being with you, and he isn’t subtle about it. But you don’t seem to get it, its either you didn’t notice or your just oblivious, much to Victor’s annoyance. But he isn’t giving up! He’ll win your heart in no time! (I think he already has though COUGH COUGH)

-During his free time, his mind will always trail to you. And being mistaken as a couple by the media and people only fills it up even more. He’s an extraordinaire in all aspects, and he wouldn’t hesitate to ask you on a date with his. Expect your first date to be going around Yuuri’s hometown though, he loves exploring his trainee’s hometown.

-No matter who says it, its still the same response. Even if its an elderly person, cashier, media, strangers, friends, Yuuri (or his family) or his coach, Yakov, he’ll say the same response, He isn’t ashamed and you also shouldn’t be! Though he might narrow it down to his fanbase since he knows what they can do to you (you know, empty threats and spreading fake rumors about you), and he doesn’t want that to happen to you.

-Whenever his mind goes to you, he always has a smile on his face. Yuuri noted this and quickly finds out that Victor’s mind is on you, so whenever he finds Victor smiling while looking into space, he knows that he’s thinking about you. He’s not clumsy though, he’ll not bump into poles or slip on ice, in fact, he gets better when he thinks about you for some reason. 

-Yuuri is supportive towards his coach while Yurio just click his tongue and continue skating, though he secretly supports it and wants you to aCCEPT VICTOR FINALLY JUST TO STOP HIM FROM LOOKING AT YOU WITH THOSE DISGUSTING LOVEY-DOVEY EYES -_-

Yuri Plisetsky

-Yurio basically has the same reaction as Yuuri, immediately blush and deny it, but in a more Tsundere style. (He’s our favorite tsun-tsun uwu). And might shout at that person (but if its an elderly, he’ll tone it down), you may need to drag him away while apologizing to that person. 

-He denies that he likes you, he doesn’t want to accept his feelings towards you. Victor might need to press it even further just for Yurio to finally accept the fact that he’s infatuated with you. And when he does, oh boy is it obvious. He’ll blush whenever you’re around and acts his tsundere self around you, like “it’s not like I like you or anything!” Yep, tsun-tsun uwu

-He’s also similar to Yuuri’s. His mind often wanders to you and being mistaken as a couple only add to that, making him clumsy than usual. Whenever he thinks of it, he bumps into people or poles, sliding the ice, face-planting in the ice because he jump in a weird angle and accidentally bumping into objects (like table, wall, chair, or the ice rink itself). This made everyone confuse and worried about him.

- But one thing is clear to anyone who has seen him daydreaming about you, he has a small soft smile on his face. It is subtle yes, but its there. So they quickly realize that he’s thinking about you.

-The same response can be heard from him to anyone who state that you two look like a couple, except for elderly people since he respects them. He’ll act all huffy and pouty. 

-Victor would, of course, tease him as Yuuri sweatdrops in the background. Also, the people he’s with will also tease him, even coach Yakov and Lilia Baranovskaya! Poor Yurio ;-;

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[awxward]

A3! Boys + My Stuffed Animals

Spring Troupe:

Sakuya

Gabriel

Gabriel is a small elephant with big ears that constantly make him fall over. He has a pink bowtie that says 'I Love You'

Makes Saku feel safe and Gabriel is a reminder to himself that he's loved and appreciated by everyone at Mankai.

Named after a friend from theatre class :)

Masumi

George Washington

George Washington is a tiger. He is small, but his arms are like those slap bracelets so you can wear him on your wrist (or let him hang on the side of shelf like I do).

So I got Georgy-Boy for easter 2020. i asked my friends for name ideas. They sent me stuff like 'Stripes'. I went offline for a few minutes and when I came back online I told my friends his name was George Washington.

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Me: tiger has a name now

Friend: which name did you choose?

Me: his name is George Washington.

Friend: what the fuck. how'd you get George Washington?

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Pretty sure he got the name bc I was listening to the Hamilton soundtrack.

Citron

Daniel

Daniel is mostly pink but has other pastel colors that look like watercolors. He's a unicorn. And a ketchain. And he's one of those dream lites, so he lights up. (He's supposed too anyway, but he's never lit up since i got him like 7 years ago at a yard sale).

Named after Daniel Howell (formerly danisnotonfire) [YouTube]

Tsuzuru

Lucifer

Lucifer is a small panda pillow pet. Very easy to travel with bc he fits in most backpacks.

My mom told me she wanted me to have a stuffed animal with a biblical name, i picked him up, looked her in the eye and said "His name is Lucifer." My mom tried to protest. "You said a biblical name, Mom. Lucifer is in the bible."

Itaru

Pao(???)

Pao is a panda. They are also a phone holder thingy. Like it'll hold your phone if you're watching movies or whatever.

Like 5-ish years old. Got them from a friend. They have a tag with their name on it, but I read it once and then just called them "the panda" for some reason instead of their actual name and now the tag is too faded to read the name, but i am 38% sure it says Pao or something close to that.

Chikage

Tsuki

Tsuki is a dinosaur. Tsuki is a sparkly dino. He's green rn, but if you brush your hand over him, the sparkles turn over and he becomes orange. I like green tho bc his tummy and the bottom of his feet are orange and so are his eyes.

Named after Tsukishima Kei (Haikyuu)

Summer Troupe:

Tenma

Hinata

Hinata is a narwhal. A bright orange narwhal. Infact he is the same color as Tenma's hair.

Named after Hinata Shoyo (Haikyuu) [bc its the same color as his hair. there is a theme with this narwhal and the anime boys i associate with them]

Yuki

Steve

Steve is a regular teddy bear, except he has a shirt that has pikachu on it. (the shirt was originally Tsuki's bc i got tsuki at a friends build a bear bday party, but it fits Steve better)

I just think Yuki would try new designs/color schemes/styles by making clothes for Steve to see how they look.

I got Steve from a claw machine (my bf at time won him for me just before we watched Endgame together.)

Named after Steve Rogers (Marvel)

Muku

Eeyore

Muku most definitely loves the Winnie the Pooh movies and I will fite for this hc. He gets my Eeyore. You know how Eeyore's tail is always going missing or falling off??? Eeyore's tail comes off (velcro) but its attached to his actual body with a string so it cant be misplaced.

Eeyore has a patch that says "official disney store" but i got him for $3 at a thrift store.

Misumi

Sherlock

Sherlock is a polar bear. Sherlock is very huggable. He makes Misumi feel safe. He has a hat and scarf (that don't come off. they are sewn on him)

the hat has a pom pom on top and the scarf has a pom pom on each end. the hat and scarf and the bottom of his feet have a blue/white plaid pattern.

Kazunari

Victor

Victor is a puppy and the first big stuffed animal of mine on the list! He's all tan and abt maybe 3-4 ft long. Victor lays pretty flat so he's comfy to lay/sit on. I think Kazu would like sitting or laying on him when drawing. Probably has him on his bed so he's like a giant pillow.

Victor is from Toys R Us. I got him last August-ish from my Aunt and Uncle who found him at a thrift store and thought I'd like him.

Named after Victor Nikiforov (Yuri On Ice)

Kumon

PJ

PJ is a small white tiger. He is also a ball. He can fit in one hand. When Kumon is thinking or stressed or bored (etc) he just lays on his back and tosses PJ up into the air.

When Kumon is laying on the floor tossing PJ, Misumi sits on the bed closest to where PJ is and tries to grab him (but only if Kumon is in a good mood and okay with it) It's a fun little game they made up they like to play.

Pretty sure he was named after KickthePJ (YouTube)

liber pls give us a pic with all of autumn i am begging

Autumn Troupe:

Banri

Sammy

Sammy is another one of my large stuffed animals. He is also a puppy, but unlike Victor he is sitting instead of laying. He's abt 2-3 ft tall. His fur is the same color as Banri's hair. Great to squeeze at anytime, but very therapeutic when you're in a bad mood. Has a heart on his ear.

i got him abt 7 years ago. I had just finished spn season 2 and was upset abt the finale and had no way to start season 3.

Named after Sam Winchester

Juza

Tiggs

Tiggs is a beanie baby tiger. Tiggs is a little larger than PJ (and not a ball). He's a regular orange tiger instead of a white tiger like PJ. He'd buy Kumon PJ so they could have matching stuffed animals. Small and very comforting to just hold/hug.

Omi

Benedict (Ben)

Benedict, also known as Ben, is a small koala. Just a little bigger than Tiggs. He has a heart on one of his feet (i think the right one). very soft. very fluffy.

Named after Benedict Cumberbatch (Actor)

Taichi

Dean

Dean is my largest stuffed animal. He is a dark brown teddy bear that's abt 4-ish ft tall. He can be put in a corner and used as like a bean bag chair, or he can lay down flat and be a good pillow like Victor can.

It's very fun to just wrap around him and squeeze as tight as you can. Especially in when your in a bad mood. Very comforting to cry into.

I got him a couple years ago at a thrift store.

Named after Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

Sakyo

Lev

Lev is a lion abt the size of a regular teddy bear (maybe slightly larger). I got him a thrift store so he's slightly worn out from age. He's mostly a pastel dark yellow-ish tan and his mane is dark brown. very huggable.

He's the stuffed animal I sleep with. Smells nice all the time, like the fabric softener.

Named after Lev Haiba (Haikyuu)

Sakoda

Emotional Support Iron Man

So Iron Man is small and he sparkles. He will hurt you/someone if thrown hard enough. Sakoda likes heroes bc they remind him of Sakyo they look cool. I'd hc that he got Iron Man from Sakyo when he was younger and its one of his most valued possessions and goes everywhere with him (or stays with Azamo or Sakyo at the dorm. Maybe Izumi or a couple others are on the list of who can watch over Iron Man.) Very protective of it.

Got the emotional support part of his name from a friend.

She saw Eddie Redmayne on a movie cover (think it was The Danish Girl) and started freaking out bc she loved him. I handed her the Iron Man and the next day she thanked me and said he was an Emotional Support Iron Man and the name stayed.

Azami

[Emotional Support] Spooder-Mon

Sakoda knew Azami as a kid. He most definitely got him the Spider-Man so they could have matching plushies.

Spider-Man is square and has little blob hands doing the web thingy. The tag said travel pillow, but he probably just chills by Azami's bed. When needed, Iron Man will be placed next to him if Sakoda can't take Iron Man with him.

I brought him to school one day and we had a bio test and all the people sitting around me passed him around and gave him a pat for good luck. We all got good grades and then he was dubbed as Emotional Support Spooder-Mon, but the Emotional Support title isnt part of his name (unlike the Iron Man).

i wanted guy in the pic, but i also wanted tsumu and hiso in the pic so you get 2 pics for winter

Winter Troupe:

Tsumugi

Phil

Phil is a zebra. He is a pillow pet zebra. Like Lucifer, Phil is also easy travel size. The bottom half of Phil is pink, so I refer to him as my pink zebra.

I just think it'd be cute to have Tsumugi with a pillow pet ok. I also thought he'd probably have has Phil for many years (since he was a kid) and Tasuku most definitely brings up things from when they were kids and shit.

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Tasuku: you chose the pink zebra, and for what???

Tsumugi: its a very aesthetically pleasing pastel pink.

Tasuku: THERE WAS A DOG PILLOW PET RIGHT THERE AND IT WAS CUTER

Tsumugi: dont talk bad abt Phil.

the rest of mankai: ????????

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I got phil before I got Lucifer many years ago. He was old when i got him and he is very old now. I love him so much.

Named after Phil Lester (AmazingPhil) [YouTube]

Tasuku

Cap

Cap is a husky. He was won from a claw machine with Steve.

There's just something abt the grey and white that gave me Tasuku vibes. Also, Cap's eyes are abt the same shade of blue as Tsumugi's and Tasuku knows this bc they are in love. Very squishy when hugged and with the way he sits, you could make it look like he's guarding something.

Named after Captain America (Marvel)

Homare

Ushijima (Ushi)

Ushijima, also called Ushi, is the last of my giant stuffed animals. He is abt 2-3 ft tall (like Sammy) and has a tail abt the same length.

Ushi is a raccoon thats mostly hot pink. Ushi's eyes are also pink and just abt the same shade as Homare's hair, although Ushi's fur is brighter by a few shades.

Ushi hurts when thrown/swung hard enough. Very fun to hug bc he's filled with beans (like beanie babies) so unlike all my other giant animals, he doesn't have to be fixed/adjusted after everytime you squeeze him. The tail has cotton tho and makes a good pillow.

Homare would definitely just see a 3 ft tall hot pink raccoon and claim it with no explanation.

Named after Ushijima Wakatoshi (Haikyuu)

Hisoka

Vladmir Dracula the 3rd (Vlad, Drac)

Vladmir Dracula the 3rd, who has many other names but usually goes by Vlad or Drac, is a vampire (surprise).

Vlad is a squishmallow thingy, and their tags say something abt them being able to be used as pillows, and thats why Hisoka gets Vlad.

Vlad is triangular in shape, with triangle ears, and triangle fangs, so I thought abt Misumi, but i figured Hisoka bc it's a pillow.

He's like the perfect travel size and he has a cape and a bowtie.

Named after Vlad the Impaler, the real life inspiration behind Dracula (my brother thought he was named after Vladmir Putin and I wanted to punch him for that but I was too busy laughing.)

Also named after Dracula, who was a vampire.

Idk where 'the 3rd' came from, but it's part of his name for forever.

Azuma

Sebastian

Sebastian is a dinosaur thats blue with a white tummy.

He's also a squishmallow, but he's bigger than Vlad by abt 2× as wide, so he'd be harder to carry around, which is why Hisoka got Vlad instead. Being a squishmallow means he looks more blob than dinosaur and i love it.

His tag said his name was Dominic or something, but I named him Sebastian before I actually checked the tag, so he's Sebastian.

Named after Sebastian (Black Butler) and Sebastian Stan (Actor)

Guy

Moriarty

Moriarty is my other polar bear. I got him with Sherlock and named him Moriarty bc Moriarty is Sherlock's nemesis.

He's just a plain white bear thats very huggable and adorable. I usually have a bowtie on him bc it makes him look fancy.

Guy would like him bc he's plain white and very fluffy.

[bxllafanficc]

¡Skate/sing your hearts out! (Yuri Plisetsky x reader)

(part four)

Part one. Part two. Part three. Part five. Masterlist

Summary:After last year's cancellation of Figure Skating Grand Prix, Yuri Plisetsky finds himself unable to bring out his inner skater after a year of doing nothing but enjoy life like a regular teenager. That's when you enter the picture; We Are Voice Grand Awards's currently hottest competitive vocalist come first place two years in a row. Just like the other competitors of Grand Prix, it turns out that Victor and Yuuri faces the same issue. With an arrangement between Victor and Yakov, they agree to travel to Japan and hire you as a mutual coach for Yuri and Yuuri to help bring back the emotion into their performances like before, maybe even more intense than ever. Yuri however, who's never experienced issues with his coaches before, for some reason finds this one particularly difficult to coexist along with in their (reasonably) odd partnership. Warnings: none

*Your POV*

Your eyes scanned through the fully stocked room that came to be yours a couple of days ago. Fairly large and a great window where the sun came to welcome you each morning. Not even the blinds could stop it. Now it was fairly dark inside since the sun was about to go down. You reached for the light switch and scanned through all your products and belongings for things that you could possibly move somewhere else.

The grunt of the Russian skater behind you caused you to turn around. As you did, he stopped and returned your stare, as if waiting for you to announce something. There was a lot that you needed to clean up. If you had known that you'd be expecting a roommate, you'd already have done so. Guess Victor forgot to mention that too, eh?

The visible twitch in the corner of your left eye was impossible to force back. Just at the mere thought of unintentional (?) screwups of the one and only Victor Nikiforov. Now, just because he was your childhood friend, it didn't mean that he wouldn't receive a massive ass-whooping if he as much as repeated the same mistake three times the same day now the few remaining hours of the day. If only you could get that message through.

And, you kind of did. Just not to the man you intended. Yuri at the receiving end of your stare was just about to open his mouth to say something, what you assume, sour when he noticed the twitching of your eye. Surprisingly, it shut him up before he started. He kind of shielded himself behind one of his bags and eyed you carefully.

Shit, wrong Russian dude.

"Sorry, that was meant for Victor." You let out a sigh and helped him with one of his bags out in the hall. You got a simple nod from the boy just before you passed him in the doorway.

He's been acting all quiet and confused ever since you tended to his wounds. Was something you said unclear? Maybe you should make sure the two of you were on the same page. 'Later...' you thought.

Yuuri and Victor hurried to the entrance of your room with a couple of more bags.

"So what do you think about it, Yuri? Pretty special eh?" It was Yuuri who spoke up, probably just as an act of friendliness. Though, you could understand how a punk like Yuri might take it as teasing.

"I'm not staying here. There's- there is no way I'm sharing a room with another person. I should have my own room. Why can't Victor and (Y/n) share a room and I get my own?!"

Ah, there he is. You were starting to get worried that he might actually turn nice. Then you'd have to call an ambulance just to ease Yakov's mind if he ever found out.

"With that thief? Nuh-uh. He already owes me an entire bottle of lotion, a mascara and a lipgloss. And for some reason, my throwaway razors are gone too. I'm not endangering any more of my stuff to him!" You shot a glare at Victor but he intentionally pretended not to hear nor see you. Seriously?

"Just lock them up or something, I don't care. Maybe I should just sleep on the couch. Give me one reason why it's worth sharing this room with you."

You didn't really know why you felt so opposed to the thought of him sleeping on the couch. You should be relived that you wouldn't have to share room with The Russian punk. But you still mumbled the one sentence after taking a brief moment to carefully word out your reason.

"What did you say?"

"... I have a cat."

The silence following almost made you feel like the scene of these weird soap operas that streamed on tv once in a while. But you did have a cat. A beautiful sacred Birman with the eyes of an ocean. And you knew about Yuri's fascination with them. Victor mentioned it somewhere along the lines when discussing his arrival days ago. And if you had to give him one reason, then that would be the one. It's probably the only reason too.

"Where." It wasn't a question. It almost made you giggle but you kept a straight face. Victor who knew the reason behind your words, almost cracked under the pressure.

"He's probable sleeping under the blanket on my bed, as always-"

Yuri pushed Victor aside with a stern 'move' and headed for your bed. A little anxious, you followed him through the entrance, afraid that he would be like one of those crazy catpeople who never stopped bothering their cat. You worried because you were one of those people. But because your cat was rather clingy too and you always had a bunch of stuff to do daytime, it kind of evened out the contrast. Two crazy people were too much, you figured.

"Well, we'll go off now and let you two bond now. Don't forget that we're having afternoon tea in an hour!" And with that, Victor and Yuuri was out of the picture. For awhile.

A round uneven pile under you blanket made Yuri stop at the end of the bed. You stood beside him as he lifted the blanket, revealing the fuzzy ball that was your cat. Round eyes stared up at the both at you and the cat stretched it's back, making a 'u' position.

"His name is Magnolia. You'll have to apologize to him for interrupting his sleepy time though." You half expected Yuri to scoff at your statement, thinking you were taking the animal too seriously. But the baby voice he used to communicate with Magnolia next almost had you taking a step back.

"Hi, Magnolia... 'm sorry, pretty boy. You'll have to forgive me, I'm afraid." He kept on talking to the sleepy cat as he extended a hand for him to smell. Magnolia yawned and gave the hand a sniff before sitting up, eyes intensely staring into the boy's soul. You could tell by the hesitation of Yuri's petting hand that he really wanted the cat's approval. He cat kept staring him straight in the eyes which usually means bad. Though, the purring heard from his belly said the opposite. You finally relaxed a little. Magnolia is very picky with who gets to touch him and you were expecting a bite, honestly.

"He's always been so stare-y... I've figured that he only stare at people he like or something he finds very interesting." You crouched down beside Yuri and rested with your arms at the bedside.

"Like owner, like cat, I guess then. I feel like he has the exact same piercing gaze you gave me earlier." Yuri grinned smugly at you and turned back his attention to the ball of fur who stood up, stroking its back to your chin. A little heat rose to your cheeks and you hoped Magnolia covered it up well enough with his body. It was kind of true. And you couldn't really deny it. You always did watch things a little to intense. But just because you found people very interesting, always seeking to improve your understanding and emotional range at any given time. So you shrugged your shoulders and coughed a little when the cat made sure to get his butt all up in your face too. This habit, you had noticed, was a trait almost every cat held within them.

"You're going to object or what?" Yuri caught your attention again and Magnolia moved away from your face just in time. So he was expecting some kind of denial.

"You're not wrong... You've just got the wrong idea of it."

"What do you mean?"

"You should probably start getting yourself settled here. We only have one hour."

"You didn't answer me." Yuri's remark left unanswered as well as you stood up and threw a bag at him. A light 'oof' slipped through him as the heavy thing hit him right in the stomach.

"Hey!"

You grinned and opened another bag, pouring the internal onto the floor. Tons of clothes splattered on the floor. Everything in-between black training clothes to underwear and a pajamas with cat prints. A keychain with a chibi cat and a stuffed animal of a tiger fell out on the floor lastly on top of the pile. Yuri quickly made his way to the clothes and gathered them in his arms, trying to hide them away. It was worth taking an extra look at the blush staining his cheeks. You wondered if you'd just met a fellow catmerch fan as instense as you. No, this was far crazier than you! Especially as you recognized the keychain being a print of his own cat that you'd seen on a social media Yuri Plisetsky fanpage once.

"Y-you can't touch my stuff! Nor see it!" His voice was a good blend of anger and a thick stain of embarrassment.

Maybe it wasn't ideal poring someone else's belongings onto the floor. But you knew that look that Yuri bearded only moments ago. The cat had taken him as his loyal servant and Yuri wasn't intending to move until he had satisfied Magnolia's every need. If you let that happen, it would take the entire hour you had to clean up the room. And you clearly didn't have that time.

"Just hurry up and help me then if I'm not allowed to touch it!"

"Fine! And move your stupid clothes and stuff over to your half of the room!"

(A/N: Shoutout to my cat who gave me the entire butt-in-face idea through experience. I really owe you one, you little jerk<3 Also, what have you thought of the story so far? I bet you Victor has planned a familiar exercise for tomorrow's day of training. Just a little helping hand to get Yuri back into shape, y'know;))

[lashtonhemwinfan]

My Yuri on ice ROLEPLAY plots

(Mafia au) 1.

Yuri katsuki is a new officer working in Japan he works on cases to do with the Mafia and when he meets victor his hole life gets fliped upside down he needs to choose between his job as an officer or to become a mofia boss with victor

(Cinderella au) 2.

Yuri is a beautiful guy from Japan but tragically his mother died in a account so Yuri's farther re married but the woman he got married to was a heartless and selfish women making Yuri cleen and dress her sons but one day a letter came throw the door from prince nikiforov looking for a husband to marry and settle down with.

(Romeo and Juliet au) 3.

Yuri and victors love is not alwed because Yuri is from the house of katsuki and victor is from the house of nikiforov the dude started when Yuri's dad and victors dad got into an agressive fight fast forward Yuri and victor meet at a maskarad ball Yuri dressed as an angel and victor as a devil but Yuri is arranged to be married to JJ his farthers friends son so Yuri run's away and ended up in Victor's arms and Yuri takes a drug the will make him look dead but he wasn't but it's to late victor is dieing and so Yuri joined him

(Hitman and villain AU) 4.

Viktor is a hitman for a secret government working to take down mob bosses from around the world. When he was tasked with taking down Yuuri he couldn’t because Yuuri acted like he had two personality’s, his Eros side being his overpowering mob boss side and his fluffy side being his introverted side. This leads Viktor to break his code wanting to help Yuuri find himself

(Mafia au) 5.

Yuri is a police officer going about his day when one day at a party he meets nikiforov he is the head of the Mafia and he is very good looking what happens when Yuri is ordered to kill victor will Yuri do it

(Mpreg au) 6.

Yuri is a single farther of a baby boy named Luka (my oc) and he was happy that is until Lukas farther victor comes back after 19 years away from Luka will Yuri let victor see Luka or will there be a custody battle?

(message me if you are interested in role-playing anything on this roleplay plot list)

[stargazer-sims]

2. The Project

"Hey kid, what's up?"

Caroline shifts her gaze away from her laptop when she hears Victor's voice. He's hopping off the last step just as she turns to look, and once he realizes he's gotten her attention, he gives her an exaggerated wave. He can be such a goofball sometimes, and if he's this energetic at forty-seven, she can't help wondering what he must've been like at her age. She smiles. Nanna Grace must've had an interesting time of it while he was growing up. She probably had to figure out ways to keep him from literally bouncing off the walls.

Victor crosses the short distance from the foot of the stairs to where Caroline is sitting at the kitchen island and settles himself on the stool next to hers. Now that he's close enough, she notices how tousled he is. His silver hair is sticking out in every direction, and it's obvious he'd been sleeping in the rumpled t-shirt and sweatpants he's wearing.

Evidently, he just woke up and couldn't wait to greet her. She loves that about him. He's always happy to see her, even if they've only been apart for a handful of hours.

She has to confess she's happy to see him too. She loves both her parents, but Victor has always been her favourite. They bonded on the very first day they'd met, and Caroline can't imagine a life without him now.

"I'm making some notes," she tells him. "For my Media Studies project. How was work last night?"

"It was good. Surprisingly uneventful, but I'm definitely not complaining about a quiet night shift. How was school? And swim practice?"

"School was... school." She shrugs slightly. "Swim practice was awesome. Jack wants me to be on the relay team this season. He says I'm the fastest, so he wants me to be the last swimmer in the relay, but we still have to figure out the logistics 'cause I can't see when my teammate touches the wall."

"Maybe she can just yell 'go' or something as soon as she touches it," Victor suggests. "That's allowed, right?"

"I don't know," Caroline admits. "Jack and Matilda should know, though. I mean, knowing the rules is part of the coaches' job. I can ask tomorrow."

"Good idea. Did Grandpa Julian pick you up from practice?"

"Yup, and he told me to tell you that Nanna's still waiting for you to let her know when you can paint their kitchen."

"Oh crap!" Victor smacks his palm lightly against his forehead. "I was supposed to get back to her on that weeks ago. I was gonna see if I could recruit your uncle Leo to help me with it, but I totally forgot. I should've written it down."

Caroline laughs. "You know, you should probably write most things down."

"What can I say? Sometimes I'm easily distracted."

"Just sometimes?"

"Have I ever mentioned your sense of humour is just like Yuri's? Anyway, I remember the really important stuff without having to write it down. That should count for something, shouldn't it?"

"Do you remember it'll be Yuri's birthday in a couple weeks?"

It's Victor's turn to laugh. "I've been remembering Yuri's birthday since long before you came along. It's a super important day, and I'd be in big trouble if I forgot that."

"Isn't everybody's birthday a super important day?"

"Well, yeah," Victor agrees. "But when Yuri was born, the doctors all said he probably wouldn't live to see his first one, so it's not just a birthday to him. It's a celebration of being alive."

"Really?" Caroline is intrigued. She hadn't known that about Yuri. "Why would the doctors say that?"

"Because he came way too early and he was really sick. Babies who are born as early as he was don't always make it, even with the medical technology we have. Back then, their chances were even lower than they are these days."

"But he survived."

"He did, and that's absolutely worth celebrating," Victor says. "Incidentally, while we're on the subject of Yuri, have we heard from him since this morning?"

"Actually, he texted me just before you came downstairs. He's coming home early, and he wanted to know if we wanted him to pick up food on the way."

"And you said yes?"

"Yup. I said pizza. Is that okay?"

"Sounds great," Victor says. "Want to help me make a salad and some protein drinks to go with it? And while we're doing that, you can tell me all about your project. Didn't you mention something yesterday about a podcast?"

"Forest and Camellia are doing a podcast. I'm making a documentary."

"That sounds ambitious. What's your documentary going to be about?"

"About my life," she says. "I'm calling it Caroline and Company."

She slides off her stool at almost the same moment Victor gets down from his. While he goes to the fridge to take out some vegetables for their salad, she moves her laptop to the coffee table in the living room. It's not that there's any shortage of counter space, but she doesn't like leaving her computer unattended on something as tall as the kitchen island.

By the time she returns, Victor has lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, a yellow bell pepper, a cucumber and a red onion lined up on the counter. There's a small brick of cheese as well, and some eggs they'd boiled the day before. To Victor, salad isn't a sad bowl of lettuce; it's a culinary work of art, and she's certain he considers himself one of the masters of the fine art of the salad.

Caroline loves cooking with Victor, regardless of what they happen to be making. For as long as she can remember, he's encouraged her to help him in the kitchen. She recalls baking cake and cookies during her first Christmas with him and Yuri, when she had to stand on a step-stool to reach the counter and accidentally spilled milk everywhere. Victor hadn't scolded her for that. He hadn't even seemed particularly bothered. He'd just cleaned up the mess, and when their baking session was done, he'd hugged her tight and praised her for being "the best little baker ever."

Victor assigns her the tasks of shredding the lettuce and grating the cheese. He chops the other vegetables with a speed and precision that scares her a little. She considers herself to be fairly confident with knives, but she has to take her time and make sure she can see what she's cutting. If she did it the way Victor does, she thinks there's a real possibility she might lose the end of a finger.

While they work, she describes the details of her project to him, how she and her classmates have the whole school year to complete their big assignment, and how they're building a website to showcase their work.

"So, you're going to tell your life story in a series of videos," Victor says when she stops talking. "Here... pass me those eggs. Do you want to get started on the smoothies?"

"Sure." She slides the bowl of boiled eggs across the countertop toward him before wandering over to the fridge. "What kind of smoothies do we want? We've got bananas and peaches, and there are some strawberries left."

"You can pick," he says.

She chooses strawberries and a banana and takes them out of the fridge along with a container of yogurt. "It's going to be more than just me in the videos."

"Oh?"

"I want to interview Obā-chan in Kyoto and record our video chat," she elaborates. "I'd like to interview you and Yuri too, and maybe Jack and some of my friends. Also Laila and Dr. Reid-Mayfield, 'cause I feel like we wouldn't even be a family if it wasn't for them."

"I can't speak for anybody else, but you can definitely interview me," Victor says. "I'm sure Yuri will let you interview him too, and I'd be really surprised if Laila said no. Getting Dr. Reid-Mayfield into it might be a hard sell, but it never hurts to ask."

"Cool," Caroline says. "Another idea I had was to let people have the camera and make a video by themselves. You know, 'cause it might be too awkward for some people to talk about me right in front of me. Like, I don't think Forest would enjoy being interviewed on camera, but he might record something if he could just be alone in his room."

Victor pauses in the middle of peeling the shell off an egg and nods. "Yeah, it's definitely easier to get your thoughts out when you're in a room by yourself. I always found it better to make journal entries when there was nobody else around."

"Writing in a journal is different, though. You're not saying your thoughts aloud."

"I didn't say I was writing."

Caroline frowns, but quickly tries to smooth her expression when she remembers that it'll probably lead to her having a pronounced crease between her eyebrows some day, just like Obā-chan. Expression notwithstanding, she's still confused. She glances up from her half-peeled banana to meet her father's eyes. "But, you said you were journalling?"

"Yeah," Victor affirms. "We were. A long time ago, Yuri and I kept a video journal for over a year."

"Really? Did you do it for any special reason?"

"It was supposed to be a travel journal and it was only meant to be my journal originally," he says. "I had this wild plan to go on some big world adventure, and I wanted to capture all my experiences."

"But I guess you didn't actually have a world adventure?"

"I sort of had one. I was already living in Japan with Yuri, so there was that, and then I took a trip to Sulani on my own, but it didn't exactly turn out the way I expected."

"What happened?"

"Aside from nearly drowning during a thunderstorm, you mean?" He finishes shelling the third egg, and then deftly slices each one in half. "I found out how expensive recreational travel is. Plus, I missed Yuri so bad that I vowed I'd never go anywhere without him again. Oh, and while I was away, our landlord evicted us and we had less than a month to move."

"That's... a lot."

"It was overwhelming for both of us. Yuri started using my account around that time to record his own feelings about everything, and our journal kind of evolved from there."

"Do you still have it?" Caroline inquires. The fact that her parents kept a video journal once upon a time is a revelation to her. She never could've guessed they'd done that, and now she's beyond curious to know what they'd been through and how they'd felt and what they'd said.

Victor seems to think about it for a second, but finally says, "The account probably still exists, but even if it doesn't, I'm positive Yuri downloaded the whole thing onto a USB drive at some point."

"Could I... would it be okay if I watched it?"

This time, Victor's silence is longer before he responds. "Let me talk to Yuri about that, all right? You know we never hide anything from you, but that was a really dramatic year in our lives and we talked about some heavy stuff in those videos. I think you can handle it, but we're not going to show it to you unless we're both okay with the idea. Does that make sense?"

"Yeah, it does," she says. "I suppose it's kind of like asking somebody if you can read their diary."

"It's exactly like that," Victor says. "It's very personal. We recorded it like there was an audience, I guess because there was originally supposed to be one, but once we started posting about something deeper than mermaid lore and sailing lessons, we made it private. The only people who ever saw it after that were Yuri and me, and Yuri might not be comfortable with you seeing it now."

"I understand."

"I'll talk to him about it tonight, and I'll get back to you once we make a decision."

"Okay," Caroline agrees.

"There's something I want you to do in the meantime," he adds, and the tone of his voice has suddenly gone serious.

"What is it?"

"I need you to think carefully about whether you really, truly want to watch our video journal, if we do agree to let you."

"What do you mean?"

"It's like I said. I believe you're mature enough to grasp most of what happened, and I think you're responsible enough to come to us and talk about anything that upsets you or that you maybe don't quite get, but..." He lets the sentence fade, as if he's trying to work out how to say what he wants to say next. "If you watch it, you might learn some stuff about Yuri and me that you'll end up wishing you didn't know, or that you'll wish you'd waited longer to find out. It can be strange, discovering things about your parents. Confusing and unsettling and... weird."

She wants to ask him what she might find out that'd be so strange and upsetting, but she suddenly thinks better of it and closes her mouth around the barely-formed question. If she could learn it from the video journal and he was reluctant about giving her access to that, it's highly unlikely he's just going to tell her. And maybe he's right anyway, she thinks. Maybe she would be better off not knowing.

The older she gets, the more she accepts that her parents aren't superheroes. They're amazing, smart, strong and kind, and they're unquestionably her heroes, but they mess up sometimes and they're just as human as she is. As Grandpa Julian likes to say, 'they put their trousers on one leg at a time'.

But, even with that comprehension, she can't say she's one hundred percent ready to let her childhood perception of them go completely. Her curiosity is burning a hole through her willpower, but she knows she has to temper her curiosity and impulsiveness with reason. Victor taught her that, and his admonition to think before rushing into a situation has saved her from trouble loads of times. Advice that's always proved to be so good can't suddenly have gone bad.

"I'm sorry," she says. "I shouldn't have asked."

"Come here," Victor says. He moves toward her with his arms open, and she doesn't even hesitate for a heartbeat before stepping into his waiting embrace. She wraps her own arms around him and leans her head against his chest.

Inside Victor's hug is the safest place in the world, and it's consoling enough on its own, but that doesn't prevent him from offering her words of reassurance anyway. "It's all right, sweet Caroline. It's okay that you asked. I don't want you to feel bad for wanting to know. It's just... I also don't want you to jump into something you're not ready for."

"I know," she says. "I'll think about it, I promise."

"Good," he says. "You should give some thought to your school project too. I think it's awesome that you want to tell your story, but the process of learning about yourself isn't always easy either."

"Do you think I shouldn't do it? I could probably come up with a new project idea. Mr. Blanchet already has my proposal, but the real deadline isn't till this Friday. I could—"

"No," Victor stops her gently, mid-sentence. "I think you should. In fact, I'm super proud of you for tackling a project like this. It takes a lot of courage."

"But you said it wouldn't be easy."

"Yes, and that's why you're brave for wanting to," he says. "You already know, just because something isn't easy, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it or that it won't be worth it. It just means you should be careful and you should be prepared."

"To... to find out stuff about myself that I might not like?" she asks cautiously

"Maybe."

"When you and Yuri were keeping your journal, did you learn things about yourself that you didn't like?"

He tightens his arms around her for a second or two, and she gets the sense that he's doing it involuntarily. "I did," he answers quietly, "And it was really hard. I was scared and angry and sad, sometimes all at once, and sometimes I felt like a total failure at... life, basically. It was a struggle to wrap my head around it and even more of a struggle to change, and I cried a lot."

"You still cry a lot, Victor."

Unexpectedly, he bursts out laughing, and this time when he squeezes her it's clearly deliberate. She feels the tension leave his body, and suddenly she relaxes too. She hadn't even been aware of how rigid she was.

Victor kisses the top of her head. "No such thing as a serious moment with you around, is there?"

"Sorry," she says, but she isn't. She hadn't intended to make him laugh, but the sound of his laughter is so much better than what she likes to call his 'grown-up voice', and she's relieved that he's not upset.

"Cheeky little mermaid," he says in fake exasperation, and she feels warm inside at hearing the childhood nickname her grandfather Kenji — her adorable old Ojī-chan — had given her. It's mostly only Yuri and Ojī-chan who call her that, so it somehow feels special when Victor uses it.

"I can be serious," she tells him. "And I really will consider everything you said."

"I know you will. You're smart and I trust you to make good choices," he says. "If you're ever unsure about anything, though, you can talk to me or Yuri about it."

"Thanks," she says.

After one more affectionate squeeze, he lowers his arms and steps back. They slip into a companionable silence after that, finishing up their dinner preparations before Yuri arrives home from his office.

Caroline has no clue what might be going on in Victor's mind, but hers is tangled with the threads of their conversation. Part of her is anxious over the possibility of uncovering some not-so-pleasant truth about herself, but another part is eager to reveal the pieces of her past that are still a mystery to her. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time, and she has the feeling that no matter what might happen. this project is going to mark a defining point in her life. Once she begins, she'll never be able to un-know all the things she'll discover, and she'll never be able to go back to being an innocent, ignorant child again.

But, it's okay, she tells herself. It's like Victor says; growing up is a journey. And if I don't step forward, how will I ever get there?

[yoificfinder]

Hello love, hope you are having a great day! I wanted to ask if you have any good lengthy Dancer!Yuuri fic recs. It can be just ballet but I'm open to anything! (Or any canon based fics that delve into his past with dance, maybe including Lilia?) Thank you so much in advance

Hi nonnie, here are some fics of Yuuri as a dancer/dance teacher, with at least a 20K wordcount:

(Don't) Ring the Wedding Bells by @cuttlemefishwrites [E, 45K]

As (loosely) inspired by real life, this is the wedding reception AU (you didn’t ask for, but will get) in which Yuuri Katsuki catches the bride’s bouquet and (shortly after) gets smashed at a wedding reception, then dirty dances with his best friend, (sort of) seduces a (hot) platinum-haired trust-fund baby named Viktor, and ends up being hounded for his identity (by said trust-fund baby and his friends and family) on social media.

do something pretty (while you can) by renaissance [T, 40K]

Everything is going wrong, and it’s all Viktor’s fault. It all started when he got Chris involved. That was a mistake. But no, it started before then. It started with Georgi and Anya. Even earlier, it started with one small victory that gave Viktor a lot of big ideas. It started when Lilia arrived with her ballet students on the very first day of term. Really, if Viktor’s being honest, it started the moment he met Yuuri.

Dog People by stillmadaboutpetra [E, 94K]

“I’m feeling like you have a mail-order Russian boytoy sleeping in your bed.”

“Phichit! Don’t call him that,” Yuuri snaps, ears scorched and heart kicked into fury. “Vicchan isn’t a – only you would say something – he’s just – it’s not – it’s not like that. It’s definitely not like that!”

Phichit takes a delicate sip of his tea, blinking far too innocently at Yuuri. “Oh? My, what a reaction. Tell me, Yuuri, what is it like? Because the prettiest boy I’ve ever seen apparently crawls on his knees for you and begs for your attention.”

OR

Yuuri thinks he's being scammed when the guy he almost slept with quite literally throws himself at Yuuri's feet and begs.

Olympic gold medalist Victor Nikiforov is, instead, casually falling apart.

same song, different dance by @crossroadswrite [T, 87K] *WIP

The line is silent for a moment, as Yuuri stands there, fingers getting progressively colder as he hears Minako breathe in his ear, not really willing to hang up first.

“The Grand Prix is just around the corner,” Minako says, her tone almost wistful.

He breathes out slowly to steady himself. “It is.”

“… Are you going to watch it?”

Yuuri shouldn’t. He knows it’ll feel awful to watch everyone he knows trying their best at something he loves when he can’t anymore. But it’s Phichit’s first year in the Grand Prix, and Victor’s competing, so…

“Of course,” he says, and is proud of how steady his voice comes out. He doesn’t know if it’s a lie or not.

(Or: in which Yuuri's Stammi Vicino skate never gets posted and he retires, Victor keeps himself skating for better or for worse, Yuri struggles with his debut, and missed opportunities have a way of righting themselves.)

Starlight by whatsup_buttercup [E, 21K]

“This is my room,” Viktor says breezily. “I’d love to give you your own space, but, well, the ship isn’t very big, and I imagine we’re going to be spending a lot of time together.”

Viktor’s not even looking at him, instead going over messages on his phone. Yuuri clenches his hands into fists. Since childhood, Viktor had been a dream to reach for, someone Yuuri aspired to meet one day, to dance on the same level with. Now he’s here to be his obedient, bedazzled whore; a decoration in this empty room.

Sugar by @weberina [M, 112K]

Tears pooled in Yuuri’s eyes as he rested his forehead on his tightly clasped hands. It was the dead of night, and he was bone tired from rehearsals and performances, but still he couldn’t sleep. His body began to shake and his fingers tightened their grip as he tried to control the sobs that came in quiet gasps. He bit his lower lip to stem the flow of tears, silently praying that no one else could hear him in that tiny apartment.

Yuuri is desperate to finish his final year in Juilliard, and is offered an unconventional solution to all his problems.

Other suggestions are welcome!

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ETA:

Other people's rec:

Dancing with Victor by @justrae2010

i want to know your plans (and how involved in them i am) by wyverning

Move Your Body by @viktorbunny

The Skater and the Dancer by DawnOfTomorrow

Thanks for the rec, @papillon82fluttersby, @alistairvt, and @pg-chan! ❤

[crushzone]

~10 Characters from 10 Fandoms Tag~

Oooh fun! Thank you so much for the tag @lydzisanerd​​ This list is in no particular order. Also just want to add that this was very difficult to do because I can’t just pick one favorite from each (anime) fandom. 😢 

1. Ukai Keishin - Haikyuu!!

Started off my HQ! journey crushing on Daichi (and I still do, he shares a first place with Ukai tbh), but my feelings for him randomly hits HARD when I see him rage drives back to school to get Kageyama in his little yellow car. 

He’s so hardworking: running the store, farming, coaching the team, AND spends his free time coming up with strategies instead of passing out? Sure he may be grumpy at times (which I find hilarious), but I don’t blame him. Seeing all the little proud smiles, cheering and glances at his baby crows when they learn something new just gets my heart fluttering. Very husband material ✅  

Like his protective dad reflex is on point ^

2. Touta Matsuda - Death Note

He’s a cinnamon roll who just wants to do something correctly for once! Honestly, everyone in Death Note has their own dark side, and having him on screen is such a treat. 

I sympathize with him, I know how it feels to think that you are incompetent when you compare yourself to others, especially if you are the youngest person, and when you fear incompetence, some moves you do can end up poorly if it was done out of frustration instead of logic. But that doesn’t stop him, he keeps trying and I look up to him for that (though it gave L a big headache lol). He also just wants someone to love him 😭  Must protect.

3. Sokka - Avatar the Last Airbender

Another funny character that I love very much! It’s been a while since I’ve seen this show, so forgive me if I got somethings wrong. 

He’s not a bender, but that does not stop him from continuing to grow stronger, as he later picks up sword fighting and so on. Like Matsuda, he teaches me that it is ok to feel not so great when you accidentally compare yourself to others (because his sister is freaking strong), but you should use that feeling to encourage yourself to grow in your own way; and that it is ok if your attempts are a fail sometimes.

He’s also hella cute and he actually makes me laugh.

4. Iruka Umino - Naruto

Another husband material character. Stable, kind and loving, he’s passionate about what he does and he cares about his students. Maybe I just have a thing for older responsible characters who takes care of children, who knows 🤷🏻‍♀️

And he’s a little adorably clumsy sometimes.

5. Levi Ackerman - Attack on Titans

He’s a popular character, so I’m not surprised that I ended up liking him a lot too, and I totally understand why. I’m not usually into stoic and violent characters, but after reading about his past and seeing the little gestures of protectiveness and care he does to his comrades and close friends, I respect him. Also a dad, but like, a tough love kind of dad lol.

His fights are always so badass, he moves like the wind!!

6. Hanataro Yamada - Bleach

Someone...please protect him. I love his character so much, and I know he’s usually there for comic relief, but I can’t help but smile every time he does. Another character who struggles with feeling weak and incompetent, but this boy is trying his best. He’s willing to step up to protect the ones he love even if he KNOWS he’s going to lose and is very scared. I respect that a lot, and I just want to give him the warmest hug.

Also, something about his relatively tired face and soft voice that juxtaposes his “high level” of energy and enthusiasm is hilarious to me. He’ll pull all nighters to heal his friends when they need him, he’s just someone you can rely on.

Look at him goo!! 😂 

7. Seijuro Shin - Eyeshield 21

I honestly don’t know why he was my favorite from the series, I don’t really remember much about the manga tbh, since it’s been well over 10+ years since I’ve read it/seen the anime. But I remember gasping when I see him on the cover of the issue and I was staring at it for a while. One could say he was one of my earlier manga crushes?

But I recall him being a little awkward and his unawareness of his strength is hilarious.

8. F. F. - Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure, Stone Ocean

A hilarious simple minded character, or should I say Plankton, hahah! There’s so many characters in JJBA, but I just think F.F.'s (poor) attempt at being a human is funny, They also remind me to drink water every time they make an appearance, so that’s an added benefit.

9. Jean-Jacques Leroy - Yuri On Ice

Ok ok, this character gets a lot of dislikes, and the reason why I like him is deeper than the fact that he is a ridiculously attractive talented Canadian ice skater okaayy? Hear me out. 

There are many times when I would cringe and get second hand embarrassment at some of the things he’s done, but he’s not really trying to hurt anyone. This man is trying to chase his dream, and prove his self-worthiness to his family and the people who supports him. And he’s also just trying to get people to eat lunch with him, dammit.

Instead of simply bathing in the love and cheer of his supporters, his people pleaser personality backfires, and the pressure of not letting people down becomes too immense. I believe he gets to where he is because he is an example of someone who feels incompetent (once again), but is never afraid to pick himself back up and keep trying.

Unlike Yuuri (Who I also really like), he doesn’t have someone like Victor to work with him on his fears technically (I know he’s engaged, but she’s not an ice skater, so all she can do is cheer from the sidelines, instead of being on ice with him). He’s devastated but it did not stop him from picking his head back up to smile and try again.

He’s just a harmless awkward people pleaser boy who does not understand how to fit in with the others, because he grew up around his big family, and that is the only world he knows how to be a part of. I think the others were a little unfair to him when they keep ignoring him. He just makes bad jokes that happens to upset Yuri, though I’m sure that if Yuri approaches him maturely and tells him how much it bothers him, he would stop and apologize.

10. Spike Spiegel - Cowboy Bebop

Tbh I never finished the show, the story telling style is just not for me, but I might try again sometime in the future. However, I kept watching it for a while because I really enjoy Spike’s characterization. He’s so relatable, especially in parts where he’s just trying to recover from his hangovers, and his fights are very entertaining to watch. I feel a sense of authenticity in him, because he acts exactly the way he wants to, and he has no shame. Also, his playful demeanor and crazy appetite is endearing.

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Help, after making this list, I THINK I HAVE A TYPE 😲 

Tagging, but please don’t feel pressured to! I’m just interested to see who your favs are: @shhhlikeme​ @danibby​ @yamaguchi-stan​

[queen-of-my-goofball-army]

Why I Love (Part Ten)

We talked about my favorite sports anime the day before yesterday with Free Iwatobi Swim Club but it wasn’t my first. I was in high school when this show was first being released my senior year to be exact. I wasn’t watching anime at the time but this was one of the three shows that got me back into the artform and the first I finished. That show was the ever popular Yuri On Ice. 

When I was first watching this show it didn’t take me very long at all to find the character that would become one of my “smol babies”. He might seem vicious and vindictive but I think that relates to him not having much of a family that we know of other than his grandfather. Let’s talk about fave number ten Yurio Plisetsky. 

I love this kid like a lot. To me he’s one of the most developed characters in the entire show. Watching him go from being dicey and prickly around Yuuri to learning to consider him a genuine rival and friend brought me to tears. He much like Rei is so determined to bring his best to the table. Even if it means he exhausts himself to get there. 

Watching him find his agape that he would do his routine to was the first moment when I saw something different in him. At first he was just kind of a punk a really adorable tiger loving punk but a punk all the same. Him discovering that his grandpa is the only person to ever love him without any conditions or rules behind that love was the first time my heart went out to him. The first time I saw him skate to it I honestly cried. Watching that raw emotion and that passion come from a place that I had least expected it to it made me emotional. It takes a lot for me to cry over something that I don’t have a previous emotional attachment to like Fruits Basket. 

I really want to briefly bring up something, it’s just a minor thing. The English dub for the show isn’t as bad as everybody makes it out to be. Yeah I said it. I love all of the actors and the emotions that they bring to these characters. But the standout for me is an actor that always brings his A game no matter what the role is and that’s Micha Solusod who played Yurio. He was so good to the point where my first three rewatches I didn’t even know it was him. 

Deep down Yurio’s ultimate goal is to please Victor. He hasn’t had much guidance in terms of role models but Victor with all of his flaws is one of them. He wanted to impress him the same way that Victor manages to impress his audience. I love their relationship and their interactions that they have with one another. It’s very much older\younger sibling which is why so many of the fic writers write it that way. 

I think Yuri is one of those people that cares a lot more than he lets on. He cared enough to have his grandpa make Yuuri’s favorite food into his favorite food pirozhki. He was driven to make Yuuri continue to skate when he swore that he would retire because he was terrified of losing him. Part of me really hopes that one day we get more content to work with because those thirteen episodes while amazing I’ve kinda rewatched them to death. It’s been my most rewatched anime at eleven times all the way through. Mostly because it’s short, sweet and I love Yurio. 

(Look at this babey he is the cutest thing ever!! I also really loved how people shipped him with Otabek that was adorable. I really hope someday we get more content animated for my favorite tiger boi.) 

In short the more I thought about it, the more I thought I think Yurio Plisetsky is my favorite “tsundere” male archetype. Probably even more than Kyo. Because I absolutely adored his development and watching him grow from somebody that trusted nothing and nobody other than his grandpa because he was the only person to not leave him behind to someone with people on his side to cheer for him through all life’s ups and downs. Watching him take home the gold and that skate at the very end of the series was so beautiful for me because it was the classic look at my boy he actually did it!! It’s rare that I have characters I want to “protect” but Yurio is my main one. 

[ziezie13]

Fics of the Week

Betrayal is a Thorny Crown (You Wear It Well) by Snegurochka

Five years after taking his fifteen-year-old godbrother's virginity, Teddy has done everything he can to avoid James. He is definitely not supposed to look this good when Teddy finally runs into him again, but Teddy is pretty sure the kid will never forgive him for disappearing like that.

Words: 8648, Chapters: 1/1, Fandoms: Harry Potter - Rowling, Ratings: Explicit, Last Update: 04 Mar 2010

Relationship(s): Teddy Lupin/James Sirius Potter

Characters: Teddy Lupin, James Sirius Potter

Katsudon for Gold by cROAissant

Somewhere along the road, “I might never like you” morphed into “I would die for this child”, and Yuri Plisetsky would be six feet under before Victor fucking Nikiforov would lay his thirsty hands on his precious student.

Words: 4548, Chapters: 1/1, Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), Ratings: Teen And Up Audiences, Last Update: 19 May 2017

Relationship(s): Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri & Yuri Plisetsky, Victor Nikiforov & Yuri Plisetsky

Characters: Yuri Plisetsky, Katsuki Yuuri, Victor Nikiforov, Otabek Altin, Yakov Feltsman

Additional Tags: coach yuri au, Younger!Yuuri, Younger!Victor, Aged-Up Character(s), Characters Aged Down, Alternate Universe - Role Reversal, Coach Yuri Plisetsky, Mild Language

Twenty-Five Hours by 0lizzybennet0

In which Yuuri spends a 25 hour flight next to Victor Nikiforov, skating legend, and feels it might simultaneously be the best and worst thing that has ever happened to him.

Words: 22861, Chapters: 3/3, Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), Last Update: 10 Apr 2017, Relationship(s): Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov

Characters: Katsuki Yuuri, Victor Nikiforov, Yuri Plisetsky, Yakov Feltsman

Additional Tags: Angst, Miscommunication, Getting Together, Flirting at 40000ft in the air

baby photos by drakefeathers

Dick shares his childhood circus photos, and begins to wonder what Damian looked like as a baby.

Words: 2481, Chapters: 1/1, Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Rating: General Audiences, Last Update: 02 May 2014

Relationship(s): Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne

Characters: Dick Grayson, Damian Wayne, Barbara Gordon, Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne

Additional Tags: Past Child Abuse, (because of bby damian's combat training with assassins)

Behind bars by Sophia96

After spending years gaining control of the prison, Victor has gotten bored with his life. Nothing exciting happens when you're on top.

But one day, a new face comes into the prison and changes Victor's life completely. A pretty face like his couldn't possibly belong in there...

Victor decides to get to the bottom of it, and a love story slowly starts to form in the prison.

Words: 10346, Chapters: 7/?, Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), Rating: Mature, Last Update: 16 Apr 2019

Relationship(s): Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov

Characters: Katsuki Yuuri, Victor Nikiforov, Christophe Giacometti, Yuri Plisetsky, Yakov Feltsman, Phichit Chulanont, Minami Kenjirou

Additional Tags: Prison AU, Mafia AU, Russian Mafia, Yakuza, Mafia boss Victor Nikiforov, Mafia Victor Nikiforov, Mafia Yuuri, Mafia heir Yuuri, Pining, Fluff and Angst, Love at First Sight

Expomise by thankyouforexisting

­Expomise: a transformation spell that bonds two objects together. Yuuri is at Hogwarts. So is everyone else.

“Hey,” Yuuri dares to say, voice low, “Maybe we should write this down…?”

“Oh,” Victor blinks in surprise at him, his long fingers wrapped around a long dark brown wand, “Sure, you can take notes.”

Pause. Yuuri doesn’t really want to say anything, but he powers through. He’s going to make new friends and be more outgoing, he has to. “Aren’t you gonna do it, though? Do you have a really great memory?”

The boy stares at him as if he’s from another planet, “I’m Victor Nikiforov.”

Yuuri stares back, uncomprehending, “Yeah, you have a cool name.”

“No, I mean,” Victor purses his lips, frowning in confusion, glancing to check if their Professor’s looking at them, “I’m like, Victor Nikiforov.”

Words: 81356, Chapters: 7/?, Series: Part 1 of Expomise, Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), Rating: Teen And Up Audiences, Last Update: 27 Jun 2017

Relationship(s): Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov

Characters: Katsuki Yuuri, Victor Nikiforov, Phichit Chulanont, Leo de la Iglesia, Nishigori Yuuko, Nishigori Takeshi, Mari Katsuki, Okukawa Minako, Celestino Cialdini, Yakov Feltsman, Lilia Baranovskaya, Yuri Plisetsky, Mila Babicheva, Seung Gil Lee, Guang-Hong Ji, Kenjiro Minami, Christophe Giacometti, Georgi Popovich, Jean-Jacques Leroy, Otabek Altin

Additional Tags: Hogwarts AU, Harry Potter AU, Humour, Fluff, Slow Burn, Slow Build, Friends to Lovers, Magic, Magical Figure Skating, Exchanging Culture, Disregards Canon, Friendship, Phichit and Yuuri BROTP, Panic Attacks, Social Anxiety, body image issues, Growing Up, Angst, Ballet, Pining, innuendos, Rating May Change, Jealousy, Mutual Pining

learn to love the skies I'm under by LinneaKou

The day after the Sochi GPF banquet, Katsuki Yuuri disappears without a trace.

The day after the Sochi GPF banquet, Viktor Nikiforov finds a stray poodle and takes it home with him.

These two events are, oddly enough, connected.

Words: 37827, Chapters: 3/3, Series: Part 1 of strange beasts (Hopeless Wanderer), Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), Rating: Mature, Last Update: 31 Aug 2017

Relationship(s): Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, Victor Nikiforov & Yuri Plisetsky, Christophe Giacometti & Victor Nikiforov

Characters: Katsuki Yuuri, Victor Nikiforov, Yuri Plisetsky, Makkachin (Yuri!!! on Ice), Yakov Feltsman, Mila Babicheva, Georgi Popovich, Christophe Giacometti, Phichit Chulanont, Katsuki Mari, Katsuki Hiroko, Katsuki Toshiya, Okukawa Minako, Nishigori Yuuko, Nishigori Takeshi, Nishigori Triplets

Additional Tags: Magical Realism, Curses, Dogs, Animal Transformation, Angst, Fluff and Humor, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Anxiety, Depression, Missing Persons, Presumed Dead, Miscommunication

call you by name by LinneaKou

Drunk, depressed, and lonely, Viktor Nikiforov makes a wish that has unforeseen consequences for himself and many people around him.

(an alternate take on the premise of learn to love the skies I'm under)

Words: 13648, Chapters: 1/1, Series: Part 3 of strange beasts (Hopeless Wanderer), Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), Rating: Teen And Up Audiences, Last Update: 30 Dec 2017

Relationship(s): Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov

Characters: Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri, Christophe Giacometti, Yuri Plisetsky, Yakov Feltsman, Katsuki Mari, Katsuki Hiroko, Katsuki Toshiya, Okukawa Minako, Nishigori Yuuko, Original Female Character(s)

Additional Tags: Animal Transformation, Wishes, Magical Realism, Dogs, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Depression, Anxiety, Touch-Starved

Uneven Odds by NotMoose67

“Hi, there, little fella. Whatcha doin’ all the way out here in space, huh?” Lance asked the baby as he carefully walked away from the rubble. Keith cleared his path to the door, occasionally getting very distracted by the adorable baby in his husband’s arms. Now was not the right time to find his husband more attractive than ever, but damn it if Lance holding that baby didn’t make Keith’s heart swell with a truckload of feelings.

Basically, Keith and Lance unexpectedly find a baby on a mission and have to channel their inner parent nature while they figure out what to do next.

Words: 9693, Chapters: 1/1, Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender, Rating: Teen And Up Audiences, Last Update: 24 Dec 2017

Relationship(s): Keith/Lance (Voltron)

Characters: Keith (Voltron), Lance (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Matt Holt, Allura (Voltron), Coran (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Accidental Baby Acquisition, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Future Fic, Married Klance

Jealous by TrisPond

(Spoiler) Hinata definitely wasn't expecting this answer. Unlike he had thought before, Kageyama wasn't very jealous and he could count on his fingers the times that the other had felt like this. Not even when they had to part ways to live on different countries, that has been an issue. But of course if there was one person that could make him like that it was Oikawa. If there was someone who could make him insecure, it was him.

Or Kageyama and Iwaizimu react to Hinata and Oikawa selfie.

Words: 1155, Chapters: 1/1, Series: Part 1 of Hinata in Brazil, Fandoms: Haikyuu!!, Rating: Not Rated, Last Update: 12 Nov 2019

Relationship(s): Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio, Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru

Characters: Hinata Shouyou, Kageyama Tobio, Iwaizumi Hajime, Oikawa Tooru

Additional Tags: Canon - Manga, Established Relationship, Jealousy, Brazil

A Bittersweet Reunion by Sarcastic_Metaphor

A Good Omens AU with Archangel!Toshinori who happens to encounter a very familiar demon from his past.

Unfortunately, said demon wants nothing to do with him.

Words: 3816, Chapters: 2/2, Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Rating: General Audiences, Last Update: 29 Jul 2019

Relationship(s): Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Yagi Toshinori | All Might

Characters: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yagi Toshinori | All Might

Additional Tags: Good Omens AU, Alternate Universe - Good Omens Fusion, Angel!Yagi Toshinori, Angel!All Might, Demon!Aizawa Shouta, Demon!Eraserhead, Past Relationship(s), Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Mild Hurt/Comfort

Study Session by byesweetheart (ConstantComment)

They’re going to fail their test tomorrow.

Words: 1319, Chapters: 1/1, Fandoms: Haikyuu!!, Rating: Explicit, Last Update: 19 Nov 2017

Relationship(s): Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio

Characters: Kageyama Tobio, Hinata Shouyou

Additional Tags: Underage, Roughhousing, Wrestling, First Years, First Time, Coming In Pants, Frottage

[eeemarvel]

It’s Billy, boys.

I originally wrote this quite some time ago as a part of chapter 30 but I decided I didn’t need it so it’s bonus content now, I guess. This happens right at the beginning of 30 before Victor gets a call from Phichit. Since this didn’t make it to the final draft, the editing is really lazy. I’m honestly only posting this to get out of working on the next few chapters lol. Also, Billy is definitely a trip, I know. Anyways, without further ado...

Victor had no clue if Yuuri was Red Specter or not. He was exactly where he started. It didn’t change the fact that Red Specter was still very real, no matter who he was beneath the mask which meant that if he couldn’t come up with a satisfactory offer by midnight, it was likely that History Maker would get hit. This was his last (and only) bet, he realized as he got off the elevator a floor below Yakov’s office. This floor, the Artillery and Design floor, always smelled like singed fabric because it was where the super suits were made… but it still didn’t account for the burning smell. Billy, a man with round pink cheeks, a long green mohawk, and coke bottle glasses looked up when the glass doors slid open for Victor. Billy beamed and cheered like a redneck on the fourth of July when he saw Victor. 

“Victor Torch! Just the tight assed hero I was looking for!”

“Billy,” Victor greeted him and the other cheering technicians with a nod. “Is it ready?”

“You bet your wintry butthole, it is,” Billy said and beckoned him closer with a finger. They walked to the back of the lab, passing metal tables and clunky equipment, all of it glinting with a futuristic sheen as he passed. Some of the technicians were bent over sheets of fabric that seemed to be radiating electricity—it made Victor tingle in the strangest way as he passed, while a few of them made alterations to suits that were actually familiar to him. He guessed Spotlight tore their suit recently, when he saw a squat little technician pushing a button on a giant sewing machine for the all too familiar pink ensemble. 

“It’s back here,” Billy said, “for safekeeping.” 

“I appreciate that,” Victor said.

“It’s in good condition,” he commented as he stopped at a long, dark, glass wall at the very back of the lab. He punched in a few codes on a keypad. A rectangle of light appeared a little ways away from them and Billy led him to it. “You were careful, even back then,” he complimented Victor as he took a little remote out of his lab coat pocket. The rectangle of light was actually a door behind the glass, a door to a small closet with a revolving rack. In front was a prototype of Victor’s current suit: black, sleek, and shimmery. Billy clicked his remote and the rack spun around to show the suit Victor had worn two years ago. It was similar, but royal blue instead of black. He kept clicking, letting the suits spin by, each of them taking an era with them as they went. He cringed at a fuschia one with lapels—he was feeling a bit melodramatic then.

“It’s always been a pleasure designing for you, Winter Nikiforov, because you’re not just a man of justice, you’re a man of art. A renaissance man,” he kissed his fingers, “you get me.” 

“I always have,” Victor smiled, lying. 

“Heeeere we goooo,” he sang as they found the suit Victor wanted. He thought it would fit Red since he was much younger when he first wore this. Red was smaller than him. It was black which fit his MO… he tilted his head, unsure as he took in the swaths of revealing mesh across the chest, the sparkling crystals on the shoulders and hips. It was sturdy, he knew that for a fact, and very well made because Billy made it himself. But it wasn’t exactly low-key. Heroes never dressed to blend in. 

And it was a bit…risque. He had to be honest. Even Chris’ suit wasn’t this suggestive and it was Chris. Victor was only nineteen when it was made, when he told Billy exactly what he wanted: something that would make his opponents uncomfortable. He was feeling cocky because he was starting hero training years before what was normal, and he was young… he felt free and invincible for the first time in seven years. It gave Yakov a heart attack at the time and even Lilia disapproved. In the end, Celestino convinced them to let Victor explore… He thought there were still some old newspapers somewhere with him wearing this on the front cover under scandalized headlines...

The fire was back, that sensation that he now recognized as a red light—a sign that something was off. He bit his lip. He shouldn’t think about Red in this suit, even if he was planning on offering it up. It didn’t matter what he looked like in it or what Red thought of it or anything that just crossed his mind, because the only thing that mattered was protecting History Maker. 

There was no mask. That was what was missing. That’s why he felt weird picturing Red in it. Of course he’d feel this way trying to imagine Red Specter’s face… it was confusing, disconcerting, uncomfortable, nerve-wracking, all those things...

“Billy…”

“M’lady?”

“Have you ever considered… making a mask for this?”

“Are we talking Robin style with just the eyes, or are you thinking more of a Batman-exposed-chin thing, or like a full faced Red Specter deal, because the answer is yes, Snowflake. Yes, I have considered making a mask for all of your suits. Why don’t you step into my office?”

“Uh.”

“Just…” he said awkwardly as if he had just realized the entire lab was his office, “look at this.” He pulled out his phone and opened a few files. He scrolled through digital scans of sketches he’d made, all very impressive, and then actual prototypes that Victor was interested in for himself. Of course, his ability gave him the power to disguise his face easily so he didn’t need a mask but… he still kind of wanted one now that he was looking. 

Focus. He wasn’t clothes shopping (unfortunately). He was completing a potentially life saving transaction. He pointed at a full mask with crystals elegantly crowning the area where the wearer’s hairline would be. “You already made this one?”

“You betcha.”

“I like it.”

“Roger dodger,” he whistled a tune and pushed a blue button on his remote. The revolving rack disappeared into the closet ceiling, pushed out by another rack. This one carried pieces that Victor either changed his mind about or ones that Billy started but lost interest in, scraps of abandoned ideas. He clicked the remote so that the rack whirled around until they got to the mannequin heads, some bare and others wearing masks that Victor had never seen until now. Billy pointed a remote at one. 

“Look good to you?”

“Yes,” Victor said, because it did, although he wasn’t sure Red would appreciate something so flashy. Especially not since the thief seemed to gather fashion inspiration from the shadows under his bed. Well, if he didn’t like the design, he could have it altered. What mattered was that it was nano-tech and made with pure Pandora’s Iron. “I’ll take it,” he said. 

“Okey doke, will that be debit or credit, sir?” Billy chuckled at his own joke as he pressed a button to make the glass doors protecting the closet open. He reached up and gingerly removed the mask from the mannequin. “Isabellaaaaaa!” He shouted over his shoulder and a young mousy looking girl came scuttling around a corner. 

“Sir?” She squeaked.

“Can you please get a box for me? Big enough for a suit?” 

“Yes, sir,” she nodded frantically and squeezed her eyes shut. Victor heard a soft whoosh sound and when he looked up, he saw a large white box soaring above him. It glided gracefully down next to Billy who thanked her before she scampered away. Billy neatly packed the suit under the mask before sealing it and handing it over to Victor. 

“Merry Christmas, baby boy,” he crooned.

“Thank you,” Victor said with an impressively straight face. He’d been practicing since he was sixteen, though Billy had gotten progressively more… Billy as Victor grew older. 

“I’m curious. Is this for Yuri?”

“I—what?!” 

“I mean, I don’t really mind if you give it to the little furball because he’s kind of family and we all put up with him but I’m concerned about the whole… accountability thing with Yakov and the red tape and the chain of command is a whole thing—”

“Ah—oh, you mean Yuri Plisetsky…” Victor groaned, dragging his hand down his face.

“Uh… how many Yuri’s are there? Oh!” He snapped his fingers, “that hot doctor from your Instagram! My girlfriend loves him! He’s got this kind of secret-sexy-vixen-by-night-and-sad-puppy-by-day vibe going and it drives her wild. She stalks him like he’s an insta famous kitten or something,” he said with a tone of pride Victor found strange. 

“He’s not a doctor, and...no,” he shook his head, “It’s not for Yuri P. I just want it for... nostalgia’s sake.” 

Billy nodded thoughtfully, rubbing his chin. Then he slapped both his hands on Victor’s shoulders, startling him, “That’s so weird. Have fun!” He called for Isabella again as he left Victor, getting straight back to work. 

He thanked all the technicians on his way out and took the elevator down to the first floor so he could wait in the lobby. He plopped down in a chair and set the box on the floor beside him.