#especially after the banquet during the summer of mutual pining

[moonlightseve]

I’m thinking about the role Yakov must have played in Viktor’s life. With the cancellation of Ice Adolescence, we won’t ever know for sure, but I always insert hints of familial familiarity into their interactions — Yakov’s yelling at an unbothered Viktor, Viktor’s unshaken belief that Yakov would be able to be there for a nervous and unsure Yuuri, the lack of a biological family we see in Viktor’s mysterious past.

A Yakov Feltsman who is more of a father to Viktor than anyone else ever was — their journey together from Viktor’s childhood onto the podium. He handles Viktor’s drama in a practiced manner, and despite his frustrations with Viktor’s impromptu trip to Hasetsu and abandonment of his career, is there for him when it matters anyway. There is an unbreakable sort of trust between them that speaks to the depth of their bond.

When Yuuri and Viktor get married, I’m never sure what kind of wedding I imagine for them. Something small and private, only their closest friends and family? A relatively public affair meant to show-off the love they have for one another, given Yuuri’s pride in having Viktor by his side and Viktor’s love of the spotlight?

Or maybe something even quieter — eloping. Yuuri, for all of the confidence he tries to project on the ice, is a fairly private person, and I can’t help but think Viktor may desperately want to have something that can only be his.

No matter the scenario, I always see Yakov’s gruff approval at the joy on Vitya’s face. His satisfaction at a job well-done in raising the boy who proved to be one of his greatest students and his son in everything but blood. While we see the rough, explosive Yakov throughout the show, we also see the importance of love when it comes to skating, and I doubt he could be as successful as he is without having it in endless supply.

[omgkatsudonplease]

i saw your nosedive au and it was so amazing!! the way you wrote yuuri is so in character, and also how the people who love him interact with him (victor, phichit). i don't want to request anything w/o commissioning, but what do you think about a "the entire history of you" au of yoi? what events will yuuri constantly replay (and possibly agonise about ;-;) thanks in advance!

awww! well if you do consider commissioning let me know and we can work out the details! and hmm oh gosh. yuuri would definitely be replaying all of his competition footage and picking out his errors and stuff -- and while that’s helpful sometimes, celestino forbids him from doing it less than 24 hours after a competition ends, probably! 

he’d also probably have remembered the banquet in this if his grain is running during the banquet, so that’d definitely change how he acts with viktor? maybe he’d try to be like banquet boy for a while before realising it’s exhausting pretending to be someone he’s not and just tearfully admitting to viktor it isn’t who he is. and ofc viktor’s like i knew that lol i just didn’t know how to best tell you you can just be yuuri with me.

viktor might also replay the banquet a lot while he’s searching for yuuri; a lot of his replays are probably about yuuri, honestly, especially after the summer of mutual pining. and maybe if yuuri gets into his insecure moods about whether or not viktor actually loves him (which he’d get a lot since he’s convinced he seduced viktor by being someone he’s not) viktor will remind him by playing their happy memories together and saying that he fell for yuuri again

i imagine viktor would also ban yuuri from replaying his routines during competitions to stop psyching himself out. but he’d probably only figure that out after minako tells him about some of yuuri’s bad habits. i imagine using the grain is also banned during skating for safety reasons lol

but yeah i think the only major divergence from canon is the bit where yuuri does in fact remember the banquet but maybe decides to hide from viktor anyway until the video of him skating stammi vicino drops! that would probably change up some of their early dynamic but otherwise things might progress more or less similarly to canon