#the real yoi season two

[raddestrose]

OH MY GISH ITS THE VOLTRON SHOW EPISODE

I love this episode, theres no sadness or al least a whole lot less sadness

Yes Lance, Its Razzle Dazzle time

AHHH Allura being Keith

Shiro, Im going to need more energy from you

Actually I need more energy from everyone

Have NONE of you done High School theatre?

Out of everyone I expected at least Lance to

CORAN WHAT IS THAT

nahhh everyone walked out, rip

I FORGOT CORAN GETS ADDICTED TO DRUGS IN THIS ONE

I forgot about that, oh my god

Mall shows? Well-

😦😦

“Shiro, baby” I died actually, I died laughing

The paladins of 😎VOLTRON 😎

I forgot his voice changed

Coran is reminding me of my old directors

YESSS THE ICE SHOW

VOLTRON ON ICE!!!

Lance should pursue a career in arial yoga, he’d do great

Also Coran looks like coked out or something, he needs like a nap and a glass of water

Bi-Boh-Bi our savior

[yuriinadress]

We'll never get another show like Yuri!!! On Ice will we?

[marcothephoenixhusband]

Mating Season

Marco x F!Reader

🔞18+

This is long.

Warnings: Soft and hard sex, fingering, giving head willingly, pining for one another, Slice Of Life, Proposed too, Angst, Pregnant at Marine Ford but escaped with Ace and Pops, give birth on the Moby Dick, baby, and a BONUS after everything, also Fluff and Romance.

Your a natural born Phoenix from two other Phoenixs. Youve been flying around the world to find a suitable mate as Phoenixs have become near extinct. You fall in love with the first commander Marco who on a whim you decided to join the Whitebeard pirates. After a couple of years your captured by Teach/Blackbeard because of Ace. Ace wasnt captured then you find yourself imprisoned at Marine Ford as the Whitebeard pirates come to rescue you.

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Marcos POV

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'Ah another patrol' you think to yourself as you look up at the sky its so peaceful then you see something in the sky high above you its shimmering.

"Well its over my patrol area I should check it out Yoi" you say as you fly higher and faster to cetch up with it.

~

(N) POV

~

'What a gorgeous day today' you think as you feel a presence flying behind you.

'Its too big to be a small bird' thinking. You choose to ignore it but it flies at your side now. Looking over you see a blue Phoenix shocked you try and communicate with it.

"Hello?" You say using telepathy.

"Hello there im Marco the Phoenix who may you be Yoi?" Marco asks.

"I am (N) the Phoenix. Where are you from Marco?"

"Are you busy? I can show you Yoi" he says. You sigh and say

"Okay Ill humor you Marco lead the way" you say as he flies down and you follow.

"Hang on its dangerous down there, humans live there" you squawk. Hovering in the air he turns around and says

"These are good humans please trust me no harm will come to you. Ill make sure to protect you Yoi" he says and you reluctantly agree. You follow him again swooping down to see a ship.

"Thats where you live?" You ask.

"Yup its called the Moby Dick my dad, we call him Pops is the Captain Yoi" Marco says sweetly.

"Ahhh" you just reply. You go down further flying dragging your talons into the water then fly up near Marco. You and him go to opposite sides of the ship to perch on the railing. Surprising a lot of people as it was dinner time. Everyone was looking at you then Marco then you.

"What are you humans looking at?" Using telepathy you think into everyones heads. Suddenly Marco transforms into a human and jumps on deck.

"No one here will hurt you I promise. Come have a chat with Pops Yoi" Marco says as you jump and land gently in the middle of the deck. You transform into human form. With fiery eyes that never extinguish while wisps of flames flow out of your body in human form your wearing white Skypeia crop top and a short skirt with (c) hair and your shorter than most men especially Marco who is six, eight leaving a whole head off. Alot of the crew start whistling and hollering at you and your skirt and crop top. Marco glances at you then back at Pops.

You and Marco stand before Pops.

"My son whats this another Phoenix? I thought Marco was the only one." Pops asks.

"I am (N) a real Phoenix! I was born being a Phoenix!" You yell.

"You know me and Marco visited Skypeia and I met two other Phoenixs before perhapse they were your parents?" Pops says quizzically to you. A single tear falls down your face as you notice Marco glance at you.

"They were my parents before Enel came... I am the last of my kind. Ive been searching everywhere for another Phoenix."

"Well do you have a place to call home child?" Looking down you admit

"No..."

"Why not join our crew then? Were all family here and youve found another Phoenix now" Pops offers and you think about it.

"Yea join our crew (n) Yoi" Marco says.

"Hmmm okay yes, I appreciate your offer. I can fight well as well"

"But I request to be near Marco since hes the one who said hell protect me. A fellow Phoenix is comforting." Your serious flaming eyes piercing through whatever they look through.

"Hahaha looks like your sharing your room Marco. And you can work under Marco to earn your keep, food and drink will be provided to you fair deal?" Pops says.

"Sounds good" you notice. You sense Marco tense up at the deal. The crew cheers loudly whistling and saying.

"Finally bird brains gonna get some!" Startling you but you feel a gentle touch on your shoulder. You can sense everyone very well as you have been training since birth.

"Go children eat drink" Pops says. As you follow Marco to his seat he made room for you as you notice two other black haired men sat at your table one has short shaggy hair with a tattoo that says ASCE with the S crossed off and the other one looks like a samurai.

"Let me introduce you to Ace (the one with the tattoo), and Izo (the samurai). Ace is the second division commander Izo is the sixteenth division commander. You know me but im the first division commander, Izo is last Yoi." Marco explains with a small chuckle then smiles.

"Its an honor to meet the great Phoenix of Wano" Izo says

"How do you know where I come from?" You question Izo.

"The true Phoenixs used to live in Wano. Phoenixs are the sacred bird of Wano and I came from Wano" he explains and you nod.

"My parents never told me why they left Wano." Looking over to Ace he says

"Hey there I hope we can be friends!"

"Im sure ill warm up to everyone as long as nothing bad happens." You say as Ace replys

"Dont worry (n) well protect you" you just chat, eat and drink until Marco excuses himself so you do the same.

"You start work tomorrow (n) Yoi" Marco says seeming tense. Some of the crew who were drunk were cheering Marco on saying

"Its finally happening" Once inside his room you see furniture which you havent seen in a long time. You start to undress but Marco stops you.

"Here wear this, god girl are you trying to give me a heart attack? Yoi" Marco says blushing hard.

"So its bad to undress in front of others? And ill have you know I am thirty years old in human time I am a woman!" You question.

"Yes, unless your mates, lovers, or married. Oh sorry woman Yoi" he chuckles, turning around closing his eyes thinking about what you said. You undress and wear his button up shirt.

"Im done." He turns around bkushing his shirt fits your cleavage perfectly while it stops at the middle of your thighs the rest fits like a dress. The arms however flapped around which you were flaping around giggling.

"Hey...Yoi"

"Yes?"

"Why are you so comfortable with me we just met.Yoi" he asks.

"I cant explain it that well but you remind me of home... I feel safe with you Marco ... I hold all humans to their words so I am comfortable for now. That and im stronger than you in battle I can just sense it. That and im almost unkillable" what you said made him looked insulted but also made him blush again and made you blush too.

"Well turn around so I can change Yoi" he says and you obey closeing your eyes. After a couple minutes.

"Im done Yoi" you open your eyes and turn around blushing cherry red.

'Hes only wearing boxers and shorts ah god those abs and chest those shoulders' you think. He notices and says

"What? See something you like? Yoi" he says.

"Iv.. ive uh .. never seen such a handsome man before." You admit and he blushes deep red now.

"I dont think anyones ever called me that, since im intimidating Yoi"

"Well just so you know you are a.. very handsome man" you say the last part quickly.

"Well thank you. Now just go to bed (n) how do you sleep? Yoi" he asks.

"Well I am always usually in Phoenix form but ill make an exception" you say as you jump on the bed near the wall in the corner. You pull the blankets up.

"Well I usually sleep in the middle. Ive never had a woman in my bed before Yoi" he trails off, seeing youve decided your fate. You could feel Marco enter the king sized bed and roll into the middle.

"Just do whats comfortable" you say facing the wall then turning around. Facing him you scoot a little closer to him. Eventually he falls asleep and your cuddling his side. Now warm you fall asleep.

~

In The Morning Marcos POV

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Rays of light poke through waking you but you stop moving, noticing your position. She was laying her head on your chest hugging around your abs. You sigh.

'How do I get out of this Yoi? She is cute like thi- wait why am I thinking that? Im a higher rank than her. I cant be abusing my power Yoi' you think to yourself. Luckily or unluckily for you she started to wake.

~

(N) POV

~

You start to wake up. Feeling something warm under you, you open your groggy eyes to see Marco looking down at you. Arms behind his head. Waiting it seems. You notice your position finally and get up but he turns slightly trapping your hand making your head stay on his chest cheek to chest making you blush which he takes note of.

"Stronger my ass Yoi"

"You sure like to cuddle. You should have just told me Yoi" you hear him say while smiling making you blush cherry red. Your attempt at words was a bunch of sorrys and mumbles unable to speak clearly. He finally lets you go chuckles and you just say

"Im sorry I sleep weird... you were just so warm.." you admit which makes him blush.

"You could have just said that Yoi" he states. Marco gets up, puts his glasses on, and goes to the vanity with sink and mirror looking at you.

"Well time to get ready (n) Yoi" Marco says to you as he watches you get out of bed cetching a glimpse of your panties to which he immediately turned his head to the vanity sink and mirror blushing red while finishing brushing his teeth.

"All done?" You say as you twirl and twirl until your dizzy and fall down.

"What are you doing silly Yoi?" He chuckles loudly making you smile too. You hold a hand on the sofa and slowly get up slowly becoming un dizzy.

"Just waiting on you, so I can use the sink." You say. Once he was done

"I thought you didnt have anything with you Yoi?" He asks but as hes watching you make a circle in the air a portal opens (like Dr. Stranges portals but with fire) and you grab a tooth brush, tooth paste, and deodorant. Then the portal closes. Shocked he says

"Thats pretty cool and handy. Well now its your turn Yoi" he says

"You shouldnt assume things of others Marco at least give them a chance to hurt you first" he looks at you with an eyebrow raised.

"Im assuming youve been hurt before by others Yoi?" He asks as you finish up you put your toothbrush and paste you put on the sink and in his cup. You walk up to him and point in his chest.

"Yes I dont trust humans. But your another Phoenix so its different. ... you seem kind..so.dont let me down too" halfway through explaining you lightly blush as your touching him looking up at his eyes then away lightly blushing.

"I give humans one chance then its done normally" you explain.

"Well lets get to work now" you say wiping your tear away. Your in your Skypeia outfit again just cause you really like it. He leaves the subject alone and leads you out the door to the office him grabbing his doctors coat slipping it on.

"Your a doctor?!" You almost yell.

"Uh yes im the crews doctor and first division commander Yoi" he blankly states like it no big deal.

"Maybe thats why I trust you over the others too" you question yourself as he says

"Well im also, id say laid back Yoi" he grabs a stack of papers, brings them to your desk, then tells you what to do for them.

~A Year Later~

Over the year you HAD become friends with mainly everyone. Ace was your best friend and youd constantly talk about Marco to him about liking him alot but he didnt mind. He would give you advice to just ask him out allready but you couldnt. And when Ace talked to Marco he just said he didnt want to abuse his power but he admitted that he at least liked you alot.

After working, asking Marco all kinds of questions, which he happily answered every one with a smile, it was dinner time. You happily sat next to Marco warming up to him more. He seemed to notice your attitude.

"Looks like someone's cheery today Yoi" he says calmly. You just look up at him and smile a genuine smile making him smile as well.

"Id say today went pretty good, though I need to speed up more on paperwork." Marcos arms resting on the top of the booth.

"Youll get the hang of it dont worry Yoi" Marco says and pats your head as Ace and Izo walk over to their seats.

"So (n) how was working with ol bird brain over here?" You see Ace say you look at Marco who ignores the comment and you say.

"It was good as always thanks Ace."

"Dont worry I bet youll speed up in no time" Ace says with a smile making you smile slightly and sigh.

'That would be nice wouldnt it to be more helpful to Marco?' You think to yourself little do you notice that Marcos staring at you while your thinking.

~

A Full Year And A Month Later

Its Mating Season!

~

You let it slip to Ace that you love Marco then the suddenly the whole ship knows. Little did you know of his feelings towards you. Everyone knew how you both felt about eachother but no one dared say anything. That is until today. Even Pops knew.

You woke up feeling hot and bothered laying on Marcos chest hugging him again. This was the new normal and he eventually got use to it. You inhaled his scent which was driving you crazy inside woody musky but clean. You leaned up getting off of him seeing his face was red also. You panting and just knowing your wet down there. He eventually wakes up panting. Sitting up now both of you.

"Ugh it must be that time of the year my little bird Yoi" Marco says to you and you just nod panting harder than him since your more animalistic than him.

"Ugh time for work" you say really not wanting to go to work today. Once you dress in shorts a crop top no bra and mini boots your finally ready finishing your necessities. Marco led you out the door and locked it.

~In The Office After A Couple Hours~

Someone knocks.

"Yes Yoi?" Marco asks and Aces head pops in and stares at you both.

"Geez whats wrong with you two? Got fevers or passing it between you two or is it just matin-?" Ace says slightly chuckling then gets cut off.

"What do you want Ace? Yoi" the blue Phoenix snips.

"Okay dam I just came to get a painkiller, you sir need to get laid" Ace says then leaves the office with a thud. That makes you crack up laughing.

"Oh come on not you too my little bird Yoi" Marco says crossing his arms slightly frowning. Finishing your laughing you say

"Well its true you do need too, your all uptight than your normal chill self" you say expecting an answer.

"You of all people should know why (n). Its mating season dont tell people about it I normally just tell everyone its a annual fever Yoi" he says. Scratching the back of your head Marco says

"What did you do Yoi?"

"It kinda slipped out while drinking with Ace haha" you say as Marco takes off his glasses and pinches the bridge of his nose then puts his glasses back on.

"Ill be right back get back to work my little bird Yoi" he says as you nod knowing he was probably going to find Ace.

~

Marcos POV

~

Finally youve found Ace sitting on the back of the Moby Dick.

"What were you trying to pull back there? (N) told me she let it slip about Mating season while you both were drinking and you had to go telling the whole ship. Dont lie either. I know how it works around here Yoi" You say as Ace looks taken aback.

"Gosh your really pent up have you been sleeping well~ with (n) right by your side? Must be painful to have a forbidden fruit but never taste it" Ace counters.

'Hes partially right. I do get to sleep by her but that also was by her request but what if she likes Ace? Who am I to deny her? She couldnt possibly like me though some signs are there to suggest so, maybe shes just overly nice with me since im a Phoenix? Yoi' you think as Ace says.

"Your dam right Im in love with her, maybe I should just ask her out allready and have her sleep with me instead?" Ace threatens.

'He knows shes in major heat too. It would be so easy for him.'

"Dont you even think about it! (N) is mine! Im in love with her too. Yoi" you yell startling yourself at what you just said.

'Im in love with her I cant bare the thought of (n) with someone else her moaning someone elses name' you think to yourself.

"So bird brain finally admits it out loud. Look im a nice guy. Ill give you one chance then im going all in." Ace says as you stand to walk away but then something he says makes you look at Ace in shock before calming down. You throw him a small pill and he looks at you.

"Painkiller Yoi" was all you said as you both nod knowingly now.

~

(N) POV

~

Youve just finished the last paper when the door opens to reveal Marco.

"Big bird ive finally done all these papers" you say happily you both wearing slight red on your faces from mating season.

"Oh good job my little bird Yoi" he says clearly distracted by something so you stay quiet but get up to take a break.

"No breaks today little bird Yoi" he says to you calmly.

"Ookay" you just say as you go to pick up another pile of paperwork to do.

~At Dinner~

You sit in your normal spot next to Marco.

'Izos allready here. Where is Ace?' Your pulled from your thoughts by Pops.

"Tonight we will dock on an island for restocking so behave yourselves. Thats all kids" you turn your attention back to your table to see Ace poped up sometime.

"Hey Ace when did you get here?" You ask quizzically.

"I had to finish up some commander stuff but the parties here now haha" Ace says loudly as he starts drinking. You see Marco glance at Ace then start eating and drinking his ale quietly. Izo doing the same.

'Well I knew restocking was tonight, everyones probably tired from preparations' you think as dinner flies by. Then its time for the commanders to go restock after dinner. Marco cetches you on deck looking at everyone.

"(N) I need your help with restocking tonight Yoi" You hear and turn to Marco.

"Oh okay sure commander!" You chime as your walking off deck with him Ace runs up and asks

"Hey (N) you want to go for drinks?"

"Ace im-" you were cut off by Marco

"Shell be busy helping me with restocking Yoi"

"Well thats strangee because thats the commanders job" Ace insinuates something.

"So then that means the Second division commander isnt doing his job? Yoi" Marco pressed Ace then their almost glaring at eachother.

They both look to you.

"So what will it be (n)?" Ace asks as you think.

"Im sorry Ace can I get a rain check? He is my commander" You ask sweetly.

"Uh sure no worries sweetie (n)" Ace smiles softly then runs to cetch up to his buds. You feel Marcos glare on Aces back.

"What was that all about Marco?" You question.

"What do you mean little bird? I dont know what your talking about Yoi" Marco plays dumb and smiles wide. He holds your hand then goes into town for supplies which was unlike him normally he wouldnt be so bold turning heads from the crew, making them all wonder. Once found, you both load up and head back to the office. Once put away Marco turns to you

"How about we relax in the room for a bit? Theres still plenty of time to go out. Yoi" Marco asks.

"That sounds nice big bird" you say following him to your guys room. Once in you take off your boots and lay on the bed so he could sit down next to you.

"(N) theres something I have to tell you. Yoi" hearing him say that made your heart race as you sat up pretending everything is okay.

"Whats up Marco?" You ask patiently looking him in his blue flaming eyes as they meet your fiery ones.

'Why is he so nervous?' You think.

"(N) I... I...." he cups your cheek and leans in as you lean in too and gives you the softest most loving kiss ever. Foreheads touching after breaking for air nuzzling noses, both of you panting he says.

"(N) I love you I have for awhile now. Will you please be my Mate? Yoi" he softly says as its almost, almost completely quiet for once on the Moby Dick. In shock you swallow.

"Marco I love you too! I have for awhile, and id love to be yours and only yours. Your mate" you say connecting a kiss again this time he brings the passion for all the lost time making you both pant loudly tounges fighting for dominance to see who will be victorious. He breaks from your kiss and starts sucking hard and kissing your neck leaving hickeys every where as you moan loudly

"Marcoo!" Which turns him and you on, even more than you were allready. You can feel your pussy is soaked allready, throbbing for him as you pant

"Marcoo I need you!" Moaning loudly. He picks you up and puts your head on a pillow while he undresses and asks

"Just to be clear your okay with this? Yoi" he asks.

"Yes a thousand times yes my big bird" as you unbutton your shorts but hes allready undressed, now undressing you yanking your shorts, panties and shirt off throwing clothes on the ground. He suckes your neck in various spots.

"Marco everyones gonna see! Ahh yess!! big bird!" His hand sliding up and down your slick finding your button swirling around up and down it making you moan the most sexy moans you could muster.

"Thats the point (n) to show everyone who you belong too Yoi" Panting harder you moan

"Marcooo please!"

"Please what my little bird Yoi?" He asks teasing you you look him in his eyes his blue fiery eyes as he stares into your red fiery eyes. Squirming you moan

"Please Marco fuck me I need you so bad its painful! Im in heat!" You yell as he pins your arms down with one hand, his legs ontop of yours. His throbbing cock dripping precum onto your inner thighs. He leans down cock rubbing your pussy as he gets his cock wet he nibbles at your nipples then sucks hard on them around them making more hickeys.

"Yes Marco! Please fuck me I cant help it its too much stimulation!!" You yell as their were few souls on board at this time.

"Someone's impatient, fine my little bird you wish is my command Yoi" he positions his twitching cock at your entrance.

"Marco I forgot to tell you im a virgin" panting loud he doesnt look surprised with how your reacting.

"Ill be gentle my little bird. I figured as much Yoi" he says to you.

"Marcoo that was also my... first... kiss" you moan his name loudly for anyone on board to hear unfortunately their was a group who came back and heard your commotion.

"It was mine as well Yoi" Whistling and hollering they yelled

"Atta Marco!" Which he growled at. He released your pinned arms to prop himself up on his elbows. Redirecting his attention to you, you wrap your arms around his neck pulling up sucking on his neck hard making him moan your name loudly

"Ahh! (N)! Yoi" Marco moans.

"Your mine Marco!" As you loose the strength to keep yourself up you fall back down. He slowly slides his twitching cock into you as he pauses so often for you to adjust.

"Ahhh MARCO your so big!!! You yell as he asks

"Are you ready (n) Yoi?" And you just nod in complete heat.

"Take me im yours, first commander Marco!!" You yelled very loudly as he penetrates your virginity makeing you gasp in pain but before you knew it his lips were on yours as he rubs your button in circles helping the pain go away. Breaking for air he growls

"Now your mine! Yoi" He asks

"Is this better my love? Yoi"

"Yes im okay now thank you" you say as he replys

"I never want you to feel pain my little bird Yoi" he says sweetly. He uses his blue flames pressing on your abdomen to heal your virginity around his cock so it heals but doesnt grow back. You nuzzle his neck as he starts to slide in then back out just a little then in so you can adjust to his big size. Once he bottoms out on your back wall he starts sliding in and out slowly going faster with your moans.

"MARCOO YESS RIGHT THERE!!" You yell as he listens to your commands. Both of you panting hard almost hyperventilating as hes now pounding you, balls slapping against your ass. Keeping time fails you.

"OH First Commander YESS!!!" You yell.

"(N) god your so tight!! Yoi" he yells into your ear.

"Marco your gonna make me cum allready!!" You whine.

"Cum for me baby bird Yoi!

You obey and release

"First Commander im cuming!!" You scream as he continously pumps through your high making you dizzy but he continues you hanging on to him wrapping your legs around his torso, arms wrapped behind his neck. He grabs your thighs for a better pounding. And goes animalistic as you moan

"Yess!!! First commander Marco!!! You fuck me so good!! Dont stop! Cum in me!! Please mate with me!" You beg shouting.

"You want big bird to cum in you, beg more Yoi!!" Hes thrusting so hard you can barely breath but manage to say

"Please I need you!! I need your cum creaming in me!!" Which makes him go faster and harder making you see stars and black spots.

"Im gonna cum little bird!! Yoi"

"Cum all in me Marco! Fill me up!!" You yell not knowing how much time has really passed and how many others could hear you both.

"Ahh! First commander im gonna cum again!" He grunts

"Cum baby bird cum with me yoi!!" He keeps pounding you, sweat dripping off him onto you. Both of you huffing for air

"Ahhh!! Big bird im cuming!!! You yell as he yells

"Im cuming!!! Im creaming, take my hot cum little bird!! Yoi" he hes pumping hard making you see stars as you both cum. You could feel his cock release his hot cum as your walls constrict.

"OHH MARCOO!!!" You scream his name tearing up.

"(N)!!!! Yoi" he yelled as well, him thrusting through your and his highs, eventually slowing his pace to a stop. As you both are huffing hard he huffs

"It may hurt pulling out, here let me pick you up well go to the shower Yoi" he says as you clinge onto him, him holding your shaking thighs. Once in the shower he holds you up and slowly slips out with friction which takes a minute.

"Ahh!" You squeal as his girth is now missing. He sets you down but you hug onto his waist and abs for support wobbly legs.

"Did I really do that good of a job? yoi"

"Uh does it look like it? It was my first time" You reply as he hugs you offering his support under your arms.

"You were my first as well Yoi" After you can somewhat stand you both get cleaned up and dried off.

"Do we need to go out? I dont think I can walk straight" you ask giggling.

"We can do what ever you want my sweet little bird Yoi" he chuckles to you petting your wet (c) hair. As you both get cleaned up then he turns off the water he hugs you using his hybrid form to dry you both off.

"Can we just cuddle? We can go out after tonight right?" You ask.

"Yes we can and yes love Yoi" he says hugging you picking you up laying you on the bed. Then hopping in with you pulling the blanket over you both one of his arms under your head as he snakes his other arm around your waist and pulls you close as you wrap your left arm around his waist and abs, legs entangled. You could feel his cock near your pussy and felt euphoric with afterglow sex.

"I love you my big bird Marco~" you whisper.

"And I love you (N) my sweet little bird Yoi" He whispers back and gives you a forehead kiss. You give him butterfly kisses on his tattooed chest and neck which were covered in hickeys and slowly fall asleep.

~The Next Morning~

You both get dressed side by side looking in the mirror.

"Marcoo you gave me soo many hickeys I cant cover these up!" You squeal.

"They arnt meant to be covered dear. Show them off! Wear this instead of that. Yoi" It was a black low cut crop top and a different pair of black shorts.

"Thats a command from your commander" he says with a husky voice on your neck making you shiver and softly moan. Hes behind you now leaning down kissing and sucking on your hickeys making you moan

"Marcoo" your bottom was still bare. He touched your pussy sliding back and forth

"Ahh looks whose soaked my little bird do you need release? Yoi" he whispers slowly in your ear while slipping a digit in to you making you gasp and moan.

"Marco yes!" You lean on the glass of the shower from the outside proping yourself up with your hands while hes fingering you then he adds another digit pumping in and out for a good minute

"Marcoo yes Marco" you moan as you whine at him withdrawaling from your heat. You look up at him with pleading eyes as he puts the soaked fingers in his mouth and swallows your juices.

"Ill save the rest for later tonight Yoi" he gives you a devilish smile. Your now craving his cock so you pull down his pants and boxers to reveal his erection. He tries to back away

"What are you- ahh!! Yoi!" You wrap your arms around his legs as you put his member in your mouth and start pumping with your head.

You look up meeting his eyes as you go deeper and deeper until your deep throating him.

"God (N)!!Yoi!" You feel his cock twitch and his legs weaken hanging onto the sink. Then you slow to a stop and release him swllowing all the precum and saliva.

"Ill save the rest for later tonight~" you cutely say as you clean yourself up.

"Oh so you want to play dirty do you little bird? Yoi" You put on the outfit your Commander gave you after you cleaned up your pussy.

"You started it first, First Commander" you poke his abs as he adjusts his cock in his pants. He puts on his purple jacket and you put on your platform boots three inches high. As you and him clean up the room you finally finish and exit the room. He locks the door and you both go past crew members who were whistling and hollering at you both because of the hickeys were so visible on you both.

"Bets hes not pent up anymore." One says.

"He finally with (n) finally" another one says. He just ignores them smiling wide, intertwines his fingers with yours and walks off deck. Walking past the bar Marco says

"I want to take you on a date Yoi" you stopped and asked

"Whats a date?" You ask.

"Hmm its what mates, boyfriends, girlfriends, lovers, and married people go on. Like go to a restaurant take a walk, holds hands, kiss, be romantic-" he was cut off by

"Hey you guys. Woah thats alot of hickeys, good for you both! Haha Bet your not grumpy anymore Marco huh? Whatcha up too?" Ace wrapped his arms around yours and Marcos shoulders.

"Were going on a date!" You chimed and Ace glanced at you guys hands intertwined then to Marco then back up.

"What are you up to Ace? Yoi"

"Oh back on speaking terms now? Good and im just hangin with the buds drinkin anyways."

"Good for you guys, welp have fun. Dont wanna keep you" Ace says waving headed back to the bar. You wave back. As Marco starts walking again you follow him to a sushi bar and sits at the bar, and so do you.

"Isnt this place expensive?" You ask.

"Anything for my little bird besides isnt sushi your favorite food? Yoi" he questions and you nod.

"I knew it Yoi" he chuckles and smiles at you making you blush.

"Dont worry about it im First division commander remember? Yoi" he smiles at you. You both order. You got the sashimi tuna with a bowl of rice and lemons, he got a strange pineapple roll which you giggle at. Of course you both order the sake and drink it all too even if it doesnt effect you both. Once done he pays and you both leave headed to the koi pond.

"Oh look they have bread you can feed them!" You happily look at Marco who just smiles at you and walks up next to you while your feeding the koi.

"Here Marco try it!" You gleam up at him making him slightly blush. He takes the small bag and feeds the rest to the koi then puts the bag in the trashcan smiling. You both roam the island then he stops in the middle of the main plaza.

"Here wait right here so I can see you through the window. Ill be right back Yoi"

"Okay big bird ill wait here" you motion for him to lean down to which he does and you give him a kiss on his cheek. *click* He stands back up slightly blushing.

"Thank you my little bird Yoi" he says then waves to you. You look at a clothing store on the same side as the shop Marco went in. After about five minutes. Then you felt someone grab your arm. And another come from behind you to your side and one directly behind you.

"Look who strayed to far boys" one of them said.

"My mates coming back any second" you retort and turn your head to the one behind you.

"Oh yea and whose this whimp mate of yours?"

"Marco the Phoenix" you say plainly.

"Haha yea right! Well we wont believe such a lie"

"How about we beat him up and take you back home and cover you in more hickeys than that while were bangi-" The one behind you said but got cut off.

"Unless you want to die where you stand, then youll let go of her and leave right now" you heard a low husky voice say on your free side turning to look.

"Holy shit its really Marco the Phoenix run!" They yell as they let you go and ran away that blue flame in his eyes.

"I said id always protect you Yoi" you look up to him and smile wide.

"Marco!" You hug him and he hugs you back. *click*

"Uh thank you for that, shall we continue our date? Oh what did you have to get?" You ask.

"Yes lets continue and its nothing, they didnt have it. Yoi" he says frowning as you nod

"Okay I really want to go to that clothing store right there please?" You hold his hand.

"Sure lets go Yoi" he smiles at you, and you both walk over entering the store. You get heart eyes on this one outfit it was all black skirt with a velvet black choker with a sapphire dangling from it and the top was short sleeved but shear draping down partially your arms as it was a v cut too with black thigh high boots.

"Excuse me miss how much is this whole outfit?"

"Oh thats been there for awhile its a bit pricey its 50,000 Berries mainly because the genstone is real." She says smiling.

"Ill take it all!" Marco looks at you shocked you even have that much Berries, while you open your portal pulling out a gaint bag of coins.

"Heres another bag miss. Ill count it out for you" after about an hour.

"And that makes 50,000 Berries gosh miss you have good taste. Feel free to take it off the mannequin." She says and you nod. Opening your portal you start throwing the outfit in the portal.

"Thank you miss have a great rest of your day!" You say as she says the same then you and Marco leave the shop.

"Whew that took longer than expected sorry big bird" you look up to him as he says

"Its fine this is what people do on dates Yoi"

"Oh okay where next my love?" You question

"Oh come with me Yoi" he says as he holds your hand gently as always leading you to a secluded area with a pond with unlit candles and various colors of birds right before the sun sets. He motions for you to sit with him which you obey. He holds out his hand flaming the water and lighting the candles blue illuminating the birds flowers and you both.

"This is so romantic Marco!" You exclaim half hugging him.

"Ive always wanted to show someone important to me these beautiful moments in the world" suddenly as the sun sets he gets on one knee.

"I know its a bit early for this but I couldnt help myself I love you (N) Yoi" he pulls out a sapphire and gold ring and says.

"(N) The Phoenix will you do me the honor of marrying me youd make me the happiest man in the world Yoi" in shock you point at yourself and he nods.

"I would really love that Marco!" You kneel and hug him. Once you stopped hugging him he slipped the ring on your finger.

"Wow a perfect fit!" You happily say as he smiles from ear to ear and picks you up twirling you around then setting you down.

"I love you so much (n) Yoi" he says as your place your hands on his chest.

"I love you so much too Marco, soo much" you retort as its dark now.

"We really should get back to the ship they may have left without us" your face grows grim.

"Lets go regardless. I hope you had at least an okay time Yoi" he says softly. You look him with a bright smile and firey eyes

"It was perfect, just like you" you poke his nose and he chuckles. Walking back hand in hand intertwined you both chat, him making you laugh and giggle then you finally reach the beach and you both see the Moby Dick out at sea.

"Are you ready Yoi?"

"Yes big bird" you both transform into Phoenix forms and you both hear a *click* then Marco flew up and you did the same another *click* but you ignore it if Marco ignores it.

'Did he even realize it was a camera click I think I heard it earlier too.' You think. You both fly away as you look back you saw a news reporter then look in front of you, you circle around Marco then fly higher Marco following you above the sky line.

"Having fun? Yoi" he asks.

"Yes very much hey dance with me?"

"Dance in the sky? Sorry I dont know how. Yoi" he says a bit saddened.

"Like this follow me" you do some flashy moves with a dive swirl then come back up. He tries it too with you and does it successfully. He chuckles

"This is fun your right (n) haha Yoi" he laughs. Once youve both had your fun and stretched your wings you both flew over to the Moby Dick and landed in the middle transforming into human forms.

~Its Dinner Time~

You both take your seats.

"Ah (n) and Marco as I allready said be wary of photographers and the news. Their trying to get any intel on you and (n) also any new big bounty crewmates" Pops says. You raise your left hand with the ring up.

"Yes child?" Pops asks.

"Were compromised then we took off a news guy took some pictures of us sorry Pops"

"Marco is this true?" Pops asks.

"Yes I was a bit .... occupied Yoi" he admits giving a small blush. The crew whistles and hollers.

"I do see... Did they get a picture of your faces?" Pops asked.

"Im not sure my back was turned to him, he may have taken a picture of (n) though. How could I be so careless. Yoi" Marco puts a hand behind his head.

"Well we all make mistakes son im sure itll work out some how for now eat and drink well figure it out" Pops says.

~After Dinner~

Clothes on the floor, heavy panting, loudly moaning, balls slapping. You both couldn't help yourselves your both at peak heat.

"Ahh!! Marco!! Im gonna cum again!" You moan loudly. He moans in your ear

"Little bird you feel so good! Cum my baby bird cum all over my cock Yoi" hes holding you up against the shower wall pounding your cervix making you see stars.

"First commander im cumming!!" You yell arms around his neck water trickling down both your hot bodies.

"Again? Thats the third time baby! Can you cum one more time for me? Yoi" as he thrusts in and out letting you ride out your high.

"Ahhh!! Yes for you I can Marco!!!" Moaning almost screaming riding on your high.

"Your so good to me!! Marco!!"

"I try my best (n)!! Ahh!! Im gonna cum soon little bird! Yoi" he yells in your ear sucking hard on your neck, breasts and nape.

"Aghh im!!! Im gonna cum again Big bird!!" Yelling in his ear. Him thrusting harder, him grunting in your ear.

"Cum with me my baby bird!! Yoi" he grunts as he thrusts again and again making you see black spots and stars making you tear up at the ecstasy.

"Im gonna cum again Marco!!" You moan loudly.

"Ahh!! Me too cum with me (n)!! Yoi" A few more hard thrusts and you cry out

"Im cumming Marco!!!" He keeps thrusting moaning as he felt your walls constrict around his cock sending him over the edge.

"(N) my little bird ..*grunts*.. im cumming!! Im creaming in you my mate!!" He yells loudly. Thrusting through his and your highs you both moaning eachothers name.

"MarcoOO!!!!"

"(N)!! My baby bird!!! Yoi" he slowly comes to a stop you both huffing. After a minute he slowly pulls out of you seeing, both your cum flow down the drain. He gently sets you down hugging you close to support your legs which were twitching and shaking.

"Ahh (n)..my sweet little bird. I told you id save it for tonight Yoi" he chuckles cetching his breath.

"I love you Marco" you say both hands on his chest and abs.

"I love you my sweet (N) now lets get cleaned up. Yoi" you scrub and wash Marcos back and he does yours. Once clean you both dry off using both your wings cuddling heat encapsulating you both while kissing. Him giving you butterfly kisses on your hickeys. Once dry you both transformed out of hybrid form into human form. Crawling under the sheets cuddling up and slowly falling asleep.

~Months Later~

"Good morning my baby bird Yoi" you hear your mate say as he brushes your hair with his other hand then kisses your forehead. You laying your head in the crook of his neck laying on his other muscular arm. Facing eachother you give him butterfly kisses on his neck and chest.

"Ahh feels nice Yoi" you look up to him as he looks down to you. He leans down and you lean in, lips connecting tounges swirling around sucking swallowing then breaking for air.

"Come on sweetie lets get up Yoi" he says as you both get up, get ready, then head out on deck as it was both of your day off. You were wearing the outfit you had bought from the island Marco proposed to you on. Then he locks the door as you both go out on deck. You spy Ace who walked up beside you.

"Whatsup Ace?" You say as he shrugs looking forward not looking at you and your hickeys even though everyones gotten used to yours and Marcos love making over the months except Ace had been talking to you less and less. You all go up to Pops.

"Pops wheres Thatch??" Ace asks.

"Son ... he was killed by Teach and Teach jumped overboard stealing Thatchs devil fruit" Pops says as you feel an overwhelming urge to kill and you knew Marco could feel you. Transforming into your Phoenix form you hear

"What?! Ill kill that bastard!" Ace yells.

"Not if I kill him first!" You yelled as Ace jumps off on to his parasail blasting off and you flew off deck following Ace. Both Marco and Pops screaming

"(N), Ace come back!!!!"

~A Week Later Marcos POV~

(N)s absence has been worrying you non stop. Your in your room looking at the mirror when you kicked the wall making the trash bin knock over.

'This isnt like me. Ace is with her so shell be okay. Better clean up this mess. Yoi' you think to yourself as you bend done you spy something that shouldnt be there.

"A pregnancy test? Yoi" since your a doctor you were familiar with these things but (n) pregnant? Allready? Digging a little you find the box.

"(N)s pregnant?! Dammit now shes off with Ace! Why would she go when shes carrying my child? ... unless she didnt see the results? I could have came in while she was waiting.. she hid it so im assuming the latter. Regardless I need to find her soon. Yoi" you speak to yourself.

~(N) POV~

Ace left his parasail on the beach as you landed keeping in Phoenix form.

"You really think that info was right Ace?" You questioned.

"They said he should have just arrived here in this old bar town." Ace replys walking as you walk feet taller than him. You two searched the town Ace and you ontop of a buildings roof. Then you spy Teach.

"Ah look who showed up, mad about Thatch I see!" Teach yells to us.

"You are disgusting Im gonna kill you!" You yell through telepathy.

"Hahahaa Id like to see you try Aces misses." Teach says as he shows off his powers.

"Tch! She belongs to Marco!" Ace shouts as Teach attacks, grabs Ace and punches him sending him flying into the building your perched on.

"So you never told her? Well then I shall" Teach yells to Ace.

"No dont!!!" Ace screams.

"You see our little lover boy is in love-"

"Stop!!" Ace interjects but Teach continues.

"Lover boy is in love with you, thats why itll be so much sweeter to have the government kill him or even you the last born Phoenix!" Teach laughs as you hop onto the ground beside Ace.

"Ace tell the others what happened" you say as he replys

"Wa-what do you mean?"

"Brace yourself Ace!" You yell to only him as you do a J kick to his abdomen as he falls all the way to the beach by his parasail.

"Go now!!!" You use telepathy to only Ace. You glance at him, him blazing away on the water. You let out a battle squawk before attacking.

~

Marcos POV

~

"Whats the commotion outside? Better check it out. Yoi" standing from your desk with doctors coat on, you walk out of your lonely office. On deck you see Ace but no (n).

"Ace wheres (N)?! Yoi" you yell walking up close to him, not knowing what to think. Ace looks up to you, then back down his hat covering his tears but you see through him. The wind knocking his hat on his back. Now exposing his tears. You walk up to him and give him a good punch from the side knocking him onto the floor.

"Shes alive!" Ace yells. Which calms you a bit but a crowds developed around you two.

"Ace!!! Things are far from okay!! First you both take off weeks pass of nothing no word and now you tell me shes fine because shes just alive shes my fiance carrying my child!!!! Yoi" you scream at him as the crowd gasps, blue flames are coming out of you. Aces eyes grow wide and you did not like that.

"(N) was captured by Teach he said he would turn one of us into the world government at Marine Ford that he got two for one deal. She kicked me away and told me to tell you guys everything that went down. Im sorry I couldnt protect her Marco!" Ace yells while crying.

"Tears wont solve anything Ace Yoi" you say as Pops says

"Marco go cool off we will get her back" reluctantly you obey and transform into Phoenix from flying up high while hearing murmuring about you and (N) and Ace.

~

(N) POV

~

Your in your human form because they bound your ankles, wrists and neck with sea prism cuffs. Little do they know you just need your hands and feet free to go into Phoenix form. Sea prism does nothing to you since your not a devil fruit user though they assumed it would help.

"Get up its time." Two gaurds came to get you. A single pair of shoes for you. Slipping them on the gaurds say.

"Walk" which you obey up the millions of stairs. Once to the scaffolding and stage they hook you to the stage as you knelt down.

"No ones coming for you" Sengoku says. The broadcast was being shown all over the world you were pretty sure. You couldnt help but cry silently. Suddenly a ship floats out of the water with a pop. You know that ship anywhere!

"The Moby Dick" You whisper. As Sengoku becomes flustered as three more Ships arise from the depths.

"(N)!!! Im here!!!! Yoi!!" You knew that voice anywhere.

"Marco!!!!!" You yelled back.

"Well rescue you!!!!!! Yoi!!!" He says as Sengoku says into the snail mic for the snail projector

"Dont bother pretending what he is too you, our intel says hes your Mate, which is why we must execute you (n). The very last true born Phoenix must die. Phoenixs are much too dangerous to the public to be free. Youve destroyed entire islands before. Lets bring up your bounty. It says 2,300,000,000 Berries for a reason." Sengoku takes a break and swallows. Marco looks shocked but regains his composure.

"And who were your parents?" Sengoku asks you.

"Whitebeard is my father I dont have a mother!" You yell into the mic.

"Wrong our intel says you were born from two Phoenixs who were killed by Enel, but one Phoenix survived, now so shall you be killed!" He clicks the mic to talk with Pops. Tears streaming down your face you look up at Marco whose looking at you. You then see Whitebeards allies. Pop's used his Tremor-Tremor fruit causing a tsunami. Aokiji uses Ice Age to freeze the ships and keep the tsunami in place.

"Save (N)!" Pops yells as all the commanders jump onto the ice running into battle with the Marines. You started using your Flame Beam to try and destroy the scaffolding again and again wipping your head everywhere to destroy your enemies destroying cannons and parts of the scaffolding Then you stop feeling useless but notice the scaffolding moved.

"Just leave with your lives!!! I ran off without permission I dont deserved to be saved!!!" You screamed at Pops and Marco.

"Child I told you and Ace to go isnt that right Marco?" Pops says calmly.

"Thats right sorry to give you so much trouble (n)! Yoi" hearing Marco say that you cry sobbing at their gesture. Sengoku announces to the world that Ace must be killed as well for being Rogers son. You bet gasps were all over the world. As the battle continued pirates entering the plaza fighting, you saw Ace hang on to Marcos talons as they flew to the scaffold suddenly a Vice Admiral came up in front of you punching Marco down.

"Noo!! Marco!!" While Ace jumped up unlocking your wrists then the scaffolding came crashing down while you felt Ace unlock your feet.

'Where the hell did they get a key?!' You think. In the thick of the smoke you transform into full Phoenix form Ace in Fire Fist form.

"Go back to the ship now Ace!" You think to him as he obeys but while kicking ass. You fly around looking for Marco once found, you grab onto him he has a sea prism shackles on one of his legs, on deck next to Pops you rip the shackles off of Marco. Using your regeneration flames on Marco.

"Their after you too Ace stay out of it! Pops call a retreat!" You say in their minds.

"Retreat my sons!!!" Pops calls the word. You flew off as Marco held his chest which you noticed.

'Theres only one person who shots beams of light' you think to yourself.

~

Marcos POV

~

"Agh! Dam these wounds!

'I cant just blurt out your pregnant though, but its obvious she doesnt know. What if our baby di ... no I cant even fathom even thinking it. Yoi' You think to yourself regenerating faster now thanks to (n) flames. Ace was still on the ice with Akainu following him.

~

(N) POV

~

Flying above the island you feel Ace is in danger so you fly down blocking Akainu from punching Ace with your flaming wings becoming as hot as they can be like lava. Ace looks shocked as Akainu says.

"Once I start an execution I intend to see it through."

"Oh yea well lets make an exception!" You yell. Suddenly you jump kick Akainu sending him flying back to the scaffold. You look to Ace as Marco flew down to meet you both.

"What are you two doing (n) come onto the ship now thats a command!! Yoi" Marco yells.

"Im busy!!!" You yell back

"Your pregnant with my child dont strain yourself anymore!! Yoi!!" Marco yells at you. You just look at Marco.

"Really?"

"Yes really! Be way more careful! Yoi" Suddenly Marines are yelling at Sengoku. You see him pick up the snail com and say

"Shes pregnant kill her and Rogers son Ace D. Portgas!!!" Gasps from everywhere were heard and probably from all over the world as well.

"Dammit!! I shouldn't have said anything. Yoi!!"

"Come back to the ship!! Yoi!" Marco pleads.

"Grab Ace put him on the ship. Ill be careful!"

"You better be! Yoi" Marco yelled to you as he flew Ace on the ship. You flew up high.

Once everyone was on board Pops used his Tremor-Tremor fruit to break all the ice surrounding the ships the back three ships started to leave as the Moby Dick started to turn around. You battle cried, and used a lot of your flames to create a false sun covering the entire island. Youve had enough.

"Well this isnt good" Aokiji says. As your sun is flying down it impacts with the island but the Vice Admirals used their powers to block it in certain spots. Akainu uses his meteor fists in the sky as your sun tears apart the island everyone is shocked and only the strong withstand the sun you threw. You bet it took out all the visual snails too. Now you have another problem.

You hear commotion from the Moby Dick that theyll all be killed. Before the meteors fall onto the ships youd lived on for so long you yell

"Phoenix Guard!!" Using your hottest flames possible dripping with lava you create a circle on a angle in the air, so as the fists hit the circle of flames they slide off onto the island. After the ships are all sailing away and Akainu stopped using his attack you jet fly to the Moby Dick transform into human as Marco runs to you. Jumping onto the deck mid air you suddenly feel immense pain in your chest see a light beam and tumble falling onto the deck blood spilling out of you and from your mouth. You feel Marco pick you up.

"You guys did do it..." you say as Marco is shaking and says

"Shh dont speak. Yoi" Marco starts crying.

"Tell.. me... how.. bad is... it?" You ask. He just hugs you blood getting on his jacket and abs so you could see. You feel everyones eyes on you

"Its been... a while.. to feel... myself.. slip.... away.." you say as Marco hugs you as your body falls limp.

"(N)!!!!!!NO!!!!Yoi!!!!!!" Ace is crying as well as Marco and the crew. Your body grows cold quick then turned into ashes in Marcos arms. Suddenly once everyone was crying, your ashes heat up again then flames start appearing making everyone watch in awe. First they were blue flames then they got bigger and more red then the ashes suddenly burst into flames and you transformed into Phoenix form then transformed back into human form. Jolting up from Marcos hands, breathing like its your first breath of life. You cough up some left over blood. Inhaling deeply. Then falling back into Marco. Him crying over you as he holds you close.

"(N) your alive. Yoi" you hear Marco say.

"Dont.. want... to.... speak... hurts..." you say softly as he uses his regeneration flames on your whole body. Looking up at him tears fall on your face.

"Shhh.... im.... fine... just.... tired... so... tired..." you say quietly as you fall into unconsciousness.

~

Marcos POV

~

"....so... tired..." she says then she goes unconscious in your arms. You check her pulse before reacting this time. Pusle is strong and steady. As everyone is looking at her like a miracle just happened. You pick her up and go to the med room in the med office without a sound from anyone just stares. You got her a blanket and set up IVs in her to help her body recover everytime your flames went out you gave her new ones to help aid her recovery.

'She must have definitely over exerted herself' you think.

~

Two Days Later

~

Your working on paperwork barely have gotten any sleep. First you hear her heart monitor raise in bpms. So you stand and go around her bed holding her hand. She stirs at your touch.

"Mar..co..." she whispers its barely auditable but it makes you smile that shes alive and the whole in her chest closed up when she was reborn.

~

(N) POV

~

You flicker your eyes open, groggy and sleepy but warm. 'Whats this,.. my hand' you think as you boot up, the lights blinding you from above. You turn over feeling something snag on your inner elbow.

"Agh!" You cried out.

"Here let me undo your IVs yoi" you hear a familiar voice say as your vision is spotty and blurry. The husky voice took out your IVs and all cords attached to you.

"There my little bird, feel better Yoi?"

'Wait I know this voice,... its... my mate.... Marco' you think and blink away the spots to see

"Marco...?" you speak as he holds your cold hands warming them up.

"Yes my sweet (n)? Yoi" he says softly to you

"Hi.." you say putting up a hand to his cheek softly rubbing his stubble.

"I missed you" you sit up slowly him supporting your back.

"I missed you too Yoi" he replys.

"Do you remember what all happened love Yoi?" He asks you as you start to think

"I was going to be executed... then you guys came and saved me... I think I died for a minute..." you touch the spot where the light beam hit you which Marco took note of.

"Thats all I remember doc" you say shrugging your shoulders. Slowly swinging your feet to the floor. He grabs your hands.

"(N) listen... Yoi"

"Yes Marco? What is it?" You ask quietly. His fiery blue eyes met your fiery red ones waiting with anticipation.

"I saw the test result Yoi" he says calmly as your blush tomato red covering your mouth as you gasped softly.

"I thought I hid it, you were coming into the room so I put it in the trash"

"Well I found it. The result was positive, you have our child in you. Im guessing here but I hope its okay. I need to buy an ultra sound machine if I can after all this. Yoi" he states and finishes.

"And yes you did hide it, but I was angry and kicked the trashcan over and found it. Yoi" he explains. As it sinks in you point to yourself and he nods smiling wide. You stand up and jump up to hold his neck with your arms hugging him, wrapping your legs around him.

"Oh Marco were gonna be parents!" You shout. He chuckles/laughs loudly holding you with one hand.

"Yes and im gonna be a daddy Yoi!" he says hugging you tightly twirling you around. Then you slid off of him as he leaned down to kiss you deeply breaking for air he started a rant

"Youve had me worried for weeks! There had better not be a next time of you running off with Ace Yoi"

"Ouu yea that probably looks bad now that I think about it..." you trail off.

"You think? Imagine what I was thinking not knowing where you were or if you were alive or dead and having my child in you Yoi" he replys getting choked up with tears. You hug him close kisses his chest and abs.

"That wont ever happen again I promise Marco" you reassure him.

"Ill stick to your side like glue from now on okay?" You question him. He takes off his glasses to wipe his tears then put them back on, he nods then says.

"Ill hold you to your word (n) the Phoenix Yoi" hugging and kissing his sweet lips and neck.

~

Nine months Later

~

You weren't allowed off the Moby Dick for the entire nine months by Marcos command. He got Thatch to give you special foods and fruits so the baby will be extra healthy. Marco went and got supplies for you and the baby when the ship docked at different islands making sure to be careful not to transform into Phoenix form or hybrid form. As they never changed Marcos wanted poster picture which was his full Phoenix form. So he could still walk around freely but they upped your bounty to 3,000,000,000 and plastered your face on your wanted poster.

~

You wobble from your shared room after locking it. To the med office where your fiance was working so you could do some work as well. Opening the door you see your lover turn his head back to you.

"Hello my little bird how are you feeling this morning? Yoi" asking as he helps you to your chair.

"He's kicking again want to feel our baby handsome?" You ask Marco as he smiles wide. He gently placed his hands on either side of your swollen belly then leaned down to listen to your belly. *kick* *kick* *thumpa thumpa*

"I can hear him kicking, and his heart beat Yoi" he looks up to you then kisses all over your tummy tickling you making you laugh.

"Hey that tickles!" You laughed as Marco let go of your belly he leaned over to kiss your lips. Soft and sweet, he gave you a peck then went to his side of the table facing you.

~After A Couple Hours Of Working~

You both hear a pop/click then a whoosh of water. You both stop and look at each other.

"Umm I think my water just broke...Marco.."

"Well thank god your in the right place allready Yoi" he quickly got up and helped you up. Picking you up bridal style and setting you on the med bed. Hurrying to get the proper drugs and IV in your arm.

"Take these pills dear Yoi" he hands you the pills and gave you a cup of water. You gulp the pills down and chug the water then it started.

"Aghhh!!! It hurts Marco!!" You yelled loudly as he gets ready.

"Dont worry little bird these are contractions they will pass.

"----" you couldnt talk at all when the contractions started and you figured theyd only get worse. You could barely breath then it would stop and start again.

"Your contractions are lasting forty five seconds inbetween every ten minutes its just starting. Yoi" Marco says to you as you both hear the door open.

"Hey doc-"

"Were closed for now get out!! Yoi" Marco snaps

"Ohh shit okay bye" the crewmate runs out the door alerting the crew that your in labor. Your Phoenix goes and locks the door then runs back.

"Aghhhh!!!" Tears sting your eyes as you felt the need to push after hours and hours of Marco trying to comfort you.

"Your contractions are lasting thirty to seventy seconds, with breaks five to ten minutes. Now your in true labor dear your gonna have to push soon let me know when you feel the need to push Yoi" you hear Marco say calmly.

"Okay please keep talking and I feel the need to push!" You yell loudly as another contraction happens you arching your back.

"Then its time to push sweetie Yoi!" He says as you felt the need to push with the contractions. You push when you feel the need and eventually you feel the baby come out. You both hear crying feeling relief as Marcos and your baby is alive and well. Marco snipping the cord, and takes the baby for a while to clean it. You feel yourself slipping away from life again.

"(N)! Stay with me! Yoi" The heart monitor beeping slower and slower until it goes *beep*.

Opening your eyes you gasp for breath like its the first time. The heart beat monitor spikes to your breathing level. Breathing hard you look around and see Marco with your guys baby lullying it to sleep. Your fully healed from being reborn.

"Ahhh I feel so much better now...." once your breathing stabilizes your heart beat normalizes Marco looks at you and hands your guys baby onto your chest.

"That always scares me when your reborn Yoi" You coddle your baby.

"It is a him right?" You ask and your fiance just nods.

"Hello there our baby bird" you coo as he sleeps.

"What should we name him? Yoi" Marco asks you.

"Hmmm ......... I like Kai what do you think Kai The Phoenix?" You ask him as he crosses his arms raises a hand to his chin thinking.

"It has a nice ring to it dear. I love it Yoi" he says smiling wide to you making you smile wide too. He walks over to you both and strokes your hair.

"Hello our baby bird Kai Yoi" Marco coos as you smile raise your hand to cup Marcos face rubbing his cheek. He looks at you with tears in his eyes.

"Awe honey are you okay?" You ask him. He takes off his glasses and wipes his tears then puts his glasses back on. Looking at you he smiles wide

"Im .. just so happy your both alive and healthy. My heart stopped when I heard the heart monitor go silent. Yoi" Marco says hugging you below the baby.

"I need to give Kai his immunization shots then he can be introduced to the crew and Pops Yoi" Marco tells you as he cleans your bottom up picking up your dress then laying it on you again. Your dress is soaking wet. Sitting up you hand Kai over to Marco.

"Ill be back I really need a shower, can give Kai his shots sweetie?" Marco holds Kai then looks to you.

"Of course little bird go feel better. Ill take care of everything. I love you (n) Yoi" Marco says quietly to you as you slide off the med bed.

"I love you Marco" Knees kindave weak, but once stable you walk to the office door unlock it and go to your guys room lock the door. Crew members looking at you in awe. Then take a shower. After drying off with your wings you open your portal and change clothes into shorts and a crop top and mini boots.

'Its been so long since I could where these' you think to yourself. Once ready you go back to the office open the door then lock it.

"Marco big bird" you call out as you hear a *shhh*" as you round the corner you see Marco sitting on a chair holding Kai lulling him to sleep.

"Awee look at you two, your allready such a good daddy" you walk up to Marco and brush your hand through Marcos hair.

"So how long was everything?" You ask him. Him checking the clock he says

"About six or seven hours its dinner time now sweetheart" your Phoenix says.

"Six or seven hours?! No wonder im beat" you tryied to hush yourself.

"Well at least you dont need to heal that much now Yoi" Marco says to you. You noticed Marco had wrapped Kai in a baby blanket. Your lover stands handing you Kai as he goes and undresses his medical gloves apron etc. He goes to his desk and pulled out a paper and signed it except for one spot.

"Here dear let me see him, sign there Yoi" you hand over kai again and see Marco was writing up a birth certificate the mothers name is blank. You sign your full name then set the pen down. You go up to Marco and Kai and gently hug around Marcos waist you both gently swaying with Kai in the middle. Closing your eyes head leaning on Marcos chest you smell that brand new baby smell intoxicating you and Marco. Maternal instincts kicking in.

"Well be late for dinner (n) Yoi" Marco says rubbing your arm. You look up at Marco with puppy dog eyes and he allready can tell what you want. He hands you Kai gently as you smile wide. And he cleans up everything that was dirtied. Then after everything was cleaned, sanitized and put away. He unlocked the door and led you out of the office. Holding Kai with your left arm and holding Marcos hand with your right heading to the dining area everyone stares and cheers for you both as you both walk up to Pops.

"Son is the baby okay?" Pops asks concerned. With a extra wide smile Marco says

"Yea Pops guess what your a grandfather now. Hes name is Kai! Yoi" which makes Pops chuckle and smile. You offer Kai up to Pops as Pops takes Kai gently in his hand.

"Ahh my grandson Kai the Phoenix! Cheers everyone to my grandson Kai! And to Marco and (n)!" Then Pops lowers his hand for you to take Kai which you do and Marco guides you by your waist to your table. Sliding into the booth Marco first then you. He wraps his left arm around you as he eats and drinks. Once hes done he motions for you to hand him Kai. Which you do and start drinking and eating.

"Congratulations you guys!" Ace says as Izo says

"Congrats Phoenixs may you live a lovely life"

~

After Dinner

~

"Im so tired how about you big bird? You delivered our baby all those hours" you say as he seems sleepy.

"Yea I am tired lets go to bed little bird Yoi" he says as you both slide out of the booth and you both head toward your room hearing hollering and whistling. Once in and locking the door Marco sets Kai in his crib. Kai being a heavy sleeper is a god send. Once ready for bed you crawl into bed with Marco as you both turned into hybrid forms wrapping both your and his wings around eachother.

~

Bonus Five Years Later

~

Marco married you five years ago. Kai was growing up good, he learned many things Phoenixs and humans needed to know. You and Marco are very protective of Kai, and taught him how to read, write, and speak how to transform into different forms and many other things.

"Kai get over here!! Where is that boy? Yoi!" You hear Marco yell. As you pop behind Marco looking around you scooch out of the office. Turning into Phoenix form you fly up seeing Kai in the crows nest sleeping. You perch on the crows nest.

"Kaiii..... Kaiiii wake up baby" Kai stirs rubbing his eyes waking up.

"Momm I was sleeping" he jumps up.

"Listen to your father, hes calling you. Youlll get a candy." Kai in human form whines

"Awee that means a shot!"

"Its either that or no dinner." You state you knew he loved his food. Kais blonde hair flying in the wind. He mumbled.

"Okay..mom" he transforms into Phoenix form and flew down to the deck with you and transforms into human form him jumping on your back. You giggle as you walk back to the med office and Marco just smiles wide crossing his arms as he holds the door open for you both.

"Are you ready baby bird? Yoi" Marco asks Kai as he jumps off you and hops up on the med bed.

"Yea dad im ready" Kai says in a sad and scared tone.

"Its okay it only hurts for a second Yoi" Marco says as he prepares the needle.

"Ready 3...2...1... and done Yoi" Marco says softly as he puts the needle in the hazardous waste bin.

"See youve done so good our baby bird Yoi" Marco says as he gives Kai a lolipop.

"Yay!! Thanks Dad, Mom!" Kai yelled as he went to Pops, you and Marco watched from the door.

"Grandpa! I did it!" Kai boasts.

"Good job child" Pops says and pets his head. Then Kai transforms into Phoenix form and flies to the crows nest again. You and Marco close the door and sit across from eachother doing paperwork.

~

After Dinner

~

"Time for bed Kai" you say as he talks to his uncle Ace.

"Awee come on I wanna sleep with uncle tonight mom!" Kai whines.

"Is that okay with you Ace?" You ask him. He nods and says

"Yea no problem come on ya little squirt race yea!" Ace yells.

"No fair your bigger than me wait up!" Kai yells chasing Ace. Suddenly Marco wrapped an arm around your waist leading you to your guys room. Once ready for bed you both slip into bed transforming into hybrid form. Cuddling eachother Marco says

"Goodnight mama bird I love you Yoi"

"Goodnight daddy bird I love you" you whisper.

[thegirlwhorideslikeasamurai]

Now that the fandom events are over, I can finally 100% focus on NaNoPrep. I have 5 days to read the remaining 60 pages of my 165k draft of my YOI wip "In Love and War" and refine the outline of the unwritten chapters with the ideas I got from editing "Did My Heart Love 'Til Now". Despite having three days of weekend ahead, this seems a bit insane as there is also Skate Canada.

(And don't get me started on all the other things I need to tick off my todo list so they won't bother me in November, like very thoroughly cleaning my flat, baking cookies, sort my bills from the last two months, and some other adulting stuff I don't want to bore you with.)

Last year, I stopped writing right before the season (the seasons?) in which Yuuri and Viktor's will compete against each other (aka turning from husbands to rivals on the ice) starts. I'm so excited that I will write about my otp skating in the Grand Prix series while the real GP is happening. And as you can't have irl figure skating without drama, I hope to get some inspiration from that. There are already all kinds of smaller and greater dramas in my outline, but as an avid skating fan, my rule is that you can never have enough drama in a figure skating fanfic.

I really can't wait to spend the next month writing viktuuri like crazy!

[funkyfreshman]

Took 400 Millie’s Gramos of gerberts if u will,( this one’s for you Ted 👴) and am rewatching the entirety of httyd shows and all and holy ahit

Will be documenting journey.

Abious spilers:

Took doucuments:

Ep-1

-GOBBER MENTIONED

- Mildred if this show wasn’t stinky fart he would be like STOCKICJ KILL THOSES FUCKING ERAGONS STIDPSUSUDJ STUPID

- I was writing this post during show and kept getting distracted so that’s it lol

-wait no I love stiok he’s a bit stupid but I love he he fix it in the end I’m so happy I love god dads in media

-GOBBER MENTIONED

Ep: 2

-GOBBER MENTION

-WAIT BRO JUST GOT BUNED WITH FIRe and didn’t flinch what

-It’s his gay power✨

- I love my gay sons and lesbian daughter

-GOBBER MENTIONED

-HES BECOME A SALES MAN

-BRO HAS BEEF WITH A 5 YEAR OLD YOUR 150😭😭😭

-his design is peak tho

-mean this in the most Aro of Ace possible hes so sexy

-wait jk

-wait no yeah

-GOD SOM HICUO AWHAIGH AUGH 🤮🤮❤️

-GOBBER EPISODE

-HE JUST CURSED THAT BABY WHAT

-NO MY HEWLTY YAOI IS TOXIC YAOI GOBBBER WRF

-THEY HATE EACH OTHER

-THEY OUTA RHEFE

-WHAT ARE TOU TWO DOUNG

-bro what if she accidentally killed him what are u doing GIRL

-shskajshdhdhd STOICK

-THEY LEFT HIM THERE

-AMONGUS NO AMNONGS NO NO SISBJSXD. KNO ONNO HICCUP U HE SAD HES SHAD AND HA

-hookfang no he bust

-oh cool gratin fight yippee

-snotlout is so upset bonninknn fish I no no gobber fuck off

-he budddy is okay and snotlout is so happy he hsjsjzhdsjs ah

-I FIRGOT HE BECOMES A DENTIST HOLY SHIT

Ep: 3

WHY DID IT ZOOM INTO HIS RITS

-animal trama ep

-TIT SHOT

-again imagine she accidentally killed him

-Bro INTENTIONALITY PULLED HER DOWN THERE WHAT, FRESK

-ew actual romantic relationship

-GOBBER MENTIONED

-WHAT HES A WITCH

-HES A WITCH A WOCTH

-gothi a bad bitch she’s so real, she’s taking no chances

-ew I hate actual romantical relationships ew I hate actual romantical relationships

-exposure therapy

-WAIT THATS SHDJSJKSKS

-WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOSHLEGS

-oh no his dad trust him so much hiccup I failoror

-THAT SHEEP IS DEAD

-BUCJET NO

-SNITLOUT SHOULD HAVE DIED

-wait they all followed him no questioned no complaints that’s so cute what aughgh 🤮

-GOBBER MENTIONED

-THEY ARE GONNA FREEZE TO DEATH

-WHAT IF YOI KILKED KNE

GOBBER MENTIONED

-THEY ARE GONNA DIE

-TF IS MEATLUG GINNA DO WITH THOSES TONY AH WINGS

-your dragons saved us from literally dying in the fucking cold son

-what

-GOBBER MENTIONED

-funky beat

-funky beat the ending

Ep: 4

-that should have killed snotlout

-what was

-what

-diva

-THE ANIMATION GOT GOOD FOR 3 seconds csahwath

-bad evil tiny dragon

- it’ capable of manipulation

-it’s capable of manipulation

-You stupid cunt dragon

-YOU STUPID CUBT BOY

-sick ass dragon

-they are researchers at the age of 5 what unfair

-he’s emo right now bitch leave him alone

-EVEB THI O HICCUP IS BEINH A STUPID CUNT HE STILL TRIES TO PROTECT HIM, BRUH HICCUP YOU CENUTLY STJPID

-nuh huh bi stjeop stole stk stop stop yoCUEHHEJSBSJWJDHDIHR🤮🤮👎👎👎👹👹👹🔥💥

-Big very scary tree stomping dragon fuck outta here

-yeah u dumb fuck face

-🥸toothless invasive maneuvers

-Tirch is a bith ass hoe

-GIBBER MENTIONED

Ep: 5……I hope

-sick ass beat

-no he jumped

-BRI BRO BRI BRI BRO BRO

-snotlout almost died

-what is this episode

-What the FUCK

-WHY THEY FEET OUT

-What rhe fuck

-GONNER MENTIONED

-SHUT YOUR HE FUCK UP DOKTNSAY

-GOBBER MENTIONED

-WHAT WHAY WHAT WHAT WHAT YOU STUPID FAG

-bro knock

-WHAT FISHLEGS

- “like hello he was trying to be freaky”

WHAT

-as much as it sucks that stoick keeps on going against hiccuob he’s also the CHEIF OF BEEK we know he really really want to support him but again HES THE CHEIF OF BERK his work comabnds a fuck done of people so yeah he wants support him but he can’t

-bro just creamed at the idea what

-BRO HTF IS HWLE GONNA “TAKE CARE OF THE DEGINS “ hE CANRS FUCKING FLY

Z-EHAT WHAT HE LOVES A SHEEP?

-HES A FURRY

What

-bye bye fursona

-that’s the episode.

Ep 6:

-is this the season fanislu?

-this might be the season fanauky?

-ew actual romantical relationship

-GOBBER MENTIONED

-what

- who is this diva

- huge beef with this 5 year old over here

-SHUT THE FUCK UP

-bro probably thought a lot of people were gonna die so he sent hiccup away to like idk like Amongus I had a thought but now it’s gone

- fish legs died

-SHUT UP

-GOBBER MENTIONED

-hot

-hehsshdhddhhdddhdh cute

-I THOUGH HICCUPS SAID SHIT SHIT SHIT it sounded so right

-that was cooo as fuck

No uo stupid cunt

-WHAT FREAK DONT

-this is crazy

-gonner mentioned

-wait the plot thickens

-lmao omg bro does not care about him

-gobber mentioned

-bro 🫢 wtf

-no I almost got shit busy fucking arrows

-actually sick as hell

-HOW IS HE NOT DEAD OH MY GOD

-and fuck ya boat too

Evil guy lives

And get

Get this

Is evil

-your a freaky freak that freaks around my town in your freaky freak freaks suit freaking Al over my unfreajed town

Ep:7

-GOBBER MENTIONED

-ope

-bro had si idea how to ride that dragon like at all

-why is it always there at any time of day what are

-he’s a really good CHEIF he just need to learn to like separate the two but also like not cause a lot of the time it makes sense what he’s doing

-I think stoick needs to reslizr not everyone is like him

-he dead

-kk what

Bro wtf open ur ears

-evil pigs that attack at almost night

-RHY SO MANY

-what m. Stoick did nothing

Ep. 8)

-wait that’s cute

-What is that name

-lGIBBER MENTIONED

-WHAT

AGAT

Wha

What

That so fucking funny hijouhvvshut shut

-I can’t think so more I stop

[papillon82fluttersby]

Thanks @real-life-senshi for tagging me! I rarely do these kinds of 'get-to-know-you' posts but why not?

The Rules: Tag (9) people you want to know better and/or catch up with, then answer the following:

Four Ships:

Victuuri (Victor Nikiforov x Yuuri Katsuki, Yuri!!! On Ice): I got pulled into the YOI fandom when someone I was following started posting what I thought at the time was an annoyingly excessive number of YOI-related memes and gifs. I ended up watching the series out of curiosity to know what the hype was all about and enjoyed it a lot, which led me to find other people equally interested and talking about it around here, and ultimately led me to the wider world of AO3 where I found many talented writers both in this fandom and others. So I would like to take this opportunity to formally thank the aforementioned YOI-meme poster who unwittingly introduced me to the fandom: @rosepetalrevolution please receive my most heartfelt thanks and this metaphorical gift basket 🎁

Judiki (Julian x Dick Kirrin, Famous Five): If you've been around my blog lately, you know I've been introduced to this pairing by the lovely and talented @sweetsorcery and @majormcnerdy-geekinfantry-blog. This pairing was an unexpected and delightful find that is now living rent free in my head.

Zeus x Ganymede (Greek mythology): @littlesparklight is solely responsible for my discovery and enjoyment of this ship! This prolific writer has also produced many different works around various Greek myths, both shippy and non-shippy, and I can only urge you to visit her AO3 page.

Writers x Readers x Artists: I love collabs. I love when a reader makes a comment that sparks a future idea for a writer. I love when an artist surprises a writer with art for their fics, or when a writer makes a snippet based on a piece of art. Just keep that virtuous circle going!

(I just realised that the 3 ships I listed are all MM but that's not exclusively representative to my tastes. I equally enjoy MF or FF or any other combinations!)

Last Song: The Eurovision 2023 playlist that I listened on repeat for my ratings. I don't really listen to a lot of music on my own; I find it too distracting when I'm reading or looking stuff up on my computer. I listened to music a lot more when I used to draw, though; I always had music as a background then.

Currently Reading: Bill Bryson's The Body: A Guide for Occupants (non fiction) ... as well as a lot of ongoing fics on AO3 -- mostly original works but some fanfics too.

Last Movie: That would be Alexandre Astier's Kaamelott (Premier Volet), based on the legend of King Arthur. It started as a short-format humoristic TV series made of 3-minute episodes, then evolved into 50-minute episodes as the plot got more involved and explored deeper concepts, and the conclusion should now be in the form of a movie trilogy, the first one of which was released a couple of years ago. For a long time, my awareness of the franchise was mainly about the earlier 3-minute humoristic episodes, as they benefit from regular (but out of sequence) reruns on TV. Only recently did I watch the full 6 seasons in the order they were meant to be watched, which greatly enhances the experience. I hope they can get the final two movies made!

Craving: TIME. Seriously. Give me time to read the growing pile of books sitting on my 'to-read' shelf. Give me time to re-read books I've enjoyed in the past and see if I have the same outlook now as I did then. Give me time to read and re-read and comment on AO3 fics. Give me time to resume drawing and learn how to properly use digital art tools. Give me time to practice the piano again. Give me time to exercise so I can feel fitter and stronger in my body. GIVE ME TIME.

Tagging: Absolutely no pressure doing this! Just tagging some of my mutuals and people whose posts and contents always brighten up my dash :) @moonwhing @proantagonista (whom I have not mentioned above but whose YOI fic "Winter Song" was one of the earliest I read and convinced me there was really good stuff to be found in fanfic) @sweetsorcery @majormcnerdy-geekinfantry-blog @littlesparklight @rosepetalrevolution @happyheidi @somethingyoirelated @sheepskeleton-art

[bluefaewren]

I just finished rewatching Yuuri on Ice and I’m having some thoughts. One of the most important things, when writing a story, is to put your characters through situations that force them to grow as people. We saw a lot of that in the first season of YOI, but into the idea of the second, you have to ask yourself: what is the worst and best thing that could happen to this character?

Yuuri’s entire arc was about gaining confidence in himself, relying on others, and striving toward gold. While I believe it was realistic for him to only get silver, to grow only to that extent within eight months, I think that he needs to win gold to fully complete his arc. Beating Victor, beating Yurio, winning the finals, would finally show him that yes, people support him no matter what, but he can do it. Winning gold, winning the Grand Prix, would free up his arc for him to marry Victor, to settle down, to continue on in a different way. (And whether than means more seasons or retiring, I'm open.)

In the first few episodes, Yakov mentions that the Ice Dance competition with Yuuri was the first time that Yurio went toe-to-toe with someone that he couldn’t easily beat. Later, Yurio states that he must do as well as he can this season before his ‘body starts to change’. These point to one conclusion: Yurio needs to fail. He wins gold at his senior debut, he beats Victor’s record, he makes history. Only briefly, in the whole show, is there real threat to Yurio’s skills. So, season two, Yurio gets taller, he hits puberty, and it majorly affects his ability to skate. He goes into his next season awkward and uncomfortable and maybe doesn’t even make it to the Grand Prix. He is forced to face real failure, for the first time ever. He is forced to see who will stand by him when he is no longer Russia’s Ice Angel. Yurio starts and ends the first season an angry, bitter fifteen-year-old. The second season must force him to change, to grow emotionally. And to grow, he must first fail.

Victor, on the other hand, is more complicated. He started season one bored and lacking the passion that had motivated him for twenty-five years. Arguably, he gained that back through season one, coaching Yuri, finding love, seeing true love and passion for the sport once again. But it would be an affront to his character for him to jump right back into skating unblemished. Similarly to Yurio, Victor needs to face failure, and find a new love for the sport. I’m not sure what this is - maybe retiring, maybe more coaching. Maybe moving figure skating to only a hobby.

I think that the Grand Prix that would leave Yuuri, Victor, and Yurio most open to growth and change is: Yuuri wins gold, Victor wins bronze, and Yurio either doesn’t qualify or is in sixth (mirroring Yuuri being in sixth two years before). Either way, I hope season two of Yuuri on Ice comes soon and is as character-driven as the first!

[marvel-m-lee]

Embarrassing Moments

1666 Words

Famous Y/n (actor)

Summary: Y/n was at a QnA with her co stars Robert Sheeran and Emmy Raver-Lampman when a certain question is asked which leads to some embarrissing tickle story on Y/ns part...

Based off this QnA 38:45 minutes in h͟e͟r͟e͟

A/n: i was shaving my legs and watching this video and now this fanfic exists and I need sleep before school. Why do I do this for a dead fandom? Who knows...

You laughed, shuffling yourself on the couch a little and smiling at the large crowd of people.

You were doing a Q&A on The Umbrella Academy and just you and your co-stars. You sat next to Emmy and Robert sat next to her, the three of you resting on a white peach sofa and answering fan questions.

You were about halfway through and had a sip of water, smiling at all the guests and fans who joined you.

Emmy and Robert were talking about something you were unable to answer and laughing, finishing up for the next question. You smiled at them, excited for the new season to come out and finally being able to do interviews with the cast again.

You put your water down as the host pointed to one of the question stands and a person stepped forwards, they seemed a little younger than you and prepared themselves for their question after you'd been asked about Disney princesses.

"Hi" the host introduced and the poor kid seemed rather nervous. A wobbly hi in return.

"Hi- um, I have a quick question? What's the most embarrassing thing you had to do?"

Emmy's face did a whole drop at the question making you burst out laughing. The host thankfully finished the kids question for them, clearing up that it was on set.

Emmy turned to you and laughed, then looked back at the crowd, "oh I was like- in life??? AhHh-" the three 0f you laughed along together.

"Yeah, no, with these two we'd be here all night-" you joked, earning laughter from the crowd and your co-stars.

Emmy was lost in her own laughter which you adored. In all fairness everyone in the cast loved Emmy's laugh as it was so contagious.

"Um.. oddly dancing was tough for me-" Robert admitted. You looked at him shocked, but Emmy nodded along. "It was.. it was tricky-"

"Really? You think that was your most embarrassing?" You asked surprised. Robert nodded and laughed at your reaction.

"Yeah- I mean- also it was my first day filming so- there was like a hundred people on set and I was like hello, hiya, hello, hi, and then their like ᴅᴀɴᴄᴇ ʟɪᴋᴇ ɴᴏ ᴏɴᴇs ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜɪɴɢ!" everyone in the room burst out laughing at his sudden voice change. "So- that was pretty embarassing"

You laughed along with the rom but looked at him in surprise, "really? Out of all the things you had to do as a character the dancing got you?" once again laughter filled the room but you were honestly curious- now you were like the eeger fan.

"i mean, yeah- ive already done half of those things in real life so-"

"Like he drugs?" Emmy butted in, laughing and doubling over.

"Yeah!-" Robert stiffled a giggle and ajusted himself. "No but yeah, it was just very- straight forward and, again, it was my first day so it was a shocker"

"yeah- but i feel like you could have done better than that-" yoy rolled your eyes, smirking and acting unsatisfied with his answer which made the room laugh at your childish antics.

It was nice for the crowd to see your interactions with the older cast, you were around Aidens age give or take so they enjoyed watching the sibling rivalry you had with the cast members.

"Sorry Y/n- but honestly- yeah, yeah. That was actually harder than i thought- the scenes where you dont actually talk, are sometimes the scenes that are actually the trickiest"

"im so disapointed in you both" you shook your head jokingly.

"hey! No but we really, we mainky just have like funny moments" Emmy replied, looking at you. You actually agreed with her though, nodding. Things werent really as embarising as they were funny or memerable.

"Im always getting peoples names wrong actually- thats pretty embarrising? Especially when youve been working with them for like 2 months" Robert cringed. Just then Emmy jumped up and tapped both your and Robberts laps excititedly.

"oh! oh oh! Waot actually, i completely ate shit this season-" the look of excitememt on your face as you quickly realised what she was talking about was brilliant.

"Oh yeah!- yeah! Was that?-" you couldnt stop yourself from laughing as she nodded, laughing with you.

"Wait- wait what?"

"when she fell in the driveway-" you laughed harder and had to remove the mic beside you so everyone wouldnt hear your loud laughter.

Roberts face of realisation followed by an oohhhhh was hilarious making you laugh harder. He also laughed with you both and Emmy quickly composed herself- faster than yiu at least.

"you wouldnt have seen it yet- well i hope not"

"noooo i hope it comes out in the blooper shots" you laughed, "i can imagine the edits of you just faceplanting to the beat and-" you burst out laughing again, replaying her falling over in an edit where she just falls to the beat and had to compose yourself as you almost started crying.

"Oh my god youre crying-" Robert noticed, laughing hard at the situation and how hilarious you thought it was.

After a couple of moments you finally composed yourself and was nudged by Emmy. "How about you anyway, what was your emnarrising moment?"

"moments" you corrected, "honestly it was just terrible, they were all so cruel to me-" You joked, but Robert snuck round and poked you in the side, teasing you and making you jump a little.

For a moment you and your co star looked at one another, Robert reminding you of a very common yet embarrising thing they would all do to you. He teased a smirk on his face as you tried to glare at him.

Emmy looked back and forth between you both before realising Robert had snuck his hand behind her to poke you, she then jumped realising what you were both talking about.

"OH! Oh yeah- i almost forgot about that- oh you definately got it the worst actually" she laughed.

Robert looked away, grinning that he'd brought up a lovely embarrising situation for you. He looked at the crowd and could see as they were all confused at what was happening.

"wait- wait what happened?" The host asked, laughing at your expression as you tried to hide yourself as a blush grew on your face a little.

"You and Aiden definately got it worst actually if we're talking about that. Youre both so adorable-"

"Emmy!?" Your face was blushing a lot now at remembering the situation.

"yeah, ours was lame in comparison to yours actually Y/n/n" Robert laughed.

"Youre both so mean."

"go on, tell them what they want to hear about your embarrising moments" He nodded at the crowd and you gave him a half annoyed mostly joking face.

"i told you guys their cruel" You shifted yourself, avoiding the question which only earned you a poke from Emmy, grinning wating for you to answer. They both knew how flustered you'd get, and it was very rare and something that always made you nervous because you never knew how to act.

"come onnnn" she teased, Robert sat up, turning to you much like Emmy was. Like kids waiting to be read a bedtime story.

You deadpanned them both before grunting and sighing. Shifting yourself to answer.

"So in the show, with my power they usually put me in a harness or some other things- which is always awesome, but when were done before im let out these lot like to bully me-"

"its become some like ritural where before we get the crew to let them out we get to tickle them senseless" Robert finished, knowing fully well you wouldnt be able to but also giddy to tell the story himself.

"its always so cute because they'll just be hanging there and watching us approach or whoevers on set with them and they start laughimg before we even do anything" Emmy and Robert seemed much more keen on telling this story so you hid yourself behind your hands but couldnt stop your cheeks glowing red.

"its so adorable" Robert teased, poking you again and making you jump to glare at him. The crowd laughed and giggled, watching as Robert made some teasing grabby hands to you, making you smile wobbly and roll your eyes.

"I hate you both" you said embarressed.

"Aw" Emmy awed laughing along with Robert and the crowd, "dont feel embaressed, its cute, plus you love it" she comforted, putting a hand on yiur shoulder but then tickling your neck to make you giggle.

"Ehemmy! Stahap!- not nohow!" You giggled, swatting her away.

"oh so we have permissiom to do this later?" Robert teased, am arm behind the couch and relaxing.

"maybe, i'll think about it" you replied, trying to play it off cool and looking away. You then jokingly pulled the mic uo to your face and whispered that you'd need a ride and help straight after this making everyone in the room laugh.

"there our embarrising moments probably- Y/n definately takes the cake though" Emmy teased.

You all thanked the person for their question and the other questions continued as normal for about another 15 minutes or so before it did have to end.

Robert and Emmy and the whole main cast had figured out you enjoyed tickles early on in the first season thanks to this little thing you had going on, and you were okay with that. But you didnt want the whole world to know just yet, and so whenever it was brought up like this it was never offical and only teased. And much promised later backstage you were found laughing at their mercy, trying to fight them off but failing.

When you went home that night, you looked on tumblr and once again noticed how people were connecting he dots and adoring your scene as they did with many celebs. You sighed but laughed.

Embarrissing moment for sure.

[onepiecetreasurecafe]

Hello my dear! Happy holidays! i hope you are having a wonderful day! I'm so happy I gave you some inspirations to do this event! If I can request Marco x fem reader: mistletoe nice! please thank you so much stay safe and happy holidays once again!

Happy holidays, my dear! I hope you’re staying warm this season♡ Thank you so much for dropping in with your request, and doubly so that it’s Marco the Phoenix. I’m more than honored and excited to write this piece for you, and for you to read it. I hope you like it!!♡

Nice Marco x Fem!Reader — Mistletoe

Word Count: 1,053

Warning(s): Implied mutual feelings, and a soft, cute Marco.

"Here, yoi?" Came Marco's halfhearted tone as he models the hanging ornament on the ceiling for you. You take a few steps back, looking between the decoration in Marco's hand and the rest of the room. Everything seems well balanced, with the tree to one end of the room and the wreath nailed to the wall on the other. However, that didn't leave many placement options for the smaller plant.

"It's perfect." You conclude, and Marco swiftly works to pin it to the ceiling. It's been a few years since you sprung this tradition upon the Whitebeard Pirates, and for most, it was something they've gotten used to by now. The twinkling lights, the tinsel, the colorful decorations, but every year, you are met with reluctance...

"O-oh-- Decorating? Wow, it's that time of year again?" Ace suddenly seemed nervous, and he looked around the deck as if grasping for excuses. "Man, I'm so underprepared this, uh, holiday." His eyes fell across the deck to the first person to walk up, and he continued, "Well, Thatch and I made plans to go into town today." He saw the way your shoulders slump, and he felt a pang of guilt. "Y'know, I think Marco would be really into decorating with you." The second division commander knew exactly what he was doing when he ushered you into the ship. "Ace said what, yoi?" You winced from the edge in his voice, but your sheepish demeanor leveled him back out. "He said he and Thatch both had business in town and that you'd be able to lend me a hand with decorating the ship!" The vein that popped on the side of Marco's temple went unnoticed by you, "it'll be fun, Marco, just the two of us! Please?" The lilt in your voice was what did his resistance in, and his shoulders slumped as he reluctantly agreed.

...And still having much more to work on through the ship — running lights and hanging garland — it takes hours to finish your ambitious task. Finally, Marco gets to collapse on the couch in the main cabin, and you find a seat beside him, looking over the work you both put into decorating. Satisfied, a smile splits your face as you giggle mirthfully beside him. “It looks so lively now.”

Marco cracks an eye open to your comment, taking a look around the room himself. He’s got to admit, the room looks much fuller. The walls aren’t as bare, and the room radiates a warmth separate from that of the candles littered around. The scent of cinnamon and fir permeates the cabin— a scent he’s come to associate closely with this time of the year, and with you. His gaze darts to you, and he watches your expression — the one he gets to see only once a year. There’s a glow in your soft features, and the smile you wear is so pure. For a second, Marco can swear his heart stopped. It’s the natural beauty about you at that moment, and he finds himself falling for all over again.

Perhaps it was when you’d first joined the crew, or when you first introduced them to such a frivolous tradition; there’s no real point in time Marco can surely say when his feelings developed. When he’d heard Ace had offered for him to decorate with you, and just the two of you, he was honestly nervous about what else that troublemaker spilled — his feelings are his own to confess, no matter how long it takes for him to do so.

After what felt like hours of memorizing your features, Marco throws his head back on the couch once more with a sigh, fighting a familiar battle between confessing to you or letting it go. There’s something out of place in the corner of his eye, and when the recognition sinks in, a smirk draws his lips up deviously and on impulse, he shifts.

It’s unexpected of the first division commander to act so boldly and rash, and you couldn’t be sure what had happened until after you’d feel his lips on yours. The kiss is swift and chaste, leaving you with a yearning that has you following him after he pulls away. You blink, registering Marco’s face just centimeters before your own. “Marco?” His name was soft and weak on your lips, and he could feel the way it travels through his veins. As if moving on their own, his arms wrap around your waist, and he draws you closer to him.

“There was a time when there was no holiday to celebrate. Years come and go and out at sea, there’s no real significance to it. It’s nothing noteworthy.” Marco paused a beat, “then you came along. And you filled the ship with color, and cheer. Suddenly, there was change.”

His words swim around your head, and you wade through them to keep up. The warmth of his chest under your hands, and the weight of his arms around you are real— very real.

"Even the simplest things collected meaning. Without you, that meaning wouldn't be there, yoi." His tone is firm, and you can feel the meaning behind his words now. "[y/n], you've become so important to me, these past few years..." his hand comes up to the side of your face, brushing some stray hair from your cheek. His gaze doesn't break from you, not for a moment, "and I would love to share in many, many more with you."

The emotion wells in you, your hand coming up reflexively to cover a gasp before it wraps around Marco's neck. At a loss for words, you nod and press a kiss of your own against his lips. "Of course, of course, Marco, we have a whole lifetime..." Marco returns the kiss and the energy behind it is different than the first. You can feel his conviction, his heart, his intention, and the promise behind his lips as they mould to yours.

"If it'll end like this, I would decorate with you every year, yoi." His playful banter comes with a snicker, and he points to the ceiling where he shows you the mistletoe. Your flustered reaction was priceless, and he eats up the way you blush and try to hide. "It is, after all, part of the tradition, no?"

[yoificfinder]

Hi! I was wondering if you would be able to find some time travel/time loop AUs where Victor and Yuuri (and other members of the YoI cast) are thrown around in time please? Thank you so much!

Hi! These are some time travel fics (mix of both canonverse and AUs) I read and enjoyed:

Previous rec of time travel fics where they meet their other self in the other timeline

a great desire to love by lily_winterwood / @omgkatsudonplease [T, 22K]

For some strange, inexplicable, fantastic reason, Yuuri Katsuki and Viktor Nikiforov are trading places. Kimi no Na wa AU.

All Our Yesterdays by @kitsunebi-uk [E, 102K]

York, England, 2120: Yuuri Katsuki is a dime-a-dozen techie, spending his days doing routine repairs at the university. He hangs out with his friend Phichit, goes for a drink, watches holograms. It’s an existence – but is it a life?

Crowood Castle, Yorkshire, 1392: As the son of a baron, Sir Victor Nikiforov makes judgements where lives hang in the balance. As a knight, he must sometimes end them. It’s what he was born to do – but what of the heavy burden on his soul? Death is all too commonplace, while life and love remain elusive.

When a brilliant scientist goes rogue, journeying to the Middle Ages with the world’s first time machine, Yuuri is stunned to be called on as the last hope of preventing her from changing history. After an abrupt departure, he lands at Crowood Castle disguised as an enemy of the Nikiforovs, Sir Justin le Savage – and will need to act the part if he is to survive. It’s a tall order for someone who can barely tell the back end of a horse from the front. But if Ailis, in her own disguise, discovers who he is, his mission will end in a blaze of laser-gun fire. He must not give his real identity away, even to the beguiling knight he’s falling in love with…

Elevators Out of Order by mtothedestiel [E, 31K] *WIP

A Kate and Leopold AU. In 1876, Victor Nikiforov is a handsome duke with an inventive imagination and a dwindling fortune. The search for a wealthy bride brings him to America, and the capital of progress, New York City. Can an encounter with a mysterious stranger offer Victor a future he never dreamed of?

Meanwhile in 2017, physicist turned paper-pusher Yuuri Katsuki is just trying to get through the day, which is tough enough without surprise phone calls from his roommate announcing he has a 19th-century aristocrat out cold on their sofa.

To top things off, it would seem every elevator in Manhattan is suddenly out of order. What a coincidence.

Here Once and Back Again by Cbear2470 [E, 77K] *WIP *Major Character Death

“What?” was all Yuuri could say as a numbness froze over his body.

Something—something wasn’t right. It was then he realized he couldn’t remember getting to the rink. He couldn’t remember even stepping on the ice to start his program.

He couldn’t remember.

He tried to remember.

*

As Yuuri is skating his free skate, he knows something is off. But, he brushes it aside, too focused on executing the program flawlessly.

It isn't until after it's all over that Yuuri comes to discover that he just skated his gold-medal winning, record-breaking program at the 2014-15 Grand Prix Final in Sochi. The very same final Yuuri had once upon a time placed last in over two years ago.

here's to the glory still to be by @foxfireflamequeen [Not Rated, 12K]

“Hi,” says Viktor, smile bright and camera-ready. His hand, when he extends it, is small and delicate. “I think you know who I am, but we haven’t met.”

His accent is very thick, very Russian in a way Yuri has never heard before. He looks from the offered hand to Viktor’s face, barely an inch higher, and tracks his hair, long and pale and spilling over his shoulders. He can’t be older than, well, Yuri.

“No,” says Yuri. “We haven’t.”

in another dimension series by @alykapediaaa [T, 8K]

Summary of first fic in the series

Entertainment >> Celebrity News

Viktor Nikiforov: Finally Found!

SOMERSET – Russian model Viktor Nikiforov, 27, who has been declared missing last May of this year was finally found earlier today. Nikiforov, known as the face of luxury brand Stammi Vicino, was vacationing at Bath, Somerset after a successful season when he suddenly disappeared, leaving all of his belongings, as well as his poodle, behind. Yakov Feltsman, Nikiforov’s manager, has yet to release a statement. Read More.

Life Unwoven by ayn2390 [M, 23K] *Indefinite Hiatus

Five-Time Consecutive Grand Prix Final Winner Katsuki Yuuri meets Five-Time Consecutive Grand Prix Final Winner Victor Nikiforov.

or,

In which things are tangled, and untangled, and tangled again. And Victor will always be there to save Yuuri.

Maelstrom by @feels-like-fire [E, 44K]

Victor Nikiforov is poised to win gold in his fifth consecutive Grand Prix Final. He has the world at his feet, is unparalleled in the sport--right up until a snowstorm blows into Sochi, and he finds himself repeating the same day over and over and over. He stumbles over Yuuri Katsuki, and everything changes.

(Or, the time loop au. Loosely based on Groundhog Day.)

On My Love by RikoJasmine [T, 73K] *WIP

For the second time, the Sochi Grand Prix Finals arrive, and with it a reborn Yuuri Katsuki. “Viktor,” Yuuri thinks over the pounding of his heart, the crowd going silent as the music begins. “I’ll show the world what you meant to me.”

Yuuri often thinks of his life as Before and After Viktor Nikiforov, the marking point being the day Viktor swept into his life and turned his world upside-down. After many years together, an accident leads to Yuuri suddenly waking up in the Before—back in Detroit, before the GPF, before he ever knew Viktor as anything other than his childhood idol.

As if it had all been just a dream.

paso doble by @cafecliche [G, 4K]

"Long before skating, or even ballet, Yuuri would hear about it at festivals, in the boiling humidity of Hasetsu summers dancing the Bon Odori in the streets. He remembered years where Mari would take him home alone, while their parents comforted lingering, distraught dancers. Sometimes, Mari had explained, they were crying because they’d seen lost loved ones. Some cried because they didn’t see who they’d hoped, but a stranger. And some cried because they hadn’t seen anyone at all.

Because it’s not just the steps. The dancers need, even for a second, to feel the exact same thing."

(Or: days before Hot Springs on Ice, Yuuri receives a visitor from another time.)

The League of the Green Carnation by @abarero [M, 62K]

There was one golden rule to being a Time Scientist: do not bring home anything that was a fixed point in history. This meant most artifacts, extinct animals and the like were permissible. Historical figures? Not so much.

But what about an author? Namely, Yuuri’s favorite author, who was murdered in 1887. Could he be saved?

Well. Yuuri was sure as hell about to find out.

Turn Back the Clock by IronScript [T, 59K] *WIP

When Yuuri and Viktor wake up over thirty years in the past, they don't know what to do. Does the other remember?

Luckily that particular question is quickly answered and they can relax slightly, but what about afterwards? Viktor was brought back to right before his first Olympics, and Yuuri isn’t even old enough to compete in Seniors’!

Then there's the fact that they're still very much in love, but a physical relationship would be illegal (and would gross them both out considering Yuuri's age), and they can't count on anyone to just trust them not to do anything age inappropriate. So maybe being long-distance (with as many in-person meetings as possible) would be better until Yuuri becomes a legal adult physically, never mind his actual age.

But it's hard to behave and act naturally when you're forced to be apart from your husband of twenty years, especially during one of the most stressful parts of anyone's life, so Yuuri and Viktor have to distract themselves somehow, right?

Right.

And if everyone around them ends up completely confused and blindsided at their sudden changes (though admittedly they seem to have changed for the better), then so be it!

[gladiatortale]

My DEPRESSION BEATING, fandom obsessing, shit-tastic FANTASTIC year in review!

TL;DR: I’m fixing my mental health and figuring out WHO THE FUCK I AM one fandom filled day at a time! Thank you to everyone who’s been there for me along the way. xoxo

what’s up HEATHENS.

stating the goddamn obvious here, it’s been a HELLUVA YEAR. One emotional rollercoaster after another but we’re ALMOST DONE. I know things aren’t gonna magically get better the second it flips to 00:01 on January first, but I’m excited to put this year behind me, and (SHOCKINGLY) a bit sad to see it go.

It was a year where the whole world completely stopped, we realized what is really important, what is really worth fighting for, and took a GODDAMN SECOND to just breathe.

For me personally, the year (which I’m counting off from November 1st) started out UNBELIEVABLY SHIT. I had just been kicked out of the country I called home for the last four years (thank you Brexit), I had ZERO job prospects, my depression was the WORST it had ever been, and I just didn’t want to get out of bed in the morning. And in the beginning, the pandemic felt like salt in the wound, an extra kick in the teeth to my early twenties that had already “failed to launch.”

But I tried to embrace the madness, really take advantage of the world (that I always thought moved to fast) properly slowing down, and take time to try and become myself again. I wanted to figure out what I loved and try and become a bit more like the person I was before my depression got so bad.

I often say I became that Manic Trash Planet Lady™ you see in sci-fi adventure films; a bit zany to say the least, with a million ideas and a very eclectic fashion sense, but embracing the insanity as it comes...

*cough cough* audrey, get to the goddamn point!

Right. lol. THE POINT IS! 

I’m not 100% “healed”, I’m not sure if I think depression is a “oh look you’re officially cured! hooray!” type of disease, but this year I let myself ENJOY SHIT for the first time in god knows how long. I still don’t know “wHaT i WaNt To dO WiTh mY LiFe”, but I’ve got a better idea and I’m heading in (what feels like) the right direction. And most of all, I can look back and say I am better than where I was a year ago.

So I wanted to say T H A N K Y O U to the mad lads on this website that introduced me to the fandoms, shows, movies, fics... THE SHIT that made me happy this year and were there to be one (BIG) piece in my healing journey.

AND SO, with out further rambling ADO! Here are the highlights of the year marked by my ridiculous hyper-fixations and OBSESSIONS. Thanks for putting up with me ya fiends, xoxox

November 2019  The Arcana (Visual Novel)

I had just gotten home and I was in a LOOOOOOW place. Randomly decided to download this app when it came up and it proceeded to ruin my life (and my bank account...) for pretty much the rest of the year. It was exactly what I needed to get me through a tough time and I was thoroughly, horse-blinders-up-to-the-rest-of-the-world, OBSESSED. These gorgeous magical fiends ruined me and all I could say was thank you.

Joined the fandom: November 2019 Obsession peaked: Late November Obsession faded: December 2019; I started a new job AND my bank statement came in and I realized I had accidentally spent over SIXTY BUCKS on this stupid app. No ragrets, but I definitely started to phase out at that point. Fandom friends: Velma, (@lanavxds on insta) miss you girlie xx Fanfics you NEED to read: ‘Second Mistake’ by DeathBelle on AO3, because DAAAAAYUM SON. Favourite moments: Basically the whole of the Julian arc. That gangly himbo OWNED my ass for a month.

December 2019 Hazbin Hotel (TV Series)

Y’ALL okay here me out. Am I proud of this one? No. Is the show crass as hell? OOOOOOOOHHHH YEAH. Did my angsty ass love it at the end of last year? DAMN STRAIGHT IT DID. Goes without saying, but this is NOT FOR EVERYBODY, but it definitely helped me along the way to becoming more comfortable with myself and being open about being the massive geek that I always was, and watching things I enjoy regardless of what people say about it.

Joined the fandom: December 2019 Obsession peaked: Shortly there after. Fandom friends: None. Dipped one toe in fandom discourse and then promptly YEETED the fuck outta there. Obsession faded: January 2019. Still curious to see the full series if A24 actually ever does produce the whole thing, but I have def moved away from it. Fanfics you NEED to read: Haven’t read any. Maybe I’m a pussy baby piece-o-shit, but I DID NOT want to go down that rabbit hole, NO MA’AM. Favourite moments:

Discovering the Hunicast podcast. These guys are a riot and Ashley is a flustered GEM. Even if you don’t watch the show, go watch an episode of these fucking LADS just dicking about and your day will get better.

Watching the first episode with my partner and watching him realize his girlfriend is a total freak.

January 2020 Lore Olympus (Webtoon Comic)

*Officially* discovered this one thanksgiving weekend in 2019, but my Arcana phase was still raging pretty strong at that point so I didn’t really get in to it until later. EVERYBODY AND THEIR MOTHER NEEDS TO READ IT. It has everything and handles the reality sexual assault and it’s aftermath EXTREMELY well.

Joined the fandom: Late November 2019 Obsession peaked: January 2020 Fandom friends: KELLEY. MA GIRL XOXOXO Obsession faded: June-ish 2020. I’m like 10 chapters behind now, but I still love this story so much. Fanfics you NEED to read: SO MANY ON MY ‘MARKED FOR LATER’ LIST AAAAAH. I have to get to that... NEW YEARS RESOLUTION lol Favourite moments: Having a drunk conversation on New Years Eve in 2019 with one of my oldest friends from high school about how much she loved it too. Helped me see how popular fandom and fandoms, are especially after feeling like I needed to hide my enthusiasm through high school and uni. (THAT WAS A MISTAKE BUT I’LL GET THERE IN A MINUTE).

February 2020 Versailles (TV Series)

SO FUCKING GAY Y’ALL. Oh my god everyone in this show is so gay. Even when they’re not they still are a little bit. AND BEST OF ALL!! it’s very historically accurate (except for the demon satanic nonsense in season 3, what was that???)

Joined the fandom: February 2020 Obsession peaked: Like??? The SECOND I finished episode one. Fandom friends: none... WHERE ARE ALL OF YOU??? Obsession faded: March 2020. It was a fast and passionate love affair, what can I say? Fanfics you NEED to read: IF YOU HAVE RECS, GIVE ‘EM TO MEEEEE. Favourite moments: 

Showing the first episode to a friend of mine and the *ungodly GASP* that came out of her throat was... PRICELESS.

The ENTIRE throuple(???) relationship between the Chevalier, Philipe, and Palatine. PLATONIC/ ROMANTIC LOVE G O A L S.

March 2020 Yuri!!! On Ice (TV Series)

*deep breath* ...y’all knew this one was coming.

Was I ready for this show to ruin my fucking life? No.  Am I so glad it happened??? FUCK YEAH.

NEVER IN MY LIFE have I fallen off the deep end so quickly with a fandom. HOLY SHIT. This blog didn’t have much of an “identity” before, but I you said that this is a Yuri On Ice blog now I wouldn’t even be mad (nor could I really defend myself to the contrary... bc??? like??? just go LOOK at my archive). Craziest thing is I watched the first two episodes like?? a solid TWO YEARS ago, but I didn’t continue watching because I was just not in the right head space for all the love and silliness and positivity.

I could do a whole separate post about how much this show and how this fandom has changed my life (DON’T TEMPT ME I JUST MIGHT). But I’ll stick with the highlights for now ;)

Joined the fandom: March 2020  Obsession peaked: Has it peaked?? Went straight up and it still going lol Fandom friends: Sandra, my mentor, my queen @aeriamamaduck, my fandom ride-or-die. Thank you for taking this internet bby under your wing. RACHEL @idancewiththefairies I TRAPPED YOU HERE. MUAHAHAHA xxx Obsession faded: ON GOING. CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP. Fanfics you NEED to read: jfc, SO MANY.

‘Until My Feet Bleed and My Heart Aches’ and ‘Of Bright Stars and Burning Hearts’ by Reiya @kazliin​ -- Rivals AU companion pieces. Longest fics I’ve ever read and JESUS CHRIST these two fucking SENT ME. Most popular YOI fics on AO3 for a REASON.

‘Tell Me Where Your Love Lies’ by @aeriamamaduck -- Royalty AU, trope-breaking ABO. Ah sweet, TMWYLL, how you’ve killed me over and over again. This BEAUTIFUL wip has SUCH amazing world-building idk where to start (Congrats on passing 50,000 hits!) EVERYONE GO READ IT.

‘Blackbird’ by sixpences -- WWII/Coldwar Spy Fic. I don’t have enough words to describe how amazing this is. It’s elevated to a higher plane beyond fanfic. Just go read it. Thank me later.

‘Zanka’ by rinsled05 @dreaming-fireflies -- The geisha fic that ruined me. *deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH *gasp* I’m fine. lol I sooooo not ready for this fic. Holy hell, Aoyagi had my heart in his hands from the first chapter. “’Please’ [...] ‘Don’t give me hope.’“ FUUUUCK.

‘Echoes’ by Reiya @kazliin -- Future fic. First fic I cried at... BOI. I was NOT ready for this. Shouldn’t be surprised given the author, but MAN. “‘A love like that, a love like what they had together, it never leaves completely.’ Yuri spoke again, eyes still staring out onto the ice, lost in memory. ‘There are always echoes.’” JUST FUCK ME UP.

Favourite moments: Oh good lord, where do I begin??

Having two (count ‘em TWO) main characters with mental health issues (Yuuri and his anxiety and Victor with burn out and depression) and NOT MAKING IT THE ONLY ASPECT OF THEIR PERSONALITY. CLAPS FOR KUBO AND YAMAMOTO!!

Everything about Yurio (ESPECIALLY HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH YUUKO AND HIS GRANDPA), that tsundere motherfucker is too pure for this world.

THE KISS. THE PROPOSAL. MY HEART WASN’T READY. AAAAAH!!

This fandom *properly* introducing me to smut on AO3...

Thinking I was going to get Rachel to like the show... NOT being prepared for her to fall off the deep end and START LIKING REAL SKATING TOO!!

Staying up waaaaaay too late waaaaaay too often to plan out plot points for TMWYLL with Sandra. Love ya dearie.

The warm fuzzy feeling I get every time I think about Victor and Yuuri.

April 2020 Bungou Stray Dogs (TV Series)

I had a hunch I was gonna like this show considering ALL of the characters are based off of famous classic authors from around the world... what I was NOT prepared for was just HOW MUCH I was going to love it. HOLY SHIT. The art style? Love it. The plot?? Bonkers, but so fun. THE VOICE CAST??? AMAZING. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to get in to anime, great place to start.

Joined the fandom: April 2020 Obsession peaked: Probably this summer? But we have DEF plateaued in a VERY high place. Fandom friends: FIJI. MA BOIIIII @lil-1nsane  Obsession faded: Hasn’t. Hope it doesn’t Fanfics you NEED to read: So so so many. The smut in this fandom is *chef’s kiss*, but here are a few...

‘He Works Hard For the Money’ by CataclysmicEvent @cataclysmicevent2019​ -- Sugar Daddy AU. FUCK MAN. I was not expecting to like this one, but bloody hell. This fic grabbed me by the throat and WOULD NOT let me go. Praying for chapter 16! But the author is working on another STELLAR fic so I’m okay for now.

‘Everything or Nothing’ by CataclysmicEvent @cataclysmicevent2019​ -- University AU. FUCK THIS FIC. Started reading it as I was waiting for HWHFTM to update and BOI, this fic ROCKS. The alternating POV fits so well with the enemies/idiots-to-lovers vibe. Solid 10 outta 10.

‘The City Where Wind Blows’ by @raven-rein​ -- Cancer Death fic. *pained shriek* AAAAAAGUUUUUUUHHHH *gasp* aaaaaaAAAAAAHHHHHHHH, FUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKK MEEEEE. THIS FIC. Only the second fic I’ve ever cried to but I BAWLED MY GODDAMN EYES OUT. FUUUUUUUCK. I was not ready, never would have been ready. This is so tremendously well done, it killed me so beautifully, 

‘Haunted by Hatred’ by DeathBelle -- Canon compliant Soukoku. It is a CRIME that DeathBelle doesn’t have more BSD fics on her page, but this one is still brilliant.

Favourite moments:

THE CHUUYA-DAZAI MAFIA REUNION TEAM UP WHEN THEY FIGHT LOVECRAFT. Ooof. BOI. We love it.

The first three episodes. Soooo many break neck plot twists.

Every insane hypothetical conversation with Fiji.

Every time Atsushi or Tanizaki is on screen bc I LOVE THESE LIL BEANS.

June 2020 Trash Taste (Podcast)

Goddamn I love these chaotic lads so much.

As I became more and more comfortable with myself and my love for anime I stumbled upon these three goons, -- Joey, Connor, and Garnt, -- best known for there SUPER successful (mostly) anime YouTube channels. Even if you don’t watch anime, WATCH/LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST. The focus is mostly on their lives and the overall expat/immigrant experience, with a bit of anecdotal anime references sprinkled in. 

This show is both wholesome and heathenous in equal measure, and after having lived abroad for a significant portion of my (admittedly still quite short) life, it was such a breath of fresh air to hear people talk so openly about how living outside your home country is both wonderful and terrifying. They’re wonderfully candid about the fact that even if you love a place dearly, no where is perfect, and you WILL hate somethings about your new home even if the majority of the experience is fantastic. I cannot rate this show highly enough.

Joined the fandom: June 5th 2020, loved it from the first episode. Obsession peaked: July maybe? I was RELIGIOUS about watching the episodes as soon as they came out. Still watch every week, but less “on time.” Fandom friends: None :( but I have tricked my partner in to listening several times :) Obsession faded: It’s dimmed from where it was, but still going strong. Fanfics you NEED to read: NONE. NEVER PLAN TO. Hard and fast rule, I don’t read fics about real people. Characters played by real people, even that’s a maybe for me. But real-real people? FUCK NO. (some of my) Favourite moments:

Any time Garnt and Connor get into a big-brain-monkey-brain argument and Joey is just LOSING his GODDAMN MIND in the corner.

Bringing a retired Japanese porn star in the show for an honest conversation about consensual sex work and showing people can have more than one career in life.

Everything about the, ‘Are Online Friends Real Friends?’ episode. GO WATCH IT, it’s brilliant.

Garnt making “chotto-THE-FUCKING-matte” an expression

August 2020 Great Pretender (TV Series)

Spent most of the summer marinating in my BSD and YOI bubbles, until THIS BAD BOI came up on my Netflix recommendations. HOOOO BOI. This is some Anime Of The Year shit right here. Has a pretty original concept (Catch Me If You Can by way of Oceans 11-ish) but generally starts out like most other shounen (sans the super powers). AND THEN EPISODE FIVE HAPPENS. Not gonna spoil it but they TOOK THAT SHIT UP A NOTCH. Brilliant, even with a bit of an insane ending. GO WATCH THIS ONE.

Joined the fandom: August 2020 Obsession peaked: Pretty much as soon as I started watching it. Fandom friends: What’s up Fiji ;) @lil-1nsane Obsession faded: Naturally faded, but so glad I watched Fanfics you NEED to read: None so far! Little scared about this one, heard mixed reviews, but maybe someday. Favourite moments:

Edamame’s “madness arc” at the end of season 2. HOOOO BOY.

Laurent getting fucking WRECKED when Edamame punches him mid way through season 2, kills me every time.

Introducing my partner to anime with this show.

October 2020 Attack on Titan (TV Series)

RETURN OF THE KING. lol

In my quest to find an anime that I can watch with my partner, I turned on season 1 of this bad boi. Holy hell I forgot how much I loved this show, NO WONDER everyone lost their goddamn minds when this show first aired. I NEED to catch up before all the season four spoilers come to get me...

Joined the fandom: Winter 2016 Obsession peaked: Basically as soon as I started watching it. Fandom friends: None yet, but I know you’re out there... Obsession faded: 2017, JUST BEFORE SEASON TWO... I should have stuck around longer I know, but it’s slowly coming back. Reeeeeally need to catch up on seasons two, three, and four. Fanfics you NEED to read: GIVE ME YOUR RECS HEATHENS. Favourite moments:

Watching my partner FREAK OUT about Eren’s “death.”

EVERYTHING ABOUT POTATO GORL! lol

Getting in a conversation with a die hard fan after I hadn’t watched it in three years and saying... “Who’s that blond bitch that cries all the time?”/ “Armin?”/ “THAT’S THE ONE!”

November 2020... kind of. Figure Skating (Sport)

Okay this one is a bit hard to explain. 

I have been a DIE HARD figure skating for A LOOOOOONG time. My grandmother got me a hat from the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City and I remember watching even then. But I first became consciously aware of different skaters, my faves, etc. from about 2010. I vividly remember watching Plushenko skating in 2014 while on a school trip to Hawaii, and my friends laughing at me as I yelled at the TV.

But I didn’t TRULY get involved in the fandom side of it until this year. I had all this knowledge bottled up, but didn’t have any skating friends to talk to... UNTIL NOW. Super ironic that this happened in a year with almost NO skating, but I’ll take what I can get ;) Also did I stay up until FOUR-GODDAMN-THIRTY IN THE MORNING a few nights ago to stream Japanese Nationals on my phone??? YOU BET I DID.

Joined the fandom: Three times; 2002, 2010, and 2020. Obsession peaked: 2014? 2018? Idk it peaks any time someone does something amazing. Fandom friends: Rachel, my girl @idancewiththefairies​, WHY DIDN’T I INTRODUCE YOU TO THIS SOONER??? Obsession faded: Hasn’t. Won’t. lol Fanfics you NEED to read: NOPE. NONE. NOT GONNA HAPPEN. No fanfics about real people. Never gonna change that. (some of my) Favourite moments:

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir doing THAT routine at the 2018 Olympics.

Rachel​ sheepishly admitting to me that Shoma may have replaced Yuzu as her favourite, and me being SO DAMN PROUD of her for growing and developing her own skating opinions apart from me.

Yuzu’s 2012 ‘Romeo and Juliet’ routine and Worlds. THE RAW FUCKING POWER OF THAT SKATE.

Plushenko, cheeky bastard, changing his 2014 Team Event routine AS IT WAS HAPPENING.

The worlds friendliest rivalry between Yuzu and Nathan.

Any thing the Shibutani’s do, and all they do to break up the stereotype that all of Ice Dancing has to be rOmAnTiC and SeNsUaL to be good.

Watching my early faves become coaches and the D R A M A.

Honorable Mentions:

Coco (Film): I watched this the weekend I came home and I owe this movie a lot. It is so sweet an heartwarming, and it a roundabout way it brought me back to Tumblr (needed somewhere to vent my feelings considering I watched the movie a solid THREE YEARS after it came out, Tumblr seemed like the place to go lol). Watched in again in 2020 and it’s just as amazing.

Jekyll and Hyde (All media): Loved this book from the first time I read it in my first year of uni. But in December 2019, my fandom understanding reached its PEAK. The musical?? The comic?? YOOOOOO.

Dear Evan Hansen (Musical): I have BARELY engaged in fandom discourse, but the MUSIC. She fucking SLAPS.

Sirius the Jaeger (TV Series): This show is such an underrated gem. It literally has so much; "dead” family drama? Eclectic international group of monster hunters? Cowboys and vampires?? Yes, yes, and YES. And the main character has the same Japanese voice actor as Atsushi from BSD!

Studio Ghilbi (Films): My love affair with Ghibli goes back to when I was about 5 and BEGGED my mom to take me to the library so we could rent Kiki’s Delivery Service on DVD. But that love has been FULLY rejuvenated this year when I went to the Ghibli Film Festival in New York City (ironically in the last week in February). If you haven’t seen them, go watch From Up On Poppy Hill, Whisper of the Heart, and The Wind Rises. Spoilers, you’re probably gonna cry.

If you’ve made it this far, THANK YOU FOR READING! 

And thank you to all the amazing people that made my 2020 not so horrible. Good riddance 2020, don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

[rikeijo]

I hope you don't mind me adding my thoughts... I love discussing things in depth 🥺

There is a lot of things left for interpretation around Stammi vicino, which is really fascinating~ (and well, leaving unresolved mysteries usually just makes shows worth discussing again and again for long years, making them really immortal in a sense)

In the interview, where Mitsurou discusses Stammi vicino she says:

"私が最初に日本語で考えてからイタリア語で訳していただいたんですが、内容としては甘い恋の歌とかではなく、大事な人を失くした人の歌といった感じなんです。そもそもこの曲はヴィクトルが前シーズンで滑った架空のオペラの曲のストーリーの中に組み込まれているアリアなので、ヴィクトルの置かれている状況や彼自身とシンクロさせている曲というわけでないんですよ。(...)"

"At first I created the lyrics in Japanese and then I had them translated into Italian, but the theme isn't like a sweet love - it's a song of somebody who lost a person who was important to them. To begin with, this song is an aria that is a part of a story of a fictional opera, that Victor skated last season, so it's not that I meant to synchronize [the lyrics that I wrote] with the situation that Victor is in, or with him personally. "

Tbh, I don't see why she would lie about the setting that it's not a Victor's original, if it was. In a concert pamphlet, that I still haven't translated, the person who composed the aria says about the Duetto version, that "assuming that the original aria was a real aria created around 1800, the Duetto is like a modern version created in 2017, that wasn't part of the original opera". Of course, it's possible that Mitsurou had a different idea than Sayo, after all they are not "Sayomitsu" one person, but two separate creators.

That's my personal interpretation, but reading Mitsurou's comment, it makes me think that she sees the lyrics only on meta level (well, she wrote them, so it's kind of natural), and that maybe to her it's not a song that she wanted to be a personal song for Victor in-world, but as I've mentioned previously, that it's kind of written from the perspective of her - the omniscient god in this universe. So it's not a song that represent the Victor that was skating this program - it's the meta story of YoI in a nutshell and imo, that's why she used the word "シンクロ synchronize". It's not synchronized with Victor, because there is already the ending of YoI represented there in the song, something that will happen 8 months later. On the other hand, maybe she just watched a good drama on TV that day and was inspired by that - even something like that is possible 😂 But I personally think that she made it a part of the meta story, in the same way that other songs, like A tales of Sleeping Prince eg., are part of it (at least that's the theory) - even though it's not that the characters are conscious of that.

I agree that they way Stammi vicino way used as a background for Yuuri's musings can be considered bad storytelling in this context, but the whole monologue is very vague...

"既存の曲をコーチに選んでもらって振り付けも任せる それが僕にとっての当たり前だった。To get an existing music picked up for me by my coach, together with a choreography. For me that was the obvious way to do it. でも ヴィクトルは違った。But not for Victor. 自分で振り付けをし、曲だって新しいものを作り、物語を生み出した。He was creating a story, with his own choreography and even his own music. 僕もいつかそんなふうにできたらなんて憧れてはいたけど… I was looking up to him, hoping that I would be able to do something like that one day, too."

In Jp, the grammar here really leaves a lot to interpretation - he doesn't say "always" or anything like that, so it can mean anything from "always" to "it happened once".

It's possible that Sayo wanted to suggest that Stammi vicino is his original music, but idk, I think it's possible that the point of this monologue is just that Victor was creating his own programs, the stories in them by himself, and not relying on his coach to do that, unlike Yuuri.

That's just my opinion (I'm the "follow what the authors say" type and kind of "meta > in-world" school of fan 😆), though!

Two controversies about Stammi Vicino

There are some controversies regarding Viktor's free programme and I took the time to look at them in greater detail. (some of the things discussed in this post I've mentioned in a discussion I was involved in recently. The rest of this post builds on that.)

1. Did Viktor commission the music for Stammi Vicino?

In an interview, Mitsurou Kubo called the aria a piece of music that exists in the world of YOI, but when we subject the hints in the anime to a close examination, they contradict her statement, making you wonder which is true.

I mean, there’s this (sorry for the crappy screenshot)

Technically, the YOI creators might just have used footage of this programme because there was no time to animate Viktor skating an entirely different routine, but due to the tight time constraints of 12 episodes that forced the creators to condense the plot to 50% of its initial size, every scene and every image demanded to be filled with meaning. Speaking of time constraints, they could have used a series of pictures that show adult Viktor in different costumes (like those that had been drawn for Yuuri's room), but they didn't do that either, which rules out technical reasons for this choice.

But there’s more.

From a storytelling perspective, it makes no sense to combine these lines with a short scene of Viktor skating Stammi Vicino if it doesn’t apply to this programme. It’s bad storytelling, period. As Viktor’s fan, Yuuri knows which songs Viktor commissioned because skaters love to talk about these things in interviews. Being a skater himself, Yuuri is knowledgeable in all kinds of music genres even if he lets his coach pick the songs for him. Skaters just happen to be exposed to a lot of music.

This scene makes it seem as if Viktor has been commissioning music for his programmes for several seasons at least. While this doesn’t rule out the possibility that he occasionally picked a song that already exists for whichever reason, Stammi Vicino applies to Viktor’s situation at the beginning of the show so neatly that the lyrics must have been tailored to him. The commentator’s words while Viktor is skating his FS furthermore suggest that this programme shows a new and personal side of him. Of course, that could also work for a song that already exists, but how likely is it that such a song 100% matches the vision of a perfectionist? That a genius like Viktor would just roll with that is debatable at least. He’d rather think “Okay, that’s nice. But this verse and that verse don’t match my idea at all. I think I'll call my composer and ask them to write a song for me.”

Stammi Vicino holds unambiguous references to Plato’s Symposium, which the YOI creators have mentioned repeatedly. And while this is neither an argument for or against the song already existing before Viktor even thought about a free programme for the season in question, it seems too coincidental from a storytelling perspective.

To me, all this points to Viktor commissioning Stammi Vicino because taken all facts together, it’s what makes the most sense.

Side note: It’s not entirely uncommon for storytellers to contradict their creation. Sometimes, you forget details, remember them wrong, or didn’t think them through. Or your views simply change. In the case of YOI, we have to factor in the possibility that certain details had to be de-homoed due to protests from parts of the Japanese fandom. The rings that were removed from many official arts that were released during the first year after the show had aired are such an example. In addition, interviews are often heavily edited.

2. When did Viktor choreograph Stammi Vicino?

The first time we see Viktor wearing the Stammi Vicino costume, is right at the beginning of episode 1 at the GPF. While there is no rule against wearing the same costume for different programmes and costumes are expensive, you usually don’t see this in real figure skating. Some figure skaters even get a new costume for the same programme mid-season because matches the purpose better.

The music, the composition and choreography, and costume build the concept of a figure skating programme. The more perfectionist a skater is (and many top skaters actually are), the more specific you can bet they are about the concept. Viktor is a perfectionist who has full authority over his programmes and he can afford having several costumes per programme. Wearing the same costume for several programmes is a breach with his characterisation.

Let’s assume for one moment that Viktor did indeed create Stammi Vicino because of his encounter with Yuuri at the GPF in Sochi. Why would the creators have been so sloppy and put him into the same costume which he wears at Worlds when they even designed costumes the other two GPF winners JJ and Chris?

Does he wear the same costume because he met Yuuri there? Well, Yuuri approached him at the banquet at the end of the competition and only because he was drunk. Before, Yuuri was to awkward to even talk to Viktor and was, in all likelihood, too busy not freaking out, dealing with having bombed his performance, and Vicchan's death. To reflect Viktor's first actual meeting with Yuuri in a programme, thus choosing a costume that resembles the suit he wore that night would make way more sense.

Some skaters change their programme mid-season. Some switch back to an old programme, other skaters create an entirely new programme. Again, a skater like Viktor could afford this and is skilled enough to bend a new routine to his vision in time for the big competitions. (For reference: Russian Nationals are two weeks after the GPF, which leaves a skater competing in both events one week in between. That’s just enough to pitch the idea to his composer and commission a costume.)

Once Nationals are over and done, Viktor could start working on the new programme and show it at Europeans for the first time. That would leave him about one month to bring it to a level that will win him this competition. Yuuri would now have about two months to create a perfect copy. As he his busy graduating and preparing his move back to Japan, it’s debatable whether this is enough time. That’s the only reasonable timeline for such a scenario. However, since Viktor wore the costume before the banquet, this doesn’t seem likely and the show gives us no clear-cut clue why that could be and I’m loath to speculate wildly.

Long story short: Everything points to Viktor having created Stammi Vicino at the beginning of the season in which he wins his fifth GPF and world title, respectively. And there’s a beauty in this choice because it gives Viktor an agenda beyond his love interest. Well-crafted characters exist outside of their interactions and relationships with the other characters. Giving them things that belong to them alone adds more depth to their personality and turn them into individuals. Viktor had a life before Yuuri and this life was lonely and his (secret) longing for love was an inherent part of it (I’m preparing a follow-up post that examines the lyrics more closely, so forgive me for not going into the details here).

Especially in a show that is limited to 12 episodes and in which every image is filled with meaning, including details that hint at the characters’ past are beyond precious.

Thanks for reading! <3

If you enjoy my meta, please consider checking out my works on AO3 (link in bio)! My YOI canon works all include my meta musings.

[yukihime03]

The A3! Song Tag Game

Thanks for tagging me, @athela-3​! I’d actually been wanting to write a post about A3! songs but never got to it because I had a hard time choosing! 😅

With you tagging me, I guess I might as well do this now. Man... I spent hours formulating a response to these questions. I’m doing this all at once, so this post is going to be a long one...

Main:

What is your first A3! song?

MANKAI☆Kaika Sengen! I mean, it’s the song that greets you the moment you open the game. Moreover, I was already familiar with Masayoshi Oishi, thanks to him writing Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun’s OP Kimi Ja Nakya Dame Mitai (which is also a bop!). The moment I heard Kaika Sengen, I instantly knew it’s written by Masayoshi-san and took to it immediately. However, the song that led to the whole discography was Susume! Pirates, because I was blown away by Misumi’s voice there and it made me curious about his other songs... and so, here I am, playing A3! playlist almost every day.

What A3! song gives you musical chills (frisson)?

Ugh, so many, I have a hard time choosing, but I think I’ll choose the one that started it all: Susume! Pirates. Misumi’s and Muku’s voices there always give me good chills, making me wanna sail away and go treasure hunting right away! Special mention: The Contract. The full version is not out yet, but damn, Tsumugi’s “Contract”... *chef’s kiss*

What A3! song makes you want to dance?

Honestly all A3ders songs and Summer Troupe songs make my body move instantly, but I think the one song that makes me wanna do proper dance is Summer Time Love. I mean, have you seen Renren (Kazu’s VA) dancing that song??? I totally understand why Daisuke-kun (Misumi’s VA) learned the dance routine and wanted to dance it with Renren.

What A3! song you would sing in a karaoke?

If it’s a solo song, I want to sing Kiteretsu Poemer, because I can go all out and be hella dramatic. 😂

Ahahahaha I have kept you all in waiting, honored ladies and esteemed gentlemen My time to take the stage is nigh! Ahahahaha

If it’s a duet song... I actually already make an agreement with a friend who also likes A3! that we’ll sing BUZAMA in karaoke. I’ll sing Sakyo’s part and my friend will sing Juza’s part. I have even memorized the dialogues. 😅

What A3! song gets you hyped up?

Natsu tte ☆ Pari Pari! It’s an easy choice because this song just screams “HYPE HYPE HYPE”. 

KA・ZU・NA・RI! Guu yabaa! 

What A3! song is the most relatable for you?

Nowadays, I can totally relate to Gamer’s High for obvious reasons lol. Even my new motto comes from this song:

Kakin wa uragiranai (My in-game purchases will never betray me)

But my teenage self can also relate to MINORITY. This leads to me to the realization that both Itaru and Yuki struggle with their real selves, but they take different approaches. My approach was closer to Yuki though.

It was right for me to have refused to lie to myself, right? The truth is, I’ve always been searching for a place that will accept me for who I am

Thankfully, just as Yuki has found Mankai Company, I have also found a place that accepts me for who I am. 😊

What A3! song makes you feel sadness?

Omoide no Nejimaki. Gosh, the moment the music starts, I just wanna cry everytime. Hearing the song always reminds me of the play... 😭😭😭

It was left in the hand The key to memories   

Excuse me while I go sobbing for a second.

What A3! song make you feel happiness?

MagiClap. The two purest beings I have ever known singing to me about the magic of a smile?? How can I not be smiling happily??

Let’s clap your hands together! I’ll cast a spell of happiness     

If you look at my face when I’m listening to this song, my expression will be like this ☺️☺️☺️ the whole time. Whoever decides to make these two sing together deserves an award, IMO.

A3! song that could be a good anime op?

If we strictly talk about anime OP, I think Mikansei na Sora de fits a fashion anime. But I think quite a number of A3! songs can be good anime songs. Sorachika will be good as soccer anime ED, I think. Susume! Pirates also sounds similar to Fairy Tail BGMs...

Favourites:

What is your favourite A3! song?

The hardest question to answer ever, but I end up choosing Scarlet Game as the winner. It has the mystery air that I so love and I adore the concept of a duet between archenemies. The lyrics are the reason why this song wins over es no Yuutsu as my most favorite A3! song.

My dearest neighbor To be quite honest, Is but a smiling monster 

I always love smiling villains. 🙂

What is your favourite Character song?

SICK SICK SICK. I’m not even a Masumi fan, but damn, this song is just so sick. I want to grab a standing mic and sing this song the way Shirai (Masumi’s VA) sang it in the live concert.

What is your favourite Troupe theme song?

Natsu tte ☆ Pari Pari! because as I said: HYPE HYPE HYPE. My second favorite is SECOND SHOT. I also love the rock vibes of Autumn Troupe songs.

What is your favourite Play theme song?

I mentioned it above, so you can guess it’s es no Yuutsu. Being a mystery genre lover, I will of course choose this song as a top favorite. Toshi’s (Homare VA) voice also sounds so... delicious. My second favorite is Hajimari wa Karutetto because I like classical music (which is the play’s theme) and the soft violin sound. It is the song I listen to when I want to relax.

What is your favourite Mix Troupe theme song?

Scarlet Game for reasons already mentioned above. I have a lot of favorites from Mixed Plays though: Mikansei no Sora de, Sorachika, Yoi no Mikazuki, and MagiClap. I can’t quite decide the order.

What is your favourite A3der! song?

Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu☆Blooming! I just love it when they yell out “MANKAI!” I think the new Circle of Seasons may usurp the top position, but it’s not quite there yet...

Phew~ It’s quite tiring writing all this, but I feel very accomplished at the same time. 😝 I’m not tagging anyone in particular. If you want to do this too, then go ahead! Spread your love for A3! songs~

[three--rings]

You should listen to...

The Penumbra Podcast...

Okay, so I have this whole sideblog at @gentlysociallypinned​ and when I made it this main blog was almost entirely YOI and I was getting really into a bunch of podcasts/web content so it made sense.  It’s where I have posted The Adventure Zone stuff (almost only reblogging art), my Penumbra thoughts on episodes and my Penumbra fic, and when I was HEAVILY into Critical Role for those few months two years ago,  it was mostly that. 

These days it’s mostly DEAD, but I’m still actively a fan of TAZ and TPP and am going to just bring them over to join the multifandom shitshow this main blog has become since it transitioned from YOI to The Magicians to MDZS mostly.  Whatever, this blog is Shit I Like Right Now.

So I’m going to occasionally be posting and rb-ing TPP stuff.  And since I’ve kept that fandom so much off this blog, I feel like maybe a lot of folks who follow me here might not be aware of it.  Especially if you’re not in any other podcast fandoms.  (Because all podcast fandoms are ultimately one, and NO I have not listened to Magnus yet. Big RQG fan, though.)

ANYWAY, so consider this my VERY LONGWINDED (ALREADY OMG IT’S 5AM WHY?) intro post about The Penumbra Podcast and why you should listen to it. 

It’s Queer.  The End.  

Ha.  But no, really, it is.  Very.  Queer.  The mission statement of Penumbra is to tell tropey genre stories but Very Queer. 

So there are two main fictional universes/storylines that currently make up TPP (at the very beginning of S1 there were one-off episodes but those stopped pretty quickly.)  The main one, the one that starts at episode 1, and that most people think of when they think TPP is the Juno Steel series.  Juno Steel is a noir private investigator who lives many centuries in some nebulous future.  On Mars.  It’s very light, pulpy sci-fi, totally uninterested in explaining its sci-fi-ness.  But it’s also set in a world without our current understandings of gender and sexual categories.  I.e. everyone is just very casually queer and it’s not talked about.   Juno himself is NB and bisexual, though those words are not used in-universe.  The master thief who becomes his potential love interest is an homme fatale.  People are trans and NB without it being a Thing worth commenting on.  It’s...lovely. 

(Above: Official art by Mikaela Buckley.)

It’s also very noir.  Juno is a broken, broken lady at the start of the series, for reasons that very slowly come to light over the course of two seasons.  The end of the first season was enough of a downer to make me literally cry myself to sleep for three nights straight the first time I listened to it.  (At which point I wrote fix-it fic because I was COMPELLED.)  The series, while often silly in the episode to episode mystery plots, also touches on extremely difficult and dark subject matter like drug and alcohol abuse, childhood abuse, mental illness, suicide, etc.  So I feel like I HAVE to put that out there.  All episodes have trigger warnings in the description and you should read and mind them if needed.  Some episodes can fucking WRECK you, in frequently utterly brilliant ways, but still, be mindful.  Ultimately, I will say there is light at the end of the tunnel (though the series is ongoing in the third season atm) but it’s a long, painful road to get there.  But JESUS CHRIST I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a narrative about a mentally ill and victimized character actually working through their shit in real-time in this way.  While also being a show with a hyperintelligent car that communicates in beeps and whistles, and giant killer rabbits that live in the sewers.

The second ongoing universe is The Second Citadel.  This one comes in part way through the first season.  It’s set in an Arthurian-style fantasy universe, but one set in a jungle with all POC characters.  The first few episodes all focus on different characters within the same world, most Knights of the Second Citadel, mostly ones that somehow have broken the stereotype of the usual knight.  (There’s a female knight, a physically disabled prospective knight, etc.)  The first few episodes aren’t that popular and are a little weak, but eventually it all comes together, right around the time that Sir Damien, his fiancee Rilla, and Lord Arum the anthropomorphic lizard monster are introduced as one of the strangest and most instantly charming love triangles ever. 

This is where I started getting actually more invested in Second Citadel than Juno Steel.  Because star-crossed queer love between a knight who kills monsters and one of those monsters and the scientist/doctor girlfriend who ends up also developing feelings for The Lizard....yeah.  It’s Everything, y’all.   I love all three people in this ship SO VERY MUCH.  I even play one of them as a DnD character (Lord Arum.  He’s a Dragonborn Fey Sorlock. )  Sir Damien the knight-poet with terrible anxiety, Lord Arum who desperately doesn’t want to admit to having Actual Feelings for a Human, much less Two Humans!! Fencing while developing Queer Lust!  Rilla the scientist who doesn’t know why she has to have fallen for not ONE SILLY BOY but TWO?! 

This series is much lighter in tone than Juno, so it’s a nice balance. 

So anyway, the show is really filled with excellent writing and fantastic characters.  The acting is also generally Very Good, but that’s more true the longer it goes on.  Some of the actors are INSANELY good.  But it’s not without its faults, especially towards the beginning of the show.  In particular, the sound editing/design isn’t very friendly to the ears, especially if you’re sensitive to loud sound effects and like...blaring alarms and stuff.  If it bothers you I recommend not using headphones and/or listening via an app/device that lets you adjust levels.  It’s literally the one flaw that still annoys me with the show, though it’s gotten better.

So if you’re looking for a new fandom, or something to listen to in these trying times, something fun but also REAL, tropey and sincere...check it out.

And also I have six fics in the fandom, in case you didn’t know that.  I feel like I could always just spontaneously produce more TPP fic at any time, too.

[joeys-piano]

Rules: pick 5 shows, then answer the following questions. don’t cheat. tag 10 (or however many) people.

Joey Edit: Mild cheating may be involved

Tagged by: @alice-chan-chan

Tagging: (if y’all want to) @schizoidwire, @somuchanemoia, @feu-eau, @truedespair, @caped-ace, @leftovergarlicbread, @the-not-witch-time-forgot, @chavabear, @ikizais

My Choices:

Yuri!!! On Ice

Detroit: Become Human

Bungou Stray Dogs

Hannibal 

Buzzfeed Unsolved

who’s your favourite character from 1?

Yurio’s grandfather

who’s your least favourite character in 2?

Richard Perkins. My favorite scene was when Hank just knocked the socks off this man.

what’s your favourite episode of 4?

Episode 6 of Season 1 - Entree 

what’s your favourite season of 5?

The Supernatural season. I’m kind of into True Crime, but there’s something about the Supernatural seasons that get my goat every time. I think it’s because the most iconic Shane Madej lines have been uttered in those seasons and in some ways, those seasons feel more memorable to me. I love rewatching the episodes.

what’s your favourite couple of 3?

O D A Z A I

what’s your favourite couple in 2?

Ralph and Kara would feel like a sweet couple to me. I’ve had thoughts where they ran away together with Alice and started a new life up in Canada. Or, at least they tried until they were chased by CyberLife!Connor and Ralph sacrifices himself so that Kara and Alice could be free. Ralph holds off Connor for as long as he can and being a survivalist android, he’d put up a really good fight. He knows where it hurts on an android and he gouges into those places to slow Connor down.

what’s your favourite episode in 1?

Episode 3 I guess?

what’s your favourite episode in 5?

The Demonic Curse of Annabelle the Doll

what’s your favourite season in 2?

I like the Hank and Connor and finding deviants season.

how long have you been watching 1?

I watched in 2016 when it premiered and I never touched it again.

how did you get into 3?

I recently got into it in 2019 when someone I knew I was reblogging fanart for it. I originally heard about the show and watched a few episodes a few years ago. Decided to pick the show back up and watch it for reals this time. More than a year later, I’m still here and making content for it. BSD is an acquired taste. You kind of have to know what you’re getting yourself into before you can enjoy it for what it is.

favourite actor in 4?

Caroline Dhavernas. She’s the actress for Alana Bloom.

which do you prefer? 1, 2, or 5?

SInce I’m still keeping up Buzzfeed Unsolved, #5 all the way! I enjoy being a passive fan for that show and supporting the content creators in the fandom.

which show have you seen more of, 1 or 3?

Considering that BSD has three seasons, a manga, several light novels, an alternative manga, AND a MOVIE, I’ve seen, read, and breathed a lot more BSD content than stuff from Yuri!!! On Ice. The only thing YoI has on me is that I got into the fandom when I was young so I had more time to devote to writing for it. But music-wise and definitely the complexity of the stuff I’m doing now, BSD takes the cake.

if you could be anyone from 4, who would you be?

Realistically, I’d be a background character. I would like to be one of the guests that eats one of Hannibal’s exquisite dishes.

would a crossover of 3 and 4 work?

HELL YEAH. 

Oda would be a retired officer at the academy, teaching students and balancing his time between taking care of the kids he’s adopted and going through physical therapy to recover from a nasty knife wound he got a few years ago. When he gets a call from Ango that there’s a serial killer on the loose, Oda knows he’ll be forced to confront one of his demons. It makes sense to him on why Ango called. After all and before he retired, Oda was tasked in capturing a notorious serial killer. A killer named the Marionette, a foul and sharp-mouthed man who could twist anyone with his words and gauze. After hearing from Ango that a recent serial killer has been copying the Marionette's style, Oda comes to terms that he may have to work with the man that nearly killed him if Yokohama is going to be safe.

When Oda descends to the bowels of the Department of Special Abilities, he hardens his breaths and his resolve as he comes face to face with none other than Dazai Osamu. The man, the killer, circles around his cell block and his smile is as disarming as the one he wore before he carved into Oda with a knife. The bandages are gone. There’s nothing to hide. There’s nothing that Dazai can get a hold of to hurt anyone or himself. And yet, Oda doesn’t come any closer. Knowing just how dangerous it’d be if he took one more step.

An old shame riles him up. He hates to admit that he used to love this man, that he’d do anything to have him smile or laugh or feel carefree, to feel those cold fingers laced around his own, or how he loved it when Dazai talked about chaos and philosophy. How much of that was a hoax? Oda doesn’t know. He hates to admit that even after all this time, some part of him still yearns for Dazai. Some part of him misses this vile, conniving, and ruthless creature. But when Dazai looks at him with those soft eyes and says his nickname like its candy in his mouth...oh, Oda knows just how dangerous Dazai can be.

It doesn’t help that Dazai’s wearing a Cheshire grin or that he’s slowly dragging Oda forward. Not even with strings, but simply with his lips. In how he speaks and his words are just as dangerous as a knife could ever be.

pair two characters in 1 who would make an unlikely but strangely okay couple?

I can’t think of anyone.

overall, which show has the better storyline, 3 or 5?

Buzzfeed Unsolved.

which has better theme music, 2 or 4?

The music in Detroit: Become Human is pretty good