#victor nikiforov/georgi popovich

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band AU outtakes !

[fic pending]

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Just more of the gang being happy and having fun 🌊🌈

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My thoughts on this awesome art.

JJ ( lesser noble's son/ mayor's kid or something like that) is just trying to help his friend (Otabek) but he has the worst understanding of boundaries, subtly, and gets caught up in the drama so fast it's tragic. Hilarious, but tragic.

Minami is an elf. Come on now. Look at him! He works with Christophe as an apprentice. Just is suddenly there with whatever is needed. Has a massive break thrugh to become an official court magician apprentice by learning that illusive spell at a crucial time.

Pitchit is all about that tea. Him and Chris have serious side eye when everyone else needs help because of their dramatic selves, but boy do they thrive on it. These two might secretly be the source of all the rumors and spontaneous dance numbers in town.

Christoph is the fairy godfather/court official magical person with all the gentle magic and blatant flamboyancy such a position requires. Somehow he's always there. You just don't notice until he makes himself known. It's creepy, until you realize it's actually to help and protect, and part of his magic. Also, half the time it's Pitchit eaves dropping and using clever mirror placement to get that pipping hot constant comet (tea).

You know that Georgi is so into singing his massive hit (backed up by JJ) that a 'captured' Otabek just unties himself and walks out with Yuri as the villains hold the long note before they even notice. They are well across the dangerous bridge before the song ends and JJ discovers they slipped out. Georgi has to double take, blinks and is secretly impressed and chagrined because damn it that was a GOOD SONG! He worked on that all week! Sends JJ to get them back for the plot to continue.

Yuri hates that everything causes spontaneous songs. Especially when his parents sing them because they are always sappy wake you up at dawn with thrown open windows and birds and suddenly he's dressed and on a horse and what the hell?! Why are they on the way to town? What even is life? Someone HELP! Gets chased because plot demands it, winds up in woods. Hears BEST music. Follows it.

Otabek lives in the woods in an oddly fantastical 'cabin', that would be a massive magical castle if he'd just flip the fuse box switch, but he wont because it causes questions and matinence issues, and he just cannot with these sudden laps of logic for fairy tale rules. Why it all so convoluted? You could just like, not? He's gonna get caught up in the plot and wonder what the heck happened. Otabek helps. Everyone. Because common sense is apparently his alone, WTF people? W. T. F. Finds Yuri trying to escape town folk trying to mob him. Helps. Tried to get him back home. Adventure and secret (is a high rank) noble reveal because Georgi is not as bad as he seems. He's like Christoph's counter part. They both mean well. It's just that one is goth af about it.

Victor and Yuuri are just trying to throw a frikin birthday party for their feral son. He's cursed, but like, in a good way. Some day his prince will come (wait until they meet the guy from the woods and start the betting pool on how long it takes for the curse to break because they are keeping him) and they have SO Many Songs About It. Ah, how will they ever lift this (dramatic, tragic, so exciting) curse? With SONG! Wait... where did Yuri go? LE DRAMA! *smooch smooch* Los DRAMATICA! *kissy kiss kiss kiss* OH How Will They Ever Make it to That Fateful Day?! *aggressive making out*

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The full spread cover I drew for the @yoi-trope-zine featuring the following tropes: coffee shop AU, cute waiter, royalty, soulmates, hot cop, florist AU and vampires! Can you spot them all? 🤓

It’s no exaggeration this piece wound up with over 1000 layers, with 200 of those for the diamonds alone. 😓 If you’d like to own a copy, leftover zine sales are on now, so check out the zine account in the tags!

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Is the fandom still here?

Hi! It’s been awhile and a lot of stuff (therapy) has happened. 

Is the Yuri on ice fandom still here?

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mila babicheva on tiktok has incredible potential… ‘my rinkmates and their problems’

georgi ‘wears drugstore eyeliner’

viktor ‘impulsively flew to japan to find the love of his life’

yuri p ‘is sixteen, looks twelve’

mila (me) ‘perfect, no problems’

yuuri ‘is the love of viktor’s life (🚩)’

[hikarry]

My new one-shot is up! Go check it out!

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Across The Universe

Detroit: Yuri’s done the math. He done the research and the consideration and the planning. This will be his last year of competitive figure skating, and this time next year, he’ll be moving on to grad school. No matter what, though, Yuri hopes to hold onto Victor in any way that he can. Even if he has to compromise and change his own dreams to do it.

St. Petersburg: Victor is tired of compromising. Tired of having dreams deferred, of stealing moments in the off season and after competitions to spend time with Yuri. The way he sees it, there are only two options: keep Yuri in competitive skating, or find a way to stay by Yuri’s side after this year is through. Because if there’s anything that Victor knows for certain, it’s that he’s never letting anything come between him and his soulmate ever again.

But how far are Yuri and Victor willing to go to protect the other’s dreams? And with a whole universe separating them, will a soulmate bond really be enough to hold them together when it matters most?

**Part Three of the Defy the Stars Trilogy**

Soulmates!AU • College! AU(kinda) • Happy Ending

Read Chapter Thirty-Two here!

In which Victor and Yuri feverishly hope that the other one will make the first move, and a stalemate ensues.

Posting every Friday (ish), chapter preview below the cut

Yuri was late to practice. In his defense, though, it had been a long flight, and a seemingly endless trip to the athlete’s village, and no sooner had he gotten to his room than Junichi was knocking on his door, peppering him with questions about how interviews had been and whether he’d managed to land a flip yet and by the time Yuri managed to actually eat something and change into practice clothes, he was supposed to be at the rink to start off ice warm-ups, and by the time he was there to start warming up, everyone else was already out on the ice. 

So in the end he only got a weak warm-up in, nowhere near the amount of time he actually should have given it, and then an even weaker amount of time to actually get a feel for the ice. 

And not just any ice. The ice. The main rink. Olympic rings below him. A scattering of spectators and media up in the stands to watch him, to speculate and criticize. It made Yuri want to throw up. 

(How was it, just earlier today, that he’d managed to be excited for all of this?)

Seeing Victor standing at the other end of the rink, staring blankly at him, wasn’t any help. And Yuri didn’t have to wonder anymore if he had it in him to go up to his soulmate right away and reopen everything between them. He knew now that he didn’t have the courage to do it. And he was frankly relieved that Victor was the first person off the ice now that practice was over—while Yuri himself was still all the way at the other end of the rink—because that just meant he could put everything off for just a little bit longer. 

Tomorrow, Yuri told himself. I can talk to him tomorrow.  

Because one thing was for certain: even if Yuri’s cowardice and anxiety were swallowing him whole now, the moment he had seen Victor he had known in his soul that he didn’t want to let Victor go. He knew Patrick was right, that if he waited around to long, then Victor would move on. He had seen it in the way Victor was skating, before he’d come onto the ice. And Yuri didn’t want that. He wanted Victor to be happy, yes, but he wanted to be the one who made Victor happy. He wanted the life that Victor’s short program described. 

Continue on Ao3

[authormagrant]

See you next level

I can't lie, the news about Ice Adolescence is heartbreaking, mostly because of its inevitability. Yuri on Ice was a show I desperately needed at the exact moment I desperately needed it. Even now, when I get into a really bad spiral, listening to the soundtrack helps ease some of that weight. It's also a show that I wrote fanfic for before my writing career really took off, and I loved playing with characters and plots, finding ways to weave together all the threads I loved most from the show.

So, yes, while the news is depressing as hell, I'm going to cling to the good things that came from that flashpoint magical show and celebrate them. That includes revisiting some of my old fics and appreciating the comments and friendships I gained from the fandom when I was writing for it. Without further ado...

FIC LIST (IN ORDER OF MY PERSONAL FAVORITES)

The Last Five Years (Yuri) (6556 words) by AuthorMAGrant Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, Otabek Altin/Other(s) Characters: Yuri Plisetsky, Otabek Altin, Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri, Nikolai Plisetsky, Yakov Feltsman, Lilia Baranovskaya Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Aged-Up Yuri Plisetsky, Aged-Up Otabek Altin, Best Friends, changes, inevitable otp, Fluff and Angst Series: Part 1 of Five Years Summary: A lot can happen in five years, including falling in love with your best friend.

The Next Five Years (Otabek) (11214 words) by AuthorMAGrant Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky Characters: Otabek Altin, Yuri Plisetsky, Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Aged-Up Yuri Plisetsky, Aged-Up Otabek Altin, Best Friends, Happily Ever After, Domestic Fluff, Family Drama, Romantic Fluff, Soulmates Series: Part 2 of Five Years Summary: The sequel to "The Last Five Years (Yuri)." Now that Otabek has found his way back into Yuri's life, he intends to make every moment count.

Amor Vincit Omnia (80396 words) by AuthorMAGrant Chapters: 24/24 Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, Mila Babicheva/Sara Crispino, Lilia Baranovskaya & Yakov Feltsman Characters: Leo de la Iglesia, Phichit Chulanont, Ji Guang-Hong, Georgi Popovich, Minami Kenjirou, Emil Nekola, Michele Crispino Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Vampire, rated for all the adult content, Vampire Hunters, Russian vampire family, hunter Otabek, Vampire Yuri, enough tagging separate chapters NSFW just assume it's pretty NSWF, pretty angsty, happily ever after guaranteed Series: Part 2 of The Family That Preys Together, Stays Together Summary: Otabek Altin is the Brotherhood's most diligent soldier, expertly hunting and killing the vampiric enemies of humanity, until he faces a bloodthirsty Russian punk named Yuri who kicks his ass … and captures his attention as no one else ever has. The lines between hatred and lust blur, and the deeper Otabek falls into Yuri's world, the more he questions the Brotherhood and its orders. Now, what should have been a simple eradication trip to America has become a fight to determine whether Otabek will remain the obedient soldier of his youth or the warrior who may earn a love he's never deserved.

Happy birthday, Beka (1744 words) by AuthorMAGrant Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Vampire, Russian vampire family, vampire otayuri, Mates, happy birthday Beka, ridiculous vampire domestic fluff Series: Part 3 of The Family That Preys Together, Stays Together Summary: The Brotherhood is gone. The long stretch of eternity awaits Otabek and Yuri, who can finally enjoy their mated lives. With no enemies to fight, no wars to be won, it's high time they start celebrating the little triumphs of day to day life. And Otabek's birthday is on that list.

Take a Knee (4262 words) by AuthorMAGrant Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky, Jean-Jacques Leroy/Isabella Yang, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Characters: Otabek Altin, Yuri Plisetsky Additional Tags: Aged-Up Yuri Plisetsky, Aged-Up Otabek Altin, Romantic Fluff, Marriage Proposal, Matchmaker Phichit Chulanont, sfw, rated for language, One Shot Summary: Otabek takes Yuri to JJ's wedding as his plus one, only for his best-laid plans to fall apart before he can convince Yuri that marriage may not be so horrible. Fortunately, Phichit is ever helpful in playing Cupid.

Charade (994 words) by AuthorMAGrant Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Spy, give me all the costume changes, originally zine content Summary: My story featured in The Hero and His Soldier Otayuri AU zine. A little bit of spy fun for Yuri and Otabek.

First Time for Everything (1290 words) by AuthorMAGrant Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky Additional Tags: virgin otabek, experienced Yuri, aged-up Yuri and Otabek, NSFW, First Time Blow Jobs, Random smut, Short One Shot Summary: All it takes is a single, wrong hand placement and Otabek's secret attraction for Yuri is exposed. And, if Yuri has anything to say about it, that won't be the only thing.

From Almaty, With Love (996 words) by AuthorMAGrant Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Spies & Secret Agents, Alternate Universe - Mr. & Mrs. Smith Fusion, spies spies everywhere, nothing but fluff here Summary: The story I wrote (but didn't use) for The Hero and His Soldier Otayuri AU zine. Basically it's Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but with Yuri and Otabek, and will hopefully tide you over until you can read "Charade" in the actual zine.

Show Me (1076 words) by AuthorMAGrant Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky Characters: Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri, Otabek Altin's Mother Additional Tags: Domestic Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Otabek finally makes a move, Aged-Up Yuri Plisetsky, Aged-Up Otabek Altin Summary: Written for Yuri on Ice Music Week, Day 1: 1960s Song: "Show Me" from 1964's My Fair Lady In which Otabek Altin is sweetly clueless and Yuri decides to make his feelings obvious.

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Jeu des princesses avec les pommes d'or de la discorde, inscribed 'to the fairest' (8291 words) by AlexSeanchai

Chapters: 4/5

Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov

Characters: Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri, Yakov Feltsman, Okukawa Minako, Nishigori Yuuko, Yuri Plisetsky, Mila Babicheva, Georgi Popovich, Sato Yuki (Yuri!!! on Ice), Original Characters

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Temporarily Long-Distance Relationship, 2017 Russian National Figure Skating Championships, 2016–17 Japan Figure Skating Championships, Epistolary, Social Media, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Podfic Welcome

Summary:

Joining Yuuri for his exhibition skate at Nationals—exactly as with adopting a dog, cutting his hair, buying an apartment, moving to Japan, and returning to competitive skating—is an impulse decision. Viktor has no notion that he intends to do what he's daydreaming of until the thing is already half done.

Exactly as with those earlier life-changing decisions, he first spends hours if not months planning what he would do if he were to do what he daydreams of. This is no sign that he intends to do it: he has put as much thought into adopting a child, joining a ballet company, and moving to Switzerland. But once he decides he is doing such a thing, it is the work of a moment to take these plans from mere daydreams to irrevocable reality.

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Just read a thing about how Otabek stabilizes Yuri. Now my head is cannoning that whenever spicy ice cat is particularly scoville, the Russian team auto calls Otabek to calm Yuri down. By now he's on speed dial. They do it so many times they just walk into Otabek's home rink one day and bodily haul him and his stuff to Russia because these phone bills don't pay themselves and last week Yuri actually went after someone with a skate blade when they were not properly sharpened.

Please, dear deity of whatever hell we are in, please just keep the spicy cat from homicide?

(You could do that by, idk, PUTING OUR SLOW BURN BETTING POOL OUT OF IT'S MISERY?!)

(Mila: Damn it, Georgi, he's not supposed to know about that.)

(But now that he does...)

(Victor! Don't push them. Let it happen.)

(Ah, my Yuuri! We must help love when ever we can! Think of how surprised Yurio will be!)

(Otabek on phone: ¿Help, I'm being kidnapped into an arranged marriage?)

(Yuri on phone: GOD DAMN IT VICTOR!)

(Mila: Shush, you love it.)

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ooh, I am torn between "untitled document" and "reverseAU". Please pick one for me!

I only included untitled document because it's funny to me, so it's good you chose two.

This is the whole of untitled document. To this day I have no idea what it is.

'reverse AU' was a classic Yuri on Ice prompt that was essentially just a role reversal of canon. I really liked the way my idea played out, but I sadly never got around to finishing it.

Anyway it's a good chunk of words, and I'm pretty certain I'll never finish, so I'll just put it behind a read more. Yuri on Ice fans come get your food.

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Victor had slipped in after public ice time was over, after the last of the beginner skating lessons were done for the day, and kindly asked Yuuko Nishigori, the young woman who worked at the rink, if he could have some private ice time.

He was surprised when she recognized him, professing that it’s not every day a world-famous figure skater came into their rink out of the blue and asked to skate. Victor didn’t think he was particularly world famous, but he supposed, if you were a skating fan already, he might be recognizable.

“You can use the rink while we’re closing up. That should give you about forty-five minutes? If you want more ice time than that, you’ll have to schedule it with us and pay for it in advance.”

Victor nodded, pleased that the woman spoke English well, because he didn’t know more than the most basic of Japanese.

He was still feeling the effects of jet lag, so once he’d laced up his skates he spent a good ten or so minutes just skating around the rink, orienting himself with the setting and breathing in the crisp cool air of a rink well loved.

And then, he began to skate. It was a program he knew down to his very bones, better than his own programs from that year, which to be honest, considering his last experience in competition, he’d rather forget anyway.

When Yuuri Katsuki skated, it was like he made music with his body. Victor thought that, even if he went out there and skated a program with no music playing, it would hardly make a difference, would hardly diminish its beauty. Yuuri was the music itself; it flowed through him and was expelled from his fingertips, from the silver of his blades flashing and gliding across the ice.

It took Victor’s breath away, but he hardly cared. Even if Victor could no longer breathe, he was sure he could survive on Yuuri’s skating alone; on the serenity of his smile, on the grace and poise he moved with.

If Victor could skate like that, if he could skate even half as well as that, he would be happy. If he could stand on the podium with Yuuri Katsuki, know that Yuuri had watched him skate, had been impressed by it, then it would have all been worth it; the pain in his leg that occasionally still ached to this day, the years of recovery from an injury that could easily have been career ending, the biting commentary and the cynicism the media had had about him; ‘just give up, Victor Nikiforov is over’ for season upon season. The Russian skating federation would rather be done with him, he knew it. There were new stars on the rise; junior world champion Yuri Plisetsky for one. And even Georgi Popovich, his longtime rink mate, had managed a top six finish at worlds in Victor’s absence just days before.

There was no music as he began the program; Yuuri’s program, the one he’d just won his fifth world title with, his fifth grand prix final gold medal. It was the program that Victor skated every single day because he loved skating, and this was the one thing that could remind him of it.

He heard the piano in his head as he skated, listening to the sound of his blades across fresh ice, allowing it to soothe him as he ran through the elements of this ridiculously difficult program that he loved so much. His jumps were coming easily, and he breathed a sigh of relief at that. The tiny amount of pain in his leg, he knew, was because it was still stiff from the plane ride.

Victor knew that even at his best, he lacked Yuuri’s grace. He’d been told growing up, back when he was fresh from his second junior world title, back when he was on the trajectory to shake up the senior world, that he was an excellent all-around skater. But Yuuri, Yuuri was art. It could have been his ballet background, but Victor had known other skaters with a similar background, and none of them moved like Yuuri.

He let the imaginary music carry him through the second half of the program, making the decision to downgrade a quadruple loop into a triple (he’d never managed to master that jump), and closed his eyes as he launched into the step sequence, the element Yuuri was most famous for and the thing Victor was least confident in. It was almost too much for him, Yuuri moved quick as lightning during this part and Victor thought that perhaps, if the music were playing, he may have fallen behind. But…

The last jump was a quadruple flip, and Victor was still amazed at how Yuuri put it at the end of his program, but laboriously, because he was tired, and he was feeling the burn in his chest and his legs, he launched into it, landing it cleanly and with a flourish.

He ended the program, his hand over his chest and his other arm reaching out toward the edge 

of the rink.

For a moment, he closed his eyes, imagining applause, imagining that he’d successfully skated a clean program in competition, and one as difficult as this.

When he opened them, there was no applause, but there was an audience.

Yuuri Katsuki stood at the edge of the rink, his eyes wide behind blue frames and his mouth wide open.

Victor almost fell over, only narrowly stopping himself from falling on his ass in front of Yuuri Katsuki himself. Sure, he knew this was Yuuri’s hometown. That’s why he’d come here. But Yuuri didn’t live in Hasetsu, he trained in Detroit, and how was he—to show up right now, of all times? Victor breathed heavily, exhausted and winded from the skate, as Yuuri made direct eye contact with him.

“You cut your hair,” Yuuri finally spoke, and that was what he’d said? Victor touched the back of his head, feeling the freshly shorn locks. It still felt strange to him. He’d had long hair since he was a preteen, but despite it being a big change, he didn’t think it was that high on the list of things Yuuri would want to comment on at the moment.

“I—I—yes?” Victor finally managed.

Yuuri let out a short laugh, and Victor swore that his cheeks pinked, just a little. “Sorry, I was surprised so I just… said the first thing that came to mind. That was weird.”

Victor felt his nerves, which had been taut as a bow string, loosen at that. “It’s okay. I just wanted a change, I guess.”

“I get that.” Yuuri paused and cleared his throat. “Victor Nikiforov.”

Victor nodded, a smile blooming on his face, because Yuuri had said his name, knew who he was.

“That was my program.” Yuuri’s grip tightened on the edge of the rink, and did he look nervous? He dropped his eyes to the ground. “You’re in my tiny hometown, which no one ever visits, and you’re skating my program?”

Victor grimaced inwardly. When he said it like that, it did sound like Victor was a bit of a weirdo. Victor just nodded, because what could he say now?

Yuuri lifted his hands from the barrier and squeezed them together, as if trying to stop himself from fidgeting. He let out a deep breath. “It was beautiful, Victor.”

He must have imagined the way that Yuuri’s eyes were shining when he lifted his head, must have been seeing things to think they looked like they were glittering with unshed tears.

“T-thank you,” Victor finally managed, breathless. He dared to skate closer to the edge of the rink, closer to Yuuri Katsuki, who was here and real and in front of him and thought he skated beautifully.

But Yuuri’s expression quickly shifted from one of amazement to one of--- irritation; anger? 

Victor wasn’t sure, but his eyes grew wide and he skated a few steps backward.

“Why weren’t you at worlds?” Yuuri asked, and he sounded upset; angry even. It wasn’t like Yakov’s anger when he was shouting, or Yuri Plisetsky’s anger… pretty much all the time. This was something else entirely; anger edged with hurt, frustration, betrayal?

“I-I did badly at nationals and didn’t qualify,” Victor replied, confused. Why was he eliciting this reaction from Yuuri?

“If you’d gone and skated like that, you would have been on the podium!” he raised his voice. “If you’d landed the quad loop, you might have even been able to beat me.”

“I don’t think I---“

“I had no idea you could skate like that! Giacometti is good, but what you just did was,” Yuuri took a deep breath and ran a hand through his hair, “it was incredible.” 

Victor gulped, his mouth suddenly feeling very dry. “You think so?” he asked, and it was quiet, but there was an edge of excitement to it. 

Yuuri crossed his arms. “Sure, yeah. You would have placed above Chris and Otabek easily.”

“And you?”

Yuuri nodded, and there was something like a spark in his eye. Victor didn’t know what to think of it. “With a little bit of work, yeah.”

“You’re not just saying that because you’re underestimating yourself, are you?” Victor let out a short laugh. He knew from years of experience, of watching interview upon interview and reading every magazine that he could get his hands on, that Yuuri could be modest to a fault. He skated to the edge of the rink, closing the distance between the two of them until he was only a foot or so from Yuuri Katsuki.

It’s not as if it was the first time he’d ever seen him. They’d competed against each other several times before; at worlds, at the Grand Prix final, and at a couple of Grand Prix events throughout the years. But Yuuri was reserved, choosing to surround himself with only a few close friends, and although in general other skaters liked him and found him friendly, he wasn’t close to many of them. Victor had exchanged a few short snatches of conversation with Yuuri, but nothing lengthy, and certainly nothing like this; where it was just the two of them, alone.

“I’m not,” Yuuri replied.

Victor took a deep breath and placed his hands on the barrier of the rink, right next to Yuuri Katsuki. Their fingers were only inches apart, and Victor took a moment to imagine…

“I um, came to Hasetsu because it was your hometown,” Victor began. “After what happened at nationals, skating was difficult for me. But then… I decided to practice with your free skate from this year, and it really helped.”

Yuuri blinked, confused. The rink was so quiet, just the two of them, their breathing, and the fans that kept it cool.

Victor let out a brief shudder.  “My coach, Yakov, thought I was obsessed, but he didn’t understand that this program was what was keeping my skating alive.” His lips quirked up in a small smile. “He told me to take a vacation.”

“So you came to Hasetsu?” Yuuri leveled him a look.

“You’ve always inspired me, Yuuri, from the first time I saw you when I was a child. I thought, if I could visit the place my inspiration found his inspiration, maybe that would help me.” Victor felt his cheeks flush despite himself.

He must have imagined the way Yuuri’s cheeks pinked as well. “I inspire you that much?”

“You don’t think it’s creepy?” Victor let out a nervous laugh.

Yuuri shook his head in the negative. “No. It’s… nice, actually.”

Victor’s face brightened at that, his smile wide and beaming. “Yuuri!”

“But I didn’t expect this, that’s for certain.”

“Well I didn’t expect you to be here. I thought you lived in Detroit.”

Yuuri pushed his glasses up and brushed a stray hair out of his face. “Oh I do, but since Worlds was in Tokyo this year, I decided to come back home afterward for the off season. I just got here, and I have a key to the rink so…” He let out a nervous laugh. “Sorry, I just can’t believe you visited Hasetsu just because I’m from here.”

“And memorized your program,” Victor muttered.

“That too.”

Victor reached up, hesitant, and placed a hand on Yuuri’s shoulder. “It shouldn’t be that surprising. Do you have any idea how much you’ve inspired people?”

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Ive Been Waiting for You

by cherryblossomfan Five years after Viktor and Yuuri have reunited with each other, they are now engaged to be married and a summer wedding will be held at the family dacha. However, Yuuri must travel back to Japan for an ice show in thr midst of the wedding frenzy! As the Nikiforov-Plisetsky party prepares for the wedding in Yuuri’s absence, Viktor reminisces about the time he spent with Yuuri ten years ago. Will everyone involved be able to handle all the emotions that have led up to this fated wedding? And who is the surprise guest that no one expected to attend the nuptials?! Words: 648, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Yakov Feltsman, Nikolai Plisetsky, Mila Babicheva, Otabek Altin, Phichit Chulanont, Christophe Giacometti, Georgi Popovich, Katsuki Hiroko, Katsuki Toshiya, Katsuki Mari, Okukawa Minako, Original Characters, Nishigori Yuuko, Nishigori Takeshi, Nishigori Triplets Relationships: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, Victor Nikiforov & Yuri Plisetsky Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Happy Ending, Weddings, Flashbacks, Drama & Romance, Comedy, Established Relationship via https://ift.tt/OgZ4G9I

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Today's translation #330

Yuri!!! on ICE DVD #3, Characters' profiles

Georgi Popovich

　A veteran skater, who's specialty are very high jumps, characteristic for Yakov's students, but he is often hidden by the shadow of Nikiforov, another student of the same coach. For the season without Nikiforov, he chose two programs with a theme of "heartbreak", to fight for the title of Russia's best skater. He shows his unique artistry by becoming a terrifying witch, who puts a curse on a princess in his short program, and prince who saves the princess in his free program. 　His enthusiasm for practicing and listening to what the coach says has Yakov's seal of approval. He always entertains the audience with his feminine costumes and in Japan, he has the nickname "Pigeon".

Leo de la Iglesia

　A skater who knows very well his own advantages, and always skates very original programs that he himself choreographs. He doesn't have any quadruple jumps, but thanks to the artistic expression he shows in his programs, that always go very well with his music, he gets extremely high PCS. This season, he challenges himself with a short program skated to hip hop music. In his home country's Grand Prix event, Skate America, he won gold and now he's riding the wave of success. 　He's private face is that of a very social Mexican American with a positive attitude. He has a lot of friends among skaters and a lot of fans who always look forward to see new photos of his private life that he posts on social media. He respects Victor Nikiforov, who just like himself, always choreographs his own programs.