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senajun4ever · 9 months ago
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Zuka at a family reunion
Sena gives the mom vibe she will set the table and help in the kitchen. All the unrelated men there think she’s hot and are not being subtle whatsoever. Also some kids ship her and their dad so she can be their new mom
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Rio is the wine aunt who met your kids once and they won’t stop talking about her. You think she’s a bad influence and she’s probably turned your children against you. Your kids love Rio more and you just have to accept that
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Mizu is that one uncle who’s always there but you never talk to. The older you get, the more you believe shes affiliated with the Mafia. Now it’s been years and your family hasn’t heard from her for a long time
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Sagiri is that one cousin who stresses you out, and you kinda hope you don’t ever have to see her again. Her laugh is drilled into your head. Also frequently comes up in convo because the rest of the family loves her
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Shizuki is your aunties’ cousins’ boyfriends’ sisters’ friend who teaches the young children how to do karate and self defence in the middle of dinner time once you ask her about what she does for a living
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Kiriya is the wine aunts (Rio) boyfriend who drinks a lot of beer but is also that manly material that the younger kids at the family reunion fall for. Years later those kids realize that was weird of them
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Ryouga is that one person you sometimes see, usually quiet in the corner. You don’t know who she’s related to but your just gonna trust she’s in the family
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Komu is the older cousin y’all strive to be but can’t. The younger cousins want to be like her cuz she’s cool and sits at the adult table. She doesn’t really see this as a family reunion, more of a place to assert absolute dominance over those tiny children
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Yuzuru Kurenai is the one with the pretty laugh that you can always recognize. She’ll buy her nieces and nephews anything they want because she wishes she had children of her own. Very nice pretty girl and popular with the single men at the reunion but they don’t stand a chance
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hanalulugguk · 2 years ago
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Meeting
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Pairing: Hanyu Yuzuru x fictional character
Warnings: none
Word count: 4.4k
Bold is Korean
Italic is Japanese
enjoy <3
!unedited!
The sound of squeaking against the non carpeted ground echoed and bounced on the walls of the corridor. After a short but determined pause to look at the building map on her phone, she went back to her confident strides, even though at first she was sure she was lost, making her way to the ice rink. Upon seeing the large black velvet double doors that she recognized well, she put her phone away in her back pocket and pushed through.
As soon the doors open an ice cold breeze hits Emilia in a familiar but also unfamiliar way. Upon the sound of the door opening, a few heads turn in her direction, mostly the ones in hearing range. Almost none of the group of skaters practising to the loud ed sheeran song playing through out the rink noticed the unfamiliar  presence in the room.
She smiled and gave a small wave to the few people who had turned in her direction, to which they politely smiled back. She could tell one of them had recognized her, a small women who seemed to be in her 50’s with deep brown eyes and short blonde hair. Her mouth was slightly open in a tiny gasp, eyebrows slightly raised and eyes a bit wide. To which Emilia smiled slightly wider at, eyes crinkling slightly.
“NOONA,” at the sound of the familiar voice calling out to her, Emilia turned around to see the younger boy skate from the opposite side of the rink to the barrier’s door right in front of her whilst his friends turned to look in the direction of the sudden commotion that overpowered the music playing. “Jun-ah,” she beamed, opening her arms for the younger boy as he wobbled towards her, unable to walk without the blade covers.
As soon as her arms were around his shoulder and his were around her torso, he dropped some of his weight on her, making her tumble a little as she giggled at his behaviour. “How have you been?” she asked him, tenderly rubbing his back as he loosened his grip around her, “really good.”  he replies, taking a small step back to look at her. Upon doing so she notices the red tip of his nose which she touches lightly, “well that’s good to hear rudolph-ssi.” at that junhwan’s cheeks turn a lighter pink as he holds emilia’s intruding  hand in his making her smile tenderly at his embarrassment.
“Come, I want you to meet my coaches.” junhwan excitedly begin’s trodding away with Emilia's hand still in his, forgetting he’s walking with bare skates making him tumble backwards to which she caught him immediately. “Be careful.” she says sternly, making him give a very subtle bow in response to his older friend. He leads her to the side, not far from the entrance to one of the people who first noticed her entrance. “This is my coach.” junhwan said simply in very adorable english as he pointed to the man who was now standing the greet emilia. “Hi, my name’s brian orser,” he extended a hand for emilia to shake which she gladly did with slightly raised brows, “olympic silver medalist?” she asks in excitement to which he smiles bashfully and nods. “Wow, Junhwan told me that his coaches are really cool but I didn't expect it to be such a big name.”
“Oh please, when junhwan told me he’d be bringing emilia monet, the musical legend to practice i thought he was joking,” emilia lightly laughs and ruffles the back of her head at his compliment, not knowing how to reply. “This is my other coach,” Junhwan points to the blonde woman who seemed to have recognized her as she walked in. “Hello, I'm emilia.” She politely introduces herself to the woman who had now stood up, “I know you, I'm Tracy wilson.” at that emilia covers her mouth in a silent gasp “oh my god.” she whispers taken a back. All three of them stare, waiting for what emilia has to say.
Emilia extends her hand to take tracy, to which she complies, holding her hand as emilia holds it oh so delicately as if she’s afaraid to apply pressure. “I adore you,” she says at a more stable and contained voice now, tracy smiles in disbelief, “you do?” she asks the now slightly jumpy emilia who was just nodding whilst smiling excitedly.
“I used to talk about you all the time when i did ice dancing for a few years. I looked up to you so much when i was younger.” she explains, one hand on her heart whilst the other was in tracy’s hand. Tracy just laughs lightly, throwing her head back. “No way you did.” she replies stepping closer, emilia shakes her head and holds up her pinky finger as if promising to tell the truth. “I really did, your calgary free dance is what made me want to ice skate when i was 4. I competed for a few years when i turned 12.” tracy nods with a big proud smile on her face. “Yes, i’ve seen those. You were incredible, i was sad to see you quit after only 5 years.”
Emilia gives an apologetic smile as she scrunches her nose slightly, “the competitiveness just wasn’t something i could handle, i also have too strict of a work ethic for an ice related sport, i was constantly fatigue, it was wearing me out. I just stopped because i was afraid i would grow bitter towards the sport.'' Tracy nodded in understanding, “it isn’t for everyone. I can understand that, knowing you started because of me really makes my heart so full. And you’re dominating a different field i imagine multitasking wasn’t easy.'' Emilia nodded at that with a grateful smile. She was constantly put down by broadcasters and announcers during her performancing for daring to take part in a sport that was so far off from the musical field she was already working in at the time. That resulted in huge media slander when she announced she’ll be retiring the sport, claiming she was never up for it to begin with, so it was a relief to see someone understand her.
“Are you staying for junhwan’s practice?” brian asked interupting the pair from fangirling over each other. She nods proudly wrapping an arm around the younger’s shoulder, who was using the back of the chair next to him for support. “I promised him my first task upon arriving in Canada would be to come watch him practise since I am only able to make it to some of his performances.” she pats junhwan’s back as he smiles gratefully at her. “Well you can sit here with us whilst he goes back to practise.” brian offers to which emilia nods happily.
She blows junhwan a kiss as she sends him off into the rink where the other skaters, but not before he offers her his hoodie saying “i don’t think you dressed heavy enough for cold weather.” to which, he had a very valid point. A pair of low raise baggy dark wash jeans and cropped white tank were definitely not keeping her warm right now. The only ‘heavy’ attire she had on was a pair of white chunky sneakers. Nevertheless, she declined saying she’s fine like this.  
As she sits and chats with the two coaches, over quite literally everything, her career, their career, how junhwan doesn’t always take care of himself since he pushes himself often, emilia is sure to cheer the 16-year-old boy as he tries different jumps and encourages him when he falls.
“How did you meet junhwan?” tracy curiously asks as she turns to emilia who was sat inbetween her and brian. “My grandmother frequently travels to korea, because she had jher juinior studies there and later on stayed a few years she has a lot of very close friends there so she goes a lot. I often go with her and a few times i met some of her friends and their kids, one time i met junhwan’s grandmother and she was so adamant on me coming to a family wedding with my grandmother, when i went she introduduced me to junhwan’s mum who was having a hard time caring for her very loud son so i took him off her for a bit.”
“You’ve been friends since?” brian asks, “inseparable really. He’s like a little brother to me, i’m mostly the one who takes care of him since we both travel so frequently and his parents still have to take care of his siblings.” the two nod at her answer.
“I try my best to free up things from my schedule that aren't concerts or move them around to make it to as many of his competitions, that’s how the internet turned me in his cheerleader.” brian gives a loud laugh, grabbing the attention of a few of the skaters, whilst tracy chuckles a little. “I’m serious, at 8 out of 10 competitions you’ll find either a picture of me standing on a chair holding a banner with his face on it or a very unflattering one with my hands cupped around my face with me obviously screaming.”  the two laugh as brian slaps his thigh recalling some of them.
“Yes i’ve seen some of those.” he says as tracy nods as she adds, “i’ve seen you in the seats a few times but you never come down so neither of us ever got the chance to talk to you.”
“Well,” emilia starts as she scratches the back of her head awkwardly, “most times i would cause too loud of a fuss that my team would have to drag me out afterwards because too many people would start to notice me and the mobs come in large.” she says shamefully making the two smile. “They always make a noticable difference with junhwan though, he seems to get a lot more excited when he sees you.” emilia smiles gratefully at tracy’s words, happy that he visits make junhwan as happy as they make her.
“When do they usually finish practice?” emilia asks sitting back, watching intently as junhwan was practicing his sharp turns, falling a few times in the process making her scrunch her face when he would huff out in frustration. “Around 6 usually, so a little under an hour.” brian says looking at his watch.
“I was planning on taking him out for food and then the movies, if they don’t have anything else to do today. He told me he’s usually done after practice.” tracy nods, “that sounds great, he’s been barely doing anything other than skate these days, i’ve been begging him to do something in his free time, just to cool down a bit, but he never does.” emilia frowns at her words, noticing how junhwan may be more strict on himself than he led on over the phone.
Just then said person skates over to where his trainers and friend are, leaning over the barrier, all three of them turn their attention to him as he looks directly at emilia. “Come skate with me a little.” he says with a big smile on his face, she shakes her head with a stern “no.” he pouts and leans forward a little more, “please noona.”
“No junhwan, i won’t be on the ice for the first time in months in front of professionals,” she refuses crossing her arms in front of her as she leans back in her chair. “Noona, i haven’t skated with you in so long, please” he puts his hands together as if he’s begging. She sighs at that, “after practice,”  she says matter of factly letting him know that it’s the best deal he’ll get. At that he sulks, but is visibly more pleased, “fine.” As he skates away, Emilia smiles, watching him get straight back to practice his routine.
Just as brian said, at 6 sharp, all 6 figure skaters in the rink head to leave the rink, brian attending to them as tracy stays behind with emilia as the two discuss all the moves in junhwan’s routine and the needed adjustments, just as emilia was about to discuss him wanting to pull a duaruple axel, junhwan walks over, more stable this time with his blade covers on, and holds onto emilia’s arm as he looks at stacy “do we have a spare 7.5 pair of skates?” he asks, looking at emilia expectedly as she rolls her eyes at the younger’s antics.
“Is there a specific reason you want skates that are a whole 2 sizes too small for you?” tracy asks, arms crossed as she tilts her head at the request. Emilia just hangs head low and points to herself, “they’re for me.”  she lifts her head to see tracy looking at her with a shocked face.
“You’re skating?” she asks with excitement obvious in her tone, “he’s making me.” tracy smiles fondly at him and takes a few steps back, “i’ll go get you a pair, clack or chromatic?” she asks teasingly, “black please.” she replies with a slight laugh, tracy nods turing to go get them.
“My friends are big fans of yours, can you meet them?” junhwan asks innocently making emilia look at his direction, “did you market me off to your friends?” she asks with a raised brow as he shamefully shakes his head replying with “a little.” she smiles fondly and nods, making him excitedly drag her over to his other skating friends.  
“Guys,” junhwan loudly calls as soon as they’re in front of the group, all 5 of them turned in the pair’s direction. There stood junhwan, arms hooked onto one of emilia’s as she stood there smiling, waiting for junhwan to introduce her.  When a full 5 seconds of silence had passed, emilia looked from the 5 strangers to her younger friend who had a goofy smile on his face.
“Are you not going to introduce me?” she asked quietly though they could still hear. Some of them smiled. Junhwan, as if realising, gasped and took a step away from emilia before proudly gesturing towards her with both his arms, making emilia give him a look of terror, “this is my noona, emilia.”
She smiled and waved, making a mental note to remind junhwan to not use noona when he switches to english since it may be confusing. “Hi, i’m evengia. I’m a very big fan.” a shorter girl steps up to shake emilia’s hand, to which she politely does whilst giving her a grateful smile. “Thank you, that’s lovely to hear.” evangia nods.
Next, someone she is very familiar with extends his hand to shake hers, “i’m javier fernandez.” emilia shake his hand firmly nodding her head, “i know, figure skating pride of spain.” she points out chriply to which he shakes his head, “i’m the figure skating pride of spain, you’re the face of spain for the world.” he retors back with a challenging smile. “Now hold on now.” emilia pulls her hand from his making him laugh loudly, “hold on. I’m not the fa-” she tries to say, pointing to herself, but he interrupts her with persistence as he says “yes you are, you’re the biggest name in the world, let alone spain?” he says making her cheeks go red as uses her hand to cover her face with a squealed ‘stop’ making the whole group laugh and chuckle.
Another girl, slightly taller with brunette hair extends her hand to shake emilia’s as she introduces herself, “hello, i’m utana. I love your music and old dance.” she said in the cutest english ever as emilia gushed at that, “old dance?” she questions, not really understanding which dance she’s referring to. “Ice dance.” she clarifies making emilia make an ‘o’ as she understands her. “Thank you Utana-san.” she says giving her a small bow making her bow back slightly lower. The last person to introduce himself, “hello, i’m yuzuru, nice to meet you.” he shakes her hand as he introduces himself with so much excitement it makes emilia smile. “Hello yuzuru-san, it’s lovely to meet you.” she says back with a beaming smile, “you too emilia-san.” he tilts his head as he displays a wide smile.
Just as everyone was done introducing themselves Tracy was back with a pair of clean looking skates. “Try these on to see if they fit.” she hands Emilia the skates that she takes with a smile. “Will you skate?” Utana asks excitedly as she watches emilia inspecting the laces on the shoes, untying them.
“Junhwan was insistent i skate with him since we haven’t skated together in so long.” she replies holding the pair close to her. Junhwan just smiles and looks back at his friends and nods, “she’s very good.”
“She’s very average.” emilia corrects for him to which he vigorously shakes his head, “she’s amazing, she ca-” before he could finish, emilia has switched the skates to hand and has the other over the younger’s mouth. “junhwan -ssi, i believe you have done enough for today. 2 more words and I won't be skating with you.”  
“But-”
“One more.” she points a finger at him as a warning to which he purses his lip and turns to look ahead. “Are you not cold?” javier asks but lia shakes her head no, “i’m used to the feeling of being cold, i’m anemic.” she justifies making him slowly nod his head understanding her, “so i’m pretty tolerant to it.” she adds and he gives her a thumbs up.
“I’ll try these on,” she says as she turns to tracy who nods, emilia takes a seat on one of the chairs and proceeds to take off her shoes to put on the skates. When she’s done hooping the laces and stands up, she notices that her pants are too long, but when she looks up she see junhwan in the rink right next to the barrier’s gate waiting for her, “you go a head i’ll just adjust my pants,” she gestures to him and he gives her 2 thumbs up before he goes onto to skating around.
“Do you need help?” she looks up to see yuzuru in front of her, pointing to her shoes, “no no, i’m fine i’ll just adjust my pants and go in.” she gives him a polite smile and starts folding the ends of her pants, she takes out the two pins holding her bangs back and places them over the pants folds to keep them from falling and making her trip. When she stands up yuzuru, who was still standing there in case she needed help, gives her an astonished look of amazement before saying “good, smart.” she just gives a smile big enough to show her teeth as she walks to the gate.
“Can I skate with you guys?” evengia asks coming up from behind emilia to which, even though she felt slightly intimidated to skate with a pro figure skater who won’t go easy on her for returning to the ice after so long like junhwan will, she agreed instantly. Evengia took off her blade covers and went in, emilia watched her as she took slow strides to junhwan who stood waiting, obviously excited. Emilia took a deep breath as she took her own cover off and left it on the table near the gate. As she skated in, pretty smoothly actually. Junhwan squealed and skated towards her to wrap his arms around her.
Pushing her bangs back, emilia takes junhwan’s hand and starts skating backwards whilst pulling him along with her, as he skates with his older friend junhwan really couldn’t be happier right now. He has been setting himself up for frustration every day at practice with the way he’s been treating himself recently. Waking up too early and going to bed very late. Eating very little and resting for too short of a period. He’s been working himself to the bone, he wants to prove himself before he goes onto being a part of the olympics. In the process of doing so he has barely allowed himself time for himself, with people he loves, the 16 year old being too hard on himself to the point where it’s deadly. So this moment right her with the girl who has time and time again shown him how much he would have loved to have a blood related sister, though he basically considers her one, meant the world to him, almost as much as those gold medals.  
They each let go and skate away from each other whilst still occasionally glancing at one another, as junhwan increases speed, probably to do a jump, emilia slows down in anticipation, just as he lands a successful triple axel she screams and cheers for him. Everyone else in the room clapping as he shys away.
“Can I join?” As Emilia hears the voice, she turns around to see Yuzuru, the only one outside the rink with his skates still on, standing adorably with his hands at his sides. At the sight, Emilia chuckles with a big smile as she waves him over. He excitedly gets into the rink as if he hadn’t just spent a full 6 hours in there, if not more. As soon as he’s in, all 4 of them alternate between skating around and with each other, small conversations here and there.
With time going past, javier and utana off, the 3 professional figure skaters falling every once in a while and laughing it off,  brian and tracy sat casually conversing in the seats, emilia has gained a little more comfortable with trying old tricks, but only the ones she was confident she could do with ease no matter how long she stays off the ice. Emilia skate a little off from the group and swiftly does a biellmann spiral into a split spin, one of her signatures at the beginning of her few solo performances. Upon standing up straight tracy and brian, along with junhwan, evengia and yuzuru clap and cheer for her, to which she gives a shy smile, bashful at the small attentive crowd. “Thank you, but still a little rusty.” she says waving everyone’s hands down.
“No you were amazing darling, never say that.” emilia smiles thankfully at tracy kind comment, “very good.” yuzuru adds with junhwan and evengia nodding behind him. After a few more minutes emilia is already heading off the ice, “so soon.” yuzuru asks, skating towards her, she turns around, emiling upon meeting eyes with him, she nods. “I think i’ve had a good enough dose of ice for today.” she says giving a small shrug just as junhwan approaches. “No wait noona,” looking at him intently to let him know he has her attention, emilia stands on the edge of the rink, one foot on dry land whilst the other still on ice. “I wanted to do the pair spin you taught m.” at that emilia vigorously shakes her head.
“That’s too risky to try when i haven’t skated in so long we’ll both get hurt.” junhwan pouts, shoulders sulking, “but we’ve only ever done it once,” the pout evident in his voice, emilia frowns placing her hand on his cheek tenderly, “what about another time, huh? I’ll practice a little more for it.” junhwan nods and proceeds to get off the ice before the two. Emilia grabs the blade covers and places one on, whilst balancing on one leg and placing the other one, she could feel yuzuru’s hand ghosting behind her, in case she falls. That boy is already known for being sweet so she doesn’t even question it. As she steps off the ice she is met with tracy.
“What’s the spin junhwan wants to try?” she asks walking behind emilia who takes a seat to remove the skates and put her shoes on, “death spiral,” she replies simply with a smile. “You taught junhwan the death spiral?” she asks shocked as emilia nods. “It really isn’t as difficult as people make it out to be, if the person remaining upright has good upper body strength, it’s as easy and a normal leap.” she replies simply standing up with the used skates in hand. She hands them over to a still astonished. “Seems about right i guess,” she replies thinking it through, emilia laughs at her disdain and unfolds her pants, putting the bobby pins in her pocket as she turns to an awaiting junhwan with his bag. She smiles at the adorable younger boy and wraps her arms around him.  
“Thank you so much for allowing me to skate at the rink.” Emilia thanks Tracy and brian who was still at the seats but was now on his way to her seeing as they were leaving now. “Absolutely, drop by at any time you’re always welcome.'' Tracy replies whilst brian nods to her statement.
“Thank you, it was truly wonderful meeting all of you. I’m so happy I finally met my childhood idol.” emilia looks at all of them then keeps her gaze Tracy who was now blushing at the major praise. “Oh please,” she waves her off, embarrassed. Emilia smiles and bids the two coaches goodbye as they head to collect everything left.
Emilia turns to yuzuru just as junhwan tells her he’ll use the bathroom first before they leave, and then off he is. Just as emilia was bidding the kind boy good bye she felt very tempted to invite him along with them, but she had promised junhwan the rest of the day would be spent just with the two of them, so she can’t singularly decide to invite someone. “Goodbye yuzuru-san, it was lovely meeting you.”
“Good bye emilia-san, lovely to meet you too.” they wave each other off, right before she leaves she turns back to him, “you know yuzuru-san, i know very mild japanese, so if you ever feel stuck and like you want to express yourself in japanese, i could try to carry a solid conversation.” at that the man’s eyes light up.
“Really?” she nods, “but please beware i’m as good as a 6 year old, i tap out in complex conversations. I haven’t had the chance to go further, and the level i’m at right now is just barely what i need for promotion in japan. So please be considerate.” yuzuru laughs and nods.
“Deal,” he extends his hand for her to shake, and she does, “deal.”
She finally turns to leave but not before wobbling a little and then turning to yuzuru “i haven’t experienced the post ice skating feeling in a while.” she excuses herself and he smiles nodding. And with that Emilia makes a very unstable and unflattering exit out of the ice rink.  
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yuzuru-kun · 8 years ago
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Yuzuru Hanyu with a fan in Canada!
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shomouno · 7 years ago
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Yuzuru Hanyu, peak boyfriend material
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otabekismybff · 8 years ago
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[1/4] Hi! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas, they're fascinating and insightful as always. And wonderfully in line with how I understand these characters and story, too. I actually see the element of surprise~ that Victor and Yuuri enjoy in their relationship right now, working against them in the future, because it basically stems from both of them not really knowing what the other is thinking? That is why, as much as fandom rebels against the idea of Victuuri breaking up...
[2/4] or having relationship troubles, it actually makes a lot of sense to me, even seems inevitable, because there will be communication issues (if they don’t actively work on it) and once you take skating out of the equation (which will happen very soon, Victor probably won’t be competing for more than a year), I can see Yuuri and Yuri having more in common, and actually being friends like Victor and Yuuri never were, in addition to skating and the rivalry/camaraderie that comes with it. (missing [3/4]) [4/4] besides the show wanting to explore puberty-related athletic struggles through him perhaps. Because I don’t understand what a 15yr old is doing in a, simplistically put, love story about two adults. Also, seeing how a lot of Yuri/Yuuri stories are also OT3 stories (with the Yuri/Victor side of things not being romantic) I am curious about your thoughts regarding that? Is that something you consider more realistically possible, more so than Yuri/Yuuri (personal shipping bias aside)?
Yes, the element of surprise definitely brings communication issues into their relationship. If you remember after episode 11, the fandom reacted to the “Let's end this” line with “Viktor and Yuuri really need to have a conversation about their relationship.” This conversation never happened. I can totally see relationship troubles in the future for them. I've also heard that the Japanese fandom is begging Kubo for relationship drama. Since she followed their wish to bring Viktor back to skating, I think it's pretty likely that she'll follow their wish again. I still think Viktuuri will be end game, but it'll probably be a bumpy ride.
That friends first stuff is hella important. Viktor and Yuuri never really became friends, or equals for that matter. Yuuri always saw Viktor as a figure above him, an idol to look up to and then as his coach. With Yuuri's progress in skating, they should be on equal footing now, but I still feel like Yuuri thinks of Viktor as someone above him. Yuuri still has to realize that he is on equal footing with Viktor now, and they need to talk about how they feel.
I really liked that Yuri and Yuuri see each other as equals and are working towards something like friendship over the course of the series.  The rivalry/camaraderie is also super important for athletes. Let's just look at the friendship (cough*bromance*cough) between Yuzuru Hanyu and Javier Fernandez. It is super important for motivating each other and feeling like they aren't alone as athletes in a difficult sport. Whether they're in friend mode or rival mode, their relationship to each other is important for keeping up their strength and skating their best.
Here is a quote from the commentators at the 2016 World’s Gala Exhibition: “But isn’t it fascinating to see [Yuzuru's] battle with Javier? And how the two of them lift each other? They are friends and yet compete against each other? Enriches the sport.” (source)
Javier interview: “With Yuzu, we are everything. We are friends. We are teammates. At some point we have to be rivals. It’s like having a wife. Your wife is your friend. Your wife is your everything but it depends on the time. When we are on the ice we are competing against each other but when the competition is done we are friends again and we work together again.” (source)
I think these quotes do a good job of illustrating how a real-life rivalry/friendship works, and I can definitely see Yuri and Yuuri heading in this direction.
For me, I see it as Yuri on Ice chose three different stages of skaters: the newcomer, the rising star, and the past legend. Now, I do agree that it would've made things easier if Yuri had been 16 instead of 15. It would only have been one year older, and it wouldn't have changed anything in the story. Actually, it would have made it feel more natural. But yeah, I think they are most likely planning to explore the puberty side in Season 2, so maybe that's why they wanted Yuri to be 15. I don't know. I've met boys who didn't hit puberty until 16 or 17, so I think it would've worked with him one year older. And just looking at the art style, Yuri and Yuuri look like they're much closer in age than they are.
Personally I have trouble seeing them as an OT3. Healthy poly relationships are all about good communication and understanding the others, being on equal footing. I can't see Yuuri x Yuri x Viktor as being equal footing (because Viktor is usually written as being above Yuri and sometimes Yuuri too). Though I suppose you mean it in the Yuuri has two boyfriends but Yuri/Viktor aren't a thing. Honestly, I haven't seen that version very much. If someone can write them in a healthy way in a fanfic, I'd be happy to read it, but most of the fics I've seen show an imbalance in power. And usually it's focused on Viktor x Yuuri with Yuri as their cute companion, once again putting him in a lower role.
Yuuri x Yuri without Viktor seems much more realistic to me because I believe these two already see each other as equals. It could work as you described, but Yuuri has a hard enough time opening to one person, gets anxious easily, and constantly seeks validation. I think it would be difficult for him to maintain a relationship with two people. But hey, I'm not opposed to it if it can be written the right way. I'm just picky with OT3s, I suppose.
This got a bit ranty. Lol. Anyways, I'm glad our ideas for these characters line up. I'll be very curious to see what season 2 brings. I think we will get at least a bit more Yuriyuu shipper material, even though Viktuuri will be end game after much drama.
If you have any more question, feel free to continue the discussion. I am enjoying talking and thinking about this, and once again, sorry it took me a little while to reply (I was waiting to see if you'd send part 3 again, but I think it answered okay without it). 
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shomouno · 7 years ago
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now it not the time to be saying he's boyfriend material. he's injured is what he is. Stop posting in the yuzu tag.
go eat some strawberries. cool off. let a gay boy call yuzuru hanyu boyfriend material.
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