Okay, So This Line?

hi yuri on ice fans uhm- can i still be accepted im still drawing Victuuri!!

I will never tire of these two dancing

Viktor Nikiforov is first presented to us through Yuuri’s eyes, the light behind him shining halo-like in a way that obscures his features. It is not necessary to know him, only to know his skating. Vitya, the man, always fades away as the Legend emerges from beyond, the spotlight becoming a sort of focal point rather than the individual placed within it. 

When we see this same montage again later in the show, Viktor emerges whole, no longer eluding us as he remains visible and enchanting. And this time, it is because we see him through Yakov’s eyes that we are able to see him. Yakov, who has known this boy for years, who has trained him and spoken with him and loved him. 

Viktor flits between Viktor Nikiforov and Vitya, moving in and out of the light as if donning and shedding a coat. He lets the rays of the sun caress his features and hide him away from the gaze of the audience, flashing cameras a mask he can move behind as the artifice emerges – no longer a lonely man but the pride and joy of Russia.

Amidst the GPF in Barcelona, when he wakes up early in the morning while his student (and fiance) remains asleep, he finds himself at the beach watching the sun rise over the ocean. He faces the light, now, clear and present in the moment, hand outstretched as the illumination of dawn catches on his ring. In this moment, he is facing his future, one in which he is Vitya first and foremost. We can see who he is, finally, and he can too. He has found his life and love and looks onwards, his path laid out before him as his identity appears unobstructed. 

Then, Yuri Plisetsky. Who is young and bold and wants to beat the legend of Viktor Nikiforov, grinding his records into dust and laughing from the top of the podium. He wants to be great. And when he addresses Viktor as a skater rather than the man and coach he spent time with in Hasetsu, Viktor turns. Once more his face is hidden in shadow, the radiance behind him a mandorla of glory that speaks to his talent and accomplishments. A god on earth, a figure skating deity. He moves between earthly and heavenly so swiftly, the transition between man-in-love and unreachable idol never so clear as it is in this moment.

When Yuri is done with his threats, Viktor turns back towards the beach. He turns away from his past on the ice and the recognition it holds in favor of this new future.

And there, on the beach, is a man and a dog walking side by side in the light. Viktor watches, and he thinks, and it becomes clearer than ever that there will no longer be able to be a divide between Vitya and Viktor Nikiforov. Only him and Makkachin, happy in Hasetsu with Yuuri, going wherever his life and his love bring them.

does the world need another reverse au??? probably not but that hasnt stopped me from doing nothing but this on twitter lmao so heres a doodle dump. 

twitter doodle because i need a distraction from the impending doom that is episode 12 ; o ;

According to the design point, Yuri’s eros costume portrays an image of lingerie and bondage.

This post is directed to the crossover between TGCF fans and Yuri!!! on Ice fans:

Us never seeing Xie Lian properly swordfight anyone is the EXACT EQUIVALENT of us never seeing Viktor Nikiforov properly skate.

okay in ACTUALLY Yuri!!! On Ice related-summer-olympics things, please accept this fic recommendation!!! it's one of the first ones I read back when I started reading a ton of YOI fic in like.... 2020? and I think about it SO CONSTANTLY. gymnast!Yuuri and skater!Viktor and falling in love across seasons and timezones and worlds <3

From the summary and author's note by thehandsingsweapon:

The gymnastics edition, in which Viktor is still a skater because he's too pretty on ice and I couldn't take it away from him. A story about how sometimes love comes slow and soft, and how hearts get bigger when they break. ... I also wanted to do a gymnastics story because there's more competition elements to play with; e.g. each character can have their time to shine on Vault, or Floor, or Rings *and* there's a team component, which means that over time characters like Georgi and Kenjirou also have a role to play that's important. For the purposes of the story, I’ve taken some liberties with ages, timelines, and the host cities of various events, including the Olympics themselves. Where these changes exist they are always for plotty-type purposes (or, if you prefer, because I like breaking things before I fix them, gosh). When the story starts, we're at the 2012 Summer Olympics, which are hosted in Tokyo. I've also made up SNS handles when I can't find them on the wiki because I am a lazy internet hag. Phichit and Yuuri are now the same age, and they are roommates at University of Michigan, where Cialdini is Head Coach. Leo, who is from Los Angeles, is one year younger, and an expected Michigan commit, because Cialdini’s one of his coaches via the Team USA system. The University of Oklahoma winds up playing a bit of a villainous role later on. Apologies to anyone who has strong feelings about either school or who has conflicting college loyalties; I attended neither and it's just for story purposes. Ahead of each chapter, I’ll be posting a timeline so you can see what's been happening for each character within the little YOF! world that I'm creating here.

it's SO SO GOOD y'all. literally cannot recommend this enough

“Victor Nikiforov’s exhibition piece this year is an original composition entitled, Look, Babe, I Didn’t Mean To Leave The Dishes In The Sink, It Won’t Happen Again, Promise. He choreographed it himself.”

Viktor is the one who narrates episode 10, the one who tells the story of the Sochi GPF banquet. Viktor is the one who tells us how much champagne Yuuri drank and how miserable he looked while he was there, long before Yuuri ever approached Viktor.

Viktor was paying attention to Yuuri. Long before the tie came off and the stripper pole got involved, Viktor was watching him.

Maybe it was because of how Yuuri rejected his offer for a photo. Maybe it was because he thought Yuuri was cute. Maybe he was also miserable and didn’t want to be there and appreciated that there was someone there who looked just as exhausted as he felt.

But Viktor was the one paying attention to Yuuri.