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the power of love snippet(s)

usually i just use this blog to aggressively (and mutely) stalk other yoi blogs, but.

for @kiaronna​!  a tumblr post of the snippet i wrote in ao3 comments to console myself after chapter 6 in her very very very awesome story, The Power of Love. 

“Yuuri,” Victor gasped, pulling abruptly pulling away; he didn’t make it far. He was still leaning into Yuuri, their foreheads pressed together, and he seemed as short of breath as Yuuri felt. “Yuuri,” he repeated, desperately, still so close that Yuuri could feel the way Victor said his name. “Yuuri, Yuuri… I can’t do this to Yuuko.”

Yuuri, already angling for another kiss, froze. He struggled to process what was Victor was saying.

“Um,” he finally managed. “You wouldn’t be – Yuuko would want this!” She and Phichit both would be over the moon.

For some reason, this just made Victor tense even more in his arms. “I can’t be your celebrity exception,” he tragically insisted, voice a pained rasp.

Yuuri choked. “W-what? Victor, n-no,” he stuttered, stumbling to get the words out. He wished Victor would go back to saying his name, so he wouldn’t have to admit this. “Victor… If I were in a relationship, my celebrity exception would be Stéphane Lambiel.“

When Victor didn’t say anything, Yuuri swallowed hard. “I’m sorry… but. Have you seen his spins?” he tried.

“Yeah,” Victor breathed, and it was almost a whine. “Actually, yeah.”

(and then also from chapter 6: reimagined) 

“Yeah, would you mind if I stole your true love away from you someday? The love of my hamsters is great, but our apartment says I’m only allowed to have three of them, and it’s not enough.” Yuuri flicks him in the forehead, light.

“Phichit, you don’t even really like dogs.”

“Yuuri,” Victor said in a pinched sort of way. “You’re calling Yuuko a dog?”

Yuuri and Phichit turned twin frowns of confusion on him. “No?”

“Yeah,” Phichit said, sounding sly all of the sudden. “Yuuri’s one true love is Vi–”

“–My dog! My one true love is my dog!” Yuuri interrupted, flailing his arms like that could distract Victor’s ears from hearing the embarrassing truth.

Victor brightened considerably, because he was a perfect human who loved dogs too. “You have a dog!” he exclaimed. For some reason, his excitement was underlined with… relief? Yuuri was imagining things.

“Who’s name is Vicchan!” Phichit chirped, this time before Yuuri could stop him. Yuuri wished he was just imagining things now. “Hey Victor, you know how Japanese honorifics work, right?”

Yuuri was going to kill him. Yuuri was going to kill him, right after he melted into a puddle and disappeared forever.  Slumping forward, he hid his face in the table. Victor already knew how Yuuri felt about him, and had already rejected him. Yuuri didn’t know if he could bear the shame of Victor knowing just how long Yuuri has been obsessed with him.

“Shh,” Phichit soothed, not even looking at Yuuri as he patted his head consolingly. “Just let it happen, Yuu-chan, my sweet son.”

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.

Art inspired by this post

Morning practice

drawing victuuri after 7 years 🥺🩷🩵

Important screenshots from Yuri on ice, i would be overjoyed if people added their own important screenshots in rbs

Found this beautiful thing by @kiaronna called The Power Of Love, go check it out if you love long hair and miscommunication (really, it was almost physically hurt to read, but i loved it anyway)

@viktuuri-week 2024 - Commitment

Growing old together!

I'm sorry if this was already asked but what is your recommended chapter order if I wanted to re-read this amazing Rivals series at the same time, to have their POV stories overlap?

Chapter 1 of obs&bh covers the first 7 chapters of umfb&mha. The first part right at the beginning is set in the future after the end of both fics and then after that it goes like this:

Obs&bh section 1 (Viktor was 15 and…) = umfb&mha chapter 1

Section 2 (Viktor was 17 and…) = chapter 3 (chapter 2 of umfb&mha doesn’t have Viktor physically present in it so it doesn’t appear in obs&bh)

Section 3 (Viktor was 19 and…) = chapter 4

Section 4 (Viktor was 20 and…) = chapter 5

Section 5 (Viktor was 21 and…) = the timeskip between umfb&mha chapters 5 and 6

Section 6 (Viktor was 22 and he was jealous) = chapter 6

Section 7 (Viktor was 22 and he was in pain) = chapter 7

After that, the chapters match up like this:

Obs&bh chapter 2 = umfb&mha chapter 8

Chapter 3 = Chapter 9

Chapter 4 = Chapter 10

Chapter 5 & 6 = Chapter 11

Chapter 7 = Chapter 12

Chapter 8 = Chapter 13

Chapter 9 = Chapter 14

for old times' sake ...