“Gazing Up At The Cherry Tree, Yuuri Was Radiant In Violet Robes And A Golden-yellow Sash As He Stood

yuri!!! on Ice fanart in the year of our lord 2024 anyone??

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. 

yuri on ice hits so deep for me bc how it portrays a story abt reigniting one’s passion. w alot of sports animes a big aspect of the story is making ur way up from the very bottom - (which don’t get me wrong, i absolutely LOVE), but the professional level is is usually the conclusion. the end goal. but in truth, as obvious it may be, professionals are still human. they can and will make mistakes and theres that added pressure of supposedly being the best in their field which only adds to the crushing weight of their passion.

yuuri katsuki is already a well established, professional figure skater (despire how he may describe himself). but he’s at a loss. he’s suffered a crushing defeat and made plenty mistakes and he’s reached a point in his life where he’s unsure of how much further his passion will take him. hes loved figure skating, always has, but that love has begun to dwindle inside of him as his insecurities and anxiety takes over.

but the comes viktor. he comes into his life, and things begin to change. he finds love again. for his sport - the art he’s been cultivating since he was a child, for the people around him, family and friends, understanding just how much they have been and will continue to support him, and of course, for viktor. slowly, but surely, he’s changed.

and when i watch him, i can’t help but feel like i’ve changed a little too

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The phone cases of the skaters in YoI most often reflect something they care about, as we see with Yuuri’s poodle case and Phichit’s hamster one.

Viktor’s phone case is his Stammi Vicino outfit.

Because that routine is so recent, we know his phone case is relatively new. And from the images of him at the Sochi banquet, we know his phone case at that point was bright yellow. This means that Viktor ordered a phone case that represented Stammi Vicino — a routine that was important enough that he wanted to carry around a piece of it with him everyday.

Stammi Vicino is about longing for that life and love Viktor hasn’t had. It’s about his own loneliness and his frustration with his situation. At what point do you think he ordered that phone case? When did he decide that he needed a memento from it even once he had moved on to a new season? He didn’t have enough time to get a new case after seeing the video of Yuuri, so it had to be a choice he made based on his own interpretation of the routine. We even see him watching Yuuri’s video on a phone already bearing the case.

I like to think he got it after the Sochi GPF. After he had a wild, champagne-coated night, and realized that there were more important things than medaling at competition after competition. Stammi Vicino may have been something he skated, but it was about his life outside of skating — a phone case that connects his career with his feelings about his future would be the perfect ever-present reminder to begin making a life outside of the ice rink.

when you're crying about the cancellation but remember how good YOI was to you

Viktor coming up with the absurdest shit to find out why his crush doesn't want him will never not be funny 🤣

But hey, he's a creative genius! His brain must be running rampant with the wildest theories why the pretty boy who flirted with him at the GPF banquet keeps rejecting him while feverishly searching for smarter courtship methods other than asking for sex.

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

Warming up Viktuuri doodle...and my first time drawing Yuuri! 🌸