Yuri P/No more stressing out over impending growth spurt
Yuri P/Loving and nurturing family background that’s just not his grandpa
Yuri P/having a life that goes beyond stress training day and night to be the best because goddamnit Yuri you are 15 please tell me Mila and you hang out and do fun stuff, and Georgi and you go out for street food but only because he’s paying I need to know there is some happiness in your life that goes beyond your grandpa’s love for you im beggin g you
It’s even worse now that they’re…dare I say it, officially established as a couple.
If it didn’t want to be labeled as “shonen-ai,” at the very least, they should have labeled it as “romance.”
Please, understand, to anyone reading:
My biggest problem isn’t that Victuuri just plain old existsl. My biggest problem is that this show not correctly labeled.
If this show had been advertised as being a love story within the context of sports, I would be okay.
But no, it wasn’t. I watched this show with the belief that it would solely be about the sport. And I was bamboozled. I want to know what I’m signing up for when I watch something. And you should all want the same too.
What they did is equivalent to… taking the 2013 movie Warm Bodies and advertising it as though it would be like The Walking Dead.
And, as a matter of fact, if Yuri Katsuki was a female, and you changed the facts a little to accommodate that, I’m sure that 80% of the people watching this show would hate it and would complain for the exact same reason that I am complaining.
They would say: Why is this concentrating on the romance and not the skating itself? This is a sports anime, cmon!
That is- a reflection of why he is doing what he is doing.
Putting aside any bias that comes from ships or preferred characters, I believe that the whole fandom can agree on two things:
Viktor has a fascination with Yuuri.
Viktor broke his promise to Yurio.
Now, based on the wiki and the episodes, some of things we know about Viktor also include:
He is forgetful. (Yurio)
He only thinks about himself (Coach Yakov)
He is all about surprising people
He does thorough data gathering (trying to learn all about Yuuri to help him out)
He’s straightforward and serious about work
Current Analysis of him?
Viktor is motivated by selfish goals in helping Yuuri and rejecting Yurio, and he is rather fake, personality wise.
The biggest tip off here is the fact that his own (former) coach calls him selfish. Viktor is not only beautiful, but highly gifted (being at the top of his game when he was 16), and very charismatic. This is a man who has probably never been told the word ‘no’ in his life.
Yurio says that Viktor’s forgetful, but I find it highly unlikely that Viktor is, especially in regards to something ‘work’ related. Rather, he likely choses to be ignorant of certain things because he was simply allowed to. All he probably has to do is smile and go ‘oops?’ and the whole world would forgive him.
But, as Yurio also mentions, being able to surprise people is key when in a performance business, and Viktor was slipping from his throne. How could he surprise people now?
Well, what better way than to become the coach of an ice skater who was internet popular despite placing poorly in the last few competitions? Not only would no one expect it, but people would find it downright endearing of Viktor to have taken under his wing someone who was such a big fan of his work.
On helping Yuuri
Why would you say that though?! He’s so sweet and flirty with Yuuri!!!
Okay, first- that’s another thing that he’s known for: being flirtatious. And Yuuri is such a big fan that Viktor probably downright enjoys his innocent and unquestioning personality towards him.
Second, Viktor only acts like that in front of Yuuri; in front of an audience. And I say this because- BAM- MY (in my opinon) DAMNING EVIDENCE!!! (This is right after Yuuri pleads for Viktor to watch him carefully.)
From the moment I saw this, it bugged me. Viktor looks, in no way, happy. He looks bored, like he doesn’t care, and is simply saying what he knows will make Yuuri happy and motivated.
We’ve seen Yuuri’s range of facial expressions. We’ve seen Yurio’s too. Happy, sad, flustered, put off, tired, etc.
But 99% of the time we see Viktor, he’s all smiles and careless peacefulness. This, right here, is one of the few times we see him without some kind of ghost of a smile- and here, no one is looking.
It takes little effort to make him look even somewhat pleased by Yuuri’s willful words, but in these frames, where you can see detail, there’s no sense of happiness. I mean, look at this pic below. It’s such a far away shot but you KNOW, Viktor is smiling.
On why he pushed away Yurio
Continuing on with the notion that Viktor is a selfish guy, there is a possibility that he pushed Yurio away because Yurio threatens his legacy.
Viktor was, to quote Wiki, ‘at the top of the world’ by age 16. Because his birthday is in December, this is also the year he debuted in the senior division.
Yurio though, is entering the senior division at age 15, a year younger than when Viktor did, and he- arguably- has just as much talent as Viktor. With Viktor’s mentoring, Yurio could easily surpass everything that Viktor did at his age. Yurio is promising talent, and Viktor knew it from the moment he saw little Yurio skating.
When he was little, Yurio tried a move that Viktor was known for. But Viktor didn’t go out of his way to say “Let me mentor, or give you some tips.”
But now, with Yuuri (who also mimicked Viktor’s moves), Viktor jumped at the opportunity to go mentor him.
Why? Probably because of the publicity it will bring. Back when he saw Yurio, he was probably still wowing the crowd on his own, and didn’t need the extra ‘wow’ that Yurio would bring. Now though…
In choosing who to mentor, Yuuri would definitely be a better choice to make Viktor look good, because Yuuri had a number of visible flaws that he could fix up. And who would take the credit when Yuuri will visibly blossom?
‘Wow, Yuuri’s changed and become so much more confident now, ever since Viktor came around as his coach.’
Yurio, though, as we all saw from the match, can already wow the crowd with what he’s doing. But he himself knows he can definitely do more. He wants Viktor’s guidance to become that best version of himself.
As a talented genius, Viktor must have seen that Yurio could have done better too, but instead of berating to help him grow, Viktor tells him it was his best work. It was almost like telling Yurio to settle for the talent he was pulling out now.
This post is relevant and has plausible explanations to Victor’s character, and I don’t know about you but knowing Victor broke his promise to a 15 year old has me side eyeing Victor.
From Yuri’s response it does hurt, and he was looking forward to being mentored by him based on his reaction after his flashback.
So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.
Stay woke
Is this true?
Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”
You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.
Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST
It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worst
Komen For The Cure is pretty much awful.
My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:
Hi, guys! Many of you, (after reading my previous post about this) ask how you can help. Right now, all we can do in Poland is to strike and try to reach out to as many people as possible, especially powerful organisations outside of Poland (we of course tried within our own country, but failed miserably). What you can also do is sign this petition which could draw attention of the officials of the EU. Please, spread the word again, I know we can do it!! And thank you all so much for your support and kind words, they really mean a lot <3.
