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Victor Drowning his Sorrows?

A little after the bombshell of episode 10, the observation was made that Victor’s all night drinking spree happened after Yuuri declared the pork cutlet bowl to be his Eros.

Thus it was proposed that Victor, who had been spending the last week trying to reignite the spark from the banquet, drinks all night to drown his sorrows.

This idea caught like wildfire to the point it almost seems accepted canon. I, personally have always been a leery of this interpretation. Don’t get me wrong,I find it very funny, but first of all the timeline is a little off.

Victor heads out to drink at least a day, if not a couple of days after Yuuri declared his Eros of the pork cutlet bowl, (there is a montage of Yuri and Yuuri both skating and off ice conditioning, which implies to me that it was more than one day)

The one glimpse we get of Victor out at the ramen shop he seems genuinely happy.

(Also I have become leery of an American point of view that interprets any occasional overindulgence of alcohol as necessarily having some underlying negative cause.)

Beyond the possible timeline issue, it could also be argued that there was some level of Victor being slightly devious in purposely leaving the Yuris together, since with their opposing strengths they could learn from each other. I mean look at the little smile he gives after discovering them working together

Then he later admits after the Hot Springs on Ice while critiquing Yuuri’s performance that he knew he and Yuri had been working on his Salchow.

That said, I recently have been examining the idea more seriously than just an elevated piece of fanon, and there is something there.

First, the scene directly before Yuuri’s revelation, we’re shown Yuuri in the onsen contemplating about how to express Eros when a completely naked Victor asks Yuuri to take a picture of him. At the time I assumed this was just Victor being a funny foreigner, but in retrospect I think it’s possible to interpret it as Victor deliberately trying make Yuuri discover that Victor is the target of his Eros. This post argues this interpretation really well.

Which follows to the next scene where Victor’s jinbei is completely open at the front, strengthening the idea he’s trying to get Yuuri view him in a romantic way.

We see at other times his jinbei is loose, but not as completely open as it is here, so this is deliberate.

Then after Yuuri’s declaration the smile Victor gives is ambiguous.

It’s certainly not his heart smile or the proud older brother smile he gives when Yuri finds his Agape, but it’s not quite his frozen upset smile either, making it a bit hard to really interpret how Victor feels about Yuuri’s declaration, though he does seem a little taken aback by it, judging by the sweat drop.

So, Victor doesn’t go out that night, but after the montage we see that Yuuri was forced to join Yuri in the waterfall.

Yuuri even reasonably asks why he had to come, which is a valid question since he had already come up with his Eros. Unless we accept the possibility that Victor might have hoped that Yuuri would come to a different conclusion after further contemplation. However, we could also chalk this up to devious!Victor theory where he was hoping by throwing them together they would learn from each other.

What made me think about this seriously was the realization that we only see Victor overindulge in alcohol twice:

The first is drinking all night some indeterminate time after Yuuri declared pork cutlet bowl is his eros.

The second was at the hot pot restaurant in China after Yakov told Victor that he wouldn’t interact with him unless he went back to skating.

Therefore both times we see drunk Victor are following perceived rejection, first by Yuuri and secondly by Yakov, the two people we see Victor really having an intimate relationship with.

This could also parallel Yuuri’s known issue of overeating in response to anxiety and stress.

So, I personally am still not sure how seriously I take the idea that Victor “drowns his sorrows” when rejected, the evidence as noted above is a bit circumstantial, but it is interesting and potentially offers insight into Victor’s character.

tldr: does Victor drink his feelings the way Yuuri eats his feelings? Evidence is inconclusive, but an argument can be made, I guess.

Hey it’s me with my Au’s again Idk about the first one but the two under them is an Au with my own story again  More details under the cut ~

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as a long-time figure skating fan, i’ve been really looking forward to yuri on ice, and i wanted to talk a little bit about the skating in episode 1. i worry that maybe people who aren’t as into skating don’t understand how RIDICULOUS that program viktor did was.

this is not in any way a complaint. the program was completely unrealistic, but not because anyone involved with the show neglected to do their research. it was clear they actually put a ton of research & work in, and then intentionally designed something that was the skating equivalent of your power level being over 9000. viktor (and yuri) went out there and threw down the skating version of a level 100 mewtwo. it was DELIGHTFUL.

so first of all:

four quads is… not technically IMPOSSIBLE, but right at the very edge of what is currently possible in men’s figure skating. a quad (jump with four revolutions) is REALLY DIFFICULT. as recently as 2010, the olympic champion in men’s skating didn’t even have ONE quad in his program; i remember as recently as five years ago scott hamilton saying TWO quads was “superhuman.” the highest score EVER received in men’s skating was yuzuru hanyu at the grand prix final in 2015, where he performed three quads. the second highest score ever received was javier fernandez at worlds last year, where he also performed three quads. skating fans can correct me if i’m wrong but the only skater i can think of who has EVER performed four quads in one program is boyang jin, who is tiny and has made jump rotation his whole life. to have a seasoned 27-year-old skater performing four quads is completely delightful nonsense.

his first jump is a quad lutz. for some context, the rough ranking of skating jumps from easiest to most difficult is something like: toe loop, salchow, loop, flip, lutz, axel. you might notice a lutz is the SECOND MOST DIFFICULT JUMP POSSIBLE, and actually more difficult than the axel for some skaters. accordingly, MOST quads are toe loops or salchows. since a quad axel has literally never been performed, a quad lutz is the SINGLE MOST DIFFICULT jump ever landed in skating competition, EVER. although people have been trying to do quad lutz since the early 2000s, you can probably count the number of skaters who have landed it successfully on one hand. this jump is nearly ALWAYS underrotated or even downgraded to a triple. in my lifetime as a skating fan i can only think of a couple times i’ve seen this jump landed as cleanly as viktor does it here.

if that wasn’t enough, the lutz usually has a very specific set-up where the skater glides backward on one foot for a couple seconds before turning their skate blade onto the outside edge. that’s how the technique for the lutz jump is TAUGHT. it’s extremely impressive for someone to be able to throw a lutz out there without this setup. viktor does it and gets four full rotations.

then he follows it up with:

the first quad flip IN HISTORY was landed for the first time LAST APRIL. APRIL 2016. i also remember people trying this one back in 2010-2011, but it wasn’t successfully landed until THIS YEAR. and it’s viktor’s SIGNATURE MOVE!!! and he does it immediately after landing the other most difficult jump in skating!!!!!! he just pulled out two jumps most skaters can only dream of ever landing maybe once in their entire careers, BACK TO BACK.

again, the HIGHEST SCORE EVER AWARDED IN MEN’S FIGURE SKATING, EVER, was given to a program with one quad salchow and two quad toe loops. jumps SIGNIFICANTLY easier (but still extremely difficult) than viktor’s two opening jumps. and he’s just fucking getting started.

he does a flawless triple axel and then some footwork and spins. then he throws out something maybe a touch less superhuman:

for any real life skater, this would already be one of the greatest performances of their career. but viktor isn’t done yet.

he does a long (gorgeous) footwork sequence, triple lutz, triple flip, and:

i already mentioned how ridiculous four quads is, but this is even better. skaters will typically put their most difficult jumps near the beginning of the program, because they’re easier to land before your legs get tired. recognizing this, the scoring system gives you an extra 10% bonus on the jump’s value if it’s in the second half of the program. viktor pulls out a quad-triple combo, still one of the most difficult jumps in figure skating, as his LAST JUMP. HIS LAST JUMP. a free skate program lasts four and a half minutes. after four and a half minutes of grueling, exhausting activity, viktor soars into a quad-triple so beautiful it could be used to teach the combination to other skaters.

AND YURI KEEPS UP WITH ALL OF THIS. YURI, WHO CAME IN LAST AT THE GPF. YURI CAN DO THIS TOO. this program is significantly more difficult than anything that has ever been competed irl, and this show has TWO SKATERS DOING IT SIMULTANEOUSLY. WHAT A GREAT SHOW???

for any skating nerds out there, here is my breakdown of the jumps in viktor’s program:

4Lz - 13.60 4F - 12.30 3A - 8.50 4S - 10.50 3A+3Lo+2Lo - 15.40 3Lz x - 6.60 3F x - 5.83 4T+3T x - 16.06

to explain what this means. the world record score in men’s figure skating was given to yuzuru hanyu in 2015. for that program, the base value for the jumps alone (so not even taking execution into consideration, just the sheer value yuzuru got for completing the jumps he did) was 79.87 points. 

the total base value of the jumps viktor (and yuri) performed in this program was 88.79.

this program would have handily crushed the world record. and yuri throws it out there in his home rink when he’s out of shape during the off-season.

HOLY SHIT :0

@thegirlwhorideslikeasamurai found a Facebook copy of the video of Patton Chen skating "On Love: Eros" that there's a dead link to in the below art post by @thehappysatan and I see no reason to make y'all visit Facebook when I could just reupload the video to Tumblr

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if you're not antifascist, what's wrong with you?

I reuploaded it to Tumblr so y'all don't have to visit Facebook: @thegirlwhorideslikeasamurai found a Facebook copy of the video of Patton

Two favorite things, Monsieur Giacometti and cats

You can thank @teekettle for requesting Chris in glasses

What could have been...

I’ve been waiting all year to post this.

IM SO GLAD I SEE THIS AFTER I PLAYED P5R I LOVE THIS AND PERSONA SO MUCH <333

Just imagine phantom thief Eros mischievously playing with detective Viktor Nikiforov, whom has sworn to catch the elusive criminal.

However, will his heart be stolen first?

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Comic and illustration based on @kawaiiusagi2  ‘s Phantom thief AU fic which you can read here x. ( ᐛ )و (The fic was inspired by @samochas ‘s amazing art x)

Please enjoy!

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