DAMN!! YUURI

…BUT HE ACTUALLY LOOKS READY TO START THE PARTY.

“Hell no, I’m not letting you have all the fun, I’m in.”

Victor crying TWENTY SECONDS into the episode. (I WAS NOT READY. NO ONE WAS READY.)

Victor who sees no meaning in skating if Yuuri is not there skating with him.

Victor is on a first-name basis with Stéphane Lambiel (please ignore my internal screaming).

Nice to see you again Canadian flag guy. Also someone please do something about whoever is in charge of mass-producing the “Jean Jack Leroy” banners.

Ok mini JJ is cute. Which proves that all human beings if sufficiently smol will be cute.

JJ - has evolved into actual cinnamon roll.

Seung-gil actually smiling. FOR JJ.

More scenes of Yuuri with glasses and gelled hair (hot damn).

This “dream” of Phichit’s.

I feel like we need to psychoanalyze his dream. I am concerned.

I have this in a separate post but I might as well add it in.

Everything in this scene.

Look at those shiny sparkling rings.

This might be where I started having these feelings. 

and started tearing up

Happy crying this time. Everyone is crying.

Yes, you sap, he’s skating for you.

This was painful.

This was not painful.

Chris getting his own flower crown from Minako-sensei - I have many feels about this.

Yuzuru Hanyu (in his Let’s Go Crazy outfit) on the cover of Ice Jewels with JJ doing the JJ sign. (does Yuzuru KNOW?)

Yuri being more worried about Yuuri retiring than being happy about Victor returning to competitive skating (which he’s been arguing for all along, but now he doesn’t want that if it equates to Yuuri’s retirement).

This entire conversation. Remember how Yuri generally avoids hugs like the plague?

Setting up for season two? A friendly rivalry between Yuuri and Yuri (and now Victor) where they chase after each other’s records on the ice…

Otabek applauding Yuri’s free skate with a little smile on his face.

So much crying in this episode.

This entire conversation

(I feel like the animators take a perverse joy in making the rings look as shiny and sparkly as possible whenever they’re in the frame, good job MAPPA)

I also like how everyone’s gone except for the clean-up crew, and Yuuri and Victor are still hugging in a corner.

Actually Yuuri is sitting on Victor’s lap. (I am fine, why do you ask.)

And then Stammi Vicino, Non Te Ne Andare started. This is more or less how I felt:

And then Victor skated in, and I swear my heart stopped for a moment.

By this point, my brain was mush.

Then there’s Yuuri in Russia running with Makkachin towards Victor…

…and Yuri is there too.

And you realize we’re getting a second season…

So I’m sure this has been talked about before. It’s been three months since the first episodes came out. But I just need to get my thoughts on this out on paper, because it’s been bugging me. One line stuck out to me as I was rewatching YOI recently.

Full text: Those moves…they’re for the short program Viktor was practicing for next season. Viktor was already putting together routines for next season.Surprising the audience has always been his top priority. He had the whole world in his hands. But now, no matter what he does no one is surprised anymore. He knows that better than anyone. If you don’t have any inspiration left, you’re as good as dead.

Do you realize what this means? Yuri Plisetsky understands more than he ever gets credit for. He knew Viktor needed this break to get his inspiration back. He’s not bitter about it, like Chris and JJ, who want Viktor to come back. He understands Viktor’s decision, and respects him for it.

SECOND…

Viktor asks if Yuuri and Yuri have ever thought about love. I feel like he’s not sure himself and can’t figure it out himself, so he gives the routines to Yuuri and Yuri to see if that’ll help him figure it out. Yuuri even describes agape as being about someone who doesn’t know what love is yet.

And later when Yuri asks Viktor to define agape, he says he can’t because it’s just a feeling, suggesting that Viktor doesn’t know what agape is either.

In episode 10, Viktor says that’s neglected love for 20 years. And from the banquet, we can judge that meeting Yuuri was his spark of inspiration. He choreographed Eros and Agape based on his indefinable feelings for Yuuri. Was it love he felt…or just sexual desire? He didn’t know himself, so he tried to skate for the answer.

So when Yuri leaves after his Agape routine and reflects back on what he saw, it’s not just about how amazing Yuuri’s skating is. Yuri realizes that Viktor choreographed “that performance” with Yuuri in mind. He sees how Viktor is looking at Yuuri, and it finally clicks in his head.

Both Eros and Agape are about Yuuri. Not only that, Yuri knows he never had a chance to become Viktor’s student because Viktor found the inspiration in Yuuri, not him.

A lot of people assume that Yuri didn’t know about Viktor’s feelings for Yuuri until the engagement announcement, but Yuri has known this whole time. And he’s been skating a love song about Yuuri at each short program.

when you realize yuri plisetsky was a yuri katsuki fan from the very beginning but was salty about yuri k not knowing his own potential and underestimating himself and didn’t know how to go about lighting a fire under yuri k that wasn’t motivated by sPITE BECAUSE DAMN YOU, I WANT TO BEAT YOU BUT I WANT TO BEAT YOU WHEN YOU’RE AT MAX POTENTIAL ahem

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Or: How Yuri Plisetsky Saved Viktor and Yuuri’s Wedding and Phichit Instagrammed It All