intro: serendipity

Attention please! Due to a blockage on our track, we have stopped at East Daegu Station. We should either wait for the rescue team, or we’ll have to reach Busan in another train. As soon as I end this announcement, I will find a working train and put it on left most track. I repeat, left most track. If you’re alive, please transfer safely! Godspeed. 

Thank you!

Well, russian names have different forms.

1. A formal form is official and is used in documents, in formal communication, when we address a person with a higher social rank, a senior person, or simply a person who we respect. Usually we use formal names with patronymics (but I don’t know the name of Viktor’s father). So Viktor - is a formal name.

2. A colloquial form is used when we address a person in informal communication, acquaintances, friends, family. So Vitya is a colloquial form. (I honestly want Yuuri to call him Vitya so much unngh).

There is also a stylistically lowered forms - Vit’ka, Vityok - but it has a bit disrespectful attitude if used not by close friends or relatives. It’s more for bros/buddies type of communication.