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Pairing: Kageyama Tobio / Hinata Shouyou

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Oh god, oh god, oh god, Shouyou repeated in head. He really shouldn’t have gotten on this boat. But of course, he wanted to see some dolphins up close, yet all he was staring at was the floor of the boat, his hands clenched and sweaty. Who knew that he’d get seasick?

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Idk if its a translation thing but if it isn’t, here’s a whole new world of pain.

EDIT: well it seems like the Japanese name for the skate is the same but in the translation, it’s changed. Take this meta whichever way you like, I decided to interpret it like this because of the available facts presented to me at the time. Have fun!

In episode 1, Viktor’s FS is named “Stay Close to Me” (at least the song was so I’m also assuming that’s the name of his skate). 

Sento una voce che piange lontano/I hear a voice crying far away Anche tu sei stato forse abbandonato/Have you been abandoned as well? Orsù finisca presto questo calice di vino/Come now, let’s empty this glass of wine soon Inizio a prepararmi/I’ll start getting ready Adesso fa’ silenzio/Now be silent.

Con una spada vorrei tagliare/With a sword I wish I could cut Quelle gole che cantano d'amore/Those throats singing about love Vorrei serrar nel gelo le mani /I wish I could seal in the cold the hands Che esprimono quei versi d'ardente passione/That portray those verses of burning passion

Questa storia che senso non ha/This story that makes no sense Svanirà questa notte assieme alle stelle/Will vanish tonight along with the stars

Se potessi vederti/If I could see you Dalla speranza nascerà/From hope L’eternità/Eternity will be born

Stammi vicino/Stay close to me Non te ne andare/Don’t go Ho paura di perderti/I’m afraid of losing you

Le tue mani, le tue gambe/Your hands, your legs Le mie mani, le mie gambe/My hands, my legs I battiti del cuore/The heartbeats Si fondono tra loro/Are fusing together

Partiamo insieme/Let’s leave together Ora sono pronto/Now I’m ready

Lyrics from http://yohao88.tumblr.com/post/151438830208/parry-repost-theme-from-victor

As established in many many metas before, the skate is about the singer pleading to his lover or someone special to stay by his side. The singer is lonely, looking for love, pleading desperately for it to the point where he wants to kill love because he’s afraid of losing it.

Viktor and Yuuri skates this separately. But its artfully synchronized with each other.

Viktor skated Stay Close to Me in episode one after meeting Yuuri. That’s after the banquet where Yuuri stole his heart dead drunk and doesn’t remember it.

Viktor’s skating because he’s calling out to Yuuri. And Yuuri? He’s unknowingly calling out Viktor with this skate as well. Yuuri was looking for something to continue skating again.

…..and Viktor answered.

Now let’s go back to episode 12. The skate is now named “Stay By Me”. Again, I have no idea if this is a translation thing but now “Stay By Me” is the program name.

Stay By Me, the name itself, is already a lot more definite compared to Stay Close to Me. Stay Close to Me implies that the person you are talking to is faraway from you, that they may not stay because they’re so far. It’s a plea.

Stay By Me implies that the person is right there beside you and you are telling them to stay. It’s kinda like “Stand By Me” - you’re telling the person to stay and support you and never leave you. It’s a command.

Episode 12’s skate is the perfect end to the series because after all the drama and the build up, Viktor finally has Yuuri. He’s found the special someone from the first skate. Yuuri keeps Viktor and his career for one more year (or five).

Back to the lyrics,

Sento una voce che piange lontano/I hear a voice crying far away Anche tu sei stato forse abbandonato/Have you been abandoned as well? Orsù finisca presto questo calice di vino/Come now, let’s empty this glass of wine soon Inizio a prepararmi/I’ll start getting ready Adesso fa’ silenzio/Now be silent.

When the programme opens, Yuuri skates alone. The first verse of Stay Close to Me is kept, the singer is still lonely and yearning for his lover.

Stammi vicino/Stay close to me Non te ne andare/Don’t go Ho paura di perderti/I’m afraid of losing you

Then Viktor joins him at the chorus and they both skate together. The female singer also joins in at this point. They’re skating together.

Le tue mani, le tue gambe/Your hands, your legs Le mie mani, le mie gambe/My hands, my legs I battiti del cuore/The heartbeats Si fondono tra loro/Are fusing together

Partiamo insieme/Let’s leave together Ora sono pronto/Now I’m ready

The angsty part about killing love has noticeably been cut and for good reason.

The singer is no longer lonely anymore because now he’s joined by his lover. They’re both telling each other to not leave because they’re both afraid of losing each other. They’re telling each other that no matter where they go, they’ll always be ready to go together.

And what do we have as the final scene? Yuuri has moved to Russia and probably lives with Viktor since he’s running with Makkachin.

Stay Close to Me is the song that provides the narrative for Victuuri’s romance up to this point. It’s masterfully altered to have different meanings at the start and end of the series. It showed off how they both fell in love and ultimately got together in the end, promising each other that they’ll always be together.

It’s so, so beautiful.

Okay, buckle up folks, because (as always) I went completely overboard…

This episode dropped some big hints regarding something that I’ve been waiting to learn more about for basically the entire series.  I’m talking, of course, about Victor’s past.  Quite honestly, I’m a bit overwhelmed with just how much information this episode gave us.

Let me back up a second.  I’ve been anxious to learn more about Victor’s past since the very first episode, when we saw this…

[Originally posted by @eclecticanime]

This transition of Victor going from long to short hair struck me as really important.  I’ve been really curious to learn what is so significant about Victor’s long hair and why he decided to cut it.  

Up until this point, we’ve only gotten a few small hints.

We know from Yuri that Victor purposely played up the fact that he had a very androgynous appearance with his long hair and half-skirt.  

And we also know that Victor had his long hair for a while, back when Chris was still rather young, but had cut it off by the time that he promised Yurio that he would choreograph a program for him.  

There’s always been something about that initial introduction to Victor (in the first gif) that I’ve found ominous.  He goes from being in the light to passing through darkness, and when he emerges again his long hair is gone.  It just feels very significant–like something happened behind the scenes that nobody, not even Yuri, knows about.