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Have I mentioned how incredible you are? And how thankful I am?

Link loves his Noodle Wife and she loves him

This is part of an art exchange with @zeldaseyebrows cause we both had a lot of feelings about this 🐉

Close up of the Snoot Boop

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and we have to question what he tells us about his jumps, too. yuuri’s favorite jump is the triple axel. axels. are. hard. it’s his favorite jump and commentators know it’s his favorite jump, which means this is… a generally consistent very good jump. axels are hard!!! he has the quad toe loop and can land the quad sal in practice, and in the span of just a few months yuuri is not only making the salchow consistent but he then adds the flip, the second hardest quad to land, and seems to master it in a month.

AWESOME SCIENCE/GAY CULTURE FACT: if you put the rainbow emoji 🌈 before the het couple emoji 👫, it’s not a straight couple anymore, it becomes gay man and a lesbian holding hands because they are friends. 

So thanks to an anon, I ended up looking into Yuuri’s past costumes a few days ago, and noticed something that I couldn’t get off my mind: 

They’re all blue or black, really. I would find more examples to prove myself, but honestly, there isn’t a lot of colour variation. Even in the canon timeline, Yuuri’s costumes are black and then blue: 

I could have screenshotted any moment but I just like to look at the viktuuri kiss okay 

So, what does this mean? Well, in western culture, blue is a colour of coldness, serenity, perhaps sadness too. A colour rather appropriately then often associated with Yuuri, a character who makes these traits apparent. But was this intentional? 

It turns out blue means the same thing in Japan 

Well, kind of. I’m an English clueless who kind of purposely sets my fanfics in countries that are not Japan because I know I’m going to mess the culture up somehow. But basically, a bit of swift research told me that blue means calmness and serenity, but also largely purity. With the added bonus that blue is a feminine colour over there which is kinda cool when you think about Eros

So, Viktor next: 

We’ve seen him in blue and black in his past, but here for a mature Viktor we see him dressed in pink. Because I’m only going to do a brief colour analysis, I’m hence forth going to be referring to him as red (close enough considering pink is a colour on the red spectrum). 

Red is perhaps more universal in meaning than blue is. In Japan, it represents energy, heat, power, love etc. Also the red on the Japanese flag represents the sun apparently so there’s that.

Red and blue: opposite colours for what are, on the surface, opposite characters. 

Blue, the flame that was never lit

Red, the flame that burned too brightly 

And this is incredibly intentional because look, even in the OP:

EVEN IN THEIR GODDAMN TRACKSUITS 

And then we have the final moments of the anime, where the spectrums meet

P U R P L E 

“ Purple combines the calm stability of blue and the fierce energy of red.” 

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Artist :   梓蒼。＠兵役中