Яков Фельцман

doesn’t he always look serious? what’s the novelty in that that’d have to make it into a photo? if she wanted a serious photo of him, she could save the one from the rsu’s homepage...

it may seem like all he ever does is scold these kids, but the truth is, more often than not, there are things to scold them about. if they want him to stop grumbling, all they should do is follow simple instructions. why this seems to be so difficult, yakov will likely never understand.

“how long are you going to be fooling around?” [i’m so very done]-meter currently at 65%. yakov leans against the railing and watches his brightest student as he acts like he is nowhere near being the brightest at all. in fact, he’s lucky if he won’t fall across his own feet. (maybe an exaggeration. maybe. yakov is fond of exaggerating. it tends to make people pay a bit more attention. not that vitya will ever do anything except precisely what he wants to do, no matter what yakov says...)

i sort of forgot i had this blog

“sorry, i’ve got my hands quite full at the moment, and i doubt you could outdo any of them to make it worth my while.”

he catches it reflexively as it drops towards the ground, then stares at yuri for a long moment, his face reddening. “what the everloving hell is wrong with you today?!”

“you could have just let him retire,” yakov suggests, though a moment later he adds, “but that would have been a waste.” he lets out a somewhat exasperated sigh, rolling his eyes at vitya. “why do i feel like this is going to end in me being saddled with both of you? yuri is half as much trouble as you are, even though he’s every bit as stubborn as you are.” he wants to sound disgruntled, but somehow it still manages to be fond.

“i didn’t tell you to think. i told you to stretch it.” maybe he’s being harsh, but katsuki’d better learn to make adjustments for that, if he wants to study here with vitya. welll, technically he’s vitya’s student, but since they’re both registered under yakov (since vitya can’t actually be a coach and a competitor at the same time according to ISU regulations), he’s the de jure coach. and it’s not like he’s wrong. “stretch it now, and put some sportscream on it. i’m not telling you again.”

“you do know that you chose a really stupid time to get back into competing, right?” of course viktor knows. he’s not stupid, even if he acts like it a lot of the time. “you have two weeks before the nationals. and you still want to coach katsuki too... you didn’t think this through at all, did you?” though technically, it’s not impossible. for anyone else it would be, but when it comes to vitya, yakov just... doesn’t have expectations anymore, because the other would exceed them anyway. besides, throughout the GP he was choreographing for yuuri, training together with him, so at least he’s not horribly out of shape... but he still needs to whip up a program of his own in the time left to him.

he might be old, but he’s not blind, thank you very much. “let me guess, vitya told me i was fussing too much, and you didn’t stretch out your calf after you fell on it yesterday. all of your takeoffs are sloppy as hell.”

i actually have icons now (and they’re almost all either “YOU GODDAMN BRAT” or just “ugh.”) but anyway, starter call!