#caitsyoi

These can be associated with a holiday (real or from runeterra lore or made up, any is good), birthdays, or just gifts for no particular reason.

Please and thank you!

saved this ask so i could answer it on my birthday because getting to think about nice things happening to my girls is a gift TO ME, thank you 🫶

by virtue of having all material wants and needs satisfied from the moment cassandra started taking pre-natal gummies, caitlyn is practical on the subject of gifts. you don't have this thing that you need? okay, well, now you do. she’s perceptive and has a good memory, and imo “paying attention and planning ahead” is pretty much the entire formula for being a good gift-giver

though “being filthy rich and more than slightly unhinged” also helps, meaning even really boring gifts come with a sense that like. oh. you got kind of scary with this. caitlyn kiramman is NOT making last minute amazon orders. 

but she also just thinks this is something everybody is good at and so doesn’t realize at all the effect such simple kindnesses as “having my needs considered” and “being known” can have on vi

ex. a hand cream will appear on vi’s side of the vanity with a note like “your hands have been rather dry and the cold has you favoring your knuckles again, per the product lists of every five-star salon in the city i've determined this is the most effective brand for both moisturizing and pain relief - xx C” and vi will be crying for an hour in the shower

for vi, i think her having to make do with what she had, wants and needs both irrelevant, is something she still applies but mostly to herself. my socks are perfectly fine, thank you, these holes are darn-able. which drives caitlyn crazy. i could buy you a small principality, the least i can do is buy you some socks.

with other people, though, pretty sure vi is hugely generous! real shirt-off-her-back kind of gal, it just doesn’t often take material forms and i don’t ever see her being truly comfortable spending caitlyn’s money on stupid and unnecessary bullshit. vi is way more likely to show up at your house with a six-pack an hour before the party starts and ask you to put her to work. she is building IKEA furniture at the Firelight base on the weekends because it’s been a while since they had an upgrade. etc.

so her gifts to caitlyn are like. ordering takeout and catching up on paperwork so caitlyn doesn't have to stay late alone. picking up boot polish and gun oil when caitlyn's running low. reading a book out loud so caitlyn’s eye won't get tired. and so on.

for these reasons i think they both kind of come easily to the same conclusion that for the big holidays they don’t need to do gifts and would much rather a) just do something fun together, and/or b) give things to other people instead of each other. they’re going out to their favorite hole in the wall and dropping off a giant check to the soup kitchen on the way home. they're going to the mall and fulfilling every ticket on whatever the runeterra angel tree equivalent is. etc.

all this means that they're both small everyday givers more than they're big occasion people. as noted, a post-canon caitlyn is dropping declarations of devotion via hand cream on your average tuesday. for vi, i love that idea of her becoming a big Maker Of Shit and gifting all of it to her loved ones. she’s soldering little creatures out of aluminum scraps and leaving them in places that will make caitlyn laugh. she’s planting poppies in fall so she can bring caitlyn to see them in the spring, pressing them between pages so she'll find them in twenty years and know she's been loved for as long. they're sparring and writing each other letters and peeling fruit for each other and agreeing to five more minutes and changing each other's bandages. they’re buying each other books and flowers and fresh bread and all the small fleeting nice-to-haves that make life more itself.

(Of course only if you want to!)

well thank ya. I do love making jokes. here's a silly one I wrote today!

what do you call a non binary person with bad breath?

Please rate this beautiful Yuuri.

bless you!!!! thank you for this message!!!! it is wonderful and brightens up the day! viktor is britney spears gay and chris is lady gaga gay and together they are unstoppable. by the end of the night everybody in the club knows the name of yuuri katsuki-nikiforov and chris is wailing, shirtless, about how happy he is to finally be marrying his hot choreographer?manager? boyfriend while viktor dabs his tears away with a black thong. yuuri shows up in six-inch heels with a bottle of champagne in one hand and chris’ fiancé in the other and calls them a taxi.

‘thank you so much,’ says viktor. ‘i love you so much. how did you know?’

‘you have me on speed-dial,’ yuuri says. ‘you called me three times. we had an entire conversation about beyoncé’s lemonade and two strippers proposed to me over the phone.’

‘HOW COULD I FORGET,’ viktor sobs.

HI YES. I’m so flattered that somebody recommended it? The Power of Love was angsty for me to write. I honestly am not sure what type of angst it classifies as, though? Probably mutual pining. Mutual pining is my drug of choice, too, friend.

JUST FRIGGIN TALK KIDS IT’D FIX EVERYTHING. Except sometimes they talk and it gets worse so....

ANYWAY hmmm. I’m not sure if you want these HCs specifically in PoL’s universe, or in the YOI universe in general. Firstly, I just have to tell you that there are no boring facts about Viktor and Yuuri-- at least as far as their fiances are concerned. I’m gonna say that Viktor is actually very good at impressions, and his favorite type of comedians are people who do impressions. You might imagine that this stems from the fact that he used to be a performative person-- meaning he had to act out emotions/cover emotions up. It’s actually because Viktor is a crowd-pleaser who’s good at accents, and also at paying attention to people’s quirks. Yuuri’s boring fact is that he’s one of those people who enjoys freezer-burn ice cream (I am also one of these people) because it’s crunchy and it’s comforting to chew things. Also, the flavor reminds him of rinks... somehow.

A ViktorandYuuri fact that nobody knows is that Yuuri occasionally gets to dress Viktor, even though Yuuri’s idea of fashion is usually ‘whatever is clean and comfortable.’ Look, Yuuri tries very hard. He stares and stares at their shared closet and thinks about color schemes and fashion ‘rules’ he’s heard of in the past. (”Plaid and stripes is a no, right?” He asks on one occasion. “I would rather be naked,” says Viktor immediately in response. “That really doesn’t mean much,” Yuuri muses, unaffected. “But probably a no.”)

Then, Yuuri carefully selects an outfit he thinks would look ravishing on his Vitya, and Viktor just has to put it on. He does not say a word. He will probably have to exit the house wearing it, too.

Do they get stopped by paparazzi on some of these days?? Yes. Does it have every fashion magazine in an uproar over ‘hot or not?’ Absolutely. Luckily for Yuuri’s fashion sense, Viktor has that Rihanna magic: it’s not fashion until Viktor says it’s fashion.

“What do you credit for inspiring your invention of what is now known as the ‘baggy bourgeois’ look?” All the reporters want to know.

Obviously these are just headcanons, oh and ps I decided to forgo boring and just went with something cute and fluffy ^-^

Yuuri: he really likes being the big spoon because he gets to hold Victor and also Victor fricken loves being held by Yuuri and Yuuri loves how he loves that, so yeah. Big spoon Yuuri!