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Here’s part of something that might become bigger or might stand alone, the working title of which is “U-Haul: Moving Made Gayer”

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In another world, in another time, Yuri Katsukiperhaps would have had a very different reaction to Viktoria Nikiforovastanding in front of her bedroom door, asking to have a sleepover. Viktoria isthe twenty-seven-year-old reigning figure skating champion for half a decade andshe’s wearing a designer camisole over a pair of silk sleeping shorts, but she’salso wearing poodle slippers that Yuuri is pretty sure you can buy online fortwelve dollars. Her make-up is gone and her face has lost some of its angles,some of its allure, but she smells like vanilla and there is a faint sheen ofwhat must be lipbalm on her mouth. She is a grown woman, graceful and refined,but there is something childlike about her standing there, clutching her pillowwith Makkachin at her feet.

Yuri Katsuki might have turned her down,because she’s intimidating. She represents everything Yuri wants to be andmight not ever achieve.

But Yuri is also a woman who loves woman, andshe loves Viktoria—she has for halfher life—and something about Viktoria, underneath that charm and lipstick andheight, feels a little broken. Feels a little bit like it needs the kind of careand reassurance that can only come from another woman, even just a friend.Perhaps especially a friend.

So she looks Viktoria up and down for amoment, from hair in a French plait against the side of her head to the eyes ofthe poodle slippers, then opens the door to her room.

So like Yuri’s fashion depends a lot on her happenstance in life. As a child and teen she mostly wore her school uniform, which is unambiguously feminine, and she’s always worn her hair long so she always looked very girly as a young woman. When Mari bleached her hair and got her piercings (And tattoos because Mari has tattoos we just haven’t seen them yet) Yuri thought it was SO COOL but Japanese high schools? Very strict, so Yuri couldn’t do anything crazy like that, and then she moved to America to pursue ice skating and was enough of a fish out of water in America by just being, y’know, not American that the idea of doing anything drastic like that to her appearance sort of fell to the wayside. 

But in college Yuri really sort of developed her own style for the first time in her life. She wears a lot of jeans and a lot of button-up shirts and her hair is almost always tied up and she’s a woman who sleeps with women so of course there’s going to be some labeling there. And Yuuri doesn’t hate being soft butch or whatever that means, so it’s all good. 

But for Yuri, dressing up still means putting on a dress and doing your hair. Which is how she likes it, and so a lot of people have the experience of watching Yuri Katsuki, usually she of the Flannel And Jeans Like A Good Butch Should, teeter into a place in five-inch heels with her hair curled and glitter on her shoulders and she looks fucking good.

Like, the dress? Maybe the dress isn’t great (It’s Hiroko’s and might be as old as Yuri), but the rest of it is amazing.

And Viktoria watches this beautiful woman with the EYES and the HAIR and the BOOBS spin around on a pole and almost has a Gay Stroke.

Then she meets Yuri Katsuki, really meets her, and her soft hair underneath a hat her mother knit for her, who’s soft in the belly and the hips and wears cuffed jeans and sneakers and sports bras. Her fingernails are trimmed short and her ears are small, unpierced. 

And Yuri Katsuki compares her “frumpy” wardrobe to Viktoria, who wears designers, even workout clothes, and feels inadequate next to Viktoria’s high fashion, tailored and custom everything.

Viktoria on the other hand? Is in love. She’s in love with Yuri’s hats, and Yuri’s sweatshirts with the front pockets, and Yuri’s jeans with the rip in the knee and the men’s belt because she buys them a size too big, and she loves Yuri’s forearms when she pushes the sleeves of her jackets up to her elbows–she loves the fine little peach fuzz there, little black hairs scattered down her arms like Viktoria’s freckles–adorable. She likes the boniness of Yuri’s ankle compared to the fullness of her thighs, and the angle of her jaw compared to her pillowy cheeks. She loves the poodle-patterned boyshorts that are Yuri’s favorite pair of underwear, and the cotton ankle socks that Yuri wears.

Then she watches Yuri skate onto the ice to perform Eros, and realizes that Yuri has a whole other side to her that Viktoria gets to explore. She cocks a hip and tosses her hair over her shoulder, blows a kiss, winks an eye. 

So, in keeping with my non-compromising stance when it comes to Viktoria’s personality equaling Viktor’s personality step-for-step, I’m pretty sure that Viktoria has only had a few partners in her life. And by ‘partners’ i mean people she’s had sex with. I don’t think Viktoria has ever really had a relationship like the one she has with Yuri.

Also, I think that Viktoria, unlike Yuri, attempted compulsory heterosexuality as a young woman. I think she got into her head as a fourteen year old that she should try to date a boy--and succeeded, because she’s always been a beautiful girl. But she never felt anything. She never really wanted to be around them.

I don’t think Viktoria has ever had sex with a man.

My headcanon for Viktoria’s sexual awakening is much like my headcanon for Viktor’s. Viktoria met a girl at Vaganova Academy, which was easy for her since Lilia is an instructor there and Viktoria was in and out all the time with Lilia. I think the girl is just a little bit older than Viktoria, and they do things like kiss in places they shouldn’t, and touch each other over their clothes, and one time Viktoria sneaks out of her room at Yakov’s in the middle of the night and into her girlfriend’s dorm and that’s Viktoria’s first real sexual experience. 

And this is the time when Viktoria discovers herself. She understands that this is what she wants from life. She understands that women are far more appealing than men, for her, and she acts on that. She comes to understand why she appreciates the long line of a ballerina’s neck, and the curve of her thighs, and the elegant way her feet point. 

These things are feminine, and that is what attracts Viktoria on a deeply sensual level.

However, Viktoria doesn’t let herself become distracted by these sorts of things, and so she never really develops a ‘type’. Maybe she’s more attracted to women who are shorter than her, but Viktoria is almost six feet tall--practically every other woman she’s ever met has been shorter than her. And perhaps she likes long hair, but only because she likes the idea of sitting and braiding a girl’s hair for her.

I HAD A RESPONSE TO THIS BUT THEN MY COMPUTER DID A WEIRD THING AND I LOST IT D: D: D: OKAY HERE WE GO AGAIN

VIKTORIA LOVES EVERYTHING ABOUT GIRLS! SHE LOVES THEIR VOICES AND THEIR SOFTNESS AND THEIR ANGLES AND THEIR CURVES AND THE GENTLE WAY THEY TOUCH YOU AND SHE JUST LOVES GIRLS SO MUCH.

SHE LOVES THE CURVE OF YURI’S BACK AND THE SOFTNESS OF HER THIGHS AND HER HAIR. SHE’S JEALOUS OF YURI’S HAIR BECAUSE IT’S SOFTER THAN HERS EVEN THOUGH VIKTORIA DOES SO MUCH TO MAKE IT SOFT AND YURI’S JUST IS OKAY IT JUST IS.

SHE LOVES EVERYTHING YURI WEARS. SHE LOVES THE FLANNELS AND THE JEANS AND THE DRESSES AND THE LINGERIE. SHE LIKES IT WHEN YURI WEARS NOTHING BUT A PAIR OF BOXER SHORTS. SHE LIKES IT WHEN YURI WEARS NOTHING BUT A PAIR OF SOCKS. 

SHE LOVES THE NOISE THAT YURI’S NOSE MAKES WHEN SHE SLEEPS.

SHE LOVES IT WHEN YURI SINGS TO MAKKACHIN WHILE SHE GIVES HIM A BATH.

Hi friend!

So Viktoria isn’t actually taller than Viktor–I usually round their height to six foot, since 5′11′’ is so close to six foot, and most of the time it just flows better. They’re both 5′11′’. However–Viktoria is probably six+ feet tall most of the time, since she wears heels often.

Yuri is the same height as Yuuri; 5′8′’! :) I’ve mentioned before that I think their height difference is probably slightly more than that, given conflicting visual evidence, but since those are their canonically listed heights, that’s how tall they are. 

I try to change as little as possible between canonical Viktor and Yuuri, and cisflips. I think that a lot of the distaste for cisflips–and this is my personal opinion on what makes some of them unappealing, as well–is that their whole personality changes when they become women? Which isn’t how that would work. They’re not different people. The way they think about themselves, their personalities, and even–I’m inclined to believe–their personal forms of gender expression really wouldn’t change all that much. 

And some people might disagree, or wonder why I cisflip them at all if that’s how I think about things, and that’s a valid response to my beliefs and I won’t challenge anybody who thinks opposite me, but I don’t necessarily think that there’s a right answer to the given conundrum, and so we muddle along.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Characters: Katsuki Yuuri, Victor Nikiforov, Mila Babicheva, Yuri Plisetsky, Katsuki Hiroko Additional Tags: cisflip, Post-Rostelecom Cup, Hurt/Comfort, Miscommunication, Established Relationship Summary:

"It's almost like a marriage proposal," Viktoria says, and the thing is—the thing is, if Viktoria wanted it to be, Yuri would make it one. If Viktoria had asked, "Is that a marriage proposal?" Yuri would have unhesitatingly said yes. She would have lowered herself onto a knee before Viktoria in Fukuoka Airport, the officially certified least romantic place in the world, and said Viktoria Konstantinovna Nikiforova, please—please—