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Prompt 23 - OTAYURI. They don’t deserve you.

I took a liberty with Yuri’s back story. I hope you like it ^-^

Yuri was uncharacteristically quiet during their routine Skype call.

He didn’t use a single curse word. He didn’t bug him with how Mila was eating his brain over her weight gain or how Georgi was having a panic attack after seeing Anya’s instagram post with her new boyfriend. He didn’t complain how Viktor was using him as a pigeon to pass his crappy love notes to Katsuki right under Yakov’s nose.

And to top all that, he’d forgotten to feed Potya that morning.

“What’s bothering you, Yura?”

Yuri snapped his eyes up at Otabek through his laptop screen, watching him hard for a minute.

Otabek was expecting a denial with full on bravado or at least a casual shrug. He didn’t expect Yuri to lower his eyes and pretend to clean the non existent dust off his keyboard with his fingertip.

Yuri took a minute or two, before meeting Otabek’s gaze again. It felt cold.

“My parents are getting a divorce tomorrow,” he muttered, his voice lower than a whisper.

Otabek was at a loss for words. “I'm… I’m so sorry-”

“Nah. Don’t be,” Yuri had recovered enough to casually shrug.

There was a moment of silence, before Yuri continued. “I thought after Dad’s promotion, things were going… better. I thought… I thought we would have a chance to be together again. Like y’know? Family. God-” He rubbed his face with a quick drag of his hand. “It was so silly of me. I… I feel like an idiot, seriously!” he huffed.

“They don’t deserve you, Yura.”

Otabek knew it was harsh. But he’d never seen Yuri so lost and broken, not even when he’d lost his gold to Katsuki. Otabek couldn’t watch him like this.

And when Otabek flew to St. Petersburg the very next day, Yuri was so shook up that he wrapped him in a hug like an Octopus and cried his heart out for a full ten minutes right in the middle of the doorway.

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@pllsetskyonice​!

She is amazing and has written quite a few very entertaining stories. She chose “Alternative Universe” as her theme and the title is for him. The summary reads:

Otabek wasn’t aware that Yuri was writing poems that were going to be published in a university anthology. He knows that Yuri was doing a creative writing unit this term, but Yuri always has a small notebook and pencil with him at all times anyway, so Otabek never thought much of Yuri sitting on the bus and scribbling away in his notebook. Why didn’t Yuri tell him?

Here are some stories, all about Otayuri, you may like!

1. if this night is not forever, at least we are together (T) - College AU

It starts with a doodle in the margin of his art history notes that, when he looks at it from the right angle, looks like Otabek. Then there’s the midnight scrawls in his journals when he pours his heart out onto the page in smudgy ink, and when he rereads them the next day, it’s clear in his mind that the rambles that fill page after page are only about one person. Slowly, bits of Otabek start creeping into his art, snippets of things he’s written in journals, half remembered conversations immortalised in paint, some of the writing covered in angry strokes of red acrylic or made barely legible by the ink running down the page. He’s under his skin, and Yuri doesn’t really know why, or how to make it stop, how to make it go away, or anything that could possibly make the situation any better.

And whilst that might well be the start, it’s not technically the beginning.

2. plisetsky answered: (T)

In which Yuri finds out that Otabek has a tumblr.

3. I don't wanna hide us away (T)

It's hard, dating Otabek.

Make sure to check out her AO3 for more stories but read the tags first since not all stories are SFW!

Wow you really want me to think of some angst don’t you :( buckle up kids

You Don’t Love Me Like You Should: so you know how in the WttM manga Yuri shows us how immature he is when it comes to friendships? Like, thinking Otabek has to be there for him even when he obviously had already committed himself to other things like DJ’ing (and probably low-key needing some time alone after only getting to fourth place). Well, that mentality of Yuri continues when they start dating, and they truly, truly love each other, and they’re both immature when it comes to relationship stuff, but they show it in very different ways. Yuri thinks being Otabek’s boyfriend means they have to talk all the time, especially since they are doing the long distance thing, and whenever Otabek is unavailable to talk because he already made plans with his friends or because he’s simply too spent to talk, Yuri throws a tantrum because how dare you, I don’t even believe you anymore when you say you love me because ignoring me is not how loving me looks like. Otabek lets him vent and it’s honestly the tenth time they’re having this argument, he understands that Yuri is more immature and all he can do is keep finding ways to prove him how much he loves him (and his way of showing it is so subtle sometimes that reckless Yuri doesn’t even notice, but that’s okay). Eventually Yuri grows and after many talks (and that one time Katsudon sat him down and explained that sometimes people show their love in different ways and it’s okay to want time alone even when you’re in a relationship) he understands that because he and Otabek need different things it doesn’t mean they can’t both compromise and be understanding with each other (plus as he grows older he starts needing some time alone too, he just doesn’t really understand it right away, and when he does he’s like ohhhh, that’s how it is and feels really bad because of his bitchier past self). Anyway there is not only one right way of loving someone and they both understand it now and they live happily ever after <3

The Whispers Turn Into A Scream: this is about how Yuri starts to resent the fame he first loved as a teen. It shows 5 times in which his fame almost ruined things between him and Otabek, or between him and his coaches (now Victor and Yuuri), and even between him and his grandpa. Eventually he finds new ways to cope and protect himself from his crazy fans, and he finds that choosing not to post everything about his life on instagram anymore is actually a really nice feeling and he gets to enjoy life more.

Thank you! ♥

rollin - calvin harris, khalid, future

i've got millions on my mind

and you didn't fit the picture

6. What are you excited for?

For Pride this Saturday (in two days!!!) :D

40. Why did you kiss the last person you kissed?

Because I wanted to and we knew we wouldn’t meet for a while after that

78. Who would you like to see in concert?

Fall Out Boy and Lorde

79. What was the last concert you saw?

Florence and the Machine *__*

Thank you <3