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I apologize for posting this so late! I have finally finished the first part of my @yoisecretskaterā gift for the lovely @rosereleasestheartā ! I have plenty more in store for this story and much more artwork as well. I hope you enjoy and I hope you have a Happy New Year! š
Chapters: 1/6
Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky (implied)
Characters: Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri, Christophe Giacometti, Yuri Plisetsky, Otabek Altin, Phichit Chulanont, Nikolai Plisetsky
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - The Little Mermaid Fusion, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale, Little Mermaid Elements, merfolk, Mermaid Yuuri Katsuki, Human Victor Nikiforov, Mermaid Victor Nikiforov, Mermaid Transformation, Shapeshifting, Royalty, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
Summary:
Rebellious twenty-four-year-old Victor Nikiforov is fascinated by life under the sea. Sadly, Victor is forbidden from exploring the oceans vast expanse due to its endless dangers. Victorās mother, the powerful Queen of Aria, decides that itās time for her son to grow up and drags him on a journey across the ocean in hopes of finding him a proper suitor to marry. However, during the trip, her plans are derailed when a terrible storm blows in and causes their ship to wreck.
During the chaos, Victor is thrown overboard and finds himself struggling to keep his head above water. Miraculously, Victor is saved by a handsome, mysterious mermaid who quickly vanishes back into the salty waters without even a goodbye.
Thankful to be alive and hopelessly in love with this skittish Mer, Victor makes a dangerous deal and sets out to find the creature who saved his life.
Will Victor be able to find his savior and finally get his happily ever after or will he pay dearly for his gamble and lose everything?
Or...
A Little Mermaid AU where Viktor turns himself into a mermaid to be with his mer!crush Yuuri
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āThings you said in the dark.ā + nature
This oneās an elven AU + magic superpowers~
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It is rumbling thunder outside when Victor hears him, clear from across the palace grounds as though his voice was in Victorās very ear.
Itās dark.
Indeed it is. The night is settling over them, well past the trees already; the twilight hour is waning, and a storm is brewing, sending all the forest inhabitants into a state of unrest.
But none more so than his precious Yuuri.
Since Victor cannot respond, he puts away his maps and logsāa bit hurriedly, though he makes sure they at least make it into their proper placesāand leaves the study, footfalls coming in quick succession, though he doesnāt quite break out into a run. It is improperāapparentlyāand while Victor doesnāt care for the archaic propriety laws that designate that, he does care a bit more if his elven brethren take in his haste and misconstrue it for something far more serious than the night descending on them.
Still, when he breaches his and Yuuriās private chambers, he finds himself falling into a sprint all the same.
āYuuri?ā he calls, when he doesnāt find his beloved where he had left him.
Here, Yuuri says, and thereās a knock on the wardrobe, faint but sure.
Victor waits until the first strike of lightning has drained from the room to open the cupboard. At the lull, he opens the door to find his poor love wound in the corner. At the sight of Victor, he immediately reaches out, and Victor welcomes him into his arms.
āItās so loud,ā is all Yuuri says, clutching onto Victor for what feels to be dear life.
āI know,ā Victor lies. He does not. His gift is not anywhere on the spectrum of Yuuriās, as his own favors the elements. But he knows what Yuuri has told him, and from the description, it sounds to be a terribly overwhelming thing. He draws Yuuri back from his shoulderājust to get a look at him, at how his eyes flicker from its typical honeyed-brown to a near red each time the thoughts of others intrude on his mind. āIs it the animals?ā Victor asks, brushing back Yuuriās hair, feather-light.
Yuuri nods, teary-eyed. āTheyātheyāre so scared of the weather, and we have to do something, Vitya. We have toāā
āWe have, my darling.ā Victor continues his ministrations, tracing along the part of Yuuriās hair. āTheyāre all stowed away and safe. The dogs are inside. Weāve done all we can, tonight.ā
As he says this, another strike of lightning descends behind them, shaking the very earth. Victor winces as he hears the horsesā distressed whinnying from beyond the windowāthen once more, when Yuuriās eyes flicker again; Yuuri clutches his head with the force of it, which Victor covers with his own hands, applying a light pressure.
āI keep telling them,ā Yuuri nearly sobs, āthat it canāt hurt them if they remain inside. But they donāt listen to me.ā
āIt is admirable that you try,ā Victor says, and he means it. āBut you may not be able to convince them of this, now or ever. As much as we love them, horses and dogs arenāt capable of the reasoning we elves are.ā
Inexplicably, a smile twitches at Yuuriās lips. āI was able to get through to the children though. So my suffering is not in vain.ā
Yes, the children. Elves, who live so long it might as well be forever, have them so very rarely. But there are two in the woodland realm currently, which the entire community collectively dotes on. āI am glad to hear that,ā Victor praises, his tone exonerating. āSee, my love? Youāve done so much good this day.ā
āBut theyāthey keep cryingāā
Victor hushes him, holds him close. Itās a rare thing: this vulnerable Yuuri. Usually his gift is like any otherās: able to be controlled at will, only used in the cases of negotiation or combat orāYuuriās specialtyāespionage. But when the thoughts are so similar, so consistentāso constantāthey latch, desperately, onto the one person who can hear their pleas. In such cases, Yuuriās power runs wild, unable to be silenced.
Well, if such is the case that it must be engaged no matter whatā
Victor tilts Yuuriās chin up. āI want you to read me, darling. Only me. Can you do that?ā
His irises burn bright behind the tearsāwith thoughts but also with sheer determination. āOkay, Vitya.ā His eyes go from an intermittent flashing to entirely ablaze, singularly focused as he is on Victor, the floodgates of his belovedās consciousness unfolding to him.
I love you, darling. Yes, thatās it. You donāt have to suffer anymore this night. Just focus on my love for you. I could go on for days for youāabout your beauty, about your strength, your intelligence. Yes, there you go. Donāt fight it. Iāll be right here to catch you, love, so focus only on me.
Yuuri sways, the toll of using his powers to their full extent an expensive one indeed. He is completely bled out of vitality within the moment, slumping into Victorās open arms; his eyes go mercifully dark as his head falls into Victorās shoulder, finally having been drained of the energy necessary to access his higher faculties.
āAll quiet now,ā Victor whispers, his fingers carding through Yuuriās locks. āLetās get you to bed.ā
He lifts Yuuri, an arm around the shoulders and under the crux of the knees. Yuuri cannot respondāin Victorās mind or otherwiseābut finds the strength to trace a heart below Victorās collarbone, pressing a kiss there.
āI love you too,ā Victor answers the silent gesture, when he has Yuuri and himself tucked under a plethora of blankets.
Yuuri drifts off to Victorās sweet nothings, continued aloud as though the connection never ended.
And like this, it hasnāt, nor will it ever will.
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What's your favourite things about gaalee? Or even just the characters on their own?
oh gosh. oh boy this is.... a big question.Ā
like thereās so much that i love about this pairing and these two specific characters. i donāt even know where to begin.Ā
i love how they balance each other so well. i love that Leeās optimism is like sunshine bursting through the clouds on a rainy day, and that gaaraās idealism is never less just because heās also a realist. I love that gaara is grounded and that he can give Lee quiet moments, peaceful moments. i love that lee can excite and surprise gaara, can show him what it means to be spontaneous, can show him how to feel unrestrained joy. i love that lee is so unwaveringly honest, so good, so true, so devoted and that gaara who never had someone like that, someone who so devoted to him and only him, someone who looked at him and saw the world--i love that lee can be that. lee who doesnāt give less than 110% to anything he does including loving gaara. i love that gaara who is so faithful can be the one to love lee because lee has always needed someone else to have faith in himself to show him how to have faith in himself. i love that they show each other how to experience those parts of themselves they didnāt know existed, maybe didnāt exist before the other.Ā
i love that they enrich each otherās lives so fully, so completely. itās not that they werenāt whole without the other, itās just that they are more with the other. more brave, more kind, more soft, more joyful, more quiet, more adventurous, more fulfilled.Ā
gaara had so much unhappiness in his life as a child--12 long years of unhappiness, loneliness, confusion, pain... and now he gets to have a lifetime with this person who loves him so completely he feels like he might burst. that pain in his heart is forgotten whenever Lee smiles at him. and on the bad nights, when he remembers and feels so lonely, Lee is there to remind him that heās not. to remind him that heās alive, that he deserves to be alive and loved and happyĀ
and lee who was ridiculed and unimpressive, who was less than the other children, who spent his own childhood an outcast of a different kind... now he has someone who sees him as something extraordinary, something special, something splendid. he has the love of a great man who thinks heās even greater even though that canāt possibly be true because Gaara is the Kazekage, he is so strong and so compassionate and Lee loves him so much. but whenever gaara looks at him, he can see it shining in those eyes like jade and it makes Lee feel like he could fly.Ā
their love is so pure, so whole, so beautiful and shining.Ā
i just donāt understand how anyone couldnāt love these two together tbhĀ
Jingle bells! (I am living for matchmaker yuuri and victor like omg)
Ahh, thank youu! I mean, theyāve been wingmanned so many times, so it was about time they tried wingmanning themselves ā though the juryās still out on how well thatās going for them š
After the dinner section concludes, the tables are cleared and a small brass band is brought in for the dancing.Ā āHow does one family be so extra just for one party?ā Yuuri wonders as he and Phichit watch people start to dance. Viktor has been commandeered by some of the younger cousins, while Christophe tends to recording donations at a table next to a small Christmas tree in the corner.
āYouād be surprised,ā says Phichit.Ā āMy family reunions can get this extra, too.ā
āI know Viktorās family is also ridiculous,ā mutters Yuuri.Ā āAnd I heard Leoās are Disney nuts. I feel like maybe Iām the only skater in this generation to have a normal family.ā
āGuang-Hongās parents are normal,ā says Phichit, his expression amused.Ā āHe worked out his scholarship and sponsorships himself. I suppose it helps that his family has connections in Harbin so he can go up and use their facilities, but āā
āOkay, but. Innkeepers who know nothing about figure skating.ā
āPoint.ā Phichit laughs.Ā āBut that makes you special, doesnāt it? Means every achievement you earn came as the result of hard work, instead of hard work with a dose of money and connections.ā
Yuuri sighs, watching Viktor circle past with a giggling little girl in his arms.Ā āDoesnāt really help the feeling that Iām intruding on a world where I have no place.ā
āYou took the gold in the last GPF,ā Phichit points out.Ā āYou belong here.ā
They subside into a comfortable silence then, watching the party carry on. The song ends, but Christophe still doesnāt budge from the donations, and one of his cousins is making his way over.Ā
āDo you want to dance?ā Yuuri asks suddenly, causing Phichit to blink at him.
āI thought you had to be peeled off the wall like the wallflower you are,ā he remarks.
āWell, itās me, or Chrisās cousin.ā Yuuri nods in his direction. Phichit considers it, and then takes Yuuriās hand.
And if Yuuri tries to steer him closer to Christopheās corner, well, thatās mostly just his business.Ā
