#victuri stuff

So I was rewatching YOI for approximately the 900th time with my good friend who hadn’t seen it yet, and she noticed that the timeline for the Photo-op Denial actually happened right after the GPF finished up. In other words, the banquet was later that evening or the night after, AFTER Yuri turned his back on Victor. She and I debated this for a while, because for so long I’d thought it was at the airport or something, but if you watch closely, they’re all wearing their competitors badges, the newscaster was there, areas were roped off, lots of people standing around inside and outside, etc. So after Yuri turned his back, later that evening he got drunk and danced the night away with Victor, humped his leg while asking him to be his coach, Victor promptly fell in love, and Yuri never called him back. Then he copied Victor’s performance, and Nikoforov was like, “That is #marriagematerial” bought a ring and flew to Japan lmao.

Seeing the way Yuri interacts with Victor as well as his childhood friends and family, we kind of forget that he’s actually pretty cold to strangers. For ex., not shaking a fan’s hand, pushing away the girl trying to comfort him, not really understanding Minami’s feelings and treating him coldly, and even in the first episode when Victor offers to take a photo and Yuri doesn’t even say anything, just turns around and walks away. It’s actually kinda nuts just how much and how quickly he’s warmed up to Victor, especially going from idol-worship to the bond they have now. The open affection between them, especially with Yuri being Japanese (the now-infamous chapped lips scene, you look in the background and all the Japanese people are like !!! WTF!!!! i mean even in America you might get some looks for that, much less JAPAN) all the hugs and casual touching and fjlajdakldfjsalfdjalfdj Victor is just something truly special to Yuri and it just makes me so happy