Oh retirement au was SUCH a fun au. I got so many gift fics from it, and it ended up getting its own official ao3 tag (SkyGem retirement challenge)!!!!! I still consider that my biggest fandom achievement tbh

Yuuri: you want to see 10 minutes of me tired and running out of air?

Victor [smirks]: we do way more than just practice.

nothing would give me more joy

Emil Nekola: What do you do for fun?                     troll on tumblr, write, draw, snapchat <3

omg Yuri would struggle so much.

So he always admires how Otabek rides his mototcycle and although he wont admit it, he thinks it’s super cool and badass. One of his favourite things is to ride on the back of the bike over hills with amazing views and the wind in his hair, holding onto Otabek in front of him.

So that’s what they’ve been doing all evening and they come to a stop outside a convenience store, Otabek going into to buy some drinks. Yuri waits outside on the bike and shuffles forward a bit to sit where Otabek was. He holds onto the handlebars and closes his eyes momentarily and imagines driving, himself. He doesn’t even realise, but he is grinning widely. Otabek comes out of the store and stares at Yuri who looks so happy and a smiles breaks onto his own face.

They’re back on the road now and Yuri asks where they’re going, when Otabek suddenly pulls into an empty parking lot. He jumps off the front and pushes a confused Yuri forward on the seat. Otabek slides back on the bike, this time behind Yuri and grabs the other’s hands from behind, putting them on the handle bars. “We’re gonna start slow, okay?” is all he says before he starts the bike at a snail’s pace. Yuri finally picks up on what Otabek is doing and is tense at first (as much as he tries to hide it) but after a while of riding in circles he manages to smile, letting out a small proud chuckle every now and then when he does something well.

For a headcanon that came to be just for the need to give Yuuri more love and somewhat expand on his ‘Playboy’ image, it definitely gave me other ideas (I’ll admit that they are all over the place, I tried to organize them but I failed, the most organized I could get them is to divide the ideas into parts ^^;).

Part 1:

- Yuuri’s harem is an accidental one, a he-didn’t-really-mean-to-seduce-them-but-they-were-seduced-anyways-and-there-they-were accidental type of harem. 

- So, Yuuri is a competitive figure skater, he traveled around the world for competitions, he went to continue his education outside of the country, his roommate was Thai, this roommate is a King of Selfies on Insta- then he must have had exposure to other athletes (either professional or would-be, already known or would-be), right?

- College/University Shenanigans (whichever you want to call them) happen, you can’t avoid them especially when Yuuri has a social butterfly like Phichit for a roommate and best friend, which means that Drunk!Yuuri happened in that time period (you can’t convince me that Phichit didn’t know anything about how wild Drunk!Yuuri could get), and you know where I’m going with the mention of Drunk!Yuuri, The Life Of The Party.

- Unsurprisingly, someone is seduced by Yuuri. For laughs and my personal preferences, this person is usually a sports living legend or would be a sports living legend.

- Afterwards (and as expected), the seduced most beautiful woman in town athlete searches for Yuuri, our lovable playboy sinnamon roll cinnamon roll, and is surprised by how innocent and shy he is. 

- The athlete is then seduced by Yuuri’s innocent Eros charm, as well.

Part 2:

- I just want to see other athletes from various sports give Victor the shovel talk, tell him that they’ll keep an eye on him, tell him that if he slips up they’ll come to get Yuuri from him, or all of the above.

- Some of those athletes may not like Yuuri in that way anymore but they are still very fond of him (Victor is not the first person to get his ‘L’ Words from Yuuris), Yuuri doesn’t mention them much because due to his self-esteem issues he severely underestimates how much they care about him.

- They are half the reason the video of Yuuri doing Victor’s FS went viral (meaning: half of those views and likes that the video got came from those athletes and their respective fans).

 Part 3:

- When Victor, post-banquet, searches for Yuuri on social media, he finds posts about and/or include him on the accounts of other athletes.

- Victor Is Aware Of The Competition.