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alexseanchai) wrote2023-05-28 05:40 am
alexseanchai) wrote2023-05-28 05:40 am
Entry tags:
oh right, words, those are a thing I am able to make sometimes
here like fire burning / o tremble not (745 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov
Characters: Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri
Additional Tags: Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, (fictional edition set in Zaragoza Spain because of reasons), Past Christophe Giacometti/Victor Nikiforov, Past Christophe Giacometti/Katsuki Yuuri, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Victor Nikiforov is a Katsuki Yuuri Fan, The Firebird - Igor Stravinsky, Community: fandom_empire, Podfic Welcome
Summary:
At least Yūri chickened out of giving Viktor candy in person before Viktor's free skate. It wasn't the only candy on the ice—of course it wasn't, they scheduled the men's singles free skate on February 14—but at least it got to him. Probably. Maybe even stood out as the only gift from someone who remembers him mentioning in an interview that he likes strawberry cheesecake.
…Yūri is not counting on that.
fandom_empire prompt: wishes
the piece that's not Stravinsky's Firebird is Mozart's Magic Flute
Viktor tears into another pack of strawberry cheesecake Kit-Kats—bless whoever threw these onto the ice after his free skate, truly—and skips past his own recorded short program for now. Next was the less skilled of the Spanish competitors, any home advantage negated by having to take the ice right after the words "one hundred" echoed through the rink, the cheers drowning the sound of the smaller digits. Which is in the end almost all Viktor writes down about him.
He skips back to the fourth skater in the first group. This time through, he mostly succeeds at paying attention primarily to Katsuki Yuri's phenomenal edge control.
The Chinese competitor has decent musicality. The second USA competitor, or his costume designer, is better at drawing the eye to his strengths on the ice. The first French competitor may have a crush on Christophe Giacometti; certainly he displays admiration through imitation for Chris's lutz and spins.
He skips back to the fourth skater in the first group. It's 'Carillon Féerique' and 'Arrivée de Kachtcheï', plus the last few seconds leading into 'Carillon', for all that the chyron says only Stravinsky's The Firebird: Katsuki's starting pose is the heartbeat before Ivan Tsarevich decides to follow the beautiful Tsarevna into the Koshchey's palace. Seconds before the magical bells sound an alarm, summoning the magical creatures the Koshchey commands, who chase Katsuki invisibly through his jumps and step sequence. The Georgian ruffles peeking out from his collar and sleeves tremble more than his movements ought to account for: nervousness, or well-acted terror, or choosing music so the nerves Katsuki would feel anyway become method acting. Viktor may steal that trick.
Chris's new choreographer is really helping him lean into being the sexiest man skating singles. If 'choreographer' is still the best word; Viktor will have to ask, but he has a feeling the benefits part of this friends-with-benefits relationship is behind him. On to the fourth group.
Three skaters of the fourth group fumble their axels one way or another. Required element or no, it's Katsuki's signature for a reason, and that reason is his triple axel is a thing of beauty. Someone teach this man a second quad. And a third, so he'll be real competition.
—Jumps in the second half of Katsuki's short program might not suit this music: Ivan Tsarevich may not be restrained or confined when the Koshchey himself appears, but he is well and truly trapped, and the spins illustrate that, traveling not a centimeter. But Viktor saw the last minute of his free skate while waiting with Chris for their group's six-minute warm-up. The flutist playing the coloratura soprano part in this instrumental 'O zittre nicht' must have needed to stop to catch their breath after recording, but Katsuki's step sequence matched it note for note, and he barely even looked tired.
Underutilized stamina. Again. Whoever he's spending his nights with is surely delighting in that stamina.
(If there's someone. But this is the Olympics: there's hundreds of people in peak physical condition with adrenaline and emotions running high. Katsuki won't be lacking offers. Viktor might extend one himself if he had any hint the man was interested, but Katsuki is one of the many skaters who is somehow never in Viktor's presence. Of course there's someone. Not Chris, though he's implied that Katsuki was at some point among his conquests, and not Viktor, but someone.)
(He texts Chris to ask if he's seen Katsuki, anyway. Chris laughs at him and sends helpful photos from the Juniors season that Katsuki skated 'Apparition des treize princesses enchantées' for his short, a stunning genderflipped Tsarevna in blue and gold, and 'Danse' and 'Capture de l'Oiseau de feu' as the ethereal blue Firebird. Blue fire is hotter than white, gold, or red. No reason that's coming to mind just now, of course.)
Viktor pauses before reviewing the sixth group in the short program to dig through his heap of stuffed animals and other plushies. There are several heart-shaped boxes of assorted chocolates, inevitable with the free skate scheduled on Saint Valentine's—Viktor will donate all of these to the nearest group of carousing athletes—but however he might wish there were more, these were the only strawberry cheesecake Kit-Kats.
Tragic, truly. There's no telling when he'll be assigned to the NHK Trophy next, which is probably his next chance to stock up. He's almost certain this is one of the flavors only available in Japan.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov
Characters: Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri
Additional Tags: Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, (fictional edition set in Zaragoza Spain because of reasons), Past Christophe Giacometti/Victor Nikiforov, Past Christophe Giacometti/Katsuki Yuuri, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Victor Nikiforov is a Katsuki Yuuri Fan, The Firebird - Igor Stravinsky, Community: fandom_empire, Podfic Welcome
Summary:
At least Yūri chickened out of giving Viktor candy in person before Viktor's free skate. It wasn't the only candy on the ice—of course it wasn't, they scheduled the men's singles free skate on February 14—but at least it got to him. Probably. Maybe even stood out as the only gift from someone who remembers him mentioning in an interview that he likes strawberry cheesecake.
…Yūri is not counting on that.
fandom_empire prompt: wishes
the piece that's not Stravinsky's Firebird is Mozart's Magic Flute
Viktor tears into another pack of strawberry cheesecake Kit-Kats—bless whoever threw these onto the ice after his free skate, truly—and skips past his own recorded short program for now. Next was the less skilled of the Spanish competitors, any home advantage negated by having to take the ice right after the words "one hundred" echoed through the rink, the cheers drowning the sound of the smaller digits. Which is in the end almost all Viktor writes down about him.
He skips back to the fourth skater in the first group. This time through, he mostly succeeds at paying attention primarily to Katsuki Yuri's phenomenal edge control.
The Chinese competitor has decent musicality. The second USA competitor, or his costume designer, is better at drawing the eye to his strengths on the ice. The first French competitor may have a crush on Christophe Giacometti; certainly he displays admiration through imitation for Chris's lutz and spins.
He skips back to the fourth skater in the first group. It's 'Carillon Féerique' and 'Arrivée de Kachtcheï', plus the last few seconds leading into 'Carillon', for all that the chyron says only Stravinsky's The Firebird: Katsuki's starting pose is the heartbeat before Ivan Tsarevich decides to follow the beautiful Tsarevna into the Koshchey's palace. Seconds before the magical bells sound an alarm, summoning the magical creatures the Koshchey commands, who chase Katsuki invisibly through his jumps and step sequence. The Georgian ruffles peeking out from his collar and sleeves tremble more than his movements ought to account for: nervousness, or well-acted terror, or choosing music so the nerves Katsuki would feel anyway become method acting. Viktor may steal that trick.
Chris's new choreographer is really helping him lean into being the sexiest man skating singles. If 'choreographer' is still the best word; Viktor will have to ask, but he has a feeling the benefits part of this friends-with-benefits relationship is behind him. On to the fourth group.
Three skaters of the fourth group fumble their axels one way or another. Required element or no, it's Katsuki's signature for a reason, and that reason is his triple axel is a thing of beauty. Someone teach this man a second quad. And a third, so he'll be real competition.
—Jumps in the second half of Katsuki's short program might not suit this music: Ivan Tsarevich may not be restrained or confined when the Koshchey himself appears, but he is well and truly trapped, and the spins illustrate that, traveling not a centimeter. But Viktor saw the last minute of his free skate while waiting with Chris for their group's six-minute warm-up. The flutist playing the coloratura soprano part in this instrumental 'O zittre nicht' must have needed to stop to catch their breath after recording, but Katsuki's step sequence matched it note for note, and he barely even looked tired.
Underutilized stamina. Again. Whoever he's spending his nights with is surely delighting in that stamina.
(If there's someone. But this is the Olympics: there's hundreds of people in peak physical condition with adrenaline and emotions running high. Katsuki won't be lacking offers. Viktor might extend one himself if he had any hint the man was interested, but Katsuki is one of the many skaters who is somehow never in Viktor's presence. Of course there's someone. Not Chris, though he's implied that Katsuki was at some point among his conquests, and not Viktor, but someone.)
(He texts Chris to ask if he's seen Katsuki, anyway. Chris laughs at him and sends helpful photos from the Juniors season that Katsuki skated 'Apparition des treize princesses enchantées' for his short, a stunning genderflipped Tsarevna in blue and gold, and 'Danse' and 'Capture de l'Oiseau de feu' as the ethereal blue Firebird. Blue fire is hotter than white, gold, or red. No reason that's coming to mind just now, of course.)
Viktor pauses before reviewing the sixth group in the short program to dig through his heap of stuffed animals and other plushies. There are several heart-shaped boxes of assorted chocolates, inevitable with the free skate scheduled on Saint Valentine's—Viktor will donate all of these to the nearest group of carousing athletes—but however he might wish there were more, these were the only strawberry cheesecake Kit-Kats.
Tragic, truly. There's no telling when he'll be assigned to the NHK Trophy next, which is probably his next chance to stock up. He's almost certain this is one of the flavors only available in Japan.