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“How can you be nervous? It’s not like you’ve never done this before,” Yuuri points out. “In a way, I haven’t,” Viktor says. “I’ve never done this with someone I loved.” “W-why not?” “Because I’ve never loved anyone else.”
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Professor Baranovskaya loudly cleared her throat and placed a hand on Yuuri’s trembling shoulder.
“Everyone, please take a moment to welcome your newest classmate,” she airily announced, to a rather stilted round of clapping. “If you didn’t get a chance to meet him at the Prospective Students Banquet last December– ” (to Viktor’s chagrin, even louder giggling erupted, making him want to throttle Isabella Yang) “ – or over the last few weeks, allow me to introduce first year student Katsuki Yuuri, hailing from the town of Hasetsu, Japan. I’m told by Professor Cialdini that Yuuri’s grasp of Reverberatory Theory could rival a faculty member’s, so I’m sure you’ll find him to be a valuable resource.”
Curious whispers filled the room at this last sentence. Aside from Viktor and just two other students – 4th years Sasha Samokhina and Kostya Kozhennikov – no one else had actually managed to grasp the intricacies of Reverberation, particularly when it came to its grammatical rules.
“That being said, do try not to resent his prowess too much,” Professor Baranovskaya firmly finished.
Their eyes met and Viktor felt a bit insulted by her lingering gaze. Resent Yuuri?
Him?!?
Once again, Viktor reflected on how misunderstood he was at Pax. If he tried to befriend promising students like Sasha or his fellow dual major classmate Nao Yasutani, it was automatically regarded with skepticism, as if the Institute's top Reverberator couldn’t possibly want companionship without having ulterior motives.
It made him want to scream.
Had Professor Baranovskaya forgotten how he’d begged Drs. Piseev and Leroy to accompany them on the scouting trip to Japan, back in April? Had she conveniently forgotten that it was Viktor who had so zealously insisted on Yuuri’s recruitment to Pax in the first place, well before that wondrous video had been uploaded to the internet?
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The above excerpt is a preview of a new 'Alternate First Meeting' Yuri!!! on Ice WIP/series I'm working on: a friends-to-lovers, magical dark academia AU that I was inspired to write after finishing the books Vita Nostra (by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko), and Babel (by RF Kuang). Both are so gripping and imaginative, and I couldn't stop thinking about how my favorite characters might intersect with the rich settings/magic systems in either.
Below is a tentative summary; if this sounds interesting, I hope you'll give me a follow!
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The first known instance of Reverberation – the phenomenon in which a skater produces language and energy with their body, universally felt and understood by all in proximity – occurred in 1952, when Dick Button performed the first triple jump. Over 50 years later, Viktor Nikiforov is skating’s most prolific Reverberator and star student at the University of Chicago’s Pax Institute: the world’s premier research center dedicated to the training of Reverberators for global diplomacy.
When Katsuki Yuuri finds himself being aggressively recruited by his idol to enroll at Pax, he has no idea that the two of them will eventually become best friends. Or, that they will one day co-lead a student uprising once they uncover the true, sinister aim of their education: to master the art of stationary Reverberation that transfers language onto blank pages and creates enough energy to rip through time
The tie-kink re-enactment
Viktor has grown too bold. He can’t just make me horny like that before I have to skate. It’s time to rein him in. Since Viktor's greedy dog has thwarted all plans for the night after the Rostelecom Cup's short programme, Viktor is very eager to make good for it now that he is reunited with his Yuuri again.
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“So, when are we going to tell it your parents?” Viktor asked as he steered the van to the expressway. The snow was falling more strongly now, peppering the streets with white blotches that melted under the wheels of dozens of cars heading hither and thither, and still coating the windscreen.
“Not yet.” Yuuri’s voice was a tired drawl. His dark eyes followed the periodic back and forth of the wipers as they brushed the snow away with untiring swiftness. A familiar undercurrent of tension hung in his words.
“Okay,” Viktor said softly. “We’ll wait until you’re ready.”
“Thank you.”
In the passenger seat, Yuuri closed his eyes and said no more. The pallor on his cheeks and the dark circles under his eyes were a tell-tale of the hell he had walked through during the two days they had been apart. When Yuuri was like that, it was best to just be there. But for once, Viktor did not feel like talking, anyway. His mind was still reeling from their reunion. A proposal, of all things, had been the last thing he had expected to happen. But in the short time that he and Yuuri had been together, one truth had crystallised above all: That he wanted to be with Yuuri for the rest of his life. He had stopped believing in ever ever after. But with Yuuri, it had come true.
“I’m proud of you, Yuuri,” he said when they sped along the motorway towards Hasetsu.
“Huh?” Yuuri said wearily. “Why?”
“Although your free started on the wrong edge, you fought through it and qualified for the Grand Prix Final. I admire your strength and your fighting spirit.”
“Oh,” Yuuri said softly, and his cheeks blushed. “Thanks.”
Why is Yuuri so surprised? How did he expect me to react? Of course, a clean skate would have been amazing, but Yuuri had achieved so much more at the Rostelecom Cup. The old Yuuri would have melted down in the free skating. If Viktor could only make him see!
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