Someone asked me a question about Victor, Yuri, and their relationship. Since I thought it would be interesting to do some analysis, I decided to rewatch some episodes and look for quotes to screencap (I’ll be working on that later on). I was rewatching episode 2 when we get to that scene of Victor banging on Yuri’s door, telling him to sleep together, and Yuri basically locking himself in.
And then I got this:
And then I noticed Victor’s face and my heart went ouch:
His phone’s right there. What if he watched Yuri’s performance of Stay Close to Me till he fell asleep, wondering how to get close to the one that keeps running away from him? His hair is unusually unkempt (unlike that first time they showed him sleeping), and those tears…
It appears skaters’ hearts are as fragile as glass, after all.
So I’ve been seeing a lot of posts worrying about Yuuri’s mental state in episode 9 due in part to Yakov taking over as his coach for a day. A lot of people seem to think that Yakov is going to use the opportunity to take advantage of Yuuri’s “mental weakness” as he puts it to sabotage his FS and I really don’t think this is going to be the case.
