{"id":8044,"date":"2016-12-10T06:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T06:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/12\/10\/youremarvelous-since-its-midnight-and-i-have-a\/"},"modified":"2016-12-10T06:48:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T06:48:16","slug":"youremarvelous-since-its-midnight-and-i-have-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/12\/10\/youremarvelous-since-its-midnight-and-i-have-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

youremarvelous<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Since it\u2019s midnight and I have a flight to catch at 5am, why not break down this little argument scene?<\/p>\n

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This scene is short but it\u2019s important. We tend to quantify closeness by the times we see Viktor and Yuuri kissing, hugging, or otherwise acting explicitly intimate, but this little argument is just as important in conveying a shared emotional<\/i> intimacy between the two.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s pretty obvious from the start that Viktor doesn\u2019t care about the damn nuts. He seems irritated already by the beginning of the scene, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s because of the missing bag. Judging from Yuuri\u2019s flustered state, he\u2019s probably been dragging them all over, re-tracing their steps panicking trying to find the bag he lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Viktor is patient so he\u2019s gone along with it, but even he has his breaking point. Despite his irritation, he does what Viktor tends to do when he\u2019s angry, and hides his feelings behind a fake smile. He\u2019s aware of Yuuri\u2019s anxiety which is probably why he\u2019s placated him up till now, but he\u2019s no saint and anyone would be tired and frustrated after being dragged around a city looking for a missing bag. Still, he doesn\u2019t want to upset Yuuri further, so he appeals to logic: the shop is closed, aren\u2019t you tired?<\/p>\n

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Yuuri isn\u2019t having it, though. He sees right through Viktor\u2019s fake smile and he knows what he\u2019s doing. He hears Viktor\u2019s words and feels that he is being blamed for a ruined evening. He doesn\u2019t like it and he tells him so.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This scene feels so realistic to me because it\u2019s an argument I\u2019ve had with my own girlfriend many times. The argument of semantics. There is no resolution here because neither Yuuri nor Viktor is really in the wrong. They\u2019re just both in bad moods: Yuuri, because the bag got lost and he feels bad about it and thinks that Viktor is mad at him because of it, and Viktor, because the nuts don\u2019t matter to him and he just wants Yuuri to stop fixating on it and let them enjoy their evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What\u2019s so striking is that neither of these characters is confrontational. Yuuri tends to fall into self-deprecation and, as previously mentioned, Viktor hides his feelings behind a smile. Yet, here they are, getting peeved at each other over something so minor. And not only getting mad but expressing<\/i> that anger. For characters that tend not to do that, it speak of an extremely strong mutual trust.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They know that an argument isn\u2019t fatal to their relationship. They trust the other to not abandon them if they exhibit anything other than an agreeable attitude.<\/p>\n

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And then they walk in silence and the argument resolves itself. They don\u2019t have to part ways, they don\u2019t have to break everything down verbally, they just need to cool down and give each other the time and space to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I feel it\u2019s rare to see such a realistic couple\u2019s tiff. Normally, things are always 100% wonderful or extremely dramatic. But sometimes these little arguments pop up, sometimes someone gets hangry or anxious or tired and they take it out on their partner because that\u2019s who is available and\u2013unconsciously or not\u2013that\u2019s the person you know won\u2019t abandon you just for showing a non-ideal side of yourself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I was never skeptical of Yuuri and Viktor\u2019s relationship to begin with, but especially not now. We\u2019ve seen them tackle so many different hardships together, we\u2019ve seen Yuuri correct Viktor when he really was in the wrong, and now we\u2019ve seen them resolve a minor clashing of personalities respectfully and maturely. This is a couple I can realistically see staying together. They\u2019re not together for convenience, they\u2019re not together just because they idolize each other or find the other hot\u2013they truly seem to understand one another and work well together, and it makes their relationship a joy to watch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

youremarvelous: Since it\u2019s midnight and I have a flight to catch at 5am, why not break down this little argument scene? This scene is short but it\u2019s important. We tend to quantify closeness by the times we see Viktor and Yuuri kissing, hugging, or otherwise acting explicitly intimate, but this little argument is just as … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3164,768,8],"class_list":["post-8044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-this-is-v-much-like-when-aaron-and-i-fight","tag-yes-good","tag-yoi","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}