全日本フィギュアスケート ✓ FigureSkating_Japan
全日本フィギュアスケートは、日本におけるフィギュアスケートのスポーツの国家統治機関である日本スケート連盟（ JSF_Official）の子会社です。
[Japan Figure Skating is a subsidiary of the Japanese Skating Federation ( JSF_Official), the national governing body for the skating sports in Japan.]
? Japan ? ﾟﾇﾵ ? ﾸﾏ Joined January 2006
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全日本フィギュアスケート ✓ FigureSkating_Japan . Apr 19
[Video description: short clips of various Japanese skaters from all the disciplines from previous National competitions. It ends with information about the up-coming All-Japan Championships]
チケット発売中！
全日本選手権は、12月25日に東京の武蔵野の森スポーツプラザで開催されます。チケットは武蔵野の公式サイト以下から入手できます！
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[Tickets on sale now! The All-Japan Championships will be hosted at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo on December 25th. Tickets are available through the Musashino's official website, below!]
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NHK SPORTS✓ NHK+Sports . 42m
全日本ジュニアフィギュアスケート競技会が今夜札幌で始まります！ NHK Sportsでのみ生中継をご覧ください。
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[The All-Japan Junior Figure Skating competition begins in Sapporo tonight! Watch live coverage only on NHK Sports.]
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山口デビッド . 1d
[Photo Description: A picture of two ice dancers behind a Japanese flag, holding up silver medals, grinning.]
ありがとう、フランス！血と汗と涙を流した後、 kihara-yumi 私はついに切望された北京のステージに到達しました。グランプリファイナルで日本にメダルを持ち帰るために頑張ります！
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[Thank you, France! After shedding blood, sweat, and tears, kihara-yumi and I have finally reached the coveted Beijing stage. We will do our best to bring a medal home for Japan at the Grand Prix Final!]
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日本の未来：全日本ジュニアフィギュアスケート競技会のショートプログラムが本日から始まります！下のリンクをクリックして、公式ウェブサイトのスケジュールのタイミングと、コンテストの視聴場所を確認してください。
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[The future of Japan: The All-Japan Junior Figure Skating Competition short program begins today! Click on the link below to see the schedule timings on our official website, as well as where to watch the competition!]
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Your inside scoop on all things figure skating! A fan-account run by jessie-bessie of PlanetNikiforov, mihana and yeolhaeni, who have created a network of dedicated admins all across the world to make figure skating more accessible. Working with groups of translators, our account details all-things figure skating for new fans to enjoy, including updates on the latest competitions worldwide, guidelines for audience etiquette during shows and links for ticket sales! Follow our Translating Team on Insider-Skating-Trans! Follow our blog for the latest competition schedules and results on
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Insider Skating Insider-Skating . Aug 4
The Grand Prix Final will be held in Beijing, China from December 11! Tickets are available through the Capital Gymnasium's website. Check out our blog post to find how to buy them if you are an international fan!
[A link to a blog post detailing all the information for international fans on how to book tickets, including a step-by-step instruction on how to navigate Capital Gymnasium website, including translations of the website from Mandarin into English, Russian and Japanese.]
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Following the last Grand Prix qualifying event, Arthur Dupont of France rounds up the six skaters who made it to the finals in Beijing! Here are the rankings:
Viktor Nikiforov, RUSSIA
James Richard, USA
Cao Bin, CHINA
Alexander Ricci, ITALY
Christophe Giacometti, SWITZERLAND
Arthur Dupont, FRANCE
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Insider Skating Insider-Skating . 42m
Russia's Viktor Nikiforov is welcomed back to China for the finals after making figure skating history in the country a few weeks ago at the Cup of China in Shanghai. Whilst it's unfortunate that China's Wei Zhan failed to make it to the finals by a mere two points, we're sure his compatriot, Cao Bin, will bring home a medal for his home country in his stead. The Grand Prix Finals in Beijing will be the first in history to host both the Junior Grand Prix Final and the Senior Grand Prix Final simultaneously. Here's to hoping for an exciting competition! - Admin Jess
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Our admin from Japan, mihana, will be live-updating the Junior Japan Nationals on her account! Click the link below to join her livechat, including live translations and reactions by our admins! Let's cheer on the future generation of skaters from Japan!
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LIVE CHAT ?ￂﾠ 北海道札幌市での全日本ジュニアフィギュアスケート選手権 [The All-Japan Junior Figure Skating Championship in Sapporo, Hokkaido]
ルールを破ると、すぐに削除されます。これには、悪意のある表現、中傷、乱暴な言葉遣い、あらゆるスケーターに対する憎悪が含まれます。これはポジティブなスペースにすぎません。ルールに従わない場合は、管理者がすぐに削除することを意味します。
Нарушение правил означает немедленное удаление. Это включает в себя ненавистнические высказывания, оскорбления, ненормативную лексику и ненависть по отношению к любым фигуристам. Это только положительный момент, несоблюдение правил означает немедленное удаление администраторами.
违反规则意味着立即删除。这包括仇恨言论、诽谤、强硬语言和对任何滑冰者的仇恨。这只是一个积极的空间，不遵守规则意味着管理员立即删除。
규칙 위반은 즉각적인 제거를 의미합니다. 여기에는 증오심 표현, 비방, 강한 언어 및 모든 스케이터에 대한 증오가 포함됩니다. 이것은 긍정적인 공간일 뿐이며 규칙을 준수하지 않으면 관리자가 즉시 제거합니다.
Breaking of rules means immediate removal. This includes hate speech, slurs, strong language and any hate towards skaters. This is a positive space only, failure to comply with rules means immediate removal by admins.
MODERATORS: mihana, あかり, キリンのミヤ
それらはチャットで強調表示され、人々がそれらを認識できるようになります。どんな問題でもあなたのテキストでそれらにタグを付けることによってそれらに向けられるべきです。
Moderators will be highlighted in the chat so that everyone will recognise them. Any issue should be directed towards them by tagging them in your message.
楽しんで、ジュニアスケーターを応援しましょう！
Let's have fun, and cheer on the junior skaters!
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mihana: … チャットは機能していますか [Is the chat working?]
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あかり : すべて良い - あかり [All good - Akari]
キリンのミヤ: 私の側ではすべて問題ありませんが、誰が翻訳に集中しますか？[All fine on my end, who'll be focusing on translating?]
mihana: します！あかりは私と一緒にストリームを設定しています。では、モデレートに集中できますか？[I will! Akari is with me now setting up the stream. So can you focus on moderating?]
キリンのミヤ: 私にはいいですね！あかりはライブストリーミングをもう整理しましたか？[Sounds good to me! Has Akari sorted out the live-streaming yet?]
mihana: 彼女は私の場所に来て、今それを整理しています！私たちは行く準備ができているはずです [She's over at my place, sorting it out now! We should be ready to go!]
キリンのミヤ: 次に、チャットを公開します。[Then I'll open the chat up to the public!]
CHAT ON …
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芽衣: 管理者さん、ストリーミングありがとうございます！[Admin-san, thank you for streaming!]
mihana: 芽衣, 参加していただきありがとうございます！ストリーミングがまもなく開始されます！[ 芽衣, thank you for joining! Streaming will start soon!]
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jessie-bessie: mihana, Miha! Has the stream started yet?
mihana: Jess! We're still setting up the streaming link, it's taking a while because Akari is trying to connect my television to the laptop. But you know how quick she works, it should be up and running in a few.
鈴木: 勝己選手はいつ出演しますか？[When is Katsuki-senshu performing?]
mihana: 鈴木 彼は27番でドラフトされたので、ウォームアップグループ4に参加します。彼らは30分で競います。(ノ^∇^) [He was drafted at Number 27, so he will be in Group 4. They will compete in half an hour.]
jessie-bessie: Which skater is the one you like? I'm clueless when it comes to Juniors that aren't Russian lol.
mihana: Well, your head is only filled with Viktor so it makes sense, (ノД`) His name is Yuuri Katsuki, he's seventeen and the current reigning Junior National champion. Buuut… I think you'd appreciate all the drama that's going on around him. None is his fault, but drama nonetheless.
jessie-bessie: ?, Drama you say? I wouldn't be a Viktor fan if I wasn't into gossip. Spill, pretty lady ?
mihana: Big drama. His coach left him around two months ago, and his new coach is really well-known in Japan. But not as a figure skating coach. She's a ballerina . She's his old ballet coach, I'm pretty sure she's choreographed some of my favourite pieces by him too.
jessie-bessie: Woah, wait a ballerina is his coach ? Didn't you say that his biggest weakness is in the technical aspects? How is a ballerina going to fix that?
mihana: That's the issue, there's no way that Okukawa-sensei would ever let her reputation be ruined. But I'm still really worried. It's like he's given up on jumps entirely, maybe he'll switch to ice dancing if he finds a good enough partner and that's why she's there.
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jessie-bessie: …. Did you say Okukawa? As in Minako Okukawa?
mihana: Wow, I knew she was the most famous ballerina in Japanese history, but I didn't think people outside of Japan knew her!
jessie-bessie: Miha- she used to work with Madame Baranovskaya, you know, Yakov's ex-wife. Head teacher at the Mariinsky. Lilia Baranovskaya.
mihana: Woah, the world sure is small.
jessie-bessie: No, Miha- I don't think you understand. She used to dance with Lilia at Mariinsky. She was the first non-white ballerina to perform as a principal dancer in Russian history, ever. She's revered in Russia, almost as much as Lilia, heck, almost as much as Viktor is. And you just randomly drop in that she was Yuuri's childhood dance teacher?
mihana: … Was I supposed to tell you this?
jessie-bessie: YES! YOU FUCKING WERE! WHY THE HELL WOULD SHE TRAIN A NON-BALLERINA?! WHY ISN'T KATSUKI A DANSER?
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キリンのミヤ: No swearing! Chat rules!
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jessie-bessie: Sorry, sorry!
figureskatingpsycho: How long until it starts?
mihana: figureskatingpsycho Ten minutes! The video should be working now.
[A black screen focuses on the side of the chat, taking up most of the computer screen. Then it starts to form a pixelated live-stream of the All-Japan Junior, with the camera focusing on an empty rink, with minimal people seated. There is not a big crowd.]
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芽衣: ワクワク[waku waku - an expression of excitement]
figure-skating-psycho: It's starting, I wonder if Japan has any good junior skaters. They don't have any standouts in seniors.
minhyun-honey: 파이팅, 유리! [Fighting, Yuuri!]
mihana: I apologise ahead of time that translations may come a little late, I will be translating as I go along so there will be a lag.
[The chat starts to thrum with excitement, as mihana begins to translate what the commentators are saying.]
mihana: … !
jessie-bessie: what's going on? The commentators are speaking so fast. Mihaaaa! Translate for me ? ?ￂﾠ
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ゆみ: ナニ ?! [What?!]
mihana: 方法はありません [There is no way….]
芽衣: 私はパニック状態だ [I'm freaking out]
mihana: 彼が新しいショートプログラムを持っているとはどういう意味ですか？！[What do you mean he has a new short program?!]
jessie-bessie: There is a lot of Japanese being said. My little monolingual brain does not understand ?
mihana: " Commentator Suzuki Miyahara has stated that Katsuki-senshu will be performing an all-new short program!" - Admin mihana: It's the middle of the season, what are you doing, child?!
jessie-bessie: A new program?!
mihana: Yes, a new program! I think I'm going to throw up. Being a Yuuri fan is going to give me an aneurysm. Why couldn't I be a fan of Cao Bin, he never does shit like this.
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キリンのミヤ : mihana (▼へ▼)
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mihana: ごめん！[Sorry!]
mihana: 新しいジャンプレイアウト？！彼はトリプルアクセルをやっていて、最後にコンビネーションジャンプをしています!彼は正気ですか？[A new jumping layout?! He's doing the triple axel and the combination jump at the end! Is he insane?!]
jessie-bessie: mihana I don't want to be the annoying American, but English please T.T
mihana: jessie-bessie The commentator said that in run-throughs yesterday, Yuuri put all his hard jumping passes at the end of his routine（／_＼）
jessie-bessie: You're joking. And he landed them?!
キリンのミヤ: 彼らは彼らのロバから話している必要があります。ユリがそれを危険にさらし、最後にジャンプを置くようなクソの方法はありません。[They have to be talking out of their asses. There's no fucking way Yuuri would risk it and put the jumps at the end.]
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mihana: ミヤ！あなたは文字通り私たちのモデレーターです！ルールを破らないでください。[Miya! You are literally our moderator! Don't break the rules.]
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キリンのミヤ: 私の心からの謝罪、私が約束することをこれ以上誓うことはありません. (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ [My sincerest apologies, no more swearing, I promise.]
skatingsilverberry: Who is the skater that's performing now?
キリンのミヤ: skatingsilverberry - 山本明美, Yamamoto Akemi, 15.
skatingsilverberry: キリンのミヤ, thank you! He's very good! Oooh, jinxed it. That looked like a nasty fall.
figureskatingpsycho: skatingsilverberry, yeah, trying to do a triple axel is commendable, but he's only 15. I'm sure if he builds up some more muscles, he'll be able to do it next year.
skatingsandwich : Japanese skaters always have the most beautiful edges ?
minhyun-honey: 유리 언제 나오나요 [When is Yuuri coming on?]
mihana: 'Yamamoto-senshu is currently in the lead, scoring 58.25 in the short program. And now, introducing the next batch skaters to the rink! Suzuki-senshu, Watanabe-senshu, Kato-senshu, Kimura-senshu and Katsuki-senshu!'
暁: ここにあります！ゆりくん! [He's here! Yuuri-kun!]
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芽衣: ゆりくん！あなたはここにいる！！！私はあなたがスケートをするのを見るのを逃しました! [Yuuri-kun, you are here! I've missed watching you skate!]
minhyun-honey: 유리! [Yuuri!]
skatingsilverberry: Let's go, Yuuri!
キリンのミヤ: ﾍ(´∀｀ﾍ)ﾍ(´∀｀ﾍ)(ﾉ´∀｀)ﾉ(ﾉ´∀｀)ﾉ
jessie-bessie: Daayuum.
mihana: I TOLD YOU! Isn't he so cuuuute?!
jessie-bessie: Where have you been hiding him?! WAIT, oh my gosh he is too cute, look at him doing figures!
mihana: He always does those to warm up his ankles! And look- wow, Okukawa-sensei is so pretty (〜￣△￣)〜 how is she over forty?!
jessie-bessie: SHE'S WHAT?!
mihana: Asian genes are scary (シ_ _)シ I hope I age half as well as she does.
mihana: Translations for the commentator's comments about Katsuki-senshu:
'All eyes are on the reigning national champion! This will be the last time Katsuki-senshu will be eligible for juniors, so I hope he leaves on a high note.'
'Yes, Okamoto-san, we hope Katsuki-senshu will be able to show us his best performance before he moves up to seniors. And from what we saw in practice yesterday, it'll be an end like no other.'
'Yes, Katsuki-senshu shocked us when he performed his short program during practice yesterday, it's a completely different routine to the one that won him a ticket to this year's Grand Prix final. Perhaps I'm a little biased, but I think it's one of the best programs I have ever seen a skater do!'
'Okamoto-san, I couldn't agree more! The skating skills, the transitions! Absolutely divine, look there he is now, going through some step sequences before the warm-up is over. Name one senior skater in Japan or elsewhere that does turns as crisp as he does! And aww, there he is, talking to his coach, the beloved Okukawa-sensei. She seems to be telling him something over the rink- I wonder how she coaches him? There's such an ease with how the two converse with each other.'
芽衣 : ゆうりくんが大会でこんなに気持ちよく見えるのを見たことがない 0.0 [I've never seen Yuuri-kun look so comfortable at a competition before 0.0]
[The screen filters over to other skaters warming up, the commentators are introducing them one by one. The camera then pans towards Yuuri, who does a clean triple axel from a back-counter entry.]
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skatingsilverberry: WHAT WAS THAT?!
mihana: !
figureskatingpsycho: THE TRIPLE AXEL? DID YOU SEE THE HEIGHT OF THAT THING?
jessie-bessie: FORGET THE HEIGHT! Did you see that entry ?! How the fuck did he do a back-counter into a triple axel ?! I've never seen that before!
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jessie-bessie: I stand by my language. No other word could describe the feelings I felt watching that triple axel more aptly than a swear word. Someone better make a gif set of that, because sheeeeeesshh
mihana : - Hi, あかり here. Just wanted everyone to know that Hana-chan may or may not have fainted over that triple axel.
jessie-bessie: Understandable.
figureskatingpsycho: samesies
キリンのミヤ: mihana ツイン [twins]
mihana: I am back, bitches. Nothing can keep me from Yuuri-kun.
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skatingsandwich: That was such a clean triple axel! Yuuri's always struggled with them, but he did that one so easily! What kind of training is Okukawa putting him under? ?
niki-bitchy: Fingers crossed he lands it in competition! ?
skatingsandwich: Prayer Circle! ✨ Yuuri will land all his jumps ✨ ? ? ?
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mihana: ?
jessie-bessie: ?
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minhyun-honey: ?
Makomanai Ice Arena,
Sapporo, Japan
"You ready, kid?"
There is a thrill of excitement running through Yuuri's veins. It travels from the top of his head, through to every single one of his limbs and joints. Minako stands before him, separated by the rinkside barrier.
There are cheers, but it's not deafening, not in the way they used to be. But that was alright, in fact, it was preferable. Minako stands there, tall and pristine, and propped beside her on top of the barrier, is Hime - 'Princess'. His little reminder of Ice Castle, 2,000 miles away in Sapporo.
Yuuri clasps his hand with Minako, takes one deep breath before nodding. He turns towards Hime, rests his hand on top of the plushie's head, and closes his eyes.
He counts down the seconds in his head, mind going blank.
Three …
Two …
One …
He takes one more deep breath and opens his eyes.
Time for the show to start.
Sports Champions Club,
St. Petersburg, Russia
Yuri should not be here.
It's a Saturday, which means he should be at home in Moscow with Dedushka, making pancakes and convincing his grandfather that hot chocolate and cream were miles ahead of drinking tea with strawberry jam. He should be in his pyjamas, sprawled across their beaten, brown coach (that had definitely been white at some point), engulfed in a multitude of blankets and cushions and watching morning cartoons, with their legs intertwined.
Instead, he's still in St. Petersburg, alone at the rink.
The guilt in Yuri's gut builds as he sits in the meeting room. He doesn't want to think about Dedushka's somber response when Yuri had called him and said that he wouldn't be able to come down this weekend, and tries to steer his thoughts to the present.
The meeting room is essentially a lobby and hangout area for skaters. There are a few minifridges scattered around the room, and at least ten different seating areas fitted with matching cushions and foot stools. The perks of a government-funded rink , Yuri scoffs to himself, settling into the coach closest towards the television.
Nikiforov should be practicing around this time, which meant that everyone had emptied out of the meeting room to scramble towards the rink's viewing seats, fawning over the 'best figure skater in Russian history'. Yuri would be left alone, just how he wanted it to be.
He grabs the television remote, frantically flicking through the channel. It's the one reason he's here, because Yakov always makes sure that the rink's television is subscribed to all of the sport's channels in existence, even the barely-watched, small time ones.
It's for that reason that Yuri is here, and not at home with Dedushka.
He finally finds the obscure channel, Eurosport 5 , not even on the main channel, and sighs in relief. He'd just made it in time.
If he doesn't do well, Yuri swears on his ten-year-old heart that he will fly over to Japan and kick the older skater's ass. He did not waste a weekend away from Dedushka for Katsuki to do a shitty double axel.
He better blow his fucking mind .
Yuri can barely pick up on the words that the commentator is sprouting, internally seething at the fact that it's in English and not Russian. There's Yakov's voice in his head, nagging him to attend his English lessons. Yuri knows it'll be required of him, if he ever wants to become Russia's next greatest skater in the international field, but dammit, he's Russian , so he'll speak Russian.
Yuri takes a deep breath, feeling nerves begin to build in his stomach. Yuuri Katsuki is talking to his coach, a young woman who has the same stern look in her eyes as Lilia. Yuri turns pale at the thought.
He seems to talk to her for a moment, before his hand comes to rest on top of a teddy-bear. It looks like Makkachin , Yuri realises, scowling. All this time, he had thought Katsuki was a cat-person. It would've been another thing they had in common, what with the fact that they were both figure skaters and had the same name. If he turns out to be a poodle-lover, Yuri will disown him. He'll no longer be his rival.
Because that's who Yuuri Katuski is to him. When Yuri was seven, he had the chance to go along with Yakov to the Junior World Championships three years ago. All of the skaters were nobodies, throwing in jumps that they didn't even land. They looked like giraffes on skates, stumbling around without an inch of grace.
And then Katsuki took to the ice. He looked like he had wings with the way he glided. Sure, his jumps weren't the best, but neither were the rest of the competition. Katsuki could do spins that Viktor could only dream of. He was the only male figure skater Yuri had ever seen that could compete with ladies in the spin department, and then his step sequences made Yuri wince from pain with how quick he would turn into some of his elements. Forget Yuri, Viktor could never do a Yuuri Katsuki step sequence.
So Katsuki better do well. Yuri had given up his weekend with Dedushka for this. If Katsuki didn't show Japan that he was their ace skater, then Yuri would never forgive him. He'd make it his life goal to bring Katsuki down to his knees. If they shared the same name, they both have to be the best.
On screen, Katsuki takes a deep breath, and then hands over his 'Team Japan' jacket to his coach and-
"...What the fuck!" Yuri screeches, flinging the remote behind him as he leaps to his feet. That was not his costume. Yuri had been waiting for the eyesore of Katsuki's costume, he was waiting for the horrible clash of shimmering purple and mint to match with the horrendous disco music that his coach had given him this season.
It had been an alright piece, outgoing even, but Katsuki had looked like a child playing dress-up in his mother's clothes. He looked awkward, uncomfortable , and not even his god-given step sequences had saved him from ridicule.
But this was very different. All of a sudden, Katsuki was shrouded in blues and whites, contrasted with jewel waves slipping across his shoulders and down to his fingertips. He looks ethereal, and as he skates around the rink during his pre-warm up, the fabric glides around him like a fairytale. Even his pants are different, a stark white that the blue waves seep into and surround. It's tight against his legs, curving against every inch of muscle.
Katsuki returns to the middle of the ice, arms extended in a graceful stretch of lines, and then the music starts.
Yuri wants to scream but his voice escapes him. All he can do is grab a cushion off the sofa and fling it towards the expensive , government-paid, television. He misses, because of course at that moment, Katsuki turns into multiple, single-footed twizzles like it's nothing. This is not the same short program. No, it is a flowing piano piece, one which Katsuki twists and turns into as if he is simply an extension of the musician's fingers.
He's not even jumping , throwing himself straight into a step sequence. The edges of his skates dig deep into the ice, and Yuri's eyes widen in shock at the utter confidence that Katsuki exudes.
"Maybe it's because he's only doing step sequences." Yuri tells himself. "Yeah, that has to be it."
And of course he's proved fucking wrong. Because right when Yuri says that, Katsuki throws himself into a perfectly executed triple lutz that lands right as the music changes.
Yuri can only gape, mouth dropped so wide he's sure flies would zoom right in and he wouldn't even notice. And it doesn't stop then - Katsuki's spins have always been a thing of beauty, but the speed in which he executes these variations, dropping down into a sit spin with his arms flowing around into beautiful lines that would make Lilia cry and then into another sit spin where his leg is twisted around like it's broken - all of the elements match the crescendo of music that Katsuki embodies.
And then, as if to completely murder Yuri, Katsuki turns into an layback spin, matching the frezy of the music only to then do a fucking biellmann . What male skater does a biellmann? Yuuri Katsuki, that's who.
The music continues, and Katsuki doesn't even look winded. He draws the audience in, every breath he takes matched with the tempo of the music. And then, when most people would be winded, Katsuki steps into a gorgeous array of sequenced steps, including rockers and mohawks. It's as if he's playing with the audience, telling them to keep up with him as his body moves at an inhuman speed across the ice rink. Who the fuck entered Katsuki's body? Because this sure is not him.
And then, just to fuck with Yuri a bit, he does a back-counter into a triple axel. A triple axel. With a clean, fucking landing. A triple axel - when he's been struggling all season with doing a double.
Just kill him now. It would hurt less.
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[Before he leaves for the Grand Prix Final, Katsuki Yuuri-senshu shows Japan why he is their Ace.]
Makomanai Ice Arena,
Sapporo, Japan
Yuuri feels gross. There is sweat still trapped in the delicate fabric of his costume. He can feel it dripping down his back, trapped between his body and the delicate, breathable fabric of his long program costume.
The costumes had been hard to find, especially at such a short notice. But Yuuri would be damned if he continued skating in the atrocity of his old Lohengrin piece. But commissioning a new costume took months of preparations and alterations. Yuuri did not have that time or money available.
So he did what he did best, and dragged Mari to the local fabric store in Saga City.
It had been difficult finding the right material, ones that were stretchy and breathable for Yuuri's skating, as well as sturdy enough to deal with all of his elaborate spins and jumps. Even when they found the right pieces, the fabrics were never in the right colour.
It had taken weeks of dying pieces of cotton to find the right colour, and finally, his mother and Minako had stepped in, commadering the entire process. Minako, Yuuri found out, was very apt at sewing, a leftover skill from having to deal with her own alterations for her ballet costumes in the 80s. His mother helped, painstakingly hand-dying every panel of fabric. The end results were the labours of love from the women in his life, his main support system.
So Yuuri has no right to feel gross, not when every time he moved across the ice and his costume had reflected against the ice, he remembered his mother's hands stained blue, or when the spotlights had beaded against the pearl detail embedded into his pink sleeves he'd be reminded of Minako next to him, hunched over and helping to hand stitch tiny crystals into a wave of patterns.
So Yuuri slips on his national jacket over the stretches of pale pink organza, and stands with his back straight.
He had won this competition, completely obliterated the competition. He will bring the medal back to his hometown, and he will be proud. There would be no mistaking it any longer, Yuuri Katsuki was here to stay.