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-Here we go again, folks! Chapter two is up
with fluff and excitement!
-BTW, the OI! character that Victor inspired, got
his surname from the coaches of one of Russia's
Synchronized Skating Teams. It just so happened
to have Yakov's name, which I thought was great!
-This fic is FLUFF only to make up for another
one of my Victuuri fics on AO3, where there is
just ANGST out the ass. And yes, there is fluff
here and there, but the entire plot comes out
because of ANGST, and the ANGST just keeps
coming back to remind everyone of pain and
suffering. That fic won't be posted here until
I finish it, and I'm writing the last chapter
now.
"Should I make a Facebook Page about it, or a Twitter account?"
The look Phichit was giving him made him feel a little foolish, but really, how was he supposed to know? His life wasn't run by the internet!
"Dude, learn how to navigate social media! Make a Twitter Account, make an entire Blog. A Page. Get it out there. Link to the website! Bring people in! Build up the hype!"
"Okay, okay! I just want to do this right."
Phichit gave him a pitying look. "You're so lucky you have me and that social media is my life. Where would you be without me?"
Probably curled up in a ball and crying under his bed. Phichit was grounding him even now.
Within a few hours, they had a Twitter page for On ICE!, called 'OnICEOfficial'. The profile was a cropped photo of the cover art for the game. The banner was specially made by Yuuri, showing all of the characters lined up beside one another, and the name printed above their heads in blue and white letters.
"Looks good. Make a few posts about the game. Like when it will officially be released. Maybe a list of the voice actors. Once you have enough interesting content, I'll pimp you out."
Yuuri nodded and opened up his preferred graphics editor. If he wanted the posts to at least look interesting, he had to work a bit of magic.
"I'm working on the Facebook Page. Do you want the profile and banner to be the same?" asked Phichit from across the room.
"Sure."
Yuuri pulled up a folder of the different photos of the voice actors. Some professional actors, some professional skaters, and a few who were on the design team. AKA, Yuuri and a few others. Voice acting was definitely an experience, that was for certain. Still, it was fun to do. Easier than anything else that had to be done for the game.
It was a good thing he had contracts. Through some serious haggling and discussion, he and Asahi had the rights to use the names of all involved to further the promotion of the game. Yuuri wouldn't have dared do what he was doing otherwise.
In another file, he had screenshots of each character saved. He proceeded to link up the voice actor with their character and smiled as the individual photos came together.
"Phichit, sparkles or laser lights for effect?"
"Sparkles. Do you have any cool fonts to use?"
"Yeah. Matt designed an entire font for the game, not just the name. Standard blue and white or would something else be better?"
"Maybe you should change the colors depending on what goes good with each manip."
"True."
Several minutes passed between them, until Phichit finally announced, "On ICE! is officially a Page! I'll leave you to work out how to promote said page, as it's your money going into that."
Yuuri smiled at his friend of four years. "Thanks. How does this look?"
On the screen of his laptop, was a photo of Kim Yuna, which was beside a photo of the Korean character, Kim Soo-young. Soo-young was very similar to Yuna in appearance, save for the lone stripe of purple in her hair.
Yuuri had made good use of the sparkle brush and had applied the white font solidly the first time, and for the second time, he added a bright blue. The final time, he superimposed the same words over the first two, but with lowered opacity in order to change the color blue to something darker against the bright background. It gave the blocky effect of the words jumping from the photo.
"Ooooh! I like it!" Phichit whistled. "And to think, you only have to do it twenty-three more times!"
Ugh!
He hadn't even added logos yet!
"You get to handle Twitter for now. The password is HadesTheHomeWrecker1989. All one word, each word starts with a capital letter, and the 1989 is in number form."
"Gotcha!"
"Oh my God, Vitya, this looks like you!"
Mila shoved her mobile in his face so he could see one of the characters of On ICE! up close.
It really did look like him. Hairdo and all. But with Yuri Plisetsky's coloring.
"So this was posted on the website earlier today. Each week leading up to the release of the game, they've been posting photos with small info boxes."
She scrolled down on the screen. "He's five feet and eleven inches. Russian. Twenty-four years old. And in the On ICE! universe, is rumored to be an up and coming World Champion. Voiced by Nikita Bezrukov. And do you want to know what his name is?" she asked, grin so wide it looked like it hurt.
"What?"
"Yuri Yakovlev."
Wow.
"He looks like you, has Yurachka's colors, and Yakov and Yuri's names! This is great!"
A video game character possible based on him? Victor was going to have to study up more on it. He was flattered.
"Get back to practice!" their irate coach hollered, making them split apart immediately.
He could do that later though. He had an ice show to practice for.
The official trailer for On ICE! was released on May thirty-first, 2016. The YouTube channel specifically for the game, had garnered almost one hundred thousand followers in the last month and there weren't any videos at the time. Just some comments here and there.
However, it was nice to see the views skyrocketing and people commenting that they shared the video on every site they knew.
The link was shared to the Facebook Page, the Twitter Account, and was officially posted on the website.
Yuuri found himself perusing Twitter in order to get a feel for people's reactions. Of course he waited an hour in order to give it some time to spread, but by then, the #OnICE tag was trending at the bottom and people were going crazy again.
To see such widespread conversation over his work made him feel light and heavy at once. As if he was ill, but happily so. A confusing moment, but he didn't regret anything!
{Finally we can see the trailer for #OnICE in clear and as often as we want!}
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{Am I the only person who noticed that this trailer was longer by like twenty seconds?}
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{WHAT?! iceicebb help? pls? #OnICE}
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{It's true! [LINK] There are 23 more secs in this one!}
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{What was added tho?}
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{Looks like it was music and a skating sequence by the Russian blond! Find it at 0:47-1:10. #OnICE}
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{Oh! He looks so sad! Like he's all alone! #hugs #OnICE}
{#OnICE [LINK] #bae #MyLifeIsComplete}
{So much need for this game! [LINK] #OnICE}
{They got real figure skaters to voice! Stephane Lambiel, Johnny Weir, and Kim Yuna among them! #OnICE #goals}
{#damnson #OnICE is killing it! Those graphics are fucking on point!}
{Do we really need to wait for September for #OnICE?}
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{Yeah. Thankfully, they seem to be releasing small bits of info on the website each week! [LINK]}
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{Thanks bruh!}
{Buggering fuck, this looks fantastic! #TheArtistry #OnICE The animation is prettier than I am.}
{What's with the genders? Real people look like their genders! None of this girly shit! Damn Japs and their gay agenda!}
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{Excuse the fuck outta you?! Real people can be androgynous you fuckwit!}
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{You certainly don't look like YOUR gender. Real men don't resemble hairy assholes.}
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{gtfo trolling dilweed}
{I want to play the American character! She actually looks like me! #OnICE}
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{What? A hairless ape?}
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{No, a thing of Black beauty your crusty ass won't ever be good enough to get!}
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{HA! Not even fake girls would want ur ass! #snatchingweaves}
{#OnICE So like, we can make friends, enemies, and romantic partners depending on what we do? #HellYes}
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{Bitch, I kno! So ready! I hope we can make friends with the other playable characters!}
{My crops are flourishing and my skin is clear! The first #OnICE trailer is here! [LINK]}
{So. Much. Want. [LINK] #OnICE #thirstyassbitchrightnow}
{The one character looks like Sara Crispino! #Yaaaassssss #OnICE}
{We have been blessed by Katsu_ki with #OnICE. More fans of figure skating!}
His face flushed at all the positivity. And for every negative comment, there was always at least ten people there to destroy anyone who made even the tiniest of unpleasant remarks.
So much support and the game hadn't even come out yet!
Katsu: This is the best day of my life.
Phi-Chu: You've got four more months of this, bruh.
Katsu: Best days of my life.
There was discussion of releasing the game early. Yuuri had been in several meetings with the developers of Asahi, trying to work out a solution.
On ICE! would be available on the XBox 360, PS3, and PS4. So far at least. Still, those were the most well-known and preferred consoles, so it made sense to appeal to those first.
However, they had months ahead of them to determine just how they would release the game early.
Yuuri was partial to the idea of selling a fixed amount of games for each console at half price a month ahead of schedule. Half of the board agreed with his idea. The other half thought it would be better to move the release date up a month. Yuuri worked hard to convince them otherwise.
He even had to get Phichit to give his own opinion on which would be best. He ended up agreeing to Yuuri's idea, simply because it would be a better teaser. If those one hundred and fifty people got their hands on the game, then they would no doubt be posting videos about it on gaming sites and YouTube. Which would work best for expanding the popularity of the game and making people want to know everything they could.
After all, twenty-four playable characters and over two hundred hours of game-play would take a long time, especially when the difficulty didn't come in an Easy Mode. The players got Normal, Hard, and Expert. And as each Mode came with different extras and surprises, it would take ages to collect all the information.
When the final vote came in, Yuuri's idea won in a 23/21 vote.
He had to get Phichit a new mobile phone for being so damn convincing.
BIG NEWS!
On ICE! Creator, Katsuki Yuuri, plans to release
150 games at half price!
Watch the On ICE! website at noon PST on August
3rd, 2016 for your chance to get the game before
your friends!
AVAILABLE:
-Fifty XBox 360 Games.
-Fifty PS3 Games.
-Fifty PS4 Games.
For more information(including a TimeZone list),
check out our website! ^-^
"Dude, this is going to be crazy! See? Making it a manip gave you more space to add what you want. Also, people can just copy and paste instead of having to take screenies."
"I know, you're a genius," Yuuri said with a grin.
"Hell yeah I am!" Phichit held his hand out. "Kiss the hand!"
With a roll of the eyes, Yuuri took the outstretched hand and placed a soft kiss on the knuckles. "Many thanks."
{[LINK] *internal screaming* #OnICE}
{Who loves me enough to buy it for me? #OnICE pls, my family is starving}
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{Get a damn job if you want the stupid game so much!}
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{3 pounds a week for doing dishes won't get me something that needs a credit card. And I'm 12, you cockwomble.}
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{12 year olds are too young to play that game!}
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{Who cares? 12 y/os aren't too young to do drills for school shootings, so they're not 'too young' for a damn game.}
{150 games ahead of the release date! These people are evil! #MyHeart #Pls #OnICE [LINK]}
{The new character pic was released today! [LINK] Her name is Raquelle White! #bae #OnICE #GodBlessAmerica}
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{I love her and I hope they make merch with her face all over it!}
{[LINK]My fav character so far was Lillian Singh. She looks like me and is Canadian too! #OnICE}
{i am the deceased #OnICE}
{Can I get a sugar daddy to buy me this? [LINK] #OnICE}
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{Forget the sugar daddy. I need a sugar auntie or some shit!}
{ Katsu_ki is an evil genius! #OnICE OnICEOfficial is killing me!}
{fml I hope they start selling merch soon!}
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{Just checked, they're selling little household things like mugs and plates. Notepads and pencils. Small things.}
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{SIGN ME THE FUCK UP! #SomeGoodShit #OnICE}
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{I'll take 10! #takemymoney}
{I want to marry Katsu_ki. Is he single? #OnICE #bae}
{I'm cosplaying as Yuri Yakovlev at the next con! #ThankYou #OnICE}
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{If you wanna look gay as shit then go ahead.}
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{I guess it's a good thing that I'm 'gay as shit' then, isn't it?}
Victor had the website for On ICE! pulled up. He'd had it opened for the past five hours because he was in no way missing his chance to buy one of the PS3 games. It was nearing midnight and he didn't give a damn. Only fifty games available and he needed to get his hands on one of them! The shipping was even free!
Victor was too riled up to pay his dear Makka the attention she deserved. He was tapping his own knee in an agitated rhythm. Time was sensitive.
The clock on his laptop struck eleven pm and he hit Refresh immediately and clicked on the button when it reappeared, now saying 'Welcome' instead of 'Coming Soon'.
The page that appeared was a form that required him to fill it out as quickly as possible to see if he could be one of the few to get the game.
Of all the times to fuck up when typing, this had to be it, didn't it?
When he finally finished, two minutes past the hour, he clicked on the 'Send' button at the bottom of the page and nervously chewed on his perfect nails. The page was loading. The animation of a figure skater in the middle of a spin, greeted him.
Finally, he was graced with a message.
Sorry, all orders have been placed.
Thank you for your avid participation!
As a sign of gratitude, a complimentary
mug will be sent to the address you've
provided. Please select the character
you'd prefer.
Victor sank out of his computer chair and onto the floor, dramatically wailing in his grief.
He'd been too slow!
Two whole minutes and he'd still been too slow! The world hated him! This meant another month of waiting!
His mobile vibrated, and he had to roll over to get it out of his pocket.
It was a text from Mila.
Mila: I managed to get the 134th game for my PS4!
Mila: Any luck?
Victor: The world hates me!
Mila: It's okay. Perhaps I'll let you look at mine! XD
Victor: I repeat, 'HATE'!
Mila managed to get it and he couldn't! His life was over!
"Makka, I'm sad and I need cuddles!"
Instead of coming over to give him kisses, the great poodle stood and left the room, her tail wagging as she went.
He was abandoned and bereft!
There was only one thing to do.
Whine to his followers.
v-nikiforov It was only 2 minutes! I somehow
missed out on the On ICE! special and I waited
5 hours! I'm cursed. My typing was so bad!
#betrayal But I'm getting a mug with the
Japanese skater's face on it! He's the hottest
IMO! #OnICE
p+chulanont Dude! That character was
based off of Katsuki Yuuri! He's the creator of
On ICE!. My best friend! #OnICE #bae
v-nikiforov OMG! He's adorable! U R lucky!
#sojealousrightnow #OnICE
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