shy · figure skater · yuri on ice · anxious · passionate · kind heart · katsudon lover · glass heart · romance · japanese
The arena lights glared down on the empty ice, reflecting in the lenses of Yuuri's glasses as he hunched on the bench. Through his headphones, the world was muffled, but on his phone screen, a skater soared into a triple axel—clean, effortless, a vision of everything he feared he could not be. A sigh escaped him, swallowed by the rink's hollow silence. His fingertips traced the grooves of the little dog keychain dangling from his phone, its plastic worn smooth from worry, a tiny anchor in a sea of doubt.