YOI Multishipper Problems

[prillalar]

[ Before the ramble (or vent) begins, some signal boosting:
+ rareshipsonice - Yuri!!! on ICE Rare Pair fanwork exchange! Basically anything other than Yuuri/Victor and Otabek/Yuri. Currently in nominations.
+ yurionicefans - YOI DW comm! ]

While working on some fic that doesn't involve any of these characters, I was listening to Steve Winwood (I'm an old) and Back In the High Life Again came on and I had a mini-breakdown over Chris/Victor, mainly from frustration that it's next to impossible to write them post-canon.

I love Yuuri/Victor but I'm a multishipper and Chris/Victor is my favourite Victor ship. (Nishigori/Yuuri is my other main ship, just to get even more impossible.) And I've never been in a fandom before where the juggernaut was so juggernaut-y and soulmate-y and canon-y that to write any other end-game pairing with either of them is nearly unthinkable.

I don't want to go canon-divergent; it's not my thing. Am I doomed to never being able to write what I want? Or is there perhaps some way to break Yuuri and Victor up post-canon that I wouldn't have to spend more than about 25% of the Chris/Victor fic dealing with? (Victor dealing with it, I mean, not showing the break-up.)

I realise I will have to sign a waiver indicating I understand no one will read this fic. And that I may also be consigned to perdition. It might be worth it.

Okay, whining over, thinking begun.

Comments

[prillalar]

Yeah, definitely good idea to start broken up. I need to work out how and why; I'm a bit stuck there for now, but I just need to think about it more. The icy meetings scene is gold! Oh, Chris!

I think I've only ever had one true OTP. So much more fun to play around, so to speak.

I've never been part of a DW comm with much traffic but maybe we can get this one moving. I would love it -- it's so hard to really connect with like-minded fans in YOI because everything is so huge and decentralized.

[merit]

I settled on the ear licking. Explicit gestures, elaborate tongue motions, grinding - the possibilities are endless! especially when you want to mess with your crush's ex.

Same! I have a fandom5k fic to finish but I should be to think of something to post while angsting over plot.

That's the problem with big fandoms! I've mostly been involved in tiny book fandoms of late so that was a pleasant surprise :)

[prillalar]

Ear-licking Chris is best Chris! The twist is he used to get with Yuuri too and Yuuri assumed he'd be the one to get Chris in the break-up.

Okay, maybe I just like Chris too much.

[merit]

Oh Yuuri. Though that would be an amusing element - who gets who after the breakup.

[(Anonymous)]

"I need to know how and why"

hc: victor and chris used to be together, but they are young, etc. they break up over something and yuuri is victor's rebound fling. I find this to be canon compliant because (a) Chris can be interpreted as jealous over Yuuri and (b) I truly, madly, deeply don't buy it that a international star athlete would turn 27 without having a life and fun enough that a drunk loser humping his leg would turn into a revolutionary "OMG I was lost and lonely and had no inspiration and now I found you!" (which seems to be the main fanon interpretation of why they get together but which i find incredibly juvenile).

If Yuuri is Victor's rebound fling, it's normal for things between them to be very intense on Victor's part as he clings to what he imagines is happening in this new romance that was not happening between him and Chris. (It is normal for things to be intense on Yuuri's part because Yuuri is a fanboy).

It would also be normal for said rebound fling to come to an end, and for both Victor and Chris to come back together at a new stage of their professional lives and at a new level of maturity.

I am aware you mostly write short things whereas I'm essentially pitching you a novel, but you can totally drop the reader into the opening stages of the second time Chris and Victor get together and drop hints on the backstory as you go along.

[prillalar]

That's an interesting scenario! There's a lot of time for Victor and Chris to have had a relationship of some sort. I mostly think of it as more casual but it doesn't have to have to have been. Definitely any post-canon Chris/Victor will have to start when they're getting (back) together.

Re Victor falling for Yuuri -- I don't think he was deep in love from the banquet on but it's hard to say why anyone falls hard for anyone else. Sometimes people just smell right. And, hmm, I don't think Yuuri has quite the same level of feelings for Victor as Victor does for him but that's probably part of what draws Victor in so deeply. There's a lot to unpack about their relationship. I find it pretty fascinating.