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- WHAT'S SO GAY ABOUT YURI!!! ON ICE?
- MA CHARACTERSGENERAL THERE'S A PRETTY TENSE FAN DISCSN ABOUT WHETHER THE BIG DAMN KISS WAS YURI AND VICTOR'S ACTUAL FIRST KISS OR JT THEIR FIRST PUBLIC KISS. GIVEN YURI'S CREASGLY RECEPTIVE AND FORTABLE ATTU TOWARD VICTOR'S HANDSIER AND MORE FLIRTAT BEHAVR, PECIALLY PUBLIC (LIKE VICTOR GETTG HALF-NAKED AND BASILLY MOLTG YURI AFTER TOO MANY DRKS BEFORE THE CUP OF CHA), SOME FANS HAVE SPECULATED THAT THEY WERE ALREADY A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP SEVERAL EPISOS BEFORE THEIR OFFICIAL RELATNSHIP UPGRA. IT DON'T HELP THAT WH A B MORE KNOWLEDGE OF JAPANE, 'S CLEAR THAT SEVERAL MENTATORS AND OTHER SKATERS ALREADY THK THE TWO ARE VOLVED. FANS TEND TO AGREE THAT AFTER THEIR REERS END, THE MOST LIKELY THG IS THAT YURI WOULD START TEACHG SKATG FOR YOUNG KIDS WHILE VICTOR WOULD START ACHG OLR KIDS. TO A LSER GREE A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THEY'LL HAVE TWO KIDS, POSSIBLY TWS.YURI KATSI SOME FANS BELIEVE PHICH AND YURI HAD A ROMANTIC AND/OR SEXUAL VOLVEMENT WHILE THEY WERE ROOMMAT OR THAT PHICH HAD A CSH ON YURI. SOME FANS TEND TO THEORIZE THAT BIS YURI GRDG ON VICTOR EPISO 10, THEY HAD A ONE NIGHT STAND AFTERWARDS, OR ME CLOSE TO , SCE WOULD E VICTOR'S UNUALLY FORWARD MANNER OF DISPLAYG PHYSIL AFFECTN (WHICH N GET A LTLE OVERBOARD AT TIM) TO MAKE MUCH MORE SENSE. MANY FANS BELIEVE THAT YURI WAS A VIRG BEFORE HIS RELATNSHIP UPGRA WH VICTOR. SEVERAL CHARACTERS THE SHOW TEASE HIM ABOUT HIS LACK OF A LOVE LIFE, SO WOULDN'T BE THAT SURPRISG. FANS AT LEAST GENERALLY AGREE THAT VICTOR IS HIS FIRST SER RELATNSHIP. THOSE WHO DON'T SEE YURI AS A VIRG TEND TO THK HE GOT OUT OF HIS SYSTEM THROUGH DNKEN ONE-NIGHT STANDS OR IENDS-WH-BENEFS TYPE SUATNS (POSSIBLY WH PHICH). THIS SEEMS SUPPORTED BY THE TEASG YURI GETS ABOUT HIS LACK OF RELATNSHIP EXPERIENCE. YURI IS OFTEN PORTRAYED AS A SEX GOD FANWORKS, PROBABLY DUE TO A BATN OF HIS EROS PERSONA, HIS LNCHER OF A THOAND SHIPS STAT, VICTOR'S MENTN OF HIS STAMA, AND OF URSE, THE POLE-DANCG. ADDNALLY, "OBLIV HEARTBREAKER YURI KATSI" IS ALSO A POPULAR PORTRAYAL, GIVEN HIS LOW SELF-TEEM AND EXPERIENCE, SPE HIS ATTRACTIVENS. YURI HAS NEVER REFERRED TO VICTOR WH A DIRECT SEND PERSON PRONOUN AND ONLY EVER HIS NAME. HOWEVER, MANY FANS THE JAPANE FANDOM LET HIM E "ANATA" OCSNALLY FANART AND DOUJSHI, WHETHER THEY SHIP TOP!VICTOR OR TOP!YURI. AS FOR VICTOR, HE HAD REFERRED TO YURI AS BOTH "OMAE" AND "KIMI", BUT HE ED "KIMI" MORE OFTEN, SO 'S UALLY THE GO-TO PRONOUN FOR THE JAPANE FANDOM WHEN THEY WANT VICTOR TO LL YURI BY SOMETHG OTHER THAN HIS NAME.VICTOR NIKIFOROV WHILE VICTOR AND CHRIS ARE SHOWN TO BE IENDS AND HAVE A HISTORY TOGETHER THE SHOW, THE "BT IENDS WHO ARE ALWAYS LLG EACH OTHER AND ASKG FOR ADVICE ON THEIR RELATNSHIPS" PART IS LARGELY VENTED BY THE FANDOM. IN PARTICULAR, A LOT OF FANWORKS SUGGT THAT VICTOR NFID CHRISTOPHE ABOUT HIS FEELGS FOR YURI AFTER THE BANQUET. TO A CERTA GREE, THIS IS ALSO TE OF HOW FANWORKS TERPRET YURI'S IENDSHIP WH PHICH; WHILE THEY DO NSIR EACH OTHER THEIR BT IENDS, YURI SEEMGLY DIDN'T LL PHICH FOR MONTHS AFTER HE LEFT DETRO, AND FIRST DO ORR TO ASK A FAVOR. WHILE VICTOR NFIRMS THAT HE HAD PREV RELATNSHIPS, A LOT OF FANS THK YURI IS HIS FIRST SER RELATNSHIP OR AT LEAST, HIS FIRST TIME FALLG LOVE. THE LATTER SEEMS TO BE SUPPORTED BY VICTOR TALKG ABOUT "NEGLECTG LIFE AND LOVE FOR 20 YEARS" EPISO 10. A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEE MORE AND MORE TERTED THE IA THAT VICTOR AND LEV HAIBA ARE RELATED, DUE TO THE FACT THAT THEY'RE BOTH RSIAN (HALF LEV'S SE), AND HAVE SHORT, LIGHT GRAY/SILVER HAIR. IT HELPS THAT THE THE FANDOMS OF BOTH SERI ARE GOOD IENDS (SEE FRIENDLY FANDOMS ON THE YMMV PAGE). WHILE 'S AMBIGUO THE SHOW SELF, MOST OF THE FANDOM AGREE THAT VICTOR SLEEPS THE NU, BASED ON HOW HE'S ALWAYS AT LEAST NAKED OM THE WAIST UP (WH HIS BLANKET VERG HIS LOWER BODY) THE TWO TIM WE SEE HIM SLEEP YURI'S HOE.YURI "YUR" PLISETSKY A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT YUR LLS, OR WILL LL, OTABEK BY THE NICKNAME "BEKA", A MON NICKNAME KAZAKHSTAN FOR MEN WH NAM FISHG "BEK". SIARLY, PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT WHEN HE GROWS OLR, HIS HAIR WILL BEE CREASGLY LONGER, POSSIBLY EVEN WH SOME BRAIDS AND WILL GROW TALLER THAN OTABEK. SIARLY, SOME BELIEVE THAT OTABEK WOULD LL YUR "YURA" OR "YURATCHKA". IT'S FAIRLY MON BOTH THE JAPANE AND ENGLISH-SPEAKG FANDOMS TO PORTRAY YUR AS AN OLR BROTHER FIGURE TOWARDS THE NISHIGORI TRIPLETS, SCE HE'S ALREADY IENDS WH THEIR MOTHER YO. THIS IS PARTLY FUELED BY YO TEXTG YUR A PHOTO OF BOTH OF THEM WH THE TRIPLETS EPISO 4.OTHER SKATERSCHRISTOPHE GIAETTI PLENTY OF PEOPLE LIKE TO THK THAT CHRISTOPHE WANTS TO SLEEP WH VICTOR OR YURI. OR BOTH. THERE'S ALSO AN ALMOST UNANIMO BELIEF THAT, AT ONE POT OR ANOTHER THE PAST, CHRISTOPHE AND VICTOR HAVE SLEPT TOGETHER.OTHER CHARACTERS IT'S OFTEN THEORIZED THAT MARI ED TO TAKE BALLET LSONS OM MAKO BUT LOST TERT, LEADG MAKO TO TEACH YURI STEAD. MAKO AND LILIA HAVE NEVER TERACTED THE SERI SELF, OR AT LEAST NOT ON-SCREEN, AND THERE'S NO DITN THAT THEY KNOW EACH OTHER. HOWEVER, FANFICS TEND TO PORTRAY THEM AS HAVG A HISTORY WH EACH OTHER OR EVEN BEG BT IENDS (OR EVENTUALLY BEG SOMETHG MORE) DUE TO BOTH HAVG BEEN FAMO BALLERAS THEIR YOUTH.SETTG AND GENERAL WHILE THIS MAY GO TO WMG TERRORY, SEVERAL FANS CLAIM THAT THE BARCELONA GRAND PRIX FAL WAS RIGGED, SCE THE OFFICIAL MATERIAL NTAG THE SR TO THE CHARACTERS' PROGRAMS (PARTICULARLY WH YURI AND YUR) DO NOT MATCH UP TO THE SR SHOWN THE SERI, AND THERE IS NO WAY THAT ULD HAVE BEEN A MISTAKE ON THE WRERS' PART. THE EXACT SEXUALI OF CHARACTERS ARE NOT MENTNED -SERI, HOWEVER CAST FULL OF GAY IS THE FLT FOR MOST OF THE ST. IF A CHARACTER HAS SHOWN ATTRACTN TO ANOTHER GENR THEN THEY'RE PICTED AS BISEXUAL. THE QUTN OF WHETHER YURI IS GAY OR BISEXUAL ACTUALLY LEADS TO A LOT OF ARGUMENTS THE FANDOM, MOSTLY PENDG ON HOW PEOPLE TERPRET HIS SKATG FOR YO EPISO 1. A GROWG NTGENT OF FANS TAKE A THIRD OPTN OF PUTTG YURI ON THE ASEXUAL SPECTM, SOMETIM SPECIFILLY MISEXUAL AND/OR -ROMANTIC, BEE YURI FS THE FN OF "SHOWG ATTRACTN TO PEOPLE HE HAS FORMED A EP, LONG-LASTG BOND WH": YO AND VICTOR. ON THE OTHER HAND, SEEMS GENERALLY AGREED-UPON THAT VICTOR IS PLETELY GAY, BEE OF HIS GENERAL FLAMBOYANT MEANOR AS WELL AS THE VISUAL REFERENC HIS STUM TO FAMO GAY FIGURE SKATERS SUCH AS JOHNNY WEIR AND JEFEY BUTTLE.CONFIRMED
WHAT'S SO GAY ABOUT YURI!!! ON ICE?
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MA CHARACTERSGENERAL THERE'S A PRETTY TENSE FAN DISCSN ABOUT WHETHER THE BIG DAMN KISS WAS YURI AND VICTOR'S ACTUAL FIRST KISS OR JT THEIR FIRST PUBLIC KISS. GIVEN YURI'S CREASGLY RECEPTIVE AND FORTABLE ATTU TOWARD VICTOR'S HANDSIER AND MORE FLIRTAT BEHAVR, PECIALLY PUBLIC (LIKE VICTOR GETTG HALF-NAKED AND BASILLY MOLTG YURI AFTER TOO MANY DRKS BEFORE THE CUP OF CHA), SOME FANS HAVE SPECULATED THAT THEY WERE ALREADY A SEXUAL RELATNSHIP SEVERAL EPISOS BEFORE THEIR OFFICIAL RELATNSHIP UPGRA. IT DON'T HELP THAT WH A B MORE KNOWLEDGE OF JAPANE, 'S CLEAR THAT SEVERAL MENTATORS AND OTHER SKATERS ALREADY THK THE TWO ARE VOLVED. FANS TEND TO AGREE THAT AFTER THEIR REERS END, THE MOST LIKELY THG IS THAT YURI WOULD START TEACHG SKATG FOR YOUNG KIDS WHILE VICTOR WOULD START ACHG OLR KIDS. TO A LSER GREE A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THEY'LL HAVE TWO KIDS, POSSIBLY TWS.YURI KATSI SOME FANS BELIEVE PHICH AND YURI HAD A ROMANTIC AND/OR SEXUAL VOLVEMENT WHILE THEY WERE ROOMMAT OR THAT PHICH HAD A CSH ON YURI. SOME FANS TEND TO THEORIZE THAT BIS YURI GRDG ON VICTOR EPISO 10, THEY HAD A ONE NIGHT STAND AFTERWARDS, OR ME CLOSE TO , SCE WOULD E VICTOR'S UNUALLY FORWARD MANNER OF DISPLAYG PHYSIL AFFECTN (WHICH N GET A LTLE OVERBOARD AT TIM) TO MAKE MUCH MORE SENSE. MANY FANS BELIEVE THAT YURI WAS A VIRG BEFORE HIS RELATNSHIP UPGRA WH VICTOR. SEVERAL CHARACTERS THE SHOW TEASE HIM ABOUT HIS LACK OF A LOVE LIFE, SO WOULDN'T BE THAT SURPRISG. FANS AT LEAST GENERALLY AGREE THAT VICTOR IS HIS FIRST SER RELATNSHIP. THOSE WHO DON'T SEE YURI AS A VIRG TEND TO THK HE GOT OUT OF HIS SYSTEM THROUGH DNKEN ONE-NIGHT STANDS OR IENDS-WH-BENEFS TYPE SUATNS (POSSIBLY WH PHICH). THIS SEEMS SUPPORTED BY THE TEASG YURI GETS ABOUT HIS LACK OF RELATNSHIP EXPERIENCE. YURI IS OFTEN PORTRAYED AS A SEX GOD FANWORKS, PROBABLY DUE TO A BATN OF HIS EROS PERSONA, HIS LNCHER OF A THOAND SHIPS STAT, VICTOR'S MENTN OF HIS STAMA, AND OF URSE, THE POLE-DANCG. ADDNALLY, "OBLIV HEARTBREAKER YURI KATSI" IS ALSO A POPULAR PORTRAYAL, GIVEN HIS LOW SELF-TEEM AND EXPERIENCE, SPE HIS ATTRACTIVENS. YURI HAS NEVER REFERRED TO VICTOR WH A DIRECT SEND PERSON PRONOUN AND ONLY EVER HIS NAME. HOWEVER, MANY FANS THE JAPANE FANDOM LET HIM E "ANATA" OCSNALLY FANART AND DOUJSHI, WHETHER THEY SHIP TOP!VICTOR OR TOP!YURI. AS FOR VICTOR, HE HAD REFERRED TO YURI AS BOTH "OMAE" AND "KIMI", BUT HE ED "KIMI" MORE OFTEN, SO 'S UALLY THE GO-TO PRONOUN FOR THE JAPANE FANDOM WHEN THEY WANT VICTOR TO LL YURI BY SOMETHG OTHER THAN HIS NAME.VICTOR NIKIFOROV WHILE VICTOR AND CHRIS ARE SHOWN TO BE IENDS AND HAVE A HISTORY TOGETHER THE SHOW, THE "BT IENDS WHO ARE ALWAYS LLG EACH OTHER AND ASKG FOR ADVICE ON THEIR RELATNSHIPS" PART IS LARGELY VENTED BY THE FANDOM. IN PARTICULAR, A LOT OF FANWORKS SUGGT THAT VICTOR NFID CHRISTOPHE ABOUT HIS FEELGS FOR YURI AFTER THE BANQUET. TO A CERTA GREE, THIS IS ALSO TE OF HOW FANWORKS TERPRET YURI'S IENDSHIP WH PHICH; WHILE THEY DO NSIR EACH OTHER THEIR BT IENDS, YURI SEEMGLY DIDN'T LL PHICH FOR MONTHS AFTER HE LEFT DETRO, AND FIRST DO ORR TO ASK A FAVOR. WHILE VICTOR NFIRMS THAT HE HAD PREV RELATNSHIPS, A LOT OF FANS THK YURI IS HIS FIRST SER RELATNSHIP OR AT LEAST, HIS FIRST TIME FALLG LOVE. THE LATTER SEEMS TO BE SUPPORTED BY VICTOR TALKG ABOUT "NEGLECTG LIFE AND LOVE FOR 20 YEARS" EPISO 10. A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEE MORE AND MORE TERTED THE IA THAT VICTOR AND LEV HAIBA ARE RELATED, DUE TO THE FACT THAT THEY'RE BOTH RSIAN (HALF LEV'S SE), AND HAVE SHORT, LIGHT GRAY/SILVER HAIR. IT HELPS THAT THE THE FANDOMS OF BOTH SERI ARE GOOD IENDS (SEE FRIENDLY FANDOMS ON THE YMMV PAGE). WHILE 'S AMBIGUO THE SHOW SELF, MOST OF THE FANDOM AGREE THAT VICTOR SLEEPS THE NU, BASED ON HOW HE'S ALWAYS AT LEAST NAKED OM THE WAIST UP (WH HIS BLANKET VERG HIS LOWER BODY) THE TWO TIM WE SEE HIM SLEEP YURI'S HOE.YURI "YUR" PLISETSKY A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT YUR LLS, OR WILL LL, OTABEK BY THE NICKNAME "BEKA", A MON NICKNAME KAZAKHSTAN FOR MEN WH NAM FISHG "BEK". SIARLY, PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT WHEN HE GROWS OLR, HIS HAIR WILL BEE CREASGLY LONGER, POSSIBLY EVEN WH SOME BRAIDS AND WILL GROW TALLER THAN OTABEK. SIARLY, SOME BELIEVE THAT OTABEK WOULD LL YUR "YURA" OR "YURATCHKA". IT'S FAIRLY MON BOTH THE JAPANE AND ENGLISH-SPEAKG FANDOMS TO PORTRAY YUR AS AN OLR BROTHER FIGURE TOWARDS THE NISHIGORI TRIPLETS, SCE HE'S ALREADY IENDS WH THEIR MOTHER YO. THIS IS PARTLY FUELED BY YO TEXTG YUR A PHOTO OF BOTH OF THEM WH THE TRIPLETS EPISO 4.OTHER SKATERSCHRISTOPHE GIAETTI PLENTY OF PEOPLE LIKE TO THK THAT CHRISTOPHE WANTS TO SLEEP WH VICTOR OR YURI. OR BOTH. THERE'S ALSO AN ALMOST UNANIMO BELIEF THAT, AT ONE POT OR ANOTHER THE PAST, CHRISTOPHE AND VICTOR HAVE SLEPT TOGETHER.OTHER CHARACTERS IT'S OFTEN THEORIZED THAT MARI ED TO TAKE BALLET LSONS OM MAKO BUT LOST TERT, LEADG MAKO TO TEACH YURI STEAD. MAKO AND LILIA HAVE NEVER TERACTED THE SERI SELF, OR AT LEAST NOT ON-SCREEN, AND THERE'S NO DITN THAT THEY KNOW EACH OTHER. HOWEVER, FANFICS TEND TO PORTRAY THEM AS HAVG A HISTORY WH EACH OTHER OR EVEN BEG BT IENDS (OR EVENTUALLY BEG SOMETHG MORE) DUE TO BOTH HAVG BEEN FAMO BALLERAS THEIR YOUTH.SETTG AND GENERAL WHILE THIS MAY GO TO WMG TERRORY, SEVERAL FANS CLAIM THAT THE BARCELONA GRAND PRIX FAL WAS RIGGED, SCE THE OFFICIAL MATERIAL NTAG THE SR TO THE CHARACTERS' PROGRAMS (PARTICULARLY WH YURI AND YUR) DO NOT MATCH UP TO THE SR SHOWN THE SERI, AND THERE IS NO WAY THAT ULD HAVE BEEN A MISTAKE ON THE WRERS' PART. THE EXACT SEXUALI OF CHARACTERS ARE NOT MENTNED -SERI, HOWEVER CAST FULL OF GAY IS THE FLT FOR MOST OF THE ST. IF A CHARACTER HAS SHOWN ATTRACTN TO ANOTHER GENR THEN THEY'RE PICTED AS BISEXUAL. THE QUTN OF WHETHER YURI IS GAY OR BISEXUAL ACTUALLY LEADS TO A LOT OF ARGUMENTS THE FANDOM, MOSTLY PENDG ON HOW PEOPLE TERPRET HIS SKATG FOR YO EPISO 1. A GROWG NTGENT OF FANS TAKE A THIRD OPTN OF PUTTG YURI ON THE ASEXUAL SPECTM, SOMETIM SPECIFILLY MISEXUAL AND/OR -ROMANTIC, BEE YURI FS THE FN OF "SHOWG ATTRACTN TO PEOPLE HE HAS FORMED A EP, LONG-LASTG BOND WH": YO AND VICTOR. ON THE OTHER HAND, SEEMS GENERALLY AGREED-UPON THAT VICTOR IS PLETELY GAY, BEE OF HIS GENERAL FLAMBOYANT MEANOR AS WELL AS THE VISUAL REFERENC HIS STUM TO FAMO GAY FIGURE SKATERS SUCH AS JOHNNY WEIR AND JEFEY BUTTLE.CONFIRMED
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