love your figure skating wxs au so much, watching the olympics right now and picturing wxs nonstop—-are there any thoughts/ideas you have for this au? (I know drawing takes time and all that stuff so while they are very amazing gorgeous don’t want to put pressure so yapping is very welcome!!)
This took me so long to answer that the olympics are literally over so here’s wxs at the rink for practice
I have to take every chance to shill the wxs pairs skating fic by hypercatt because it's so good but I’ll ramble under the cut
I'm actually a liar and I drew that months ago so don't worry. I wantnto draw a lot more/animate stuff for the au but I do have to graduate and also my job or whatever. My usual disclaimer of I'm a fraud I don't do ice dance or anything nobody listen to me I'm deeply casual I tried a waltz jump in hockey skates once and almost died
Also I live in my mind palace where gender restrictions on pairs skating don't exist anywhere because why fucking should they. Oh my god it pisses me off so bad. Thank you Skate Canada fuck you Olympics. Ok. And when i say I'm yapping I'm seriously yapping
I sort of have 2... 3 different versions/ideas for the au for different disciplines where they're in singles, one where they do partnered ice dancing or pairs skating, and one where they do ice shows as a group… I like turn around so much bc it combines them in a way I really like. everyone read it. They understood the vision I just think wxs are doing shows in every universe. Phoenix figure skating club is real to me
If you want yapping much kore condensed than this I did do it in the tags of my other skating au posts but well here we are. Before 900 paragraphs of au talk I do have fun headcanons I like that fit everything in general so
• For their costumes, I think shousuke and keisuke try to source insanely prolific designers for emu's costumes on account of all their money but she would rather make them with tsukasa / rhinestone the hell out of them with everyone. Bonding activity of One million sequins and 800 bottles of glue. Before her brothers accept her taking over the rink/skating club, maybe hinata would rhinestone them with her. She does have some really nice ones from when she was younger gifted from her grandpa but she's grown out of them and keeps them as mementos
Rui and nene pre-joining wxs don't have the same sort of money to be buying costumes but Rui is fucking banned from designing them after mizukisaw what he was cooking. Atrocious things happening. Mizuki made simpler ones for him and nene once pre-wxs and accepts written notes and nothing else from him. Her vision is more trustworthy anyways. I wish we knew more about nene's mom to talk about her more but well we just don’t hear from her. When Nene joins wxs and gets to work with a designer for the first time her autism goes full speed and it’s immediately a mermaid themed costume
Tsukasa definitely making his own costumes. In the first place costume design and sewing is right on his character page but god help any designer who would have to work with him. Plus Tenmas are well off but costumes are so expensive tsukasa wouldn’t want to bother his parents with that. When he makes them he gets to name them himself and he shows them to saki like This is mega comet shining☆pegasus it has 5,000 rhinestones. And she genuinely thinks it’s awesome
• I try think about their skating styles too. despite being a fraud. Both for solo programs and how they’d do in pairs
They're all actors at heart so everyone's presentation would be strong for sure, they already know how to express a story and convey it through their movements to reach the audience. But thinking of what elements they would individually specialize in and conversely be weak in is hard. Again because I'm a fraud. But here's my thoughts
Emu canon crazy stamina and acrobatics it's true what can’t she do. For singles she has the stamina to pull off jumps and get good height consistently despite being 1 apple tall, but she isn't great at the more precise elements and her step sequences suffer. In pairs/dance she both lifts and gets lifted, she loves doing both because it’s fun to toss and it’s fun to be tossed. Synergizes well in partners no matter who it’s with and can match the energy / tone of the program but her energetic nature still shows through .. it’s stuff like she'll end up twizzling too fast and end up out of sync because she's always 100% energy. Loves a butterfly jump. Very whimsical / fun and bouncy choreo in general for her, she’s the best at using her while body out of wxs. Can do a cantilever effortlessly and tsukasa gets mad as hell and does it too while visibly looking like he’s about to die
Tsukasa wants to have / acts like he's emu level stamina but he’s on the ground after every program the second he steps off the ice and it’s always his own fault because he is insistent on doing difficult entries and jump variations. He’s terrible at conserving his stamina even though he insists his difficult jumps go at the end of his program. All out for everything which isn’t always great. However he's a perfectionist and his GoE is consistently high bc of it. great with artistic components and expression too again they’re all actors. Has a great spiral and biellmann which pisses nene off. He’s the guy that goes to a public skate and hydroblades.
Tsukasa and emu are usually the ones getting lifted when in pairs since they have the strength to hold their required position most out of everyone, if they’re skating together they switch to match the choreo. Twist lifts together #nightmare. I stand by rui having no core strength forever it’s like when you pick up a cat and they ragdoll Shoutout to him for carrying 3 people on his shoulders in Island Panic though this is why he’s on lift duty. Nene is rocky on doing lifts bc of her past but she warms up to the smaller ones. Let me just talk about nene actually
Nene has fantastic musicality even compared to the rest of wxs, she struggles with stamina still but will make up for it with artistic components. Her skating is the most well rounded but it’s frustrating to be a jack of all trades. She has a hard time holding her spiral above hip height but when she finally gets it everyone basically holds a party and she gets pissed off. Has beautiful spins though (immune to motion sickness from playing fps games for 12 hours straight) her favorite is a haircutter spin just because I think it suits her and that’s it. In the au setting she struggles mentally with doing pairs again in the beginning but is more confident doing elements in-hold thiugh lifts are another thing but she gets more comfortable with doing them with wxs though anything overhead/above waist is a no go. Likes carry lifts because it’s like travelling around on nenerobo. I really like imagining her as a solo figure skater though I loveee nene’s competitive nature We need to put her in Medalist
Rui helps put together everyones programs outside of being a skater, he has the directors soul no matter what. As a skater camel spin is his signature since he's long everyone thinks it looks super impressive every time and he has good balance. His skating is notably graceful. Watch him ina bauer. His flexibility does suck bad though. Can’t do some difficult jumps/has difficulty with hitting a lot of rotations but his timing is fantastic, he knows his strengths and capitalizes on them. He gets good airtime and distance thiugh. On account of being 500 apples tall.
For an actual story in a skating AU.. I do like an au where they're all seperately in singles figure skating and competeing against eachother i think it's really fun, but it's easier to yap about an au where they're doing ice dance / shows together as a group. My thoughts for the basic setting of it work off of wxs main story, just that it's rakunosuke's rink / FSC that's at risk of closing down, though it definitely doesn't make sense for a rink in Shibuya to not get any use/fall into disrepair the same way wonderstage does considering how ludicrous skating is there but maybe it's getting bought out and her brothers say that's more profitable since they're a conglomerate still. Or maybe it's just closing down the FSC. I don't know. The economy is not my business
I liked the idea of rakunosuke bringing emu to the rink a lot as a kid and giving her a love of skating/ice shows and even being the one who started her skating coaching. and present day emu practicing at phoenix rink every day and hosting activities for kids trying to keep it active, which i think works whether the plot is the rink in financial troubles or the FSC itself thinning out. The rink could also just be farther from shibuya to make this make sense too. I'm not a writer so that's as far as my brainpower goes but i think it fits what we know about rakunosuke to build a rink somewhere people without access would benefit from it
The same mainstory beats also apply to tsukasa I just thought the show he and saki saw with their parents when they were kids happened to be an ice show instead. It’s that easy.
Maybe he and saki joined lessons together as kids but saki couldn't continue due to health complications. I fcking hate how vague her situation is written in story by the way saki8 is looking on the horizon But I digress.
I thought he would take lessons throughout middle school when saki was hospitalized / join a club as a singles skater / ice dancer, but since he's independently taking lessons and saki can't attend any of his meets slowly his ambition moves from wanting to be a good performer to make people smile to forgetting what he was there for and his focus becomes stubbornly training to get a gold medal and becoming unable to settle for anything less. When he joins wxs he was at the otori rink maybe for a competition or just lessons but either way he hasn’t made podium once and it pisses him off sooo bad
Of course saki would want to see when he’s skating but their parents wouldn't let her and one of them would go when they can instead. He'd probably tell her not to watch the ones being streamed live so he can watch it together with her later and provide his own obnoxious commentary.
Side note but I love the idea of saki and tsukasa skating together as kids because it's lethally cute and also shizuku shiho honami ichika and touya would go with them sometimes though they would be casual / for fun. I've only been thinking of wxs in this situationso I wasn't considering if the rest of the cast would also somehow be involved in ice sports but idk I don't have the brain power. Leo/need still worldwide.
Nene and rui definitely did do skating / lessons together once nene moved ot the neighbourhood in the same FSC (yumemi? That would be crazy) so their stories would be even more intertwined than in canon.
Nene I think would start out doing pairs because it's what rui's doing but she wants to be brave enough to do single figure skating some day.. Rui wants to do pair dancing/specifically ice shows,I think the reason they wouldn’t be paired together is just bc the aesthetics of the programs they want to do are totally different. Remmeber when rui said nene’s the scariest when angry. It’s true
Rui follows the same progression as canon’s story of Rui's ideas being outlandish or too risky in a program to any partners / coaches and he becomes more alone, eventually switches to singles to keep skating even though he doesn't want it since nobody will partner with him. Everyone wanting to make a career out of skating wouldn’t take big risks in their programs that could lose them points in competition if they mess up, but how’s a high schooler supposed to get any resources or rink time to direct an ice show (Ootori family money looming in the distance)
Nene messes up badly during a program in a during a televised juniors competition, I think her being in a pairs skate for it would make more sense with her story (feeling like she let down her partner to mirror mainsto when she felt she ruined the play for yumemi in middleschool) and is completely shattered by it, maybe she can't recover / even skate the program to completion. Quits the fsc, swears off of skating in front of anybody ever again, she wants to cheer rui on at his performances because she still loves skating and knows he’s having a hard time but he tells her not to force herself. This is miserable but it's literally hilarious to think of mainstory rui showing up to her house years later going "I made a robot that skates for you and I want you to use it to join phoenix figure skating club. Just think of it like playing fifa but for ice sports" and she goes yeah okay sure I'll do that. It actually drives me insane because I seriously love her but trying to think of how nenerobo fits into this and how nene gets back on the ice with her in the equation. did Rui make a robot that can fucking skate. ? Maybe it could get her used to moving alongside another skater again or it could record and anaylze her practices for her so she can skate and improve her elements without the anxiety of disappointing another coach or partner. I'm seriously considering the uses of a robot on ice skates Yes those are my monkeys yes that sure is my circus
That’s all i’ve got for rn. I’d talk about different program music I think they’d use but it’s 1am. Sorry if you actually read all of this because none of it makes sense and I know nothing. THANKS 4 COMING ^_^
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