I feel like we need to appreciate this scene from the credits a bit more because it is... so powerful. It’s beautiful for a variety of reasons because it shows them having a good time, playing around, comfortable enough to act so relaxed and close like this.
Yuuri smiles for Victor.
We’ve seen Yuuri smiling in the show a few times, and I think it’s valid to remember that Kubo mentioned that sometimes Yuuri smiles, but his heart is not smiling.
I think Yuuri's smile here is definitely coming from his heart. It’s so earnest, so sincere, carefree. He seems like he’s laughing and we haven’t seen him laughing the whole show. He’s having such a wonderful time in this, eyes closed, vulnerable, laughing, playing with Victor.
And then you look at Victor, who’s also smiling - though this is hardly a surprise because we’ve seen him smiling many times throughout the show. Though this one, in particular, feels different? It’s intimate, almost flustered in a way like he's wondering if this is how it feels like, how love is supposed to feel.
His eyes look down as if he's searching an answer in himself, maybe trying to think back if he's ever been this close to someone, if he's ever felt this happy in his life before. While Yuuri is giving himself freely and laughing with his eyes closed, it feels like Victor doesn’t want to miss a second of it.
I feel like Victor is sincerely happy in this picture. And I feel like it’s one of those moments where it’s such a meaningful moment for these two that we don’t get to see, only catch snippets of it. The blurry pictures at the beach with them playing with Makkachin have this same sort of energy - an intimacy so great and a love so powerful we can’t really see everything.
(Also Victor’s nose in this picture is really cute.)