Take Two
Pairing: Viktuuri
Chapter: 1/?
Summary: His admiration for Viktor wasn’t just attraction to his looks, even though Yuuri found Viktor undeniably and utterly gorgeous. Viktor also held himself in a certain way, displayed a certain refinement, and gave off a certain aura that captured you, whether it be accompanied by a melting smile or serious expression that was somehow, impossibly, cold without being off-putting. As a kid, Yuuri would find himself posing like Viktor in his early-career magazine spreads and luxury brand advertisements, while some of his friends played along and some of his classmates laughed at him. He looked stupid, they said, or was acting like a girl. He was in love with fashion, in love with the boy in the magazine, should throw on a dress and propose to the model already, they said.
Yuuri wanted to point out that admiring beauty didn’t exclusively belong to one gender or sexuality, and that a pretty person was a pretty person, but realized it would be futile--if he could even put his thoughts into words, which he couldn’t. Explaining himself was never his specialty; he sought to show how he felt through his actions and appearance in his dancing and, later, in modeling.
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