Yuuri from a silver spledour, a flame because the way you wrote hime really really resonated with me for some reason.
a silver splendour, a flame takes its title from these poems and they’re kind of important for yuuri, like the duality he has where he’s constantly getting crushed by anxiety but is also a complete badass who routinely rises above those circumstances. idk. i have a lot of feelings about reclaimed persephone narratives that remember that she’s actually a badass and some of that projects onto yuuri in my writing sometimes
(in precious things it’s eros(victor)/psyche(yuuri) instead but the fact remains i love mythology usage in this kind of writing)
death and the phoenix as an anxiety metaphor
or a mental illness metaphor in general
e.g. spending a little bit of each day in its own kind of death compared to the life it seems like everyone else is living
seriously a lot of poetry reading came out in silver splendour. there’s a rumi line about “you’ve seen my descent, now watch my rise” and if you read the first few poems here you’ll see more of his themes reflected in yuuri’s characterization
also some nikita gill work here and here
he needed to be both “ordinary” compared to the rest of the cast and also “miraculous” compared to the rest of the cast. this is why he’s only half-elven, so that the lie of his own inferiority relative to victor is established from the get-go
and then later everyone, victor included, realizes how important he actually is
and how amazing he has to be to be able to endure what happens to him every year
