Why I think a yoi prequel movie will actually be great
By now, you have probably seen a form of the new yoi movie news - that itâll be called Ice Adolescence and will release sometime in 2019. Youâve also probably seen some form of this visual:
Which is my way of saying that you too, have also probably concluded that the yoi movie will be a prequel which will somehow feature Victorâs backstory.
I think all of us wanted to see a sequel because we obviously want to know what Yuuri and Victor are up to after the GPF in Barcelona, but remember: getting a prequel doesnât close any doors for the future, and in fact - it opens them. Yes, it means weâll have to wait even longer for a sequel, whether that would be again in movie form or in the form of a season 2 but Iâm sure that Ice Adolescence will be in no way a waste of time.
Because the truth is, we need Victorâs backstory, badly.
Yes, we as a fandom have filled in all the gaps in Victorâs past based on a mix of deduction, interpretation and just logical reasoning based on what we saw in the TV anime. (And maybe some headcanons - I think we all have our assumptions about for eg. Victorâs family.)
But letâs face it - canonically-speaking, we know very little about Victor.
We know heâs the living legend of the figure skating world, we know heâs sacrificed his life and love for his career and that his loneliness really started to weigh on him in his mid to late twenties, and that Yuuri drunkenly asking him to be his coach was a catalyst for the change in his life and thatâs⊠pretty much it. Sure, we may know his personality, we may know what sort of person he is and we know his relationship with Yuuri, but his past is one gaping hole.
And that is good in some way - itâs open to interpretation, so anyone can fill in the gaps with what they want.
But when it comes to exploring Victorâs character deeper, itâs a huge roadblock. Because how deep can you really go when you canât say anything about a characterâs past?
Does Victor have any traumas? Where are his parents? Did he enjoy skating as a teen? Did he have any close friends? Was he close with Chris or were they just acquaintances? Why did he cut his hair? What was his relationship with Yakov like before he got big enough to do what he wanted? How did Makkachin affect his life? Theyâre all important questions and the answers could help paint a better picture of Victor and flesh him out - make him more than just the miserable mystery that he seemed to be before Yuuri pole danced into his life.
Because if we want to see Yuuriâs and Victorâs future in St. Petersburg (or wherever else, but St. Petersburg would be key here), we need to understand Victorâs past and his feelings towards the city, his homerink, his rinkmates, figure skating in general and everything else. Only by seeing Victorâs past can we understand his feelings and his character development and truly appreciate it. Only by contextualizing Victor can we truly see him for what he is, and not by what we assume he is based on the few scraps of information we received.
Now, to address certain concerns in particular:
âIf the movie will be about Victorâs past then it will be sad!â
Not necessarily, no. We know that Victor got tired of his career and really needed a break (and was likely depressed) by the time he was in his mid to late twenties, but whoâs to say that he didnât enjoy skating in his teens? Whoâs to say he was miserable back then? Maybe that was when he still really enjoyed skating, maybe that was when he had the most fun? Sure, Yuuri might not be there but itâs not like Victor didnât have other joys in his life, no matter how superficial.
Does that^ look like a miserable kid to you? Not to me.
âIf the movie will be about Victorâs past then Yuuri - THE MAIN CHARACTER - wonât be there!â
We donât know that yet. Maybe itâll show the adolescence of all the older yoi characters? Like Chris and Yuuri and Phichit and others, especially Georgi, who always trained with Victor on the same rink under the same coach and whoâs story could be really interesting. And wouldnât that be interesting, just to know what they went through before they were the characters we knew in season 1?
âIf the movie will be about Victorâs past then we wonât see what happened to Victor and Yuuri after the GPF in Barcelona!â
Again, we donât know that. It may be a movie fully set in the past and it may be a movie which just uses heavy flashbacks but also shows us what the characters are up to now. Even if we donât learn what happened to Victor and Yuuri during the movie, that leaves open doors for another season, especially that weâll have a fully contextualized Victor by then which will be much easier to work with for another season.
I understand peopleâs concerns and doubts but please remember: we have literally just received ONE visual, the title and the date. Effectively, we still know nothing. Letâs all just wait and trust the people who gave us an amazing season 1 and have literally never disappointed us to deliver us the great content we know and love them for.
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