seeingteacupsindragons:

I’d like to start this post by
saying that I love Yuri(o) Plisetsky and his attitude and his anger issues and
his dork brand-new friendships and his love of pirozhki.

That said, I also want to
watch Yuuri Katsuki crush him like a bug in the Grand Prix Final freeskate. Not
just because I want Yuuri to win (although, yes, I do) but because I think a
gold medal here would be bad for Yurio.

Yes, a gold medal would be bad for someone.

I’m kind of hung up on this
line of Yakov’s:

“He was arrogant about his abilities because no one in his age group
rivaled him.

A huge part of his character arc
has been about accepting his faults and being willing to grow from them. Now tell
me, does a 15 year old with at least one (presumably two or three)
world record,  a GPF gold medal, who is
by far the youngest skater in his division, and, in many ways, just starting
his career, have any rivals? No. No,
he does not.

Which brings me to my next
point: you know who else was the best
skater in the world his first year in the senior division? Viktor Nikiforov.
The last thing the world needs is another Viktor “I’ve been ignoring life and
love for over twenty years” Nikiforov. I know Yurio’s been built up as Viktor
heir of sorts, but really? Really, do we need that one? Especially after going
to such lengths to give Yurio a support system Viktor lacked? Even Viktor was
only a five-time consecutive GPF gold medalist, and he’d been in the senior
division for ever ten years.

TL;DR: I want Yuuri to steal
that gold medal from Yurio’s immature little hands, and it would be atrocious
to Yurio’s arc for it to be anything else.