Yurio can’t win the Grand Prix Finals

silentillusions:

thatshamelessyaoishipper:

Not because he’s not skilled enough – he clearly is.

But narratively speaking, he can’t win.

First of all, because it would be terrible for his character as a whole.

We’ve all seen how he acted after his record-breaking short program – cocky, arrogant, and still the pissy kid he is, but now feeling like his behavior is justified because he’s so amazing that he beat the world record. And indeed, that’s something to be proud of, and something to celebrate but Yurio… basically rubs it in everyone’s face. And I get it – after continuously winning silver in his senior career, it must be great to finally be on top, and I know that he’s a kid who’s still learning how to behave, but think about it. Doesn’t it remind you of someone? Someone else who needed to be brought down a notch perhaps? Maybe JJ?

I feel like Yurio’s character would head in JJ’s direction if he won. He would feel like he’s the king of the world who can do and say anything because he’s a winner. He’d feel like telling Yuuri that “Incompetents like you should just retire already” was perfectly fine because he won in the end which means that he was correct, right?

And see, Yurio does deserve to win and be recognized for all of his hard work and dedication, he deserves to be appreciated and praised but that boy needs to learn some humility.

Yes, his life is complicated and he clearly has some issues, but none of them will be solved by his winning the gold medal.

Which brings me to my second point: Yurio still has time to win the Grand Prix, the European Championships, the Worlds, the everything.

He is literally only fifteen years old. His career has just begun. Yeah, it’d be great if he could rule the world already in his first big championship, but he doesn’t need to. He’s already broken a world record. He’s achieved enough for one competition. He can win gold next time because he has a next time. He will be competing in the Grand Prix Final for the next ten years at least, literally time is everything he has.

He’s already proved himself in his Short Program. Now it’s time for someone else to win the GP Final. (Preferably, that person being Yuuri.)

In any case, my point is that Yurio could learn way more, and therefore gain way more by not winning the gold in the Final.

And I highly doubt that the creators would miss the occasion to teach Yurio a lesson. He’s been going around being a bit of a brat (I’m sorry, but it’s true) for too long now. I’m sure they’re showing that part of his personality in order to show his growth when he does finally learn that he can’t go on being the way he is, that there’s a line to everything.

Here’s to hoping we’ll see Yurio grow instead of regressing. (And considering the writing of the show – that’s highly likely.)

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