#jazz stopped visibly aging when she finally hit 25

[wenttworth]

concept: yoi musician au

ahdfjksal ki T that’s my weakness

sososo let’s think. For my own ease they’re both pianists (though they each play quite a few other instruments)

Yuuri has had traditional training and so plays very correctly, and because of that typically sticks to the classical and baroque eras. He finds it difficult to show his own interpretation of pieces when he’s performing, so classical/baroque is what he’s most comfortable with. Any interpretation possible he just copies what Celestino does. His performances are therefore a bit lackluster (nerves don’t help either). 

People in the community are low-key aware of him as talented, but not awe-inspiring, until Phichit starts uploading videos he’s taken surreptitiously when Yuuri is just messing around (Phichit is a jazz musician and can play just about any instrument he gets his hands on to a certain level). 

Viktor, seemingly, has no flaws and no difficulty with any pieces or any eras. He was entered into competitions by his instructor when he was a child and the instructor saw his potential, and grew in popularity from then. Now, he is generally considered the best musician, not just for his talent but for his interpretation of every piece he plays.

(Hot on his heels is Yuri, who has a habit of changing to improv halfway through pieces, much to the annoyance of Yakov. He had a deal with Yakov that until he was eighteen he would follow pieces to the letter. Viktor overhears this deal and says that if Yuri is considered the best child musician worldwide without improv he will let Yuri open one of his concerts. Yuri’s considered the most talented child musician worldwide by the time he hits his fourteenth birthday.)

What people haven’t been noticing is that Viktor is losing inspiration and any love for playing, but knows that as soon as he stops playing he might as well lie down and let himself die, because apart from Makkachin it’s all he has. So he carries on, and slowly people become less and less impressed as he gets older.

(The whole Yuuri idolising Viktor happens as in canon--Yuuko shows a twelve year old Yuuri the video of Viktor at a young musician of the year competition and Yuuri promptly puts his face everywhere on his walls and collects every magazine that even mentions him in passing, pesters his parents until they also get him a poodle, in private practices every piece Viktor’s ever been recorded playing and making exact copies.)

So, Yuuri’s dream is to compete against Viktor (low-key, because of the absolute fanboy he is, to play the same piano as Viktor). He finally gets the chance at the international piano competition for outstanding amateurs in Paris with Mozart’s sonata in C, but, having had news of Vicchan’s death, almost can’t complete the piece. Viktor (ever the patriotic) plays Rachmaninoff’s 6 Moments Musicaux, Op. 16, according to the judges, the best it’s been played since the composer himself.

(As I want Yurio to compete against Yuuri at the Paris competitions the year after they’re all a bit older as the minimum age is 18. So Yuuri is 25/26 and Viktor 29/30. It’s not like age is an issue until arthritis sets in anyway my piano teacher was playing and teaching me until she was in her 70s and got me pretty far)

HoweVER at the banquet post the competition finals Yuuri gets steaming drunk and almost forgets that everyone else is there and starts playing one of the pianos. From experience, it helps to be at least a little drunk when playing Satie so that’s probably what he’s playing lmao. But, this then becomes an improvised piece, which some of the other competitors then join in with to play improvised duets. When Viktor finally (screws up the courage lolol) joins in, it’s the best Yuuri’s ever played in his life and Viktor is amazed and a little in love. Afterwards, Yuuri grinds on him (ffs yuuri) and tells him that if he ever needs a break from competing he should teach him, or maybe move to Japan and teach him at the same time as competing and Viktor is basically sold.

(Well. His dick is sold. His brain still needs to check that it’s a good idea.)

Yuuri falls into a depression after that, and blows the rest of the competitions, doesn’t qualify for any more finals, and goes back to Japan with his tail between his legs and not realising that his idol is currently pouting in Russia from being ignored by the man who grinded on him then promised to call but never did (the number was written on his hand and he washed it away without paying attention). For the rest of the competition season Viktor is playing distinctly gloomier songs rather than the upbeat, uptempo ones he usually played (pettiness at its highest; he really had to dig into his repertoire to find the gloomy ones).

Yuuri shows Yuuko the Rachmaninoff that Viktor had played during the finals, with Viktor’s interpretation (only better, because he doesn’t feel as empty as Viktor did when playing it). Triplets do a good job and upload it, and Viktor flies round the world being propelled by his dick and lands naked in the onsen (ffs viktor).

I’m going to assume that ice castle becomes ‘piano castle’, in which there are soundproof rooms and concert grands. Yuuri has a piano himself, but it’s an old scuffed upright which he only uses when he first tries out a piece or when the mood strikes him when he’s at home.

They settle into a sort of routine and Viktor is fairly disappointed to begin with; sure, Yuuri plays beautifully but not with much emotion, and he’s also apparently terrified of Viktor (even though Viktor can see the way Yuuri looks at him when he thinks Viktor isn’t paying attention).

As he’s trying desperately to get Yuuri to open up, Yurio arrives with the vengeance of a thousand angry men, because Viktor hasn’t fulfilled his promise and has also released a statement to the press that he is taking an indefinite break from performing and competing. The competition is, like in canon, a ruse, and Viktor gives Yurio a Schubert, which he isn’t pleased with at all, and Yuuri Debussy’s Valse romantique (this one is the closest I can find to how I play it the rest just...don’t sound right to me lmao). He gives them just under a week to prepare for performing.

(Yuuri isn’t aware, but he and Viktor slipped into parts of this piece at one point during their improv session)

And ya Yuuri wins the onsen on piano match and that’s the first arc of the anime I guess XD

(I’m thinking Yuuri’s pieces at the finals will be Liszt’s La Campanella and Liebestraum no. 3)

also think how visible the rings will be

#yuri on ice #rambles #scenarios #vikturi #mineralcat