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[genice]

- new chew toy
- pick up reflective tags
- bed linens?
- rearrange class schedule for next week
- review beginning level choreo
- confirm dinner reservations
- surprise for Yuuri!!! do not forget
- Yuuri ♥

Comments

[genice]

Presuming we're talking about Yuri Plisetsky, yes. Anyone else by that name, with Yuuri Katsuki the standing exception, no. Why are you asking, Eddie?

( it's either his name or his handle (or hers, he'll be fair here); enough to address them by in turn, he supposes. )

[causational]

Yeah, Yuri Plisetsky. He's mentioned you before.

I'm his roommate. Eddie Thawne. It's good to meet you. :)

[genice]

Hah! Not usually what I hear. Last time it was, what did he say... "He's never mentioned you."

( Bucky had said that. Victor, of course, remembers that detail, but can't remember half the rest. Go figure. )

Ah, yes, it's good to meet you too! You've been his roommate since he first arrived, am I correct?

[causational]

[Maybe not being mentioned might've been better in this case....Eddie hasn't heard much that's flattering. Not that he takes everything Yuri says as the gospel truth.]

Viktor and Katsudon, I think he said. I'm guessing Katsudon is a nickname, considering I've ordered that at takeout before, haha.

Yeah, we moved to a different place recently, still together. He's a good kid, so I was just curious about the people he knows from home.

[genice]

Katsudon is one of his nicknames for my fiance, Yuuri Katsuki. You should have Yuri tell you the story about why sometime! It's a good one.

I'm glad he's had a steady companion. Dare I say friend? Yuri didn't have many back home, for this or that reason. It can be hard making friends living the lives we do. Takes a certain opening up, a kind of vulnerability. I've been glad to see he's been doing that with people here. Or to hear about it.

Ah, but that's all about Yurio! I'm sorry, was there something in specific you wanted to ask about me? I won't answer on much for Yuuri, he can speak for himself, unless you'd like a list of his merits. I'm very good at listing those off! But I might stop writing if I get home and haven't finished, he's likely to take my phone away from me again.

private.

[causational]

I'll definitely ask him about it. He's a good storyteller. And yeah, I consider him a friend. Maybe like a younger brother, you know? We go to the gym and cook together and all that.

And oh, no, nothing special. I probably could've messaged you privately, so I'll make this private. Yuri's been struggling a little lately, and it started around when he had his birthday. Since you were there, I was wondering if you knew what might've triggered it. I'm worried about him, he hasn't been getting much sleep.

perma-private.

[genice]

( ah, privacy filters. there's an echo of the eluvio for him in things like this, though the subject at hand is more about keeping private from the one who might see it and take offense than wondering and worrying over what the words said here might mean at large. it's an odd shift. appreciable, but still startling, even two months later. )

A younger brother intent on making his own way. Yeah, he's always had elements of that to me, too. Or maybe a cousin?

( Victor's personal familial relations are all rather lacking: subsequently, his bonds are mostly drawn along professional lines, and Yuri P hadn't been an exception for most the time Victor's known him. No different from Georgi or Mila. )

I don't know if the reason was his strong response to feeling homesick. That's what he'd reacted to at his birthday dinner, at least. Yuuri and I didn't see him again that night. It just doesn't make sense to me that he'd be responding this negatively to feeling homesick when it's not the first time, and while it's extended, it's not permanent. Nor that he'd refuse to speak with either one of us after that? We don't hold it against him. I don't think many of us can say we have no homesickness in our hearts over being here.

[causational]

[Interesting. Well, it seems like Victor is either playing dumb very convincingly or is actually oblivious as to what's upsetting Yuri. And while Eddie can't see Yuri being upset over nothing, there is a chance that something Victor or Yuuri said hurt him because Yuri, for all his bluster, is very sensitive. For now, he doesn't think he can get any more information about it from Victor.]

Thanks. I appreciate you letting me know what happened at his birthday. He did mention to me that you and Yuuri went to some other world before you arrived here, maybe that has something to do with it. I'll have to ask him again.

Sorry to have bothered you with it!

[genice]

Wait a minute, back up. He mentioned what?