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[Video] [October 12th]

[Yuri was absolutely not bothered by the Ice Path. In fact he was more than delighted and very glad that Vanitas had shown him this place. Devana, his Bunneary was one of the few with the fur or constitution to enjoy the ice and snow as much as Yuri did and was happily propping Yuri's gear up so it could capture what her trainer was doing.

Which was ice skating.

Yuri had been stuck listening to this strange music wherever he went and it was really within a short amount of time in the Ice Cave that he put something together in his head to the song that haunted his ears here. Might as well make the most of it.

Even if it was a song he was a little fond of at this point. Though he would never admit it.

He was clearly enjoying himself, showing off to what he thought was just Vanitas and the Pokemon the skills that won him gold.]

Van, are you going to try?

He comes to an easy stop, motioning for someone off camera to come over but.. then notices Devana.]

HEY!

[And off goes the feed in a jumble of brown fur and Bunneary giggles.]

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[Alright, so it was pretty impressive. Yuri clearly had a lot of skill doing this and made it look amazing. Not that Vanitas was going to necessary say it out loud quite like that but..it's what he was thinking.

He was perched on a snowy boulder on the edge with Mr. Pickles sitting daintily beside him and Remnant sprawled on the ground near them, the pair acting as heaters for their trainer in the snowy cave.

When Yuri called out Vanitas let out a snort, shaking his head as he waved a hand.]

No, I'm good. I'll leave this to you.

[Someone has no idea how to skate.]

Yuri wasn't wearing as thick of layers, needing the range of movement. Movement also meant he felt warmer though there was still that familiar chill. He was simply used to that kind of temperature.

"So what you're saying is you have no idea how to skate."

He floats across the ice, reaching to push Devana away from the gear and tuck it back into his bag.

"It can't hurt to try.I even brought an extra pair of skates for you. I spent good money on you, you know."

"..Shut up," Vanitas grumbled, rolling his eyes as Remnant gave a gruff bark, of sorts, of laughter, the Typhlosion clearly on Yuri's side in this. "I didn't sleep well because of those stupid dreams so I'd rather not fall on my ass because of I was tried."

It's..part true. He'd been having a lot of really messed up dreams lately but thankfully Shadow, his Gengar, had been helping ease them quite a bit with her abilities.

But of course Yuri has to make him feel guilty--when did this become a thing?!--because he mentions the skates and Vanitas slowly eases off his perch.

"Fine, fine, I'll give your stupid ice dancing a try."

"Like I slept well? I'm having shit dreams too, everyone is. Do you even keep up with the network?" Yuri slides over to his bag to fetch the skates for Vanitas.

"You're going to fall on your ass either way. I fell on my ass plenty of times as a kid. You start somewhere."

Potya pokes her head up from where it was tucked neatly against Remnant and then rolls her eyes. Oh we were still doing this? Even her cushy fur wasn't doing much to protect her.

"You're going to be less ice dancing and more... Ice falling."

Quit calling him out on his excuses, Yuri, god.

"Oh gee, that's really comforting. I definitely love getting bruises!" Vanitas said in a mock cheerful voice--that sounds creepily like Sora--before he rolled his eyes and held a hand out for the skates.

Mr. Pickles hops down from his perch now that he's no longer playing space heater, padding daintily over to Remnant and Potya to settle beside them.

"Are you alright, Miss Potya?" he asked, eyes half closed as he looked over at her, ears flicking.

"You know, saying crap like that isn't making me want to do this. At all."

Nope. Never. And te only thing that was weird about that voice to Yuri was that it was coming out of Vanitas's face.

"Oh is that your customer service voice? Creepy, don't do that." Yuri puts his hand briefly over Vanitas's mouth before handing the skates over.

"You're going to be fine. Think of it this way, you're not going to completely bomb a competition in front of thousands then cry like a punk in the bathroom."

He wouldn't add in the make a record breaking comeback the following year. Screw that coach stealing asshole. But not like, all the time. Shut up.

Potya turns and burrows herself under Mr. Pickles, disappearing into the immense warm fluff of the Flareon. Just her boingy tail was sticking out.

"Wake me when they stop playing around on clearly uncomfortably frozen ground. Mt. Mortar was so much better..."

Before Yuri hands the skates over Vanitas outright licks his hand, snagging the skates and ducking away then.

"Is that something you did, your highness?" he drawled with a lazy smirk, sitting back on his rock to try and get the skates on. This was some weird shit and he's really not sure why he's obliging the blond.

It couldn't possibly be that he likes Yuri.

Nope.

Mr. Pickles let's out an undignified noise as he's suddenly burrowed under, the Flareon not sure whether he should shove her away or stay there because this is slightly inappropriate, Miss Potya!!!

"...Do you intend to nap underneath me, Miss Potya?"

"Oh, gro-- Dammit." He swings his hand out to try and wipe it on Vanitas but has to just wipe it on his own pant leg for now.

"No, it was someone else, from Japan. He ended up making a come back and took silver this past year but I damn well wasn't going to let him have gold."

There was a whole.. underlying issue and he clearly didn't want to go into it as he makes lazy circles while waiting for Vanitas to finish getting the skates on.

"Its not as hard as everyone thinks it is." He slides to a neat stop near Vanitas. "You just have to accept that sometimes you're going to fall and just get back up when you do."

"Yes. Its cold, you're warm. You should have thought of that before becoming a Flareon."

Little grey paws were kneeding against the back of Mr. Pickles's foreleg, the hidden Glameow quite content where she was for the time being.

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[Though she couldn't help but giggle at the conclusion, it was a distracted sort of sound. In truth, she was far more fascinated by the fluidity of the young man's movements, the sweeping sort of elegance that she had absolutely seen on dancers, but never on ice.

When the clamor drew to a close, Angel cleared her throat and spoke up.]

Excuse me. I am sorry to have intruded upon what was apparently a private moment but... What you were doing, just now? That was incredible! How did you learn?

[ Angel wouldn't receive a response right away, as Yuri was busying himself with a few other Vanitas related tasks but he returned to his gear to answer her. ]

I'm sorry, I shut off the video and didn't realize it posted up.

[ He pushes his hair out of his face, cheeks reddened from the cold and exertion of the day. ]

Umm.. No, that's alright, just a dumb bunny. I was figure skating. Or.. Like, Van calls it ice dancing but that's.. well I guess. Whatever. I started when I was just a kid, my parents were figure skaters too.

[ Then came the proud smirk. ]

I'm a record breaking gold medalist in my world!

These devices can be hard to work. Please don't worry.

[That was... about all she understood from the young man on the other end of the conversation. She wasn't sure what medals had to do with anything, not when the primary form of currency and prizes in her world happened to be guns.]

How did you break a record? Can you do more spins than anyone else, or...?

Highest score! I had the best short program, I beat my.. well I guess he isn't my mentor but sort of is.. teammate is probably better, since he went off and coached someone else even when he promised to coach me

[ No he wasn't still bitter, shut up. ]

It's what I'm best at and now I know I'm better than a ton of people in the world.

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Oh. So you mean to say you have the highest score out of anyone that lived, ever?

[That certainly brings an excited glimmer to her eye. She leaned toward the camera just a bit more eagerly, a smile threatening to crack across her lips.]

Do you teach people?

Well. .. Yeah. In the short program. I broke the world record... someone else broke it for the free program but I intend on taking that too.

[Her excitement felt.. good. It was making him feel proud of himself that someone was taking this level of interest.]

I Mean, I've never taught anyone but Vanitas before, I kind of have always just.. trained on my own but.. I can try? I mean, we can meet up sometime in the future and I can show you some stuff...

If we run into one another then, I would like to take you up on that offer. It might... be awhile though. You seem to be much farther ahead of me.

[A vague and distant deal was still a deal, though, and Angel seemed to brighten as she spoke. It would be nice, she thought, to learn something as elegant as that.]

Is it hard, what you do?

I don't think it is but I've been doing it since I was little. It can be hard though, but.. You just get used to it and you get better over time.

[ That was how it was with everything right? Yuri definitely faced that here and there. Like making friends... ]

We'll definitely meet up eventually though.

[There's something about the spectacle of someone moving so well on the ice... and the surprise at the end sends her into a burst of polite giggling.]

I'm sorry... it was very nice, what you were doing just now. Are you a ice skater?

Yeah, professional actually. I just won gold at the Grand-- well, you probably don't know what that is...

Ha!

[Jack's not actually laughing at the ice skating, not right now anyway, but the idea of Vanitas ever doing it.]

I'd pay good money to see that little shit gliding around on the ice.

I'll see if I can get a recording of it for you.

As long as you do it too.

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Kid, I'll pay for video of that!

Yeah, no, I'm nowhere near ice.

Oh, you'll pay? How much is it worth to you?

I dunno, the dumb animal planet equivalent of a hundred bucks.

So that's like 10,000 here. Just a second, let me double check.

[ Yuri fiddles with the Pokegear, looks thoughtful.. then refocuses on the video. ]

My bad, its only 9,500 but I was close. Send it over while I go get Van, alright?