Dance, As if No One is Watching

Prompt: Dreams

Using an OC of any sort, this person would have some kind of connection to a character from YOI. This could be as simple as a young fan watching one of the YOI characters performing for the first time and becoming inspired by them, to a chance meeting of of one of them, to anything your mind can create, but it should circle back to them playing a role some how, some way into this fan's own dream even if that dream is not skating but something else.

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I the first time I saw Yuuri Katsuki skate. I was mesmerized. The movements, the jumps, the spins, all of it, a beautiful portion of a story that just needed to be told. I wasn't sure he was really human. It was then I put on a pair of skates. At 24 years old myself, this wasn't something I ever imagined doing.

Taking to the ice felt as natural as breathing. Each step and movement seemed to take all the anxiety I felt and wash it away. Was this how he felt, too? YouTube became my obsession. I found performances as far back as I could. Even the ones that could only be described as disasters were beautiful, beautiful disasters.

My skills quickly exceeded the boots on my feet. I chose his. The style and execution are something only I could strive for on my own. To dance with the music, to execute something that told not only my own story but also to give the music life. His form and movement became a course of the greatest skating there ever was.

There was something else I saw in those eyes each interview... was it sadness? Love? Confusion? All of these expressed on the ice, but desperately held inside this beautiful human as he spoke. He loved skating. Or was it who he became when he stepped on the ice?

It's as close to flying as a human can get. Gliding from edge to edge arms out, spinning, jumping and rotating, and landing at a force that will inevitably take its toll on one's ts. Yet, it makes me feel beautiful, alive, and determined to learn each and every thing I can to exceed the limits and expectations of what I believe possible. Even in a room full of people... Yuuri knows... I know. It's like no one is watching. There is a complete feeling of solace and freedom. The mind is so focused on each movement your own light shines through even when all the lights have gone out.

And there he was even when his stories were beautiful disasters. He kept going, his dreams visible in his stories... mine could be too.