This is your brain on ice [YOI]
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(Good lord, I can hardly wait for ep07. Yeah, it'll drop soon, but I probably won't have time to watch it until Friday at least, argh!)
You know, I think part of the reason that I rather like Georgi in YOI is that - sure, his performance is kind of out there in some ways. But I, too, have felt the desire to put on a ridiculous amount of glitter and makeup, and dramatically put a curse on my ex while internally screaming that I'm an evil witch and that so-and-so will pay for all the heartbreak they dealt me.
Except, y'know, my thing was poetry, not figure skating. I am not that graceful. And I sure as hell wasn't cosplaying Carabosse.
And that poem is still one of my best, I do think. So at least something came of that mess. ANYWAY....
What I'm saying is, it's easy for me to appreciate a character who is both serious about his art and amazingly over-the-top about it.
And thinking about this led me to a fic idea - what if, in his passion and enthusiasm and over-the-top anguish, the concept behind Georgi's performance accidentally has an actual magical effect? Maybe not the "eternal sleep" kind of spell that "Carabosse" is casting - perhaps something more mundane - but either way, art turns into magic, and it's a mess.
At other times, I've mucked around with the idea of music = magic, and ditto for illustration and writing = magic. And when you get down to it, figure skating is dancing with knives on your feet (how poetic). Art is something that's easy to turn into something powerful (emotionally... or supernaturally) if there is enough passion behind it.
Not to mention, this is the kind of situation that magic definitely isn't supposed to be used for. Striking back with magic won't mend a broken heart! After the initial rush, it won't even make you feel good about yourself.
He would, of course, be utterly horrified.
I imagine that in such a scenario, the only way to lift the curse would be... another skate program of some kind, just as heartfelt, centred around the idea of reparation and atonement and making things right. Turn it around using the same method that was used to cast it! ...It would require earnest feelings, though. And an admission that magic is in fact what happened, or at least being in a desperate enough state to try anything to make amends. And I'm not sure what such a program might even look like, or what kind of music would be suitable. It'd have to be just as spectacular as the one that led to the curse in the first place.
It's kind of funny how, in a canon without magic, I'd think of some way to shove magic into it anyway.
...I like this idea a lot, but I don't have enough time to write it right now. And in fact, I'd rather read it than write it myself. Which means that it probably won't ever exist. Unless I do write it. Um.
Maybe after all of my exchange fics are finished.
Though, who knows, I might lose steam quickly, considering it's highly likely that next episode is the last we'll see of Georgi - it's hard to say at this exact point, but blah blah blah tertiary character. Et cetera.
(I do still plan to write some ridiculous JJ/Georgi nonsense, though. That at least is doable and doesn't require much plot-related brainpower.)
Why am I like this ffffffff--
(Good lord, I can hardly wait for ep07. Yeah, it'll drop soon, but I probably won't have time to watch it until Friday at least, argh!)
You know, I think part of the reason that I rather like Georgi in YOI is that - sure, his performance is kind of out there in some ways. But I, too, have felt the desire to put on a ridiculous amount of glitter and makeup, and dramatically put a curse on my ex while internally screaming that I'm an evil witch and that so-and-so will pay for all the heartbreak they dealt me.
Except, y'know, my thing was poetry, not figure skating. I am not that graceful. And I sure as hell wasn't cosplaying Carabosse.
And that poem is still one of my best, I do think. So at least something came of that mess. ANYWAY....
What I'm saying is, it's easy for me to appreciate a character who is both serious about his art and amazingly over-the-top about it.
And thinking about this led me to a fic idea - what if, in his passion and enthusiasm and over-the-top anguish, the concept behind Georgi's performance accidentally has an actual magical effect? Maybe not the "eternal sleep" kind of spell that "Carabosse" is casting - perhaps something more mundane - but either way, art turns into magic, and it's a mess.
At other times, I've mucked around with the idea of music = magic, and ditto for illustration and writing = magic. And when you get down to it, figure skating is dancing with knives on your feet (how poetic). Art is something that's easy to turn into something powerful (emotionally... or supernaturally) if there is enough passion behind it.
Not to mention, this is the kind of situation that magic definitely isn't supposed to be used for. Striking back with magic won't mend a broken heart! After the initial rush, it won't even make you feel good about yourself.
He would, of course, be utterly horrified.
I imagine that in such a scenario, the only way to lift the curse would be... another skate program of some kind, just as heartfelt, centred around the idea of reparation and atonement and making things right. Turn it around using the same method that was used to cast it! ...It would require earnest feelings, though. And an admission that magic is in fact what happened, or at least being in a desperate enough state to try anything to make amends. And I'm not sure what such a program might even look like, or what kind of music would be suitable. It'd have to be just as spectacular as the one that led to the curse in the first place.
It's kind of funny how, in a canon without magic, I'd think of some way to shove magic into it anyway.
...I like this idea a lot, but I don't have enough time to write it right now. And in fact, I'd rather read it than write it myself. Which means that it probably won't ever exist. Unless I do write it. Um.
Maybe after all of my exchange fics are finished.
Though, who knows, I might lose steam quickly, considering it's highly likely that next episode is the last we'll see of Georgi - it's hard to say at this exact point, but blah blah blah tertiary character. Et cetera.
(I do still plan to write some ridiculous JJ/Georgi nonsense, though. That at least is doable and doesn't require much plot-related brainpower.)
Why am I like this ffffffff--
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.