[ SECRET POST #3730 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3730 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Movie: 8Uppers, Actor/Singer: Nishikido Ryo]


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[Psych, Shawn/Jules]


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[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]


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[Yuri on Ice]


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[Irish comedian Ed Byrne and the Great British Bake Off]


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[Pokemon B/W]


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[Overwatch]







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Comments

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05. https://i.imgur.com/Ks1pP6C.png
[Yuri on Ice]

[(Anonymous)]

of all the things I would not have expected to show up on F!S, my college's logo is pretty high on the list

no comment on the secret itself as I have not watched YOI

[(Anonymous)]

Aww.. now I really wish that Yuri Katsuki was a classmate of mine. I'd like to think we could've been friends, but he probably would've just been mildly annoyed by me, and plus I bet he was really quiet in class since I think canon suggested he never made friends easily. I wonder if he was a good student or not.

[(Anonymous)]

I bet he was a good student and got very high grades but considered himself a poor student with terrible grades.

[(Anonymous)]

That would fit with his personality, but realistically, training for professional skating must be a huge commitment, both mentally and in terms of sheer time. I'm sure a lot of professional athletes are great students, but I could also see Yuri not having much time to study. It's not like school would really be the priority, would it? Plus, he'd get nervous and bomb tests. I don't know, just speculating.

[(Anonymous)]

If he was an athlete on scholarship, he probably had to keep his grades up. Honestly I can't imagine he didn't have decent grades. He's the kind of guy who overworks himself if anything.

He actually graduated college a year later than normal (he was in Detroit for five years), which is pretty normal for athletes (assumedly because he had to space out his classes due to his schedule and not take as full a load as most people). This is, as noted, really common for athletes with a schedule as intense as his would be. A lot of skaters just wait until they're done with competitive skating period to even go to school.

[(Anonymous)]

Do these universities have figure skating teams? If not, he couldn't have been there on athletic scholarship, right?

I got the sense he didn't actually finish school until after he blew his competitions but yeah, he must have had a more forgiving workload. Do we know what he studied? I wonder if he had a plan B outside of skating

[(Anonymous)]

But he finished three months after the GPF, so at that point he was very close to finishing school anyway.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

OP here again.

I'm pretty sure that not many schools have a figure skating scholarship; I've never heard of any around here. But most students at Wayne State do work outside of having classes and the average time it takes for WSU students to graduate is around six years (so Yuuri might even be a little ahead!).

It's never mentioned what he studied. I've always imagined education in preparation for maybe being a coach, himself, one day.

However, if he did go to school in Michigan, he probably had a winter graduation, since he's seen coming home late-ish March/early April, with snow still an issue and cherry blossoms, while most US schools have their graduations in early May. This fits more with when Japanese schools have their graduations. I think this is just the writers forgetting when the US school years begin and end.

His parents did say that they were sorry they couldn't attend his graduation. I don't think many correspondence schools have actual graduations, so I'm definitely putting him in college in the Detroit area (Wayne State especially).

You can see, I've thought about this a bit.

[(Anonymous)]

I...sort of assumed it was canon that he was training and going to college at the same time. Like, I'm not sure how the timeline of the show could work if he wasn't. Of course, I could just be misremembering fanon as canon, which happens not infrequently.

[(Anonymous)]

I think OP meant, s/he thinks Yuri specifically went to this school, not went to school in general. Yuri says he graduated college recently when he goes home to Hasetsu in episode 1, so he must've been going to school somewhere while training.

I wonder what kind of visa he was on...

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. He canonically trained in Detroit, and had just graduated college and was returning home from Deroit as the show began. A lot of fandom put him at U of M, but Ann Arbor is a good hour away from Detroit, so it doesn't make sense if he's also a full time athlete.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

da

It's probably because U-M is only 20 minutes from the Arctic Edge in Canton, which seems to be the place to go right now (Gracie Gold just joined). And they have had a ton of skaters recently: Chock & Bates, Davis & White, the Shib sibs, and Evan Bates, among others. (Maybe because you can literally graduate from U-M with a General Studies major.)

But, yeah, just looking at Google Maps, Wayne State is 30 minutes from Arctic Edge and the Detroit Skating Club, or 22 minutes from Royal Oak Ice Arena. I think it's totally realistic (and cooler!) for Yuuri to have gone to Wayne State.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

OP here again.

Also, they do show a brief scene between Yuuri and Celestino with the Ambassador Bridge in the background, which means they're pretty much in downtown Detroit. I know it was included to underline, "Hey, these two are in Detroit, USA," but I also took it to mean that they (especially Yuuri) did spend some time in the city.

[(Anonymous)]

According to his profile in ep. 1 he was affiliated to a Japanese college, not to one in Detroit, that's where the confusion comes from.

Some people believe was there in an exchange program, others that he studied only in Detroit, and some people even think he only took one year off to go to Detroit and didn't study there at all, since we know he didn't go home for five years but not where he spend those five years.

[iggy]

OP this is very amusing to me, because I literally just wrote a passage in a fic I'm working on that talks about Yuuri taking courses at Wayne State University.

(I think there's some note somewhere about him taking some correspondence courses with a Japanese school, but I like to think that he did went to WSU as well. After all, when we see Phichit and Yuuri together in Detroit it seems pretty clear to me that the place they're living is a dorm.)

[(Anonymous)]

Lol I always assumed Yuri and Phichit were just at.. ice skating school and shared an ice skating dorm. I don't know how sports training works haha

[(Anonymous)]

A dorm that allows gerbils. That baffled me when I watched that episode.

[iggy]

Hamsters. That being said a fair amount of college kids I've met have managed to keep small animals in their dorms. They don't take up too much space, so you just gotta know where to keep them hidden during inspection.