Fics like Burden of the Sun

At fifteen, Yuuri Katsuki knew the scent of simmering miso and the sharp sting of ice-rink air. He knew the stifling, humid weight of a Japanese summer and the way that Yu-Topia bustled in the July evenings. What he didn't know, what he wasn't prepared for, was that the pale, iridescent sun, his soulmark, on the inside of his wrist would find its match on the wrist of ultra-celebrity ice skater Victor Nikiforov. Victor revealed the mark in front of millions of screaming fans and the world saw a fairy tale in the making. Yuuri saw a sentence: a brand of impossible expectations. On the screen, Victor was a god carved from ice and moonlight. In his bedroom, Yuuri was a tangle of ink-smudges, clumsy limbs, and a heart that felt too small for its ribs. Terrified that the world, and Victor, will see him as a mistake, Yuuri smothers the iridescent sun beneath layers of athletic tape. He decides if he is to ever stand beside a legend, he must first make himself into something worthy of Victor.

Fics like Burden of the Sun

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