the aquatic uncle
Viktor runs a pet shop that specializes in fish and dogs, and his nephew Yuri is very tired of it. It’s just weird, okay, fish and dogs are a weird combination. He should have just stuck with one! Or the other! Or cats!! Why doesn’t Viktor have any cats! It’s ridiculous and Yuri hates him for it.
(“What do you mean I don’t have any cats,” is what Viktor has to say on the subject. “I have you, don’t I? You’re always here. I don’t even pay you.”)
One day who walks in but a dreamboat with enormous dark eyes and a dead goldfish in a bag. He’s like the woman who saunters into a private investigator’s office asking about her husband at the beginning of the movie, before anyone has technically died. He’s devastating and definitely going to cause trouble. He’s about to cry.
(”My roommate won him at the fair and I was supposed to watch him this weekend but he died while I was in the shower I don’t know what to do!”)
Yuri is about to tell him to just get a cat when Viktor swoops in all ‘fair goldfish never last very long’ and ‘ha ha here’s my personal number’. Dreamy McGoldfishKiller looks up at Viktor and the slow spread of the blush across the bridge of his nose makes both Viktor and Yuri forget where they are long enough that when they come back to themselves Dreamy is gone.
(Dreamy, whose name is also Yuuri how dare he, thinks a pet shop that specializes in fish and dogs is wonderful. Yuri questions his taste in men.)