Chasing Viktor

Everyone has a soulmate, so everyone has a mark.

Nobody talks about it though, at least not out loud.

The mark appears on a random, covert part of your body the moment your soulmate falls in love.

Sometimes, you accidentally miss that moment; sometimes, you intentionally do.

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Soulmates and soul marks were private, intimate things.

He's heard about them in passing, from the hushed voices of his parents, the drunken slurring of his older sister and ballet teacher, and the quiet, but sweet whispers of his friends from the rink. He knows they've had them early on; he knows his skin had been clear for more than two decades.

The day Yuuri Katsuki finds his soul mark, he was nursing a throbbing headache and a terrible hangover.