Victor Nikiforov

**Victor Nikiforov** (ヴィクトル・ニキフォロフ, *Vikutoru Nikiforofu*), (Russian: Виктор Никифоров), is a figure skater, coach, and choreographer. He is Engaged to Yuuri Katsuki.

## Description

### Appearance

Victor is a handsome man with short platinum hair with bangs that cover his left eye, and he has light blue eyes. During competition warm-ups, Victor wears a white and red runner jacket over his costume.

Victor's casual practice outfit consists of a black T-shirt and grey track pants.

Victor is fond of wearing trench coats over his outfits when in cold places. He owns several in various colors, including beige, brown, and slate blue.

As a junior skater, Victor had long, waist-length hair, which he usually wore his hair in a ponytail when skating. His costumes often had both feminine and masculine elements to them.

In Barcelona, Yuuri places a golden ring on Victor's right-hand ring finger, which Victor later suggests to be an engagement ring. After this, Victor is always shown wearing his ring. Yuuri has a matching ring on the same finger of the same hand.

### Personality

Victor has the captivating kind of celebrity charisma and is naturally flirtatious. His well-known strength is his penchant for breathtaking new creations and surprising his audience. Though he pushes himself and is constantly trying to better his skills, he likes doing things at his own pace and in other areas is generally an easygoing, free-spirited young man who doesn't really take well to orders (Yakov yells in exasperation that he never does anything he's told).

Victor's also a bit of an airhead and, according to himself and Yuri Plisetsky, tends to forget a lot of things, as Yuuri Katsuki sees proof of after he forgets what the stakes of the Hot Springs on Ice event were.

He's very self-aware, knowing what he can and can't pull off and exactly what he has to do in order to play best to the audience. This adds to his charisma in that he knows precisely how to charm people with what he has. That said, he's also sensitive about his appearance, even his hairline.

Being a nigh-imperturbable man in perfect control of himself, even when losing his temper, Victor is well-adapted to navigating the positive side of the emotional spectrum. However, he's not very good at managing others' emotional distress, and while he can be serious if he needs to be, he's blunt to the point of being tactless. This makes him a bad person to cry in front of, as he's awkward at best and insensitive at worst.

Even though he mostly exhibits a childlike and almost flippant demeanor, his core does emerge every so often: a wildflower, beautifully soft but determinedly hardy. Though this side of him only gets a peek when he talks to close ones regarding more philosophical topics, it's very at home on the ice.

## Trivia

* He has custom skates with gold blades and the Russian flag on the sides of the heels of his boots.
* His Instagram account is v-nikiforov.
* His name possibly alludes to Nike or Victoria, the Goddess of Victory in Greek and Roman mythology, respectively.
* In Episode 1, Victor's surname during the Worlds Press Conference was originally written as "Niliforv". It has since been corrected to "Nikiforov" in later episodes, and also in the Blu-ray.
* Victor's skating career and his prestiege in the skating community is based around that of Evgeni Plushenko, and the appearance of Victor is based on the American actor and director, John Cameron Mitchell.
* Victor's rose crown and outfit in the Europe Championships in Episode 7, as well as Victor's Makkachin tissue box, pay homage to figure skater Johnny Weir, who became a fan of the show after the resemblance was pointed out to him.
* In the Original Version of Episode 1's English Dub Recordings, Victor was referred to Be 40 Years old, this is no surprise as his English Actor, Jerry Jewell was born On July 30th 1976, and his 40th Birthday was on that same date, 3 Months prior to the airing of Skate 1 - Easy as Pirozhki!! The Grand Prix Final of Tears in the US.
* Besides Russian and English, Victor is also seen to know some basic French, as he greets Stephane Lambiel in French in the final episode.
* Mitsurou Kubo mentions that "the wedding is later on," referring to the scene where Phichit announces Victor and Yuuri's "marriage" in Episode 10, but it is uncertain whether she was just alluding to the scene, saying it in jest, or whether she meant something else.
* The caption on the first Instagram post that is Victor's in the credits reads 'Nakasu in Japan! Everything is really great and delicious! #nakasu #Japan #ramen.'
* The next Instagram post that appears in the credits, also being his post, reads 'Time flies so fast.'
* He was initially very flirtatious towards Yuuri Katsuki. After he found out that Yuuri forgot about the banquet, he was embarrassed.
* He has a poodle. After Yuuri Katsuki found out, he bought a poodle as well.