Victor Nikiforov

Victor Nikiforov is one of the main characters from the ''Yuri!!! on Ice ''anime.

Victor is a figure skater, coach and choreographer.

Appearance
Victor is a handsome man with short gray hair with bangs that cover his left eye. 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 jogging pants.

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

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

In Barcelona, Yuuri places a golden ring on Victor's right-hand ring finger, which Victor later confirms to be an engagement ring (although it's not sure if he was just joking or if he was serious, seeing as he's very clearly fascinated by and attracted to Yuuri). 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.

Jumps
Victor is shown to have a very high level of skill in landing difficult jumps. His signature move is the quadruple flip, and he has been shown to be able to cleanly land three more quads. As such, he is able to do at least four out of the five currently ratified quads. He's also able to do a triple axel with a back counter entrance, and a quad toe-triple toe combination right at the end of his program. Given that he can land all these quads, Victor would be able to land their triple counterparts as well.

Compared to the two Yuris, Victor doesn't have very good stamina, as such arranging his more difficult (and therefore more fatiguing) jumps early on in his performances, relying on his presentation score to make up for the absence of the 1.1 multiplier in the second half.

Choreography
Victor is shown to be at least an adequate choreographer, as he choreographed 'Stay Close to Me', and 'On Love: Eros and Agape', all of them being winning performances. His arrangements are shown to play to the strengths of each of their skaters; he adjusts 'On Love' to better fit the styles of each Yuri even though he originally made them for himself.

Trivia

 * Victor likes sweet potato shōchū.
 * 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.
 * The canon spelling of his name is "Victor", as seen in various official art and on the official website, though "Viktor" is more culturally accurate.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Besides Russian and English, Victor is also a fluent speaker of French. 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, or 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.'