thehobbem: Author: thehobbem Art: @tosquinha Rating: Teen Relationship: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikifo

Author:thehobbem
Art:@tosquinha
Rating:Teen
Relationship:Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov
Additional Tags: Urban Fantasy, Heartsmith AU, Romance
Written for:@yoifantasyzine, based on The Heartsmith comic.
Word Count: 5.7K
Summary:Once upon a time, in a faraway land, lived two young men. One lived solely to fix heartbreaks, and the other, to bring joy to people’s hearts, neglecting his own until it cracked.
This is the story of how they met.
In a corner, a young man with a mop of ruffled black hair slowly removes something from a tin of water with a pair of tongs.
“Just a moment…” he mumbles without raising his head, eyes hidden behind brass goggles. He grabs a towel and dries off what Victor now sees is a heart of gold. After a thorough examination, the heart is lovingly placed in an empty jewelry box.
The man turns around and pushes the goggles up his head, making a bigger mess of his own hair, and— Victor holds his breath. Is that how the smith makes his money? Destroying hearts and repairing them later? He’s beautiful. A heartbreaker from head to toe.
Like his shop, he would be easy to miss in a crowd at first. But once you saw it, there was no going back. The eyes made of chestnut and honey, on a face crafted out of an improbable combination of soft lines and sharp angles, none of it is easily forgotten — and all of it could fill a heart till it was fit to burst.
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