Fic: Renversé en écarté

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Title: Renversé en écarté
Author: chestnut_pod
Pairing(s): Lilia Baranovskaya/Okukawa Minako
Rating: T
Warning(s)/contains: Characters dealing with antisemitism and racism
Word count: 7,476
Summary: In which Lilia Baranovskaya and Okukawa Minako discover that it is difficult to be the first and only, and difficult to be the latest in a line.
Notes: Pre-canon character study of Lilia and Minako meeting and dealing with the history and atmosphere of the ballet world. Terrible aspersions are cast on Vladimir Vasiliev's sexual prowess.

Links: Read on AO3

Teaser:
"Lilia can say with no exaggeration whatsoever that she’s never met another dancer like Minako. The girls and boys at the Bolshoi tend to eat, drink, and breathe dance, and Lilia freely admits she’s much the same. Minako, though. She has a life outside the theater, for all that it’s cobbled together and hasty and in the end quite shallow. It’s there, and that’s something different."