#because jayce technically caused the death of warwick

[lemon-box]

What if Viktor asked Jayce to kill him. It is clear that being in the Arcane completely reconfigures your time and space reality. I think Jayce not only saw what happened if the arcane continued to affect people, but got stuck in a time loop where he tried and failed over and over to prevent Viktor from being a vessel to it, and this is the reality where he succeeded.

This would explain why he is so consumed with rage, along with repeating “this time I won’t miss” before killing him. If I was stuck in what felt like a futile time loop where I have to prevent an unpredictable and dangerous cosmic force I’d be seething too??

Also explains why Viktor didn’t stop Jayce from killing him. He probably realized what happened after acknowledging that Jayce wasn’t himself and that maybe in another timeline he asked Jayce to stop this. Whatever the cost.