#heimerdinger and ekko

[winterway]

Okay I like NEVER post commentary, but I haven’t seen anyone talk about this (yet), so here we go:

Heimerdinger is an amazing character, and I adore him, but he doesn’t really become one until he meets Ekko.

Like Ekko changed him so fundamentally, especially with how he relates to the story.

He’s basically a scientist who wants to help, but has been too blinded by his age. But the Firelights? Exact opposite. They’re young, basically children (if not children), who are thrust into a fast paced world. Like they’re hover boards for example? Speedy.

And their whole focus is doing stuff NOW, to change the future, and I’m just like whjejeje??

The perfect opposite of Heimerdinger, and yet somehow they still help change him for the better!! I personally believe it’s just because Heimerdinger is fundamentally good, but that’s just me.

Like, they’re able to show him youth I think. To make him aware about how fast things are changing, and he finds a way to help that growth. Sort of changing his perspective from time decaying things, to making it grow (the tree being symbolism here).

Idk if this makes sense, but that and his and Ekko’s time travel stuff?

Anyway, I suck at getting my thoughts out coherently, so I hope this makes sense lol.

[gelnanapass]

The best/greatest duos frfr

[starspilli]

arcane pokémon au scribbles… so messy had to get it out of my brain

[hadesisqueer]

Caitlyn: My sister in law killed my mom and I'm in my lesbian dictator era

Vi: My girlfriend broke up with me right after we kissed

Jinx: I got reversed adopted by a random kid

Ambessa: *manipulating Caitlyn*

Sevika: *gambling with her new arm*

Viktor: *is Yaoi Jesus*

Jayce, Ekko and Heimerdinger: What the fuck is going on

Mel's subplot:

[heavnlysaturn]

people are sleeping on heimerdingers song, especially the lyrics. the contrast of his hopeful song with jayce enduring absolute torment going through hell and ekko being trapped by the weight of everything he ever wanted was such an emotional gut kick

[ambafaerie]

Piltover/Zaun Storyline: Everybody is traumatized and fighting to undermine and kill each other and take power.

Jayce, Ekko, and Heimerdinger investigating Hextech runes:

[briccko]

Types of Love♡

[molotovgrifter]

LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE: LEAGUE OF LEGENDS Season 2 (2024) + My Favorite Quotes

[maezanilla]

Everybody wants to be—…

[stealingpotatoes]

Forever thinking about a headcanon I saw where Anakin and Yoda are cornered by pirates and then Yoda starts just starts talking to them in fluent street Huttese with his backwards syntax while Anakin's brain explodes

the only real-world equivalent of that I can think of is it’s like hearing your headmaster/principal speak roadman so

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[winterway]

Currently hyper fixated on the brief stint Heimerdinger was with the Firelights… like all the shenanigans that were probably pulled? Adorable.

If someone knows any fics from that era let me know please🙏

[sojuuly]

Thinking about how at the end of everything Jayce and Viktor basically set the timeline right. They put the world back into a state without them. They only died together because ALL versions of themselves fought to do so. But they were both dead from the start. Just buying time to be with each other they didn’t have. Cursing everyone else in the process with their stupid grandfather paradox.

In an untampered world, Jayce never made it off that mountain and Viktor died from his disease.

I believe this is the arcane trying to balance itself and correct time. This concept invaded my mind when Ekko pushed the limits of his loop and Heimerdinger literally blew up in his testing. He reverses this, taking control of the arcane for himself like Jayce and Viktor had been doing for years. This doesn’t change much because Heimerdinger is later claimed by the arcane.

It was an event that was supposed to happen.

Jayce and Viktor are (finally) claimed by the arcane when Ekko throws the same anomaly that predicted and righted Heimerdinger’s death straight at them. This allowed them to accept fate together and send themselves back to the nothingness because they are an anomaly. The first anomaly. They are part of everything and they are also absolutely nothing at all.

Accept your humanity and mortality. Know that the time you make is the only time you have. We all kick the bucket eventually, best to do it surrounded by those we love. Take care of yourselves.

[almondcroissantsandink]

Christmas/winter shenanigans in Piltover! The Academy scientists are going on a field trip and there's also a duel to the death (snowball fight) going down in the park

[aurelion-solar]

Arcane Fractured Jinx, Last Stand Ekko, Arcane Savior Viktor, Professor Heimerdinger & Arcane Vander Warwick Splash Art

[viktorthemachineherald]

What actually happened to Jayce and Viktor in the end? And why didn’t Ekko’s Z-drive destroy everything within its blast radius?

TL;DR: the only timeline that could have worked was the one where Viktor gives Jayce the Acceleration rune, where Ekko invents the Z-drive, and where Jayce saves Viktor and gets his partner back.

Something we’ve seen pointed out is that the world rune that worked in this timeline was the Acceleration rune, which has the function of transportation through time and space. 

Ekko’s Z-drive was built by inverting Jayce’s Acceleration rune (this is important later).

We know from his experiments that the limit for reversing time is only 4 seconds. Any further back and it causes catastrophic harm to his surroundings. It’s implied that the further he overextends his Z-drive, the more disastrous the damage and radius of effect.

In the final battle against Viktor, we see Ekko overextend his Z-drive far beyond 4 seconds. Then, he yeets it at Viktor, whose mask is shattered from the impact.

We know that turning back time beyond 4 seconds causes catastrophic destruction of the surrounding areas: Jayce and Viktor, and perhaps countless others should have been caught up in the blast. But instead, we see something different:

Time stands still for a moment, courtesy of the boy who shattered time. 

Now things happen all in a manner of seconds: In the astral plane, we see Viktor comment on the anomaly that Ekko has created.

It’s something that Viktor as smart as he is, couldn’t have conceived— leave it to Ekko (and lest I forget, Heimerdinger and alt-Jinx) to show them all up.

This is debatable, but I firmly believe that Viktor with his awareness of all time and space, could have escaped or even survived the explosion.

It’s only Jayce, the only person who could show him what he showed him, that gets through to him in the end and convinces him to give up his Glorious Evolution.

"In all timelines, only you can show me this". Ekko is the catalyst but Jayce was the key.

Jayce returns the Acceleration rune to Viktor which kicks off a chain of events. The souls under Viktor’s control are freed from his grasp. Back in the real world, and back to the explosion, we see the following happening almost simultaneously: 

The blast from the Z-drive extends from Viktor’s reach to Jayce’s

The Acceleration rune embedded in Jayce’s wrist starts to glow from being activated by Jayce and Viktor in the astral plane

Jayce and Viktor are absorbed into the gem and the gemstone blips out of existence 

Recall that the Z-drive was created through an inversion of the Acceleration rune. To multiply something by its inverse, is to divide it by itself. The Acceleration rune multiplied by the Inversed Acceleration rune, cancels out the effect of the other: nullifying both the anomaly from the Z-drive but also the rune.

This explains why there was no larger explosion. Viktor and Jayce (who chose to stay) sacrificed themselves and took themselves out of the equation. Jayce and Viktor were the anomalies— just like the Z-drive should not have existed, neither should have Hextech.

Through all the timelines and permutations of runes that Viktor tried, the only combination that could have worked was in the timeline with the Acceleration rune. It couldn’t have worked if it was any other rune, if Ekko had never invented the Z-drive, or if Jayce had never convinced Viktor to give up his path of destruction, and got his partner back.

In short: Boy Savior saves the day; Love Wins