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I feel like if post-S2 Jayce and pre-Hextech Jayce ever met, younger Jayce would have so many questions about Hextech, and magic, and what they used it for and how they adapted it and how did he fix this issue-

And then older Jayce is just like- shut up, sit down, listen. His name is Viktor, he’s the most important person in the world to you and if you ever give up a chance to make him happy I’ll reach through the time space continuum to throttle you back to puberty.

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I don’t really write about Arcane analysis much, partly because so much of it is very nuanced and I’m far too invested in the show without being involved in the fan side of it beyond appreciation of others art, writing and analysis, but I also made thing blog to write my idea and thought about things I like, so I’ll put it here.

A scene I’ve never seen referenced too often, especially after season 2 came out, is when Silco brings in the gas to the chembarons room, then gives them masks while making a speech about how grateful they should be that he saved them from it, and that they no longer have to live in that condition.

I think it parallels pretty well with what some people say about the Kiramman’s air filter system, in relation to Piltover creating the toxic air in Zaun: the introduction of a dangerous condition (Piltover creating the grey through their actions, Silco releasing the grey), the offered help to give relief of the effects of it (Silco offering masks to the barons, the creating of the air system), and then how it is weaponised and used as a bargaining chip to get a desired outcome (Silco stopping the barons from rebelling, Caitlin using the system to open the grey back into Zaun, in attempts to find Jinx.)

I know in canon it’s never said that the Kiramman’s think they deserve praise for their work in Zaun, Caitlin’s mom litterally says they deserve to breathe, but it’s a weird parallel of how something that disguised as help was mostly just a way to fix a problem they created, and that it can be taken back whenever the helper wants something.

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viktor is silly guy and a trouble maker and i wish more people would realize that. i appreciate how much attention jayce’s golden retriever energy and unwavering loyalty is given but lets not forget viktor “this isn’t my bedroom” “at least you didn’t throw up” “i’m not sure how to do that sir” arcane is also silly and goofy. he probably gets up to shenanigans with jayce, probably pulls little pranks and makes sexual innuendos and snorts when he laughs. he has a quick wit and a sense of humor. it’s the reason him becoming so mechanic and cold when he combines with the hexcore is so heartbreaking, it’s like he’s a completely new person.

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I am actually writing my au’s into fics, I swear, I just need somewhere to write them down first so I don’t forget.

jayvik-League version- fic where, through a series of decisions and concessions, the fight between Zaun and Piltover settles down into an uneasy settlement. It’s early days, and the personal drama of those involved is still very much unanswered, but the cities as a whole are moving forward.

As part of this, to show good faith (and to keep an eye on him), the Academy come forward and tell Viktor they’ll acquit him of charges, reinstate his work and give compensation. They ask two things: first that he hand over the external devices he uses to suppress others, and his own, emotions. He refuses, instead swearing to leave all of them in Zaun. The second ask, is that he takes an academy teaching position. It’s a whole thing, turns out a lot to people at the academy don’t really mind Viktor’s work when it’s not being used in a war. Viktor knows this, and he isn’t sure what the long term effects of emotion suppression are, but also he’s a petty bitch and can’t turn down a public apology from the Academy, so he’ll go with it. At the same time, Jayce Giopora is no longer actively the Defender, and he’s sure that Viktor’s a time bomb, so despite his hatred for both students and faculty, he takes a position there as well.

Except, first day, students (most of which just want to see the Machine Herald) come in looking for a nine-foot hulking metal cyborg with no face, and meet Viktor, almost seven feet and entirely metal aside from his face, but still lean, and unlike the Herald’s bulky, stuttered movement (Viktor didn’t really make the armour for agility), Viktor is graceful, intense in a weird-good way, and no bullshit. It gets him in trouble with some high-house students, but everyone else (college age academics who hate the Piltovian social circuit so god damn much, and honestly just like having a professor who references someone other than themselves or their buddies) like the change.

Meanwhile, barely recovered alcoholic who hasn’t really interacted with anyone besides his little sister/best friend and his sponsors for years, Jayce is having a bad time, not made any better by the fact that whenever he sees Viktor, he bounces between asking about his blueprints and throwing him against a wall (don’t think about it). The Academy is confused as hell, what do you mean The Machine Herald has a line of students asking for personal meetings. Piltover at large has no clue why Jayce Giopora has spent the last month looking like someone pissed in his coffee. Caitlyn is laughing at him. Viktor is a little intimidated, people aren’t meant to like him this much, and the reemergence of his emotions are not helping.

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New Jayvik au I won’t write, an au where Jayce maybe passes out in the commune because he’s exhausted, and while he’s asleep Viktor finds his memories of the bad universe and is horrified of what he might do.

So when Jayce wakes up, they talk, and because Viktor isn’t dying, Ambessas plan for Vander does not succeed, so now they’re trying to keep the commune alive and well while removing the mind meld of it all.

Except Jayce is being protective, and almost feral when it comes to people he thinks might hurt Viktor. He stations himself as a personal guard, always at Viktor’s side. And Viktor is freaking out, because he may or may not have spent a lot of time thinking about Jayce acting like that, so now he’s worried that he’s somehow brainwashed Jayce into doing that without meaning to (he hasn’t, Jayce just has separation anxiety and hasn’t talked to another person in half a year). So he tries to push Jayce away, but it just makes Jayce worse, because now he’s worried that Viktor blames himself for things he hasn’t even done, and is going to isolate himself because of what he saw in Jayce’s memories.

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Of the firm impression that Jayvik was not doomed until Jayce gave Viktor that blanket, therefore associating Viktor with Blue to complete the red/blue doomed gay relationship that every media must always be wary of.

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This can’t be made into a full fic, so I wanted to send out the headcanon that among his physical issues, Viktor had an incident when he was younger where he almost swallowed some chem spill -water, maybe it was recalled bottle water that he found and didn’t know it was dangerous. He spat it out when he realised it tasted wrong, but the chemicals burnt so much of his taste buds off that he now needs food with high levels of flavour, just to taste it. This is why Viktor’s two favourite drinks are tooth-rotting sweet or awfully bitter, because otherwise it tastes like nothing to him. it’s also why he assumes that Piltovian food is so bland, because even when people talk about how good it tastes, he can barely feel it.

When Jayce finds out, he asks his mom for the spiciest foods she knows, and Viktor finally gets the experience of actually spicy food.

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I will say, when Mel’s empathy magic was introduced, part of my little MelJayVik heart was wondering if she could somehow reverse whatever the Hexcore did to Viktor, because it seemed to mess with his emotions more than anything. I knew it wouldn’t happen, but still.

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This is quickly becoming an Arcane side blog at some point, but-

Au where Viktor is a rare ferromancy mage (metal/metal aligned-manipulation). This has a lot of consequences, for example the official Wiki says these mages can also use magnetism, which from a decent dive into the internet, may also effect the electromagnetic and electric fields if the mage has enough knowledge and control. As a scientist, Viktor probably understands it better than the average citizen.

Since magic is illegal in Piltover, Viktor stays in Zaun to stay under the radar (basically all my Arcane au’s have happy Zaun family, and half have Viktor as part of it). He uses his magic to disrupt work at Piltover owned factories and create machines from scrap metal that, without his magic, wouldn’t be of use.

Jayce hears about this from factory owners, and maybe one of them saw the magic residue or some kind of after image of magic runes, and Jayce knows how the person destroyed the machine, but he can’t say why without telling on himself. So he’ll just have to go down the Zaun to see if he can find this person that could be pivotal to his project.

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Deciding that I’m making changes to my own AU so it’s more consistant to my Arcane lore.

Mages actually have some form of emotional depth that non-mages don’t. A lot of magic comes from empathy (Mel), deception (Deceiver) or some other form of emotional frequency. It becomes more powerful over time, scaling with their arcane power, so while as children, there’s very little difference, adult mages experience emotion much more severely, and only function by channelling it into their magic. (In Mel’s case, she was taught very young to repress her own emotions, so it was easier for her to ignore.)

Viktor, once he is infused with the Hexcore, becomes an emotional wreck. He can’t control it, doesn’t know how to channel it (the Hexcore doesn’t understand, all the other mages don’t react like that, what’s wrong, what did it do?). And the more he reacts emotionally, the more unstable the Hexcore becomes.

Eventually Viktor disappears down into Zaun, with half their work and the Hexcore. He begins helping Zaun, augmenting himself, and uses emotional deadeners, not just to regulate himself, but to keep the Hexcore under control.

Combining LoL and Arcane lore to give the headcanon that, upon waking up from the Cocoon, Viktor gets real angry at Jayce for his choices (reviving him, making weapons). Except he realises that his anger feels so far away. He can feel it, but expressing it feels like pulling a mental wall down, brick by brick, and he’s exhausted.

So instead he waits for nighttime, steals all his work and some resources from the lab, and goes back to Zaun. He can’t look at his hexcore-infused body. So instead, he forcibly drags his bodily autonomy back from the brink and starts augmenting his body. He works to help augment Zaunites with physical health issues (he sort of becomes a folk hero/ grim reaper figure, where he’s either there to save you, or keep you company while you die).

But he can’t fix his emotional state. He can still feel them, but the only way he can communicate them to others is direct talking. This makes his bedside manner pretty dead, and Viktor feels, distantly, hurt by the fact that he can’t prove he feels sorrow, empathy, grief, pride for his patients. It starts affecting his work, as he puts so much effort into connecting with them that he can’t focus on his inventions.

Eventually, in a fit of manic desperation (and a need to forget how much of his humanity he’s lost) he creates tiny chips, connecting to the augments he makes, that fully shut off the emotional part of the brain. He uses them when he’s working, so he isn’t distracted. Sometimes he mistimes it and is on them when he’s around patients, which doesn’t help the ‘robot’ myth.

And then some enforcers from Piltover find them during a raid of one of his safe houses (he’s been disrupting trade imports to get materials), bring them back, and Jayce recognises what they are, but no one in Piltover recognises how Viktor is using them, so they assume the worst. That’s he’s implanting them into his patients, sort of as a sleeper switch.

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OP this is a beautiful premise, but now I’m imagining that everyone in Zaun knows Viktor is part of Hextech, and they outright refuse to let Piltover forget.

All the Zaunite workers who load and unload the ship crates that use the Hexgates? They bring it up every chance they get. Visitors coming from the ships get a full explanation of who Viktor is and everything he’s done, and then Jayce is referred to as ‘the other one.’

There’s maybe some kind of poster or statue depicting the making of the Hexgates, and maybe Viktor isn’t shown at the same standard as Jayce (to make it look more balanced, the artist said). It’s gets defaced maybe twice a week by some Zaunite or another grafittiing Viktor’s name the same size as Jayce’s, or turning it so Viktor faces Zaun across the river, and not the Hexgates themselves.

Just, the small, quite recognition of someone that did what any Zaunite would hope to do, and that even if Piltover forgets him at times, Zaun won’t. And they’ll remind anyone who needs them to.

headcanon that just like jayce is called piltover's golden boy, proud zaunites call viktor "zaun's dual-city darling," in reference to how he has lived in and can move between the two cities.

it embarrasses viktor very very much. it embarrasses him even more so when jayce learns this and starts referring to him by it.

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Arcane au where Zaun was built on what used to be an old Vastaya (magic animal hybrid) settlement, and the combination of the background magic and toxic waste means that, over the ~500 year lifespan of Zaun, most of its citizens become some kind of animal hybrid.

The kind is usually genetic, but Vastaya magic also means that the people around your parents can also affect it (so, Vander and Silco can affect Powder and Vi just as much as their parents can), which often leads to a lot of communities of different kinds of hybrids.

Piltover, which doesn’t have this, leans hard on the ‘animalistic’ view of Zaunites. Except, of course, Jayce, who is fascinated by how the arcane interacts with Zaun’s environment. The bigger difference in appearance means very few Zaunites actually make it to Piltover. Including Viktor.

Viktor, who’s parents were not from Zaun, who is actually a hybrid of animal not native to Zaun. A Waverider, with strange blood properties that a certain Doctor is very interested in.

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Combining LoL and Arcane lore to give the headcanon that, upon waking up from the Cocoon, Viktor gets real angry at Jayce for his choices (reviving him, making weapons). Except he realises that his anger feels so far away. He can feel it, but expressing it feels like pulling a mental wall down, brick by brick, and he’s exhausted.

So instead he waits for nighttime, steals all his work and some resources from the lab, and goes back to Zaun. He can’t look at his hexcore-infused body. So instead, he forcibly drags his bodily autonomy back from the brink and starts augmenting his body. He works to help augment Zaunites with physical health issues (he sort of becomes a folk hero/ grim reaper figure, where he’s either there to save you, or keep you company while you die).

But he can’t fix his emotional state. He can still feel them, but the only way he can communicate them to others is direct talking. This makes his bedside manner pretty dead, and Viktor feels, distantly, hurt by the fact that he can’t prove he feels sorrow, empathy, grief, pride for his patients. It starts affecting his work, as he puts so much effort into connecting with them that he can’t focus on his inventions.

Eventually, in a fit of manic desperation (and a need to forget how much of his humanity he’s lost) he creates tiny chips, connecting to the augments he makes, that fully shut off the emotional part of the brain. He uses them when he’s working, so he isn’t distracted. Sometimes he mistimes it and is on them when he’s around patients, which doesn’t help the ‘robot’ myth.

And then some enforcers from Piltover find them during a raid of one of his safe houses (he’s been disrupting trade imports to get materials), bring them back, and Jayce recognises what they are, but no one in Piltover recognises how Viktor is using them, so they assume the worst. That’s he’s implanting them into his patients, sort of as a sleeper switch.

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I know it won’t be canon, based on LoL and the episode 2 divorce, but I’m forcing myself to not write a fic where

-Viktor’s body still has the physical effects of emotions (if he hasn’t slept, his body slows down. If he would normally feel angry, his pulse gets fast). However, he doesn’t feel any of the actual emotion. This means he sometimes doesn’t understand why his body react to some situations the way it does, because he doesn’t have the emotional context. A lot of the time, he has to walk backwards through why his body is acting like that, and eventually finds an emotion that would create those effects, so that probably what he’s feeling.

-Viktor isn’t apathetic, he’s more emotionally volatile, because he can’t tell what he’s feeling and how much. In the moment, he’ll respond however he thinks is appropriate because he can’t self-determine how he should respond emotionally. Give him some time to think it through, he can figure it out, but not always.

-For that, he asks Jayce, who honestly just enjoys helping Viktor figure out his new existence and the rule of magic interacting with a body. No he isn’t following Viktor around like a puppy, Caitlyn shut up, don’t you have other work to do.

-This does mean that, yeah, Viktor might react a bit more subdue and indifferent about some things, but he’s just as likely to be more passionate or eager than before, because his body is showing an excited reaction, so he should be excited. How excited? Who knows! Not him and not the hexcore, so until Jayce tells him, probably as much as possible.

I have too many fics I’m currently writing, but maybe I could start this soon…

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Cult of the Lamb story where Narinder tries to court the Lamb with old-timey practises. At first, he’s angry the Lamb keeps brushing him off, an additional injury to his bruised ego, but then realises the Lamb just genuinely doesn’t realise what his actions mean. He reasons it might be better, he can be as romantic with the Lamb as he wants, get his feeling out, without anyone realising how he feels.

Then one day he massively fucks up by basically announcing his feelings for the Lamb in front of the entire cult. This would not normally be an issue, he does so regularly, except his recently-indoctrinated siblings are well aware of what exactly he meant.

And, as his siblings, they all have roughly a thousand years of embarrassing him in front of his crush to make up for.