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@cosmicarcanist’s signature style comprises of a range of blue and darkened hues. He’s just the right person to convey the mystic and wonder of Tarot! 🦋✨

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Putting the Trans in Transhumanism with the Machine Herald and VikJay sillies

Viktor had to let Jayce know about his DYI top surgery while loopy with anaesthetics

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Gem Cities by Neave Bozorgi

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au set after act 3 concludes, following jayce... he gets transported to another universe, where the original jayce died in the explosion. he meets prototype viktor, who seems to be even more sassy and up-front than his own v... maybe he's a lot more jealous too, even if who jayce is looking for is, in fact, himself from another universe...

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This is how that scene went right

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A very quick Viktor sketch because make no mistake, he is still my favourite character ever and I still love him with my whole entire heart!

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Hello partner

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no looking back, orpheus. you promised ▋

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Let's finish what we've started 🦋⚙️

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‘Still human…’

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Stargazing

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Orianna's inclusion in Arcane really drives how the show depicted Piltover as passive as possible instead of the active agent of misery it was in the original lore (or at least by comparison). In Orianna's OG lore, she was dying because she chose to bravely help Zaunites that were caught in a large chemical disaster after an explosion either brought on by the poor conditions of Zaun or it's general structural instability (or both) broke a gas line that released dangerous fumes that destroyed her lungs in short order as she helped others breathe.

In Arcane, it's no longer important how she got sick because both her agency and affect on the world around her are irrelevant. Orianna's just a dying little girl that the audience will automatically sympathize with because she'sa dying little girl (who'sdad is Singed). In her place, it's Viktor who's sickened (offscreen) by the Fissure gasses instead of being victimized by Piltover Academy when the instution sides with the Piltovan professor that stole his work.

It's in the same vein as how in Arcane the ones who take those closest to Ekko aren't Piltovans working his parents for 12+ hour shifts or just straight up killing his friends like Ajuna. It's other Zaunites like Silco and Jinx that are the prime source of his misery as they murder his friends to his face. You can even argue this goes for Vi and Jinx's story because while they do say that the enforcers killed their parents neither can articulate it was the Council that sent them there in the first place!

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the writers also chose to take a radical politically charged character, deeply affected by and rooted in the classism of the two cities, Viktor, and turn him into a placated centrist that has no motivation to do what he does AND side with the invading nation whose entire schtick is conquest to destroy his city and people alongside Piltover

- Zaunites dying to help Piltover in battle while wearing enforcer uniforms, even though Piltover did nothing to earn it

- Silco, one of the few pro-Zaun/anti-Piltover characters from season 1, reduced into a mouthpiece for "forgiving those who wronged you" and letting go

- Jinx, one of the few anti-Piltover characters, becoming redeemed by sympathizing with Piltovians, being apologetic for killing Councilors, and feeling like she should die to allow her sister to be happy with her enforcer girlfriend

- Vi not having any problem with her Piltovian enforcer girlfriend gassing Zaun, and reduced to kneeling for Caitlyn's pussy in a prison cell, where she was locked for years as a child by an enforcer

- Jayce telling Viktor that his disease was never a weakness to be cured even though the disease was caused by Piltover polluting Zaun

- Ekko never calling out Heimerdinger's failings as a ruler nor Vi for joining the enforcers (even though he does in the game), and also risking all the Firelights' lives to help Piltover

- Sevika not having any lines in Act 3, never interacting with Jinx or reacting to Isha's death, and also risking her life to help Piltover, a decision which was made off screen

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pull close to me and never be alone

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Thinking of you to pass the time

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i bought a property on emberlift alley and what they do for you is they give you the property

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Art I drew commemorating viktor’s death in league of legends ❤️ they will soon die together amen