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Hear me out with this concept Viktor and this concept Jayce

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i need a crack fic where mel and jayce spend the whole thing keeping viktor AWAY from ambessa

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i low-key love that it’s never explained why Viktor is the one with expertise in unexploded ordnance

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JayVik nation, how we feeling?

After the divorce

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feel the light shine on my face

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jayvik yuri 👭

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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:

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ARCANE | Season 2 Keyshots | Suheb Zako

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I have a lot of thoughts about how the writers of arcane could have explored their conflict.

Shout out to my beloved friend @nyaz-chys, who gave writing insights, formatting suggestions/sketches that radically improved on my initial thumbnails, and also will be posting a fully colored version of this comic. You are a Legend (league of).

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Hey can anybody share some tips on how they write convincing details about hextech/general science-y stuff in arcane fanfics. Like how do you write so much about the STEM-ness of it all if you don’t already have a background in STEM? 

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Personally I think that Vi, Jayce AND Caitlyn all died in the alternate universe's explosion, and that it is actually all three of their deaths that create the better universe.

1. Vi's death "allows" for Vander and Silco to reunite

2. With Jayce being dead, Hextech was never invented. (And with Viktor missing his partner, he would never progress far enough to create the Herald)

3. If both a Zaunite and Piltovan child died in the accident, it could have been the tragedy to unite Zaun and Piltover together. You could even argue that they would have to share the blame.

Now why wouldn't Arcane show us that all three died and not just Vi? I think in a way, they did.

1. There is a mention in lore that the only universes where Caitlyn and Vi are not together are the ones where they both died. Vi died in Episode 7's universe, so it's likely to assume Caitlyn as well.

2. In the original timeline, Jayce participated in the Distinguished Innovators' competition (also as a duo, with Viktor, it's mentioned in the end of season 1). Jayce is the Man of Progress, a brillant scientist who technically does not need Hextech to shine (see him creating a brace out of his hammer with literal scraps). His absence in the science context of the episode feels... vivid.

And as many pointed out, even if Jayce did survive the explosion he most likely would have killed himself after such an accident. But I think he died in the explosion.

3. In the original timeline, there are six crystals and Powder drops one. In Episode 7, while cradling Vi's body, Powder is only holding three. My guess is that the explosion was three times larger and took out three people.

4. If both Vi (the person who "broke into the flat and caused the explosion") and Jayce (the person who "was hoarding dangerous materials") both died, it would have been a closed case :( No one to point the finger at, only children to mourn

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It's giving, mixed signals.

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"Remember the Innovators competition?"

"I remember you,"

Hi so what do you mean the innovators competition that au ekko and powder danced and fell in love in is the same one jayce and viktor went to in the canon universe haha what do you mean. haha what do you. what do. you.

tiktok credit to: @naxa._439 (if anyone wants to make a fic based on this PLEASE im begging u)

edit: omagod this blew up :00 my comms are open ! so if u want me to draw some specific jayvik headcannons i would JUMP at the opportunity please i need fluff content brainrot ideas

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Expanding on the below concepts from a dream I had last September

Ig I’m headed towards a haunted/manifestation of guilt idea hmm

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I made a Jayce tutorial too - here they are together! They have very different facial features~

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I think there needs to be a talk about how badly arcane handles the concept of choice and free will when it comes to jayce and viktors storyline and how a lot of it gets muddled when it's revealed that the mage is viktor. The mage reveal and plot point could have been handled better imo. Actually, I don't even think we needed to know who the mage was because it just makes the world feel smaller. It would be interesting if jayce did meet the mage and couldn't figure out his true identity because the mages face would just flicker into different forms of people he loves like viktor, cait, mel, xiemna etc.

I also just don't like the whole the mage was viktor plot twist and how weirdly the show seemed to rob jayce and viktor of autonomy and not even acknowledge it. Sure, I like the whole "in all timelines, in all possibilities only you could show me this" moment, but I think it could have been done better than what they ended up doing.

The line of “in all timelines, in all possibilities only you could show this” is like one of those things that’s good at surface-level, but then you start to peel away the layers/implications of everything and it feels a lot less colorful. Like finding a piece of what you think is gold, but then it falls apart when you start to think about it, turning it brittle.

It just feels like it could’ve been handled way better. And honestly, the thing of people being destined to meet in all realities walks a fine line between being great and just robbing the characters of their own choices and making it feel hollow.

And it feels like Arcane s2 was crossing into both of those at once before eventually veering off into the latter one. Jayce and Viktor were such excellent characters in s1 and both of them felt integral to each other’s characters, but it never felt like it was going into where they were the only thing going on with either of them.

Viktor had his own things going on outside of Jayce, and the same can be said with Jayce. Yes, their relationship is very important to each other’s characters and arcs, but they still had important and interesting moments with other characters and motivations that were separate from each other.

It feels like the decision to make it so this other version of Viktor intentionally set up Jayce and Viktor to meet in all of these other timelines, like more of them being part of an experiment and not realizing it, rather than all that happens being a result of the characters and their decisions.

It makes Jayce and Viktor feel like passengers to the narrative that doesn’t care about them as characters, rather than the ones pushing it forward. And like at the end, all they had going on was each other. And that’s not interesting at all. Their relationship could have still been important while jeopardizing and reducing everything else they had going on to being unimportant or just forgotten.

Their autonomy is just reduced to being basically nonexistent in the grand scheme of things because it’s all in service of creating the reality where the two of them get to explode into the stars together.

And again, that kind of ending is beautiful in a vacuum, but if you asked me if I would take that ending or an ending where it feels like Jayce and Viktor were given autonomy and weren’t passengers of the narrative. I would’ve picked the one where it didn’t do a complete nosedive off a cliff with the two of them and their characters.

Honestly, I feel like Arcane s2 would have been better if they never introduced the multiverse. It feels like they crammed too much into it and the characters suffered for it.

I do agree with the idea of Jayce never figuring out who the mage even is. Though, for my idea of s2, he never sees the mage again. I don’t think he really needed to see the mage again either. And the identity of the mage didn’t need to be revealed, especially not for it to be the twist of it being some alternative version of Viktor.

I think it would just feel more impactful as a whole if he never knew the identity of the person who saved him and his mom in that blizzard. Because the identity of the mage doesn’t really matter. It’s the action of seeing two people in trouble, two people that the mage doesn’t even know, and choosing to use their magic to help them. It would be an act of kindness that isn’t founded in setting up this timeline to play out how it does in all other timelines, but an act of kindness that is simply done because it’s the right thing to do.

Helping Jayce and Ximena wouldn’t make the mage richer or more famous. It’s an action that would give no real benefit for the mage themselves, but they still do it because it’s the right thing to do to help a scared child and his mother.

It’s not something the mage does to be seen as this great sorcerer/magic-user by the people they’re helping or anyone else, but it’s something good.

And then, that one action inspires Jayce to essentially do the same (at least in terms of his intentions and what he wanted to do). Jayce isn’t creating Hextech to be richer or more famous. He wants to do it because he wants to help people. People he doesn’t even know. But then it can come off as simplistic and a bit idealistic to think it would be that easy to do good. And tying it into Viktor’s line of “in pursuit of great, we failed to go good”. Things get more complicated when it comes to society and it’s politics and how it affects the ability to do purely good things.

It could have been something about integrity/kindness and doing good even when no one is looking and when it will have no benefit for you, and how it can be corrupted when it is placed at the center of the more darker parts of reality, being the corruption that lies in the hearts of people. How hard and frustrating it can be when you just want to help people, but it’s not as simple as you may have hoped. You want to believe that if you just had enough power, enough influence, you could do all of the good you’ve always wanted to do. But it’s not that easy and whenever you let yourself get lost in what it seemingly required to ensure that what you wanted to do is done, or if you stay true to yourself through it all.