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I want his sense of style!

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"I can hear the cannons calling As though across a dream And I can smell the smoke of hell In every stitch and seam And like flowers, the bodies tumble Around this muddied lot I cannot hear them scream "Forget me not" "

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Like you were given your faith, before there was made a God

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We all know who she's talking about.

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"Am I interrupting?"

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Some pastel/ charcoal sketches on Pastelmat. Added a touch of acrylic marker because I can’t be kind to my supplies ever.

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unhinged Arcane theory?

Okay. Welcome to my TED talk. The conundrum of "how does old[god] mage Viktor from the annihilation timeline start all this stuff off where they're stuck in a loop ?" Is below... My theory seems WAY too neat and simple and is kind of pieced together from way too many reddit rabbit holes I went into trying to learn League lore. Disclaimer: I have never played League before, and likely won't but I'm a big fan of game stories, as always since things change and get re-written so, this doesn't even matter in large scale. this is really just my hc. SPOILER Warning for everything in Arcane S1&2: Let's start that I think Old Mage Viktor's original timeline probably was similar to the one we as an audience follow in Arcane. I base my theory on a few key factors that would lead to similar paths without the initial rune intervention. Jayce's mother does not live in Old Mage Viktor's original timeline (his first playthrough lol) HMO. Everything is mostly the same at first with maybe 2 differences. One part is not as necessary as the other part. The first part would involve Viktor stumbling across the shimmer flowers (maybe he falls into an entire pile of flowers and has a shimmer trip) which could be a catalyst for something in the Arcane to start awakening and give him a sort of vision leading to the creation of the Hexcore (eventualy) similar to how he has the vision in the Hexgate in the main series? Thats what inspires him to start studying the Arcane in earnest. > He could also (depending on how old the year gap would be) have some slow Mage success doing little things which [slows the affects of him aging/dying just a bit] Kind of microdosing the Arcane to treat his ailments and him getting sick, but it's no cure and time marches on. I sort of thought of the shimmer drug Salo was using in the series, but idk kitchen wizard stuff. I kind of see him becoming a bit addicted to the pursuit of Arcane relieving him permanently of what he thinks are flaws. (this part of the theory is less important to the old mage origin story) Fast forward to him meeting Jayce following the explosion. Viktor is employed at the Academy as an assistant to the Dean like our main story timeline. Everything is the same till he hears him at the trial and is like "oh Magic? Well if you don't say..." Viktor would go to read his notes and confront Jayce in the night like he did in our main universe. Most importantly Jayce would tell him a story about why he cares so much and this is important. Jayce saw his mother die in a snow storm as a child and he couldn't do anything to help at the time (RIP it's the only way) Jayce belives if he could harness a power like the Arcane, the way mages do, without being a mage he could prevent that stuff from happening ever again. This all results in: > A strong motivation that is inline with Jayce Talis as a character that isn't wonky. > A strong connection Viktor can align with since he also wants betterment of world > Science bromance is born. -> It pivots from the main Arcane story a bit when they split after Viktor comes out of the cocoon and they enter their divorce era. They are both sad boys but no one gets yeeted to another dimension (lets just hand wave that and say it's because Jayce didn't touch the damn hex anamoly while wearing an Accelration Rune bracelet. (remember in this theory, his mom and him aren't saved by future Viktor)

-> Eventually Jayce and Viktor are put at odds, maybe when he starts stealing crystals from the Hexgate (which I think is hat Salo was trying to do because Viktor was dying/powering down) I think Jayce would be kind of unhappily providing hextech weapons to Commander Caitlyn at this point also, which would also really piss Viktor off.

-> More consequences of actions and feelings happen, and Viktor finds the anamoly while trying to get more crystals because he's powering down as his commune grows larger and larger. Eventually with it in hand he is able to start evolving people, and then everyone and we get annihilation world.

ALRIGHT SO. Here is in my head where we get the first Old Mage Viktor oopsie. Could be just being lonely, or not thinking about things, but Viktor comes to a conclusion that " I'd never develop hextech or Arcane powers and come to be without Jayce " but he loves him so he's not just going to timetravel and dispatch him, or himself because Paradox. But what if he thinks " Well, if Jayce never looses his mom he won't feel the need to pursue Hextech or the Arcane." So he maybe wanders the world a bit? Eventually masters timetravel.... goes back and saves Jayce AND his mom. Bam he creates an rift. - time moves forward and ooops Jayce still likes the Arcane because it was hellla cool and it saved his moms life! Now the OG timeline plays out again and we get the same outcome. -> Old Mage Viktor is left with only one option ' introduce a variable into this science experiment ' because he loves Jayce, wants to save everyone and also can't NOT save him and his mom again because he sees how much it truly meant to him and he isn't perfect, he's allowed to be selfish for his beau. Thats how you get to our main Arcane storyline, where he gives runes out like candy to little Jayce's. Trying to get one to work and prevent everything from happening.

How does he know to do this? Key: Arcane plane is Nirvana Let's assume all of the alternate timelines kind of reach their glorious evolution points, either loosing or absorbing Jayce in these processes. Mage Viktor says in the series " I only found an end to pursuit" which to me is very inline with reaching a state of peace. I think the most likely end to all of these alternate timelines is glorious evolution - > perfect enlightenment -> reach the Arcane equivalent of Nirvana and are absorbed into Arcane plane and become magic itself. I kind of think of the Arcane plane and how it intersects with the world or Runeterra as [timeless, ever present and all points at once sort of] & the first Old mage Viktor absorbs all the intersecting timeline points & knowing of the alternate Viktor's. So he knows what has worked and what hasn't worked and keeps trying. Why is it the same Old Mage ? The reason that it's the same old mage Viktor that meets Jayce in the annihilation timeline(s) and in the past to give the rune is because Old Mage Viktor chose not to ascend into Nirvana because he wanted to prevent the glorious evolutions from occurring, because it in a sense kills Jayce every time and his will is not his own... & ultimately I think he was so deeply in love with Jayce that he was too stricken with grief to move on and become part of the Arcane without Jayce of his own free will reciprocating his feelings/forgivness/understanding. Which is why I think he says to Jayce "...you are the only one who can show me this". In the series you see our Viktor(in his evolved form, following Ekko's Z drive blast, and Jayce's confession) at peace with Jayce during the acceleration rune explosion/unmaking....because they're going together, both feeling the same about one another.. as partners...the only thing I think that all Viktor's ever wanted. > to address the Ekko/Powder verse of it all. I think that timeline hextech didn't happen because yes, Vi died in that one since she was the closest to the door at the time of the explosion, but if their blast was THAT much more powerful, there is NO way that Jayce who was way closer to the door would have survived either. No science bromance = no hextech. Power wouldn't have told Ekko that either because they don't know he was significant to Ekko, and frankly he never even asked about Jayce in the series during that episode either. - - - - - - - - - this is my hc and how I think stuff probably happened without getting to extra in the weeds with it... I thought even more elaborate stuff too, but that almost feels too much. I think this actually works? ***Edit/update: My brain kept cycling its theories and now I'm sad.

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The missing time where Viktors short hair dries 😂😅🥰

Couldn't resist seeing Viktor's new concepts xD

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Dark Jayvik HC

SO.

HC with S2 Spoiler context Warning. This is basically a fic au outline at this point omg. What if survivor Jayce (who I affectionately referred to as dirty jayce while working on my painting) was sent back exactly after his younger self was shifted to the other reality, but he was just a bit more obsessed protective towards Viktor and decided they would be Defender of the Arcane Herald instead of the Defender of Tomorrow Jayce. Like maybe use an alternative means of persuasion than a hammer gun to the chest ya know?? Like your love for Viktor maybe? Use your penis, WORDS Jayce.

Remember in canon in S2E17 Ambessa tells Melthat they have to continue to fight because of her wariness of mages and the threat they pose. -> Regardless of the canon events, Ambessa still feels that way before the commune. She hates the Black Rose, she hates mages now. So what if, canon events play out but because our Defender Jayce is there to protect Viktor (and not shoot him to begin with) Warrick/Vander still is saved from Singed bs by the girls. Unfortunately, Vander has thrashed Rictus quite a bit and he dies after being thrown outside the greenhouse. Ambessa sees Rictus slain and they get into their huge fight and it's still a violent affair. The Noxian army ends up cutting down through most of the commune as a consequence which harms Viktor in the process (if we believe that the commune died because Viktor was shot, the opposite would likely effect in a similar way)

So they all retreat back to Piltover and the lab- Viktor's probably kissing deaths hand again and still refuses to absorb Vander. Jayce has alternative idea to harness a restorative power perhaps. Viktor is mage adjacent and I think Ambessa would go on a whole campaign to avenge Rictus. I even picture the scene where he evolves one of the fallen commune members in the same way he did in canon to try to talk Ambessa down, but she smashes the hell out of it. Mel comes by to try and convince her mom not to attack Piltover and to go after black rose instead in Noxus but Ambessa shows Mel Viktor's automaton and decides she has to cleans the city of mages altogether. This could go so many places... I'll just let this little world live here. Be kind to my little AU.

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hiiiiii I finished this jayvik brainrot concept that infiltrated my mind a few months ago after seeing a survivor Jayce x young Viktor picture.. which got me to thinking.... my AU HC on another post lil Dark Jayvik energy <3

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Hey sorry not sure if I hallucinated this but did you recently delete some some extremely cute art where vik is wearing jayce’s jacket? I went to reblog it and could not find it anywhere…

Oh you probably mean this one?

Yeah, sorry, I did. The rest of the pics I posted seemed too NSFW for Tumblr 😞I think I'll repost it soon anyway, after I color it and maybe draw some more...

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I left something extra on my Patreon too ❤️

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Reunion in the commune kiss and astral plane kiss sketches because I wanted to draw my version too

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Silco. Zaun dad... a.. zaddy if you will. Mixed media soft pastels and oil paint on prepared paper. 5.5"x6" original sold. Lmk if anyone would like prints of zaddy. cross posted on my insta.

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