#2011. viktor

[the-glorious-evolution-fanart]

Sketch | 2011. lore Viktor

Some older art I didn't share in some time.

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

I could wax poetic about why Viktor's League backstory is inherently more interesting and more thematically resonant than where they went with him in Arcane season 2, but the cold hard truth is

a man covered in grease and probably blood who builds his own body out of scraps with his own two hands, can in fact build any contraption out of dinted metal sheets and a few screws including a deathray, performs deeply inadvisable operations on desperate but consenting people with his own tools, generates a cult following against his wishes because of his ability to inadvisably help people but the power's all his now anyway so he may as well, wants to clean up and save the undercity but is (only sort of) misunderstood as a walking Geneva Convention violation a freak and a supervillain, torments his arch-nemesis on at least a weekly basis and probably homoerotically hunts him for sport, had his life's work misattributed to people in the ruling class and is angry and tragic about it forever, tries to rip out his own emotions and is unsuccessful but pretends like he was not, is actually oddly kind to children, and is at the end of the day still just some guy,

is just hotter okay

[trishabeakens]

Omg what a bargain.

[viktor-leagueoflegends]

hellooo! i was wondering if you had any resources for viktor's voicelines pre-vgu? i wanted to listen to him but found every algorithm is flooded with the rework voice lines.. or a better way to find them? thank you!

hii 👋👋👋 here's a video of the voice lines, but you can also check out the Past Version History tab of his wiki page :]

edit: forgot to add, the LoR tab on the wiki also has some voicelines!

[soykina]

ok so i get the sentiment of “your imperfections make you who you are” and i did cry like a beluga whale while watching the final jayvik scene but hear me out

while the sentiment totally works if we speak about viktor’s leg, self-esteem or his zaunit origin which society see as imperfections (when in reality it’s the world around viktor that is imperfect and should change, not him), this line angers me when i think about viktor’s terminal illness that was killing him at the age of what? 30? 35?

i haven’t rewatched s1 yet but it seemed that viktor didn’t turn to hextech in the sense of altering human nature before his illness got worse. i imagine a universe where he managed to treat this desease at early stages and is now using hextech to build tools, maybe robots and other cool stuff to make the world more accessible and safe for people, especially those less privileged. no cult or glorious evolution needed. and i believe it would be possible if he wasn’t so alone in this.

he didn’t cross the line because he couldn’t walk without a crutch or because people looked down on him in piltover. for me it was because he was fucking dying and so so tired. he fought alone for so long that the fragility and duality of human nature started to seem like a weakness to him. so anyway. i appreciate jayce finally seeing that viktor is wonderful, perfects, his soulmate and he should have never left him and he should have cared more but i also would like viktor to reply like ok, jayce, apocalypse cancelled let’s hold hands and butterfly out of existence. but when we are just two astral entities in the middle of everywhere you’ll have do your homework and learn about the inequity and what it does to a person.

[becoming-the-herald-comic]

Have a meme format which I really like!

(Hans helping Viktor with programming)

[cerise-tears]

a cry for help; some short stories about the viktor rework

part i: siphon power

While at this point the horse has been thoroughly suffocated under a mountain of quote tweets, the sentiment that what we call fandom was pronounced dead anywhere between 2-5 years ago is not without its merits. When the pandemic happened, an increasingly corporate internet spontaneously ballooned with souls desperate to escape the horrors of mundanity. This new blood, unaware of the decades of internet culture built through both trial-and-error and dedicated enthusiasts, beheld what they perceived to be an-all-expenses paid trip to the coolest theme park of their lives. Not even considering that the internet might even have an etiquette, enough of these souls set about “reinventing the wheel” that their resulting contraption only rolled in the most technical of sense. Parasociality has reached radioactive levels. A greediness permeates the air as the fresh folks fail to realize that they need to take responsibility for creating the content they wish to see. And nobody will comment on my fucking fanfiction.

I don’t want to look at the past with rose-tinted goggles, however, and I definitely mean this as more than just a means of establishing a cool point-counterpoint in my Tumblr essay. The internet as it once existed was a genuine den of sin: it is honestly unreal that something like Pedobear was ever an online household name. The internet has always been cystic to women, but back then spaces for those women functionally didn’t even exist. Let’s also not forget that a few people decided to talk about atheism over a decade ago on YouTube and now my husband and I are making thorough plans and kits in case we need to suddenly move. Worst of all, back then people didn’t care that I was literally thirteen years old when they said that my fanfiction was “fucking dogshit”.

These conversations about what the internet/fandom is, isn’t, shouldn’t be, all have this exponentially accelerating descent into the abyss of personal experience. The image of one’s favorite Pokémon game only depending on the year you were born comes to mind, and “culture” is such a nebulous concept that you can use it to argue for or against whatever the fuck you want. I’d rather talk about fandom in a manner that’s much easier for us to come to a consensus on: how much it appeals to me specifically.

part ii: gravity field

It is genuinely difficult to describe how much being a character enthusiast, be it of lore or gameplay, utterly obliterates your perception of that character from an “objective” standpoint. When you’re an enthusiast, it is because of an overwhelming number of things that you enjoy about that character. If you have changes that you’d like to make, those changes create a range over which you still consider that character, well, “that character”. Anything outside the range feels more than just a poor decision, it approaches complete assassination akin to weaponized gangrene. People coming in from the outside simply “don’t have the true perspective.”

This doesn’t make fan communities useless for feedback, mind you. I’d prefer the term “specialized”, which I feel is a much kinder way of saying “often useless”. Everybody’s faves are all OCs, and a fan community is just a set of OCs in temporary syzygy. Large online collectives are only as strong as their common enemy, and as soon as that common enemy becomes themselves, they transform into an ouroboros of raccoons. I find communities during revamps to be especially grating – like can’t you just shut the fuck up? The gameplay before the rework is usually forgettable at best; there’s no way we’re going to pretend that Dr. Mundo and Poppy were paragons of gameplay. And who the fuck even cares about lore? Yeah, it sucks to have your shit replaced, but those texts still exist. I did lose something in a rework with the Hearthstone Priest changes! My favorite class, that I loved and cherished, got forcibly mutated over the course of six months into some play to board garbage! I had to quit a game that I loved, that I was excellent at, because of the pathetic and selfish reason that I wasn’t having fun anymore. And you don’t hear me complaining!

part iii: death/hextech ray

I’ve done a faux pax in our current climate and properly tagged my post to the best of my ability (not high, I was a Newgrounds kid) so I’m going to assume that you already know Viktor’s general vibe. I’m also going to assume that we’re in agreement that the best version of Viktor is the one that you’re thinking of right now. As soon as you decided to read this, I knew in my heart that you had immaculate taste. It’s possible you’re upset that this means I secretly think somebody else’s less interesting, less cool looking, worse interactions with Jayce, worse-voiced Viktor is better than yours. I want to reassure you that this is not the case, and that I love your Viktor the most. I promise.

I’m not blind to the discourse, obviously. If I were an Arcane Viktor enjoyer, I’d point out that original Viktor suffers from needing a stronger Jayce character to match his complexities, and that Jayce not giving enough in that arena causes Viktor to suffer by association. If I were an original Viktor enjoyer, I’d retort by saying that Viktor’s defense mechanism of the glorious evolution in Arcane is far too literal and out of his control, stripping him of agency and making the most interesting things about him not him. But I can feel you getting anxious, my darling reader, and I’m going to reiterate: I don’t care about either of those guys. I don’t care about what was or what will be. I like your Viktor the most.

part iiii: the storm

This piece started out as a highly researched essay on league reworks and Arcane and Viktor and Jayce, and as time went on, I realized that even though I had something to say, had a genuine opinion, I just didn’t care enough about the whole situation. None of it mattered. Fandom bullshit had lost its luster to me again. Maybe it’s because I’m employed now. Maybe it’s because I’m not close enough to the situation.  Maybe it’s because my relationship to fandom is so personal, occasionally more so than my marriage, that I just imagine that everyone else is operating with the same logic. Am I supposed to be mad at you for how you decorate your room, what music you put on your playlists, what movies make you cry? I can’t imagine getting genuinely and consistently upset with other people for how they interact with their fictional dolls. I don’t know them at all. When I was thirteen I almost killed two people, and two years later I see a character in a video game doing the exact same fucking thing that I did. My fandom totem is a high school senior, and I just have to live with that forever. But I can’t even talk about that without people wanting to maneuver the subject away from fandom! The biggest tragedy of the new wheel of the internet is that people haven’t reinvented “ignore and move on” yet.

Regardless, I couldn’t publish something that didn’t matter to me. Much like Viktor, the only thing I’ve ever been able to truly write about is myself.

[misspeppermint2003]

⭐️ Weekly Fandom Vote (Round 11) ⭐️

[prototypeviktor]

to viktor! | за виктора!

toast to the birthday boy. dragged a family member into it for the second picture. they had a nice toast to say completely unprompted, which i'll admit to being very, very touched by.

love ya, viktor. i hope we can keep you around for as long as we'd like to.

[brotherdusk]

harry lloyd in the 2011 great expectations is an absolute revelation. imagine playing viserys iii targaryen and herbert pocket in the same year and nailing both roles... icon behaviour

[the-glorious-evolution-fanart]

what’s your take on this whole “viktor is czech” controversy im seeing so many posts about how we can’t say viktor is russian or any other Slav anymore because of harry lloyd saying he did a czech accent

(I'm answering immediately since this is kind of an active topic that will probably quickly die. Please first read my entire post.)

I am of the opinion that everyone is allowed to headcanon a character however they want, and that it's not nice to insist everyone else adopt one's own interpretation especially if it's not canon. Even if things are canon, people can always choose to purposefully ignore canon in favour of what they prefer. This says nothing about quality - that can go either way. Sometimes the original writing is bad, other times it's good and fandom interpretations are of low creativity/low understanding/quality.

This accent discussion is not a controversy, it's just a tug of war between some fans. Lower the bullying and arguments everyone! It's okay. There's not much point fighting between fans, when companies hold all the power.

~

The reality is more complex than "what canon actually says".

Previous League version

Originally, Viktor the Machine Herald was designed to on the surface quickly read like an Eastern-European mad scientist engineer, with "vibes" from the Red Scare (and things like Red Alert). It has roots in ideas about scary effective heavy machinery. He was made to have a stereotypical Hollywood Slavic accent. If people read into it as Russian, it wouldn't be incorrect, thought the company. That doesn't mean he's hard-coded as Russian. There's the opinion of the lead writer Praeco being shared online in which he says:

He makes the fast mental jump (just like many viewers/players) and lands on the surface-level stereotype, which he thinks is all there is to it. This is false. Viktor's original, release lore from 2011. has no cultural hints towards Russia nor those stereotypes. It is a great basis for developing a more detailed story, which people would certainly love if it was done in an animated medium.

What the lore does have, are similarities with Nikola Tesla, a Serbian engineer and inventor who was conned by Edison, had his work stolen and often been viewed as crazy. Viktor's in-game abilities are inspired by some of Nikola Tesla's hypothetical inventions. His staff has a Tesla coil on it.

I personally write Viktor as being Serbian-inspired due to this, and it's also easier for me as I'm Serbian, so I can make up a headcanon about old lore old Zaunites speaking this language thus explaining the accent when they speak Common; and not stress over messing up a translation. There's also the fact that we are very underrepresented in pop-culture, and even when we are, it's most often as unintelligent criminals.

That doesn't mean that people headcanoning League Viktor as being Russian-inspired are automatically incorrect.

2. Arcane Viktor

Here's the interview with the voice actor. There's a couple of things here to be noted. He says a "frail Eastern-European scientist"... meanwhile Czechs are Western Slavs, not Eastern. This tells me the Americans leading the show didn't pay much attention to ethnicities, as those things don't matter to them.

Then Nikola Tesla is brought up again - proving the original core archetype. But Nikola Tesla was Serbian, who are South Slavs, not Eastern nor Western.

To Americans, we are all interchangeable. They really don't care. They hired a British voice actor, despite there being countless Slavic voice actors they could have contacted. I can even reach a bunch of them.

The voice actor they hired had only practiced a Czech accent in one of his previous works, and it was "close enough". And what I can say is that he doesn't sound neither Russian, nor Serbian to my ear. Our accent is way more heavy and explosive (actually pretty similar to original in-game Viktor! Just less dramatic) while Russian would be way more softer. I've seen some Czechs say he does indeed sound Czech, and I think that's completely valid! But Arcane Viktor is Czech not by design, but out of necessity.

Czechs (Česi!!!!!) are also very little represented in pop-culture. Basically non-existent. They have also historically been behind the Iron Curtain, so you must understand their position. I think people have the right to headcanon Arcane Viktor as being Czech-inspired, despite what all the inconsistencies and frankly bad mixups have been said by the production crew behind-the-scenes. And they absolutely should not be bullied and forced into headcanoning Arcane Viktor as Russian or any other ethnicity! What's in the work itself sounds Czech, not Serbian. That said, I also think people have the right to personally headcanon Arcane Viktor as any ethnicity-inspired as they wish. Just know the state of things like I shared here, say what your personal headcanon is and don't vaguepost or bully other people. Those throwing rocks first should stop.

3. In the end, I personally view Arcane Viktor as Czech-inspired, League Viktor as Serbian-inspired, but it's not even wrong to consider him generally Slavic-inspired, as these nationalities really don't exist in Runeterra. Political situation aside.

[thesinglegear]

"Greetings, fleshlings."

This is an independent roleplay blog for Blitzcrank, the Great Steam Golem from League of Legends. Penned by Poro, mun of @metalvsflesh.

This interpretation is a fusion of my old blog, 2011 lore, and 2016 lore. Any lore developments and rewrites caused by the Netflix series Arcane is and will be ignored, but muses taking them into account are still welcomed to interact so long as you respect the fact that Blitzcrank will treat your muse as if they are from an Alternate Universe.

Additionally, please note this blog is a side blog and my secondary roleplay blog, with my primary roleplay blog ( @mxgalodon ) taking priority. As such, replies may be slow. Please do not hesitate to approach me with questions or plot ideas, however.

Important Information (below the cut):

Blitzcrank is genderfluid (masculine-leaning) and uses they/he pronouns.

This blog does not have a primary Viktor. By default, Blitzcrank does not know the status of Viktor and has mixed feelings about him. They believe he abandoned them to Stanwick, but have fond memories of him otherwise.

That being said, I am willing to interact with any and all Viktors who are interested in writing with a Blitzcrank as if he is their designated Viktor. I'm perfectly fine with adapting the lore I abide by to fit with your Viktor's lore. I only ask you give me a run down if it is not clearly outlined on your blog.

The only exception to this is any Arcane-based Viktors, as he is not a machinist and did not create Blitzcrank. All Arcane-based Viktors will be treated as if they were from alternate universes.

[viktor-leagueoflegends]

we r at 252 followers thank you machine herald believers

Just personal curiosity :]

//note: the post-arcane due to league viktor option is if you stumbled in totally independent of arcane and just happened to pick this guy up because youre a hashtag Gamer or whatever

[skymagpieart]

It's the 29th of December, which means happy birthday to the only Viktor, the Machine Herald. Bonus: my own unmasked version of him from 2011, as he is my favourite (now NON) League man 🧡

[hexhomos]

If we never get a scene of arc!viktor asking jayce to join him in his big villainous granola pyramid scheme because 'they need each other' then that tv show truly lost. Viktor asks jayce to join him in both the 2011 & 2015 tellings of their game bios and it is SUCH a staple of doomreed multiverse stories.

My expectations are, as always, on the floor, but you should feel personally offended if we're robbed again. like thats personal homophobia

[procrastinatingacademic]

Updated Masterlist

Started: 28 February 2025

Last updated: 07 May 2025

Total works: 35

Angst💥; Fluff💫; Suggestive themes🔥

I don't write smut. All fics are 'x Reader' unless stated otherwise. I strive to mostly write gender-neutral Reader-characters, and I don't use Y/N.

DC Comics

The Scarecrow/Dr. Jonathan Crane

Ongoing series - There's nothing to fear when I'm with you (currently on hiatus) (Jonathan x female OC)

Fighting boredom

John Contantine

Ongoing series - Restless: A Constantine/Good Omens Crossover (currently on hiatus)💫🔥(No Reader-character)

The Riddler/Edward Nygma

Starlight is for dancing🔥

Black Mask/Roman Sionis

We were together, I forget the rest💫🔥

The Sandman

The Corinthian

(The lesser of) two evils💥💫🔥

Life is the flower for which love is the honey💥💫

Morpheus/Dream of the Endless

To see a world in a grain of sand (Blind!Reader)

Grishaverse

Kaz Brekker

Stay💫

It is lightning that does the work💥💫

Nikolai Lantsov/Sturmhond

A mother is the truest friend we have💥💫 (Mother Figure!Reader)

Two ships in the night💫

The Hunger Games

Haymitch Abernathy

The Survivors 💥(Haymitch x female OC; slow burn) (Ongoing series)

Criminal Minds

Dr. Spencer Reid

Experience💫

Your song💫

Kidnapped for the vibes💥💫 (UnSub!Spencer Reid)

Interview with the Vampire (2022)

Armand

Would you like to be? (WIP)💥💫

House of the Dragon

Larys Strong

Darkness shared by two💫🔥

Marvel

Dr. Stephen Strange

A little less awkward💫

Daredevil/Matt Murdock

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter 💫🔥

Greek Mythology

Apollo

Apollo - Autism💥💫 (No Reader-character)

Hermes

Hermes - Kleptomania💥 (No Reader-character)

Hades

Hades - Separation Anxiety Disorder💥💫 (No Reader-character)

Hypnos

WIP: Hypnos - Narcolepsy

Potterverse

Newt Scamander

Hold me close💥💫

Sirius & Regulus Black

The best way to make children good is to make them happy💥💫 (Parental Figure!Reader)

Supernatural

Lucifer

Wings of snow💫

Eyes of fire🔥

Gabriel

WIP: Run away with me, mon amour

Arcane

Viktor

Memorise you💥💫🔥 (Blind!Reader)

The Witcher (Netflix)

Jaskier

Sing a song only you can hear💫

Untitled WIP

Critical Role/The Legend of Vox Machina

Percival "Percy" de Rolo

While the music lasts💫

Prodigal Son

Malcolm Bright

Shut your eyes and see💥💫 (Blind!Reader)

Sherlock (BBC)

James "Jim" Moriarty

The world is boring for boring people💥💫🔥

Good Omens

Ongoing series - Restless: A Constantine/Good Omens Crossover (currently on hiatus)💫🔥(No Reader-character)

Various

The Three Musketeers (Anderson, 2011)

Aramis/René d'Herblay

Be kind, aim for my heart💫

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (de La Patellière & Delaporte, 2024)

Edmond Dantès/The Count of Monte Cristo

Count your blessings

Amsterdam

LA by Night/Vampire the Masquerade

Robert Garrick

All your tomorrows start here💫