#go my jayvik army...

[chubsonthemoon]

PRINTING JAYVIK

Svirdilu and I did an art trade!! In exchange for this In Stars and Time themed sketchbook, they sent me these BEAUTIFUL hand-carved linocut blocks of the boys!! AHHHH!!! Here is my first print run all laid out:

And here's a little video of the printing process! Printed using Speedball's beginner block printing kit, with the cap of an old moisturizer tin as a baren haha:

I'll be sending these babies as goodies with my author copies this summer :3 jayvik mutuals, if you'd like one, please DM me!!

[spectrophobiia]

i made my friend watch arcane and she just got to the scene where mel and jayce fuck and she sent me a message saying “i’m not okay, i just watched a gay man fuck what i’m assuming is a lesbian woman—“

[local-lamppost]

Act 3 Thoughts

Watched Wicked, came home, waited 20 minutes, binged Act 3. I do not recommend this lifestyle. Anyway...

I was so satisfied with where we ended up, but I would have also appreciated about 20 minutes to an hour more. It felt like some beats were skipped over, they wanted to get to specific endings and didn't have the time to wrap them up as neatly as I would've liked.

Maddie is a good example. She's a plant for Ambessa, okay but when and why did she become one? She couldn't have been one before Cait being named commander and when we next see her she's pushing for Cait to take power back from Ambessa. Did Ambessa just message her right after Cait and Vi started working together again as like a "the woman you love's actual love is back in the picture, you can either wallow or get revenge with me", but also made a smarmy remark about Cait 'at least being warm' or something. We didn't need to absolve Cait or villainize Maddie for their 'relationship' because they didn't even have a relationship-just a coping mechanism for Cait, similar to Vi's drinking. At best it was all unnecessary and at worst a waste of time.

Away from that, I want to focus on some good.

I am officially a JayVik shipper now. Them disappearing into a void together, encircled with each other, after Viktor spend however long within timelines/multiverses in hopes of finding a Jayce able to bring him back to his humanity? Come on, they needed to kiss. Especially after Jayce and Mel's low key break up. Honestly we were denied the three of them working together, because they would have been unstoppable.

Speaking of Mel, I love her. I love her design, her powers, her matricide, her taking command of Ambessa's armies, etc. I wish we could have seen more of her adapting to her new powers, finding peace with what she now is. There could have been a cool interaction with Viktor over how Arcane power has changed them both for better and worse.

I don't think Mel's story is done. With other characters, I can see them coming in for future story arcs as like, cameos or background details, but if the next LoL story is in Noxus I fully expect Mel to be a major player again.

Back to Jayce. I like Jayce, that could be my Arcane hot take, and I definitely want to write something more in depth on him. On all the characters really. For now, I'll just say that his determination to destroy everything he has built, because the only creation worth saving is his relationship with Viktor is just... glorious.

Viktor was amazing. I love Viktor in the lore, and they took his traits from the lore and amped them up to eleven. His body being destroyed and rebuilt, the process of which has chipped away his humanity and mutilated his dreams. He lives up to his own quote: "In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good. We have to make it right."

Ekko is a character I never realize I miss. That sounds mean, it probably is, but I am never the less so happy to see him every time. It's like finding the missing piece you didn't even know was lost: that is Ekko to me. His mini adventure in the parallel universe was adorable. Us getting to see what could've been alongside learning what matters most to Ekko, him getting a taste of a near perfect life and still choosing to return to his own time. That's why Ekko is the true hero of this story.

In terms of Jinx, I'll just say I'm not a hundred percent sure she's dead. The airship leaving at the end followed by her scribbled sign off, plus not getting a dead body shot. It was definitely left open ended. Her looking to do something good, to not mess up, alongside her fear of not wanting to try again because she is just tired of failure, of being a Jinx, was too real in many ways. I will go in depth on her at a later date.

Caitlyn's arc is going to be argued about, no question. It needed more time (see the start of this long post) to make her point of her anger burning away, of it not being sustainable, hit harder. I would have made her realize what her anger was doing to Vi, have Jinx point out that they really are acting the same in their treatment of Vi, and use the whole Ambessa was literally stoking the fires of her hatred to help fit what time they had left. Honestly just have Cait learn Ambessa was the one behind the memorial attack, that would be a much better way to explain her anger diminishing enough to look beyond her own hurt to realize and take account of her mistakes.

Vi, as usual, needed more screen time. Not necessarily because her story would've been helped by it like in act two, but just because I wanted her to have more time to enjoy her life. I went into act three with the sole hope that Vi would have a nice day, only for her to loose everything again. The only people she has left are Cait and Ekko, and god help anyone who tries something against those too now. Her ending being the chance to finally rest, to lean on someone else, was beautiful. She is my favorite character and please let her have only good things in the future, she was traumatized in almost every scene this season please-

Nobody tell Vi that in a universe where she died young everyone else ended up living. It would destroy her.

Vi and Cait relationship was great. I wouldn't say it was rushed in act three, because it felt like it was where it should be for a final batch of episodes, if that makes sense. It felt like the set up was Cait being genuinely remorseful and Vi just wanting someone in her life who wanted her in return. It helps that they have great chemistry and that when given the chance they fit so neatly together. I think Jinx encouraging Vi to be with Cait is what sold it to me. Jinx realizing how much Vi has given/sacrificed and giving her blessing for her sister to be happy with someone she disapproves of; not to mention Cait pulling the guards from their posts to give Vi the chance to actually meet Jinx in order to have that conversation. All in all, it comes down to Vi's "I don't care" because that's really all there is too it for them. Vi is done being miserable and Cait makes her happy, vice versa. Cait is someone Vi can rely on, Vi is someone Cait can find strength in.

Spitfire round:

Sevika being made a councilor

Every single one of Mel, Cait, and Jayce's designs were 10/10s

Vi not being given an actual uniform, just armor and the gloves

Jinx cutting her hair further to match Vi

Ekko getting his crystal sword/bats

Heimerdinger dying after living a life where he could make his city something to be proud of

I was fully expecting Vander and Silco to kiss in that one shot

Everything with Benzo

Loris' name being said

Vi humming the song and the song being their mother's lullaby

Viktor being held within the Herald

Sky leaving so Viktor was free to bring Jayce to his space mind palace

Caitlyn's rifle never surviving

Fishman McBlue being the only one of Cait's soldiers to stick to his guns and stay loyal

Sevika and Shoola side eyeing each other

Vander and little Vi and Powder with the bunny

The bunny being a passenger on Jinx's balloon

Singed's messed up family getting a happy ending

[insomniacirl]

Act 3 of Arcane Season 2 will be released in a few hours, so here's some theories:

Vi and Kaitlin are gay and in love but messed up

Jinx goes insane insane over Isha's death

Vi tries to save Jinx again, going against Kaitlin AGAIN idk man

Jayce is tormented by the death of Viktor and the creation of the Machine Herald

Jayvik being in love and full homo please 🙏

Give me Jayvik tragic and completely fucked up but in love 🚬

Ekko should take power over the Undercity, though Jinx is the figurehead for the revolution

I'm interested to know how all parties will interact now like:

Are Vi and Jinx knowingly against Viktor and Jayce, or just Ambessor's army?

Is Jayce now a man singularly on a war-path, or will he work alongside others?

Mel's entire plotline feels like it's gonna cause a splash but I have no idea how

Please give me Jayce and Vi being idiots together content please. 🙏🙏🙏

Anyway I'm insane and I have no ideas in my head ever actually, but I'm so so excited- so Act 3, here we come I guess.

[starrycassi]

Some small details of my jayvik work for silco au because I still don't have quite enough time to write an actual coherent storyline-driven snippet rn (I'm a scholarship baby there is NO Fucking Free Time in my life)

Viktor thinks that the idea of marriage is absolutely stupid and vain. People don't get married in Zaun. They move in together after a while and then have kids. Some people definitely like to have house-warming parties and such, but marriage as a whole is plainly useless, most of the time. Since Zaun is technically still part of Piltover, getting married would include having to go up there and getting into so much paperwork that most people just. don't do that shit. it's not like they have any insurance so might as well save themselves the trip.

Jayce is, unfortunately, a piltie. He wants to get hitched. Big ass loud wedding. Invite everyone they know. He brings this up, trying to be discreet. He's horrible at discretion. He doesn't push, content with just being with Viktor and not wanting to push too hard. The idea lingers for a long, long time, though.

I'm still unsure of how that ends. The current plan is to have them do a small ceremony with their immediate "family" (Singed, Sevika, Silco, Jinx, Jayce's few friends) and then throwing a party in the last drop. What would probably sway Viktor into this is the thought of finally making it painfully obvious that Jayce is his and, well, seeing Jayce be happy.

Jayce is really good friends with the girls in the brothel. Sevika introduces them to him in hopes of getting him to cheat and comes back to find him doing their hair. He's actually really fucking grossed out by the whole concept of prostitution, always finding a bit of Caitlyn on every girl, and the image wrecks him. Any of them could be his baby sister. Bad lives with bad works and bad clients and bad health. He wants to help them, then crashes and realizes that there's only so much one man can do.

Jayce has the biggest fucking savior complex ever. It's literally becoming a problem. Viktor has to constantly restrain him from doing things that would stir the pot up too much. At least, not in public. Jayce is helping that teen mom. He turns around and Jayce is helping that old lady with the faulty eye. He blinks and Jayce is surrounded by children, trying to give candies to all of them. He looks at the side for a millisecond and Jayce is patching up someone's wounds.

While Viktor pretends to hate this, it's one of the main reasons why he loves this man. Jayce wants to help people as much as Viktor does. The knowledge makes him get dizzy with happiness every time he remembers that his partner is the kindest person he's ever met. He's infuriated by the fact that Jayce even has to do that stuff, angry that he never got that help when he needed it the most, ashamed and disappointed at himself for getting entangled with Silco, jealous of Jayce's ease with the public.

Viktor is actually really loved by the community. They do call him "The Herald" and avoid his eyes, but it's more out of respect than fear. They all know who he is, remember his scrawny knees and butched hair cut, and are thankful to him. He's done much more than he gives himself credit for.

Viktor developed an "air filter" mask to rey and give to all of Zaun. Silco only agreed to provide funding if the masks were only given to people who swear loyalty to his case and Viktor had to agree, with the condition that he could give out at least one a month to a person of his choice. This caused an almost immediate growth of Silco's army.

Viktor constantly offers Ekko a mask, endeared with the child and wanting him to be as happy as possible. Benzo makes Ekko deny it, knowing that some people might see it as a form of "siding" with them.

Viktor is CONSTANTLY going behind Silco's back to give his work to the people. CONSTANTLY. He is making prosthesis after prosthesis. Jayce's actions enrage him because he's created this beautifully woven lie to silco and here comes his idiot boyfriend being good in public. Like. Jayce. We're both gonna die if you keep this up.

Viktor gives Jayce even sharper canines. Like the second day they hangout together. And I mean ripping-skin kinda sharp. He's absolutely OBSESSED with Jayce's teeth in general and is constantly seen with his fingers in his partner's mouth, tracing over the sharp edges of his teeth, asking Jayce to "hold wide" while he analyzes. It always ends with them making out sloppy style.

Jayce wants to get a piercing. Everyone in here has cool body mods and all he has is a lil scar on the eyebrow. A brothel girl suggests, jokingly, that he should get nipple ones. Jayce stays silent for so long that all of them gasp at his blushing face.

Sevika actually develops a bit of a soft spot for Jayce. EVENTUALLY. after a LOT of time. He realizes this when she shoves a bottle of whiskey on his chest and tells him to "go get your man, he's passed out on his desk, muttering. I think he's got fever." They start accepting that the other cares about Viktor, which is enough to get to team up and appreciate one another.

Silco tries to be mysterious once (1) and comes in without knocking the door because he's pretty sure they are conspiring against his back (they are) and wants to catch them in the act. And catch them in the act he does. Just , well, the wrong one. Never again is he opening that fucking door. Never, ever again.

Their relationship is actually kinda toxic for a while. Viktor has to very explicitly tell Jayce that he wants him to work with him, not for him. He's always worried about Jayce's honesty and they have multiple fights over this. Have is also going through five identity crises at the same time and they have insane shit to build. They're also both fucking stubborn so they don't really talk a lot about those topics. It's not until Jayce gets his status as The Warden/Defender (haven't decided on his Zaun Title™ yet) that they become fully open with each other, which in turn brings even more fights. They are young and in love okay sue em. They EVENTUALLY get fully comfortable with who they are/the other is (their frontal cortex finishes developing), and when this happens every single Zaunite can feel it. The fucking ooze danger and kindness and electricity and calm.

Deep down, Jayce never stops waiting for the day they allow him back up again. Dreams of glass ceilings, hot running water, reliable public transportation, and so much more. He wants jinx to go to the playground and make friends. Thankfully, he's not naive enough to try and get back, instead focusing on trying to make that possible in here.

He actually kinda related to Singed. He, too, would absolutely go batshit insane trying to get Viktor/Jinx back. Fuck en morals. If one of them was ever in that capsule Jayce would walk into the council rooms, break every window and smash any books before taking everything needed to get them back to health.

He's in a constant state of worry/admiration/horniness every single time Viktor speaks about a new invention. Like yeah baby that's funny please don't bring eugenics up. Specially not in the side of eugenics.

Jayce is HEAVILY projecting Cait onto Jinx. Jinx is HEAVILY projecting Vi onto him. They have the worst brother/sister relationship one has ever seen. Jayce can actually become overbearing, which is why Jinx ends up preferring to Viktor when advice is needed.

Jayce has decent aim with a gun (much like Viktor) but is absolutely fucking crazy at body-on-body combat. Making sevika actually work for her win kind of good.

Also: everyone exclusively refers to Viktor as "herald" when he's anywhere. It's almost a term of endearment. He quite likes it.

They are both constantly telling Silco that "I'm just a teen!" Is not an appropriate response to dealing with Jinx's attempt of murder.

Jayce goes, in disguise, to check up on his mom. He watches for afar and cries for the whole day, when he does. Viktor tries to come by sometimes. The only thing he regrets of leaving away Piltover iis the spot he left in his mother's life.

The first time Jinx sees Viktor have a full own health attack she goes crazy. He starts coughing up blood and almost passing out, falling to the floor while scrambling for his cane. He knows he's not going to die right now but conveying this is kinda heard when you're grasping for air. Jinx wails over his body. She's screaming for Dad and for Jayce and for Sevika in such a raw, loud way that Viktor has nightmares with her voice for days. Jayce is so deeply disturbed by Jinx's state that he sleeps in her room for a few days, watching over her, trying to stay awake on a couch in the corner, watching her toss and turn in her sleep.

Bit of a nsfw warning: these bitches are LOUD. Not always, but when they do, they are animalistic loud. Begging and crying and pleading and sobbing kinda loud. There's chains. There's leather. There's everything. Viktor usually tops, but he doesn't mind it the other way around. Jayce stays obedient in each, so.

[wild-hues]

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.

[angrycloudloud]

Not me writing a JayVik post canon FanFic with "La Costa del Silencio" by Mago de Oz on repeat because in my mind Jayce singing this isn't too far from canon.

Like...

"Hagamos una revolución, que nuestro líder sea el sol (mientras te quede aliento, ve a buscar con el viento)

Y nuestro ejército sean mariposas (ayuda pues apenas queda tiempo)

Ven, quiero oír tu voz y si aún nos queda amor (mientras te quede aliento, ve a buscar con el viento)

Impidamos que esto muera (ayuda pues apenas queda tiempo)

Ven, quiero oír tu voz y si aún nos queda amor

Impidamos que esto muera

Ven, pues en tu interior está la solución

De salvar lo bello que queda"

Which in english would be something like:

"Let's make a revolution, let our leader be the sun (while you have breath left, go search with the wind)

And our army are butterflies (help because there is hardly any time left)

Come, I want to hear your voice and if we still have love (as long as you have breath left, go search with the wind)

Let's prevent this from dying (help because there is hardly any time left)

Come, I want to hear your voice and if we still have love

Let's stop this from dying

Come, because within you is the solution

To save the beauty that remains"

Look into my obsessed eyes and tell me i'm crazy when i can imagine Jayce singing this. Probably i'm just spanish, tired and delulu buuuuuuuuuut... Come on.