#hc: viktor

[byteing]

fun fact: although viktor doesn’t generally initiate touch with anyone and usually avoids receiving it, he does like having his hair petted and his hands massaged. his scalp is one of the few places on his body that doesn’t hurt at all, and his hands are just generally sensitive (and overworked; it feels nice to have them squished).

[formshaper]

hc. viktor

as his illness progresses, sitting up for long periods of time (let alone standing) becomes an exercise in agony because of the pressure it places on his spine. his ideal position is lying relatively horizontal--though he struggles to actually do this around other people, partly because he feels like he 'shouldn't' (because people are 'supposed' to sit upright etc), and partly because he hates people seeing him be obviously, openly in pain (despite the fact that he is very obviously physically ill, has a constant squint from being in pain, will sort of suddenly laugh in pain at times, etc. it's complicated)

[noodles-and-tea]

[amikoroyaiart]

Sharing body heat 🥺💕

[isolabellz]

[transthatmasc]

I love the concept that Viktor ends up with Jayce’s last name through some originally non-romantic means so much that I have multiple versions.

Jayce accidentally gives Viktor his last name by being so insistent on putting Viktor’s name first in every circumstance. When he’s listing their names on anything he puts them down as “Viktor and Jayce Talis”. When he introduces them to people he says “Nice to meet you, this is Viktor and I’m Jayce Talis” with a pause before Talis because he always forgets that he should say his house name too. Viktor slowly starts to notice that they’re referred to in the tabloids as “the Talises” and that higher ups at the academy will introduce him to investors as “Viktor Talis” without Jayce even being there.

When they first start working together, they put their initials next to things in their shared notes to mark when they have questions or agree with something the other wrote, or to differentiate when someone is dictating while the other talks. In an effort to not have it confused with a variable, Viktor initials VT (VikTor) as a bit of a joke to look similar to Jayce’s JT. However, one day when Heimerdinger is looking over their notes, he marks out a question in the margin for Viktor with “Viktor Talis” written out next to it in full. Viktor and Jayce debate for a moment after he leaves if it was supposed to mean it was for both of them, but the contents of the question makes it entirely clear that Heimerdinger things VT stands for Viktor Talis and has accepted that Viktor has adopted Jayce’s last name with no questions.

At the beginning of Hextech, as they are trying to get investors, Viktor regularly gets identified as being from the undercity and harassed for it by wealthy Pilties when he tells them his name is “just Viktor” when asked what house he is from. So one day Jayce suggests just telling investors that his last name is also Talis, thinking that people will assume they are brothers. Viktor gets flustered and tries to politely decline, but Jayce seems to confident that he lets it happen. It takes him weeks to figure out that Jayce doesn’t realize that everyone thinks they’ve gotten married or plan to. Viktor doesn’t have the heart to tell him and won’t let Mel break the illusion.

Jayce takes Viktor on a tour of the forge and when he gets done takes a hammer to jokingly knight him and dub him “officially part of house Talis” Jayce thinks nothing of it until the next time they meet someone new together when he almost spits out his drink hearing Viktor introduce himself as “Viktor Talis”

Some investor that they fucking hate can’t keep their names straight for some reason but always sees Jayce wearing his house sigil so he says “ah, Viktor Talis” every time he sees Jayce. They find it so fucking funny that even just saying “Viktor Talis” sends them into uncontrollable laughter.

Ximena refers to them exclusively as “my boys” to the point that most people who met her after Hextech was founded assume that she has two sons, Jayce Talis and Viktor Talis. She doesn’t feel the need to correct them as she does truly love them both as her children and is also quietly hoping one day Jayce will get his head out of his ass and ask Viktor out on a date.

[bean-spring]

Hot take and not to be a killjoy or the shipping police but people treating Viktor or Jinx's aroace headcanons as if they were canon is not the revolutionary take people think it is.

Headcanons are always all right but we have to acknowledge that they are somehow damaging when they apply to stereotypes. It might not be the case for everyone but most of the time people unconsciously assume that disability/mental illness=asexuality. These headcanons erase the freedom of attraction from people who are already seen as unable to have sexual/romantic experiences/desires, when it's completely untrue and harmful.

You can headcanon Viktor and Jinx as aroace, but I have seen people changing their minds once Viktor is no longer disabled (s2 with all of his other forms) and Jinx is no longer as mentally ill (alternate universe Powder). And it speaks wonders of how people see these characters.

"I never thought about Jinx being able to feel romantic/sexual attraction until s2!" To believe she's actually only capable of that when she's not "damaged" is incredibly disturbing. Especially since Jinx has always had a bit of a flirty personality too.

"I've always seen Viktor as asexual, I don't know why!" That's fine. You can headcanon him as ace. But I believe there is a reason behind it, most of the time, if for some inexplicable reason the "vibes" of the disabled character are making you think he's ace.

I say all of this being aroaspec myself, by the way. Headcanon all you want but going to people's posts commenting how "it's weird for you that they have romantic/sexual plots when they're clearly aroace" is not a win at all. It's a headcanon, after all, and it should be treated as such, and that's fine. But it also is damaging to spread stereotypes like these.

Of course the disabled character is asexual. Of course the mentally ill character is aromantic. It's not as revolutionary as you might think, tbh.

Fandom is not activism and it's all right to have any headcanons you want BUT some of them are filled with damaging stuff and perhaps we should look into ourselves more before treating these assumptions as something canon.

[astrocomiical]

since its canon that jayce draws viktor in his notes, im a firm believer viktor has seen them while searching for specific notes on their work and promptly adds snarky replies below them, “my hair doesnt look like that,” “you got my jawline wrong,” “why is my gaze so seductive in this.”

[enthyrea]

viktor visits jayce in the forge. jayce gets distracted

[lorddetaur]

A Happy Family

[jm-chrome]

Do you guys think they gave each other flowers when the other graduated from the academy? 💐🥹

[byteing]

i wish we’d gotten to know more about viktor’s pre-academy life. he’s from the undercity yes, probably somewhere near the river, but where? what was his childhood like? who were his parents or guardians, if he had them? how did he get into the academy at all? I NEED TO KNOW.

like obviously i can make headcanons for these things, of course i can, but i still wish we knew a Single Thing yknow.

i think currently my headcanon is that he just never talks about it. he talks in vague terms about determination and belief in himself leading him to secure his place at the academy, but nothing prior to that. he doesn’t talk about his family or even whether he even has any. he evades questions, shrugs or laughs things off or deflects. he might say he was tinkering with inventions even as a child but he’ll never say what he was like as a child.

and while he’s from the undercity, it’s telling that he doesn’t go back there except to see singed when he absolutely has to. he never speaks of having other connections there, never has anywhere he wants to visit there. it’s as if he crawled out of the fissures and into piltover from nothing, nowhere. as nobody.

[glytrp]

viktor would be so direct about physical affection and I cannot get over the thought of him keeping it so real.

maybe it's a rainy day, you're both stuck inside. maybe you're both bored, and maybe there's some tension.

"want to have sex?" he’d ask, eyes still on the pages of the book in his hand.

no lead up. no previous indication of wanting to fuck, but he wants it, and he sure as hell isn't afraid to say it. and he's like that with everythingggg okay, he does not sugar coat a single word that comes out of his pretty little lips.

"right now?"

then he'd finally look up, a half shrug, "yea?"

you'd take a moment to think about it, then nod.

"I'll give you a head start to the bedroom."

"don't be a dick." he'd scoff, but then get up and go to the bedroom because he likes when someone is mean to him. and you can be quite mean.

[froegs]

“ he and i are so similar. we are both so stubborn „

[zonezyo]

when the gold rays fell on your skin…

[nebulatrifid]

One of my favorite bits of League of Legends lore is the discrepancy in Jayce's and Viktor's wiki bios in regards to their relationship with each other. In the game lore, Jayce and Viktor worked together at the Academy but became enemies after a series of events (several disagreements, Jayce tried to kill Viktor, long story).

Anyways Jayce's bio states that he and Viktor were friends but had a falling out and are now enemies. Meanwhile Viktor's details that while at the academy he hated Jayce so much and could not stand his Piltover arrogance. After working together Viktor gained a mutual respect for Jayce, but still didn't like him, and after a series of events now considers him his enemy. And like, yeah. Jayce would assume he and Viktor were friends while Viktor clearly disliked him. That's just Jayce's character. And Viktor would go through an entire arc where he gained an understanding for Jayce even if Jayce was unaware it was happening. I just picture:

Viktor: You know Jayce, I understand we had our disagreements but I realize now you have many valuable insights to provide to the world of science. I am sorry for disregarding you.

Jayce: We had disagreements?

Viktor: Yes... I called you a flamboyant Pilte several times.

Jayce: Oh, I just thought that was a compliment.

Viktor: I was constantly trying to get you removed from our shared projects.

Jayce: I assumed you were looking out for my mental health, making sure I wasn't overworking myself.

Viktor: I would purposely give you uncaffeinated coffee so you would be too tired to stay late and allow me to work in peace.

Jayce: Which I appreciated. Really helped me break my caffeine addiction, and now I have a normal sleep schedule. Thanks for that!

Viktor: ???