Sees An Alternate Universe Created Specifically For Ekko/Jinx

sees an alternate universe created specifically for Ekko/Jinx

"hm, how can I make this about CaitJinx"

After Jayce and Vi die in the explosion, Caitlyn wants to make sure this kind of thing never happens again. Instead of becoming an enforcer, she gets her mother to use their families influence to actually improve things for the Undercity (helped out by time-displaced Heimerdinger). Through her efforts she meet Powder, the two recognizing each other from the explosion. The two bond over their mutual grief over losing a sibling/sibling-like figure. Followed by usual CaitJinx shipping dynamics (just a little less toxic).

This is a shipping post, but honestly I think the two could also have a really nice platonic bond. I honestly just wish we at least got a glimpse at what happened to Caitlyn in the other timeline.

Sees An Alternate Universe Created Specifically For Ekko/Jinx

Uber quick guide to writing Lux in fanfic:

For writers looking for a quick 'how do I get this character to feel right' in a fanfic context, irregardless of AU or setting, and not getting into her considerable lore / history right now, just a quick shorthand guide to Lux. If you give her these traits, you can't go wrong:

Snarky autistic book nerd.

Expertly masking as perpetually sunny cheerleader archetype

Girl looks and acts like Demacia Barbie.

But would 1000% rather be curled up in a mountain of books than talking to you right now.

especially if your name starts with an E and ends in 'real' or rhymes with Sparrow Fightweather.

At least according to every single one of her relevant voice lines.

Fond of silly puns.

May without provocation go into a 30 minute geekout rant about light physics.

Also a bit of a rebellious horse girl. If she's not curled up with a book she's off doing something outdoorsy and feeling the wind in her hair.

Bottomless curiosity about history, culture, nature, art and science, and especially about other places and peoples.

Deeply interested in people at their most authentic, probably out of a yearning for the authenticity, community and connection she doesn't really have, would trade a royal ball for a village festival in a heartbeat if only she could.

But is scared of letting people close, for obvious reasons.

A LOT more of a loner than one would imagine looking at her. She can play socialite out of Duty and Expectation but only because she's had to.

She has few, if any, actual friends.

Is every bit as sweet, kind and compassionate as she seems, but can and will verbally (sometimes literally) burn you to the ground if you push her to it. Especially in defense of someone in trouble.

Has troubled history with her family / society but deeply, loyally loves both, the friction of which is her core trauma.

Cute, bright, and stubborn as a donkey made of rocks. If she plants her feet, mountains will move out of her way.

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bouberi

1 month ago

Started binging Brooklyn 99

I haven’t shipped a hetero couple so much until Jake/Amy but then… Then Rosà and Amy spent time together that Halloween then they were cute and then she shopped dresses in s5 and it all went down hill and I’m in pain and the NBC is so good and fair and keep giving me great moments instead of reinforcing Amy’s straightness wtf stop treating me this way I’m a glutton

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bouberi

2 months ago

(I’m a Hispanic woman for context) I can also see fem! Jayce plucking her eyebrows so they don’t look thick, shaving everyday, and straightening her hair everyday even though it’s naturally wavy/curlier (pretty much trying to conform to societal femininity so she’d be taken seriously)

So after being trapped in the arcane, her eyebrows are thicker and her hair is noticeable not straight. Like Jayce, she’s not bogged down by being the golden girl, so she cuts her hair to be the length Jayce has his at the end of the series etc

Oh I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!! Yeah a big inspiration for my take on fem!Jayce is this absolutely STUNNING Hispanic woman I have as a colleague, she's always perfect, perfect hair, perfect eyebrows, perfect outfits, perfect makeup, and she has the same complexion and hair as Jayce.

I absolutely agree on the plucked eyebrows to thin them out, I keep emphasizing that at least my vision for fem!Jayce isn't just "Jayce with boobs" like, no, it's about keeping to restrictive gendered beauty standards regardless of presenting as masculine or feminine.

Like, Jayce isn't just a dude, he presents as a very specific kind of clean cut, socially acceptable but still very masculine guy. Fem!Jayce, by contrast, would IMO present as socially acceptable feminine until s/he stopped giving a fuck after the Anomaly Future. Like, no matter how you slice it, a huge part of Jayce's is arc is getting to the moment where he says, "With respect, I don't give a shit what any of you think about me anymore."

So yes yes yes, I absolutely love the image of the long straightened hair, the plucked eyebrows, and I've mentioned before, the perfect makeup, the perfect high society dresses at events with the Talis House sigil emblazoned on it, spending a ton of time getting her appearance right so she is Taken Seriously.

And then, finally, after the Anomaly Future when she'd just focused on saving Viktor (or Viktoria?) and saving the world, fuck it, fuck all of it, she's wearing a widow's black shirt and pants just like male Jayce, she's stopped plucking her eyebrows, there's no makeup, no painted nails (that she once did to hide the soot from the forge), she's cutting her hair short or tying it back and there's no more straightening it, she's wearing armor and she's on a mission and she doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks about her.

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bouberi

1 month ago

Ou shit im trying to save rn nooooo…:…. nauhhhhhh……