Jayce Talis - Blog Posts
someone on twitter said Imagine what s2 jayce would give to talk to s1 viktor just one more time. and someone had a time travel alternate dimension fic ready to go. and i read it. and now my face is being eaten by 3750 feral dogs i think
this came to me in a dream
Vintage Jayce and Viktor, in their early days
Hexcore version of my recent Jayce portrait ✨
There is no prize to perfection… only an end to pursuit.
genuinely going insane about how "we're scholars, not soldiers" (Babel, RF Kuang) fits in with Arcane. something something Jinx and Ekko are both brilliant prodigies born in an environment that forced them to be fighters something something Jayce and Viktor, for all their involvement in the conflict, were still inventors at heart something something
Heimerdinger had to 'die' in the other dimension because if he came back with Ekko he would've derailed the entire arc with one sentence.
Heimerdinger, to Jayce: My boy...I'm afraid we have to go put my former assistant out of his misery. For the greater good.
Jayce [was about to go kill Viktor]: He's my partner. And I'm afraid I can't let you do that.
Heimerdinger: That's not up to you, my boy, but for what it's worth, I'm sorry it had to come to this.
Jayce: me too.
And then Heimerdinger gets the Salo special.
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Basically, like what happens when parents tell their kids to clean their room RIGHT when they're about to do it themselves, Jayce loses all motivation to kill Viktor when Heimerdinger says it's the only option.
S1E9 TimeTravel AU - Jayce enlists Jinx to blow up the HexGates. Cait and Vi bond over their siblings going crazy. Silco is tired.
Ekko arrives a bit earlier just as Jayce is shooting Viktor in the chest. Jayce gets sent back in time somehow from the combined power of the Z-Drive and the Commune's collective death.
Jayce's consciousness rockets back in time and splices with his younger self just as he's finished 'negotiating' with Silco. Still reeling from his Arcane induced-trauma and killing his partner as well as who knows how many people by proxy, he arrives half feral and about 99.7% convinced he's either hallucinating or in Runeterra's version of Hell.
Jayce, canonically suicidal, Talis comes to the conclusion that he needs to blow up the Hex Gates and that the resulting explosions will either jar him out of his hallucination or finally put him out his misery and let him join Viktor.
Unfortunately, after months spent in isolation in an apocalyptic future, Jayce has gained an unfortunate habit of talking to himself as he figures out problems.
And Silco has been standing there the whole time.
Silco reiterates that he's not going to give up Jinx and Jayce just goes 'I don't give a fuck about her anymore' and attempts to leave.
Silco is absolutely befuddled by Jayce's complete personality change, but refuses to show it. After raising Jinx, he's learned a few methods for bringing people back from the edge. And considering his investment in getting access to the Hex Gates, he is very unwilling to let Jayce just walk away.
Especially when Jayce mentions he's supposed to be dead.
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Silco convinces Jayce he'll need an explosions expert and that he'd never be able to blow up all the Hex Gates by himself. Jayce holds resentment for Jinx blowing up his partner and pseudo-sister's mom but had calmed down enough to realize that if he was in the past, it would be better to be close to Jinx and prevent history from repeating itself.
Cue Silco and Sevika having to wrangle Arcane-ified Jayce and Shimmered Jinx and prevent them both from causing Hexplosions.
Jayce, dis-illusioned with the Council, decides it would be faster to just pull a Viktor and 'not ask for permission' before destroying Hextech. He tells Silco that if he's willing to help destroy the Hex Gates, he'll give him his nation of Zaun -- and pardon Jinx.
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Elsewhere, in Piltover, Viktor has collapsed in the lab and entered a coma. There's a strange pattern on his chest and back. Almost as if he'd been shot with a very powerful energy blast from a very large hammer. But no injury, it was as if it had already been healed.
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When Jinx kidnaps Cait and Vi, Jayce is the one to ask her to spare Cait and let her leave. But also, the one to stop Cait from shooting Jinx.
"Stand down, Sprout."
"What are you doing! She's killed people Jayce."
"So have I. And I need her." Jayce is still suffering hallucinations and time-travel-induced jetlag, so in the tense moment he forget when he is and admits to killing Salo and blowing a hole through Viktor's chest.
Caitlyn is more shocked by the latter, "You-you killed Viktor?" She liked Viktor as a friend, they got along despite their differences. "Why? Why would you do that!"
Jayce, dissociating and in complete sincerity, "Because I needed to save him."
Following that insane response, Jayce slowly walks toward Cait with a pleading look in his eye, "Jinx is going to help me destroy HexTech and then we can save everyone. And then I can focus on curing Viktor!"
Cait looks into Jayce's -her brother's- eyes and understands Vi a little bit more, her desperation to see the good in Jinx.
Caitlyn can see her brother in this stranger's eyes, but he feels miles away. She has no idea how she's going to reach him.
do i save this to my tarot collection
or my arcane blog.
IM GOING INSANEEE
This is so pretty and cute and omg!!!!
the way Victor's eyes looked worried/thinking before he lept into the kiss, his eyes looking at Jayce's lips, just a slight moment of hesitation and thought before he did it
How Victor looked worried, before both him and jayace smiled at eachother
Jayces eyes crinkling slightly as he smiled, realising that Victor had kissed him, before peppering him with kisses, making vicor laugh with joy and amusement as jayce kissed him
Their expressions are so beautiful 😭😭
I'm in love with this omggg
i promised you 🦋
(crossposting from x, bsky, & ig)
As an ace person myself: ignore it. Please. I promise we won’t get mad.
PSA please stop acting like Viktor is "confirmed" ace when the only person who ever said that was Christian Bigot Linke a couple of days ago on some obscure podcast in a desperate attempt to stop JayVik shipping after the show was finished.
Literally no one else who worked on the show has said that, actually they've stated the opposite...
Please don't give this man more power than he actually has (which really isn't much??)
JAYVIK NATION, STOP IT.
“In all timelines, in all possibilities
Only you can show me this.”
Only you...
In all timelines, in all possibilities
one, tries to fly, away and the other...
two birds on a wire
THE WAY THE BOTTLE FLEW TO MY HAND, I'M SICK.
"Remember the Innovators competition?"
"I remember you,"
Hi so what do you mean the innovators competition that au ekko and powder danced and fell in love in is the same one jayce and viktor went to in the canon universe haha what do you mean. haha what do you. what do. you.
tiktok credit to: @naxa._439 (if anyone wants to make a fic based on this PLEASE im begging u)
I cannot believe the people that compared Jayce with that one guy from the croods were right. HE DID GO APESHIT. BRO IS GOING THROUGH IT.
in all timelines in all possibilities only you can show me this
Innovators
That’s exactly what I thought about his speech as well!
I mean, Jayce was literally straight up telling Viktor that he was always beautiful to him. With all of his different sides, problems and quirks. Including his disability. Differently than Viktor, I think it’s pretty clear that he never saw Viktor’s disability as anything that made him “lesser” than anyone else. Sure, he wanted to help Viktor “fix” his illness so he could like, LIVE. But he never wanted to turn Viktor into someone non-disabled, he didn’t see the need for it, because Viktor’s disability is simply a part of him, not a problem to “fix” and forget about. Jayce’s entire speech is pretty much a rejection of that the idea of perfection that Viktor seemingly carried with himself for years.
Pretty much “You don’t need to be perfect to be lovable, you don’t need to be perfect for me to love you. Because if you were perfect, you wouldn’t be YOU.”
I don’t often make my own posts, but I’ve been going a little insane about some of the posts I’ve been seeing about Jayce’s speech to Viktor in the finale.
So many people are like “um, Viktor had a terminal illness, how can Jayce tell him he was never broken??? He was DYING??”
And like, yeah. He was. But this isn’t Jayce ignoring that.
He’s acknowledging it by telling Viktor: You aren’t defined by your illness. You might have felt like you were lesser, or broken, or imperfect because of it, but I need you to know that you’re worth just as much as anyone else. And I understand everything you’ve done, because you’ve been hurting. And I love you anyway.
He’s not saying “your illness didn’t matter”. He’s saying “just because you were disabled doesn’t mean you’re worth less”.
I thought it was actually a really beautiful way of tackling the way that people who are disabled or chronically ill are viewed by others, or even by themselves: either defined entirely by their disability/illness, or considered lesser. Or how disabled/ill people are only allowed to be happy and inspirational messages that people can do anything, or they have to be sad figures incapable of anything and only deserving of pity. And this is Jayce saying no, that isn’t all you are. He’s showing Viktor that he sees all of the complexity, and the hurt, and he sees ALL of who Viktor is.
Anyway, I’m tired, and this isn’t all articulated perfectly, but I wanted to throw it out there.
what if i was evil but we were so damn gay that all it takes to return me to your side is a montage of what we used to be
I understand why Viktor and Mel like him now
Jayce and Viktor are definetly gonna get the Jonmartin treatment in the sense of "They disappeared and we didn't see a body so they're actually just in a different universes and they're happy and alive and very gay"
How the fuck did Jayce Talis pull not one but two of the most gorgeous people in the whole of Piltover