Caitlyn: Stop buying plastic skeletons for Halloween. It’s terrible for the environment.
Singed: *in the shadows* Yeah! Locally sourced, all natural skeletons are much more environmentally friendly. And I have a couple spare ones already. Look at you helping me save the environment and even better helping me save money. Thank you.
Caitlyn: That’s not what I- Never mind. Go crazy.
*Jayce and Viktor entering a dive bar*
Viktor: Look I know you’re disappointed but could we at least have a drink.
Jayce, in scuba diving suit: I would like to leave please.
Viktor: I just don’t understand why you would wear something like that.
Jayce: YOU DIDNT CLARIFY WHAT THE DRESS CODE WAS FOR OUR LITTLE OUTING. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND A SCUBA SUIT IN MY SIZE! I AM A BIG MAN VIKTOR! NO YOU EMBARRASSED ME AND THE SUIT IS RIDING AND ITS GIVING ME THIS WEIRD RASH-
Viktor: Alright we are leaving. Me and my big mouth.
Jayce: Look. I may not be a saint, but it’s not like I’ve killed anybody. I’m not an arsonist. I’ve never found a wallet outside an IHOP and thought about returning it but saw that the owner lived out of state so I just took the cash and dropped the wallet back on the ground.
Viktor: That’s weirdly specific. Are you sure you haven’t-
Jayce: I was just giving an example. No need to look too much into it.
Jayce: Bad things keep happening to me, like I have bad luck or something.
Viktor: Jayce, you don’t have bad luck. The reason bad things happen to you is because you’re a dumbass.
Jayce: Duly noted.
Jayce: I’m incredibly fast at math.
Viktor: Alright, what’s 30x17
Jayce: 295.
Viktor: That’s not even close.
Jayce: But it was fast.
Viktor: But-
Jayce: I SAID I WAS FAST AT MATH AND THAT WAS FAST. NO BUTS TAKE MY COOLNESS OR LEAVE IT.
Jayce, struggling to keep upright in his 1 inch heels: Yeah, I-I don’t really think heels are for me.
Vi: It’s cause your posture is all wrong and those shoes were made for smaller feet. We just need a bigger size.
Viktor, pointing at him and walking flawlessly in sparkly golden 6 inch heels: WEAK
Caitlyn rubbing her temples and sighing: What have I done to deserve this? Please tell me.
…
Caitlyn: GET OUT OF MY CLOSET. ALL OF YOU! NOW!
Jayce, holding in his laughter: Hey, how do you ask a glass of water what it’s doing?
Viktor: A glass of water is an inanimate object.Therefore, it’s incapable of having a thought process or understanding basic human language. Like you in more ways than one.
Jayce: …
Jayce: Water you doing?
Caitlyn: In your opinion, what’s the height of stupidity?
Viktor turning to Jayce: How tall are you?
Viktor, in a high voice, holding Barbie: Hey Ken! I was thinking about going back to school and starting a career.
Jayce, in a deep voice, holding Ken: Nonsense, Barbie. You’re staying home and having my kids.
Caitlyn: What the fuck are you guys doing?
Jayce: Playing systematic oppression
Viktor: Jayce, you’re testifying in an aggravated assault case tomorrow, and the DA is worried about how you will present yourself on the stand.
Jayce: Why? I’m fine on the stand?
*flashback to testimony #1*
Jayce: Look, I’ll make this real simple so even these dumdums can understand.
Jayce: MAN. DID. CRIME.
*flashback to testimony #2*
Jayce: I’m sorry, could you make her stop doing that weird thing with her face?
Mel, next to the crying defendant: … Crying?
*flashback to testimony #3
Jayce: And when this is over, I’m gonna find you and I’m gonna break all those little fingers.
Mel: Could the witness please stop threatening the stenographer?
Jayce: Question. When they shot Bambi’s mother, did you find that a sad moment … at all?
Viktor: I’m sure she’s mounted on a nice wall in a fine home somewhere.
Jayce: Can I be frank with you guys?
Viktor: Sure, but I don’t see how changing your name is gonna help.
Vi: Can I still be Vi?
Caitlyn: Shh, let Frank speak.
Jayce: If Mel and I were drowning, who would you save?
Viktor: You two can’t swim
Jayce: It’s a hypothetical question, Viktor! Who would you save?
Viktor: My time and effort.
Silco: What did you do with Vander’s body?
Sevika: What didn’t I do to Vander’s body?
Silco: …
Sevika: Okay, that sounded more sexual than I intended. I disposed of the corpse respectfully.
Viktor: Jayce and I have the kind of easy chemistry where we finish each other’s-
Jayce: Sentences.
Viktor: Don’t interrupt me.
Fellas is it gay to cross dimensions and time just to find the man who would be your partner in every universe in order to give him the rune that will eventually destroy you and stop you from ending the world in your own corrupted quest to cure the sickness of humanity and yourself only to in the end merge into light and cosmic dust together?
This is literally Viktor and Jayce and some ppl still don’t ship them
i love the ending of Arcane!!
locked the fuck back in
there’s a fanfic by the same name that i need more people to read
stay your pretty eyes on course
no looking back, orpheus. you promised ▋
there's meta to be had about just how much of viktor's arc is about loneliness and the blatant visuals they use in his evolution about metamorphosis, butterflies, cocoons, in utero, etc, as he molts from a soft, vulnerable larva who keeps getting hurt in his bids for love and acceptance, into a hardened final form complete with an exoskeleton acting as both physical and emotional armor. a shield keeping his emotions in and the pain of loneliness and rejection out, until it's cracked and his humanity is forcefully exposed. like. sorry if it's just the entomologist in me but this was blatantly obvious the very first time i watched the show and I've been continually surprised that no one's really pointed this out. as a certified lonely person it struck such a deep cord with me, when he accepted his fate, his path ahead, to be one he'd have to walk alone, finally putting up that last seemingly impenetrable wall around his soft parts (but keeping the blanket, this signal that he never asked for this, and that he's not unreachable). So much of his s2 arc centered around not just his desire to right his wrongs and help the world, but to connect with others and not feel alone, both of which got twisted by the hexcore. His attempt to create a hivemind where no one would ever suffer loneliness or rejection or loss, and he would feel their souls with him as well (even though that was an illusion in the end, he truly believed it). The whole 'I now speak with all their voices' but he's just floating in an empty space. And for the consequence of the glorious evolution to be eternal solitude, it just drives home how that's the worst possible fate imaginable for Viktor.
Do you think Jayce was hoping The Mage would come back?
I mean Jayce Talis has spent most of his life living in a city that built to defend itself from Mages who used their powers for evil. Piltover is not Demacia but it is an Anti-Magic society. I'll bet you anything when children were caught "pretending" to be mages they were punished or reprimanded. To Piltover the Arcane was Dangerous and could only destroy not create.
But Jayce's first experience of Magic is when a Mage decided to save him and his mother from a Blizzard. Then he was give a Hex crystal and we can assume the mage just dissappeared without a goodbye. He wanted to thank him. To show his gratitude because that is who Jayce Talis is, someone who loves so much and so deeply that he dosen't always know what to do with it or show it properly but boy does he try!
There was no way he could search for a teleporting Mage outside of Piltover. Did he hope that maybe, just maybe the Mage would appear to Jayce once again.
But there's no way a Mage would come to Piltover. Piltover hates Mages! Why would one ever want to come here? But what if Jayce could change it?
The Mage showed him the Magic can be Harnessed for Good. Why can't he use Science, Piltover's bread and butter, to Harness Magic. Show them all The Mage doesn't have to be feared. That he could make this city a place the Mage could come to and find Jayce again.
No matter how many people brushed off Jayce's dreams as childish at best or dangerous at worst, he never stopped believing in magic in a city like Piltover. He somehow found the same kind of crystal the mage gave him. He somehow convinced Viktor and Mel that his dreams could be reality.
His first BIG Hextech invention? Hex Gates. Teleportation Magic. That changes the Piltover Skyline for all to see. Was he hoping the Mage would come back through the Hex Gates?
Come to find out The Mage came back and was with him all this time in a city that always hated him but not for magic? That he gave his savior the tools to save his past self!
(Bonus. He also made it a place Mel felt safe enough to return to even though she was a mage! That would of never happened before Hextech!)
Edit: When he thought his chance to change Piltover was over before it could even start, he took off the bracelet and left a goodbye letter. That we never got to read. Did it say anything about the bracelet? He didn't want to be buried with it? Did he want the Mage to have it back? Just for it to be returned to him before he could leave?
I didn’t see anyone else do this, but I have many thoughts about an Arcane Fate AU.
The concept is that Hextech and the story of the two sisters took place roughly 100 years ago, and during that time, Zaun gained independence. Because of this, characters like Jinx and Vi are now historical/folk figures in Piltover and Zaun.
The Holy Grail Ritual is a fancy competition between Piltover families to show themselves off. They usually select representatives with sufficient magical abilities to compete, and they use Servants as familiars in battles. However, in this particular Holy Grail Ritual, something went wrong, and some Servants ended up being summoned by unintended individuals (people from Zaun).
The Master-Servant pairings and classes would look something like this
Piltover:
Viktor - Jayce - ????? Caster
Mel - Lest/Leblanc - Assassin/Pretender (what i mean is Leblanc is pretending to be Lest and that her class is assassin)
Caitlyn - Vi - Saber or Shielder i am not sure about this
Zaun:
Isha - Jinx - Archer
Ekko - Heimerdinger - Rider
Singed - Warwick - Berserker
and special guest:
Ambessa - Arcane Herald - claiming to be saviour those who are more familiar with the fate series could probably guess his true class
VIKTOR | JERICHO | ARCANE
Please enjoy this edit here on Tumblr in full. ❤️ Focusing on the GLORIOUS EVOLUTION of Viktor (with lots of Jayce too, because you can't have one without the other). HOW are these lyrics so perfect?
Update: We have a link to a NEW extended version on Youtube (the only way we could make the audio work there was to add 12 seconds to the middle of our edit at 0:51) under the cut:
Update: We FINALLY found a solution to YouTube blocking/muting our audio. 🥳 Apparently cutting 12 seconds from the second verse was enough of an edit that the filters were rejecting it. We have an EXTENDED edition going live on Dec 27 with those 12 seconds added back in (new content begins at 0:51 secs).
Other places to watch (original version)
Patreon (public, no login needed): https://www.patreon.com/posts/viktor-jericho-118392578
Tiktok Part 1: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8NbxnBt/
Tiktok Part 2: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8NbnQQd/
Twitter: https://x.com/VidDuality/status/1871194052923670966
For the wonderfully talented people online, can I request an edit of Arcane characters in general with the song For Good, from Wicked, please?
happy new year javik nation and Jayce apologists its me the number 1 defender. He is so cute in season one wtf wtf wf jhfkvdjhv i keep taking screenshots i love my latino husband they can never make me hate you
HE IS SO CUTE COME ONN
(ik its a cat and not a dog but the dog legit t looked stupid when i drew it, sorry :(()
Jayce has just crawled out of the depths of hell, with one thing on his mind: Viktor. Featuring the conversation that takes place when Jayce finds Viktor at the Commune to kill him.
“Mortality, huh? What about humanity? Have any of that?”
Jayce says, his eyes narrowing. He knows he’s being irrational. He knows Viktor isn’t inherently evil. But he’s terrified of the destruction the Hexcore can do. He knows it will ruin everything. And he knows Viktor will be the one to start that cascade.
“You were the last of my humanity, Jayce,” Viktor says, his tone cold but filled with unspoken emotion as looked straight into Jayce's eyes.
At that, Jayce does flinch. Damn it, that cut deeper than he would have liked. He wanted to bite back with something cutting, but he knew that would be cruel. But he’s just so tired. And so angry.
“Ironic, considering I was the one who took it away from you.” He says, bitterness in his tone.
The Last of my Humanity
Jayce has just crawled out of the depths of hell, with one thing on his mind: Viktor. Featuring the conversation that takes place when Jayce finds Viktor at the Commune to kill him.
“Mortality, huh? What about humanity? Have any of that?”
Jayce says, his eyes narrowing. He knows he’s being irrational. He knows Viktor isn’t inherently evil. But he’s terrified of the destruction the Hexcore can do. He knows it will ruin everything. And he knows Viktor will be the one to start that cascade.
“You were the last of my humanity, Jayce,” Viktor says, his tone cold but filled with unspoken emotion as looked straight into Jayce's eyes.
At that, Jayce does flinch. Damn it, that cut deeper than he would have liked. He wanted to bite back with something cutting, but he knew that would be cruel. But he’s just so tired. And so angry.
“Ironic, considering I was the one who took it away from you.” He says, bitterness in his tone.
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Jayce has just crawled out of the depths of hell, with one thing on his mind: Viktor. Featuring the conversation that takes place when Jayce finds Viktor at the Commune to kill him.
“Mortality, huh? What about humanity? Have any of that?” He says, his eyes narrowing. He knows he’s being irrational. He knows Viktor isn’t inherently evil. But he’s terrified of the destruction the Hexcore can do. He knows it will ruin everything. And he knows Viktor will be the one to start that cascade.
“You were the last of my humanity, Jayce,” Viktor says, his tone cold but filled with unspoken emotion as looked straight into Jayce's eyes.
At that, Jayce does flinch. Damn it, that cut deeper than he would have liked. He wanted to bite back with something cutting, but he knew that would be cruel. But he’s just so tired. And so angry.
“Ironic, considering I was the one who took it away from you.” He says, bitterness in his tone.