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“I think we should go to the beach together,” Jayce says, in a rushed sentence.
Then Jayce adds, “To study.”
And then, after another beat, Jayce concludes, “Crustaceans.”
Viktor stares. Then clarifies, bewildered, “For the Hexclaw?”
“Yeah,” Jayce says, gripping the back of his neck. Viktor notes that Jayce is not far off from the color of a steamed crustacean himself, at the moment. “For the Hexclaw.”
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24 Oct 2025
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Jayce Talis made his fortune with the Hexgates, but is now an indolent playboy, as corrupt and scheming as the rest of Piltover's elite; at least by day. By night he is the Defender of Tomorrow, using secret Hextech weaponry to strike back against the city's oppressors.
The Herald fights for the people of the Undercity every night, using strange rune magic to overwhelm the rampant crime. By day he is just Viktor, a wearied scientist running a medical clinic for those who cannot afford care.
The Defender and Herald are bitter enemies, only restrained by the thin truce between their cities. But when a class war begins to loom once again, the two are forced to work together to save both their respective homes.
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20 Oct 2025
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Lying in a field of green grass, Jayce looks over at Viktor and implores, “Can that please be the worst year of our entire lives?”
Viktor stares up at the blue sky, eyes golden again, no longer swimming with myriad colors.
Viktor asks, after a long pause, “Has it been a year?”
Day 7 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week: Rescue (Trauma Aftermath)
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- Part 7 of Jayvik Hurt/Comfort Week 2025
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19 Oct 2025
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21 Sep 2025
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The Mage keeps walking, and Jayce panics; he shoves the stone in his pocket and runs ahead, seizing the Mage by the back of his robes. “Please, mister,” he says. “Thank you for saving me, but my mom—she went out to look for help and didn’t come back—do you know where she is?”
The Mage turns around to look at him, then behind him, as if to confirm that Jayce is, indeed, alone. Jayce tries to peer up into his hood, but there’s something about the way the light bends around his face—it’s like he can’t look directly at him, no matter how hard he tries.
“She might be lost,” Jayce says. “Please, could you—whatever you just did, could you find her, too?”
Baby!Jayce gets separated from his mother in the storm. Mage!Viktor takes care of him.
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30 Jul 2025
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A lot of this new existence is involuntary. A lot of it is outside of his control. Changing and chirping and glowing and wanting and starving in ways Viktor wouldn't allow if he had any say in it. Actively rooted out from himself when he did have a say in it.
He'd like to say grabbing Jayce, pressing him to the mattress, pinning him there to taste his supple, enticing mouth was involuntary as well. But that would be a lie, wouldn't it?
Alternatively: Post-canon, alive in a different universe, the machine Herald goes through a metamorphosis, grows some fun new parts, and is tormented by how much he'd like to use those new parts on Jayce. Thankfully, Jayce is more than eager to earn his monsterfucker card.
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- Part 1 of Instincts
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12 Jul 2025
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Four Million Miles from Here by LiteralWho
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
09 Jan 2025
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What has Viktor done to deserve this? At what point did Jayce come to value him so highly? Somehow, this bond of theirs grew so gradually, so subtly, escaping Viktor’s notice as it entwined itself into every facet of their lives, strangling all else with its roots until only its verdant bloom remained.
“Let me go, Jayce.”
The grip on him tightens. “I won’t.”
No. He’s made that quite clear. Viktor lacks the strength to shake him off; if he tried, Jayce would surely release him, but to rob Jayce of his sole source of comfort would not be right, nor good, and so Viktor waits. A minute passes, then two, then four.
The rune swallows them up, and abandons them in an unfamiliar land. Is this not what they wanted? With naught but the clothes on their backs, they are left to wander. To wonder.
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- Part 2 of Two in Durance
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06 Jul 2025
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In the after, there were bad days, but at least they were together.
During the day, Jayce stress-baked, and Viktor stressed about Jayce. At night, they met in the middle, desperate to recapitulate the state of singularity they experienced in the arcane.
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30 Jun 2025
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motion on a circle by runesick (mitskook)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
08 Apr 2025
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jayce and viktor make a vow to finish their work, together. the arcane has other plans.
(some exploration of whatever 'forever holding each other in the infinite embrace of the arcane' actually means)
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16 Jun 2025
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There’s no problem at all with a fun fling while working the summer Renaissance Faire, so long as the following unspoken rules are followed:
1: Don’t fall too fast
2: Don’t figure out that you are fucking your future research partner“Caitlyn, our new blacksmith needs proper garb before the gates open in the morning. Would you please show him to his site and introduce him to my darling tailor? It would seem he’s set up just across the lane from Jayce’s smithy.”
Mel Medarda smiles.
“Please inform Viktor that he can thank me later.”
Jayce and Viktor have a couple problems.
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16 Jun 2025
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Five times Jayce kisses Viktor's childhood plush, and one time he kisses Viktor too.
“Does the stuffed fabric toy have a name?”
Viktor moves to towel his hair, still wet from the emergency chemical shower, as he evaluates Jayce’s tone for any hint of mockery or irony. He doesn’t find one, which he could likely have predicted.
Jayce Talis is aggressively and disconcertingly earnest.
He’s also Viktor’s partner, so Viktor has been trying to be earnest sometimes as well.
Accordingly, Viktor feels compelled to admit, very quietly, “Blitzcrank.”
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16 Jun 2025
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A door I cannot close by rainandchocolateinacup
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
04 May 2025
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Jayce wakes up after the arcane explosion, except- he is alone.
Determined to find Viktor, he seeks shelter in what appears to be an abandoned house in the middle of a meadow.
As the days and weeks go by, Jayce realizes, the house might be bigger than it seems (and Viktor might be closer that he thought).
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Or a post-finale fic inspired by House of Leaves, where Jayce is haunted by his mistakes and his desires.
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- Part 1 of A house is a house is a house
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16 Jun 2025
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start again start again start again by m122y
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
10 Jan 2025
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Viktor is visited by a future version of Jayce, fresh from a world overtaken by the Arcane. And then it happens again. And again. And again.
(originally meant to be a crack fic poking fun at the prevalence of the s1!Viktor and s2!Jayce trope, but then I decided to place Viktor lovingly into the torment nexus and shake him like he's a cobb salad I bought from the supermarket deli)
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15 Jun 2025
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“It appears to be a mild concussion, all things considered. I’ll give him something for the pain and will keep him here overnight for observation, and he should recover soon with adequate rest. Which means he’s out of the ring for at least a month—”
Viktor stops abruptly mid-sentence. It’s probably because Jayce has leaned forward to rest his head against Viktor’s collarbone, jutting out prominently under the thin black undersuit. Jayce closes his eyes and sighs contentedly, nuzzling closer.
“Fuck, I wish I had a camera right now,” Vi says, clearly trying to stifle a laugh. “Thanks, doc. I’ll get out of your hair before Jayce says or does something even more embarrassing. Stop him if he tries to bleach his hair, yeah? He was really fixated on that earlier.”
“Thank you, Vi,” Viktor replies in a strangled tone.
Jayce is a pit fighter. Viktor is the Machine Herald. That makes them both sound a lot cooler than they actually are.
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21 May 2025
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Balance (this world is a wasteland but we can still grow) by zillac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
19 Feb 2025
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Viktor stays in the Hexcore chrysalis a few more hours. Jayce stays busy falling into the ravine of an alternate dimension and fighting his way back to his partner so that they can invent something new together: a future.
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“What am I?” Viktor asked.
“What do you want to be?” Jayce was bearded and haggard and hopeful.
“Yours,” Viktor said, a memory and a realization both, like it was a truth that was woven into each of his metal and organic molecules.
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25 Mar 2025
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Even if their partnership survives Viktor confessing a feeling Jayce doesn’t have, things would change. Better they stay like this — enough affection to keep Viktor from going elsewhere, never nearly as much as he wants, all taken in a way Jayce doesn’t intend.
Guilt. Desire. Et cetera.
Left alone on New Year’s Eve, Viktor takes a trip back to the undercity. But going home again is much harder than leaving — and it hurts so much worse. At least he might finally admit some feelings to his partner at the end of it.
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19 Mar 2025
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A whisper of movement, and Jayce has barely turned his head before he feels it.
Catastrophic. Earth shattering.
A dull weight has settled into his side, a mess of chestnut locks spilling across Jayce’s shoulder, tickling his neck and chin. Jayce does his best to avoid moving too suddenly, afraid to frighten Viktor off- but when he peers around Viktor’s face, he finds the other to be fast asleep, his eyes gently closed in sleep, his mouth slightly parted.
Or: Viktor falls asleep on Jayce’s shoulder. Jayce has feelings about this
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19 Mar 2025
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Catafalque by hexhomos
Fandoms: League of Legends, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
07 Feb 2022
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“Worse than last time?” Jayce posits a guess.
“It’s, eh-” Viktor shrugs. Tilts his chin this way and that. A tsk. “Bearable. I’ve endured worse hangovers in college.” he was going for a laugh, but the punchline never truly lands. Instead, Jayce’s thumb rubs softly into the back of his palm, pressing like he wants to idle the muscle mass into something new. It’s such a small thing, whatever this is, and yet it steadies the flow of his blood; the relief of loosening a valve, flicking off a pressure switch. It’s the necessary cracking-open of his breast. Jayce squeezes. Viktor allows himself the luxury of a sigh. “You shouldn’t be here.” he mutters.
Jayce reflexively shakes his head. “I took the day off.”
“We both know that’s-”
“—I could take the week.” he insists, almost a threat, a flicker of that eternal stubbornness coursing through him.
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Viktor longs for a soft place in which to bury his teeth.
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- Part 2 of Arcane Works
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23 Feb 2025
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The distant look in the Mage’s eyes snapped to the gap of the roof, to the near-silent tuttering of other, watchful machines down below. “No, it doesn’t matter. You will be safe up here. It should be simple enough, to lay protective wards into the earth of the tower. I won’t let anything happen to you,” he vowed.
Promises held no impetus in this world, where nothing happened, nothing changed.
The Machine reset its position on its knees and replaced its hands on the weapon of a fallen era. I can’t stop you from making useless promises, can I?
Somehow, without doing anything, the Machine had gained a visitor and protector.
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18 Feb 2025
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“You’re sleeping with him, aren’t you?”
Viktor snorted with shock, champagne searing its way out of his nostrils as the force of it sent a spray all down his front. He grimaced, pinching the bridge of his nose to quell the burn as he turned toward the source of the statement.
Caitlyn Kiramman, looking smug as a bug as she stood just outside the patio door.
“What?” Viktor asked harshly, carefully sidestepping the question entirely.
“I said,” she began, taking two long strides toward him and pulling a napkin out of nowhere to hand to him as she approached. “You’re sleeping with him, aren’t you?”
“No, I heard you,” Viktor snapped, yanking the napkin from her delicate fingers and wiping the champagne from his face. “I was simply surprised by the audacity.”
“Am I wrong?”Series
- Part 7 of Our Hextech Dream
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10 Feb 2025