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find a new place to be from by chubsonthemoon
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
15 Aug 2025
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The first time Viktor hears the name Zaun outside his childhood kitchen is at the end-of-year Councilor’s gala, the year after he and Jayce invent Hextech.
Viktor goes home, in more ways than one.
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08 Sep 2025
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the line is covered in jellyfish by staroverlord
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
05 Oct 2025
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When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question— as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”
Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?
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Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together— piece by stubborn piece.
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- Part 1 of the thin semantic line
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02 Sep 2025
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Mating Habits of the Wild Runeterran Scientist by Anonymous
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
01 Mar 2025
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The only problem Viktor has with it is that it bothers Jayce. Visibly, repeatedly, until -
Until Viktor insults him by questioning how he expresses himself. It's the kind of question you don't ask in Zaun unless you want to start a bar fight.
"Why don't you cut your hair?"
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Jayce needs a haircut. This resolves a two year old misunderstanding, somehow.
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02 Sep 2025
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“I can explain,” she rushes out, even though she has actually no idea how to explain.
“Yeah, can you explain why I found this out from a Twitter thread instead of from you?” Bobby says. He grabs his phone and pulls up a web page, then slides the phone over to Rumi.
She freezes.
It’s not some tell-all about her secret demon identity.
She looks down at the photo, taken by some resourceful paparazzo, of Jinu waving goodbye as he slips out the back of her condo building. In the background, blurry but still obviously her, is Rumi.
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Five times people assumed Rumi and Jinu are together (and one other time entirely)
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24 Aug 2025
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And then the countries start filing out onto the stage, one by one. And then it’s their turn to step out of the tunnel, into the heart of the National Stadium, into the blinding lights and the deafening cheers and the music that pounds into every bone in his body. And then it finally hits him.
He’s here.
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Sokka is twenty-two years old when he qualifies for the Olympics.
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09 May 2025