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In a whirlwind, one can have everything, nothing, then everything again. In a single night, a near stranger stood at Jayce's side at both his darkest and brightest moments. Sometimes, the presence of a single person can change everything.
Aka: Arcane, but focused on Jayce and Viktor where everyone gets more friends and (maybe) a happier ending.
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09 Nov 2025
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"The best way I can summarize the basics is this: the rune you used is like a bridge. It connected the two of you in every way, but there has to be a point A and a point B for a bridge, correct?” Heimerdinger points at Jayce, “He’s point A.” And I’m point B?
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Jayce and Viktor's sacrifice creates an arcane bond between them.
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Chapter 1 of the last part of my series! (I will eventually add the rest of the chapters here, and this will become the new book. When I do that, I will add all the tags and what have you).
**Spoilers for the last two parts! This work cannot be read on its own!**
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- Part 4 of Tell me, won't you please come back?
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It was supposed to be a one-night stand.
When Jayce and Viktor meet for a fleeting, drunken night together, neither of them expect to ever see the other again — let alone end up working side by side on the groundbreaking project that will change Piltover forever. What starts as an uneasy partnership filled with tension and unsaid words soon spirals into something much messier: secret nights, lingering glances, and a quiet desperation neither of them is ready to name.
But this is the happy universe, where love doesn't break them apart, where choices are made to heal instead of destroy. Where learning to love each other means learning to fight for each other.
A journey from strangers to partners in every sense of the word, as Jayce and Viktor learn how to build not only Hextech but a life together — filled with mistakes, tenderness, marriage, and maybe even children and a cottage along the way.
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- Part 2 of The Night Belongs to You
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Lies We Tell Ourselves by tenderwatches
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
05 Oct 2025
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“Tell me what you were doing with the Hexcore. And… everything that came before.”
“Would you believe me if I said I was trying to protect you?”
Viktor returns to Piltover after years of exile with one certainty: he's dying.
Old wounds reopen when Viktor discovers Jayce has rebuilt the very thing he once betrayed Viktor over. Outrage blooms, but so too, do new possibilities—ones that uncover a dangerous connection between magic, ambition, and the looming Gray.
As they attempt to mend their fractured partnership, Jayce grapples with the part he has played in Piltover's fervent pursuit of progress—and in Viktor's continuing deterioration. They confront truths they've hidden from themselves as well as one another: desires long buried, sacrifices made in desperation, and how far either of them will go for love.
Some lies protect us, others destroy us—but the hardest ones to overcome are the lies we tell ourselves.
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- Part 1 of Lies We Tell Ourselves
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He stares longingly at Viktor, the soft curve of hair around his ear, the twitch of his brow as he works through his confusion of Jayce knowing his name. But of course Jayce does. Knows his name. Knows how long he can sit before he's too stiff to walk. Knows his entire list of dreams to stop suffering of others- all of it blindsided because Jayce’s obsession with the arcane came and ruined everything good in him.
“How do you-”
“I’m sorry.” Jayce isn’t ashamed that his voice breaks, his body shaking with all the hurt of a different timeline, “I never meant- I only wanted to save you.”
Post-Canon Fix it Timeline- Where Jayce can't let go how badly he messed up, Viktor needs a few reasons to break his cycle of withdrawing from others, and they both pretend they aren't the dumbest men in all of Piltover and Zaun combined.
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06 Nov 2025
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Viktor is still trapped, and he is still very much cursed - but for the first time in a long while he wouldn't consider himself miserable.
His love has, at last, been returned to him. His friendship with Mel Medarda grows stronger with each passing day.
For the first time since the mage was released from being the Machine Herald, Viktor feels true hope taking root inside his heart. Hope that he could be free, hope that his dreams could finally be realized, hope that he would finally know true peace.
Yet his enemies, old and new, seem intent on dragging him back to the darkness that once corrupted his heart.
**This is the second book in the series, and this cannot be read on its own!**
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- Part 2 of Tell me, won't you please come back?
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It has been two years since Viktor was mysteriously freed from being the Machine Herald - no longer a devastating tool used by Queen Ambessa Medarda and his former mentor, a necromancer, Singed.
Viktor is trapped - cursed - and miserable. His only comfort is Mel Medarda, who is trapped alongside him. Together, they try to find what peace they can in a world that has been torn apart by a tyrant. Viktor's lives as a ghost, caught in his guilt for what he did to his homeland, and believes he will spend the rest of his life in torment.
Until Jayce Talis returns to Piltover, a Champion of Janna, after being banished for ten long years.
Forcing Viktor to face his past - and his undeniable infatuation with the paladin who filled his heart with dreams.
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- Part 1 of Tell me, won't you please come back?
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Arcane AU where Viktor was taken-in by Silco and Vander, years before the bridge riot. Not entirely compliant with LoL game lore. Magic system is more author's original insert. Realism-take on Arcane politics.
➸ Almost all chapters are illustrated by the author, with guest illustrations too! hi-res art + bonus art / fic etc posted on tumblr and bsky, twitter, + insta.
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02 Nov 2025
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this devotion may contain side-effects by owepossum
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Oct 2025
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After the doctor hurts Rio, a freshly-orphaned Viktor is taken in at The Last Drop. Years later, there's a riot on the bridge.
In which child-Viktor refuses to abandon Silco; an act of devotion that changes the trajectory of Zaun's uprising. While Vander negotiates with Enforcers, Silco single-parents a revolution in the dark. Someone has to fund his son's endless charity work and vaccinate zaunish kids.
There's siblings-of-divorce, waverider eggs, volatile crystals...and a Piltie wandering around the Lanes looking for blue gems and a ghost.
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- Part 1 of devoted sciences
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02 Nov 2025
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Rate Your Professor by zo_hey
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
28 Nov 2024
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student0158554
Quality : 4.5
Difficulty : 1.5This is the kind of professor that makes you want to come to class. The material is well-explained, and I did not meet a single person that didn't pass his class. Moreover, Professor Talis is BEAUTIFUL.
The only complaint I have is his weird mood swings.
One day, he went to class with sad puppy eyes, head down, and dropped dramatically on his chair. He gave us some papers and told us to "do whatever" because he had a fight with his partner and was not in the mood. Maybe his wife threatened to leave without him. That's the only evident answer to him banging his head on his desk with tears in his eyes.
He was fine the next day tho.
Love him.
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The reviews were getting out of hand.
Viktor did not care a single bit about them.
Jayce, on the contrary...
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01 Nov 2025
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Someone Worth Sharing by fenfyre (Jace)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
23 Mar 2022
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Viktor had known this day would come. Had known it since he noticed the way Mel looked at Jayce. What he had not seen coming though was how this day would end.
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01 Nov 2025
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Be As You've Always Been by thenyxfray
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
25 Oct 2025
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Jayce Talis likes things simple: forge in the morning, classes by noon, and zero drama at home. Especially since he lives alone. But when a quiet, guarded classmate named Viktor ends up homeless, Jayce offers him a room, and maybe, without meaning to, a piece of his heart.
Viktor Novak doesn't do closeness. Not when it's this messy. Not when it means being seen. But Jayce is careful with his space, patient with his silence, and kind in ways that make it harder and harder to pull away.
As morning texts turn into midnight confessions, and boundaries become invitations, the question isn't whether they'll fall for each other-it's whether they're ready for what comes next.
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30 Oct 2025
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It's as predictable as the laws of physics: a Piltover golden boy should despise a starving inventor from the undercity. But when Viktor's tipped off to a scholar buying strange materials in the Lanes, he's desperate enough to sneak topside and propose a deal. He's not expecting to break every rule he's learned to live by for a man who needs him just as much.
Or, the Arcane Act 1 AU where Viktor never left the undercity, but he found Jayce anyway.
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29 Oct 2025
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Stay Your Pretty Eyes On Course by Neibba
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
03 Jan 2025
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“I do not recall telling you my name.” Viktor stated matter-of-factly. “Yet you know it. Have we met?” Yes. Many times. Practically lived together inside their lab, but he couldn’t tell Viktor that. No, this Viktor had no idea who Jayce really was, and he intended on keeping it that way.
Jayce stumbled on his own thoughts trying to find an answer. Shit. Viktor is right, he wasn’t supposed to tell Jayce his name until later in his apartment. Damn it. “Uh—“ he stalled as he tried to think of a lie. “H-Heimerdinger had mentioned you once. You’re his assistant, right? Snarky Undercity kid with an accent? Not many other people here who fit that description.”
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After the Hexcore collapsed, Jayce gets sent back to where it all started, the day he met Viktor, but Viktor seems to have no recollection of him. What happens when Jayce gets another chance, knowing what he knows now.
My take on Season 2 Jayce with Season 1 Viktor until Viktor eventually remembers everything and they live happily ever after because I refuse to give these two any more sad endings!
No idea how many chapters this will have, we're just gonna roll with it until the dopamine stops.
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29 Oct 2025
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doctrine by aevallare
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
23 Feb 2022
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"They're going to destroy us," Jayce says.
"They're people, Jayce. If one thing in my life had gone differently, I'd still be down there myself."
Jayce won't meet his eyes.
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viktor finances ekko and the firelights. this is not a conflict of interest until it is.
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- Part 3 of like water in your hands
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29 Oct 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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29 Oct 2025
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Coming Home (But Not to You) by queercatfan
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Dec 2024
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When Viktor makes the reluctant decision to move back to Piltover after six years to be a professor at The Academy, he's forced to share an office with none other than his former lab partner Jayce Talis, the very man who caused him to leave Piltover in the first place.
(modern professors AU)
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- Part 1 of Coming Home (But Not to You)
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28 Oct 2025
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Viktor sinks further onto the support of his palm and pouts. Whatever dexterity is left in those skillful hands does not belong to him tonight. So he watches as Jayce works, slow and faltering.
“You're unsteady,” Viktor notes softly.
A beat passes before Jayce draws his bottom lip between his teeth, a subtle flush rising to his cheeks, and his gaze flicks over to Viktor’s passive hand.
“So keep me steady.” The assertive bite in Jayce’s tone is familiar in a context once removed, but here, it’s subdued by a perpetual undercurrent of exhaustion.
Janna help us.
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As the deadline initializing the start of Hexgate construction approaches, Viktor and Jayce attempt to make up for the parts of their relationship they've set aside over the past few months. While Jayce is focused on the celebratory date he's planned, Viktor finds himself distracted more often than not.- Language:
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28 Oct 2025
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find you in the dark by frau_kali for shrugsinchinese
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
21 Oct 2025
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The pain is unbearable.
It stabs at every part of him, tiny pricks that dig into the soft purple veins buried beneath his arcane metallic exterior. Agony radiates outward from each stab, as if there are knives pulling at him, exposing him, clawing away at his armour and pulling at the man--weak, pathetic, human--buried beneath. He grabs for his staff, mere inches from him, fingertips brushing against it before he's shoved away by the force of the explosion.
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After the battle, Jayce sets out to save Viktor from himself before his friend tries to enact the glorious evolution once more.- Language:
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28 Oct 2025