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Months after the Council attack that took Jayce's life, he is successfully revived by a grief-stricken Viktor. Jayce's revival, however, entails his soul's binding to a Hextech-powered automata. Jayce struggles to come to terms with his new body as his mind unspools around him, and he grapples with the guilt of believing he's come back as something less than he was before.
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- Part 2 of You Will Come no More to my Side
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Time is Late, but Never Finished by dark_ages
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
29 Apr 2025
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Jayce and Viktor expected themselves to be erased by the rune on top of the Hexgates- a final act as partners. Instead, they find themselves thrown back in time, right before Viktor began experimenting with the Hexcore. Jayce swears not to waste this second chance in the new timeline- they'll fix their mistakes and he'll finally tell Viktor how he really feels. But with suspicions of them growing, and Viktor experiencing arcane-induced transformations, the pair must work together to ensure a future for both themselves and the twin cities.
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You Are Still Wrecked Among Heathen Dreams by dark_ages
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
14 Apr 2025
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Viktor can hardly see past the blackening ash. There are enormous pillars, cracked and sideways like snapped bones. Councilors’ bodies are half-buried beneath it all. Viktor still cannot hear.
The ash begins to settle. Viktor catches a flash of white against the far wall. He trips over himself as he jolts forward, crutch lost somewhere in the debris. He stumbles across the room. It is the second time in his life he has ever ran.
Jayce Talis dies in the Council attack, instead of Viktor. Driven by single-minded desperation, Viktor uses the Hexcore on his partner in a bid to save him. Instead, the Hexcore is destroyed and Jayce remains dead. Viktor has never believed in fate, but he will fight against it all to bring Jayce back. Even if Viktor is ruined by grief. Even if Jayce comes back changed.
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- Part 1 of You Will Come no More to my Side
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You Will Come no More to my Side by dark_ages
Fandom: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
06 Dec 2025
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Jayce dies in the Council room explosion. Viktor cannot let that stand. Viktor would be thankful for any scrap of his partner he could scrounge up with bloody fingers and piece back together. What he retrieves is no longer of this time.
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three white horses by magdaliny
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
19 Aug 2017
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Steve, it's not your fault, Sam had tried to say, before Steve cut him off, and Steve doesn't think that's untrue so much as it's irrelevant; fault's got nothing to do with it. It's just—wrong. It's wrong. Steve couldn't wrap his head around it the first time, how wrong it was. Steve should have gone first. Was supposed to. Bucky could have carried on without Steve, he knows, but Steve without Bucky is a zero sum. There should never be a world that Steve is in and Bucky isn't.
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22 Jun 2025
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4 Minute Window by Speranza
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Jan 2015
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"Look, if they catch me," Bucky muttered, "they're either going to kill me or they're going to put me in a box with a little window and—Steve, I can't."
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- Part 1 of 4 Minute Window
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12 Aug 2025
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STATUS: Hiatus
Jayce and Viktor are hurled out of the anomaly and dropped into the field where it all began. While it seems like the opportunity for a fresh start, Jayce's health rapidly begins to decline. In a desperate bid to save his partner, Viktor makes a series of shocking discoveries about Jayce's body and mental state... leading Viktor to believe that *his* Jayce is not what emerged from the Arcane with him.
Jayce, struggling with the effects of the Arcane on his mental state, also begins to wonder if he is himself anymore.