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Jayce Talis, newly promoted soloist at City of Progress Ballet, has just been cast in the role of a lifetime: the male lead in What Could Have Been, a rarely-performed ballet he happens to be obsessed with. The role originated by his celebrity crush Viktor. The role in which Viktor had a career-ending injury.
It’s already a lot of pressure. And then guess who shows up to rehearse it with him.
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20 Jun 2026
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In the dark, the words escape Jayce's mouth like a long-held sigh, a confession of sorts:
"I miss her."
Viktor doesn't ask. He doesn't need to.
"I know." He hesitates for a beat. "It's been five years, Jayce. Maybe you could... write to her."--
Jayce tries to reconnect with his mother, five years after the events that led her and the rest of Runeterra to believe he'd died saving the world from the Machine Herald.
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04 Jun 2026
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His hands shackle-tight on Viktor. An embrace of strobing, blinding blue.
But there is no annihilation after; Jayce awakes in another timeline.
All is not well.
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- Part 1 of Break, repair. Break, repair.
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19 May 2026
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Jayce and Viktor vanish from the roof of the Hexgate and reappear thirty years later completely unchanged: Jayce still bruised and broken, Viktor still behind the Machine Herald's mask.
Meanwhile, the twin cities of Piltover and Zaun have continued on without them. Science and magic meet in startling ways, the dead rise, and foreign political powers threaten to undermine the work done to recover from the battle three decades prior. Veteran champions struggle to protect the city's foundations while young, upstart rebels fight to determine its future. The waters are rising, the forests are evolving, and the peoples of Runeterra are finding new ways to make old mistakes.
And, in the middle of it all, Jayce and Viktor figure out how to be.
(Oct. 26th, 2025) Hello! I am not dead, both in the sense that fic writers normally use that phrase and also literally---if you know you know. As to why I haven't written, well, to use another popular saying literally: I've been losing braincells. This tends to get in the way of my productivity. Writing is slow but happening, so please have patience while the author gets their shit together. The Boys of Progress aren't the only ones figuring out how to be.)
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19 May 2026
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“I didn’t want you to see,” Viktor says, as if it were the simplest thing.
“See what? What could we possibly have to hide from each other anymore?” But Viktor does not answer - nor does he appear to have any intention of doing so. Jayce presses, “Were you afraid it was going to make me angry? Or sad?”
There comes another long silence. Viktor tilts his head to look out of the rondel window, inviting slate shadows to inhabit the grooves of his face; his gaze is distant, drawn to the sky, as if he would like to drift off the point.
“It wouldn’t make you happy.”
In the end, two souls become one - until they don’t.
Alive and once more his own person, Jayce finds himself in the coastal city of Nashramae. There he must grapple with the indolence of an aimless life and his complicated feelings towards Viktor: who, after everything, pushed him away, but left the shell of his presence to linger in Jayce’s heart like a curse.
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12 May 2026