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echoes of a star seen long ago by royalgreen (allyoop)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
08 Jun 2026
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Jayce’s lantern is dwarfed against the damp dark of the cavern, a single match against a sea. He is not afraid of the dark; only afraid he will never earn the chance to prove to the world that he is right. That what he saw in his dreams is real.
Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
08 Jun 2026
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“One more word and you are out on the street, Talis,” Viktor issues his empty threat in his coldest of voices, paired with his fiercest frown. Jayce only beams at him.
“The battle’s already lost,” he announces. “Mel’s approved my time-off ages ago. I got all the goodies,” he rattles the brown bag invitingly, “and Sky’s manning the lab. You’re not getting out of it, V.”
“Out of what?” Viktor demands, in increasing malaise, clutching at his crutch like a lifeline.
“Of fun,” Jayce says, threateningly.
[Or: Viktor's terrible, lovely 32nd birthday.]
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- Part 1 of lies about sea creatures
Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
24 May 2026
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(underneath all the thundering) there’s magic by quinever
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
05 May 2026
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“… incinerated my prototypes,” he is saying as Viktor watches him; half-conversational, half-explanatory. “A few times, actually, by now. It’s like cat and mouse: I make them, they incinerate them … I don’t think they ever realised I had any other crystals or they’d definitely incinerate those, too.”
“Bastards,” Viktor says, seriously.
Jayce grins up at him again. “Yeah,” he says, “bastards. The whole lot.”
They look at each other oddly, both blinking. Then Jayce grins again, as though he is in on some sort of great joke that only the two of them are privy to. For the first time in a very long time, Viktor feels very aware of his mask standing between the world an his face.
Perhaps the cooling system is clogged again. He feels oddly warm.
Or: Zaunite shut-in Viktor hides in his lab and behind his mask, until a tipsy Academy drop-out stumbles into his life on a reckless gander into the Undercity. Something blooms.
Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
07 May 2026
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the bigger we are, the smaller we are by zillac for chubsonthemoon
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
25 Feb 2026
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Viktor, a world-renowned astronomer, and the revolutionary microbiology researcher Jayce Talis are falling in love. But there’s a slight complication:
Jayce pinches the bridge of his nose, and sighs, and pushes through the nerves. “You know how if I think about space, I panic?”
“Yes,” Viktor says, nodding. “I am aware.”
“And you know how if you think about microbes, you panic?” Jayce prods.
Viktor’s expression flickers. “Two for two.”
They’re determined to figure it out. Together.
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Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
06 Mar 2026
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“I’m his best friend. He’d have said something,” Jayce insists, helplessly. Desperately.
Caitlyn snorts. “Like what?” she asks. Then, in a horrible, unfairly accurate parody of Viktor’s accent: “Hey, Jayce, I like to fuck men. Hope you don’t mind, old sport. Pass me the chalk, will you.”
Jayce is too stunned—and, frankly, traumatised—to bring himself to answer.
[Or: a report on the impact of a rumour and its observable effects on the behaviours of one J. Talis.]
Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
26 Feb 2026
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the 31 days of christmas by deadnotsleeping for lilsletter
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
15 Dec 2025
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Jayce Talis was a typical bored and disillusioned office worker. Then, to his horror, his best friends Caitlyn and Vi got engaged, causing his mother to hound him about his (very non-existent) romantic life.
For some reason, Jayce told her that he was dating someone and that they were going to visit her over Christmas.
For some reason, the only person that came to mind was Viktor, his friend and favourite co-worker.
For some reason, Viktor agreed to the plan.
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Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
18 Dec 2025
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Viktor supposed he shouldn’t have been surprised about his flight being delayed, and then delayed again, given the thick blanket of snow covering the tarmac outside. The airport staff still assured the waiting passengers that the flight was going to happen that day, but Viktor wasn’t feeling optimistic.
He was bored, the man sitting next to him was gorgeous, so maybe it wouldn't be a total waste of time.
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12 Dec 2025
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final approach by weatheredlaw for PjCole
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
01 Jan 2026
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“Oh and, just so you know—” Cait looks at Jayce and grins. “You’re standing under the mistletoe.”
Jayce turns as Viktor does, and everyone chuckles kindly and looks away.
“Ah, sorry, I’ll just—”
“It’s fine,” Viktor says, and leans in to kiss Jayce’s cheek. He pulls back with a smile. “No trouble at all.”
or: jayce and viktor reunite after nearly two decades apart, as a winter storm ravages piltover during the holidays. tensions run high, but it might be just what they need to rekindle a lost flame.
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Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
12 Dec 2025
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Originally it was the offer of a job at the local university that brought Jayce Talis to Mainspring--even if that ended up not working out for the recently divorced man looking to get back on his feet. What ended up working out was a small coffee shop in Historic Downtown Mainspring, where he gets to know the citizens of the city.
Then a new face appeared just days before Christmas, and Jayce found himself remembering what falling in love felt like. The only problem is that the man he's falling in love with might not love him back.
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- Part 1 of a little town called mainspring
Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
08 Dec 2025
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Jayce looks as trepidatious as he always does when he has something to say that Viktor is not going to enjoy hearing.
Jayce is not saying anything, however. Cast in the golden light of dawn streaming in through the high windows of their laboratory, Jayce is simply waiting.
Which is ominous, yes, but also kind of him. Considerate.
It is early. Too early. Viktor hasn’t even had his tea yet.
Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
21 Nov 2025
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Local witch Viktor would prefer to live a quiet life away from scrutiny, but when paladin Jayce Talis arrives with a dead man in need of resurrection, it seems that he may not get his wish after all.
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Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
19 Nov 2025
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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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21 Oct 2025
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the imposter by sulkybender (orphan_account) for ventashmaaa
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
10 Oct 2025
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He woke up half-crushed on a futon with Jayce’s head on his shoulder, muttering in his sleep. There was a blue screen flickering in front of them—Hextech, he thought, for a terrified moment, before something in his blood told him they’d fallen asleep watching something together, a movie, which he sort of understood, even if he didn’t think he could explain it.
In the cold glow of the screen, Jayce looked strangely… exposed. It was easier to look at Jayce through the beady white eyes of a god, or his soul in the cosmos, than it was to look at what Viktor had done to him now. For a moment he touched their foreheads together—selfish, selfish—just to feel Jayce’s warmth on his skin. The illusion that he had started something instead of ending it, saved someone instead of ruining him.
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Jayce and Viktor wake up in another timeline.
All Viktor wants is to keep him safe.
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- Part 16 of post-canon Jayvik stories
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Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
19 Sep 2025
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The Heart Machine is a System in Superposition by JoiBoy
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
15 Sep 2025
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“Is it so obvious, then, that I don’t belong next to him?”
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When he’s had so many drinks, all the pleasure signals in his brain turn to pain signals, and Jayce is always such a pleasure.
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In the undercity, Jayce and Viktor are a thing amongst others.
Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
15 Sep 2025
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23 Aug 2025
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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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16 Aug 2025
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He walks toward Jayce, driven by a thousand hands on his back. Of people in that room, of ghosts, of his own mother. All pushing him toward Jayce and toward a future that metamorphosizes with every step he takes. Viktor can feel the winds shift and part of his story is wiped clean, unwritten by his own actions that night.
Viktor doesn’t look back. He allows Jayce to open the door for him, and steps out into the evening. The sunset is vibrant, gold and pink and explosive.
Feeling unaccepted by Piltover in the wake of his 28th birthday, Viktor returns to the Undercity for an annual festival to reconcile who he is with where he came from.
Things go south.
Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
28 Jun 2025
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orbitals by leavesandcurses for trivialcve
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
26 Jun 2025
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So there they are, a shopkeep and a curious stranger, losing daylight in silence. The man studies Jayce’s work while Jayce studies him, and isn’t curiosity just one hell of a thing? It can motivate a topside scientist to brave the gray, and it can bully out years of ingrained wariness to make room for itself.
The man moves again, the necessary three steps left to reach a workbench of works-in-progress. The metalwork of it is rough, all hinges and mechanisms wrought from steel scrap. The beginning of a knee joint, sitting next to the first prototype of Jayce’s own leg brace.
The man’s gaze lingers there, intent and molten in the dimming afternoon light. Then he’s reaching out, reaching forward, his careful fingers tracing along welding seams and scratches in the metal, and Jayce’s curiosity flash-boils.
“Can I help you?”
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Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
28 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.”
Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
17 May 2025
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dancing with our hands tied by bri_chi_haya
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
15 May 2025
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Jayce has heard the story of the unity of Piltover and Zaun about a hundred times. He never thought any deeper about it until the only councilor to protest his banishment is the representative of Zaun’s academy.
Viktor has spent his time on the Council with his guard up. Working with Jayce Talis isn’t supposed to change that.
Neither of them can prevent the inevitable, but maybe they don't have to face it alone.
AU in which Viktor is a councilor representing Zaun. This changes everything and nothing.
Bookmarked by hvxtalis (ghcst)
16 May 2025