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The source of the light stands before him, resplendent and whole, his brows creased prettily in worry. Jayce looks like moonlight incarnate, his body made up of twisting mother-of-pearl tendons from which an eerie bioluminescence emanates. It crawls across his cheekbones like a lover’s caress, the edges where nacre meets skin blurry and indistinct.
A hundred fairytales from Viktor’s childhood flit through his head. The tear of a unicorn. The call of a siren. Jayce looks like every delicate, temptuous thing for which men dash themselves across the rocks in an effort to possess.
He is also, Viktor distantly notes, completely naked.
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Sub Top Viktor Week 2026
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Later, Zhao Xin will wonder if anyone on deck knew that they were in Noxian waters – if anyone had any idea of what that could mean. If anyone thought it was worth bringing up at all, if they bit their tongues at the last second. Sure that their captain knew what he was doing. Sure that he carried some favour with the gods. Or perhaps simply sure that the things that were to come didn’t happen to men like them.
Here is a spoiler: Nothing can be done. No level of reminiscence or regret can undo what is already unfolding, already written.
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Xin Zhao is ripped from his home when he is fifteen. Thirty-six years later, he returns.
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wrapped around an empty space by hydecircus
Fandoms: League of Legends, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
28 Aug 2025
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Piltover’s Defender of Tomorrow dies on Wednesday evening. By Thursday, the announcement hits the morning gazette, and it won’t leave the news cycle until well past the Sunday edition.
Zaun’s Machine Herald scoffs the first time he reads it, tossing the stained and torn paper that his apprentice brought down the conveyor behind his shoulder. He is rewiring his left arm again, trying to iron out why his sensors detect a microsecond’s delay between the synapses firing in his brain and the acknowledgement by his mechanical nerves.
“Natural causes,” he scoffs. “He is what? Sixty years old? Men that rich do not die that young.”
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That night, Mel dreams of Elora, wearing the plain white shift she sleeps in, with her hair down from its regular bun and blowing softly in the breeze. She’s standing underneath the pink-blossomed trees that decorate the Ionian soap boxes. Tall and willowy, she looks perfectly at peace surrounded by the grey-brown trunks and their sweet smelling blooms. She doesn't look at Mel – it's like Mel isn't even there. She's just observing, as if she’s watching it all through a window.
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Melora Week 2025
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old college try by hydecircus
Fandoms: League of Legends, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
22 Jul 2025
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“And it’s…” He fumbles for the words. “Mine?”
“Yes, Viktor, what did I just say?”
Viktor doesn’t respond. He’s a little stunned. He’s extremely stunned. The sperm creation was something– something selfish. Cosmetic, more than anything else. Good for his ego, if not particularly useful. He wanted to cum like a cis man. He wanted to see if he could do it. Well, it turns out he could.
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The Defender of Tomorrow and the Machine Herald go on their first date in six years – to the abortion clinic.
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They spoke about the funeral almost as often as they spoke about the wedding. For Viktor it was a coin toss as to which would come first, a child’s game. For Jayce it was like playing cat’s cradle with the hangman’s noose.
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05 Apr 2026
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again, and again, and by orphan_account
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Sep 2025
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On an expedition into the ruins of what was once the city-state of Piltover, historian Elora discovers two mages, Mel Medarda and Jayce Talis, who have been under a sleeping spell for four hundred years. She insists on bringing the possibly radioactive ancient mages back to her home in the Freljord. Because there's something pulling Elora towards Mel, who speaks as if they already know each other. It's probably the same thing that pushes Jayce towards a professor called Viktor.
Or: Mel and Jayce meet the reincarnations of Elora and Viktor and get a second chance, centuries after the events of Arcane s02e09.
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rip to the best to ever do it... sometimes i can still hear their voice
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Don't Look Back In Anger by Francium
Fandoms: League of Legends, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
04 Nov 2025
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After spending decades at someone's throat, when all the anger burns away, what do you do when the ashes feel like love? Can you trust the hands cupping your face, when they've curled around your throat just as easily?
Jayce, despairing and tired, throws himself a two person party as he prepared to shut Hextech down for good. But when the Machine Herald arrives, reconciling between them might not be as easy as just kissing it better.
Written for Bottom Jayce Week, Machine Herald day
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Informed Consent by Tyrrible for Gelico
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
26 Oct 2025
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Viktor doesn’t smile. “I just—these Pilties. They have every option, every resource. They live in high rises and pay for water births with coaches who call themselves moon-witches. Meanwhile, patients in Zaun are lucky if they know someone with an intact midwifery license, and even that doesn’t matter when their placental abruption happens at two in the morning and they can’t afford the ambulance.”
Jayce rubs a hand over his face. “Yeah. I mean, I’ve never been to a gynecologist either, but that’s more of a gender crisis thing than a crunchy trad-Pilt thing. You get it.”
He says it lightly, a snort or a roll of Viktor’s eyes expected.
But Viktor just goes very, very still.
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Percutaneous Tissue Biopsy of a Metastasized Canine Transmissible Venereal Round Cell Tumor (CTVT) by tigerguts
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
11 Nov 2025
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***Winner of Kumoricon's 2025 Fan Fic Contest***
It would be like this forever one day, everything bedrock solid. Cait would wake up and there would be no sick moment of realization, no reacquainting herself with the gaping hole punched through her chest. The wound would heal, the infection would fade. She would look back on events without the feverish certainty that she could have done more, said more. Been more.
She didn’t believe it yet, not all the way, but she didn’t have to. Vi would help her.
Explorations of Cait and Vi's turbulent relationship in the first act of season two. An examination of the grief that slowly poisons their understanding of each other; a reflection on power, and the ways it is abused, denied, and mismanaged. Less of a relationship study than a relationship autopsy.
Also, there are dogs. Illustrated.