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After a gruesome war finally comes to treaty, it is decided that the King of Piltover will take a bride from Zaun.
Viktor isn't expecting to be a candidate.
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04 May 2025
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the line is covered in jellyfish by staroverlord
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
28 Dec 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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- English
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- 150,633
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- 11/13
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29 Apr 2025
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A door I cannot close by rainandchocolateinacup
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
04 May 2025
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Jayce wakes up after the arcane explosion, except- he is alone.
Determined to find Viktor, he seeks shelter in what appears to be an abandoned house in the middle of a meadow.
As the days and weeks go by, Jayce realizes, the house might be bigger than it seems (and Viktor might be closer that he thought).
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Or a post-finale fic inspired by House of Leaves, where Jayce is haunted by his mistakes and his desires.
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- Part 1 of A house is a house is a house
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- English
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- 72,216
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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29 Apr 2025
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Playlist for When Your Boyfriend Stops Breathing by SunsetPlums
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
17 May 2025
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He pictures the funeral sometimes.
He pictures someone he doesn’t know saying Viktor’s name wrong. He pictures screaming in public. He pictures stealing the ashes and keeping them in a protein powder container because it’s the only vessel big enough. He pictures lying in those ashes like a widow bird. He pictures baking the ashes into bread and feeding them to pigeons in the park.
He pictures swallowing them himself.
Or: When Viktor chooses a quiet death, Jayce learns how to love him to the edge of the end and carry what’s left through the sad art of letting go.
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- 2/2
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25 Apr 2025
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The rune chews them up and spits them out.
Jayce takes Viktor and runs.
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- 1/1
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22 Jan 2025
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perfect paradise tearing at the seams by ipromisedyou
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
08 Jan 2025
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This body’s history reveals itself in shades as he shifts under the sheets; the ghost of a spasm traveling through his bruise-lined leg, the familiar hitch of his own breath when he breathes in too deep. There is no taking the Undercity out of him even here and he is glad for it. At least that is the same, and though his body feels better— lighter— than it had been on some of his best days at the Academy, he wonders if perhaps he is still deteriorating.
He vaguely hopes he is. Among the many comforts of the cotton-soft sheets and buttery light of the bedroom, it is the only thing he deserves.
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Post S2 finale, Viktor wakes up in a world seemingly too good to be true, except he's alone. Jayce finds him and tries to convince Viktor that he deserves to have good things, including a new life together. Among other things Jayce wants to give him.
Written for Jayvik Week 2025 day 1: Beginning/End
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17 Jan 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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- 118,854
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- 14/14
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04 Jan 2025
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Of Memories and Tomorrows by Lieyantosh
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
22 Dec 2024
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Instead of dissolving with Viktor like Jayce expected, he gets sent a decade into the past when Viktor didn’t even know him yet. Of course the logical action to take is to kidnap him. Meanwhile Viktor, twenty-two years old, figures that hey, as long as he can research magic, this isn’t too bad of a predicament.
Or: Post-Season 2 Jayce and Season 1 Viktor, the grief of having lost your soulmate while having to look at his younger version who doesn’t even know you, the endless exhaustion of being a second-hand love and also science.
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- Part 2 of My JayVik fics
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- 3/3
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03 Jan 2025
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Love was the Law by ruinthatboy
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
09 Mar 2025
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“This is wrong,” Jayce rasped, his voice strained with torment, so unlike the Jayce that had left mere hours ago to dance and drink and make merry and maybe even make love to the beautiful Mel Medarda. “This is too far back, I shouldn’t be here—”
This Jayce was like a wild animal, bearded and shaggy, furious and heartbroken.
The huge weapon thudded to the floor once again, and Viktor finally dared to speak.
“Jayce, is that… you?”
Stewing in his loneliness, research assistant Viktor witnesses an Anomaly take place in the laboratory he shares with Jayce Talis, potentially altering life as they know it (or might never come to know).
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- 2/2
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14 Dec 2024
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tell me when my hunting days are done by dualwelding
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
07 Dec 2024
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The first thing Viktor notices as he opens his eyes is the absence of pain.
The second is gut-wrenching hunger.
Something’s wrong. Something’s terribly, terribly wrong.Viktor isn't fused with the Hexcore (he's fused with much, much worse).
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07 Dec 2024
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divine alchemy of the self by r0sie_p0sies
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
31 Dec 2021
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This is usually the moment in the dream when Jayce realizes he’s loved Viktor for a long time. He doesn’t say anything about that, though. Instead he says, We did it, we did it, Viktor, and Viktor says, Catch me. Jayce smiles so wide it aches.
Maybe that’s not exactly how it happened. Maybe Jayce doesn’t care.
Tonight he dreams about That Night again. In this version, he already knows that Viktor is going to die—he stares at his limbs moving like he’s underwater, at his big, bright smile, and thinks I don’t want you to end up where you’re going. What can I do to make sure you stay?Jayce and Viktor try to save Viktor's life.
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22 Apr 2023
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There May Not Be Meaning, So Find One and Seize It by FourOddApples
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
28 Feb 2023
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“Caring about me is not exactly a good investment.”
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Viktor is a dying man on a desperate search for legacy and purpose. Jayce Talis is the man who confronts him with what it really means to be alive.
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- Part 1 of An Ode to Our Mortality
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- 4/4
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21 Mar 2023
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Some Enchanted Evening by AppleSharon
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
02 Feb 2022
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“Do you ever get jealous of me?” he asks Viktor after taking a small sip.
He steels himself for Viktor’s answer.
The tapping sound of Viktor’s cane is steady against the stone floor of the terrace.
It’s familiar.
“No. I do not envy your position, Jayce. If anything after tonight I feel…I feel like perhaps I should have come to a few more of these events with you earlier.”
Jayce always wants Viktor at his side. Viktor has trouble understanding why.
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26 Feb 2023
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Paradigm Shift by AppleSharon
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
02 Dec 2021
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“I said everything made sense then.” Jayce rolls over onto his side and gives Viktor a fond smile.
“I do not think…I do not think it was,” Viktor says.
He trails off and drops his eyes, staring at patches of moss on the ground between tufts of grass.
Jayce waits.
“I think…we simply did not pay attention."
Viktor and Jayce reunite after both have made irreparable choices. They talk, fight, and finally come together.
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24 Feb 2023
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The Man I Held As Half-Divine by AppleSharon
Fandoms: League of Legends, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
20 Nov 2021
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Viktor feels his face stretch into a smile before he realizes what is happening or what Jayce has said.
He must look wrecked—
—And impossibly, irrevocably, in love with Jayce.
He’s too tired to hide it, despite everything that has happened. And perhaps he didn’t always do the best job of hiding it to begin with.
Their partnership began with Viktor talking Jayce off a ledge. Years later, Jayce returns the favour.
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24 Feb 2023
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Contingency Planning by thirty2flavors
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
25 May 2022
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“I’m not planning your funeral.”
“Someone has to.” Viktor isn’t even looking to see the way Jayce glares at him. “Either we do it together now, or we wait, and you can do it… later. On your own.”
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16 Feb 2023