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What Remains of the Nameless by DelicatPapillon
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
02 Dec 2025
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When a Zaunite child dies in an explosion tied to forbidden research, Jayce Talis is stripped of everything; his name, his future, and the dream that once defined him. Condemned to Stillwater Hold, he becomes another forgotten soul buried beneath Piltover’s cruel judgment.
But Viktor, haunted by the memory of that young man he once met in a hospital bed, refuses to let the memory die. As the idea of Hextech becomes Viktor’s lifeline, a single question lingers—what remains of the nameless when the world decides he should disappear?
(Stillwater Jayce AU)
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05 Dec 2025
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You here, with me. by Hestia_Ciel_Reme
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
10 Nov 2025
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“Is that… you, Viktor?”
It was barely more than a whisper, but he almost couldn’t bring himself to ask in the first place. The question scared him, the coming answer he feared even more. He knew the question was callous and loaded, but he had to know.
Those warm eyes faltered and became reproachful, they averted with a look of guilt, his eyebrows scrunching together. Viktor hugged his good knee tighter to his chest, his short and shallow breathing and his tightened lips betraying the hurt he felt at the question. The creases at the side of his nose deepened in dismay in the way only Viktor's face suited. All of these things told Jayce everything he needed desperately to know; this wasn’t the serene herald, or even the maniacal machine herald.
This was Viktor.
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23 Nov 2025
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no inhibitions by crossed_the_line (time_regained)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
12 Dec 2024
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Naph thrusts the Piltie newspaper in his face. Plastered on the front page is a photo of Jayce, unsurprisingly, but upon further inspection, Viktor notices a smaller figure pressed against his side. A young girl stands next to his best friend turned nemesis. The last time Viktor checked, Jayce hated children, but here in the photo, the man looked completely at ease, an easy smile spread across his handsome face.
There’s only one good explanation for all of this: the little girl is Jayce’s kid.
Or, Viktor thinks Jayce has a kid. What’s the best course of action? Getting drunk and breaking into his lab, of course. Features exasperated children, dysfunctional adults, and a wall filled with photos of a certain Man of Progress.
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01 Nov 2025
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you on the other shoreline, waiting by Daykeeper
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
01 Sep 2025
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Living with Jayce feels like emerging from a year long winter to a gentle spring. They meld into each other until Viktor can’t tell where Jayce’s influence on him begins and where his influence on Jayce ends.
It’s better than Viktor could have dreamed of. And simultaneously a nightmare in its own way.
Because Viktor knows this has to end.
Or: Jayce finds an injured mer Viktor stranded on the beach. Both of their lives change for the better.
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20 Oct 2025
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Viktor knew how he looked. With his sharp angles and hollowed cheeks and colt-like limbs, he was a serpentine god with all his alabaster beauty.
The nobles whispered about it. The investors watched Viktor move, fascination warring with discomfort. The Council scoffed at the idea of a Zaunite on their board—until they saw him.
Exotic. Enthralling. An exquisite thing to be coveted for themselves.
Viktor had once despised it.
Despised the way they stared, the way their fascination was always tinged with something possessive, as if he were a rare specimen on display. Loathed the murmurs in the Academy halls, the furtive glances that dogged him everywhere he went.
Now?
Now, he used it.
If they should lust after him, they did so at their own peril.
Desire was a fundamental human weakness. A distraction. A vulnerability. And if Jayce Talis was to prove useful, then Viktor would use every weakness he had.
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Or: Councillor Viktor, the fic.
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17 Oct 2025