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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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- Part 1 of You here, with me.
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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
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I See You (Oel Ngati Kameie) by RipSoul
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Avatar (Cameron Movies)
31 Dec 2024
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"You’ve got one of these puppies, don’t you?” she asked, her tone almost dismissive.
“Well, yes, but that’s not the point!” Jayce stammered, his words spilling over one another in a rush. “Dr. Heimerdinger specifically said I’m not ready for this. I didn’t even pass the psych evaluation! My synchronization rate is below standard, and—”
“Monday,” she cut him off, her voice flat and uncompromising. “Helipad. In blue.”
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Jayce is tasked to work with the son of the Olo’eyktan, Viktor, to get better understanding of the Na'vi culture.
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23 Sep 2025
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Fresh out of the ravine, Jayce is sent back in time to the early days of Hextech, into his younger body. He convinces Viktor of his identity, confesses his love to him, warns him of the future as best he can, then spends the night with him.
This is all well and good, until the younger Jayce wakes up in Viktor’s bed the next morning with absolutely no idea what the fuck happened last night.
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20 Sep 2025
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“I finally know your name.” Jayce said
“Oh, that’s my married name.”
Jayce discovers Viktor has been married all along, but there's more that meets the eye as he investigates who is this mysterious husband.
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20 Sep 2025
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Jayce is assigned to live in Zaun’s palace, a decaying spire repurposed from an old refinery. His orders are clear: keep tabs on Viktor, ensure Zaun doesn’t break the alliance. But the longer he stays, the more tangled things become.
(Saw people obesessing over this AU on pinterest and decided to obsess over it too until I finally wrote.)
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23 Aug 2025
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A cruel prince. A loyal knight. A high mage.
Viktor finds himself at the center of it all when he is Promised to the future king. His sudden betrothal forbids him from being seen by the common folk, keeping him trapped within the palace walls until his union is sealed.
Even a single touch could tarnish his promised chastity.
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19 Aug 2025
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An Exercise of the Cingulate Cortex by IneffablyInadequate
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
23 May 2025
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"Jayce?"
This time, his voice is effective. Weary but exponentially warm golden-brown eyes flit up from the mess of gears and screws Jayce is carefully accounting for, a scar-nicked brow turns up in wholesome attentiveness as he tunes in to his companion's query.
"Hm?" Comes a still partly-distracted response.
Viktor makes a little sound partway between an exhale and a chuckle.
"I said," He begins again. "I believe that I ran into an old colleague of yours this morning."
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Jayce struggles to deal with an old headache. An old headache that might just want to sleep with his lab partner.
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18 Aug 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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12 Aug 2025
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“When a Targaryen is born, the Gods flip a coin.”
He has never met him before, but Viktor is convinced that his betrothed must be a madman. When he is shipped off to marry the king’s bastard son he is even more certain his life is irreversibly doomed.
He is a wolf being sent into the dragon’s pit.
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10 Aug 2025
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wound care by weatheredlaw for Sinister_Queer
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
30 May 2022
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"No, you don't get to know," Jayce snaps. "You forfeited that right when you had your lawyer serve me with our fucking divorce papers in the emergency room!"
or: jayce and viktor are two brilliant surgeons at piltover general. when a tough patient brings them closer together, old troubles make themselves known.
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- Part 1 of healing and treating
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06 Aug 2025
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“Father Viktor has brought back all those programs you whined about missing. The East Hall is being converted into a soup kitchen as we speak, and after Mass there’s going to be an open-doors Christmas meal,” his mother says wistfully, drinking in a sip from her mug.
Jayce is going to have to see that for himself. His high income neighborhood and the prestigious, self-righteous families that attend the Church? Rubbing elbows with people in need for the holidays?
Maybe he really does need to meet Father Viktor. And shake his hand.
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Or: Jayce comes home for the holidays after a breakup to find a new priest at his childhood Catholic church. Father Viktor is not the kind of person Jayce ever expected to be a priest, but he has a dream to change Jayce's hometown for the better, and he decides to do everything he can to help. The more he helps, the more Jayce sees glimpses of Viktor, the man, not the priest. And the more glimpses he sees of Viktor, the more Jayce is so, so fucked.
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03 Aug 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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30 Jul 2025
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“So what you have told me is you live alone in a rented studio, with no permanent income, no social support network and that you were out of Taylor’s life for nearly 3 years while you were ‘finding yourself’. You have never paid child support even though he lives with his mother, who is in permanent work with a long term partner in a home she owns outright. We haven’t even looked at any criminal history or drug use- I know it’s legal now, but have you ever done it around Taylor? That’s what I thought. If I was a family lawyer- and I definitely am not- I would want to be paid upfront, because this would be over very quickly.”
Nick's life was not going exactly to plan, despite his "best" efforts. When his ex-wife Cassandra gets in to a new relationship, she throws another spanner in to works already pretty full of spanners.
Out of other ideas and other options, Nick is forced to consider an offer from some old friends he would rather not have spoken to at all. In order to maintain his family, he's going to have to move past some old grudges and let some people in.
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29 Jul 2025
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Swept from his human life to responsibility in Hell, Nick is signed up to marry a fairy prince to help secure an alliance. Only, that fairy prince turns out to be TWO princes, and they can't go back on their word now- all he can do is try to make the best of the situation, swapping out his spouse every six months and hoping they all get used to it before too long.
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29 Jul 2025
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Viktor is an ancient Fae deity who has been protecting Jayce's family for generations. With the death of Jayce’s grandma, he has been chosen to be the next Devotee to Viktor, bringing a weekly care package of mysterious goods to the antique shop the Fae resides in downtown. Viktor’s shop is never open, his mom says, and he never answers the door. But the first day Jayce comes to drop off the goods, he is invited inside.
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21 Jul 2025
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The Arcane curses Jayce and Viktor one day with an invisible chain between the two. Step outside of the radius, and you are thrown into the worst pain you have ever felt. Inside the circle, your body is in a state of pure bliss. At first, it seems like what the both of them would secretly wish for. Until the limit starts shrinking each day, and they are not only running out of time to find the wild rune that triggered it all, but they have to hide their feelings from each other while forced to live handcuffed together.
The "magically bound together" AU no one asked for. I just needed a reason for them to sleep and shower together.
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19 Jul 2025