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  1. Public Bookmark 61

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    Set one week after Jayce and Viktor meet on that fateful night at Jayce's apartment.

    Jayce crouches down to his level, reaching instinctively toward the jagged skin before stopping short.

    “You—” he can’t process the idea of it, let alone the reality. “You punched him.”

    “Yes.” Viktor flexes his hand. “He deserved it.”

    Jayce snorts, helpless. “You’ve got a mean right hook. Since when?”

    "Since Zaun."

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    Or: Jayce is fragile, and Viktor is astute; he is also alarmingly good at breaking noses in defense of his new academic associate.

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    11 Sep 2025

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    Four years have passed since Viktor left for Demacia to receive the life-saving surgery he desperately needed, and now he's finally coming home. He knew that leaving would mean change, but even after having all this time to prepare, he doesn't know if he'll be able to acclimate himself to everything that's different -- most importantly, how his relationship with Jayce is different.

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    31 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 45

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    Exorcist AU

    Jayce Talis, the son of a prestigious exorcist family, breaks sacred tradition and uses science to aid his holy endeavors. A robbery gone wrong snowballs into public endangerment and he is brought before the Council to be judged for excommunication. During the trial, he receives a stroke of bad luck in the form of possession. Possession is not rare, but the Demon is.

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    21 Aug 2025

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    Before he can stop himself, he picks up the phone. Every ring seems to last for eternity. Please, he thinks, be there, pick up, don’t be dead, don’t be gone…

    “Viktor?”

    His heart jumps. Silco’s voice is muffled, sleep-thick, but oh so achingly familiar. He had not realised until now just how much he missed it.

    “You do realise it is 2 o’clock in the morning?”

    He tries to speak but no words come out. The guilt, perhaps, has stolen them.

    “Has something happened?”

    “Papa,” he finally whispers. “Papa. Papa.” And then all of a sudden he is bawling his eyes out, horrible, heaving gasps and sobs torn from his throat, wracking his thin frame, and distantly he is embarrassed, but he cannot seem to make himself stop.

    Worn down by the crushing weight of (not actually) unrequited love, workplace disputes, past trauma, and the existential dread that comes with being an overachiever in your twenties, Viktor finally breaks. Papa Silco comes to pick up the pieces.

    Returning to his childhood home in Zaun for a long-overdue rest, Viktor must reckon with his past, his future, and the terrifying prospect of allowing himself to be loved and cared for.

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    17 Aug 2025

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    After everything - the Hexgates, the choice to finish things together - they wake in a cottage by the sea.

    The world is quiet. The air salt-wet and unfamiliar. The rooms feel lived in, but not by them. They don’t know how they got here. They don’t know why they’re alive.

    Viktor is sick. He says it’s nothing. Jayce pretends to believe him.

    In the hours between then and now, between silence and survival, something begins to grow.
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    Post-canon, instead of living in a cottage by a stream, they live in a cottage by the sea.
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    16 Aug 2025

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