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Look After You by beachlasgna, spritejac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
01 Aug 2025
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It’s Caitlyn Kirammann’s first year at Piltover Preparatory Academy, a prestigious K-12 STEM school that encourages young minds to explore both their scientific curiosity and creative talents. Cait is bursting with excitement, eager to start this new chapter of her life.
Jayce Talis, on the other hand—Caitlyn’s big brother turned adoptive father—not so much. After being her sole guardian for the last year, he isn’t quite ready to let her go. Thankfully, Viktor, the academy’s beloved and supportive Kindergarten teacher, is there to help Jayce ease the transition from stay-at-home dad back to Piltover’s trusted firefighter.
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Back to Friends by beachlasgna, spritejac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Jun 2025
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“I’m not gay, by the way.”
Jayce knows what he is. He knows what he likes. He knows what he dislikes, too. He has to get that out, though. Clear the air. Set the record straight. Rule out any misconceptions.
His eyes fly open when he doesn’t hear a response. If it were anyone else, he’d imagine they would have stood up and walked out of there without a second thought. Would have probably laughed in his face before they left, too. Maybe Viktor is different. Maybe he just really wants to suck his dick.
That’s just cocky, Jayce. Twenty in the Douche Bag jar, per Caitlyn’s rules.
But his declaration seems to get a rise out of Viktor because he looks up to him from down on his knees with a humorous glint in his eyes. A cheap chuckle comes from below.
“This is… this is just me broadening my horizons, you know,” Jayce adds, just to be safe. “Drunken fun is all.”
“Broadening your horizons,” Viktor says flatly. “Whatever you say, birthday boy.”
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A story in which Jayce discovers that getting your dick sucked by a hot stranger at the club and falling in love with him does, in fact, make you gay. OR; Jayce experiences a bisexual crisis at the age of twenty-five.
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How We Used To Be by beachlasgna, spritejac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
19 Jun 2025
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Jayce and Viktor Talis spend an unforgettable week in Ionia, their favorite honeymoon spot, with a beautiful oceanic view as their backdrop, soaking up plenty of sun on a white sandy beach, ordering all the free drinks they can get… as a newly divorced couple.
Or, Jayce and Viktor work out their marriage while being stuck in the most romantic resort on the island.
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All That Matters by beachlasgna, spritejac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
29 Apr 2025
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Two-time MVP and captain of the Piltover Wolves Jayce Talis has fallen to the lowest point of his professional hockey career. Determined to restore his team to its former glory, Jayce agrees to train with Viktor Arkanov, a former Olympic figure skater who wants nothing to do with the ice.
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all i needed was someone (when the whole wide world felt young) by cardigains for eedsknees
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Dec 2023
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Much like the other day, Ellie ends up sitting on the porch steps. Joel’s back even quicker this time. Almost like he’d left his first aid supplies sitting out and ready to attend as needed.
More cleaning, this one hurts less. More gel liquid, this time rubbed in a bit better. And more bandaids, these ones something other than plain, boring beige. Not princesses either, usually the first thing adults reached for when they mixed the two factors of Little Girl and Injured together.
Nope. This guy has dinosaur bandaids.
“Dude, I fucking love dinos!”
Joel’s head swivels up, eyes going from her carefully patched up elbow to meet Ellie’s gaze. She wants to ask him how he knew. She wants to ask to see the rest of the designs in the box. She wants to tell him all of the other things she loves.
“S’pose I picked right then,” he says, almost like he’d been standing in the aisle, contemplating what exactly that might be.
“You did,” is how Ellie answers him, not bothering with a thank you.
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or: Ellie is Joel's next door neighbor who's hellbent on learning to ride a bike to get where she needs to go. Little does she know that place is right across the street.
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- Part 1 of Next Door Neighbors
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01 Oct 2025
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Keep Going by stainedglasspanel
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 May 2023
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Joel sounds a thousand miles away. “Ellie? Are you listening? I said, don’t you *ever* do that again.”
Well, she thinks deliriously, that won’t be a problem after all.
“Ellie, what—?”
It feels like she has no control over her body anymore, like it’s someone else who is extending her arm, pulling back her sleeve, and exposing a ring of broken skin. She hears Joel stop breathing when he sees it too.
She's been bitten.
________AU where Ellie is already traveling across the country with Joel when she gets bitten.
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24 Sep 2025
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the shirt off his back by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 May 2025
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“Your clothes,” she says. “I don’t mind them.”
“Well, they’re all yours,” he says. “Whenever you want.”
In the moment, he’d carve out his actual heart and give it to her if it made her feel better. His clothes are nothing compared to that.
Or: 5 times someone stole Joel's shirt + 1 time they didn't
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10 Sep 2025
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‘Til our Fingers Decompose (Keep my Hand in Yours) by Baymax_13
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
04 Jul 2023
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The next thing he sees and knows isn’t a dream is Ellie’s little hand reaching over his heart and balling up his shirt in her fist. Her head lays on his shoulder and her ear presses against his chest. He feels her small exhales and they bring fresh, unbidden tears to his eyes. She doesn’t notice his half-lidded gaze, but he sees just fine as she brings the hand still clutched around his flannel up to her nose and presses it to her face like it’s the only thing keeping her from floating away.
Almost on muscle memory alone, Joel aims to press a kiss to her hair where it’s up to his own nose, but he can’t quite get it right. Still, his cheek ends up against the soft tendrils of Ellie’s brown strands and he thinks it’s enough. He hopes it gives her some meager comfort.
It’s all he has to offer.
(Inspired by the famous picture of Ellie sleeping all curled up on the forest floor during episode 2 - essentially an exploration of how Ellie becomes more than cargo to Joel through Ellie's very cute sleeping habits)
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08 Sep 2025
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another two years gone (spent forever letting go) by fabbee
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Aug 2025
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Jackson Hole sat at the base of two mountain ranges, with long, winding rivers that ran around its perimeter. The rolling fields seemed to go on forever and ever, full of bright wildflowers and blooming butterweeds. It was breathtaking to stand on top of the hill and look down at their new home.
It was the kind of shit people would paint pictures of.
It sort of made her want to throw up.
“Whadda’ ya say, kiddo? Ready to go home?” Joel asked.
Home.
He made it sound so fucking simple.
“Yep.” She forced a smile onto her face that she hoped looked believable. “Let’s go, old man.”
OR: After Salt Lake City, Ellie and Joel return to Jackson and try to build a life. Sometimes it’s hard to let go of the past.
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- Part 2 of back to you verse
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17 Aug 2025