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Jayce longed to be understood, to be accepted and loved. It drove him to be a chronic people pleaser, something Mel had leveraged shamelessly. But circumstances being as they were, Viktor knew he would always be found wanting by Piltover, and so he developed a certain apathy for approval.
This had caused no small amount of friction between the two as Jayce's social obligations ballooned and Viktor's health deteriorated. Mel had known, intellectually. But watching Jayce crumble under the doctor's emotionless recitation of Viktor's prognosis changed everything.
⚞⦓🔵⦔⚟In another timeline, when Viktor ends up in the hospital, Jayce doesn't go to him alone—Mel joins him. What can be achieved by the power of three?