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  1. Confessions of a Machine Herald by

    Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends  

    20 Jan 2026

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    After Viktor’s ascension to Machine Herald, the Council questions whether Viktor’s emotions are genuine or simulated. Jayce is assigned as the final metric of personhood, he’s a living, breathing Turing test built out of history, proximity, and rather inconvenient affection.

    “You think I am pretending to feel,” he says. “But what is love, if not a behavior one chooses to repeat despite diminishing returns?”

    The Machine Herald performs and Jayce interprets. Piltover wants data, but Viktor chooses something else entirely.

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