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you and me, always forever

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I just needed to get this out of my system.

Also I hope that the other timeline mage Viktor knows he succeeded and is at peace. Maybe he can find a timeline where Viktor didn't survive the attack on the council and he can spend the rest of his days with the Jayce of that timeline :3

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suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

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ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x05 - “Blisters and Bedrock” ↳ "Hextech isn't a miracle. It's a curse."

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magneto is the best villain of all time. any media. magneto is the villain you write papers about, the one you dissect over and over. he is the pinnacle of a sympathetic villain because he isn’t a villain. to mutants, to those ostracized, he is the hero, not the villain. he is made of the same violent revolution the haitian revolution, the american revolution, the french revolution all exemplify. he is an allegory for change, villified but sympathetic, and magneto is one of, if not the best, fictional characters ever created

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Arcane S01E05 – Viktor experimenting with the hexcore

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ARCANE | Character Evolutions

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Another one… just endless inspiration It’s so heartbreaking

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jayce talis and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day several months

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Saving Jayce, losing Sky - Viktor's great mistake

There's two crucial moments in Viktor's season 1 arc that very poignantly show why he comes to view his own path as utterly misguided, how tragically close he comes to losing himself.

Twice does he read someone's scientific notes and recognize their brilliance, their potential, and the potential of their ideas to change the world for the better. The first time, of course, it's with Jayce. Viktor is fascinated by what he says at the trial, and he starts studying Jayce's notes. He comes to Jayce notebook in hand, telling him that he's intrigued, that he wants to help Jayce complete his vision, realise his dream.

This is how he literally ends up saving Jayce's life - Jayce, who makes it very clear that his whole life revolves around (re-)creating magic, who says his life's work is all there is, who decided to commit suicide after no one believed him. But Viktor, reading his notes, believes him, and thereby, he gives him back a reason to live.

The second time is the polar opposite, despite being a clear mirror scene. Viktor is reading Sky's notes:

He recognises her brilliance, the potential of her ideas, her idealism in wanting to change the world - she's like Jayce, she's like Jayce and Viktor, once upon a time.

But this time, he reads the notes after Sky died because of him. His reckless experimentation with the Hexcore is what killed her - his recoginising her brilliance cannot save her, because it's too late, she's already lost, and it's Viktor's fault.

This is Viktor losing himself in season 1, it's why he comes to regret everything he did, it's why he himself is about to commit suicide, only for Jayce, in another perfect mirror structure, to interrupt him. It's why Viktor carries Sky's notebook with him throughout the parts of season 2 when he's still in touch with his humanity - as a reminder of his greatest failure, taking the life of a brilliant person instead of saving it.

The thing that makes Viktor's arc utterly tragic, of course, is that all good he thinks he's accomplishing in season 2 ends up being another version of evil. He ends up really losing himself. His intentions become twisted and he ends up taking many more lives instead of saving and improving them, as he vowed to do. Not only was Sky's death a horrible, senseless accident, Viktor's worst mistake, even the lesson he took from it comes to nothing.

(I WILL SOB FOREVER.)

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wish I can wipe my memory after season finale

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Viktor's hands

Just... randomly getting emotional about the gestures we see Viktor make at defining moments in his story.

His first characteristic gesture is hand open, vulnerable, offering something. As a child, it's what we see with Rio:

Then obviously there's the moment all of Arcane's events arguably hinge on, him offering the bracelet to Jayce, and like with Rio, waiting until Jayce makes a move:

But then things change, and throughout season one, Viktor feels increasingly disregarded and alone and desperate. And there's Viktor's crucial mistake, the reckless experimentation with the Hexcore. After all the times he's offered something, this is him hurting his open hand himself, cutting it, a renounciation of who he was before:

Then his typical gestures change, because so does he - his hands harden, become metal, somewhat inhuman and invulnerable. As the Herald, he doesn't offer something - he takes something, hand outstreched:

But then, the very end, hand open again, vulnerable, finally receiving something, in a gesture from Jayce very reminicent of a proposal (HE'S RECEIVING JAYCE'S LOVE):

Just... the details in that show, maaaaaan.

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I don't think Jayce was ever the one who was against Hextech weapons. I think that was always Viktor's side of the partnership, and I think this for a few reasons:

1 ) Jayce comes from a family of tool makers. Weapons are tools. Jayce's earliest drawings of himself as a mage is him holding a magical hammer. I don't think Jayce set out to make magical weapons but I think he was always open to the idea as that drawing shows us.

2 ) Viktor comes from the undercity, which no matter how you look at when he would have left it for Piltover, was often damaged and harassed by armed Enforcers. Just based on his upbringing, Viktor would be very aware of the fact that any weapons made for Piltover will almost certainly be put in the hands of Enforcers and those will be used against people in the undercity. Jayce does not have this social awareness. I don't think Jayce was at all malicious, just naive,. According to Caitlyn, he had zero political interest before becoming a Councilor and really everything he knew or thought about the undercity came from his partnership and love for Viktor.

3 ) Jayce is genuinely torn on the need for Hextech weapons because again, this isn't a deeply held belief for him in S1, this is him being supportive of Viktor's vision for their shared dream.

Jayce let Viktor be the moral guide for something he didn't really have a strong feeling about one way or the other. This is why he's so torn in S1 when it seems like they might actually need Hextech weapons in Piltover to survive against a Shimmer-armed undercity (in a classic theme of arms race escalation and all it entails that permeates the show). The narrative demonstrates though that this is Jayce's naiveté at play to think the weapons could be used only against their intended targets. Weapons once made will always be used and they will be used, including against children. Viktor already has this awareness that weapons will be used against the undercity, Jayce gains it through the attack on the Shimmer factory and the death of a child bystander who looks like Viktor. To Mel's credit, she also urges caution and backpedals on her own desire for Hextech weapons in a bid to deescalate the conflict.

4 ) In S2 Act 1, Jayce is all-in on Viktor's vision for Hextech, because he's mourning Viktor who is non-responsive in the Hex cocoon and close to death. Mel, who in 1.09 realized that Jayce and Piltover matter more to her than her mother's approval, also stands up against Hextech weapons.

5 ) But, and this is critical, Jayce has always fundamentally seen Hextech as a tool. That's why when the situation escalates, he pushes back on Hextech weapons on a broader scale, but he is willing to bend enough to make weapons for Caitlyn and her strike team, because he loves Caitlyn and he sees this as a defensive tool to keep her safe, in my opinion, and as an alternative to a war that would be worse.

This is critical to note because Jayce doesn't have an iron spine when it comes to resisting Hextech weapons because it's not his deeply held philosophical belief the way it is for Viktor. It is a received belief that he holds to honor Viktor, out of love for him, and that can be swayed if the specter of protecting another loved one arises. Jayce is wildly conflicted about this, I believe, based on his expression in the forge after he makes Caitlyn's gun, but this is a man who cannot bear the thought of losing another loved one.

Hextech was always about love for Jayce, not philosophy, because he is not ideologically driven and never has been, it was always Viktor's ideals he was supporting.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk ;P

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ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 1x06 - "When These Walls Come Tumbling Down" ↳ "I might know someone else who could help. "

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I thought I wanted us to give magic to the world. Now...all I want...is my partner back.

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In all timelines, in all possibilities, only you… can show me this