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"it was affection that held us together" what do you MEAN "was" hjfhddwewwkj hes literally not a human anymore he couldnt feel anything physically or emotionally so the affection was lost. he no longer felt affection for jayce because it was TAKEN from him, hes not PHYSICALLY capable of it anymore NOT THAT HE EVER STOPPED LOVING JAYCE ON HIS OWN and JAYCES ACTION DIRECTLY LED TO THIS IT WAS THE MATTER OF LOSING HIM PHYSICALLY OR LOSING HIM EMOTIONALLY oh my god they took doomed by the narrative seriously

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hey so saying jayvik is racist is an insane take!

*taps the mic*

!!!FUCK THE JAYVIK SHIPPERS!!!

Nasty ass racist mf.

The show beats it over your heads that Jayce holds both Mel and Viktor in the highest of regards, but yet somehow he only cares for Viktor??

The show screams in your face “MEL CARES FOR JAYCE AND IS ALL FOR PROTECTING HIS DREAM EVEN TO HER LOSING ANY HOPE OF BEING WELCOMED HOME” and yall see “black woman manipulating man who we want our meow meow to be dating she’s a villain” or “let’s ship her with the lady she had 5 lines with” or even “let’s add her as an ornament to jayvik those idiots won’t see what we’re doing” then come tag it in the meljay tag?

FUCK YALL, I HOPE MEL AND JAYCE HAVE BABIES AND GET MARRIED GET FUCKED

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The arcane tag is so funny right now

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The Jayvik goats have given birth

Welcome to the world baby Rio

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ARCANE SPOILERS AHEAD

Absolutely sobbing about jayvik rn and ALL THE SYMBOLISM and how Viktor is so vulnerable that he feels next to nothing currently and just AHHHHHHHHHHHHH LIKE--- dude learns hard lessons about empathy his whole life. From being a child working under Singe (learning that he doesn't want to participate in keeping something /or someone/ alive against their will. To then growing up and realizing how important preserving the lives of others is through sacrificing himself and becoming a Martyr; which ENDS IN HIM TAKING THE LIFE OF SKY ACCIDENTALLY AND DENOUNCING HIS DECADES(?) OF WORK. To then the intense debate of this poor twink where he ultimately decides he doesn't have the strength to destroy his own work and asks Jayce to do it for him...what stops him in that moment? From continuing on this path? Empathy, once again. For Sky, for all the people who may get hurt if he continues. He FINALLY sees the truth of how dangerous magic x science can be, what hiemmerdinger has been telling the two of them for years and...

On to his fatal /meant to be fatal/ accident where Jayce, out of the same hopeful empathy saves his life...against his wishes. And he loses him for it. Viktor loses HIMSELF for it. His empathy is what has grounded him throughout this whole show, kept him in check when he discovered he was pushing too hard or too far...and in the end, None of it mattered in the end...the same hopeful empathy that intially brought Jayvick together, is now tearing them apart. My autistic ass has the evidence too:

> when Viktor first comes out of his viscous ooze, the first thing he asks is if Jayce destroyed the hexcore

> when asked if he's cold, he describes whatever he's feeling as an impulse, a call to action, unfamiliar

Common tropes around the integration of tech and organic matter remind us that as you become more machine than human, you slowly lose your humanity and well...Viktor barely has any human left. He no longer has empathy.

> he cut off Jayce like it was nothing, there was clearly more going on between them but he simply called it "affection"

> when visiting the underground, he calls pain "senseless"; knowing him and how he grew up in the fissures, he of all people should know that pain has a sense to it, it's what pushed him to grow and explore beyond the borders of what he thought was possible; to leave the undercity and make it in Piltover. Yet here, he calls it senseless. He no longer identifies with himself, with his previous empathic tendencies, with his hope for change.

He's become the monster he's been trying to prevent his entire life.

> Singe pushed things too far, and Viktor vowed in that moment that he would never see things that way. Viktor asking Jayce to destroy the hextech was his last attempt at saving himself before it was too late, and this too was an act of empathy

> now, we see Viktor traveling the undercity taking away pain without any permission or consent. He's become more aligned with Singe than ever, in losing himself.

> because Jayce was the one to revive him, this really sealed the deal in that this was inevitable. Regardless of the choices Viktor made along the way, regardless of how much pain he was in, he preserved that hope...until he couldn't any longer. Until Jayce went against his wishes.

And Jayce? He has no clue what he's done. That's the most tragic part of all this. Jayce responds with that same empathic view in the moment Viktor breaks up with him, and Viktor's only response is "goodbye, Jayce." He's gone. They're over. What once held them together is shattered. Jayvick, is shattered.

I'd like to go further in depth with what I believe this means going forward but. Holy shit do I want to make an AU where they implicitly understand each other and somehow Viktor is able to find himself again over time and they just end up boyfriends forever and ever and mwuah mwauah mwuah until they both die a happy death but I ALSO want one where they both end up with a hexcore and just...mwuah mwuah mwauh but in an evil way know? Cause the hexcore looks VERY much like the void and its already controlling Viktor's actions by impersonating Sky and using his little remaining empathy against him soooo thanks for coming to my Ted talk thanx <3

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don't lose your nuts >_<

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goodnight moon

concept stolen from oomfposting on bsky

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Come get your soup @mindthedocent

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I can't believe i just stayed up all night making league kf legends fanart

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What if instead of machine herald viktor it was freaky herald viktor and instead of rotting in his lab he made out with jayce sloppy style at exactly 12PM

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Every time someone fancasts Viktor as Timothée Chalamet a fairy dies

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Sorry but It's actually so annoying how much people downplay the crucial role piltover's corrupt council games played in derailing jayce/viktor's work and pretty much putting shackles around their lives. The council is directly responsible for and directly FUNDING so much of the misery that happens in this show, before the story has even started. Before Powder ever finds the gemstone. They single-handedly doom half of the region to death.

Just during the show: Jayce wanted to create magic to aid and uplift the common people, the council wanted trade route instant teleportators to make themselves richer.

Jayce & Viktor wanted to work on technology to help miners and steelworkers and artisans who are trying to survive in the industrial hellscape of piltover and zaun; the council wants it shelved for another 20 years. (yes, heimer is part of the corrupt council - no matter how much his image is laundered by the fandom.)

They are inept and self-serving leaders, elected by themselves and their blood inheritances, utterly obsessed with ultimate profit. You can really see how parasitic their relationship is to the people at the beggining of act 1. Jayce is a token nameless life, so disposable to them that they were going to burn down all of his research and throw out all of his titles, making him not just a lower-house vassal but an EXILE, and the only reason why that doesn't happen is because they realize how much money they can suck out of his work.

This applies to Viktor too. See the way that Heimerdinger tells him over and over again that no other paths can be taken, he has 'fulfilled his purpose' and he should be content to die. See how Mel looks at Viktor like a bug she wants to squash under her palm when he rejects the idea of making weapons for council. See how they speak over him and only address Jayce, as if he's worth less than nothing.

You are only as valuable as the profit you're willing to create. You are a problem that has to be dealt with as soon as you refuse their orders. They have the power to ruin your life, and if they find an excuse, they will. This is a direct threat pointed at Jayce & Viktor during ACT2, when Jayce is pressured into becoming one of them to protect 'the bottom line profit' and, personally speaking, to avoid that ire being redirected towards Viktor. He's pushed into compliance and told a target has been painted on his back.

Arcane jayvik are doomed in big part not for wanting to do harm, but being forced to exist under the beck and call of billionaire leeches. They are both immigrants. They are both struggling to get a degree and keep themselves afloat and they want to help people so goddamn much but they have to keep postponing their dreams to serve uncaring masters. I really wish there was more fan content focused on these very real bonds of understanding and solidarity between them.

When Viktor says 'Jayce will understand' that's not a fluke; he's lived in this environment for years. He knows Jayce is being pushed down the same way that he is and that deep down they've been kept captive by the exact same people. When Jayce agrees that Viktor should do whatever he needs to do to keep himself alive, he means that from the heart.

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sorry i said gay when you and your buddy had a massive falling out and tried to kill each other. it just kinda looked like that.

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Look. I like Viktor. He's my scruggly guy. My little meow meow. My dying Victorian child. But. BUT. We do not tolerate Jayce Talis HATE in this house.

Repeat after me.

We do NOT tolerate JAYCE TALIS hate in this house.

Jayce Talis is just trying to do his best... in a world trying to do its best to put him down.

His meltdown on the bridge was him being worried something happened to Viktor, afraid of Hextech being used by wrong hands, disappointed of his partner going behind his back when he trusted Viktor, and stressed from the threat of War.

I don't believe Jayce "WE are partners" Talis or Jayce "Viktor will have my seat in the council while I propose Zaun's independence" Talis has a racist bone in his body. Nor is he a bad guy.

He's a puppy. Can you hate puppies? No!

He just wants to be good to everyone which is both his good trait and his flaw.