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icouldntthinkofabetternamesook · 10 hours ago

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third time because I'm on a role and have a lot to say about this and don't want to sleep:

Viktor has shadow powers while Mel has light powers. like in the cloak and dagger tv show, Viktor can see peoples negative thoughts, fear and despair, while Mel can see their, hopes, aspirations and desires. this makes it really easy for Viktor to help people though their issues and really easy for Mel to figure out how to best manipulate them. when together they can both visit the astral plane and have full emotional sensing, empathy abilities. this can verge into full telepathy and mind control when in agreement for what to do.

Viktor has a shadowy cloud effect, that allows for invisibility, intangibility and minor healing. Mel has her glowing golden shields that burn to the touch and increased durability to physical damage. when in Cloak and Dagger mode they have semi matching outfits, with hoods and full face masks, except Viktor's is a floor length dark blue cloak, and Mel's is a white knee length dress.

Viktor can drain people of their sadness for a on the minor cost of having to experience himself, but it leaves them happy, hollow husks and he has some trouble seeing the problem with this. what do you mean this is bad? I'm taking away their pain.

the empathic abilities really mess with Mel because now she knows her best friend has a crush on her and she has to work really hard to not just manipulate everyone. doesn't always bother. what do you mean this is bad? I'm giving them what they want.

Viktor specifically saves Jayces life by talking him off the ledge by being able to see and understand his despair and the stress he's under being a scholarship student and not having a safety net to fall back on. He felt he couldn't talk to Mel because her life seems so perfect from the outside and Mel didn't know she needed to talk to him because she can only see the positives. hearing about what almost happened from Viktor serves as bit of a wakeup call to make her understand that sometimes what people want aren't always what they need.

when apart from each other for to long, Viktor gets cold to the touch. he starts having trouble breathing. everything aches and moving his leg becomes even more of a challenge. the bags under his eyes become unnaturally prominent, and his skin gets grey and clammy. give it a bit longer and he can barely move, barely breathe, just him and the pain and when that stops he knows it will be over

Mel on the other hand starts running a fever, can't stand still, starts almost glowing. all her senses start getting to much, the noises to loud the textures to intense, the colors sharp, the smells overpowering. give it a bit longer and she can't think, she's blazing like the sun, and she absolutely can not sit still for even a second, just her and the pain and when the stops, well....

thankfully giving each other a brush in the hallway between class twice a day keeps them completely asymptomatic. that said it got really bad the first weekend after they broke into the lab. Viktor passed out in the church and Mel ran straight out of yoga class looking around for him like a maniac. this is also how they found out they can track out other, and thank goodness for that

they are at their best together. this mostly applies to Viktor and his life long physical illness. being with Mel and using their powers together clears him up of all his mundane symptoms as well as stopping the magical ones. Mel doesn't notice much affect at first and even when she finds herself more at peace and less anxious than usual, she just assumes its the change in circumstances. as I said in my first post, for all they are bound, they are not equal

hopefully my next random inspiration windfall will be Signed and Ambessa shaped

Arcane/Cloak and Dagger au

Viktor is Cloak, Mel is Dagger. Viktor is gender weird in the middle of transitioning. him and Sky are childhood friends and are entering extremely weird territory in their relationship. Mel is dating Jayce. Viktor was semi recently adopted as Dr Reveks son, and Dr Revek is working for Ambessa. Mel and Viktor met through their parents and are now in a situation where they have to feed on each other to survive and also stop their parents from hurting more people. they don't like each other very much.

Viktor was homeless for a while and the abandoned church he lived in becomes their meet up place. Kino isn't dead he just went off to college and doesn't get home to visit often. Sky is very uncomfortable with the new beautiful woman Viktor is spending so much time with, no matter how many times Viktor tells her he's just not interested in women because obviously that doesn't make her feel better because she wants him to be at least a bit bisexual so he could be interested in her and if he's not attracted to the most beautiful women she's even seen then clearly she has no chance.

Jayce and Viktor meet like three times and have no relationship. this is crucial. One of these times was Viktor saving Jayces life, so Jayce has a hero worship crush in his hero identity, but Viktor hasn't noticed. Mel think this is extremely funny

unlike in marvel, Viktor's darkforce has limited healing properties to slow down the damage wounds can do and Mel's lightforce does shields rather than daggers. if Viktor is away from Mel for to long he starts becoming more corpse like and if Mel is away from Viktor for to long she essentially starts catching on fire. they have two days tops on their own, but Viktor starts feeling the affects harder because of his pre-existing health issues, so despite the codependency they are not equal. Mel also has the option of going to live with her brother when getting her mother arrested, but Viktor would just go back out on the streets, so they start butting heads on how to deal with the issue. they both want to help people and make the world a better place, but have different views on how to get there, but also literally cannot live without each other.

on top of trying to stop their parents from nebulous evil actions, Viktor plays street hero with Sky as his back up and Mission Control. Mel eventually joins in because if he dies she will shortly follow bt winds up enjoying it despite herself. Sky is the only person who knows their secrets and is being driven into an utter tizzy. Mel is considering looping in Elora, but doesn't want to put her in danger because her family is also in close proximity to nebulous evil actions

Sky, a baby bisexual, looking at the two powerful creatures she's stuck in the middle of :). She plays Evita's role from the tv show

Eventually they end up defeating the big nebulous evil(the black rose in some form probably). Sky gets a portion of both of their powers and her and Viktor somehow get a lot of money and go to a fancy college, and become famous scientists, and help a lot of people with their medical and environment technology work, while Mel decides to become an artist rather than going into law like she always planned, and starts dating Elora, who almost died during the main plot which it made her rethink her priorities, and Elora goes to college with Sky and Viktor, and all four of them live within a couple blocks of each other forever. Sky and Viktor are not together romantically because he is aro-ace, and Sky goes through a lot of different partners, before deciding she's actually married to her work and the concept of science.

Jayce eventually joins Sky and Viktor's research team, rekindles a friendship with Mel, though they never get back together because she's married to Elora, and get the entire plot dumped on his head after a few drinks. He then tries to suffocate himself with a pillow, because he still has a poster of Cloak on his wall, he drew himself after that one time he saved him, and now Viktor is laughing

#mine #arcane

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icouldntthinkofabetternamesook · 10 hours ago

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to be clear on the dynamics:

Sky and Viktor were in the same shitty rundown part of town as little girls. they were very much attached at the hip and were both weird little autistic children who adored science, info dumped to each other, and preferred sitting together reading books to hanging out with the other children. two weird little tomboys. after Viktor's mom died of cancer his home life got bad and then a couple of foster homes fell through due to his health issues. it was a few foster homes in a figured out he was trans, which made the situation worse and he wound up making his way back to his hometown to live in a dilapidated church. he saw Sky from a distance but didn't get in contact because she seemed to be doing well and he didn't want to drag her down. Meanwhile, hanging out in his home town, he runs into Dr Revek, who he already knew as a kids because he was his moms primary Doctor and Revek got a bit overly attached thanks to projecting his daughter on his patients little girl.

Dr Revek puts in a bit of effort to take care of Viktor due to nostalgia, and winds up finding that the little gutter queer is actually brilliant at science despite his spotty education record. He decides to adopt Viktor and try to groom into a scientific successor to the extremely sketchy necromancy work he's trying to do to get his daughter back. Ambessa is his primary funder because she wants his research for military weapon reasons. She's searching for something to give her a leg up on the Black Rose and can't do itself, fleeing with a few magic artifact to keep her children safe.

Viktor winds up going to the same fancy private school that Mel and Elora are at, and Jayce has a scholarship to. He is wildly, noticeably weird to everyone and has no friends because no one wants to make eye contact. he does wind up running back unto Sky though, and after a bit of post transition confusion they strike up a friendship. Sky can't quite get a scholarship to the fancy place because she's also already working full-time to try and help her family and they wind up spending time together, officially to study but actually just to spend time together. Sky thinks it's entirely unfair that her cute childhood girl crush has turned into an extremely hot guy, who is now also several social rungs above her. She is double lost on Viktor.

Viktor meanwhile is trying really hard to fall back into their childhood dynamic like nothing happened but it's not working, due to the everything. Viktor is sex repulsed asexual, entirely aromantic but hasn't quite found that label yet and is working around more to understand the gender thing which is he/they/it and also dealing with the utter freak that has adopted him and is the only person to show him kindness and understating in years but still clearly has something wrong. he is doing his level best to ignore Sky's crush because he does not and cannot reciprocate but if he looses her friendship he really has nothing.

Meanwhile Elora is the first friend Mel made after her family had to run from the Black Rose. not the only friend by any means but in many ways the only one that matters. that was about freshman year of high school and they are tied at the hip kinds of bonded. Elora is the only one Mel trust with all of what she's feeling with moving to a new country, how much she misses Kino, the ways her mother is abusive but she can't say anything about it due to the role her mother has in society, the pressure she feels to live up to the Medarda name but also how she wants to runaway from the concept of her family as far as possible. Elora has a crush the size of the sun on her drop dead gorgeous friend and will never tell her because she wants to remain a safe space for Mel way from her family and doesn't want to risk messing anything up.

Jayce is a scholarship student at their fancy academy and is desperately wants to become a famous scientist to make his single immigrant mother proud. He is all studying all the time and has not noticed that puberty made him extremely attractive and still thinks of himself as the awkward, outcast nerd that spent his childhood getting bullied for the autism and love of magic tricks. Mel zero's in on him immediately because she always has a love for the underdogs and outcasts. She helps him integrate to the new school, make new friends and after a while she kisses him and they start dating. She doesn't have the same emotional intimacy with him as she does with Elora, but he's extremely sweet and intimate because it's his first relationship and his shear belief in their love mostly convinces her too. Elora is heartbroken but trying to be supportive.

Mel and Viktor meet through their parents. Mel tries to reach out and make friends like she always does but Viktor is very skilled at being anti social. they wind up with suspicions about the work being done at about the same time and wind up breaking into the lab to try to investigate after a partially strange experiment and half overhead conversation between their parents. the magic item goes crazy in their matched proximity and whoops, now their bonded for life