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JINX AND EKKO from the "Ma Meillure Ennemie" MV

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mel x cait as doechii x jennie

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Day 2 of trying to convince @dimension20official to hire me

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finished this just in time for halloween, i will never be over this campaign

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ylfa's revived design!

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Can’t stop thinking about awkward Mel. Mel who tries so hard to fit in with Jayce and Viktor but fails time and time again, so she resorts just to showing up every once in a while and talking about council meetings. Mel who’s only friend is Elora. Simultaneously loving her company while harboring a deep fear that Elora’s obligation to her is strictly professional and that their friendship would fall if she wasn’t a Medarda. Mel who had to learn to piece together her social skills after being thrust into Piltover at age fifteen.

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@spectraling I feel like you have blown my third eye wide open with the idea of the Hexcore taking on some of Viktor's personality and attributes. Like. The idea of Viktor creating a thing that shares his goals, that genuinely wants to help him help people, at a time when he's starting to feel like maybe Jayce doesn't share that goal with him anymore? I think he's doing it all subconsciously but. Creating a thing that's a reflection of his own mind, an echo instead of another truly autonomous human that can challenge him when he starts going off the rails? An endless feedback loop of yes-and, supporting and encouraging him but also enabling his own blind spots and increasingly extreme ideas?

But also. Creating something that's not just using him for its own ends but that genuinely cares for him, that comforts him, that loves him?? (Except that love is a terrifying unstoppable force. Love that wants to crawl inside you and consume you. Love that says we'll die if we are parted from each other. Separating us will be like ripping a hole in your own body. But maybe there is something he recognizes about that kind of love.)

All that is SO much more interesting than Magic Orb Evil. It fits so much better with the themes and parallels of the show. "I only wanted to help." The darkness of love. Devotion that enables someone's worst impulses. It's so much more twisted and tragic and in keeping with the tone of the show than the idea of the Hexcore just controlling him or manipulating him for its own ends. It's Viktor all the way down and also he's created this thing that has a will of its own and there will be unintended consequences.

It makes a lot of the Sky stuff snap into place for me too, if you think that Sky is a manifestation of the Hexcore. I still think she works equally well as an expression of Viktor's connection to his humanity, which he finally allows to burn away during his final transformation. And tbh I prefer symbolism that's open to multiple interpretations. But things like Sky reminding Viktor that "all systems have limits" make a lot more sense if you think of Sky as an avatar of a Hexcore that genuinely cares about him, that's protective (if maybe also a little bit possessive.) Because frankly, this doesn't sound like something Viktor would say to himself. Nor does it sound like something that a Hexcore bent simply on relentlessly consuming everything in its path would encourage him to believe. It sounds like something his PARTNER would say.

(There is a whole other post to be made about Viktor and Sky in the astral plane and how astral plane Viktor is much more free with both giving and accepting touch than we ever see him in the physical realm, and astral Sky is MUCH more touchy with Viktor than the real Sky ever was: clasping his hands, sitting draped against his back. Something something inventing a ghost to soothe the gaping wound of loneliness inside you by accepting casual intimacy in your mind palace where no one can see. ANYWAY.)

The idea of the Hexcore being willing to protect him at the expense of others also fits with one of my pet headcanons, which is that the reason everybody in the commune reacted like that when Viktor got shot is that the Hexcore reflexively took a giant schlorp of everybody's life force, in a desperate attempt to keep Viktor and/or itself (is there a difference at this point?) alive.

Even the line about the "recursive impulse," which I've seen a lot of interpretations of but we never really know what it means. What if it's because the Hexcore is already a little bit Viktor and now it's inside him and that's just a hella confusing sensation to describe, like staring into a hall of mirrors?

But most of all I love this because holy fuck it is SO MUCH SADDER than any other interpretation I have seen. HE MADE HIMSELF A PARTNER. HE MADE HIMSELF THE PARTNER HE THOUGHT HE DIDN'T HAVE!!! WHEN JAYCE WAS RIGHT THERE THE WHOLE TIME!!!! Augh jesus hexcore christ I'm eating glass about it.

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the time travel jv trope but with s2 mel and s1 elora

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I love to see a doodle of Mel giving Elora cheek kisses

Sure!

Ship or purely platonic friendship, Elora was the only person who could understand Mel for the longest time!

She was (probably) a real one and sent along to Piltover to keep Mel safe from the Black Rose... RIP Elora 😔💔...

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melora aesthetics because i was bored 💕

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Bringing science to pixie hollow.

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The mage's apprentice AU inspired by my friend 55

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THE AFTER HOURS Severance – 2.09

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cleric class

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Illustration for Cup rune over by amazing surveycorpsjean on ao3 <3

If you haven't read this story yet... What are you waiting for, GO READ IT NOW

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ABBOTT ELEMENTARY -> 4x17 - Karaoke