#//enjoy a kid viktor and his parents!

[am-i-interrupting]

hi hi hiii !!

idk if you're still doing requests for Arcane, but if you are, I'd love to see Ekko, Victor, Jinx (and any other characters of your choice) with an s/o that's really good with with kids? maybe they could be a teacher/ mentor or babysitter but just very much loving caregiver vibes for any and all kids they come across

Caitlyn

She loves seeing you with kids, in your element.

She thinks it’s cute to see the way kids hang onto your every word and the way you teach them without them even noticing.

She will pop in on you with kids carrying toys and games.

She does enjoy kids company as well and they do like her but maybe mostly because she’s an enforcer and she brings them toys.

Sometimes she’ll find herself watching you with a kid (especially if that kid looks like either one of you) and daydreaming about somewhere in the distant future where you two would have one of you own.

Ekko

He’s not the best with kids himself. He’s not bad by any means but he can find himself often freezing up and unsure what to do.

This caused him to find it fascinating how good you are with them when he finds himself floundering.

When the Firelights have to go on missions often times the ones who have kids will leave them with you.

Upon arriving back, he will spend a minute just watching you doting on the kids.

He is just so enraptured in everything you do and that includes your ability to form relationships with kids.

Jinx

There aren’t many kids in the areas Jinx grew up. Not too many parents are gonna bring their kids into what is now essentially a club.

The first time she saw you with a kid was one of the times you went outside together. She had stepped away from the kid crying on the street, her hand instinctively on her gun, and she got itchy when she saw you approach.

She didn’t say anything she just watched as you crouched down to the kid’s level and started calming them down.

Slowly but surely her hand on her gun went slack and she just watched you enthralled.

When you offered to walk the kid back home and they agreed and you started leading them to her, she just looked at them wide eyed as she cocked her head, her braids pooling on the ground as a result, and waved her hand.

The kid hid behind your leg but you reached out and grabbed her hand and slowly the kid got more comfortable around Jinx on the way to their house.

Later that night Jinx was tracing the seam lines on your shirt and asked you what you thought about kids.

Silco

He would find it amusing how good you are with kids that aren’t his.

It’s almost like he indulges in watching you with them but in an almost smug way as he is with everything.

Seeing you be good with Jinx though changes everything. It completely knocks him off his guard.

Watching you play with her and make her smile makes him soft.

If you’re there when Jinx is having a mental health moment, she’ll cling to you and beg you to make it stop while you do your best to calm her down.

The emotions he feels is a combination of sadness, sympathy, and oddly pride in those moments.

For other kids, he couldn’t care less about how you interact with them but when it’s his, it means the world to him.

Viktor

He’s not good with kids himself. Those pivotal years of learning to make connections were stolen from him because of his inability to do things so many others could and kids having a habit of being cruel, especially in the lanes.

Seeing you with kids is something like a case study to him.

He finds it fascinating and seems to almost take notes on what you’re doing.

He would never engage for the longest time with any kids that were under your watch unless they directly asked him questions.

Then one day, he just did and they adored him, not as much as they adored you but it was a close thing.

They would like him for the fact that he refuses to talk to them like they’re idiots and indulged them in their endless curiosity.

You find a notebook later on filled with things that you did around the kids (even something as small as your tone of voice) that made you realize he was mimicking what you did in his own way.

[venush0llows]

jaycecait friendship/siblingism is VERY important to me so here are some headcanons :

1) caitlyn hated being an only child, always bored and wanting somebody to look up to and confide in (especially because she struggled to make friends as a pretty shy kid). so when her parents introduced her to jayce she jumped at the opportunity to have someone older than her that she could look up to as a role model. she would go to his lab and pester him about his research, ask if he needed help studying or if she could quiz him. at first he finds her annoying, but not wanting to be rude since she’s his sponsors’ daughter, but eventully he becomes used to her company (even enjoys it) and gets worried when she doesn’t visit for a while. he realises he quite likes being an older brother figure (since he’s also an only child) and giving her advice, helping her with homework etc. he secretly takes a lot of pride in how much she looks up to him.

2) caitlyn is initially lowkey in awe of jayce. she thinks he’s like the coolest person she’s ever met, and is always wanting to be helpful and is constantly bragging to people that she’s his assistant. but as cait gets older she grows out of this, and very quickly goes from being in awe of him to just making fun of him constantly. she mimics his mannerisms and speech, dresses up as him and does very unflattering impressions (which viktor finds hilarious). jayce starts to get genuinely annoyed by it, because caitlyn knows exactly how to get under his skin, and he starts to tease her too in a very brotherly way. like the ‘not touching can’t get mad!’ kinda teasing, it’s really stupid.

3) to continue with them teasing each other i’m imagining them at a fancy dinner party at the kiramman house, and everyone around them is politely talking meanwhile jayce and caitlyn are sitting at the far end of the table balancing spoons on their noses, flicking stuff at each other, stealing each other’s food etc. cassandra always fixes them a look and they go ‘he/she started it!’ and point fingers. they’re just so sweet i can’t deal anyways

4) jayce was one of the people who helped caitlyn realise she was a lesbian. she was sitting in his office and unloading her tween problems about how all of the girls at her school were obsessed with the boys and how annoying she found it, doing the classic young queer thing of ‘why do girls want boyfriends so much they’re grossss, hanging out with girls is so much better?’. and jayce is like are you not interested in the boys at school? and cait is like ew no. and he’s like have you ever thought you might like girls? and caitlyn is then like… huh, interesting. they then don’t talk about it again until a couple of months later when caitlyn develops a huge crush on one of the girls at her school, and she tells jayce EVERYTHING. she goes to his lab every day and fills him in on all of the drama, like ‘she smiled at me today!’. he listens attentively to all of it.

5) jayce introduces caitlyn to viktor as his sister, which is the first time he has ever referred to her as that. he doesn’t even notice that he did it, but it means so much to caitlyn. she gives him a huge hug before saying goodbye that day which surprises jayce a little. viktor later says something like ‘your sister seems nice’, and jayce is like oh she’s not my sister she’s just the kid of my sponsors. and viktor is like but you introduced her to me as your little sister? this is the moment jayce kinda realises how important caitlyn is to him too, since he’s also an only child who never experienced having a sibling, and he fully accepts his big brother role with caitlyn.

6) viktor also initially doesn’t like cait and thinks she’s disruptive and distracts jayce, but jayce seems to enjoy her company so viktor doesn’t mind. but eventually they both bond over swapping embarrassing jayce stories, and viktor loves explaining their research to her because of how genuinely interested she is by it and they basically just nerd out together. jayce loves how well they get along, as they’re both such important people to him, and sometimes he sits back while they talk and just watches them all proud and giddy (until they gang up and start making fun of him, then he doesn’t like it so much).

7) caitlyn IMMEDIATELY picked up on the jayvik tension. she met viktor literally once and hung out in the lab with them for a bit, and when viktor left the room she immediately says to jayce okay what the hell is going on there? and jayce gets all flustered, and she teases him being like jayce has a cruuuuush!

8) jayce is often on the receiving end of all of caitlyn’s girl troubles, and one time after she got broken up with he came over with comfort food, and they sat and talked for a whole evening just eating and crying and laughing.

9) caitlyn mourned jayce heavily after the war, his loss had a huge effect on her. she lived in denial for a while, not wanting to worry or burden vi, but when going through some of her old things she finds an old picture of them. it’s her as a kid in jayce’s lab, and they’re both grinning at the camera (viktor is taking the photo). she breaks down sobbing when she sees it and vi comes running in. she hugs her and looks at the photo in cait’s hand, realising instantly what was going on. they sit in a crumpled heap on the floor as caitlyn cries and vi strokes her hair, her own tears falling silently. it hits for both of them in that moment : they’d both lost a sibling.

10) caitlyn wrote jayce’s name on her slip of paper.

the end i might add more idk

[mollysunder]

Before the first season of Arcane premiered Riot released this interactive visual novel for the Riot x Arcane event. The setting was a hybrid of LoL and Arcane's universe, Piltover literally on top of Zaun, Cait is the Sheriff, but characters like Silco exist. The whole premise for the story is that Jinx stole some hextech and tapped into the Arcane oand opened a rift between worlds.

That's a lot. Personally I enjoyed this more to just see some characters out in the wild. Silco gets to be his charming self to you, the self-insert reader that's trying to find the culprit of the heist, which he knows was his kid.

Here's Jayce hating on Silco for something Jinx did.

This came out before the show did, so it's interesting to see how the game wants us perceive the characters' dynamics before we get further depth from the show. Most of it's related to Jinx because she makes herself the center of controversy.

For characters like Vi, who's already an enforcer that works directly under Sheriff Caitlyn in this world, she's clearly over Jinx's actions and wants to squash any further escalations.

Sevika is just as harsh and plainly sick of Jinx. I do find it interesting that the novel makes it clear tha Sevika believes that Jinx deserves some kind of punishment, though Jinx did endanger them all by ripping realities into eachother.

The only sympathetic voice outside of Silco in this story comes from Viktor, who after finding out Jinx was responsible for the Rift between realities asks you to remember that she's a real person that lived a life just like him. He goes so far as to contemplate another way to solve the situation and avoid a confrontation that may end with terrible consequences. (It's wild because the show then dedicates a whole scene to him defusing one of her bombs).

My favorite part is near the end where Silco tries to stop Jinx from harnessing anymore Arcane energy because it threatens to upend their reality.

I WISH they got to talk like this to eachother in the show, but so much was happening already. Even better Jinx gets the last words in and it justlays out what's ALWAYS been there.

This scene helped me understand that Jinx was always going to fire her rocket at the council, because she and Silco have both always been motivated to by power. They both know what it's like to be perceived as "weak" and they way it destroyed their lives respectively. It's kind of the reverse of what Mel and Ambessa have going on, you've got the diplomatic intrigue parent and the militarily minded daughter who wants to go further and absolutely will when you're not looking. And that's always been the thing with Jinx, if you give her any form of power, either a gun, a grenade, a rocket, or even magic she will take it and she will use it.

Right after this confrontation you have to defeat Jinx with the Power of Friednship or something (it's been a while). But even as put an end to the near calamity Jinx created there's at least one voice before it ends affirming Jinx's personhood.

It's weird honestly, Jinx didn't turn into vapor or anything, the story's pretty vague about what happens as you try to defeat her.

Well the novel's good when it's good anyway.

[ang3lzi]

Can I request headcanons of how would it be like to date Steb, Vander, Jayce, Viktor, Silco, Ekko, and poly Jayce and Viktor with gn s/o please?

⋆.˚ Arcane men x gn!reader ⋆.˚

Hii, thank you so much for requesting!! I hope you enjoy these 💗

Summary: arcane men dating headcanons

Tags: silco x reader, vander x reader, Jayce x reader, Viktor x reader

Silco

Silco is protective in a very subtle way. He doesnt show it, but he cares a lot. He would burn down the world to make sure you're okay. He would do things like sending Sevika off to follow you around to make sure you're safe.

If you were having a bad bad or stressful day, he'd sit you down on his couch and pour you a drink.

I feel like you'd be in his office a lot with him. Drinking, smoking, cuddling, all in his office.

His office would also smell like whiskey and nicotine but whatever

Silco likes to hold you in his arms when he's stressed.

Vander

Expect big, long bear hugs!! Especially when you're sleeping 😭 He'd cling onto you like life support.

He would accidentally show you off to everyone at last drop.

If Vander knew you were having a hard day, he'd have your favourite drink and meal waiting for you on the counter.

The kids would adore you and see you as a second parent. Especially Vi since she's always the one taking care of everyone else. She needs somone to look for help too.

Vander would sometimes stand behind the counter, watching you play with the kids. It melts his heart seeing how happy you make them. He had always dreamed of settling down one day and having a family.

Ekko

He loves seeing you smile. He would do the stupidest things just to hear you laugh or smile.

He would make little gadgets for you such as handmade bracelets!!

Ekko really knows how to cherish you. He had lost so many loved ones, too many actually.

He does this by holding you extra tight some nights or by remembering every little thing about you.

LOVES to take you out on rooftop dates. Sometimes you talk, sometimes you just lay there together in peace, gazing up at the twinkling stars.

If you get too cold at night he'd build a projecter so you can still see stars with him.

Steb

Steb Would always, and I mean always make sure to check up on you!

"You sleep alright?"

His love language is definitely acts of service. He's the type of guy to lend you his jacket even if he's on the verge of getting hypothermia. Even if you'd refuse multiple times.

"Dont be stupid, it's cold."

He's not very good with words but he trys.

"I'm not good at talkin' but I'm good at stayin'."

Jayce, Viktor + Poly Jayce and Viktor

Jayce

Jayce is definitely the dreamer typer. He makes sure to support your dreams, even if you think they're silly.

"That’s brilliant. You have to go for it."

Jayce loves to rest his head in your lap.

He’s constantly touching you!! He'd hold your hand under the table at long meetings, press kisses all over your face after not seeing you for a couple of hours and press his forehead against yours.

Viktor

The first thing he sees is your mind. Not your looks or body.

To Viktor, intelligence and creativity and curiosity is the most important thing in a person.

He makes sure to prioritise you over work.

He leaves little notes around his desk to remind him to take a break and come see you, he even sets timers to remind himself.

Late at night, viktor's idea of relaxing is telling you his latest theories or what he found out at work today.

Poly Jayce and viktor

You're the center of their little world.

Viktor and Jayce balance eachother out. Viktor loves listening to you and teaching you while Jayce loves holding you and making you laugh!

With this, they make you feel adored from very angle possible!!

[fivelasanctum]

~♥ They would have loved each other no matter what~♥ Essay Part 1

So a large portion on the fandom believes it was the 7 years stuck together that allowed them to fall for each other. It did help since they were each others only company but their were signs of attraction since the beginning with these two. ♥ Lila from the start was always amused by his quick witted retorts. Outside of being called "Crazy lady". She would always smile gleefully when he would insult and banter with her. Both characters had the best one liners. "You are an open book for very dumb children" - lila She even tried to give him props for a clever snark at Diego.

♥ Five being Five could see through her with his level of perceptiveness. I'm sure that comes into play as the years go by both before and after being stuck in the subway. Hopefully could tell she loved him despite her barbed tongue in her effort to push away and lash out. Lying to a certain extent and being in denial is true to her character to cope. Think his ability to read her also showed he was better suited for her and her needs. Aware of her unhappiness with Diego in season 4. Probably why at that time in the series, he couldn't easily say no to her. Knowing she desperately needed more of a purpose and freedom, outside of taking care of the kids that...while important was still not planned at all. Once Kids are thrown in the mix, one is more trapped in the relationship. ♥ Despite the mistrust he harbors for her at the start, their is a certain level of respect. With his "knowing what you are doing" comment before booting her from their group. He also respects her intellect given their shared backgrounds. Immediately seeking her out in season 3. He perked up when he heard lila returned. This was before he was in chaos problem solver mode. When Klaus mentioned not liking her, Five was quick to speak up for her to say she was family. Even though she wasn't raised with them. He harbored guilt over his hand in taking away her family when she was a child. So in his own way, was trying to give her a place with theirs. Diego first opened that door of course with their connection. Given Five is pretty much the patriarch of their family, his words to secure her place in it held more weight. Something Klaus acknowledged later in the season. Viktor essentially told lila to stay out of it, that she wasn't part of the family and this time Klaus stood up for her. Backing up what his brother told him before.

♥ They always had chemistry. Even when they tried to kill each other in season 2. The legendary bath fight scene was still charged with that energy. Such animosity but hard to not see the battle was fueled with euphemisms. Lila naked while fighting him close quarters. The choking scene she appeared to get too into for a moment. Perhaps that fetish is one the writers enjoy. Klaus was also into suffocation lol

The struggle Five had to fight her but the need to try to kill was dulled. He wanted or needed to work with her. The only person he felt would be able to keep up with him in terms of fighting abilities, background with knowing the inner workings of time and both being clever. Unlike their conflicts before, he was on the defensive. Trying to not hurt her too much. Whereas with lila, she was trying to shiv him but it felt like she was in 'crazy lady' mode and this was more her violent greeting. She had unresolved issues with him having killed her parents. They later discuss it and the turbulent storm of emotion when regarding him seemed to have calmed. He had brutal honesty with her. Mentioning how he rolled back time. While it saved his siblings lives...he gave her her life back as well. Even tried to give some love advice for her to grasp some happiness (in his own way) He mentioned them working together, bonded by hatred. To which it looked like she rolled her eyes. Don't think she shared that sentiment anymore. She had a softer tone when she offered her hand to him. Five had a small smirk appear but quickly covered him up with a neutral expression. Funny how even in those earlier episodes, it didn't take much for her to lead him by the hand in numerous situations.

♥ Foreshadowing when Five and lila walked out of the room together, following her bath and their fight. Diego was starting to jump to conclusions despite Five's younger form of 15/16. Five shrugged it off but lila just smiled. Enjoying the insinuation as well Diego's jealousy. Often times it's been the three of them when the group has had to separate for sub storylines or just even among their group of characters.

Another point of foreshadowing was during their mini adventure together to the now destroyed commission. Discussed they weren't well suited to retiring and domestic life. Yet as we know, they later make a home together in their Greenhouse even if it was brief. ♥ As they investigated the commission, Lila showed multiple times how intelligent she was. Even before they landed there. Was her brainstormed idea to combine their powers with the briefcase to be successful. She found the manual for five to go over which led them to the operations bunker. While her analogy was unconventional...she understood the first time five mentioned the grandfather paradox and the kugelblitz. ♥ Their adventure with going to the commission together felt like a test drive in how they would work together later in the storyline with all those apocalypse worlds they would end up in. Even when Lila was playful and tried to do the jinx game to lighten that old man up. While they are reflections of each other with suffering at the hands of The Handler, their understanding of time and being assassins. They both have their own means of coping in order to not let others too close. As lila said, 'Easier to mindfuck someone instead of being truly vulnerable to be rejected.' Or something along those lines. Five shied away from human touch for quite some time. Wouldn't let his own brother reach out to him. In the original script even rejected Vanya with a hug. Someone whom, according to the actor was their crush when they were younger. Similarly to the luther/allison crushing when Five was his natural age of 13. He would snark and pushed others from him, blinking away both when he was tired of a situation or if someone wanted to appeal to his softer side. It was lila with the hand holding to jump start the briefcase that was his first form of voluntary contact. When they crash landed back in their regular time, they tried to push each other off after lila realized she was holding on to him. Lila realized after their excursion that it was 'time to give up old grudges'. Yes this applied to Diego with getting back together with him but also connected to Five since it was in talking to him that made her realize, she should try again with Diego. Looming end of the world and all. She saw how emotionally wrecked Five was with being faced with the culmination of his powerlessness. Wasting his life trying to save his family and the world. Only to throw in the towel, giving up and dying alone with that five's life's work being destroyed (The commission) Lila learned about the level of stress he was under with trying to divert apocalypses. As his rage started to swell, the frustration with being locked in a younger body with hormones and just wanting to retire and buy the sports car of his choice. She clearly had an expression of pity and sadness. Heart bleeding for him where she even gently defended old founder Five from original five's venting wrath. "Take it easy on him, Five." - Lila After Founder five does perishes...lila is hesitant to leave Five alone. Wanting to at least keep him company. Five's own defense mechanisms kicked him, wanting to be alone. This is true to his character up until the end of the series. Being an old man who has been through countless horrors - he doesn't talk about the feelings that matter. Didn't want lila to see him in a sad, emotional state. Wanting solitude to mourn himself and rather keep how he feels quiet. "Buried deep." Something to note is that Lila is the only one to have seen him at his worse. Century old, aged, dismembered and dying. Only she and Luther have actively seen his true age reflected on a physical body. Yet despite knowing this she still found him attractive and was able to love him. That it wasn't simply because he was in an attractive body. Think that adds another layer to their friendship that later develops into something more.

♥ Not sure if I'm reading too much into it but when they had worked on combining their powers, or rather intensifying Five's...it seemed like it was more intimate with the level of trust. I'm not sure since obviously it required a great amount of focus to channel his time travelling abilities into the briefcase. What stuck out to me was Lila's "let me in!" Five: "I can't! It's too much!" Opening himself and his powers to accept her own mimicking wavelength obviously appeared to be a struggle. It's a short scene but could have involved more than what was on the surface with simply powering up. Curious about everyone's thoughts on this in particular. She has supported and worked on getting Five out of his shell since season 3 and into the 4th one. Being the catalyst to pull him into situations and push him to accomplish what he feels he is unable to. Leading him onto the subway to investigate and have some fun. She called him out earlier with getting his heart pumping from end of the world scenarios. Klaus did the the same thing multiple times. Being called a 'chaos junkie'. When Five had no confidence in his blink abilities, it was lila that pushed him to get 'back on that horse'. Even with powering up the briefcase, when he was yelling he couldn't do it...she said to not 'Bitch out on me now!' Said he hated her in the moment but showed she is what he needs. ♥ After the timeskip of 6 years, think they did grow closer. Hard to tell since all we really know of Five's life is that he had joined the CIA in that time. She was observant enough to see how he was cautious about using his powers. Both wanting some excitement for herself to remind her of how she was. Before a dysfunctional marriage and draining homelife made her probably feel like a husk of her former self. She also saw that the usual confident Five was unsure of himself, pushing him to face it. Practice makes perfect maybe? lol *Credit to Fivelila for the gifs*

Once they had lived their other life in the subway, he still lacked confidence with using his ability. Outside of it taking them back to their isolated world of the subway system. It was only when Lila implored him and told him that she needs him that he was able to use his ability like the old days. Blinking them to semi safety inside the building. Not only that but he was able to blink their whole group there. Found that extremely romantic. Despite feeling hurt from their argument in 4.05 he had so much love for her to accomplish what he deemed impossible till that point. ♥ Looping back to season 3: He finally felt more comfortable with touching. After they felt they were successful in sealing up the Kugelblitz, they celebrated with drinking and dancing. Lila chose to mostly dance with five. You can see them have a kind of tug of war. Being an old man just wanting to be separated from the group to have his drinks. Lila was having none of that. You can see through the course of their dancing, five breaking down his shell temporarily to enjoy her persistence with wanting him to let his hair down and have fun. He actively does dance with her after all her effort. Quite adorable. I do recommend watching the behind the scenes footage/extended scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmd4fYNlr4A&t=651s

They also dance together at Luther's wedding. Suffice to say they are friends by this point.

When deciding on whether to hand over 'scary grandpa' to the Sparrows both Lila and Five are on the same page in terms of their moral ambiguity. Lila seeing the logic of sacrificing one for the billions. Not caring about the rest of the world much. Prioritizing her loved ones. Five does try to save the world numerous times but if it came down to sacrificing his whole family in favor of it...at this point in the story, would have put his family first. Despite their stance on it, they still feel guilty about the choice made.

[xleavemealoneplease]

people who actively get upset about people making jayvik fankids instead repurposing naph and amaranthine are ridiculous. naph and amaranthine are just random kids they meet in previous lore (for the record i’ve been a jayvik fan since release, i’m not a „tourist”), acting like they’re „canonically” their adopted kids is ridiculous. besides yall need to learn to stop turning every „child meets adult and they have a brief mentor pupil relationship” into pushing a parental relationship there - non-biological „uncles” or just protective adults exist. and i’m sure both of them have parents. (ya’ll do this even with fucking singed and viktor when singed literally canonically non-sexually grooms viktor, like?? ignoring that viktor very much has parents too)

of course it’s fine if it’s just your headcanon but actually getting upset at people for it not being theirs is wild

honestly not a huge fan of making blitzcrank a kid either. and ironically blitzcrank wasn’t even created by viktor in previous lore, that’s a v1 lore thing. make them create them as a robot that they are, maybe give them a more arcane redesign or something

and don’t get me started on people getting shit for making the kids their biological kids instead of adopted. give me a break that in fucking 2025 we still have „making a transmasc character pregnant is bad” discourse. it’s not. there is nothing „feminine” about pregnancy. to claim as such is both transphobic and literally sexist. not all of us find this dysphoric. nor is making vik somewhat feminine unless you’re actively weird and fetishistic about it. we barely got out of the „is drawing a trans man enjoying PiV sex transphobic” discourse let’s not do this again. if you just personally think viktor wouldn’t want this - 100% valid, but don’t make it about his transness or especially his disability (some of you sound kind of ableist and borderline eugenicist when it gets brought up)

i know all of this sounds like i’m making guy to get mad at but i’ve seen all of this from MULTIPLE people and it’s tiring

[mariacallous]

There was a moment that struck me, and I think it would strike you too: Donald Trump openly praised Viktor Orbán, as he has done repeatedly in the past. But he said, explicitly, Orbán is a good guy because he’s a “strongman,” which is a word that he clearly takes to be a compliment, not derogatory. You’ve written about the strongman fantasy in your Substack, so I’m curious: What do you think Trump is appealing to here?

Well, I’m going to answer it in a slightly different way, and then I’ll go back to the way you mean it. I think he’s tapping into one of his own inner fantasies. I think he looks around the world and he sees that there’s a person like Orbán, who’s taken a constitutional system and climbed out of it and has managed to go from being a normal prime minister to essentially being an extraconstitutional figure. And I think that’s what Trump wants for himself. And then, of course, the next step is a Putin-type figure, where he’s now an unquestioned dictator.

For the rest of us, I think he’s tapping—in a minor key—into inexperience, and that was my strongman piece that you kindly mentioned. Americans don’t really think through what it would mean to have a government without the rule of law and the possibility of throwing the bums out. I think we just haven’t thought that through in all of its banality: the neighbors denouncing you, your kids not having social mobility because you maybe did something wrong, having to be afraid all the damn time. African Americans and some immigrants have a sense of this, but in general, Americans don’t get that. They don’t get what that would be like.

So that’s a minor key. The major key, though, is the 20% or so of Americans who really, I think, authentically do want an authoritarian regime, because they would prefer to identify personally with a leader figure and feel good about it rather than enjoy freedom.

You mentioned the word banality, which makes me think of Hannah Arendt’s theory of the “banality of evil.” What would the banality of authoritarianism look like in America?

So let me first talk about the nonbanality of evil, because our version of evil is something like, and I don’t want to be too mean, but it’s something like this: A giant monster rises out of the ocean and then we get it with our F-16s or F-35s or whatever. That’s our version of evil. It’s corporeal, it’s obviously bad, and it can be defeated by dramatic acts of violence.

And we apply that to figures like Hitler or Stalin, and we think, Okay, what happened with Hitler was that he was suddenly defeated by a war. Of course he was defeated by a war, but he did some dramatic and violent things to come to power, but his coming to power also involved a million banalities. It involved a million assimilations, a million changes of what we think of as normal. And it’s our ability to make things normal and abnormal which is so terrifying. It’s like an animal instinct on our part: We can tell what the power wants us to do, and if we don’t think about it, we then do it. In authoritarian conditions, this means that we realize, Oh, the law doesn’t really apply anymore. That means my neighbor could have denounced me for anything, and so I better denounce my neighbor first. And before you know it, you’re in a completely different society, and the banality here is that instead of just walking down the street thinking about your own stuff, you’re thinking, Wait a minute, which of my neighbors is going to denounce me?

Americans think all the time about getting their kids into the right school. What happens in an authoritarian country is that all of that access to social mobility becomes determined by obedience. And as a parent, suddenly you realize you have to be publicly loyal all the time, because one little black mark against you ruins your child’s future. And that’s the banality right there. In Russia, everybody lives like that, because any little thing you do wrong, and your kid has no chance. They get thrown out of school; they can’t go to university.

We don’t imagine how a regime change is going to be at the dinner table. The regime change is going to be on the sidewalk. It’s going to be in your whole life. It’s not going to be some external thing. It’s not like this strongman is just going to be some bad person in the White House, and then eventually the good guys will come and knock him out. When the regime changes, you change and you adapt, and you look around as everyone else is adapting and you realize, Well, everyone else adapting is a new reality for me, and I’m probably going to have to adapt too. Trump wants to be a strongman. He’s already tried a ​​ coup d’état. He makes it clear that he wants to be a different regime. And so if you vote him in, you’re basically saying, “Okay, strongman, tell me how to adapt.”

Yeah, we could talk about Project 2025 all day. This new effort to bureaucratize tyranny—which was not in place in 2020—could really make the banal aspect a reality because it’s enforced by the administrative state, which is going to be felt by Americans at a quotidian level.

I agree with what you say. If I were in business, I would be terrified of Project 2025 because what it’s going to lead to is favoritism. You’re never going to get approvals for your stuff unless you’re politically close to administration. It’s going to push us toward a more Hungary-like situation, where the president’s pals’ or Jared Kushner’s pals’ companies are going to do fine. But everybody else is going to have to pay bribes. Everyone else is going to have to make friends.

It’s anticompetitive.

Yeah, it’s going to generate a very, very uneven playing field where certain people are going to be favored and become oligarchs. And most of the rest of us are going to have a hard time. Also, the 40,000 [loyalists Trump wants to replace the administrative state with] are going to be completely incompetent. When people stop getting their Social Security checks, they’re going to realize that the federal government—which they’ve been told is so dysfunctional—actually did do some things. It’s going to be chaos. The only way to get anything done is to have a phone number where you can call somebody at someplace in the government and say, “Make my thing a priority.” The chaos of the administration state feeds into the strongman thing. And since that’s true, the strongman view starts to become natural for you because it’s the only way to get anything done.

Timothy Snyder Explains How Americans Might Adapt to Fascism Under Trump

[owepossum]

‘You saved me.’

Had they? Would Viktor have died of pneumonia in that ventilation pipe? How long would it have taken to find his body? How many others were still out there, curled up beneath steel and concrete? In another life, perhaps Silco and Felicia never made it out. Maybe if Silco went back to those vents now, he would find the ghosts of their younger selves still living there, fighting the rats for food.

I love it.

Love it when I read something and it makes me feel there, living through the characters' experiences, and idk, suddenly understanding and feeling the layers of his love for that child? I guess I'm also a sucker for devoted love and feelings in general, which the title already warns is gonna be present and it does not disapoint.

Just amazing work, love the way you're building up everything in this fic and the subtle details in your storytelling that make the gut-wrenching feelings even better. The art is also like the cherry on top, beautiful work, truly. Thanks for all the effort you're putting into this, I'm always so happy when I see an update s2

I hope nobody minds me responding to these bceause (a) they mean SO MUCH to me and (b) I don't trust tumblr's inbox and i don't wanna ever lose these reviews / comments that are off Ao3 *sobs*.

I adore devotion and platonic / parental / filial love. It's like self therapy to explore / write them... so i'm glad someone else enjoys too. I don't think Silco ever really expected to feel this kind of devotion to any particular person, and has formed his identity around being a revolutionary -- focused on zaun and zaunites as a whole. The love of a parent to a child is much closer to home, ther'es no abstraction, just knives and adoration.

and unlike your comradeship with a partner in revolution, a little kid cannot be handwaved. Silco is having to confront a lot emotions / milestones all at once (and so is Vander haha).

[4amarcanethoughts]

Jayvik Entomologist AU Headcanons

Jayce grew up with every bug themed item he could realistically get his hands on. Bug hunting kits. A large container of plastic insects. Butterfly growing kits. Beetle bedspreads. Anything. Where other kids raced toy cars, Jayce raced hexbugs. One of his favourite childhood memories was his mother getting him knock off hexbugs that looked like real insects.

Viktor grew up creating his own enclosures. He kept many jars with crudely poked holes. Snails. Slugs. Stick bugs. Ladybugs. Caterpillars. Whatever he could find in the grass and keep hidden from his parents long enough. They didn’t mind so much, but limited him to one, maybe two (if he was lucky), jars at a time.

Both of them had a love of those bugs that stuck to windows and walls and rolled down. They also begged to get the jitterbugs in a wooden boxes every time they saw them in the museum gift shop. Jayce still has one somewhere.

Jayce was a dirt kid. Always outside playing in the mud and the leaves. Turning over every rock and piece of bark to see what was hidden underneath.

Viktor was a grass kid. Daisy chains and grass blade whistles. Watching the world go by as the crawling of ants and flying of ladybugs.

As children, if asked what superpowers they would have, Jayce would say. “Super strength! Just like a dung beetle.” While Viktor would answer, “Flying. Like a butterfly.”

Jayce and Viktor never address it, but a mysterious purple hexbug migrates between their labs. Their assistants are not impressed when they find it in odd places.

Jayce keeps a look out for butterflies and moths. He will bring specimens back for Viktor’s collection.

Viktor carries a small vial of ethanol in his bag should he happen across any interesting looking beetles Jayce might like.

Jayce enjoys watching Viktor pin his specimens with a practised precision. He has a fascination with the meticulous, delicate touch of those slender fingers.

Viktor enjoys listening to Jayce talk about his theories of where a newly discovered species fits in the phylogeny. The passionate lilt of his voice a song he could listen to on repeat.

[jax-writes-whump]

Greetings whump community!

My name's Jax, lover of all things writing/whump. I've been snooping around tumblr for over two years, and I finally decided to create a blog to post my own stuff.

Favorite whump tropes:

Permanent disabilities. (Deaf, blind, mute, etc) Especially when they are given later in life by a whumper is just *chef's kiss* Peak trauma

Long, hard recoveries. Seeing the whumpee work through the trauma is just my favorite type of high

To build on that; Recapture. Whether by a different whumper or the same, forcing them to regress after so much progress and then the team being disappointed that the whumpee has lost so much progress. More trauma, more fun!

Necessary pain. Like physical therapy when it genuinely hurts to do it and a begging whumpee with a reluctant caretaker... it just gives me the best whumperflies.

Dehumanization. Specifically the recovery. Choosing not to sit in furniture, sitting by peoples feet instead, voice changing because of a shock collar, afraid to speak because they were muzzled. just... 😁

Fade to black Noncon/Off screen Noncon. I won't ever write explicit, though I may read it, but I do enjoy implications purely for the aftermath and the recovery. Like... being comfortable being touched if they became touch-averse, re-learning that what they want matters if it was a slavery type thing. Just makes me proud of any of my characters when they progress.

Series under the cut...

Some of my characters that I may post:

Story 1, Spirit's Untamed:

Nazari (M, 16): half-unspecified creature whumpee. Blinded by acid. Grew up with Caspian, Rae, Zinnia in slaver, and raised by Thorn since he was 7

Caspian (M, 19): Half-siren Caretaker. Also grew up with Nazari, Rae, and Zinnia in slavery, and raised by Thorn since he was 10

Rae (M, 19): Half-fire-giant leader. Grew up in slavery with the others, raised by Thorn since he was 10

Zinnia (F, 18): Half-dryad healer. Grew up with the others in slavery, raised by Thorn since she was 9

Thorn (M, 68): Half-orc (Can you see the theme yet?) guardian. Grew up on a farm, but cast aside because he was only Half-orc. Added onto his own cottage after finding the four children struggling in the city.

Lorella (F, 59): DEAD! Orc Caretaker, was married to Thorn before she died and had one daughter with him Lyla (8), but since she's like...super dead you'll only see her in flashbacks or something set in the past.

Corech (M, 65): Orc Guardian. Thorn's younger cousin. Owns a ranch that Thorn took the kids to live on after Lorella's death, because he just had space for all of them??? idk man it was 2am

Masterlist:

Introduction post

Virion (M, 45): Father of Vett, Vex, and Vel, Side caretaker, leader of the council inside a sanctuary that is a city encased in crystal inside an otherwise collapsing society.

Story 2, The Sanctuary:

Elis (F, 40): DEAD! Yes, another mother is dead. My bad, besties. Loved the stars, had a whole observatory made because she married the leader of the council so she could do whatever she wanted. Said to be the most beautiful woman in the sanctuary (Idk man it was 2am when I came up with her. I haven't drawn her yet soooo up to interpretation.)

Vex (M, 19): Oldest son of Virion and Elis, main caretaker of his siblings because Virion can't actually parent and likes to play with politics and swords instead. Fills in for his father on the council when he is away, so like all the time. Doesn't like it, prefers staying in bed. (Girl same)

Vel (F, 18): Only daughter of Virion, main protector of her siblings, because Virion can't PARENT. A captain of the guard, mostly trains recruits when she's bored and uses it as an excuse to get out of school. Prefers punching people over learning.

Vett (M, 15): Youngest child of Virion, said to look just like his mother by every creepy old man ever. Main whumpee because Virion CAN'T PARENT. Has a malformed left leg so uses a brace and crutch (Is this because I watched Arcane and fell in love with Viktor? Yes. Am I ashamed? A little.) Goes to school because he is forced to when in reality he is smarter than his teachers and he hates everyone there, would rather spend that time in his observatory made by his mother.

More to come...

[goddessofroyalty]

The most recent chapter of zaun family on ao3 got my right in the heart, poor baby Viktor just wanting to spend time with his dam 😭 due to his size does Silco end up on bedrest at the end of the pregnancy? I want Viktor to be able to spend as much time with him as possible 😭💔

Viktor is such a sweet kid. And he's at the age where, while endlessly curious, he still wants to be with his parents as much as he can. Vander's got the Last Drop by this point so it's easy for Viktor to be with him a lot of the time (has a little spot at the bar and everything) while Silco is probably more out and about establishing his business (criminal empire) at this stage. So Viktor is enjoying that the pregnancy has Silco spending more time in his office where Viktor can just work on the things he's building in the corner while Silco works.

I don't think Silco ends up on bed rest at the end of the pregnancy. If anything he ends up on the opposite of it where he's trying to be up and walking as much as he's physically able to in an attempt to get labor started/progressed (the stairs in the Last Drop especially were likely paced to get the non-symmetrical hip movements that are supposed to help get things engaged). Just note that caveat of "as much as he's physically able to" - when he's not going on his 'try and get this baby out of me' walks he's staying in either his bed or his (pillow-pile of an) office chair for his comfort as much as possible. Viktor joins him a bit for those walks, and, I mean, Silco is not moving fast at that late stage of pregnancy which is perfectly fine for Viktor because he doesn't move all that fast either.

[reallifetangent]

ARCANE S2 RELATED CONTENT ALSO TRANSISTOR GAME RELATED CONTENT

Transistor x JayVik AU(? Where they actually after the finale end up in Cloudbank, but before the events of Transistor. Even before Royce Bracket's birth. Because they're his parents.

I've seen Miguel O'Hara being a JayVik Kid, Blitzcrank being the Canon JayVik Kid, I've seen Venture from Overwatch being another Kid, but with a friend we tied some points.

I'mma die on that hill.

Continuing with the Headcanons!!!:

- they notice that Hextech doesn't exist there, Viktor is more weakened than Jayce about the lack of it.

- somehow they manage to get with the process and the Transistor. Probably they created the Transistor as an attempt to save Viktor, again. They didn't learn that much from their mistakes, or they found out about the Process too late.

- Viktor's leg gets processed in the way, and they had to put away the Transistor Project. He wears the leg brace to weigh his leg and be able to walk normally, but the leg makes him kinda float and walk weird. He also has part of his abdominal area processed, he's slowly being processed.

- they have Royce. Either adoption or some magic-science thing happens and they had Royce biologically.

- Royce adopts both traits from his parents. The whole Loner Scientist from Viktor, the involving with politics from Jayce.

- They loved Royce. He was a loved kid, and they enjoyed that he liked science and technology, and he tried to help his father to stop the Process, but he didn't know back then.

- Jayce probably founded The Camerata, or him and Viktor belonged to the first team, but just as Scientists and staying that way. They wanted to change and help the world, but this time in a different and more direct way.

- When Viktor starts becoming more Processed, they back off from The Camerata, only Royce knew where did they go or what happened to them.

- When Viktor is almost processed, Jayce decides to manipulate and use the Transistor to save their traces together, to share the burden of the Process, dying together again as one with the same death. (Each time they "die", they just change universes to live a new life together again). Probably had a similar reaction to Asher and Grant. They couldn't bear to live without the other. They left a recording or their traces for Royce to find, but I guess he couldn't read them, not getting his parents' last words.

- Royce years later finds the Transistor, but never relates it to his parents. I'm re listening his voicelines and he said he can't remember how did he find the Transistor, so he doesn't know his parents were involved.

Bonus: some sketches I made about this random Crossover, starting with Them as Proxys talking with Royce, they as Grant and Asher Kendrell, their Trace versions (I'm digitalizing those two), Viktor's Body Processed and his Fully Processed form (like Sybil's at her boss battle)

Idk, I'm delulu and missing Transistor

[writerpey]

Omg wait, you have so many fandoms I love, ok, ok could you make like a list of characters from theses shows and what they’d be? Like regressed, caregiver, ect? (So I can send asks based on that) I’m so excited right now

Arcane, Detroit Become Human, Last airbender, Our flag means death, and Six of crows/shadow and bone

happy 2024! this has been in my inbox forever but looks super fun to do! here’s my take on what characters would be regressors/caregivers for arcane, dbh and atla. I totally wrote way more than I expected to but here u are! <3 I’ll do a separate post for ofmd and soc bc they have so many characters I have opinions on.

Agere Character Headcanons

(Arcane, D:BH, ATLA)

(jinx is me cooking up this thread)

Arcane

Vi: As much as she’d be a wonderful caregiver, she’s absolutely a regressor. Being small reminds her of days spent with her parents and Powder, family trips to the fish markets of the coast and sunny days building sand castles at the beach. She tends to be on the older side, a natural tendency from a life spent as the older sibling, taking care of Powder. Vi’s a very active and vivacious little, playing outdoors and hanging off Caitlyn’s shoulders. Loves physical touch, hugs and high fives are the way to go.

Caitlyn: Caregiver all the way! I think she loves kids in general, and despite her awkward nature and sheltered upbringing, she finds it easy to take charge and step into the role of a protector. Definitely looks after Vi and is oftentimes too concerned about her safety. She loves taking the little out to the playground and to eat at Jericho’s food stall (even if she still refuses to eat a bowl of slop herself).

Jinx: Tiniest, cutest, moodiest little troublemaker there is. Jinx regresses to about four or five years old, and absolutely bounces off the walls at all hours of the day. She’s not the quiet, sweet child she once was as Powder, but rather gets herself into trouble and feigns innocence. She loves to annoy both Silco and Sevika, clambering on the latter’s lap and hiding under Silco’s desk for games of hide and seek. Her mood changes rather drastically as well, as she can go from completely happy to hyperventilating sobbing from anything as simple as scraping a knee to refusing bedtime.

Jayce: He’s a very attentive and high strung caregiver. Looking after Viktor is much easier than Caitlyn, Silco, or Sevika’s jobs, but Jayce always fusses over the little. He’s quick to scoop him up whenever it’s deemed necessary, and goes to Mel for help when he needs another pair of hands. Jayce loves caregiving because it gives him something to focus on other than his responsibility to Piltover, and enjoys simple play with his little like story time and building blocks.

Viktor: Super small and quiet regressor! Viktor can get very young, and has no qualms with depending on Jayce for help when he’s little. He likes to be snuggled up on a couch in a mound of blankets and is also content to sit and watch Mel paint the ships that go by the balcony of her apartment. Viktor is sweet and shy and doesn’t tend to verbalize his needs, but because Jayce is so attentive they mesh well together.

Detroit: Become Human

Kara: Caregiver. Need I expand? It’s in her coding in the first place to protect and nurture. Upon her deviance, Kara realizes that even if she was made for it, she can still reclaim that part of herself for herself. She is quick to console whomever her little may be, and projects the kindest and warmest energy to the person she’s taking care of. Kara enjoys making up her own stories, and loves playing make believe with her regressor.

Connor: One hundred percent a regressor. This little guy was shy and uncertain when he first started regressing, as he didn’t know what ‘normal’ behaviour from a deviant was, let alone how to process all the new emotions he was feeling. Connor loves to spend time at Hank’s house with Sumo, revelling in the feeling of the dog’s fluffy fur and laughing happily when he teaches Sumo all sorts of tricks. Connor is usually happy when regressed, but struggles with anxiety and asking for help. Hank is always there to walk Connor through his big feelings and encourages him to use his words.

Markus: He’s one of the most chaotic caregivers there is. You picked the pacifist route in the game? Doesn’t matter. This guy is unhinged when it comes to caregiving. Spoiling his little at any time possible, letting them stay up hours past their bedtime, giving them candy for breakfast and encouraging colouring on the walls. He spent so many years being exactly who Carl wanted him to be while also tasting freedom through Carl’s art that it brings him so much joy to see a regressor’s eyes sparkle when he says yes to whatever their heart desires. He’s also amazing at comforting a regressor. Big hugs and gentle eyes!

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Katara: Is a caregiver! Incredibly kind yet less patient than one (Sokka) might hope. Katara is quick to caution her little, always on the lookout for anything that they might hurt themselves with or on. But this doesn’t mean she hates fun! She adores the beach and using her bending to splash around, and is always ready to get her little an extra blanket or any snacks they ask for. She’s super sweet and falls into the role of a caregiver like she was made for it. Katara has even sewed a plushie or two as gifts, and has a knack for settling a regressor in front of a crackling fire and braiding their hair before bedtime.

Sokka: Regressor for sure. Even though he’s a big brother he never let go of his goofy side, and it plays into so much of his behaviour when he’s regressed. He’s on the older side, around 6-8, and has so much energy he doesn’t know where to put it all. Queue him running around for hours, laughing at absolutely anything that Aang says and bothering Toph just so she’ll play with him. Sokka doesn’t cry, even when he takes a tumble (which is quite often) but is fussy when he doesn’t get his way. He’s a troublemaker, but his beaming smile lets him get away with plenty.

Aang: Honestly I think he’s a caregiver, but is more like a fun uncle than any other label. His sage airbender wisdom doesn’t come through often, which means he’s all about fun all the time. His childish side matches a little like Sokka’s constant energy, and he seems to vanish into a cloud of smoke when any tears come his way. And how did Sokka and Zuko get chocolate all around their mouths, you ask? Well, there’s no one to ask because Aang’s just taken off on his glider on some very important business.

Zuko: LITTLE! REGRESSOR! TINY! Oh my goodness, he’s the first fictional character that I ever headcanoned as a regressor. There’s no need to delve into his trauma here, but the boy is in such a desperate need of healing his childhood that he regressed long before he even knew what it was. Regresses very young, between 2-5. Before meeting the Gaang he’d hang off of Uncle’s shoulder during Pai Sho tournaments on his ship and would shyly ask the crew members to play songs during music nights. His tough demeanour disappears completely when he’s regressed and he turns into a shy boy that is insistent on doing things himself and is quick to cry when he’s unable to, for example, wrap his robes the way he wants. Zuko has a turtleduck plushie that Katara sewed for him after Aang asked him what his favourite animal was and Sokka caught him cuddling up to Appa at night. Sweetest boy in the whole world.

Toph : Caregiver! Matches more with Aang’s style of caregiving than Katara’s, but still lands somewhere in the middle. Her earthbending gives her the ability to pick up on every tiny emotion that a regressor feels, and it means she’s prepared and in tune with every need, happy or unhappy, that someone needs. She tends to playfully tease Zuko and Sokka, but knows exactly where to draw the line with either boy based on the rhythm of their heart. Toph helps Aang when it comes to letting the boys do something Katara has specifically told them they’re not allowed to, and will always feign innocence when confronted by the eldest caregiver.

[5five5five5five5five5five]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FICTIONAL FAMILY!!!! have some B day hcs under the cut. tw for drinking and drugs

they all go to diego and lila's because they have the biggest backyard

they wish the kids could join them but they know each other, it wouldn't be safe. diego and lila's kids are with lila's parents and Claire is old enough to stay home. (idk if ray is here but tbh he probs stayed home too, this family is nuts when its their birthday lol. he would rather give Allison a wonderful birthday night at home just for her.)

this is probs in the future where drinking around klaus isn't a HUGE risk for relapse. i feel like prior b-days were less booze\drug heavy for his comfort but its gotten to the point where they want to PARTY. he's the designated driver if anyone does want to go home + so is ☂️ ben so the rest have a good sober duo to watch their backs. and klaus has that voice of reason if he does need it. (s3 ending credit ben my beloved, wish he was canon. he exists here.)

bc im about to take gummy and i always kin when i do, viktor and five took edibles beforehand bc that's their norm in my universe.

Allison helps lila set up before hand. i love the idea of them being mom friends and sister in laws. viktor and five were early and helped too.

five brought so many gifts. one for each person+ custom cards. he does this every year and everyone is still in awe that he goes overboard. the 364 days of the year, they forget he can be this thoughtful. but all the gifts are a *bit* off and not 100% personal. like luther got a telescope bc. the moon. this is like the 3ed year in a row. and klaus got smth that five had to suffer though a spencer's gifts to get. it was so painful. five does it more for the wrapping, card making and seeing his siblings smile then actually knowing HOW to be thoughtful and generous.

they all have a nice time outside and enjoying early fall. Diego set up a projector and they watch all their fav movies as kids. they have a fire pit too and do smores. this really is the day they set to BE man-children and regain their childhoods.

lila COVERED the ceiling of their house with balloons and that is NOT fun to traverse though when your high af, drunk af and need to pee.

they each got a personal cake to take home and a candle to blow out at the same time.

they shit on their dad and bond over their mutual hate for their life before but can agree that life is better now (Allison holds her tongue to not say 'i told u so' ray has helped her understand that and other actions would be a 'cunt move'. shes mellowed out bc of him to the point of being allowed here in the first place.)

klaus some how ends up setting something on fire. this has happened for EVERY BIRTHDAY since they were 6. diego has a fire extinguisher on hand...but doesn't know how to use it so lila has to do it.

they do karaoke. Diego complains and yet was the one who got the machine and set it up. he likes watching lila sing~

Klaus made the playlist.

[ang3lzi]

I'M FREE TO COMMENT!!! My arcane men dating headcanons request is so good! I love it especially Silco's way of showing he cares is definitely subtle 🤫, he would have sit down with a drink if you're stressed 🍷, you would often be in his office with him 👥, his office would smell of cigarettes & alcohol 🚬 🍺, he enjoys holding you when he's stressed 🫂, Vander will cling onto you especially when you're sleeping like his teddy bear 🧸, he manages to accidentally show you off in the Last Drop 🤣, he would make your favourite meal & drink if you're having a bad day 🍲 🥤, the kids especially Vi would see as a their second parent 🥹, he would watch you play with the kids sometimes 👀, his hearts melts at the sight as he always dreamt of having a family if his own ❤️, Ekko would do anything even something silly just to see you smile ☺️, he would give you handmade gifts 🎁, he has lost so many loved ones so he knows how to cherish you 🥺, he would remember even the smallest things about you or hold you tightly sometimes nights 🫂, he enjoys rooftop dates whether you talked or enjoy the peace together 🗣️😌, he would build a projector to stargaze if it's too cold outside ⭐ 🛠️, Steb would always make sure to check on you ✔️, his love language suits him so well 🤭, he would insist on offering you his jacket even when it's too cold for him 🫴 🧥, you kept refusing despite appreciating the thought like I would 🫷, he tries even though he's not great with words 🗣️, he said he's not good at speaking but he's good at staying 🥹, Jayce would support your dream no matter how silly you think it is ヾ⁠(⁠*⁠’⁠Ｏ⁠’⁠*⁠)⁠/, he likes to rest his head on your lap 😌, he would find a way to touch you even in public 😉, the first thing Viktor would see is your mind 🧠, he would prioritise you over his work 🤯, he would use notes & timers to remind himself to take a break to see you 🤭, he would relax by telling you about his work 🗣️, you're the center of both of their worlds 🌍🌍, Viktor & Jayce compliments each other well 😌, Viktor would teach & listen to you 👂, Jayce would make you laugh while holding you 😂🫂, and it makes you feel loved 🥰 Thank you so much for doing my request because I love it so much :)

Awhh!! Im so happy you enjoyed it!! Thank you sm for the support 💗💗

[zoisnottheboysavior]

BassBreaker High School AU 😁

I learned about this ship like a week ago and I’ve been obsessed ever since. Like I go to bed thinking about them 😭 and after scrolling through my Pinterest boards and coming across modern art of TimeBomb (my other #1 arcane ship) I needed to feed both my heart and the hearts of GertVi lovers and desperately needed to make a modern au.

I haven’t published anything yet because the overwhelming sadness punches me in the gut every day, but one day (probably within the next couple of weeks) I’ll publish under my series on ao3 called “concepts of a fanfiction” where I post ideas I have for fanfics but not enough motivation to post them.

So, until i have actual material to post, I’ll leave y’all with the concept I have for this fic.

Childhood best friends to lovers Gert x Vi (slow burn 😛) because now I’m obsessed with them

Exes Violyn, but the story starts with Vi pining for Caitlyn and then leaving her for Gert after she realizes Caitlyn is kinda manipulative and doesn’t respect Vi or her people.

Vi is still best friends with Jayce, this random college student two years older than her (at first she remained friends with Jayce just to spite Caitlyn but then her and Jayce genuinely became best friends and are now inseparable 😭).

HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEARTS TIMEBOMB 😍 (another slow burn, they freshmen in high school in this particular fic) I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

College students Jayvik? Also, should I make this a meljayvik thing or just Jayvik? Maybe I’ll do Jayvik and Melora and have them be besties 🤔 Questions questions, decisions decisions

SLOWBURN ZAUNDADS YUH‼️ They’re tryna work out their relationship, trying to see how things will work and stuff after some huge fight they had when they were younger, but the kids love Silco so sometimes they spend the night at his house.

Typing “slow burn” for the third time made me giggle. The whole family gets bitches but they just don’t know what to do with them 😭 

Im thinking that maybe I’ll do one chapter on Gert and Vi throughout their high school years to start the story, then the main story will start and it’ll be Gert and Vi in their senior year. And I’ll also probably do little one shots for them that are separate from the main fic. Might also do some TimeBomb ones too cuz they’re my babies.

The main plot is something like this: Vi’s has her heart set on a perfect senior year and Caitlyn Kiramman is just that: perfect. Vi finally has her chance when Caitlyn’s fancy Piltovan school starts offering college courses and Vi’s school gets an opportunity to tour said fancy Piltovan school. So Vi shoots her shot and she scores, unsurprisingly but much to Gert’s dismay (who has been crushing on Vi basically ever since she knew she liked girls).

So Vi and Caitlyn start dating. Gert is, of course, happy for her (Gert has never cried harder in her life compared to the night that Vi called and told her she was dating Caitlyn) in true best friend fashion. All is fun and gay until Vi starts noticing a pattern, of sorts.

Caitlyn highkey looks down on her. She doesn’t seem to enjoy herself when Vi takes her to her favorite spots around Zaun (that are coincidentally some of Gert’s favorite spots too 👀 Vi do you have something to share with the class), turns her nose up at some of Vi’s favorite foods, can’t seem to get along with VI’s siblings (or her parents tbh, Vander tolerates Caitlyn bc he wants Vi to be happy and Silco despises her 😭), cringing at their cozy but kinda small living space and rolling her eyes at their interests. Caitlyn always insists they hang out in Caitlyn’s neighborhood and drags Vi along to her parent’s fancy parties (where Vi often sneaks off with Jayce, Viktor, and sometimes even Mel towards the end, that’s how Vi and Jayce became besties [cuz they both hate the Kiramman parties]).

(I won’t even hold you, Vi’s kind of a pushover for a bit. She’s the kind of person to do literally anything for/with the person she’s dating if it makes them happy.)

Cait just has no appreciation for all the things that make Vi herself, and Vi starts to wonder if Caitlyn ever really liked who for who she was, or if Caitlyn was just trying to be different (it’s the second one, I fear. Sorry Vi). Even though Caitlyn has frequently made Vi feel shitty about who is she is and where she comes from, Vi let’s a lot of things slide. She got stuck on her vision of a perfect senior year and now she feels so much shame knowing that Caitlyn wasn’t as good as she’d hoped. It makes Vi angry, considering how much time she spent trying to make Caitlyn happy, so Vi ends up lashing out and she kinda messes up some of her closest relationships with friends and family (primarily Powder and Gert) in the process.

In addition to Vi’s relationship with Caitlyn messing up some of her relationships, Gert started getting kinda distant when Vi was dating Caitlyn. Once, Vi heard Gert had a show but Gert had never asked her to come, so Vi called her and talked to her about it and Gert was like “I thought you’d be with Caitlyn or something” and Vi is like “you know I’d drop everything for you, quit playing” and Gert is kinda worked up so she goes “would you drop her for me?” (And Vi. Almost. Says. Yes.) and then Vi’s gotta go for some reason so she doesn’t answer. God there’s gonna be so much perfect scrumptious angst between these too.

So that really messes Vi up because that’s her bestie and she refuses to lose Gert over a girl. The thing that tops it all of is an argument that Vi and Powder get into about Caitlyn (because Pow is Caitlyn’s biggest hater and isn’t afraid to show it) where Vi may or may not call her sister a jinx.

And it’s insane because nobody calls Powder a jinx to be mean anymore, not after an accident got the four of them in legal trouble and Vi injured, and Powder had a mental breakdown because she thought it was all her fault. 

But Vi calls her a jinx, throws it at her sister like a slur, and seeing Powder’s face fall like that solidifies the fact that Vi needs to end things with Caitlyn before Vi allows her reactions to her own shitty relationship make things worse with the people she loves.

But Caitlyn beats her to it like a day later, gets mad at Vi for not wanting to constantly cater to her every whim (and throws in something about Vi never shutting up about Gert which is definitely true 😭). And then Caitlyn goes way too far by saying some hurtful things about Vi’s family, her home, and even Vi that fucks Vi up even worse!

The deep hurt aside, Vi feels this great sense of relief, breaking up with Caitlyn and all, but since things got complicated and started affecting her other relationships, Vi also feels super guilty. So after taking time to patch things up with her family and friends, there’s one person she saves for last: Gert. Will their relationship survive after it all (yes. Obviously.)? Of course Gert is salty, who wouldn’t be after getting abandoned by their best friend of, like, fourteen years for her stuck up, classist girlfriend? But Vi is absolutely begging Gert to hear her out and forgive her, basically down on her knees begging Gert for forgiveness, and Gert’s like “I can’t not forgive her.” And once they’re besties again, Gert’s long time crush comes back and she’s like “well now I can’t not kiss her. Fuck.” And at that point Vi is also kinda like, “pause. Has it been Gert this whole time fr??” (And her whole family is like. Well yes.) Here Vi was thinking that Caitlyn was perfect, completely missing sight of the baddie she had on her hands this whole time.

While Caitlyn might have been “perfect” she was lowkey boring, and Gert is far from boring. She’s unapologetically herself. DIY-ing her own stuff, dressing however she wants, making super cool music (and letting Vi be the first to hear it), taking Vi to her shows, running around Zaun and showing Vi all her favorite places, doing art in said places. Gert really just doesn’t gaf about what other people think of her, often including Vi. Gert is far from boring. Honestly, Gert is far from perfect (in the best way possible), and that in itself is perfect.

So yeah. Childhood besties to lovers GertVi, everyone. I hope I didn’t absolutely suck at explaining this and that some of yall actually like this lmao

If you made it this far, thank you very much. Here’s a Pinterest board (albeit, pretty underdeveloped for now) for your troubles: HS BassBreaker AU‼️