#If Viktor had any doubts in a different circumstance about Jayce leaving him willingly as he go sicker I feel that answers that too.

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How long was Viktor in the Hexgoop coma? Because I’ve heard everything from days weeks and months in various fics and posts. I feel the need to hammer it down.

How long was Jayce holding vigil and obsessing over what the hexcore was doing to Viktor? Because he was distraught neglecting everything in his personal and professional life for a long while before the scene where Mel visits him exhausted and spiraling clutching Viktor’s cane for comfort to get him to talk to people and stop saying things like “it should be me up there”.

Clue 1 The Council Meeting that Jayce declined to attend: Obviously this isn’t going to be 100% accurate because we only have flashes of Piltover’s medical system but… It was enough time that Salo who was paralyzed and left in agony was able to sit up in a wheelchair and bounce down a set of steps without obvious pain.

It was also enough time that we see of Shoola’s horrific facial wounds are healed scarring.

Realistically this would suggest many weeks too months for that amount of healing to happen.

(Sidenote: Mel Medarda protected Hextech and the whole city in the aftermath of the bombing (which was the job Jayce seems like he was not in a place to do as he immediately shifted his focus from his job to Viktor’s survival). She also took over Jayce’s place as de facto leader in the council meeting and did not push Jayce to leave the lab to attend even though it would have greatly benefited her for him to be there in the vote to not invade the Undercity with Hextech weapons. She had great respect for the fact he needed to be there to care for a loved one. Some people forget that.)

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Clue 2 The Statue: It was enough time that shortly after Jayce re-emerged to society to attend the memorial for the 3 fallen Councilors we see a massive statue has been fully finished. Again, even rushed that suggests weeks too months.

Conclusion: While for the purpose of creative license it is impossible to fully project a timeframe I would pose it was on the short end at least 6 weeks and a few months at most, and that just makes Jayce’s devastation when Viktor left so much worse.

He waited and watched an took careful notes for long time. He held distraught vigil and from what we’ve seen may have neglected an entire city for Viktor while Mel stepped into the role he was not capable of taking at that point.

He loved Viktor so much it was actually insane the devotion he had to not even leave his side unless absolutely necessary even when he had the whole city waiting he would have rather been there in the lab with Viktor. It brings so much more to his words about leaving the council and how he truly believed he always belonged by Viktor’s side in the lab when he had hardly left either for WEEKS to MONTHS.