#JAYVIKKK

[nyikondlovu]

After Act 3, if you claim to be a Jayce and Mel fan, you gotta admit that the pregnancy fan theory would’ve worked better than:

Jayce:

-being manipulated his whole life by Vikkktor;

-losing autonomy;

-leaving his mother;

-randomly cussing out a woman who only ever supported him;

-becoming a vikkktor dickrider to the point of mischaracterization.

While Mel:

-loses her mom;

-loses her oldest confidant;

-now is the head of a war mongering clan;

-is slapped by her mother;

-is villainized by her partner.

Like damn, it seems I thought through that half baked pregnancy theory and what it would mean for their arcs more than people paid to do so.

But jayvikkk shippers won’t pay attention to the desecration of Jayce’s character because their meow meow isn’t held accountable and somehow Mel being a good investor negates Vikkktor setting Jayce up to never live his own life (or the fact that the writers still say it’s familial affection)

[im-probably-playing-genshin]

I CRIED THIS IS SO CUTE

forgot abt this one... season one jayvik i miss you

[dangerxox]

JAYVIKKK 😭😭😭😭 (i take one step then fall off of a cliff and die)

[woodliceee]

jayvikkk

[mikerooksi]

jayvik ily jayvik jayvikkk jayvik ILY

(i pulled through and im continuing the edit)

[nyikondlovu]

You just rewrote history and by history I mean two weeks ago in front of my very eyes I’m DYING Jayvikkks be saying anything 😭💀

Woah I knew that there are those who prefer a platonic Jayce and Viktor but I was not expecting the absolute hate the JayVik ship is getting 😅

Honestly I’ve only seen a couple hate posts compared to the thousands of positive ones and hundreds of think pieces on the Mel Jayce Viktor dynamic and who would top who (although this mainly applies to Mel and Jayce because consensus agree that Viktor is always bottom)

But the sheer loathing coming from the hate posts is throwing me off. Especially the one I just read about how the JayVik ship degrades Mel’s character and downgrades or makes her lesser for being a woman.

While I do agree that a conversation can be had about what “happens” to Mel when people ship JayVik, I also think that the convo has to start in an honest place. Mel on her own has always been renowned and powerful, even before the cool powers.

Most people whom I’ve seen that primarily ship JayVik give Mel her respect and acknowledge how Jayce has a type that has nothing to do with gender and more to do with character.

As someone who ships all three of them together , for me the conversation starts at what happens when two pair off and leave the third. If Jayve had chosen to stay behind and be with Mel I would still ask: what about Viktor?

In my previous post I jokingly said that maybe he was using Mel for her money (it was a heavy reach and I tried to clarify the “joke” in the comments but alas you can’t unring a bell, thank you to @belladoes for helping me realize this). I meant to more so gage Mel’s psyche and not vilify Jayce’s intent. To clarify I know Jayce truly cares for Mel, but Mel is a badass why would she not want a guy whose focus is 100% on her and does she somewhat think that the relationship is transactional.

To say that the JayVik ship undermines Mel in any way would be a dishonor to Mel’s intelligence. As far as the gender thing, it’s even more of a reach than my poorly thought out “joke”. Seeing as how never once has gender been called into question when preferences have been made known. In fact the show goes out of its way to subvert preconceived expectations. (My one example is Ambessa right now cause god does that woman occupy my every thought but she seems to only like men/twinks)

I’ll end this here because thought’s vacated only Ambessa. but yeah the only valid criticisms of the JayVik ship are ones NOT routed in homophobia and treat Mel like she’s a competent adult.

[nyikondlovu]

I was rocking with it till I saw the Jayvikkk tag that is a man do not call Vikkktor a wife knowing full well how you treat the actual woman Jayce was dating y’all pissing me off 

Wife lovers till they die

[nyikondlovu]

Personally I wasn’t even in the fandom during season one however even as far removed from it as I was I saw how much people were perpetuating the whole “Mel manipulated him. He doesn’t want her she’s forcing their relationship” so imagine my surprise when a month ago when I watched the show and they are in a consensual supportive adult relationship. You would never know that the Mel that fans talk about is the woman who is willing to put aside her own want to go back and be welcomed back by her family, in order to support Jayce.

Mel is held to an impossible standard and I end up hating Jayvikkk as a ship because of how those shippers treat Mel. They throw her in like some ornament when they want to avoid misogyny or racism allegations.

Canonically Jayce and Mel had a relationship, they cared deeply for one another, Jayce saw Vikkktor as his brother and he chooses to sacrifice himself platonically and yet their ship has people call anyone who does not find the fact that a black woman must be disposed of in order for their ship to work, homophobic.

Let’s not even get into the fact that those shippers will only mention the most baseline thing about Mel, which is she’s gorgeous, because they, like the show, see black women not as someone to be loved but as something you can carnally desire.

So you saying that any hate jayvikkk faces is unwarranted or whatever is disingenuous because Meljay would not be this disliked if Mel was white or if she was a man but because she’s a black woman who holds more power than their white Vikkktor, she must be the villain and her relationship with Jayce must be some form of manipulation instead of the clear cut mature romantic trusting relationship that it canonically was. 

It’s only now people are acknowledging that Mel and Jayce were good for each other, but it’s still heavily drowned out by “Jayce barely loved Mel” or “he didn’t really like her “

Maybe you’re fortunate enough that you don’t see this, but we do and that’s why I say it feels like you’re being disingenuous 

Woah I knew that there are those who prefer a platonic Jayce and Viktor but I was not expecting the absolute hate the JayVik ship is getting 😅

Honestly I’ve only seen a couple hate posts compared to the thousands of positive ones and hundreds of think pieces on the Mel Jayce Viktor dynamic and who would top who (although this mainly applies to Mel and Jayce because consensus agree that Viktor is always bottom)

But the sheer loathing coming from the hate posts is throwing me off. Especially the one I just read about how the JayVik ship degrades Mel’s character and downgrades or makes her lesser for being a woman.

While I do agree that a conversation can be had about what “happens” to Mel when people ship JayVik, I also think that the convo has to start in an honest place. Mel on her own has always been renowned and powerful, even before the cool powers.

Most people whom I’ve seen that primarily ship JayVik give Mel her respect and acknowledge how Jayce has a type that has nothing to do with gender and more to do with character.

As someone who ships all three of them together , for me the conversation starts at what happens when two pair off and leave the third. If Jayve had chosen to stay behind and be with Mel I would still ask: what about Viktor?

In my previous post I jokingly said that maybe he was using Mel for her money (it was a heavy reach and I tried to clarify the “joke” in the comments but alas you can’t unring a bell, thank you to @belladoes for helping me realize this). I meant to more so gage Mel’s psyche and not vilify Jayce’s intent. To clarify I know Jayce truly cares for Mel, but Mel is a badass why would she not want a guy whose focus is 100% on her and does she somewhat think that the relationship is transactional.

To say that the JayVik ship undermines Mel in any way would be a dishonor to Mel’s intelligence. As far as the gender thing, it’s even more of a reach than my poorly thought out “joke”. Seeing as how never once has gender been called into question when preferences have been made known. In fact the show goes out of its way to subvert preconceived expectations. (My one example is Ambessa right now cause god does that woman occupy my every thought but she seems to only like men/twinks)

I’ll end this here because thought’s vacated only Ambessa. but yeah the only valid criticisms of the JayVik ship are ones NOT routed in homophobia and treat Mel like she’s a competent adult.