#UNWELL AGAIN

[bags-of-regret]

Oh god theres more

[vegley]

a tad late to the party, but here’s my entry for @cherrifire’s dtiys ^_^

[antivanlights]

"Smells like... Rook."

Spite says this when you reach the well in the Crossroads, the one that connects the Fade with the village in the Hossberg Wetlands. The despair demon that resides in the well is known for luring people with whispers/echoes of something they want, and then manipulating them to their doom.

SO does Spite's comment actually mean that the well demon has targeted him and Lucanis by imitating Rook's scent?

[lotus-pear]

learning to love

[xrk-art]

"I’m sorry"

[mischieviem]

More ouaw stuff because I am 50 episodes in and losing sleep

[shizukups]

Unwell

unwell

[occasionalpanic]

Things that you hit

[vyoongi]

❝ I love you. You are my brother ❞

[pdouwes]

And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have re-written mine by being my friend.

[beaglesbites]

realised the prosecutors badge looks like a cross!

[linddzz]

Does mage Viktor's reality-hopping and 'only you can show me this' line imply that dozens if not hundreds of other Jayces have done what our Jayce did and end up there on that slope hearing the same thing from him? Did the Viktor that succeeded and lost everything, lost his own Jayce, keep getting to meet new Jayces one by one, allowing himself a small modicum of wistful joy in getting to see Jayce living and breathing again if only for a short time before he sends them back? talk to me here

Not only is it implied, we for sure see at least 8 (if my count is right) times Viktor has saved Jayce as a child, including the current one. You see them flash through and each time, he gave Jayce a different runestone

(gifs by @hextecht)

Since his phrasing was "all timelines, in all possibilities" it's pretty safe speculation that Viktor has been at this for way more than 8 rounds. We don't know if he's tried messing with other points of the timeline or if any other Jayces got as far as the our Jayce did when he reached the center of Wizard Viktor's hellscape (and I made such a distressed noise when the clouds parted and I realized the only beautiful place left, the center of the storm, the oasis, is where Jayce got assimilated).

The general consensus is that this is most likely the first time it worked, because Ekko used the rune Jayce had been given (the "acceleration rune" as Ekko calls it in S2E7) to make the time travel Z-drive that he cranks up to "break reality" levels before chucking it at Viktor's head and knocking that dork off enough for Jayce's "power of love" gamble to actually get through to him.

(I also have the opinion that Wizard Viktor is not going to stop here. He's got nothing but fields of dreamless solitude for him, this IS his project and he's probably going to keep trying to refine the process across timelines until some kinda multiverse cops show up like "dude. Fucking quit it!")

And OH BOY can I sure as hell talk about the way Viktor looks at Jayce over the top of the Jayce he destroyed!!!!

(gif by @glassrunner)

Look at him. LOOK AT HIM. His expression is already wistful and pained as he turns, but you can see him exhale with the breath knocked out of him. his eyelids actually flutter. He softens, he's struck. He looks like he's barely able to keep himself from crying in that moment where he not only looks at Jayce, but lets himself be seen by Jayce in return.

And which is more heartbreaking? That this is the first time Jayce got this far, the first time Viktor had to finally properly look at him after so many tries?

Or has this played out over and over for him? Has he looked over like this time and time again, and every time it takes his breath away? Subjecting himself to this repeatedly, and every. single. time. he's hit with the most classic doomed romance line

(Im holding myself BACK from rambling yet again about how Actually Deranged it is for Wizard Viktor to be doing this but @avelera and I talk about him being a fucked up little guy so much that I need to consider just having a wizard Viktor tag lmaooo but for more Wizard Viktor rambling enjoy

Wizard Viktor doesn't care about saving the world, he's just making sure Jayce and himself are intertwined

How many times has Wizard Viktor had to watch this himbo yeet himself into Pretty Hippy Viktor's cult?

Me giggling and kicking my feet in the air over Wizard Viktor being a control freak egomaniac about Jayce )

[theeminentlyimpractical]

[jeonsupershy]

doctor i don't feel so good🩺

[eyes-of-nine]

got the real boy ending yesterday, love this weird freak sm, would never want to be in his vicinity<33

[madbard]

“What kinds of things did you do?”

Penelope so easily could have said ‘it doesn’t matter.’ She so easily could have said ‘I don’t care what you did,’ and the song could have progressed.

It’s so important to me that she didn’t say that. Penelope didn’t dismiss Odysseus’ actions, didn’t say they didn’t matter, because they did. His actions destroyed so many. They scarred and irrevocably altered him. Of course it’s important. Of course she cares.

Because Penelope’s love is not a blind love. She looks at her husband, she looks at his crimes, and she acknowledges that he has changed. She sees and knows him, as well as she can. And she falls in love with him again, as she has every moment, every minute, every year.

Over and over again.