#and by bi4bi I mean jayvik

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Oh the bi4bi enjoyers really won this season didn’t they?

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Waitwaitwaitwaitwait HOLD ON. YOU WROTE A JAYVIK FIC?!?!?!? Any chance we can get more of your expertise with season 2 content...👀🙏

season 1 act 1 jayvik seized me with the uncontrollable urge to make them kiss in the study

I do want to write something for season 2, but to be honest I just haven't figured out what that is yet. I have played around a bit with alt timeline ideas but nothing solid. (S2 spoilers and ramble under the cut)

I'm actually as insufferable about league lore as I am about jjk lore. Slightly less but still definitely like, 'um ackshually'. Which is why for all of S2 (and since the end of S1) I was like, 'wait how the fuck are they going to get Viktor to his canon endgame appearance.' silly me they just said fuck canon (which I strongly respect and appreciate by the way - love the eldritch, love all the retcon, no notes. I love where they went with Viktor and how they gave nuance and depth to his character and didn't feel tied to the og jayce-viktor canon).

Anyway so I asked my friends "okay so where is Viktor in this alternate timeline?" Because I'm thinking, ooh I could do something with this. I could make him chemtech. He could be Singed's lab assistant. We could do a jaded poor street urchin take - hm but that doesn't work with the opportunities we see afforded to zaunite Ekko and Powder. But whatever I can make it work-

"well he's dead isn't he? they never cured his illness"

wait shit.

yeah.

people aren't talking about the fact that Viktor is just straight up dead in the fun ekko everyone's gay timeline. I mean it doesn't matter but it's kind of funny that I forgot that obviously that is what happens. that's the whole thing y'know, the good intentions paving jayce's path to hell. I can't believe I forgot the whole thing.

Anyway I might write something for S2. I just don't know what. I actually don't ship jayvik that hard. Not that I think there can't be romance there, but I mean it when I say I legit think it's a secret third thing that is indescribably complicated and I don't think romance is even near the top of what is most dominant in that dynamic. but consider: I would love to write jayce getting fucked by the void arm

Another thing like - this is just off the dome so don't judge my coherency here. Somehow powerbomb feels so incredibly gay? I don't know how to describe this but despite it being heterosexual, it draws me the way that only gay ships have ever done. And I think, if I had to guess, it is because Ekko is one of the first straight male characters that I've seen in a long time that gets to be like, scared and inexperienced with romance in the way that I would traditionally see in gay ships esp in the 2010s (my formative years as you know). Obviously they are giving insanely bi4bi energy. I don't think they let anyone in zaun be cishet, I think it's part of the alternate universe rules actually.

they did Ekko so fucking good in arcane. I liked him in S1 too, but man I was worried they were going to drop the ball and nope the writers are actually just great. I have never felt compelled to write and read het the way I felt in ep 7. I have never wanted a straight (bisexual) man to win the way I wanted Ekko to win. (This I think exacerbates the pacing complaints - because sharing this ep with jayce was an L because both sides could have had more exploration. Actually I think jayce needed it more because I believe Viktor is actually specifically using Void magic (as in kogmaw kaisa belveth void) and I think that would be much more clear and better if we had more time to make those connections. But I can rant about that other time)

And maybe part of that is self selected media, these moments and experiences aren't necessarily common in what I read/watch, esp since I am selecting for LGBT romance not het. but anyway, I feel like we criticize so often and so loudly when representation fails, and I want to point out that Arcane should really be celebrated for actively actively actively representing a.) nontoxic masculinity b.) POC in extremely powerful poitions in the narrative (ambessa, mel, ekko, SEVIKA MY FUCKING QUEEN)

P.s. I would also like to write about Sevika being softened by the touch of a woman but I cannot for the life of me figure out who that would be. I will talk more about Sevika some other time bc as an Indian woman myself I intensely intensely cherish portrayals of Indian women that are not "the smart rational one who imposes power with great control and distance". Not that Sevika isn't smart but she is also other things like strong and butch.