#arcane was always about love

[the-whole-shebang]

The fact that Viktor saves Jayce in every timeline even knowing it will always lead to the creation of hextech and that timeline's destruction. The fact that Vi and Caitlyn are literal soulmates and one can't exist in a universe without the other. The fact that Ekko fell in love with every single version of Powder/Jinx he met even when they were actively enemies.

[bean-spring]

Hot take and not to be a killjoy or the shipping police but people treating Viktor or Jinx's aroace headcanons as if they were canon is not the revolutionary take people think it is.

Headcanons are always all right but we have to acknowledge that they are somehow damaging when they apply to stereotypes. It might not be the case for everyone but most of the time people unconsciously assume that disability/mental illness=asexuality. These headcanons erase the freedom of attraction from people who are already seen as unable to have sexual/romantic experiences/desires, when it's completely untrue and harmful.

You can headcanon Viktor and Jinx as aroace, but I have seen people changing their minds once Viktor is no longer disabled (s2 with all of his other forms) and Jinx is no longer as mentally ill (alternate universe Powder). And it speaks wonders of how people see these characters.

"I never thought about Jinx being able to feel romantic/sexual attraction until s2!" To believe she's actually only capable of that when she's not "damaged" is incredibly disturbing. Especially since Jinx has always had a bit of a flirty personality too.

"I've always seen Viktor as asexual, I don't know why!" That's fine. You can headcanon him as ace. But I believe there is a reason behind it, most of the time, if for some inexplicable reason the "vibes" of the disabled character are making you think he's ace.

I say all of this being aroaspec myself, by the way. Headcanon all you want but going to people's posts commenting how "it's weird for you that they have romantic/sexual plots when they're clearly aroace" is not a win at all. It's a headcanon, after all, and it should be treated as such, and that's fine. But it also is damaging to spread stereotypes like these.

Of course the disabled character is asexual. Of course the mentally ill character is aromantic. It's not as revolutionary as you might think, tbh.

Fandom is not activism and it's all right to have any headcanons you want BUT some of them are filled with damaging stuff and perhaps we should look into ourselves more before treating these assumptions as something canon.

[sweetieviktor]

jealous! viktor x reader (headcanons + tiny scenarios)

summary: viktor sees you talking with a friend and get jealous.

content warning: idk if it counts as a cw but jealousy?? also, i made with s1 viktor in mind!

author notes: heyyy, so sorry this one is little, im still trying to find motivation after the end of the series but i think it turned out cute! thank u for the request and hope u like it!! :)

» it was a common sight to see you walking up and down piltover’s academy, working or just chilling on lunch breaks, but every time viktor would approach you, you were already with someone. sometimes an unknown person, other times with a friend, laughing and joking, touching them in such a sweet way, side by side in the aisles.

» he looked at you both, blood boiling and shaky hands. if you looked at him, it was possible to see his lips forming a thin line, brows furrowing, his left eye almost twitching. oh, he was jealous.

» he felt angry at himself to feel like this, he didn't mean to be jealous at all, but he wanted to steal you away, just for a second, and be the one by your side, be the one you smiled to, the one you’ve been touching so sweetly.

» he wanted to reach for you, to interrupt your silly conversation about whatever you two have been talking about, he wanted to share his new discoveries with you, he wanted to be in their place so bad.

» but he couldn't complain, not when you waved a goodbye at your friend, and turned your body, recognizing viktor, eyes lighting up immediately, smiling from ear to ear.

“viktor!”, you shouted, voice echoing in the aisle while you walked to him, “i’ve been looking for you all day. you wouldn't believe what happened!”

he looked at you, expression softening, eyes shining, mimicking yours, his thin lips now turning into a little smile, “yeah? tell me."

» soon all the jealousy melted away, now, he is the one walking by your side.

[recent-rose]

hey i dont go here but jayce's speech about viktor in s2e9 isn't him saying 'u should never have tried to heal yourself, you were perfect the way u were x3' it was him saying that viktor's physical health never made him any less beautiful, never made him any less important, never made him any LESS, period. he wasn't saying viktor didn't need to pursue a cure for his ills like come on his motivation to invent hextech was to help people. to cure disease. viktor's first and foremost among them.

he said what he said because it was the thing viktor craved to hear most in his life, and that is why those were the words that punched through his defences even as the machine herald: jayce loved him wholly and unconditionally, healthy or ill, good or bad, human or inhuman. he would always be loved just the same.

[kurthummeldeservesbetter]

Because they always choose each other in every universe. That’s how it’s always going to end. If it ends in light, it is still them. If it ends it death, well then they die together. It’s literal soulmates. Jayce will always find Viktor. Viktor will always find Jayce. They will never not be a part of each others lives and that’s so beautiful to me.

Jayce will always love Viktor (no matter how you interpret their relationship, romantic or platonic) in every form, every life.

Viktor will always love Jayce no matter how hard he tries to remove his humanity or separate himself from the small aspects of life.

No one else in their lives would ever get a chance. It was always going to be both of them. Forever.

[omnipresentlemon]

Do you have more Zaundads with Vi headcannons? I'm obsessed!!

Oh don’t worry I unfortunately think about them all the time and thus have plenty of headcanons! Enjoy!

- About a year after Felicia and Connol died, a horrible sickness swept through the Lanes and Vi caught it. She spent 4 days in bed, delirious from fever, crying for her parents. Silco spent every second by her bedside while Vander took care of the other kids, trying to keep her comfortable. She would only calm when lying on top of Silco, the steady beat of his heart soothing her to sleep.

- Even as an adult, Vi is super whiny when sick. She can handle physical pain no problem, but the second she’s sniffling? Oh, the misery. Caitlyn refuses to deal with it and sends her to Vander and Silco at the first sign of a cough.

- Vi hates being babied because she never wants to be seen as weak, but also deeply craves comfort and safety from her loved ones. The solution? Guerrilla Affection, as lovingly dubbed by Vander.

- Guerrilla Affection takes many forms. Vander pressing a quick kiss to her knuckles after bandaging them post-fight. Silco helping her trim her hair when it gets too long, fingers running a soothing pattern through the strands. Holding her just a smidge too tight in an embrace, only letting go when she pulls away. Always being a safe place to come home to.

- Silco actually approved of Caitlyn when Vi told her fathers they started dating. Her mother had always been an ally of Zaun and he knew Caitlyn had a good head on her shoulders and would keep his girl out of trouble.

- Vander however sulked for a week, not because he disapproved of Caitlyn, but because he didn’t want ANY of his kids dating. Dating meant forming a new life with someone and moving away and eventually forgetting all about your dear old dad. Silco repeatedly found him cuddled up with Powder, making the girl swear to Janna she’d live with them forever, which Powder gleefully agreed to. Silco would roll his eyes, fish their youngest of the greedy paws of his husband, and tell Vander to stop being such a child and to go man the bar.

- Alone time is hard to come by with four kids. Vander and Silco found that is they asked Vi “if she was responsible enough to keep everyone else entertained while they did super important, secret work in their room”, they could usually sneak away for an hour or two while Vi kept everyone else in line.

So many thoughts percolating, maybe it’s time to actually plan a fic for all of this…

[mollysunder]

Why does Silco choose to stand like this? This is why Jinx can't either stand or sit normally.

[mvmnbnv]

The fact that u had ppl saying vi would never wear makeup only for her to return in heavier black eye makeup and literal lipstick

[ayzaart]

graffiti (pow-pow and jinx)

[perpetuallyfive]

Arcane is soooo funny because it's entirely possible to watch and enjoy the show without knowing what roughly 50% of the characters are even named unless you go looking for it in the credits, in promo stuff, on wikis etc, because the cast is so wide ranging and they don't spend a ton of time with names.

Like what do you MEAN the councilor who apparently runs the brothel is named Salo, like the name of an infamous movie about fascists who engage in over the top debauchery and sex crimes, like FOR REAL, that's been his name the WHOLE TIME?

Extremely wild and funny to give him that name and let him think he's about to become the face of their military coup only for Caitlyn to pass him by in the fascism Olympics.

[dailyloopdeloop]

DAY 75: onehat

[chaos-and-sparkles]

Okay but can we PLEASE talk about how no hextech au Powder has a lock of her hair dyed pink, Vi's pink, a tribute to her sister to keep her close?? Because it made me physically sick and I haven't been okay since -

[bwootster]

So… Arcane.

[ravenaohridska]

Jayvik nation, how are we feeling???

[vitrall]

I don't think Jayce and Viktor literally died. They were kind of pulled into another dimension/astral plane/whatever you call it. We see older Viktor, and while it could be another Viktor, I think it would be more meaningful if it was our Viktor, finally free from the arcane, going through the universe with Jayce, fixing timelines together. Kind of like a cosmic mission.

[brionysea]

I'm trying really hard not to just be The Complainer because that's an energy I don't want to bring here when I love (present tense; I rewatch it like 5 times a day) arcane season 1 so much but does anyone remember when powder was taken in by silco and being raised by this very utilitarian merciless 'the ends justify the means' type character made jinx turn out violent and merciless as well. and vi was horrified by her and the lanes were terrified of her and piltover was falling over itself trying to scapegoat her as the one bad apple of the undercity to kid themselves into believing that everyone else was perfectly fine with being treated as less than. and that contrasts vi after vander etc. died because she was raised by him and internalised the idea that no one wins in war and fighting back against systemic oppression isn't worth the damage it causes to your own community which is why she ended up working with cait and the council like vander worked with grayson. the people who raised them shaped them into who they are today but then in season 2 jinx has a daughter and she's suddenly completely normal and well adjusted and her attachment style isn't digging her nails in until she draws blood at all. like What. what happened. didn't things used to mean something