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[naphthu]

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[goddessofroyalty]

the mental image of silco having found his argumentative match in 12 y/o ish viktor is so funny cause we know what viktor looked like as a kid 💀💀 absolutely adorable, pinchable cheeks, big eyes and ready to throw hands with his father because hes just as much of a little shit. more than once vander has had to turn around to avoid being seen laughing cause of ALL things that could cause silco to sprout gray hairs is their otherwise angelic (as far as they know, this is viktor we're talking about lol) oldest kid. absolutely hilarious, even (not to say vander has never had viktor talk back to him, its just that its funny when its with silco cause yea, he was warned hed get a kid just like himself, and in turn he has told viktor the same thing)

Viktor's adorable. Like we need to acknowledge that this is what Silco is arguing with and getting endlessly frustrated as a result:

Most people don't realise how wicked smart (as in smart in the cunning canny kind of vicious way, they know he's generally a smart kid) he is because he can just turn on those big doe eyes and they let him get away with anything. He's polite and well-behaved and really can't be all that much bother. And meanwhile he is possibly Silco's hardest kid because Viktor becomes very good at arguing back from very young so Silco can no longer rely on being able to shut him down with something that Viktor can't argue back to because Viktor will just argue back to it. He's observant and clever and is not afraid to expose his parents hypocrisy to get his way. It drives Silco insane because he also doesn't want to be arguing like this with his 12 year old but Viktor won't just back down (and Silco sure as hell isn't going to). He is proud of how clever his boy (Viktor isn't going to tolerate being talked down to that's good) he just hates when it's directed at him.

Vander is so entertained. He can barely win an argument with Silco (instead having to wait Silco's rage out and try and approach the topic/idea from a different angle to hopefully avoid another fire up) and meanwhile their son is able to go toe-to-toe with Silco. He has a far better time with Viktor partially because he's been dealing with Silco for years so will tell Viktor that he "knows better than to argue with you" when Viktor starts and instead keep it as a calm conversation and not let it become an argument.

It's so funny to think about Viktor being the "just like you" curse child for Silco. Because Silco moved out of home when he was a teenager because he snuck around behind his parents back, got pregnant and started doing crime. Viktor moves out of home as a teenager because he snuck around his parents back to go... study at a peak academic academy (with a full-ride scholarship that includes boarding). And Viktor's a responsible clever child that just about anyone would want. But he's also argumentative and stubborn as hell and does move out of home as a teenager to do something his parents didn't want him to do.

So Silco, not breaking the cycle in this instance, tells Viktor the same "one day you'll end up with a child just like you and you will understand my frustrations" curse his parents told him. And that child is Amaranthine.

[funnyscienceman]

“He is to me as I am to you.”

After Viktor left, Naph stationed himself in his room, drawing on the bed with his sketchbook on his lap to escape the awkward silence in the laboratory. He was hard at work replicating the pond outside from memory when a long shadow began to creep in from the corridor, and he looked up to see the bandaged man standing idle at the doorway.

Naph blinked at him. The bandaged man stared back.

…After a moment, when it starts to get awkward again, Naph goes back to his drawing, shading the cavern walls and being mindful of the pencil outlines he’d left to mark where the flowers shine.

The bandaged man huffs something that sounds like a laugh and sits beside him on the bed. Naph pays him no mind.

“...You are an artist?”

Naph jolts, just barely managing to lift his pencil from the page. He looks up at the bandaged man, who’s looking at him and his work with a seemingly impassive expression.

“Oh. I guess…” Naph shrugs, fiddling with the corner of the page. “Jinx says my lines are too clean.”

The bandaged man scoffs. “The girl often says things without meaning. And art is as varied a field as science. You are very talented.”

Naph blinks. “Oh. Um… thank you.”

“Where did you get your tools?”

“Huh? Oh, the pencils? Viktor gave them to me, for my birthday. The sketchbooks too. He says I should ‘cultivate my talents.’”

“He is right,” the bandaged man says as he stands. “There is a desk in the laboratory you can use. It has better lighting. Come.”

He leaves without even letting Naph have a moment to reply. “It will be better for your posture as well,” he adds as he goes. Naph has no choice but to hastily gather his things and scramble off the bed to follow.

The bandaged man directs him to a table at the corner, propped up against a cave wall and a stack of boxes, lit by a white chemlight. The table is tall and so is the chair, but it has ladder steps that let Naph climb up by himself. As he does, the bandaged man hovers nearby, just like Viktor does whenever Naph does something that might end in him falling.

He gets up on the chair without trouble, though, and he nods his thanks to the bandaged man. He nods as well.

“Let me know if you need anything,” he says as he turns away. He seats himself at a workbench occupied by a glowing chemical setup Naph can’t put a name to. He nods anyway, and only turns back to his drawing when the bandaged man returns to his work without another word said.

The silence isn’t awkward this time, though; and the lighting actually is better for drawing.

[toaugment]

❝ i just….need some air…clear my head. ❞

viktor doesn't lift his gaze from his work ( a detached arm, opened up to reveal wiring where tendons and veins should be ) at her words, nor when he hears her stumbling towards the laboratory door. the operating table protests in her wake, and he makes a note in the back of his mind to tighten the screws holding it together.

somehow, she makes it through the clutter of non - operational automata and spare parts without falling over. viktor considers this proof of a successful medical procedure.

( he patched her up, bandaged her cracked ribs and stitched her torn flesh ; as far as viktor is concerned, unless she's looking for an upgrade, their odd business is concluded. )

naph will be disappointed if the woman he fished out of rubble is gone before he returns.

« —take care not to lock the door behind you if you intend to come back inside. »

baldur's gate 3 starters / @gntlets

[hexhomos]

Hi hello this is out of nowhere sowwy and ik they’re all pretty old by now but i just wanted to attempt to articulate to you how much i adore your amaranthine art. Like. Im so unwell about her and jayce and i adore them so much (knew it wouldn’t happen but still a lil disappointed she wasn’t in arcane at all) and i just. I love how you draw her, now it’s the only way i can think of her, and all your art of her and her fuckass dad is just perfect for how they would be with each other. She’s such a forgotten character, even moreso than Naph methinks, and i just love that you give her the beauty and humour and love she deserves <3 shes legit a fav character of mine and idk i just love you a lil bit for giving her some moments in the spotlight anyway have an awesome day all your art is amazing and delicious im just especially insane for amaranthine have a good life!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE MY DAUGHTER!!! THANK YOU!!

[maluron]

you know how last week @snowflakechallenge had us make a list of fandom stuff we'd like to see happen? well yesterday it was "create a fanwork" and

here's my take on "Machine Herald deals with Naph coming down with a cough", untitled little genfic that'll probably need editing later (also if someone else still wants to spin their own take on that prompt please please please please do so?)

Naph interrupts his work to cough into his sleeve. Again.

Everyone down there coughs now and then; it's a fact of life in Zaun. Everyone, even the chembarons who use breathing masks like the pilties they've all but became. The only exception is those who have entirely replaced their respiratory system as a last resort--being the only one to offer such services, the Machine Herald is well-aware of the fact, and there are not many of them. The air is cleaner now than it's been up to a decade ago, thanks to filters more performants, more numerous, better maintained. At least, the air less aggressive than it was, but it's still a far shout from clean. Infections are still common even if thankfully outright Sump Rot and Lung Blight are on the decrease.

Still. With Naph today it's happened already too much in too little time. More than the boy usually does. A persistent cough, coupled with glassy eyes and a slight slowness in his work... Viktor fires up a thermal sensor and checks: and there's a moderate fever. A minor infection then; no need to fret.

As he's suppressed his fear response he does not worry anyway, whatever the situation, only takes in facts and acts on them. But even if he still could worry there would be no cause here and now.

Naph tries to hide the affliction, of course. That's children of Zaun for you. They learn very young, way too young, to hide weakness. When asking for help goes unanswered, you rely on ourself only. Naph is no different. Viktor himself, so long ago, wasn't either. It doesn't mean that they should keep on that way.

Why does Viktor care about this one more than others? He cares about the nebulous concept of "the children of Zaun should live in better conditions". What makes this one different is that he's not afraid of him. Well... back when they first met he was afraid of The Machine Herald but willing to see for himself the rumors' basis and to learn more. And also, to get rid of his fear when it impeded him. Clever boy. That was a good start. Naph came back time and again. He does want to learn. And so... Viktor admits that he got used to his presence. Having no emotions he can't say that he enjoys sharing knowledge and encouraging learning. But it's logical to want to form apt minds to do the good work.

Also, he's built a sense of familiarity out of Naph. Even though he's only one out of many street urchins. Having no emotions, again, he's not afraid he'll die, he would not be upset should he die. Not more upset than at any other failure--every and any preventable death is a failure. So why would this one be worse? ...maybe because of the personal investment he's been making in his education, should it go to waste.

Still. This cough. It's not nothing but it's not dire. And it still needs adressing.

When Naph coughs again, Viktor puts a stop on whatever he was doing. "That's it. No workshop for you today." "What! But..." "I won't have you coughing all over this prototype, spray particules on delicate circuitry and mess up soldering whenever a fit interrupts you."

One could hold up a finger from any hand to emphasize a point and of course The Machine Herald does so with his freakng Hexclaw from extra emphasis. That's final.

Naph does not want to be sent home, that's obvious. Viktor never asked what home was for the boy, if home existed at all, if anyone will take care of him there. Naph is also afraid of being confined to bed, deemed uselss. Neither will happen. Viktor put a stop on the working and even the learning but prefers to keep him close as long as needed.

The bits he was tinkering with are swept away and replaced byt a hot drink--not sweetmilk this time but some nasty tea, heaped with honey that doesn't entirely mask its bitterness. A cold compress os offered--fever is the body's natural response against illness--Viktor is no medical doctor but opines it's better to let it run its course and to suppress it only if too high or gets too uncomfortable. There is no use in feeling crappy if one can help it after all, there's no glory in suffering--after all he offers time and again to anyone wulling to evolve past the possibilities of suffering!

So Naph has to rest even if he doesn't take well the idea of staying idle under his mentor's watchful eye. On different circumstances he would gladly take the oportunity to slack off... if there were no immediate consequences at least. But letting down The Machine Herald by not being up to... whatever expectations he had? There is no expectation on you, at least not today, except for you to get better. And that's out of your hands anyway. Defeated, Naph agrees he won't be able to do anything too hard. Light reading it is then, something that even looks merely recreational--yet Viktor assures him that no no there are history and life lessons in it and swears it is educational. That it's not slacking off.

Naph won't even ask how comes The Machine Herald ever got less-educational reading materials in the first place. After making faces at his tea however he finds the never to ask, "And so, you won't give a copper head for that?" "I won't." He will not give him even wire mesh lungs. At least not yet. Hopefully never. As he did on himself to replace his own failing lungs back in the days. Luckily Naph shouldn't need that. This is only a cold. And sure chest colds can get nasty, but it's not chem lung. (Not yet.) And even if, caught early there are ways to slow the progress down, and when it's progressed too far, to graft replacements. But with more luck, by the time Naph grows up chem lung won't even happen anymore?

"Now, we've had this conversation already and we can have it again when you're better ('cause he will get better--the odds are all in his favour) if you want me to give you copper-plated cranial augments..." Naph snorts, laughs, coughs again and laughs some more and manages to cut Viktor's speech short.

[archoneddzs15]

PC Engine - Darius Plus

Title: Darius Plus / ダライアス・プラス

Developer: Taito / Bits Laboratory

Publisher: NEC Avenue

Release date: 21 September 1990

Catalogue No.: NAPH-1009

Genre: Horizontal Shooter

Format: HuCard PC-SG

There are two HuCard releases for the PC Engine that featured advertising that they could be enhanced when played on a SuperGrafx console, hence the "PC-SG" icon. This is one of them. Darius Plus is a port of a popular Taito arcade game that features a choice of paths through the game after defeating each giant aquatic-style boss. The gameplay is fairly traditional with power-ups increasing the damage of your forward shots and bombs. The differences between playing it on a regular PC Engine versus playing it on a SuperGrafx are virtually and almost indistinguishable 99 percent of the time. Here and there, mostly on the bosses, you'll see the slight color enhancement and a reduction in sprite flicker when playing it on a SuperGrafx, but this is definitely not enough to sell gamers on the potential of the SuperGrafx, considering it can be played on the PC Engine already.

Darius Plus is a nice, but drawn-out, horizontally scrolling shoot ‘em up. Darius has always had a style of its own and that is much of where its appeal lays. The bosses are very original and have some quite impressive detail and the levels are generally attractive, if repetitive. The only trouble with the Darius games is that once you lose your weapons, you may as well kiss your whole game goodbye as it can be very difficult to recover. So, one for the die-hard shoot ‘em up fans only. A special note should go to the music which is unusual and a bit of an acquired taste, but great.

[beebleees]

- ⏳ 🫓 ⏳ - - 🫓 ⏳ 🫓 - -⏳* 🫓 ⏳-

Stimboard for Naph, my chupacabra kiddo. He’s sorta like- a reformed hunter if that makes sense. Much trauma, and a bit closed off, but honestly really soft. Took way too long to find material my brain would accept but I finally did. and made some of my own because it didn’t exist anywhere. His color palette is black with purple/blue undertones, and pinkish red with orange undertones.

*I filmed and edited the one with the spines, please credit ;)

[eldritchshapeshifter]

I think it’s really funny that I will just disappear for months sometimes and then I’ll be back with a new hyperfixation, like oh I’m back and I’m now hyperfixated on Arcane but specifically Jayce and Viktor along with a bit of the original league of legends Jayce and Viktor + Naph and Amaranthine even though I’ve never played the game and know very little about the lore but I love the dynamics of their characters

[naphthu]

one for all the mechanical girls gettin freaky with it in B&Q 💕

[goddessofroyalty]

A slightly weird question but you are the leading male omega obstetrician so I shall ask! Obviously within the undercity there's a lacking of resources, food included. Do you think Silco ever had any issues producing milk for his pups, especially Viktor when him and Vander were just starting out.

I think he definitively did with Viktor but I don't think they were actually aware of it. But it is definitively another item on the list of reasons for Viktor's health issues in this verse. And probably another part of why he was considered a fussy, unsettled, sickly baby.

Where they are living lack of resources including food is something that is affecting basically everyone around them as well. And Viktor is still growing (slowly and he likely isn't meeting the developmental weight milestones he should be but he is still growing) so there's nothing setting off warning bells that something is dangerously wrong (at least until they realise his knee is bad and even that at first is just... he has a bad knee). And I don't think it's to the point where they would even think about needing to substitute with something else.

To them he's just a particularly small baby who tends to get hungry a lot.

It was actually probably with Claggor and Mylo that they did realise that Viktor probably hadn't been getting enough. Because by that point they're established enough where Silco is getting enough food to have the more needed milk production (he's still definitively not someone who is overproducing and Claggor is weaned when Mylo is born out of necessity but he's more in the realm of what you would want). And it's after seeing Claggor and Mylo hit those developmental milestones earlier and easier that they realise that Viktor hadn't. And while I definitively think they can connect the fact that there wasn't really enough food to go around as part of the reason why there's also the other environmental factors (unclear air, dirty water with access to not as good filtration technology, etc) that they'are aware of and fuels Silco's rage at Piltover.

[emberflit-alley-herald]

"It is fine, come in..."

Things were bad with Viktor was taking a break. It had been that way as long as he could remember. Ever since he was small, he hated needing to stop, to rest, putting off food or sleep for as long as he could so he could continue his work. Which is why Viktor openly saying he needed to have a break today was a terrible sign. There had been more than once Jayce had found out he was in the middle of recovering from some surgery or another mid-battle. In some ways, this awareness was better.

His home was small, not much of a living space as it was a lab with a bed, bathroom, kitchen. Kitchen was perhaps a generous term, because his stovetop had become part of his lab space as well, over time. The place was dim, as was most of Zaun, and various jars of preserved organs- both flesh and metal- were littered around on various shelves, tools and bolts placed haphazardly around. Jayce knew from experience that this was not Viktor's proper lab, just a home one. More for smaller projects or self repairs. There was also one other room in Viktor's apartment, but it was closed whenever the rather rare occasion of Jayce coming to visit rolled around. Viktor had made it clear some time ago that it was the bedroom of his apprentice, and the boy was not to get involved in their fighting. But Jayce could find the presence of Naph linger elsewhere around the apartment, mostly in the child's drawing that Viktor had taken to hanging up where he had wall space. Including one next to his bed.

"Thank you- You got chocolate? That is very sweet of you."

Viktor's own bedroom did not have a door. It wasn't a proper room disconnected from the lab space. There was a wall, but the doorway lacked a door, so it had just become another part of his expanding at home lab. He was laying in his best, armor discarded and in much more causal, comfortable wear. A hot water bottle was draped over one of his legs- The bad one, Jayce knew. On his lap, a pillow sat, propping up a piece of wood he seemed o be using as a makeshift desk. Well- That would explain it. He never could stop working.

The most striking thing, was he wasn't wearing his mask. When was the last time Jayce had seen Viktor's actually face? It was busted up, new bits of metal and scars Jayce didn't recognize, a black eye he probably caused, but despite it all, it was still him. Older, thinner, more sunken and sharp than the man Jayce met at the academy party, but still so painfully Viktor.

"Oh- Would you mind putting them on the bedside table for me? I doubt I'll be doing much walking today."

Against the table, Viktor's familiar staff leaned. Jayce could probably just... Grab it. Take the most powerful weapon Viktor has, like that.

But Viktor smiled when he saw him. Unsure and out of practice, but still smiling.

When was the last time he smiled at Jayce?

“Viktor? The door was open so I kinda assumed I could just walk in I'm not sure.”

[ Jayce stepped into the room. As he hummed ever so slightly. A box of chocolates in one hand and then a bottle of wine in the other. He stops in his tracks; taking in a deep breath; his foot tapping against the ground ] “I forgot the sandwich got caught up with stuff ya know how it is and all that. I removed the pipe bomb.”

[ He paused for a moment. His eyes shifted around the room. Questioning his own choice in coming here in the first place; Jayce should have just gone back to his lab. He had just gotten very awkward; he didn't fully remember the last time he was actually friendly with Viktor ] “I can just put the wine and chocolates down for you and get out of your hair. Got stuff to do.”

[ He knew that was a lie. He knew he had nothing to do today. Jayce was really just sitting doing nothing before this. Well, almost nothing. ] “Lots…stuff yep.” [ His eyes never properly fell on the other ]

( @emberflit-alley-herald )

[atissi]

inventor apprentices :)

silly little design thoughts:

so i'm not really a fan of making kids look like carbon copies of their parents. i tried to go more the angle of "narrative foil/parallel" than anything else. this is a little difficult considering naph and amaranthine's characters are basically nonexistent, but i took a lot of inspiration from @drtechmaturgics naph and @caspercryptid's amaranthine respectively :)

i loved the concept of naph working in a slaughterhouse — it's a bit depressing, it adds some severity to a rather soft design, it plays off of viktor's obsession with cutting away flesh, and naph would also be capable of helping out with amputations or dissections as needed. you know. fun parent-child bonding activities. aside from the apron and cleaver, i also gave him some oversized hand-me-down clothes to emphasize his smallness. the big watery eyes, wispy hair, and large forehead are to make him look more pathetic and scared. kind of like a sopping wet dog. but then the metallic belt buckles and his tools add back the more cold, fearless mindset that viktor wants to teach him. naph wears a lot of black and grey like viktor does, but also lots of white, which adds even more vunerability to him. symbolically i wanted naph to represent viktor's mushy emotional core, in all it's delicacy and malformation.

amaranthine ended up looking less like a steampunk apprentice and more like a character from a cartoon science show, but i am content with that. mostly i just wanted to do some fun braids and accessories with her hair. she has some of jayce's fussiness and rude behaviour, but also much less depression, and doesn't seem the type to listen to him 90% of the time. if you compare her design to my jayce design (which you can't see, because i find him really difficult to draw and still haven't done a proper fullbody of his outfit, but it's out there in theoretical terms) she echoes him in the bowties and the scientific equipment, but puts her own spin on them. the flower goggles and strawberry gloves are very "science" without being "boring". her apron is integrated into her dress, with petticoats coming out at the sides. the boots are extremely ahistorical and i mostly just wanted the pink soles. her expression is some mix of "cute little girl who can do no harm" and "willing to cause so much harm if you give her the right push". the pink/purple/yellow/white colour palette was an obvious choice and requires no comment from me.

[caspercryptid]

AU where viktor adopts a werewolf baby after he and jayce break up or a scenario where jayce keeps randomly flinching in the middle of viktors lab and viktors like “…are you okay” and then jayce catches the hint of naphs eye from the bottom of the table and goes “y-yeah” (naph bit him seven times before viktor arrived). or both! you rock

Okay we lost the Viktor's lab part BUT! PT 2 OF THIS. Jayce gets bit by Viktor's were-kid. woop.

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Naph thought that actually, he’d done pretty fucking well, all things considered. After that bloody and blurry month of tearing through everything he could get his teeth on, he’d had a whole month of complete calm. Viktor had picked him up, and he hadn’t had a single lapse or shift since. He was better fed than he’d ever been in his life, happy and comfortable.

Unfortunately, being happy and comfortable meant that when there’d been a form to go on a field trip, Naph had realized that for once in his life he’d...actually be able to go. So he’d asked viktor to sign off.

Without checking the calender.

And then he’d missed the bus.

He’d managed to break back into the Air and Space museum, that was the good news. It was closed and– mostly. Mostly empty.

Footsteps.

Shit.

Naph takes a deep breath, shoving his hands and his lockpicks into his pocket as a man rounds the corner. It’s the– guide from the earlier part of the tour. The retired TV star a couple of the school chaperones had been really excited to see. Naph had seen a couple of his videos in science class. He was lame.

He is looking at Naph without aggression, though, so that’s a good start.

“Uh.” he says. “HI... you. You were with the tour group. What are you doing here?”

“Nothing.” Naph says, nonsensically, and then he catches sight of the moon rising in one of the windows. Shit.

“Sorry.” Naph says.

“What?”

Naph lunges.

____

Viktor had set out as soon as the bus got back without Naph on it, but he knew he was running late. The moon was already well above by the time he got to the museum, biting down a frustrated noise himself. He’s proud to note that the door is already open- That’s my boy- but he’s surprised to see someone else as he walks into the museum.

There is a very familiar face at the information desk, leaning on it, posed as though he’s just....welcoming guests at a normal hour.

“....Jayce.” Viktor says.

Jayce starts, a little. “Viktor.” he says, voice strained. “What are you doing here? You really shouldn’t be here.”

“What are you doing here?” Viktor challenges. This is not good. This is the worst place to run into him-

“I work here.” Jayce says, through his teeth. “I give tours.”

“Cushy retirement job.” Viktor deadpans.

“It’s a sweet gig, yeah. Love the little...kidlets.”

“Oh, now you can stand children.”

“Oh, come on, that’s not–” Jayce winces. “–Fair. I was just too young. I’ve got a girl now, actually.”

“You adopted your child costar, I know.” Viktor says. “Are you so emotionally constipated that your poor little heart is causing you physical pain, or is something...happening back there.”

“– you paid attention to the news about me?”

“Jayce.”

“Right.” Jayce says. “There’s a wolf. Biting my leg. You may want to run.”

“Ah.” Viktor says. “No, that’s my son. Hold still, I need to feed him.”

Jayce stares at Viktor as Viktor gets meat out of his bag. It takes them both a second for it to process, but as Viktor pulls the meat out, they make eye contact, and Viktor grimaces.

“Don’t say it.” Jayce says.

“I may need to tranq you.” Viktor says.

“–Yeah, I can feel it. Make it quick.”

Viktor pulls out a dart gun and shoots him in the neck, and then tosses Naph the meat before he can get any ideas about an unconscious Jayce.

Well, he reflects, as he gets out zipties. The night certainly could have gone worse.

[miss-writes-a-lot]

Jayvik kids (Disclaimer: This is just for fun. Nothing too serious.)

So, I had meant to draw designs or root through my things and find designs for these kiddos, but I got sick at the time of writing this (April 23rd), so I just made a shit ton of picrews of them and I'll just describe them to you here in this post. This is the picrew I used for them: picrew link -> https://picrew.me/image_maker/1414503

Storyline is kinda jank,. mainly because I didn't totally think this through before I wrote this, so don't be too hard on me or my characterization of Naph and Amaranthine.

Naph (he/him) and Amaranthine (she/her)

These two are a pair and cannot be separated. These are not *my* kids of course. They are the two children introduced in LoL Jayce and Viktor's respective short stories. I can't say much on how they come into this family in my au at least, but in a certain angsty au that I am working on, it pretty much falls in line with canon. Naph gains a lot of confidence from working with Viktor and being around kids just like him (orphaned, picked on, etc.) And I think he gets along fairly well with Jayce (eventually). He's intelligent, kind hearted, but can reveal a tough side of himself that others hardly ever see.

Amaranthine is a ball of sass and style, likes to mess around but can get serious when occasion calls for it. Blunt as shit and isn't afraid to tell you that you're doing a terrible job at something. Also incredibly intelligent and witty.

They are the same age (12).

Eleanor 'Nell' Vallis (she/her)

Nell was adopted at age 7 after the unexpected death of her parents left her orphaned on the streets for some time. She is meant to be a trio with her two other sisters, their powers representing the heart, body, and mind. Nell is the body but, in terms of powers, I'm still unsure on what those powers should be.

She is a kind soul, always looking for the best in others, and enjoys helping out in anyway she can. She doesn't like to think about her past and anytime death is brought up, she has a tendency to shut down or become visibly uncomfortable by the mere word.

She is 16 years old in most aus.

Reynard Rossi (she/they)

(see how I made them color coordinated.)

Reynard was found at age 15 after running away from home. She represents the mind, having the ability of telekinesis and the ability to enter one's mindscape. Despite representing the mind, they don't often think before they act and would much rather fight first, ask questions later.

They're tough, fiercely protective of the people they care about, and they are Latinx coded.

She is 17, being the oldest of the siblings.

Viola Pizzelle (she/he/they)

(technically she doesn't count but I'll explain.)

So, if you know me or Viola from my sorta dead art blog or from AO3 (MissWritesALot55), this is my oc Viola. I just started writing them into situations after watching Arcane for comfort and they just worked their way into being the Heart. As the heart, she has the ability of pathokinesis, the manipulation of emotions. She can use them offensively and can also take other's emotions (whether she means to or not)

She started out as an apprenta, working on a way to produce Hextech's own synthetic hex crystals to beat House Ferros and stop the added pollution they are producing. She's anxious about everything, constantly down on herself, and a bit pessimistic.

But she also caring and compassionate, and despite not being as intelligent, she does what she can to help out with the knowledge she does have.

They are 15 years old. The picture to the right is for a sort of Divorce Era Au I'm working on.

I have a few ideas for them, but I'll need to work on them more to execute them properly but if you're interested in them and their stories, feel free to ask and I'll answer the best I can and maybe I'll work on actually drawing them for things.

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What are your least favorite parts of the 2016 lore rework? And if you had the power to remove/change those parts, how would you go about doing so?

The parts I like the least are those which alter Viktor's personality either without good reason or to illogical behaviour!

Maybe someone thinks it's cool to give Viktor an amazing wunderkind status by having him revolutionize Zaun's industry before he even enters college. Before age 19. In my opinion that's an overkill because it does nothing to hype up his actual achievements. Guess what, his inventions becoming apparently widespread in Zaun are never mentioned again in 2016. lore. Which means that bit was added just for flair and instantly forgotten. And it was added for only one other reason:

To show how Viktor apparently since birth didn't like human errors and viewed them as inferior for some reason. This was never present in his original characterisation. Why did the writers put this in 2016. lore? Did they think that was a logical reason to *explain* why Viktor turned himself into a machine? But not only does this undermine Viktor's original character, it also forgets that he actually had a very well defined reasons why he originally became the Machine Herald - it was a means to an end for him. He built his inventions into himself to prove his brilliance and to ensure credit for them could not be stolen again. Was this deemed too complex of a reason for average League player to understand by the 2016. writers? I don't know and I have no insight. I can only speculate.

2016. lore takes every opportunity to show how strange Viktor was, how he detested human involvement in systems and avoided "uncertainty". This in my fully honest opinion is a very poor reason why he would turn into the Machine Herald. Blitzcrank gained sentience, something characteristic for humans, the very thing which Viktor is supposed to dislike in 2016. lore. Yet he tries to replicate Blitzcrank's sentience (and fails.) Remember, in 2016. lore he didn't even create it, it arose from a Brackern crystal. Remember his wunderkind status? Yeah I guess that's out the window. The character handling is lopsided and it doesn't move into good development for Viktor.

It moves him into a full villain with good intentions, depending on how you'd define his intentions.

2016. lore has him consider removing free will from humans a good thing for them. He doesn't experiment on himself first; he experiments on dying patients (granted to try to save them, but giving this reason still clashes with his overall depiction making it feel like it's just what the narrator is insisting.) And in the end he gives kill orders and sends drugged thugs and robots to ransack Jayce's lab with disregard for human life. Then this is contradicted by how well mannered he is towards Naph, the kid in his colour story. But I'd like to point out how Silco in Arcane also acted nice to little Powder when he found her, viewing her as a tool for future use. The fact that he ended up viewing her as his daughter is another thing.

It's a mystery if Viktor can catch feelings in 2016. lore and that's touted as the prime angst target. What do we see in original lore Viktor however? Anger, frustration, pride, happiness. He never removed his own emotions, that's a false reading in my opinion. He was rid of what he perceived as his emotional weaknesses - he was no longer shaken, depressed to the point of self-isolation and so on.

And lastly there's Jayce. A character so irrelevant to Viktor's own story that he didn't even exist when Viktor was made x) I personally am not a fan of friends to bitter enemies as it's overdone in media I consume, but more importantly it eats away precious focus. It drags the reader into wondering about "will they won't they" about Jayce and Viktor, and kicks all the fundamental characteristics of Viktor's person somewhere into a dark corner. This is not good.

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In essence, if I could I would just stick to original lore. 2016. lore merged Piltover and Zaun and forced Zaun to just be Piltover’s slums. As consequence I think most of their champions suffered to become vessels just to support this worldbuilding. But if I had to salvage the 2016. lore, I’d remove any descriptions saying Viktor viewed human involvement as problematic. I’d remove him obsessively working as a child. I’d have him still attend Zaun’s college of techmaturgy then as a transfer student meet Jayce in Piltover. Later as a PhD student back in Zaun create Blitzcrank, suffer a mental breakdown because Pididly stole credit and none of Viktor’s colleagues stood on his side to verify. In the end Viktor would become the Machine Herald and then start helping unfortunate Zaunites. I would remove his patients dying, his technology being described as only for the desperate. He would enter conflict with Jayce because Jayce refused to give him the arcane crystal.