#how are we feeling viktor nation

[mochimochimona]

Fortiche Studios are the GOATs

So, I got my hands on the german edition of the Arcane Artbook and Fortiche Studio is so awesome! And this quote made me laugh so hard, but context first: so they are talking about their influences, one of them being Monster. One of the team said that Jayce is reminding him of the protagonist, which he didn't like at first because he was so boring. He had the feeling Jayce was like that in the first season: Jayce just following (Mitläufer, someone who's just following others with no own agenda, no standing, no own personality), who makes wrong dicisions. Until at the end of season two, where he accepts the mistakes and the bad decisions he made and finally, WHO HE IS.

Yeah well, WHO IS HE AT THE END? FORTICHE HUH? What do you mean??

(also they "confirmed" in the artbook Jayce and Viktor are brothers turned enemies lol). I haven't read the whole thing but I think Fortiche were JayVik shippers, Linke and Riot were not and Fortiche did the french thing and...did it anyway :D This is very insightful, I may or may not be a Fortiche Studio Fangirl now. Also everyone at Fortiche seemed to be a Viktor Truther haha. This is wholesome honestly.

[shtern-and-art]

Both were destroyed on the same explosion. Just saying.

First we see the table. It is plated with gold to be perfectly the same as it was before. A cog in a machine. Then we see Viktor. Wielded together with gold with pretty and grotesque asymmetry. An approximation of a human being.

The broken man became the machine, became the will of oppression. And yet he still moves with the grace of a living thing. Yet he looks the most asymmetrical and acts even more contradictory than he did in his conventionaly "human" life.

And yet the actual wheel of oppression is still the same. Perfectly symmetrical, an object. A place of power. A cog. Not even turning, stuck in place. Built in almost the exact way it was before.

The cog and the butterfly.

Me, pointing at porcelain Viktor near the council table: only one of those represent the actual loss of humanity.

It's amost like the more nonhuman Viktor tries to make himself, the more human, fleshy, and organic he looks.

But world is not ready for this conversation.

I mean. What looks more like a living breathing creature: Viktor in perfectly symmetrical sterile clean straight line fashion of Piltover. Or Viktor dressed only in one slip of randomly folded fabric, loose and free for movement. Or Viktor fully naked, his body made of only metal, but all shaped like living tissue, muscle and skin exposed. Supposed mechanical claw — an actual limb with fingers.

[incaseyouart]

and they were lab mates

[mediacircuspod]

Not many know this history

As it was lived shadowed and small

But The Herald was a loving man

Before he was no man at all

[starschu]

Guess who’s rewatching snippets from Arcane instead of studying for finals lmao

Anyway, do you know what I just realized about S2E2 when Ekko and Heimerdinger are breaking into the lab? You know what’s absolutely tearing me up inside??

(Sorry for the low quality pics lol bear with me)

I can’t believe I missed this on my first watch through omg

Jayce thought it was Viktor

He stood by as they unscrewed the grate—waited until someone came through—and it was only when he heard Heimerdinger speak and knew it wasn’t Viktor that he fired up the hammer

He stayed, kept sleeping in the lab (though not much judging by how tired he seems), in case Viktor came back. In case he changed his mind and decided to stay with him. And for a second he thought he did. And then his heart broke all over again

[pastej]

Late night work leads to well deserved naps 🌙

[sucredemar]

The funniest thing he could ever do- a pues se sigue ganando

EDIT: I'm gonna direct to the source, this was from a twitch stream by caprimint (here)

[doublxpresso]

together

[raccoonttrash]

the entire plot of arcane

[thatshortenby]

wake up babe new hyperfixation just dropped

[andradrawsstuff]

In all timelines, in all possibilities… only you

[ggoob]

and they were partners 🌟

[viktors-sternomastoid]

Viktor's delicate hands - 2/many

[soupmanimation]

vikjesus and his followers

[venerascent]

haha dont do it viktor ur too hot

[1tcaro]

viktoooor (i fixed his hair)