#idek if im making sense anymore the fujo brainworms are eating me alive

[moonslitmuse]

when cait said "viktor's at the centre of all this isnt he?" i dont think we all understood how much "all this" was to jayce. to the viewers in the moment and everyone else in the room, "all this" meant the ongoing battle. to jayce, "all this" meant everything in his life up until this very moment.

viktor was the reason he became obsessed with magic, viktor was the reason he and his mother survived, viktor was the one who saved him from jumping, viktor was the one who had faith in him and helped figure out hextech, essentially giving him another chance in life.  AGAIN.  jayce's affection for viktor is what causes him to revive viktor with the hexcore, his promise to the older, future viktor is what brings him home with a renewed determination to get his partner back.

his entire life has revolved around viktor and he didn't even know it.

how do you think he felt learning that his "first" meeting back in s1e1 was in fact, destined to be? to learn that in every timeline and in every possibility, he and viktor will always find each other.

the same way it is scientifically factual that an object will remain at rest/in constant motion until another force acts upon it, or how energy is neither created nor destroyed, it has been written into nature itself for jayce and viktor to be brought together until the end of time.

so to jayce, it was always viktor at the core of it all, and still is.

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fun fact: in this scene, right after cait mentions viktor, jayce's pupils dilate.

then his memories show us a viktor that is much softer and even presents with a smile, which was NOT what we saw in the actual episode!

cr reyenii

and note: this is the viktor that jayce saw right before killing him with his hammer. imagine just how gut-wrenched he felt in that moment.