#jayce lol

[irregularm4ngo]

*looks at you with my big evil eyes*

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[aphwaph]

what's up jaygang

[hexhomos]

Since I've already been asked, here's the total arcane survivor jayce lines about viktor & viktor's updated lines about jayce

and all of this releasing arcane stuff was written like a year ago, nothing is new bc there is a strike going on and riot officially notified they arent recording new game stuff during it. i think some of you guys are doomering but im literally coasting

[wr0wn]

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[aetherl]

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[vandervampz]

Here's an (implied) Jayvik drawing I had done after finishing Arcane that I am still rather displeased about, like I hate it but I love the way Viktor looks yk, hence the close up, my best drawing of him yet

I might repaint it in the future, I am mainly just displeased about the smoke but I tried painting it so many different times I just gave up at the end lol

[zairas-realm-gateway]

I am so, so sorry for hijacking your amazing comic with an analysis post but this comic has me fucking screeching! Fuckin' shaking!

Reading this comic made my insides ache and twist in indescribable ways. It makes my very soul scream out with need for others to understand the very delicate building blocks that make up Jayce Giopara. Before finding you, I have not seen another person that so openly picks up on the fragile pieces that Jayce is actually made up of under the inflated ego.

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I don't even know how to put into words all the feelings roiling up inside me. Panel 5 makes me want to scream. The insinuations and accusations facing Jayce so expertly expose little, subtle aspects of Jayce's character that are devastating flaws in the metaphorical armor that keeps Jayce safe and sane.

Down under the arrogance and self-importance is a bright and eager soul that's so, so naive (his voicelines are optimistic in a way that speaks of naivety to me) and a pushover. Jayce is easy to sway and throw off kilter. I see it two major places in the canon lore. Once is when Jayce doesn't defend Viktor when Viktor accuses Professor Stanwick (rightfully) of stealing credit for Blitzcrank's creation. It does not say in Viktor's lore that Jayce verbally denies Viktor's claims or call him a liar. It says that Jayce did not speak up at all, not even to ask for evidence. This tells me Jayce could not bring himself to go against his professor, a man of importance and high status above them both.

Which brings me to a point that I really, really need to remind people: before becoming the Defender, social position wise, the only thing Jayce has over Viktor is that he's from Piltover. Fans use "Giopara" as Jayce's last name but that's not his last name. He has no last name that we know of. He has no family, no money. Pre-Defender Jayce is just a pretty young man with high intelligence that gets passed around the Piltover clans like an unwanted puppy.

If I remember correctly, it doesn't explain why Jayce never sticks up for Viktor. It could be that he's scared if he speaks up, they'll kick him out of the academy. Or it could be that because Jayce naively believes in his own moral code so greatly that he actually believes everyone else lives by it too. Therefore he can't even conceive of a professor stealing from his student. Which would mean Viktor was lying but Viktor is Jayce's partner so he obviously wouldn't want to believe his partner is a liar. This leaves Jayce tied in a knot about what to do resulting in him just not saying anything, causing his first unintentional betrayal towards Viktor.

Lore canon evidence of Jayce being a pushover is the short story with Amaranthine. As we all know, Jayce thinks very highly of himself. He thinks he's too good to give his attention to anyone, even a little girl whose doll he could literally fix in like a minute. He denies helping her and is going to kick her out before they're attacked. After the battle, Amaranthine bruises his ego with a comment. His ego is his armor in life. And the tiny, well-placed attack on it is enough to make Jayce cave. He fixes the doll.

This all tells me that with a well-placed phrase, it would be easy to bring Jayce to heel. It tells me that Jayce is very weak-willed and easy to manipulate if you can get past his ego. Something you can also see in the lore when he goes to get his crystal back from Viktor. He's not there on pretense of glory. He's not even the Defender yet. He just wants his fuckin' research back. It's afterwards that he's toted as the Defender of Tomorrow. A choice, title, and position that Piltover made for him. Not something he made for himself. A title that wiggled into his brain and became his very identity. He was just a scientist until the Defender devoured him and pulled his every thought, every choice to fulfilling that position. Submitting so easily to the choice of Piltover and becoming their puppet, their doll.

In all of Jayce's lore, the only area where he is never a pushover is his moral and ethics code. It's so strong, so foundational to his very being that can't be worn down. Which is what causes the conflict with Viktor. Jayce will do just about anything to secure that people are safe, happy, and have all their human rights intact. Even if it harms himself by destroying what miniscule relationships he has.

But, for someone that thinks so highly of himself, he doesn't seem to put himself in the same category as those people he's fighting for. This finally leads us into the analysis of the comic properly.

As we all know, to Jayce and Viktor, science is the most important thing in the universe. They have different reasons for using it but still, science is their very life's blood. To Jayce, the science used to help and provide for people must take precedence above all else. Including himself. Because he's not a people, not really. People aren't passed from clan to clan like a bought animal.

So, if people need science and inventions to go about their happy lives then isn't it Jayce's duty to make sure people have those inventions? Morally, it'd be wrong to deny them things that would make their lives better. As one of the smartest people in Piltover, isn't it Jayce's sworn duty to do whatever he can to provide those inventions since no one else is as good as him? But science is expensive, inventions cost money. Money that neither Jayce nor Viktor have. But Jayce is the best so for sure he can get what they need.

Now, wouldn't it be just so very easy for a silver tongue to whisper into the ear of an egotistical young man and explain how surly the very best currency is the perfect young man himself? After all, he has so much to offer. He's smart, he's strong, and skilled, and so very, very handsome after all.

Surely there's many things such a perfect young man has to offer those in power. Blueprints and plans, patent promises, a bright smile, some arm candy… a warm body perhaps. The crystal bright pieces of Jayce's very soul.

Would it really be hard to convince such a naive, optimistic young man that he has everything he needs to get the resources he and his partner require? Oh, all the things he could create with those resources!

Would it be difficulty for wealthy, well-spoken nobles and househeads to convince the young man to give more and more of himself?

And maybe it's nice to be wanted. No one wants Jayce, not really. The clans that hold his apprenticeship want his brilliance but they do not want him. They don't speak with him or work with him, not really. No one likes him because he's arrogant and rude and tactless. And fine, that's just fine by him. He doesn't need them either! He works just fine on his own or with Viktor.

And his resource providers want him. So, that's enough, right? What's wrong with giving them more than maybe he's strictly comfortable with. But who cares, it's for a good cause!

Surely the people, the lovely citizens of Piltover, need all those amazing inventions rattling around in brilliant Jayce's head to make their lives better. As the smartest person there, of course it's his duty to provide what others can't. What's a little discomfort, a little loss of self, when he could be helping so very many people?! Helping people can't be a bad thing ever, right?

And then there's Viktor. The one person in Jayce's life that gets to see all of Jayce through hours in their shared lab. They're partners, rivals, the closest thing either of them has had to a friend in their whole lives.

Viktor is from Zaun. He sees the world in a light that the optimistic people of Piltover do not. He knows that the world works on greed. But he also knows that some costs are too steep, even for progress. He can see the bright and shiny pieces of his partner being chipped away as the houses of Piltover pull their marionette's strings.

Under Viktor's cold and standoffish nature is a warm heart. A kindness and compassion that he'll never be able to curb. Viktor loves people. People should be allowed to live, to be happy and healthy.

Jayce is a people. Viktor knows this, why does no one else?!

People matter above all else. Above morals, above ethics… above science even, it would seem.

Viktor's heart is too big. He does not like to see suffering and death. So, how can he watch suffering and death move in tandem with him each day in their lab? How can he not raise his voice when he spends his days watching a brilliant and arrogant soul turn into an insufferable doll before his very eyes?

What can be said, be done, when that doll stands so tall on self-importance that it cannot see that it is only a puppet on a frayed string?

[notalent0]

in all timelines, only you

[follka]

after all this time ... But I did it. 3/?

[daredevilartist]

In bed, the kiss (JayVik.ver)

...i did it!

yeah really happy with myself, hope yall like it, i also have the other version and ill upload it tomorrow

Finished ver.2

[hexhomos]

i wasn't around when s1 of arcane aired (and know basically nothing about lol), but since you mentioned it in your answer to that other anon, i will never in a million years understand the reactions (and downright hatred) jayce got. i watched the first season last year, knew nothing about the fandom, and loved him. i thought he was a well written character with a lot of depth, especially when it comes to the class issues that were so present in s1 and how he certainly did not fit into piltover. i was gobsmacked when i found out people hated him. at most i can understand not caring for him, but anything other than that i do not understand.

A big portion of that was just people wanting someone 'to blame' for things going on in s1 and given jayce /is/ a primary mover of the plot they defaulted to him because 'he failed viktor... viktor deserves better...' (lol, lmao,) and jayce was a convenient racialized vessel to belittle. bc in one hand the gamer racists already called him a stupid mexican and in another hand the lesbians were overprotective of him being seen close to cait (which was associated to past cishet gamer shipping, and ppl questioning cait/vi's sexuality whenever they interacted with jayce just to be assholes)

those things coming together... in the middle of arcane fandomtwt... resulted in the biggest ballooning of jayce hate and him being seen as an aggressor/ idiot/ brute/ trump supporter and whatever else they felt that day depending on who was saying it. Most importantly: It became Funny to dunk on jayce for absolutely anything, including shit he didn't do, and since it was funny it was never challenged and he was never taken seriously or examined as deeply as other characters were lol

relatedly: that is the whole reason why i made and maintained this account. it was Dire. Season 2 was NOTHING compared to it, even during the act 2 meltdown over him shooting viktor

[kathy-ifnt]

Jayvik natio how we feeling? 😭

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[adzsmemoir]

fire jayce drawing in the works.. stay tuned.,.

[eggcompany]

Post canon Jayvik

Viktor literally just finds a timeline where Jayce's mom doesn't make it and he steals baby Jayce.

Jayce feels weird about it at first but this is a alternate universe version of himself. They call him Jay and JayJay, and he eats crayons and loves gardens and planting. He grows up loving organic biology and instead of chasing after inventing and mechanics like his dads, he plants and cross breeds things and makes fruit and vegetables never seen before. He looks like Jayce, he is Jayce, but his tan makes him darker, and he speaks with a mix of their accents, he's got Jayce's mannerisms but Viktor's attitude and determination.

No one questions it, because Jay looks just like Jayce.

Viktor thanks everything in existence for his little baby. Who gives a fuck about that other timeline when he get's to have a baby.

[numberonenat]

i hate saying jayce looks better without his uniform because people think i'm sexualizing him and I AM SEXUALIZING HIM 😔 but it's also an actual opinion, i swear, I HATE how he looks in his uniform, he looks ugly and stupid and pathetic.

TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF. 😃

[the-queen-across-the-water]

Full art on that butterfly app!

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