#jayvik has me in such a chokehold

[twenty-qs]

I guess why the ending of arcane still doesn’t feel real to me and why jayvik moves me so much is because it defies so much of what I was taught to expect by conventional male-dominated, heteronormative narratives. Because at the end of the story, Jayce had everything he should have wanted. Saved the world. Both Piltover and Zaun respected him. He had strength and charisma and the cool magic hammer he’d fantasized about wielding since he was a kid, and his battle scars only made him hotter somehow. And he had a goddess of a woman expressing trust and care for him, and who probably would’ve liked to get back together with him, at least in some capacity. Meanwhile, characters like Viktor are supposed to die at the end. No matter how sympathetic of a villain he is, the gay disabled guy who irreversibly gave up his humanity to be an evil robot is supposed to self-implode. That character archetype is supposed to redeem himself by taking himself out of the narrative so that the hero can get the happy ending. Someone made a great comparison to the Phantom of the Opera, but this pattern is true for pretty much every mainstream story I can think of. Hell, even Jinx sort of did that, literally ejecting herself from the narrative so that Vi can live in Piltover and get together with Cait. Viktor seemed self-aware of this trope at the end. He had closed his eyes, deciding to accept his own lonely demise if it meant Jayce would live.

But Jayce rejects all of that. The story rejects all of that. And it doesn’t even blink twice to do it. Jayce says all I want is my partner back, and he chooses to die holding hands with Viktor instead. And the story says of course Jayce will choose this, because he always loved Viktor and wanted to be with Viktor more than he wanted any of those other things men are supposed to want. More than power, or respect, or sex, or legacy. Just Viktor. Always Viktor. And in the end, Viktor finally embraces that love, accepts and reciprocates it, in allowing Jayce to be with him in his final moments.

It’s so beautiful and it’s so, so queer. Do not come at me with platonic/romantic discourse because I do not care, I genuinely do not care. The story practically sings with queer love. It’s undooming him from the ableist patriarchal narrative so you can exchange magic wedding rings and hold each others’ souls forever in the astral plane. It’s everything I was afraid to ask for from a story because I never thought I would get it. I still can’t quite believe it’s real, and canon, and carved into the very bones of the story. I love it so much.

[raynetheinsane]

“and the funny thing is I would have married you…

if youd have stuck around.”

jayvik.

[nyxxtra]

✨️ and they were partners ✨️

[snowyycouch]

⚠️WARNING⚠️

Arcane season 2 spoilers under the cut

Viktor, the messiah(?)

i wanna absorb the art style and the rest of this show

just inject the vibes into my veins

close up shots + without filter

edit- i noticed i forgot to erase some marks and took the chance to get some more closeups and a shot without the blue tint

[annahollinrake]

I cannot promote my game normally. my brain is rotted by jayvik all the way through. look, you can see the holes

[kugelbombed]

little jayvik playlist by me...

(ps a lot of these songs are my favourite EVER. enjoy :>)

((please listen to fake plastic trees oh my god))

[constentmistake]

I saw a lot of people saying Jayce 'did everything wrong' and that he shouldn't have 'killed' Viktor. The hammer scene has to happen, Viktor and jayce's mind have to connect so that jayce can give the rune to Viktor and show him the future and all the possible universe. Jayce had to blow up Viktor to let them connect on top of the hexgate , they have to, so that together they can become the universe.

[caterpillarapologist]

contemplating starting another rewatch of arcane after finishing it like two dqys ago because i physically cannot get enough of viktor and jayce

[placiotrash]

Arcane s2 act 1 & 2 SPOILERS

Arcane is gonna make me end it all I swear What do you MEAN the first words Jayce said to Viktor when he first saw him emerge from his cocoon is "Viktor, My God" what do you MEAN "it was Affection that held us together"

And like the first thing Viktor said when he sees Jayce again is "I'd feared I wouldn't hace the chance to speak to you again" and "I was clouded by emotions. Come, visit me." LIKE WHAT

Lets not even get to the comparisons of Viktor becoming a messiah and healing the sick and poor in Zaun vs Jayce becoming a "traitor" and killing him when he was warmly welcomed. Of course, The roles of traitor and savior can be switched, since I don't think Viktor was doing the right thing, making his little cult and seemingly stripping people of their autonomy (whether he wanted to or was even aware he was doing it) and Jayce seemingly seeing past what was going on/having some reason (based on what he presumingly experienced in the wild rune) for doing what he does- everyone knows Jayce is a rightious person- if he thinks what he's doing will have save more people than it will hurt, he'll do it.

He and Viktor are the same in that they both want to save as many lives as possible, but they both tend to ignore the possible consequences (to varying degrees). Viktor was trying to merge parts of himself with the hextech thing to augment himself, without considering the real life consequences (if the expirement was unsuccesful, he could have made his disability worse, or even died- rip Sky, she was a real one- and if it DID work, who could guarantee i would work for everyone? - Sky, again. For Jayce, it the chaos his weapons would create without being guarded for misuse. He accidently killed a child in a fight because he was using his hextech, meant to HELP PEOPLE, in a way it wasn't designed to be used, without authorization or thinking through his plan enough)

NOW, though, Viktor became a part of the hextech he feared, and is helping people without really thinking through the consequences (again) like the horrifying fact that he can use the people he heals as a conduit for his consciousness, literally possessing their bodies, or the fact that they all seem to abandon their old lives and dedicate themselves wholy to him. Like has it occured that hmm, maybe these people are a little TOO into the whole "Im their savior" thing? Like we even see salo, a prideful man, become so devoted to Vik in such a short amount of time. Viktor's so hot. And let's not even mention the fact that as Viktor was walking in the fissures, the Hexcore literally SHOWS HIM where to go. Like if that doesn't scream some sort of manipulation, i don't know what does.

and we see the fact that the second Viktor (or rather the Hexcore) is destoryed (which might have been inevitable since Sky -or someone else i can't remember rn- mentioned how he was weakening with every miracle he performed, and something about how even machines have their limits. either this implies that Viktor himself was weakening as the conduit to the arcane in the hexcore, or the hexcore inside him itself was weakening with all vik was doing) all his followers seem to cry out with Viktor's own voice and falling limp, the arcane flowing out of them. Without the Hexcore, they die. Sure, they experienced a short existence without their illnesses, but if it comes at the price of literally needing the Hexcore to exist, how is it any better than an addicting drug? Exctasy in exchange for dependence. Life or death is the choice one makes when they are healed by Viktor, without them even knowing.

And Jayce. What has Jayce SEEN in the wild rune to become so disturbed by even the sight of Salo, one of Vik's followers. His 'glitches' always seem to respond with close proxy to them, and it makes me think that whatever is going on with Viktor and the hexcore, he's able to see right through it. Jayce's so hot. Jayce is ultimately a rightious man, so he wouldn't have 'killed' Viktor, the man he literally revived against his principles or promises, without REALLY GOOD REASONS. But that doesn't mean Jayce is in his right mind either. Like with Viktor, I think both of them are being (whether lightly or strongly) influenced. Viktor with the Hexcore, and Jayce with the Wild Rune.

But I do want to point out I think Jayce wanted to destroy the hexcore he put in Viktor, since he shot him in the chest where the core was, but this is up to debate. I think Jayce might know he didn't kill Viktor, since Jayce, whether influenced or not, would have MOURNED that man. Jayce started crying and ran who knows how far with Viktor in his arms when he thought that man died, you're telling me he wouldn't have fallen to his knees and cried both in grief and in guilt at what he'd done? No, Viktor had him wrapped around his finger, no way he'd walk away (disturbed and confused and in chaos, but not sad, not truly) without the show making this more of a big deal. That's how much I trust this show- no way they'd build up the relationship with these two without more going on.

Viktor, on the surface, seemed like the messiah the people in the fissures were saying he was, but in reality was betraying his principles to 'save' other and making them beholden to him. Jayce, who shot Viktor, the man who welcomed him back with open arms, stopped forsaking his principles and the promise he made to Viktor (before his first rebirth) and stuck his guns fueled by the knowledge he'd gained in the wild rune- that he was, in the end, saving more people than he was forsaking (and i do believe he saved viktor).

I don't play LoL, so I don't know the endgame outcome for these characters. Im hanging by a thread that they'll be okay (Act 3 is going to devistate me)

[ramsock]

I apologize to my followers for my sudden appearance and reposting jayvik/arcane stuff. This show has me in a chokehold and I cannot stop having dreams of it

[piratespencil]

The Best That You Can Do

Fandom: Arcane

Rating: Gen

Relationships: Caitlyn & Jayce, Caitlyn/Vi, Jayce/Viktor

Jayce grins. “Too deep in your paperwork, Councilor Kiramman?” She groans and pushes aside the stack of papers she was focused on. “If you would join the council again, Mr. Talis, maybe you could take some of this paperwork off of my hands.” He laughs and shakes his head, holding his hands up in surrender. “No, we saw how that went last time. I’d rather spend my time in the academy labs, thanks. Besides, I haven’t been very popular with the council or with the citizens since I came out in support of, you know, not having Viktor thrown into Stillwater or executed.” After the war, Caitlyn and Jayce have a quiet conversation.

Read it on AO3

(Another post-canon AU fic, this time with more of a Caitlyn and Jayce sibling bonding angle... Truly just some domestic fluff. <3)

[thinglostinfire]

Idk, I've read yaoi less gay than this jayvik ending. Btw, I've watched it like 27 times now.

[fluffypotatey]

something something i have been touched by you

something something now i cannot have a world without you

[dekuofficial]

waahh idk if i'm ready to rewatch Arcane with my partner so soon qwq i'm so excited and nervous but the ending is so gonna make me cry again!!!

[theweirdhybrid]

Everyone I’m deeply sorry for the amount of Jayvik I’ve been throwing your way the past week, I just gotta work it outta my system and then it’s over I promise

[lavellansembrace]

If we get Machine Herald in act 3 I need yall to resurface the enemies to not quite lovers Jayvik fanfics where Jayce holds on too strongly to the past version of Viktor, and Herald is having none of it, yet at the same time it’s Machine Herald who is obsessed with the Defender. He’s the one that actively seeks Jayce out, he’s the one that is like “human error, emotions. You’re the source of it! You’re the reason I can’t change” and they’re actively fighting each other and Defender is like “then kill me!” And Viktor is like nah bro.. and then they stop fighting and Jayce is like “V.. take off your mask” and so Herald does and it’s still Viktor. There is this knowing that no matter how much he augments his body, no matter if he’s more machine than human… it’s still Viktor. And then they sloppily makeout instead, Jayce full of love for the man he once knew, and Viktor clinging on to the last parts of himself that are human, desire. Jayce begging him to stay and Herald being like you know I can’t.

I used to eat those fanfics up back in like 2017 I’d be like YESSSSSSSSSS, 14 year old me had no business reading messy Jayvik dramatic fics.

As much as I love Arcane Jayvik, their dynamic in League has me in a chokehold.

+ points if in the fic Viktor never once calls Jayce by his real name, only calling him Defender, and Jayce only calling Viktor “V” and never using the name Machine Herald unless to rattle him.

FUCK IT I SHOULD WRITE IT MYSELF