#melvik not meljayvik

[wrenswreath]

I love it when a fandom argues over two popular ships for a person and then there's the small group of people who ship the love interests together without that character. And it always turns out to be such a fire ship too

[somedudenamedanthony]

They're my comfort disaster toxic queeer polycule babies, your honour

[mugentakeda]

more post canon mjv shenanigans

[milocam]

Remember what they took from us

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Mel's protection should have saved Viktor too, and she's trying to figure out why it didn't

(Editing to add: see this post for details on the Mel's armor/shield theory)

S2 ep1 shows a circle of protected stone where Mel and Jayce were during the explosion. My theory is that Mel's magic armor activated and saved them both. It seems like it casts a sphere of protection around wherever Mel is.

The center of this circle is not Mel's seat - it's Jayce's. She ran to Jayce to save him.

No other Councilors were in range of Mel's protection, so they all got hurt or killed.

But Viktor was, in Jayce's words, "right next to" him. He was easily within Mel's circle of protection.

1) Viktor tried to run and mistakenly left the circle of protection. But are we meant to believe that Viktor, close to dying already and using a crutch, would have outrun Mel?

2) Viktor's augmented body clashes with Mel's

Why does Mel try to touch Viktor in episode 1? It seems like a throwaway moment, but not even Jayce touches him in this scene. So why Mel?

She's curious. And possibly, feeling responsible. She's wondering why her protection didn't work.

Is this Hexcore brand of the Arcane trying to reach out to Mel? Or trying to defend itself from her?

Mel was trying to protect both Jayce and Viktor, which is reflected in how she holds Jayce as well as Viktor's cane when she promises to protect Hextech:

But if, for example, Mel's magic is Solari in origin, and Viktor's is from the Void - or the Arcane equivalent of similar opposing forces - then it's possible that their magic rejects or hurts one another. So Mel's circle of protection either rejected Viktor, or was what hurt Viktor, and not the explosion.

[dorlilymylovesss]

sapphic melvik in this

[lucinfernos]

introducing The Progress Collection; Hex-gem jewelry by the genius minds behind Hextech

[taxidermy-tuesday]

public service announcement

edit: tags are not a safe place for jayvik slander. i apologize, but i am brutally hyperfixated on them (diagnosed autistic!!) and for the sake of my mental health i try to avoid negative content of them. if you want to hate please don't do it under my post /gen

[capyclara]

they had a long day at the long day factory

[mercutio-the-velaryon]

Mel and Viktor being drawn to each other but repelling each other at the same time... Ughhh you know I critique the fuck out of the writing sometimes but someone COOKED HERE

[slimeysodaa]

"meljayvik where mel and viktor share jayce" OR THEY'RE ALL IN LOVE, PLEASE. i want them all happy.

[thetruequeenoftheabyss]

Ngl chat I might be going insane. I've been doodling these three since the finale of Arcane delusional coping style

More doodles under the cut

[dancingdaffodils08]

The sun shines brightly, but remains alone.

The moon doesn’t shine on it’s own, it’s only a reflection of the sun.

The earth is slowly destroying itself…

[mugentakeda]

some doodles from the past few days

[covencritter]

if mel and viktor had more screentime alone together the aura in that room would literally be INSANE. openly talking smack about their boytoy beefcake. WITH him in the room, probably. viktor's sass combined with mel's wit would've blown jayce's pants clean off.

[artbysarf]

Y'all need to Broaden Your Minds