#talsett

[no-shxme]

heartsteel talsett doodles where they have a one night stand but talon has no idea who he is.

[megacharicific]

meme redraw while i test brushes. going kinda crazy over this ship

based on this

[tharayya]

The Forest Project Quinn and the gang get an idea to make their own found footage horror film.

A small spooky but light hearted fanfic I've been writing! It's set in a modern AU / Highschool setting. It has some light Talon/Sett and Kayn/Akali, but it's not the main focus on the fanfic.

[no-shxme]

posting my finished talsett thing here too bc im proud of it! followup to this post where talon has no clue who sett is.

(also i forgot to give him his scar originally but now im just going with the fact that he doesn't have it yet shhhh)

[no-shxme]

finally doodled the joke ive been sitting on: sett and talon going to an art museum. (its supposed to be blue monochrome, by yves klein)

bonus:

[no-shxme]

i think talons such a bad cook i dont talk about it enough. i can vary some details depending on the au but i think he's a terrible cook in all of them. i think in canon he just never did it and only scrounged food that was already made. (hunks of bread or cheese, etc) or whatever, and in the du couteau house he's also not cooking and basically he only ends up knowing how to burn things to a comical degree.

i think setts a good cook so maybe he'd regulate talon to chopping duty or smth just to include him. doesn't let him near the heat though. his talents lie elsewhere.

[no-shxme]

the talsett size difference means that sometimes sett can just confiscate talon like no we're gonna go lay in bed now and there's nothing you can do about it short of stabbing me. talon is not immune to being randomly picked up. sett is also not immune to having his ears pulled but sometimes that's the price we pay.

[no-shxme]

doodled my silly greek mythology au premise which consists of "aromantic cupid" vs "the one time he missed"

extra notes i guess:

talon isnt actually cupid (or: eros) he just works for him.

sett is a mortal. talon's not. everyone talon works with is very embarrassed for him.

[no-shxme]

a scenario I can't stop thinking about is talon being proud of his scars a kid bc they look cool and it means he's battle tested. but then Marcus shows up and he points out that a scar is just a time talon failed to be perfect and HE doesn't have many scars (that talon can see) so talons sense of self just goes down the toilet. suddenly he hates his scars bc they're just proof of all his failures and imperfections.

and it only starts to get better after meeting sett bc 1: sett has soooo many scars so talon can be initially satisfied in thinking that he's better than him.

and 2: sett is proud of them and doesn't hide them and doesnt give a shit and that offers talon a vastly different perspective.

[no-shxme]

there's this one talsett premise i drabbled a lot in private and i still think about it bc its so fun. i'm gonna ramble about it at length under the cut bc... idk... its basically the full summary.

the basic premise was canon runeterra where sett learns about some sorta magical artifact from some dude at the pit that grants a wish. apparently its somewhere deep in the ixtali jungle. sett hates how sad his ma is about his pa leaving, so he decides to make a trip over to wish her pain away.

so he makes the trip over and gets pretty immediately captured by demacian soldiers that are camped out at the start of the jungle (south of piltover) for some reason.. sett doesn't get it, but either way he's interrogated bc demacians are going after this artifact too apparently, (it only becomes available once ever xyz years or smth, some sort of time crunch.) the demacians are led by lux's aunt, tianna crownguard, but sett doesn't know who any of these people are ofc. one of sett's arms is locked in a petricite handcuff and the other end is locked to another captive's arm. and of course it's talon.

talon has been sent to retrieve the artifact on his own, after failing another one of the general's errands. he also got captured (bc really who would expect a bunch of demacians all the way out here) and has tried and failed to escape twice now. then because sett's so big and hard to miss, they're handcuffed together to be each other's ball and chain. sett hates noxians, talon likes personal space, and they both want the same thing. this will be a problem.

they do escape with the help of sett's strength and talon's ability to lockpick doors one-handed and thus begins a mad scramble into the jungle, running from wild animals, demacian soldiers, and other hazards.

problems they encounter include:

the fact that petricite is notoriously impervious, and neither of them can get their cuff off short of cutting off somone's arm. (talon isn't opposed to this.)

the fact that talon can't MAKE sett go anywhere, even at knifepoint, because he dwarfs him in size, weight, and strength. But Sett can drag him wherever he wants, through tall grasses and uphill.

speaking of which, sett drags talon through a river at the end of day 1 of being together, in which talon nearly drowns bc he can't keep up and afterwards that's pretty much talons limit where he has a panic attack bc he just NEEDS some level of control like this is a fucking nightmare. this is also the first time sett feels pity for him.

sett and talon learning to compromise in some ways (also known as talon climbing a tree and hanging on until sett caves to his demands. (his arm is sore.) sett learns that talon has been assigned to steal the artifact on his own, which seems kinda crazy for one lil guy, and sett explains his own reason for finding it. he thinks that his reason is clearly 10x more just and noble but talon's not responsive and it pisses sett off.

they encounter random other champs. kayn (with scythe rhaast) are also looking for the wish, but they part ways more amicably. they also meet neeko just tooling around having a grand time.

sett asks neeko to transform into talon and she does, and then he asks her to smile and is immediately weirded out bc 'talon' smiling like that looks unnatural lol.

talon slowly reveals more information about his father and sett decides he sounds like a fucking asshole.

sett getting ticks on his ears that talon has to cut out bc he's freaking out.

sett carrying talon like a bag of sand over his shoulder.

eventually they reach qiyana's kingdom and i honestly can't remember why they get to live but they do, and they FINALLY get their shackles removed and also a bath. by now they've gotten pretty good at working together, though the problem of who gets the wish boils over. sett gets pissed off bc talon still wont concede the fact that he should totally get the wish for his ma. talon is still adamant that he needs it, and sett tells him he's stupid cause his dad's an asshole and talon snaps that he knows that. and sett realizes that talon actually just wants the wish for himself because he sees it as the only way to 100% escape his abusive circumstances. his dad just sent him to the jungle after his latest failure, basically dooming him to a wild goose chase with no real chance of success.

there's a little backstabbery at the end. a race between talon and sett (now uncuffed), and kayn and the demacians. (tiana crownguard wants to wish her niece's magic away, since she'd discovered lux's secret and wants to do it for her own safety). at the very end sett tries to make a deal with talon to help him get away from his father but talon doesn't trust him and instead sticks him with some natural paralytic (doesn't kill him) and goes on without him. sett recovers quickly due to size and natural resilience. by the time he gets to the spot, high up in a perilous cliff-side he's basically in the thick of it. the ending conflict forces him to make a choice between saving talon from falling to his death even though he betrayed him, or getting his wish. and ofc he ends up saving talon. he's learned to empathize with him. kayn gets the wish (and rhaast gets his own body.) and sett ends up taking talon home anyway like he'd offered to, even though he betrayed him. demacians just lose lol.

that's basically the whole thing. my god this was long sorry. i decided not to write it bc i dreaded writing the environments and i knew itd be long, though i did write some scenes from it. i just love the premise of sett and talon handcuffed together so bad. if i ever have the chance to sneak it into another fic i totally will.

[no-shxme]

reason #1234 that i think talon and sett click well together is that they both struggle with having to be PERFECT.

like yeah ofc talon struggles with perfection it's his whole thing. if he wasn't perfect then he could die like that's the hazard he faced, and (imo) perfection for him is a state where he can just Relax. like i think talon's wound up all the time, high tension, and if he was perfect then he wouldn't be stressed out all the time. he'd be at the top of his world. he could fucking relax.

meanwhile sett also has to be perfect to be the boss. he can't fucking lose. and the struggle to actually become the boss of the pit was probably quite nerve wracking. if he lost he'd fuck up everything. and sure when he gets to the top he's got more room to breathe but he still has a reputation to uphold. it's two people that both have to be perfect in different ways. idk even how to put it into words.

and i think in talon's brain he sees sett as having achieved it already, being the pit boss and all, and it might make him bitter, not realizing that perfection is simply just. not attainable.

[no-shxme]

unable to sleep over the fact that talon and sett are like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

like OKAY LISTEN LIKE they're just SO FLIPPED. THEY'RE SO PARALLEL. THEY'RE SO PERPENDICULAR. sett was bullied into being a 'beast' and talon was bullied into being a man you dONT UNDERSTAND.

like AHHHHh like like like talon grew up like a dog on the streets doing whatever he had to and then was picked up and essentially forced to be marcus du couteau's new son. (because REALLY what would have happened if he said no? marcus would not have let him go.)

and meanwhile sett was nice and soft as a kid but literally hardened by what happened to him. go fight in the pit, yeah you're kinda an animal aren't you, yeah get called 'the beast boy bastard', that's your title now, and its all sett can do to just own it. they see him as an animal so sure he'll become one. and only on top is he able to reign in a bit and be a boss but he's still got that motif, he still owns it. sure he's a beast. it's on his brass knuckles, he doesn't care. both he and talon latch onto their respective new lives but the truth is still very real underneath.

and BECAUSE both of them went from rags to riches its such a unique pov of maybe both of them looking at each other and realizing how much more +++ they are. like sett sees a real wild animal in talon and talon sees that sett is somehow much more 'human' than he is. (omitting any talk of socialization/gender hc but that also applies)

ahhhhhhh im overcome.

[no-shxme]

i think its pretty funny to write setts pov of talsett just bc he's alloromantic and has active crushes. he holds his breath when talon sits next to him, he gets super red in the face, there's a lot of other extra feeling that he has access to, and its funny bc he wants like, the most unattainable man. i like the idea of sett getting this crush and at first he doesn't know why it even happened.

as a side note i also think sett talking to talon about their differences is so cute. like sett wanting to know how talon's feelings are different from his own, and in exchange describing what a crush feels like, and them both exploring what they don't really understand.

[no-shxme]

my talsett fic summarized

[no-shxme]

i like the hc that sett doesn't have the greatest eyesight. not like, 'needs to wear glasses' bad but just 'would sometimes benefit from reading glasses' bad. purely cause wolverines aren't known for their eyesight. i think he's also not the greatest fan of heights for eyesight related reasons. on the other hand, talon is a fan of heights and this stresses sett out sometimes.

[no-shxme]

gRR I love thinking about cultural/language differences I love talon thinking that Sett's Noxian sounds so fucking weird, but also feeling weird about his Ionian. I love sett murmuring Ionian to talon sometimes, even though he doesn't understand, and them having different ideas of whats an ideal breakfast, or the right way to make a bed, or whether or not you should wear shoes indoors.