#victor from arcane

[milady-666]

"You are my guide."

[doomrichards]

SECRET WARS (2015) // ARCANE (2024) Victor von Doom/Reed Richards // Viktor/Jayce Talis

✦ DOOM: I spent years looking in every corner of every kingdom for some version of you… and now here you are. Brought before me. ✦ VIKTOR: I thought I could bring an end to the world's suffering. But when every equation was solved… all that remained… were fields of dreamless solitude. There is no prize to perfection. Only an end to pursuit. In all timelines, in all possibilities��� only you… can show me this. ✦ REED: I kept coming back. I even made sure Franklin restored this universe so I could. Doom and I would go exploring the cosmos together, discovering new phenomena. ✦ JAYCE: I thought I wanted us to give magic to the world. Now… all I want… is my partner back.

[tackykachowch]

Oh yeah I forgot that there's this opinion that Silco "was blindsided by power and wealth" and "lost his way" and "he only did what he did to benefit himself all along" etc etc. Uh. Where- where did you get that from? I'm not even being sarcastic or something, I'm genuinely curious how you can come to this conclusion.

He operates from a crappy office in The Last Drop and the only attributes of wealth he has are cigars and whiskey(?). My man had one pair of pants for 10+ years and only got a fancy coat to look more intimidating. Besides, when chembarons proposed to give back the gemstone to Piltover so their sales don't drop even harder Silco refused. Also he was ready to give up his power when Jayce made imprisoning Jinx a requirement for Zaun to gain independence. Sure, he IS motivated to keep his daughter safe, but it would also mean that his goal will finally be achieved, so there's nothing left for him to do. Both wealth and power are only means to achieve a goal to him. He also doesn't really display that he gets the kick out of it, unlike councilors in Piltover.

"Well yes he wants Zaun to be independent, but only as he personally sees it" when did he EVER say that??😭😭😭😭 Every time he speaks on the topic he only mentions how he wants Zaunites to have opportunities, respect, "more than (Piltover's) runoff". Like- that's literally everything he ever said about this. All that matters to him is independence, he couldn't care less about everything else.

As to "losing his way"...idk I think this can only be attributed to pre-drowning Silco. Because after it he pretty much decided to stick to what he now believed in forever, and at no point except the finale he went south from his beliefs.

Silco isn't "misguided" or "corrupt" or any other similar definition. He's a character who chose to become a monster to bring change to his people. And as s2 didn't do anything about resolving this conflict, he was never really proven wrong.

[smoosie]

Act 2

Previously: https://www.linkslist.app/6GFNvop

[thefallenangel2008]

- Not cannon, the majority of people still ship them anyway

- Writers (probably) gave one of them a girl to stop people from shipping them together

- Canonically soulmates

- Love so deep it transcends platonic and romance, creating a new, secret third thing

- One is a twink and practically a god, the other is a himbo

- Doomed from the start

[space-blue]

Chapter 2 of A Stray comes in art form!

[sihtryggr]

I love you characters named Victor/Viktor

[pixlatedvampire]

i can only draw stupid people

[xxrat-punkxx]

Arcane legato overpaint attempt teehee

[teleportationmagic]

The thing about Jayce and Mel is that like. She does not view him as an investment. That is just certifiably false. You have to skip over all her scenes to believe that.

In the beginning she does! She absolutely does! She conceives of their relationship as a business one - where she makes profit off his inventions, and he profits from her business and political acumen, both monetarily and powerwise. And overall, she believes she's fulfilled her half of the bargain.

It's only when he comes back to her after Viktor gets sick that she realizes he believes this is something deeper. And it's notable that she responds to that emotion - she opens up about herself too, comforts him, and expresses real emotionality about it. It's then that we see his ideals start to influence her - especially reawakening in her a desire for nonviolence.

Wanting to do things peacefully is something that's been with her since she was a child. It is what guides her away from Noxus, because her pacifism just does not fit there. It's why she loved Piltover so - they aren't a violent expansionist empire, which is a really low bar, but that's what she's grown up in.

She never finds the violence in Zaun, because she never goes looking for it. This is her fault, and her flaw, let me make that clear. She has some of the most power in the city, and should know about what kind of violence is holding up, and work to resolve it, truly. But she doesn't, because she's focused on her own exploits, and has so insulated herself away from the class struggle that it does not register for her until it grows to violence.

And then, once that violence comes, she maintains that pacifism with an iron grip, more than Jayce himself. It is Jayce who constructs (almost) all the HexTech weapons that are used in the Undercity, in Caitlyn's police squadron. He betrays the oaths that he's made to his partner, where Mel keeps the promise she's made to her's. She is the only politician left to try to tamp down on the worst of Ambessa's instincts, and her removal from Piltover is what marks it's descent into militarism.

She is ultimately a complicated woman, with a bunch of interesting relationships to Piltover and Zaun. I think you can divide Piltover as a city neatly between her, Jayce, and Caitlyn - each of them standing for some of Piltover's best instincts, and some of its worst.

[ganondoodle]

the closer we get to arcanes finale the more worried i am bc so often .. if not always .. things i like end in a way that i dislike so much it ruins everything else for me

and im so worried they pull a 'this is a multiverse' thing bc then they can say every skin is somehow canon bc its all different universes you seeeeee and jayce went mad bc he lived through all of them or something, or force it to end in a way that makes the champions end up like they are in game- Vi is a shitty cop, Jinx is just heehoo craycray bc xyz etc

[justgleekout]

Somewhere in their own perfect universe :’)

A lil gift for @kurthummeldeservesbetter because you join me in my madness <3

[rabid-invertibrate]

I'm ill

[peteytheparrot]

Heaven's doors were miles away

Obsessed with a cure for a new variant of rabies causing the apocalypse, Victor tries to help others in sick and twisted ways that involve killing lab specimens for sport if a vaccine doesn’t work properly. Although, he himself also was a lab specimen at one point, causing him to try to find and inject new vaccines into himself, but it’s killing him, just slower than the rabies.

[estherlehnsherr]

[agusteura]

how does it feels like when i like character with the same name and same facial structure from different tv shows to different fandom