#viktor VGU

[viktor-leagueoflegends]

Hey gang, the viktormains subreddit has been compiling letters of peoples' opinions on the surprise Viktor rework so I opened up this google form for the tumblrfolk to get a word in too. These will be sent directly to the viktormains mod sigealol, who's been spearheading this whole thing, for him to submit as part of the VGU's PBE feedback. That opens tomorrow, but new letters can be sent whenever. There's a little more info on topics of relevance inside the form, if you don't know what to say. The letters don't have to be long, just voice your honest opinion.

Even if it doesn't work, at least we'd have done something, you know?

[olspirt]

they'rE TAKING MY PRINCESS

[bringthekaos]

BigBadBear, a league of legends leaks and news account, apparently confirmed Viktor is the vgu 👀

He has been pretty spot on in the past sooo

I have a love/hate relationship with this news. Do I think his League look is a little outdated and could use an update? Yes. But do I want his look to disappear entirely? Definitely not. I like how dweeby he looks. I like the armor, and the cosplayer in me likes that it is relatively simple/easy to build (by easy I just mean that those individual armor pieces are easy to make, not that building a full MH would be remotely easy). And like a lot of players (even though I’m not one of them) I like his BDE strut. That walk is everything. It’s made for the catwalk. Walk, walk, fashion baby. So I don’t want his walk to change either. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—it would be nice if his current look is kept as an option, like a legacy skin. Cuz there is already an unnecessary contention between League Viktor enjoyers and Arcane Viktor enjoyers, and we don’t need one more reason for discourse in the fandoms.

Cons aside, I am immensely excited to see what the VGU is gunna look like. It’s pretty much a given that it’s gunna align with his Arcane look, and just from that glimpse of his arm in Bridging the Rift, I feel like it’s gunna be kick ass. Exposed wiring, see-through limbs, gears that you can see moving within him??? Hnagdndahafa that would be incredible. Also, maybe an update to his voice lines?? More lines with/about Jayce??? So many possibilities!!!!

Just keep his whore walk plz Riot.

[teawithghosts]

THE MACHINE HERALD

[binghe-malewife-goals]

Jayce and Viktor: Short Story and Biographs Archive

Hello everyone! I compiled both Jayce and Viktor's current biographs and short stories into a google drive this morning.

I love my boys and in the upcoming face of Arcane s2, I fear the entire nuking on their old lore by Riot. So, I decided to make an easy-access archive where anyone can read their biography and short stories in full.

Google Drive Link!

This is just an archive of their bios and short stories, I would HIGHLY suggest checking out @vikjaycecodex which has a plethora of archived material relating to Viktor and Jayce (no Arcane!)

[ex-bee]

never forget what they took from us

[disordercinema]

Dia de Los Muertos is over but with the incoming VGU we gotta pay respects to the death of this little guy's appearance... I'll miss you angry looking robot Viktor, I'll miss you forever

[meownotgood]

i have so many thoughts about arcane but I'm so tired because it's 5 in the morning and I'm starving because i didn't eat and my brain is functioning at about 2% and all of my insides feel like mush.

[nadia-cannot-think-straight]

Honestly fuck riot games for screwing over their employees like they are nothing. Lore has been the one thing that kept me interested in this game, why i decided to even master some of my favorite champions. Season 2024 dev blog gave me hope for the future of this universe, but right now? This is just one big pile of bullshit. Lor is on life support, Riot Forge is dead, no color stories, no universe map. Laying off some of their most talented writers and artists and ruining their lifes. It's truly baffling how one thing that keeps me away from actually playing league of legends is a fucking Riot company. And you know what, maybe i should finally listen to them. Well, i am mainly invested in lore and now Arcane seems to be the only source of lore we have. Fantastic deal, perfect for me. I can spend less of my time on shitty moba rather than having false hopes that shit will get better. Fuck you riot, sincerly.

[testsubject24601]

No one talk to me unless it’s about Warwick

[goodveigar]

im sorry arcane fans im gonna be so annoying

[shioaoi]

Rundown of the more interesting parts from the Necrits live stream with Christian Linke (Creative Director and Co-Creator of Arcane) :

There was a longer version of the Caitvi sex scene but they got bonked by the ratings people, and because it would have raised Leagues rating to mature, it got brought down to what we got.

The entire Caitvi sex scene was directed and animated by Fortiche with zero input by Riot. Christian says, "That was French people being French."

Riot making Arcane canon didn't change where they were taking characters or the story, it just made them more aware of how it would affect other Riot projects.

Christian refused to confirm exactly when the events of Arcane take place in the existing timeline.

The Arcane doesn't originate from Hextech. It is just one - in universe - interpretation of magic.

Christian doesn't view Viktor and Jayce's love as romantic, and that romance wasn't the intention when writing their relationship. However, by the way he talks, it doesn't seem he's against people shipping them romantically - just as a creative team, they were more interested in exploring a close, complex male friendship / brotherhood.

The 250-million dollar show budget number is not accurate as marketing is included in that fund. Fortiche's goal from the beginning was to bring the level of animation found in feature animated films to serialised content. While the show was very expensive for an animated series, it was way cheaper than an animated feature film because they try and work efficiently. As an example, Christian says how often in Hollywood, it's not uncommon for sometimes 40-50% of what is animated to end up on the cutting room floor while with Fortiche they try and keep it around 5%

Ekko's hair was changed from a mohawk to dreads because the artist who worked on him told them that black hair doesn't work like that (in reference to the mohwak), and here's how it would actually work.

Legends of Runterra affected Arcane in terms of giving the team inspiration for how the everyday street life is for people in the regions.

Caitlyn's LOR Tactical design (2021) and Warwicks VGU Voicelines (2017) were made to reflect what was going to happen in Arcane - production of Arcane just took a long amount of time.

They've said from the beginning that the only person who could ever defeat Viktor at the height of his power was Viktor himself. His story is about the glorious evolution, the pursuit of that, and what it actually means to remove these human elements until there is nothing left.

All projects Riot is working on - whether the MMO, Games, Written or Animated projects - are in talks with one another at all times.

Christian comments on how very few games have remain in service as long as League has, and because of its ever growing and evolving story, it's hard to bring everything together cohesively since everything was made at different times, in different era's, by a multitude of different people. So, while many things may be very cool creatively, it makes it impossible to successfully bring it all together more often than not. So for new projects, they are more focused on making something good and successful with the team and talent they have, even if it retcons or replaces content made in the past.

Christian pitched singing Heimerdinger.

Arcane's scripts for S2 were locked in before S1 was released, so they were not impacted by fandoms or online reactions. Christian thinks maybe some animation choices were influenced by things the animators saw online, but not the story.

When watching the premier of the final arcane episodes in LA - the entire 4000 seat theatre cheered when Maddie died.

The butterfly motif shared between Jayce and Viktor specifically was used to represent transformation.

Christian talked about how they don't think about really whether people will like something or not, but whether it's the right consequence for the story (this is in discussion to Caitlyn losing an eye). What makes a character likeable to an audience in his eyes is their decisions in the story; the choices that they make.

Continuing on from this, he comments on how the choices Caitlyn makes now are so different now compared to the beginning of the show. She is now willing to take risks and sacrifice parts of herself for people, for Piltover and for what is right.

When asked about Caitlyn's signature hat, Christian says that the team saw it as somthing that didn't really fit this version of Caitlyn they were writing and the person she becomes and that's why it was never incorporated into her designs.

Back in the beginning, when they were first working on Arcane, Christian would constantly going back to Jinx and Vi's original design artists & Riot August who was their champion designer to make sure they weren't messing anything up with these characters.

Christian goes on to tell an anecdote of when Paul 'Zeronis' Kwon was drawing the first concepts for Vi. This was back when Christian was in music. She didn't have a name at the time, but when Christian looked over Paul's shoulder at the art, he comments "she kinda looks like a Violet to me." They never spoke about it, but months later, when she became a serious character concept internally, she was gifted the name Vi. To this day, Christian doesn't know if his comment resulted in her name or if it was just a coincidence, but Violet became stuck in Christian's brain as Vi's true name. Riot August (who was in chat) then confirms that her name came from her tattoo, which came from one of her key design elements, being that she had the number 6 on her face. So, just a happy coincidence.

Talking about the tattoo. The tattoo was shrunken in size so, from a distance, it would look more like a beauty mark and the brain can more easily disregard it. One of the many things that they had to think about when translating the designs over as, is animation, you would be looking at a characters face a lot more than you do in league where the camera is situated top down.

As they were wrapping up the stream, Christian talks about how there always needs to be a bit of space between what content creators / content consumers do (pointing at Necrit) and what Riot does. He thinks it's good that there is space for criticism and a critical view of the things Riot does. In order to succeed, he believes they need to listen to their audience but also that they need to have their own vision, take risks, and be bold. It's a delicate balance in his eyes, and projects tend to fail when these two sides are too in cahoots.

He iterates that they are not trying to shove anything down anyone's throats. They are just trying to find what makes these characters cool, tell their stories, and be true to the regions they come from. With taking the characters from League to Arcane, it was important that they translate these stories and characters so they can hold up with the best storytelling in the world.

This circles back to the earlier point about retconning things and replacing past stories and content. He comments on how some characters are very outdated or too archetypal, but they still have an essence that people love about them.

Arcane was something Christian worked on for 9 years, and he was getting clearly emotional near the end. He also adds they're just getting started and he wants to make sure they do a good job with this IP and the characters we really love.

To those who are not happy with certain decisions, he's sorry they didn't hit what you personally wanted, but there is simply no way they can please everybody. While they are trying to make as many of the Riot / Arcane audience happy, they as the creators and artists need to follow their own compass, be the shepherds of this IP; that being creative is hard. They will keep doing that even if they sometimes have to ruffle some feathers.

He closes the stream by confirming that they are investing quite a bit in Noxas, Ionia, and Demacia for the next regions they explore.

[hexhomos]

babe wake up new viktor emote just dropped with his real orig design we may be free from a completely redesigned viktor vgu omggggggg....

Perhaps his arcane legendary gets the show look but we get an updated polished original vik for 2024 and beyond!

[viktormaru]

maybe its the mental illness attatchment but seeing ppl say stuff like "viktor needs a vgu, who gives a shit abt the 4 viktor mains out there" and "well arcane is more modern/popular/[insert whatever] so it only makes sense" or any variation "its the canon now" and knowing viktor is just gonna fucking dissappear is making me so very a lot much upset

[league-of-skins]

Chosen of the Wolf Ambessa (Legendary), Katarina, Kindred, Pantheon, and Swain (+ Prestige)

katarina i love u 🫶🫶

the skins all look really good in game too. i think pantheon’s is the weakest.

i know some people won’t like it but i lowkey fw shirtless swain. i’ve also never noticed how smooth his animations are.

i’m personally against champions getting a release skin that’s higher than the epic tier. obviously kindred deserved it more but i still think they look really good with the new visual effects. ultimately, ambessa just isn’t old enough for a legendary skin to be appealing. especially a lore skin.

still waiting for viktor vgu. and mel champion release?

[arowyn-m]

In light of the VGU leaks I’m posting the concept art for S2 Viktor from Bridging the Rift, mainly because it seems like there’s a lot of worried rumors online about Riot taking a completely different approach to Viktor’s design—making him either Hexcore-corrupted or Void-related instead of mechanical—but also because we probably have people new to the fandom that never saw it when it was circulating last year :)

⚠️‼️Blurred concept art under the cut⚠️‼️

Viktor’s Machine Herald form in a character lineup—he looks like over 7 feet tall (213 cm)

Looks like Viktor gets a mechanical arm in S2 further reflecting his lore. I wonder when this will happen considering Viktor’s arm either looks fine or Hexcore-corrupted in the teaser.

These images are cool but there’s a solid chance they’ve since been tweaked or completely reworked for season 2.

The thing that really gives me pause is the fact that Ekko’s silhouette looks much closer to his in-game design. That may be because they still plan to give Ekko his mohawk by the end of S2, but idk.