#zaun family

[stefanstenace]

Young Silco riding a bull in a bar, quick sketch

[ekko-anarchist]

Inextricably Bound AU:origins pt.4

Trust has been extended. would be a shame if someone were to break it…👀

First. Previous

[higuchisora]

Revolution AU where Vander and Silco never divorced. The bridge riot was a disaster that only made them switch tactics. The Zaun dads parent the rat pack together (Vi, Powder/Jinx, Mylo, Claggor, maybe even Ekko). Vi, through various shenanigans, becomes a spy for the revolution. She heads to Piltover, only to run into another spy whose mission is to take Piltover down. A Noxian who has been stationed there for a few years now: Maddie Nolen.

[tophat-69]

it's the good, defining itself

Following the events of the series finale, Viktor saves Jayce by sending him back in time and across realities to the night everything changed, and unwittingly revives himself as well. Viktor is determined to undo his past mistakes even if that means leaving Jayce behind. That idea is complicated by their souls now being intertwined. And fate isn’t done with them yet.

Read it on AO3

Length: 92.4k words (complete)

Rating: Explicit

Relationships: Jayce Talis/Viktor, background Silco/Vander

Tags: Post-Canon Fix-It, Soulmates, Dream Sharing, Time Travel/Alternate Universe, Zaun Revolution, Angst with a Happy Ending, Mental Health Issues

Warnings: Sexually Explicit Content, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon Disability, Discussion of Mortality, Canon Suicidal Ideation

Author's Note: I wrote this by putting out a chapter a day for 22 days as I went from the holiday break, to the flu, to pneumonia. I'm still not entirely sure how that happened and I'm pretty sure it was a fever dream. That could, however, still be the pneumonia talking.

Read if you want Viktor being adopted into the Zaun crew by force, ending up mentoring Powder and Ekko, while also fighting for Zaun's independence and figuring out that maybe yes Jayce is in love with him despite the whole destroying-the-world thing.

Excerpt Below Cut

It’s a strange thing to consider, how a body can be shredded to its base components and reduced back to the stardust from whence they all came. How a soul can be disassembled, thoughts and dreams and ambition boiled down to a single spark. 

How time and space are human constructs, imposed by simple mortals to make sense of the endless dream they’re all merely players within.

It’s stranger still that Jayce Talis recognizes the feeling of his atomization well enough to identify it the moment it begins. He was expecting it when he took Viktor’s hand, but not the peace that came with it this time. Standing in the belly of the Hex Gates, it had been terrifying to find himself unraveling. Now he finds it almost romantic how their edges fray and clear the arbitrary boundaries between them.

Jayce would have been content with scattering into oblivion. He’d accepted that his end was near, and to reach it with a man he long ago discovered was the other half of his soul… that was better than he could have dreamed. 

Jayce knows that they’re both thinking it, can feel Viktor alighting on the same bleak humor as Jayce does, attuned and enmeshed as they bleed into each other. This is another precipice that they are perched at the edge of, this time together. It is the beautiful and ironic bookend to two doomed lives that they each separately contemplated ending, just to be pulled back by the other.

There are no divides between them. He can feel Viktor’s resignation to his failure, his relief at finding a peaceful end to a life of pain, his dreamer’s idealism that twisted with the power that consumed him, his guilt at the losses that he caused, his fear of oblivion, and above it all the boundless affection that thrums between them, matched and merging with Jayce’s own devotion. But as warm as it feels suffusing them both as their souls ebb with their consciousness, it’s the last of those emotions that is so dangerous. 

Jayce, who couldn’t let his partner go regardless of the cost and the promises broken, recognizes that a moment too late. 

He can feel when a sharp frisson of intent sizzles suddenly through the blurred boundary between them.

Viktor has always been focused and directed, fierce and driven, so unhesitating that even his most rational choices seem impulsive. But there is intention in everything that Viktor does. He is a man of science that alights on epiphanies in brilliant flashes of genius, and a man of action who’s always raced against time.

For not the first time, Jayce finds himself fatefully a step behind.

Viktor, don’t…

Viktor’s intangible hand thrusts through the misty dissolving cage of Jayce’s ribs, grasping the spark of Jayce’s soul the way he once seemed to cup the whole world in his palm. For Jayce. Always for Jayce.

Viktor’s eyes burn golden, now a mere impression in the yawning expanse of space, twin stars. A single pulse of determination fuses Jayce back into consciousness even as his body fades away. 

Viktor’s voice is an ethereal whisper in Jayce’s thoughts as light blazes through the darkness of space like a supernova. 

Live, Jayce. 

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[goddessofroyalty]

jayce and ximena are the ones who worry the most about naph seemingly not gaining enough weight (cause jayce was a big baby lbr) but with viktor not nursing you KNOW silco is side eyeing him (as any parent would, esp those two cause they fight over nothing lmao) even though silco knows perfectly well that naph got those genes from HIS side of the family. viktor was the same as a baby and he was nursed, silco just likes being a pedantic bastard and saying 'i told you so'. hes not a perfect parent ┐(￣ヘ￣)┌

The doctors keep assuring Jayce (and Viktor) that Naph is hitting all his developmental milestones exactly as he should be. Their concerns before he was born because of Viktor's health amonted to nothing. He's just a small baby. So Jayce logically knows Naph is fine (and he's told his mom that as well) but they do keep trying to encourage Naph to eat more because he's so tiny and Jayce himself was a chubby big baby.

The thing is Naph is actually doing better than Viktor did when he was first born (partially because Naph and Viktor aren't living surrounded by toxic everything like Viktor and Silco were, partially because Silco was probably somewhat melnurished as well when Viktor was born so probably not producing the best breastmilk in the world / a whole lot of it). It's also being like 25+ years since Viktor was born so Silco isn't that aware of how Naph is doing better it seems to be the same (apart from small things like Naph is a less fussy baby than Viktor but that could just be baby temperment).

None of those facts are stopping him from side-eyeing Viktor a bit. And making little comments. Because he is absolutely not the perfect parent (not by far, he loves his kids and has done pretty well with them all things considered with the situation they're in but he is honestly a bit of a problematic parent). Viktor isn't bothered by them at all (other than annoyed snarking back) - Naph's fine, the doctors have said multiple times Naph is a perfectly healthy baby (which is better than could have been said for Viktor when he was a baby). Silco can have whatever opinion he wants Viktor doesn't care.

[vickychendraws]

i am unwell 🫠

[space-blue]

Official Arcane art book shared on twitter canonises them... Family... Vander has VI tattooed on his hand. Damn. Nothing left for me to write fix it fic about.

[enniyart]

i just noticed something..

look at Vander's shirt

and now at Mylo's shirt

and Vi's top

Vander must have had to remake his old sweaters to dress his kids, I'm crying

[insomniac-arrest]

One of my favorite things about Arcane season 2 is that it is embodying not just cycles of violence but also has an example of cycles of mercy

Powder is not abandoned

Jinx does not abandon

It is not just how violence begets violence, one side of the coin, but the opposite as well, mercy begetting mercy--and it's sourced from the exact same character no less

This really is the Show of Duality of all time

[dragonbier]

More domestic zaundads because I can't stop thinking about them (this fandom has some of the most adorable nicknames for Silco ❤️)

[s7ven-art]

MY WIFE

[glitch-the-ghost]

she could fix me make me worse

[burntoutrose]

Cait acts like she’s so wronged, that no one could feel her pain except her, and so many people suffer from it. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that her mother died, and that is definitely a tragedy, but Vi lost both of her dads, Jinx lost all three of her’s, and the undercity is swarmed with orphans, like, babe, the dictatorship was a little much for the loss of your mom.

[poltergeist-punk]

a little sweet treat during babysitting duties

[the-gabardine-fox]

So I just got the prototype of this bad boy and it turned out so cute!!!! This ita bag features the Zaun Family at last together! 🩷🩷 The bag itself is about 11” tall and 12” wide at its base. Per-orders will be open until 1/26. If you’re interested in pre-ordering the link is below:

Note: For folks in the EU I am willing to ship to you but you’ll need to DM me so I can get you a quote first. So sorry it’s such a hassle. :/

[goddessofroyalty]

I love love love your zaun family au, im a sucker for omegaverse and you write it so well. Im personally a big omega jayce advocate and this got me thinking if jayce was the omega in the story and viktor was the alpha would anything drastically change? Even just his relationship with silco and vander or him being the pregnant one instead of viktor. I just was really curious what your thoughts would be !

Sorry for the delay in responding to this one. I wanted to go back through my blog and find the old posts I did about omega!Jayce in Zaun Family (and realised I apparently switched my Jayce tag from 'Jayce Arcane' to 'Jayce Talis' - going to have to go retag the old posts at some point). Anyway, here are some previous ramblings about it to start with:

What Silco would think about it (and some additional worldbuilding)

Vander and Vi's initial reaction to seeing Jayce

Who makes the first move

Silco's more judging thoughts

Silco with O!Jayce in labor

If O!Jayce had a difficult labor and delivery

I don't think anything would change drastically. But I do think an omega Jayce would have Silco and Vander assuming Viktor is doing most of the actual work for Hextech and Jayce more just the "pretty face" of it. And when they get together Silco even more of the opinion that Jayce seduced Viktor because Viktor's work is helping raise Jayce's status. Those thoughts are already happening when their designations are the other way around so it's most just they are stronger.

With the pregnancy Silco is a lot less hands on (it's Ximena's job to guide Jayce through his pregnancy because she's his mother not Silco). But I do think there's a bit of resentment on his side because Jayce has got the bigger more solid build so Silco assumes he's having an easier time with the pregnancy (and will have an easier time with the labor and delivery) than Silco did with any of his. He's also a lot more dismissive of any of Jayce's complaints/discomforts from the pregnancy because "you're meant to suffer for your children" is very much Silco's mentality about these things.

Vander meanwhile is glad Jayce is having a better time than Silco because he know he was having a rough time watching Silco suffer for their babies, he doesn't want that for Viktor (or Jayce either).