#zaundads forever

[wavesofyears]

DOMESTIC ZAUNDADS, SAVE US!!!

a comic on how they got together in good au. hc that coparenting started after vi’s death and this takes place many years down the line on a random day around 1-2 years before ep7

[b8ans]

been obsessed with arcane again so here’s a doodle compilation! >< and I’m also dogpiled in schoolwork, hope I can be more active nearer Christmas!

[wishfulsketching]

So last night I was talking to my friend about arcane stuff and instead of saying silco I ended up saying sexco and as I questioned my ability to speak I couldn't help but imagine vander confidently approaching silco to say something along the lines of you look sexy today only for sexco to come out of his mouth and walk in the opposite direction out of embarrassment.

I did it a bit differently but I had to doodle something because sjiaspkjp Sexco

[mikacanica]

First smutty Vanco post on my Patreon!!!!! 💅

[teawithghosts]

"You don't have to keep clapping, I have no intention of going anywhere."

It's a comfort to know. But perhaps just once more, Vander thinks, just in case.

[wwillywonka]

SILCO & JINX: CYCLES

[plain-and-simple-ninja]

hello zaundads nation we're trending again <3

[kazhan-draws]

goodbye

FANDOM: Arcane RELATIONSHIP: Silco/Vander RATING: T TAGS: Past Relationship, Break Up, Canon Divergence - Silco Finds Vander's Letter, Moving On, Chronic Pain WORD COUNT: 1,498

SUMMARY:

Silco pushes the door open. The light coming from his lamp spills inside the room and dust fills his nose and throat, making him stifle back a cough. He tightens his grip on the handle of the can of oil he's been hauling all the way down here. Yes, this will do. Or: Silco finds Vander's letter.

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[justanerdalltheway]

😭😭

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

some last fleeting thoughts on an independent zaun

(original quote from asoiaf)

[orderly-menace]

Silco art dump for the masses as well!

Some of these are from face studies, others are doodles and some are finishes projects that took fuckin forever.

These two have to be my favorites though they're so silly...

They're gonna have to rip this old man from my cold dead hands fr.

They're married you can not tell me otherwise like *I say as I'm chewing on Zaundads art too*

Oh yeah have these as a bonus I loved working on these phone screens lol

[omnipresentlemon]

Do you have more Zaundads with Vi headcannons? I'm obsessed!!

Oh don’t worry I unfortunately think about them all the time and thus have plenty of headcanons! Enjoy!

- About a year after Felicia and Connol died, a horrible sickness swept through the Lanes and Vi caught it. She spent 4 days in bed, delirious from fever, crying for her parents. Silco spent every second by her bedside while Vander took care of the other kids, trying to keep her comfortable. She would only calm when lying on top of Silco, the steady beat of his heart soothing her to sleep.

- Even as an adult, Vi is super whiny when sick. She can handle physical pain no problem, but the second she’s sniffling? Oh, the misery. Caitlyn refuses to deal with it and sends her to Vander and Silco at the first sign of a cough.

- Vi hates being babied because she never wants to be seen as weak, but also deeply craves comfort and safety from her loved ones. The solution? Guerrilla Affection, as lovingly dubbed by Vander.

- Guerrilla Affection takes many forms. Vander pressing a quick kiss to her knuckles after bandaging them post-fight. Silco helping her trim her hair when it gets too long, fingers running a soothing pattern through the strands. Holding her just a smidge too tight in an embrace, only letting go when she pulls away. Always being a safe place to come home to.

- Silco actually approved of Caitlyn when Vi told her fathers they started dating. Her mother had always been an ally of Zaun and he knew Caitlyn had a good head on her shoulders and would keep his girl out of trouble.

- Vander however sulked for a week, not because he disapproved of Caitlyn, but because he didn’t want ANY of his kids dating. Dating meant forming a new life with someone and moving away and eventually forgetting all about your dear old dad. Silco repeatedly found him cuddled up with Powder, making the girl swear to Janna she’d live with them forever, which Powder gleefully agreed to. Silco would roll his eyes, fish their youngest of the greedy paws of his husband, and tell Vander to stop being such a child and to go man the bar.

- Alone time is hard to come by with four kids. Vander and Silco found that is they asked Vi “if she was responsible enough to keep everyone else entertained while they did super important, secret work in their room”, they could usually sneak away for an hour or two while Vi kept everyone else in line.

So many thoughts percolating, maybe it’s time to actually plan a fic for all of this…

[nllick]

Zaundads edit I was supposed to post here forever ago.

Art by lileeeeee!! Got permission!

[wishfulsketching]

I could stare at alternative universe zaundads forever

[sandraharissa]

Smth that I really liked about Vander in s1, and smth that probs in my head enabled zaundads, is that I believed Vander truly deeply changed and in a lot of ways wasn’t that man anymore, like sure attempted murder is really really bad but when Silco comes back he immediately starts doing really really bad things to Vander like killing Benzo and Grayson, trying to kill him and take over the Lanes and threatening his kids, and Vander’s response to that is insanely calm, he at no point (until the kids die) acts mad at Silco for anything (and even after chocking him he seems to come to his senses and appears to stop being mad/trying to go after Silco and prioritizes saving Vi), which is really really forgiving of him and it's as tho he feels fully responsible for Silco’s actions cos he created him hence making it so that close to nothing could make Vander truly hate him, just like we've seen Silco behave in ep3 (and later).

So I’m not too thrilled with the s2 approach of minimizing Vander’s wrongs and suggesting easy fixes would work for them with minimal work from Vander, like a letter or ig just things working out that way, with Silco being the one who needed to be forgiving or smth. Especially bcos of the contrast of how much responsibility/consequences Vander was willing to accept in s1 and how that didn’t fix anything anyway, but at least it strongly conveyed the love that was there. the love was there but it didn’t fix anything cos it was just too much.

S2 ignoring how bad the drowning was and not establishing how reconciliation/making amends would look like but having scenes that more than ever suggest they are a couple paradoxically diminishes to me the love that was there and makes the idea of a potential relationship less interesting and convincing. There’s a difference between two ppl with a real relationship who actually knew each other and were extremely bonded but then a bunch of unfixable things happened and they’re fucked up now and they understand this and know how badly they hurt and are hurting each other, but they still make these decisions for their own reasons even if they have complicated feelings about it, by that point being doomed to be apart but still forever inextricably tied to each other, including in the end by literally having a kid together by chance (this is peak soulmates material) and two ppl who maybe were dating and only broke up cos the attempted murder was actually just a misunderstanding and if they only cleared it up, which could have been done in one conversation or letter, then it’d solve their whole conflict.

[zaundads]

Ultimate Zaundads Quote guides

All the important Zaundads Quotes

I was reading this post on iconic couple quotes and I realized that this is kinda hard for Zaundads considering they have like two scenes where they actually talk to each other. So it's hard not to do "well, just everything". Still, here are all the best ones, highlightes for my faves.

"I trusted you. And you betrayed me."

"I'll show you what you really are."

"I hated you, but you kept my respect."

"I hated you for what you'd done. But as time passed, so did my hate. "

"What I did to you… I've never forgiven myself."

"Greatest thing we can do in life is find the power to forgive."

"What's the point if we can't raise an ankle biter or two?"

"We shared a vision, Vander. A dream of freedom. Not just for the Lanes, but the whole of the underground, united as one. The nation of Zaun. Do you even remember?"

"I had no choice." - "Perhaps. But now you do. Shimmer. We have the power. We can finally realize our dream,"

"Silco. Let her go. This is between you and me." - "You had your chance."

"You'd die for the cause, but you won't fight for one? "

"I knew you still had it in you."

"Ever wonder what it's like to drown? Story of opposites. There's peace in water. Like it's holdin' you, whisperin' in low tones to let it in. And every problem in the world will fade away. But then there's this thing… …in your head, and it's raging. Lighting every nerve with madness. To fight. To survive. And all the while, this question lingers before you: "Have you had enough?" It's funny. You could pass a lifetime without ever facing a choice like that. But it changes you forever. For that, I thank you… old friend."

"Oh, it all makes sense now, brother."

"A thousand times I've imagined this moment. Never like this. All we ever wanted."

"You hear that, Bozo 2? We made it. We're done. Oh, you're sadly mistaken. I'm Bozo 1."

"I've looked everywhere, but… it's clear you don't wanna be found. God, I'm shit at this. I'm sorry. When she died, I lost my head. I told myself what I did to you was for the greater good, that you deserved it. But the dirt was on both our hands. Anyway, you know where to find me. Blisters and bedrock. V."

"If he found this, everything might have been different."

Bonus "indirect quotes"

"Benzo, stay back. […] Wait!" (Vander not wanting Benzo to attack Silco)

"We had nothing. You know what bore us through those times? Loyalty. Brothers and sisters back-to-back against whatever the world threw at us. Now I'm forced to share the air with parasites like you, who leach off their legacies."

"Tonight a harebrained scheme these two bozos cooked up to turn a dank crack in the earth into a thriving, healthy community became a reality."

"He isn't a monster. He was once a man. Well respected, at that. Victim of great tragedy. He had a ferocious will to live. An incredible tolerance for pain. With him, I was able to make strides impossible with any other specimen. But the mind... The mind I could not recover. The man forever lost in the bowels of the beast, compelled only by the scent of blood. Or so I thought. It now seems I had yet to uncover the right catalyst. S: Blisters and bedrock." (Singed in 2x05, followed by Warwick's nightmare of Silco)

"I saw your father. His dream of your family and vision of Zaun as it could have been, it was… beautiful." (Viktor about Vander in 2x08)

"So there's a chance for us yet." (Silco to Vander in 2x07)

Merchant: "This is vile." Vander: "You'll learn to love it." (Vander about Zaunite tobacco)

"There's worse things than enforcers out there." (Vander about ?? Silco? Other Zaunite criminals? )

"Fear haunts us all, child." (Silco about ?? The dreams he has about Vander drowning him?)

"Betrayal, that pain that feels like it'll eat you from the inside out,"

"You two are gonna figure this Zaun thing out. I don't care if you have to carve it out of the bedrock, covered in blisters. You're not allowed to fail anymore."

"Nearly forgot. I ran into an old friend of yours. He had some stories. You weren't always the peacekeeper, were you? - Yeah, well, you can't escape the past. Right?"" (Marcus and Vander about Silco)

"You told me a million times. [...] Blah, blah, blah [...]" (Jinx complaining about just how often Silco talks about Vander)

"Silco thinks he made Jinx, with all his rants and his hard-won lessons. "Excise your doubts, Jinx." "Be what they fear, Jinx." Like everything was the same as when Vander left him."

Did I forget any? What is your ultimate Silco and Vander quote?

Bonus:

Full dialogue of selected scenes under the cut:

Silco and Vander in 1x03: S: It's a little crude, I'll admit. The base violence necessary for change. But we both know topside won't listen to anything else. V: Even with your monsters, you won't win a war against Piltover. S: I don't have to. I just need to scare them. They won't dare set foot in the underground again. V: You'll get people killed. For what? Pride? S: For respect. Opportunity. Everything they've denied us. V: You had my respect. The Lanes' respect, but that… that was never enough for you. S: We shared a vision, Vander. A dream of freedom. Not just for the Lanes, but the whole of the underground, united as one. The nation of Zaun. Do you even remember? I trusted you. And you betrayed me. V: What I did to you… I've never forgiven myself. You were my brother. S: No, you still don't understand. Can you imagine what it's like? When your blood mixes with the filth and the river toxins eat through your nerves. Oh, I hated you for what you'd done. But as time passed, so did my hate. And I was left with an understanding. The only way to defeat a superior enemy is to stop at nothing. To become what they fear. I hated you, but you kept my respect. Until you made peace with them. Played lapdog after everything we suffered. V: I had no choice. S: Perhaps. But now you do. Shimmer. We have the power. We can finally realize our dream, brother. V: Look at what you've done. Benzo. These kids. In fighting topside, you'd sacrifice everything that we are. It's not the way. Can't you see that? kill me if you have to, but please spare the Lanes. S: You'd die for the cause, but you won't fight for one? V: I'm just… not that man anymore. S: I'll show you what you really are.

Jinx and Silco 1x05:

S: I almost drowned in these waters. J: You told me a million times. S:Vander wasn't the man you thought he was. J: Right, he was like a brother to you, and he turned his back and blah, blah, blah. Did I miss anything? S: I've got a new one for you. That day, I let a weak man die. And another was reborn. Betrayal, that pain that feels like it'll eat you from the inside out, can either break you or forge you into something greater. You need to let Powder die. So the fear of pain will no longer control you. You're strong now. Just like you were always meant to be. Jinx is perfect.

Silco vs Chembarons 1x07: Have you forgotten where we came from? The mines they had us in? Air so thick it clogged your throat. Stuck in your eyes. But I pulled you all up from the depths. Offered you a taste of topside. And fresh air. I gave you life. Purpose. But you've grown fat and complacent. Too much time in the sun. We came from a world where there was never enough to go around, Finn. That is why we fight. Do you remember?

Silco vs Finn 2x09: S: I'm busy. F: When you took Vander out of play, I thought, "Now here's a man who understands what it takes to run an enterprise." The attitude, the instinct, the eye. The whole package, you were. Always two steps ahead. But time's lapped you, old man. S: You're with him, are you? F: You screwed up, Silco. S: You're too young to remember what the undercity was before it became an "enterprise".We had nothing. You know what bore us through those times? Loyalty. Brothers and sisters back-to-back against whatever the world threw at us. Now I'm forced to share the air with parasites like you, who leach off their legacies. F: Today's the day you die, Silco. S: That's a risk I've known all my life. But I still believe in loyalty.

Silco at the Vander statue: S: A thousand times I've imagined this moment. Never like this. All we ever wanted. The boy didn't even haggle. And what do I lose but problems? Oh, it all makes sense now, brother. Is there anything so undoing as a daughter?

Vander, SIlco and Felicia in 2x05:

V: What's the occasion? F: Hmm. Can't a lady just be in the mood for a familiar song? V: Not this lady, and not this song. F: Tonight a harebrained scheme these two bozos cooked up to turn a dank crack in the earth into a thriving, healthy community became a reality. V: Tonight, eh? You hear that, Bozo 2? We made it. We're done. S: Oh, you're sadly mistaken. I'm Bozo 1. V: A night of revelations. F: I'm knocked up. A girl. V: How do you know? F: Mm. Wasn't really part of my plan, but guess that's everything when you're living week to week. V: What did Connol say? F: I haven't told him. Working up the nerve. I don't know anything about kids. I get sweaty being alone with one. V: Hey, you're gonna be a great mother. F: Shut up. I'm not ready for that. I started trying to come up with a name, and it hits me that this one word is a decision she's gonna live with her whole life. I can't protect her from all the shit down here and work out how to be a parent at the same time. Then I realized, I don't have to. V: Hmm? Why's that? F: Because the second I told you, I put you on the hook. You two are gonna figure this Zaun thing out. I don't care if you have to carve it out of the bedrock, covered in blisters. You're not allowed to fail anymore. For her. For me. V: What's the point if we can't raise an ankle biter or two? S: To Zaun, then. Blisters and bedrock. V: Blisters and bedrock. I've always liked the name Violet.

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Young zaundads wip (32)

Smut/NSFW below. I have to split this scene in two because a) smut takes forever to write, and b) I need to go to sleep.

***

Vander can't taste whiskey in Silco's kisses. He can feel the flush of warmth on Silco's cheeks, the loose limbed confidence, but he can't taste the alcohol. Next time, he'll kiss Silco on the way home, drag him behind the mess hall and taste the whiskey on his tongue.

They're still half dressed. Vander got distracted and handsy when Silco was peeling off his shirt, had to kiss that bare skin. Press his lips to the purple-green bruises scattered across Silco's back and chest, proof that he's alive but not unharmed.

They're on the bed, and now Vander regrets being impatient. With Silco's mouth on his and Silco's clever fingers between the buttons on Vander's fly, fingertips teasing him through worn cotton.

"Did you mean what you said?" Silco asks. "About swapping?"

Vander has no idea what he's talking about. It's hard to think clearly with Silco's fingers ghosting along his cock. "What?"

"When you said–" Silco starts and then stops, pushing himself up. Vander wraps his arms around Silco's shoulders, pulls him back down for a kiss. Vander likes kissing like this, Silco lying on top of him, that easy weight on Vander's chest and Silco's cock pressing against Vander's stomach, already hard and promising. He likes the way Silco digs his fingers into the meat of Vander's biceps. The way he squirms and shifts against Vander when he sucks on Silco's tongue.

He's not such a fan of the way Silco jerks his face away and scolds, "I was trying to say something."

"Less talking. More kissing."

Silco rolls his eyes. "Do you want me to fuck you?" He asks it like it's doubtful, like Vander's probably changed his mind.

Like it hasn't been something that keeps coming back to Vander. Face buried between Silco's thighs, dragging his tongue over Silco's cock and wondering how it would feel inside him. Wondering if Silco would hold on to his hips the way he grabs hold of Vander's hair, desperate and pushy. "Yeah."

Silco pulls a face Vander can't translate. "We don't have to. We could–"

"Yes," Vander says again, talking through him. "Do you need me to beg?"

Silco looks down at him, all greed and hunger. "Would you beg?"

"Yes," Vander says, and Silco keeps watching him like he wants to tattoo his name across Vander's chest. "Please. Please, Silco. Fuck me."

Silco darts down for a sharp kiss full of teeth and desperation. And then he's gone again, climbing off the bed. "Get those off. I'll get the oil."

Vander lifts his hips up and pushes his pants down. It might have been quicker to get out of bed like Silco and just shuck them off. Vander ends up trying to kick them off each leg, and then has to sit up to tug them off his shins. It's a bit ridiculous. He probably looks like a clumsy oaf.

Vander gives Silco an apologetic grimace, but Silco's just standing there, as fine and pretty as anything Piltover has. He smiles at Vander, almost laughing at him, but it's fond and happy, and it's hard to be embarrassed when someone looks at you like that.

"All done?" Silco asks and Vander tosses his clothes somewhere on the floor.

Vander lies back down. "Yeah."

Silco crawls onto the bed, between Vander's legs, pushing them further apart with one hand on Vander's knee. He sits back on his knees and runs both hands down over Vander's chest. Flat palms first, then scraping at the muscle with short, blunt fingernails, then soothing that tiny sting with another soft sweep of his hands. He does the same over Vander's stomach and the front of his hips, leaving Vanders skin tingling and sensitised. Leaving Vander squirming and hopeful.

He reaches for the oil, and pours it on his hand, sealing the bottle before he spreas it over his fingers. Vander spreads his thighs a little wider but Silco reaches for Vander's cock first. The slide of his hand is slick and luxurious, enough to make Vander groan.

They don't waste the oil on this, on something as everyday as a hand on a cock, but it feels amazing. Smooth and steady, Silco's talented fingers squeezing in just the right way.

Vander gasps for breath when Silco brushes across his hole, a barely-there brush of fingers, a shivery counterpoint to the confident grip on Vander's cock. Vander rocks his hips up in encouragement but Silco keeps the touch light, just enough to make Vander aware of where those fingers should be.

"Don't tease," Vander growls, and he already sounds wrecked by this.

"It's not teasing if I intend to follow through," Silco says, voice low and dangerous.

"It's taking your sweet time–" Vander groans as Silco twists his other hand, thumb rubbing under the head of Vander's cock. "Silco…"

"You did suggest begging," Silco says but before Vander can say anything more than please, he's pressing inside Vander. Just one slick, careful finger.

It's an odd feeling. Good but.. different. It brings a strange awareness of his body. Vander clenches around it, just to feel how his body fits around it, how good it almost feels.

"Teasing," Vander accuses, breathless.

"You'll appreciate it later," Silco says, and Vander thinks no, he Won't. Not if Silco drags this out so long he comes before the main event.

At least the hand on his cock slows down, gives him a chance to breathe as Silco carefully, so carefully, slides his finger out halfway and then pushes it back in.

"Fuck, Silco. Come on. Please!"

"I was joking about the begging," Silco says, but he starts moving faster. Starts rocking his finger in and out of Vander, pressing deeper each time.

It's good, it is good, but… "More," Vander growls and Silco presses a kiss against his bent knee and then adds another finger, pushing in and up, and setting off fireworks in the base of Vander's spine.

Vander can't get the words out but Silco does it again and again, ruthless and perfect. Vander arches back, skin too hot and too tight, rocking between Silco's hands. He bites at his lip, eyes screwed shut as Silco pushes another finger inside him. Everything sharper and more intense, the slick sound of Silco's fingers thrusting inside him, Silco's steady grip on his cock, the burst of pleasure as he rubs his thumb over the head.

Vander digs his toes into the sheet. His balls feel tight and he can feel that crest getting closer, and he's rocking into Silco's hands even as he cries out, "Stop, stop!"

He's left empty and so fucking close, cock throbbing, but then Silco's leaning over him, kissing him gently, one sticky hand on Vander's cheek.

"Sorry," Vander manages, still breathing hard.

"It's fine." There's a kiss to the bow of his lip. To the edge of his jaw. The curve of his cheek. Sweet and tender. "It's okay."

"I was just too close," Vander says sheepishly. "Caught me by surprise."

Silco blinks at him once, twice, and then says, "Oh," like that wasn't what he was expecting.

"Just needed a moment."

"Feeling better?" Silco asks drily, but he smooths a caring hand down Vander's side.

"Less likely to go off in the next five seconds, yes."