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reposting these bcs i kinda like them now

all designs by user hexhomos 🫶

do you think his heart broke a little when he saw Viktor like that?

Beloved if you could tell me more about how Arcane is a tragic romance staged as a geopolitical collapse in six acts i would love you forever. I find your mind so sexy

okay. i’m going to try and say something semi coherent about this, because you, my beloved mutual asked and i? would die for you.

if we’re going to talk about tragedy, we might as well start with jayce and viktor.  in true tragic fashion, they follow the classical arc to the letter: hamartia (a fatal flaw – hubris, idealism, the belief that their creation could save rather than destroy), peripeteia (the reversal – hextech becoming a weapon rather than a miracle. viktor dying, jayce bringing him back),  and anagnorisis (the moment of recognition – when they realize the cost and the damage. viktor seeing what he’s become and jayce saying what he should have said years ago). and the devastating thing is: these don’t happen separately. they collapse inward, spiral together. the tragedy hits hardest because the fall is of their own making – and because it comes too late. 

if there’s anything i’ve learned from my (very humble and very deeply felt) studies in literature and literary history it’s this: romantic tragedy is not just about heartbreak. it’s about the world collapsing as a consequence of love gone wrong. loyalty, desire, misjudgement and betrayal rippling outward into total ruin. arcane doesnt just tell a tragic love story: it tells five. ten. maybe more. the show is a lattice of relationships – romantic, familial, platonic, political – and every one of them cracks in some way. and each crack runs straight through the city’s foundation somehow.

jayvik may be the most overtly mythic of them all. our science husbands, our gilgamesh and enkidu, our cautionary tale about what happens when affection tries to hold up empire  – but they’re not alone. their spiral isn’t the only one.

arcane, in its very structure, ties systemic collapse to personal grief. every conflict begins in a relationship that couldn’t hold. vi and jinx are antigone and ismene rewritten in gunpowder and neon: sisters locked on opposite sides, loyalty twisted by trauma. mel and ambessa are imperial legacy embodied: the exiled daughter who tried to love her new home, and her mother who thinks love is weakness. caitlyn standing between love, lineage and law. ekko mourning a girl who never got to grow up and jinx is the living fallout of everyone else’s failure to protect her.

even silco and vander – two men who once shared a vision of an independent zaun – become enemies, because one believes revolution requires uproar while the other hopes reasoning might still be enough. and in the end, every character is fighting someone they still remember loving once. no character fights in isolation. every blow lands on someone they once believed in. and that’s why the city burns.

because that’s the thing, right? the show treats interpersonal relationships like structural beams: when they crack, the city does, too. the emotional subplots aren’t really subplots at all: they are the plot. hextech was supposed to be a bridge: between science and magic, between piltover and zaun, between a boy who fell from grace and a man who never got the chance to rise. instead, it becomes the wedge. a miracle turned into a weapon, with the miracle workers on opposite sides of a war they helped create. when the marriage of minds ends in divorce, the whole city pays the price. 

and that’s why we don’t have any neat hero-villain binaries, right? what we do have is people trying to claw their way back to something they lost. a sister, a partner, a version of themselves that they could still forgive. but every attempt to go back costs them something new, again and again. that’s the real tragedy, i think: not just the people lost, but that they keep losing the things they’re trying to save.

if you’ll allow me some nerdy indulgence i’d like to go back to jayce and viktor being our gilgamesh and enkidu by way of hextech. radiant ambition meets terminal wildness. they build a future together and then have to destroy it with their own hands. and the thing is: they don’t fall apart because the love fades, (affection is the one thing holding them together, after all). they fall apart because it festers into betrayal and all the ways they fail to reach each other across the gap that’s widened between them. the tragedy isn’t the end (though i really, really wish they had more time) – it’s everything that leads to it. they hit every note of a classical downfall: a shared dream born of light, warped by power, splintered by grief. their fatal flaws (call it hubris, call it desperation, call it idealism) spiral into the kind of break no apology can fix. and yet, in the end, when everything else is gone, they still choose each other. if antigone dies to bury the one she loves, if gilgamesh carves his grief into stone, then jayce and viktor choose to hold each other in the infinite embrace of the arcane in order to stop what they created from consuming everyone else. not to undo the damage but to stand in its ashes and say: no more.

(aristotle once said that tragedy is supposed to evoke pity and fear, and then purge those emotions through catharsis. this post? may have done the opposite. i have never feared more. i have never pitied harder. and i have certainly not been purged)

He’s yearning

a little comic strip

🥂

men kiss each other. or something

If the ep 6 reunion went differently...

he thought he could 1v3 and his life long rival had to clutch to save his ass.

youll forget about me

I love you, it's ruining my life

every time jayce...uhh...what were we talking about again

i hc that jayce got his brow scar bc of a bad fall. his mom gifted him a dark blue blanket (the 1 he gave viktor) after their hike thru the blizzard so jayce could pretend he had a cape and look like the mage, and jayce tripped on it while running to show her how cool he looked and hit his head on the corner of a table. he had to get stitches and everybody at school thought it was a cool fight scar. no he’s just a nerd who tripped on his blanket because he wanted to be a mage. my blorbo

JINXED

for love

father son bonding time

BAD REPUTATION

This is how I imagine they be looking at each other after THAT final episode of Arcane

THAT scene but without the cuts

EVERYTHING LEAGUE VIKTOR Pre-Arcane for Fellow Machine Herald Enjoyers

Table of Screencaps and Saved Images

Champion Page

Lore Homepage Quote

Full Biography

Short Story: House on Emberflit Alley

House on Emberflit Alley Art

Splash Art

Concept Art

Skin Splash Arts

Viktor's Champion Page

Viktor's Lore Homepage Quote

For the full webpage, see my obsessive screenshots of Viktor's lore homepage

Viktor's Full Bio

Still can't believe he hit his bf over the head with a rock and that was enough to take him out

Viktor's Short Story: House on Emberflit Alley

(still up on the website, but I might as well consolidate everything here, and just in case it ever gets removed)

House on Emberflit Alley Art

(did some digging and afaik it seems to be fanart and not official art after all, but I'm not at all sure so take it with buckets of salt)

Viktor Splash Art

Viktor Concept Art

All Viktor Skins' Splash Arts

(in alphabetical order bc I don't know the release order for every skin)

Battlecast Creator

Death Sworn

Full Machine

High Noon

Prototype

PsyOps

I'M READY

god the jayce&viktor divorce has me SICK every time I think of it. To viktor, jayce is the only one who appreciates him, the only one he views as a friend. But when jayce revives him his morals and his fear for annihilation collide once again. Viktor has repeatedly been unwilling to harm others for his ambitions, shutting down his projects for hextech when sky died. But what happens when the only one who understood you breaks those morals? But what happens when you’re the one who’s injured? But what happens when your ethics and love and ambition meet each other and you can’t reconcile with that? What happens if the one you need most is the one who crosses the line? What happens if the one you need most gifts you the curse of life again when you had embraced death’s grip for your hubris, the ambition you spent your entire life yearning to satiate? What happens if out of misery and confusion and sorrow you look to the one you need most, and it’s the one that harmed you the most, and now that you can no longer meet their eye, you can’t turn to anyone else? What happens if the one you need most is tainted forever in your vision, and you are left to wander the world without a piece of your soul? What happens if the one you love is the one that breaks you? IM SOBBIGNF

to die by your side - the pleasure, the privilege is mine

Silco and Cait Parallels

When Vi was all alone at her lowest point Cait finds her and grows to genuinely care for her.

When Jinx is all alone at her lowest point, Silco finds her and grows to genuinely care for her.

After her mom's death, Caitlyn takes power in Piltover after the death of the councilors and has the goal of making things better, only to make them worse. She is also motivated by her desire for revenge against Jinx.

After Felicia dies, Silco takes power in Zaun after the death Vander and has the goal of making things better, only to make them worse. He is also motivated by his desire for revenge against Vander/Piltover. Both wear a dark coat with gold a large red collar.

Caitlyn ends up turning Vi against her own people in Zaun. Silco does the same with Jinx.

And of course, they both face an injury to their left eye- after grabbing their opponent's blades and slashing their right arm.

Similar hairstyles too

phenakistiscope

"What am I?"

"You're alive"

11th page. The alternate version of the Council Room scene, but no less painful.

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