"In All Timelines.. In All Possibilities... Only You"

First post!

Hii Tumblr 🗣️

Still trying to figure out how to use this, I feel like an old man...

begging, on my KNEES, for someone to recommend a fic about zaun’s revolution and independence. politics, suspense, GIVE IT. i desperately need to see it. there was so much teasing of zauns revolution in the show, and tho i still enjoyed the direction of s2, thinking about the potential of the plot they could have had gets me miffed 😭😭😭

drop some ao3 fics pls, im dying here 🙏🙏

Need fics of these specific premises Jayvik specifically

-post council room explosion Jayce (specially memorial attack) going back in time to S1 act 1 Viktor after they discover hextech and him just holding him and Viktor being concerned on why he has a bandage on his back. He thinks Jayce hurt himself in their new lab until his Jayce walks in and s2 Jayce refuses to let Viktor go.

-Similarly S2 Act 2 Jayce being sent back to s1 the day of the council room explosion and he runs into himself and tries explaining to him that he can't let Viktor go to the meeting forgetting he can just change the day of it and then Viktor himself comes in and s2 Jayce keeps begging him to stay in the lab.

-(s1 specifically) The members of the council assuming Viktor and Jayce are together because of how they just refer to each other as "my partner" instead of lab partner or work partner but they make no move to correct them when they realise the misunderstanding. This somehow makes it back Zaun and when Jayce uses Jinx against Silco for the treaty, Silco uses Viktor against Jayce.

-Silco, Vander, and Felicia raising Viktor (he never meets Singed) but after the bridge he stays with Silco and doesn't go to the academy. I have seen some fics like this but in this one he doesn't work for Silco or anything just lives with him and sees him as a father figure despite what he does. In this instead of Vander's kids breaking into Jayce's apartment it's Viktor because he was at Benzo's and was intrigued by his work. Jayce catches him during the break in but instead they work together because Viktor corrects him on one of his equations or something. The fic could just be Viktor keeping it secret from Silco that he has a friend/crush from Piltover. This does mean Vander is alive and Powder doesn't become Jinx also Sevika stays on Vander's side since there was no enforcers coming for his kids causing her to switch sides because of his being neutral. In this au Viktor would be Silco's only kid.

-Jayvik meeting once as kids then meeting again in the academy but they remember each other then start dating while in the academy and possibly engaged by the time they start hextech.

jayvik but they are minecraft youtubers who are very good redstoners and jayce is also a good pvper. i need them on hermitcraft And in the life series

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)

a common viktor mischaracterization that always bugs me is when people try to argue that viktor was this huge zaun activist prior to season 2 because he very clearly wasn't. a lot of the piltover characters weren't and it's easy to understand that given their privileged backgrounds but viktor's relationship with zaun is really complicated and i don't see a lot of people talking about it. i find it incredibly unlikely that he wasn't aware of the choices being made with hextech, specifically the way the hexgates contributed to the growing class divide between piltover and zaun and the choice to reroute the hexgate tunnels towards zaun so that piltover buildings weren't damaged in case of emergency

i don't really think jayce would have made those decisions without him and i think it's more likely that viktor approved those plans and turned a blind eye to the harm it was doing as a concession to ensure that progress on hextech could continue. because otherwise he and jayce wouldn't be able to get the support and funding they needed to do what they really wanted with the hex crystals. and i think that was a huge part of why, once he merged with the hexcore and it became clear that jayce was okay with their technology being used for weapons, he went to zaun to help people. because that guilt had been building up for the past 7 or so years and he was finally seeing the consequences of refusing to acknowledge the societal impacts of his technology

sleeping with your lab partner whatever😒

happy birthday viktor ! quick sketch i whipped up :]]

viktor my beloved