It's 3am. My friend and I are taking an Uber back home from a party. On the way, I’m explaining my Skyrim fanfiction idea and my OC's backstory to them. The driver is a nice guy but he stays quiet for the duration of my story. I'm the first one to get off, my friend keeps going.
I get home and I see a text from them.
The Uber driver liked my fanfiction idea and asked them if he could read it somewhere.
being 25 is like: im dying. im living my best life. im a failure. my life hasnt started. everything interesting has already happened to me. im achieving my dreams. im cutting my hair with kitchen scissors. im starting a skincare routine. im a corporate professional. im a sellout. im out of groceries. i have too many groceries. i am never going to be successful. i am going to win a hugo award before im 30. im crazy. im boring. i need to finish this essay. i need to finish this story. i need to start a newsletter. i need to start tweeting more. i need to stop tweeting. i need to ghost all my friends. i need to tell my friends i love them. i need to find a new apartment. i need to take out the trash. i am the trash that needs to be taken out.
this has empire siblings energy
hello, I would like to subscribe to the church of Viktor's pouts
Thank you, this helps so much! I always struggled with visualizing how exactly Viktor looks in 'jellyfish'.
Viktor and Jayce designs based off 'the line is covered in jellyfish' written by @yunuen 🪼🪼 I love this series so much and wanted to give back somehow!
censored nakey versions below
I loved the idea of how their bodies delt physical trauma and entanglement with the arcane, especially Viktor who is now both human and something else entirely.
Please read jellyfish if you haven’t already!! It’s a post-canon fic of Jayce and Viktor trying to survive the tundra as they rediscover themselves and collide into each other’s orbit once again
"I've come with Viktor; my partner and a Zaunite."
Finally the hypeman Viktor deserved.
Jokes aside, this line is one of the reasons I started making this series in the first place. Specifically the "Zaunite" part of it.
Why? Because not only has Jayce up until this point always referred to just "people from the Undercity"... I feel like he never even fully acknowledged that Viktor was one of them, either.
Or rather: that Zaun was still a part of Viktor.
Sure, Viktor essentially introduces himself to Jayce as a "cripple from the Undercity" and often enough states his wish to help the people there, but I believe this likely struck Jayce as gracious - same as it was for him - rather than personal.
After all, Viktor had successfully escaped the Undercity, right? He more than deserved his place in Piltover, right?
Jayce never thought less of Viktor for being a Zaunite, but that doesn't mean he respected his heritage. (The biggest indication of which, of course, being their infamous argument on the bridge. When Jayce says "They're dangerous!" he absolutely means it as a them, not a you.)
Yet here, he finally acknowledges and demonstrates respect for Viktor's heritage as a fully integral part of who he is - a boon, even, rather than a misfortune - and gives him the floor for this crucial moment of the proposal.
Speaking of: it's a pivotal gesture not only in terms of Jayce recognising Viktor as a Zaunite. I want to draw attention to this moment in episode 4 real quick:
(I LOVE how this is a perfect mirror image to the scene above.)
Here, Jayce is keeping Viktor from speaking even one word in front of the council. To protect him, to take full responsibility, to do the right thing... to do everything except take into consideration what Viktor might have even wanted to say.
He means well, of course he does - but it will take him until the season finale to realise that what marginalised people need is not for someone to protect them or govern them or speak for them.
It's for their voice to be heard.
In conclusion: not only is the scene as a whole the perfect culmination of Jayce's character arc in season 1, but this line in particular proves how it would have also served as the perfect starting point for a mended - and while more jaded, way stronger - JayVik bond if things hadn't gone south again immediately.
I know Viktor will later say "our paths diverged long ago", but even though that is true looking back from that particular moment in time, I've always loved how in reality, they did, just for one day, fully find their way back to each other in this season finale.
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"It's not a theory..!"
Or well, technically, what I want to highlight here is the chronology of 3 different lines - notice something?
Viktor: "I wanted to talk about your work... this HexTech theory of yours."
Jayce: "It's not a theory..! I've seen with my own eyes what magic can do, the lives it could save. You've no idea how beautiful it is."
Viktor, later: "This HexTech dream of yours has the potential to do that."
It's no coincidence that the wording around it is identical, with the difference being that Viktor immediately caught on and understood what the idea of HexTech truly meant to Jayce.
No wonder then, really, that Jayce promptly stared like Viktor hung the moon and decided right then and there that this was theirs, now.
(By the way: by virtue or vice of being a series about underrated moments, I don't think I in good conscience will be able to make one singular separate post about the line "Our HexTech dream." - however I will get creative and use lines that connect back to it, don't worry.)
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i think more male characters should have a little boob window actually
I mean. Yeah he ugly as hell in vanilla game. But he's a sweetheart so I like to imagine him a bit differently you know?
Wait you guys are actually attracted to Brynjolf? I thought it was a joke
she/her, 28, ENTP, 7w8, nerdy bisexual mess. I open Tumblr twice a year to repost my current brainrot related things only to disappear again
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