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lover, hunter by hydecircus
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf
01 May 2026
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She leans back, letting the flickering lantern cast her face in shadow. “You should’ve stayed in Targon, little mage. This empire is so much bigger than you.”
He doesn’t flinch at the press of the blade to his throat, though he swallows against it, mouth dry and eyes steady. They both feel they’ve learned something about the other, a kind of gut-deep knowledge a person only lets slip when they see no future ahead.
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Years later, the Black Rose will conclude that Ambessa Medarda met her mage lover on the windy shores of Basilich. A lucky connection. A single, serendipitous moment of unity.
This is not, strictly speaking, entirely accurate.
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How is he even supposed to respond to that?
Thanks, I’m well aware of how people see me and how they want me. The one fumbling entanglement in the basement of a house party was enough for me though, because she found it weird when I started crying and then got so mad that I wouldn’t scent her that she left.
And I only did it because she smelled so good, like a river, like fresh cut grass, and it made me so jealous I was dizzy with it. I wanted to be her, and I thought that was close enough to wanting her, and it wasn’t, and it took five minutes for my knot to go down after I locked myself in the bathroom to jerk off and I had a panic attack the whole time and then I threw up in the sink and vowed to be celibate for the rest of my life.
“She’s not my type either,” he settles on, maybe more melancholic than he means to be.
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The source of the light stands before him, resplendent and whole, his brows creased prettily in worry. Jayce looks like moonlight incarnate, his body made up of twisting mother-of-pearl tendons from which an eerie bioluminescence emanates. It crawls across his cheekbones like a lover’s caress, the edges where nacre meets skin blurry and indistinct.
A hundred fairytales from Viktor’s childhood flit through his head. The tear of a unicorn. The call of a siren. Jayce looks like every delicate, temptuous thing for which men dash themselves across the rocks in an effort to possess.
He is also, Viktor distantly notes, completely naked.
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Sub Top Viktor Week 2026
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Later, Zhao Xin will wonder if anyone on deck knew that they were in Noxian waters – if anyone had any idea of what that could mean. If anyone thought it was worth bringing up at all, if they bit their tongues at the last second. Sure that their captain knew what he was doing. Sure that he carried some favour with the gods. Or perhaps simply sure that the things that were to come didn’t happen to men like them.
Here is a spoiler: Nothing can be done. No level of reminiscence or regret can undo what is already unfolding, already written.
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Xin Zhao is ripped from his home when he is fifteen. Thirty-six years later, he returns.
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wrapped around an empty space by hydecircus
Fandoms: League of Legends, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
29 Aug 2025
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Piltover’s Defender of Tomorrow dies on Wednesday evening. By Thursday, the announcement hits the morning gazette, and it won’t leave the news cycle until well past the Sunday edition.
Zaun’s Machine Herald scoffs the first time he reads it, tossing the stained and torn paper that his apprentice brought down the conveyor behind his shoulder. He is rewiring his left arm again, trying to iron out why his sensors detect a microsecond’s delay between the synapses firing in his brain and the acknowledgement by his mechanical nerves.
“Natural causes,” he scoffs. “He is what? Sixty years old? Men that rich do not die that young.”
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Hymn for the heavensent by fagenetix
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
07 Jul 2025
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Here is yet another proof of his immense care, of his gentle and boundless wisdom: the Herald announces he will see to his dear friend alone. They needn't worry. Soon he will be reborn. But for the time being, ah— how about we ensure his comfort, hmm? Some space will do just fine. Some time resting under the sun.
The Herald touches his friend's arm, softly, and takes him by the hand. He scatters the onlooking crowd without raising his voice, makes them float away like so many blown strings of a dandelion sprout.
See? There is nothing to fear, he tells Jayce. You are among friends. You are safe. You are all mine.
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Viktor takes care of Jayce. Purity of intention is a matter of perspective.
Bookmarked by hydecircus
22 May 2026
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“One more word and you are out on the street, Talis,” Viktor issues his empty threat in his coldest of voices, paired with his fiercest frown. Jayce only beams at him.
“The battle’s already lost,” he announces. “Mel’s approved my time-off ages ago. I got all the goodies,” he rattles the brown bag invitingly, “and Sky’s manning the lab. You’re not getting out of it, V.”
“Out of what?” Viktor demands, in increasing malaise, clutching at his crutch like a lifeline.
“Of fun,” Jayce says, threateningly.
[Or: Viktor's terrible, lovely 32nd birthday.]
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- Part 1 of lies about sea creatures
Bookmarked by hydecircus
22 May 2026
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Ex Materia by binomech
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
10 Dec 2024
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Jayce and Viktor think they're the protagonists of their lives and it takes a village to undo the damage.
Featuring: Engineers who look down on soft sciences giving each other Skinnerian conditioning, the ineffable horrors of being old, a woman and a heir to a megacorporation, daytime drinking and backalley surgery as self-care, way too many trade agreements, and a campaign for Sevika to get a nap.
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- Part 1 of ex nihilo nihil fit
Bookmarked by hydecircus
19 May 2026
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incomplete but changed the world forever & perfect viktor characterization and prose
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Chemical Rush by loresflora
Fandoms: League of Legends, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Feb 2026
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Viktor didn't plan for this accordingly, and he really shouldn't indulge the Defender any more than he already has. Unfortunately, Jayce discovers a stellar way to circumvent the Herald's suppressant dosage, and the rush goes a little too far on both ends.
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AKA VikJayce hate sex takes a few left turnsSeries
- Part 2 of Coregulation
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They spoke about the funeral almost as often as they spoke about the wedding. For Viktor it was a coin toss as to which would come first, a child’s game. For Jayce it was like playing cat’s cradle with the hangman’s noose.
Bookmarked by hydecircus
05 Apr 2026