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“I thought Viktor died believing I didn’t want to help people like him,” he said. “That I didn’t think it was worth the risk. I never forgave myself. I’ll—I’ll do anything. I don’t care what happens to me. I won’t fail him again.”
Following the tragic and sudden death of his partner, unable to cope with his grief, Jayce Talis resorts to the risky and controversial procedure of severance. Splitting the memories of his work life and personal life, he begins working for HexCorp to forget about losing Viktor for eight hours a day. It's working. It’s helping him. It must be.
Until, one day, a random stranger breaks into his garage claiming to know him, saying there is a way to reverse the severance procedure and warning him that not everything about either HexCorp or Viktor’s death is as it seems.
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04 May 2026
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Half a decade after Viktor leaves Piltover for good, a fragment of Hexcore permanently adhered to his soul, an old friend comes to him for help. This wouldn't be an issue, if the same old friend hadn't spent the last five years trying to hit him, very hard, with a really big hammer.
“You’re not real,” Viktor repeated, closing his eyes. Even with the knowledge that this was a dream, the gentle touch unraveled him. There was an impact crater where his heart should be.
The calloused pad of Jayce's thumb found the corner of Viktor’s mouth. “All right. I’ll bite – what’s your evidence for this hypothesis?”
Viktor smiled into the touch, felt it tug against Jayce's thumbprint. “Isn’t it obvious? You haven’t tried to kill me yet.”- Language:
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26 Apr 2026
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He walks toward Jayce, driven by a thousand hands on his back. Of people in that room, of ghosts, of his own mother. All pushing him toward Jayce and toward a future that metamorphosizes with every step he takes. Viktor can feel the winds shift and part of his story is wiped clean, unwritten by his own actions that night.
Viktor doesn’t look back. He allows Jayce to open the door for him, and steps out into the evening. The sunset is vibrant, gold and pink and explosive.
Feeling unaccepted by Piltover in the wake of his 28th birthday, Viktor returns to the Undercity for an annual festival to reconcile who he is with where he came from.
Things go south.
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16 Feb 2026
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The Waters of the Forest Are Good by Occultation
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
26 Oct 2025
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Jayce pauses to steady himself on the wall, he’s running out of strength in his arms. The other version of Viktor, the lonely mage who’d insisted there was only one, violent solution to the problem of himself, had reluctantly given him a tip. Physical touch , he had said, will temporarily disarm him. But you must kill him from a distance, do not let him get close.
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Jayce loses his will to kill Viktor in the commune and has to come up with a plan B.
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16 Jan 2026
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All My Love to the Man in White by quiet (gingerpunches)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Oct 2025
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“I am guessing you have another invitation,” Viktor says softly. Jayce’s non-answer of shrugging his shoulders is enough of a confirmation for Viktor to continue. “The flowers did not work? Or the strongly worded letters?”
“Not even Mel is working with me on this. She says I have to go,” Jayce spits, “like I — like I’m expected to recite all our research on a coin flip. As if anyone there besides her will even understand it.”
He hides his eyes behind the cup of his hands, though Viktor knows he’s still staring down at their scattered notes for a distraction. Between vellum and coffee-stained sheafs of schematics is a familiar, albeit more elaborately decorated, square of near-black cardstock. Its gold filigree glitters in the frosted light coming in from the windows, yet it brings no warmth. No glee. No self-satisfaction at having caught it too late.
Viktor slides it out from between their notes with two fingers, leaving it on the tabletop for the both of them to read. Jayce’s name is prominent in thin, blocky text — another invitation, another offer for his time in exchange for a few hours of pretend in front of a flock that’s already made up its mind.
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22 Oct 2025
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Ambessa tapped her cheek, seeming pressed by the cryptic nature of his words. “Speak, boy, or I will recant your status on time wasted alone.”
He curled his hand into a fist, leaning on the battle axe pressed into the floor.
“Your Majesty, I ask this and only this: that you surrender me to the service of Prince Viktor as His Highness’ sole, personal guard.”
The room went quieter than the faintest whisper, more stunned than a stolen breath.
“...Come again?” Ambessa asked, her voice severe.
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Or, the one where Prince Viktor, the adopted son and political prisoner of the Medarda Clan reunites with the boy he made a Knight: the venerable Sir Jayce Talis. The Prince seeks freedom. And the Knight seeks revenge. But what matters most in the end, more than all politics and crusades, is that these two men, born in a time where not more than loyalty is even legal, are hopelessly, incandescently in love with each other.
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20 Oct 2025
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They’re getting a new salesman at the Piltover branch of HexTech Incorporated. It’s probably the most exciting thing that has happened all year.
Viktor honestly couldn't care less.
“What if he’s hot, though,” Powder says because she is the worst.
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17 Sep 2025
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When a man manifests in a flash of blue light at the center of their laboratory Jayce raises his arm to shield his eyes. Viktor is wearing dark lensed safety goggles, so he’s able to recognize the face immediately. The man shifts his giant hammer in his gloved hands and scans the lab with a serious expression. When his gaze lands on Viktor, his blue eyes go wide.
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04 Aug 2025
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Shut-in Viktor cannot stand the manosphere sensation that is Jayce Talis. He will do whatever it takes to humble the so-called Man of Progress, even if that means signing up for his men-only retreat.
Viktor needs to take Jayce down.
It's his wildest fantasy.
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- Part 1 of machine 4 man
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18 Jul 2025
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carry yourself back to me unspoiled by weatheredlaw for Torihakarau
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Jun 2025
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Viktor would love to say he forgets about Jayce Talis.
He would love to say that Lord Talis leaves his shop to go off on his great adventure, and the memory of their banter and Jayce’s promise goes with him.
Tragically, this is not the case.
or: viktor owns a crystal shop in zaun, jayce is a reluctant young adventurer, and their lives are destined to collide.
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18 Jun 2025
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Marooned and Untethered by shit_shippers_say
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Jun 2025
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The head pushed its way up through the water to fully reveal a young boy, maybe a year or two Viktor’s junior, with a wide, sharp-toothed grin that somehow had a gap in the front, and—
“Are those gills?”
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Or; For decades, merfolk have hidden out in the deepest recesses of the ocean to avoid the humans who hunted them so long ago. Imagine Viktor's surprise when one of those merfolk chooses him for a friend and keeps coming back.Bookmarked by inchells
16 Jun 2025
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our hearts are made of kyber by tricofulcrum
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
31 May 2025
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In all timelines, all possibilities
so, star wars ◡̈
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Jayce holds his hands up in defence, “Don’t worry, there’s no one around to hear us,” he sighs, “Look i’m sorry, I just, i've read so much about the Jedi, and if you are one, then I know you aren’t going to fire that.”
The blaster clicks and Jayce tenses but nothing happens and he makes the guess that the man has turned his blaster to stun.
“I’m not a Jedi.”
“But you-“
The man pushes him harder against the wall, “I'm not. No one is, the Jedi are extinct.”
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Jayce is a Mandalorian who is drawn to investigate Kyber crystals. His work leads him to Viktor, a Jedi in hiding who is searching for Kyber crystals to teach his padawans and help aid his hidden sanctuary. They become unlikely allies. Together they help each other escape trouble and create a safe place to exist, free from the clutches of the Empire, all the while feeling unexplainably drawn to the each other.
The Force has a mysterious way of working.
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31 May 2025
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In the wake of a devastating apocalypse that left the Earth a charred wasteland and its inhabitants scattered, two scientists uncover a sprawling, system-altering conspiracy.
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10 May 2025
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The Herald and the King by CaptainHollow
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Apr 2025
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The Herald lives in an old clocktower on the edge of the Undercity, where he keeps a watchful eye turned upon those in need. The people both respect and fear him, for while he brings hope to the sick, he is also no longer entirely human.
Piltover is on the cusp of welcoming its new king to the throne, but Jayce is a man haunted by regrets and determined to shake the foundation of the kingdom’s old way of ruling. Not all agree with his new direction.
The king-to-be makes an offer to the Herald.
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24 Apr 2025
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“Professor?” A voice calls, and Jayce has about two seconds to feel the hot little sting of hurt that he’s not the only one working with Heimerdinger after all, when Viktor steps fully into view, and Jayce catches sight of him.
Or—it. It’s an android.
It takes him a moment and another careful look to be certain, but—yes, it’s got a more subtle variation on the Academy staff bot uniform, white and muted browns, and the College of Sciences insignia pinned to the breast of its waistcoat, and where its shirtsleeves are rolled up to its elbows, Jayce can see the fine, thin lines running up its forearms, the divots in the synthskin showing where the metal plating must connect below.
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04 Apr 2025
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When the war ends, Viktor leaves Jayce behind and disappears.
Jayce searches for him through all timelines and possibilities, and tries to put the broken pieces of Viktor (and himself) back together.
He just didn't expect to wind up in the past and meet a younger Viktor before his apartment exploded, nor the events he would unwittingly set in motion.
"Goodnight, Jayce," Viktor breathes.
The last thing he knows is a gentle caress against his forehead. Cold. But tender, featherlight. Afraid.
And he bolts awake in the dark, only a mere few hours later, sweating in the cold of the night.
Alone.
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28 Mar 2025
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28 Mar 2025
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dog days by kettleninth (skitterdwell)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
27 Mar 2025
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J and V get anomayeeted and arrive in the field of flowers a few months apart. Some things are the same (Viktor is still physically the Arcane Herald) and some things are different (Jayce is a dog). Nobody is doing well.
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27 Mar 2025
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Metal and Magic by dodecadragon for Xancake
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
03 Mar 2025
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“I just introduced myself,” Jayce repeats defensively. He’s not sure what’s wrong with that, but the look on Viktor’s face is withering.
“You gave Singed your name,” Viktor says bluntly, “Offered it up on a platter, and he took it from you. He holds your name now, and he is free to command you as he sees fit.”
Jayce’s brain short-circuits. “What?”
Viktor walks over to one of the many piles of books and picks up one of the thicker, dustier tomes. “Humans are all the same,” he mutters. “You all are obsessed with the arcane and what can be done with it, but you never take the time to learn the rules.”
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After Viktor goes missing, Jayce takes matters into his own hands, then accidentally gets himself imprisoned right alongside his partner. Or, the fae-au.
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- Part 1 of Metal and Magic Fae AU
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03 Mar 2025
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Talis, V. Talis, J. "Social Behaviors of Lokfar Peninsula’s Wild Mammals (Specifically Those of my Co-Author)" by zillac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
28 Feb 2025
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Nobody rescues Jayce Talis. He’s left for dead in a blizzard. A young boy claws his survival from the forests of Freljord to become a man who barely remembers that name.
And, eventually, a yordle professor drags his assistant along to study murk wolves in the field.
Pinned lightly against a pine by his throat, the scientist studies the face of a wild man. Long hair, scraggly beard, a small gap in bared teeth, eyes deep and searching. Severe.
“I’m Viktor,” he says, once the strong, callused fingers permit him the room to breathe properly. “Who are you?”
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01 Mar 2025