I just relized something that I don't think enough people talk about. We keep thinking the heartbreak of Jayce and Viktor that will happen. Viktor becoming the Machine Herald. We are not ready for that. But also-

WE WON’T BE READY FOR VIKTOR AND BLITZCRANK'S HEARTBREAK

This is gonna be as emotional as the fucking iron giant, AND WE ALL WILL CRY

Viktor building, bonding with Blitz. Learning about Blitz having a mind of it's own. Trying to keep his baby safe from the council.

I'm not gonna be ready for that 😭

Honestly the whole Viktor/Blitzcrank bond speaks volumes to me. Like… Viktor created this living being that developed emotions of its own, and like… he doesn’t consider that a flaw in the golem. He never considers “removing” the emotion from Blitzcrank (to my knowledge?? Correct me if I’m wrong Leaguies). He considered it a flaw in himself, removed them from himself (Thor “did he though” meme) but when Blitz exhibits signs of consciousness and emotion, he just… lets it be. Like… for a guy who preaches rising above emotion, that’s just a huge sign that Viktor does view a certain degree of emotion as essential to being alive, he just… struggles with them himself.

Also… I personally think things are gunna play out differently in Arcane. I think the council attack is the beginning of the end for Viktor’s time in Piltover, and that his exile will follow shortly after. I don’t think he’s even gunna be able to create Blitz before he’s exiled. So maybe he’ll create Blitz while he’s also undergoing his transformation into MH? And the two of them are born/reborn together?? Then the whole “council trying to take Blitz away/deprogram them” will either come much later, once Viktor is already the Herald, or it won’t happen at all/it’ll be reworked. Cuz once the cities officially split, the Piltover Council really won’t have any say in what a Citizen of Zaun does (granted Blitz is created using a Hextech gemstone, so maybe that’s where the Council’s objection comes in?) Or perhaps it’s switched around, and it’s the Chem Barons who are trying to seize Blitz for themselves? That could work, it is very valuable and groundbreaking technology.

Either way, you’re absolutely right, we’re not gunna be ready. Viktor will have lost so much at that point; his family, his home, his work, his… Jayce. And to finally have this incredible thing he created, to give it life and “raise” it like his own child, teach it about the world… only to be threatened with having that ripped from his grasp too?? Like goddamn, can he have one fucking thing for himself?!

Lovebirds 💕 (aka my favorite TFT augment)

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Viktor doodles 💞💕💓💗💘

viktor and his enormous child, blitzcrank <3

Ok this is a very specific question, but I don't play league and really have no intention of (as most I've watched arcane and won't go farther than that) but are there any characters or skins the invoke a gundam-esc aesthetic?

Oh yes, quite a few actually.

There's the Mecha skin line for the obvious pick, albeit that is more explicitly based on Pacific Rim than Gundam. It's all about the champions being rendered as giant robots battling Kaiju in a near-modern sci-fi setting:

And then there's the Lancer skin line, which is now discontinued, which drew from Gundam aesthetics among other things, mixing it in with a nominally medieval tech-level setting where the mechs are seen as protector gods or destroyers of the world:

And finally there's Mecha Kingdoms, which sort of tried to combine the two previous skin lines. Like Mecha, it's centered around heroes using giant robots to fight horrible kaiju monsters and protect the world, and like Lancer it's set in a medieval fantasy setting, except this time it's a Wuxia-based world rather than European medieval:

Baby Viktor made a little friend.

Today is actually Viktor's birthday.🎂 Finished this just in time.

He will learn, one day

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Team Zaun

City of Iron and Glass

Blitzcrank from League of Legends

Blitzcrank has a Ryu Number of 3.

1920s au thus far!

on twitter I asked if people would be more interested in the 1920s (somewhat Speakeasy)AU or the 1940s (Noire)AU

And 1920s took the win! I am going to be working with my partner as they are the creator of this story and I'll be sharing loads more!

Totally hit me up with any questions you have!💛

Fan Sprites of Jayce, Viktor, and Blitzcrank in The Mageseeker. Father-Bot research outing featuring a guy trying to avoid an international incident.

They don’t follow the game’s character sprite translation guide and are a little over-rendered, but it was fun to make!

Bee'Koz, Beezcrank & King Beegar Splash Art 🐝

빅토르

옷주인에게.

via  @morazizg  

Thinking of writing a fanfic from Blitzcranks pov over the MH/Defender conflict years because it has a lot of angst potential but also because it'd be so funny like it's a ton of scrap metal put together and it's been alive for 8 hours and IT ALREADY KNOWS YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH YOUR ENEMY HOW ARE YOU FUCKING UP THIS FEELING HIDING STUFF SO BADLY????

This is actually such a great idea!!! Like Blitz is capable of seeing things from an objective POV, and objectively, they’re like… bruh, you are obsessed with this guy, what’s up with that??

Would be really cool to read a story from Blitzcrank’s POV! Writing how they think could be a really fun experiment. Could mess with form and dialogue, sorta like coding commands? And yeah, too much of that could be exhausting, but just every once in a while, throwing in like… a computing sequence? An if/then command?

=IF (Maker hates Jayce, why expend so much time and energy on him?)

=THEN (Maker does not hate Jayce. Maker… still loves Jayce? More information needed.)

But they are also able to read Viktor’s defensiveness on the subject, so mostly they just keep it to themselves, all the while knowing these two emotionally constipated saps are down bad for each other. Poor Blitz.