this dude's a cat magnet o

Preview of a lor deck themed illustration.

Who is Viktor having tea with?

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If ship not real why Sun/Moon and Dog/Cat coded ?

im curious to know your thoughts on viktor's biography saying jayce was nothing more than an inconvenience. how do you handle him saying they were never friends? was this because of piltoverians superiority or? (correct me if im wrong but i cant remember if you touched on that)

A friend of mine once said a catastrophic breakup has the unforeseen consequence of tainting everything that came before it in the harsh, abrasive light of the fresh argument, and after that initial damage is done it’s hard to pick out how the memories *really* were. No matter how positive. You begin to doubt, re-read and re-write what happened, so the ultimate split "makes sense."

This may not even be a conscious process half of the time! But jokes about crazy-ex-girlfriends exist for a reason, and I believe that reason might be a surplus of unwarranted crazy-ex-girlfriend stories that are told after the dissolution of every messy relationship. You need a clear Right and a clear Wrong. Rationalizing your behavior as “only logical, in the face of irrationality,” is a defense mechanism. It’s not a pretty one, but it boils down to this: avoidance of guilt, rejection of any criticism you may consider too true, the reshaping of your narrative so *you* are the one in control, the winner, the guy who’s closing the debate with the perfect comeback, one thought up in the shower 12 hours after the fact.

Viktor lies a lot. By omission, exaggeration, negligence and a sense of dwindling pride. Jayce is simultaneously unstoppably unjust and a worm-man that could be crushed beneath his heel; an insufferable viktor never chose for himself! Who is, at the same time, somehow, his work partner of years, actively by his side right up until his last project - or until he's had enough. And the dissonance is the point. This is an image that has been warped so much in editing you can see the smudgy click and drag marks in the surroundings. 

I do think Jayce and Viktor were friends, and this is an assertion I make without doubt. Viktor calls jayce his old friend when the plea benefits him, this is corroborated by how positively Jayce's bio speaks about Viktor, even while criticizing his methods.

Jayce is indifferent to nearly everyone he meets, he says so himself, in his opening paragraphs; if he really was so Out There To Get Viktor And Ruin His Life &/Or Reputation- what fucking reason does he have to defend Viktor's honor after he's proved himself to be unstable and aggressive? If their relationship was nonexistent, sour, or predicated exclusively in rivalry or animosity, why does Viktor ask for Jayce to join him in his grand plan, after years of alleged cold war? What reason is there for Jayce to apologize and still extend him an out after Viktor sinks his head in with a giant crystal? What reason is there for him to even disclose doing that? (what reason is there for Jayce to call Viktor petnames after multiple direct attempts on his life???? LOL)

To put it mildly. If we are to take Viktor’s POV by his word (imagine he is being honest,) and see this as a straightforward detached revenge story about prejudice or jayce’s unreasonable hero complex or piltover carelessly wanting to trump over zaun or whatever - why doesn’t Jayce’s side of the story simply call him a cunt and move on? He has all the setup to prop himself as the true hero, but he doesn’t. Like Bon points out here, Jayce’s bio doesn’t even bring up that Viktor is a Zaunite. Not Once. There is no stereotypical city grudge casting him in a bad light. The information is implicit: they talk about Zaun, extensively, but Viktor’s ideas and standing and existence are what you know him by, not some undercity-dwelling boogeyman. If anything, Jayce self-deprecates far more frequently than Viktor does, and makes a sustained effort to poke holes on the audience’s perception of him being a ‘valiant hearted hero’ of any kind. He dont give a fuck. He doesn't want this title. He did not pick it. He is not choosing to represent this city. He has other, better, palpable things to care about. Namely his work, and generally ‘preventing people from being made into fucking zombies’. Jayce doesn’t want you to think that he is right(eous), but that what is happening is wrong.

If I take a step back from text interpretation here and tell you what I personally gather from it, Opinion Wise, it's this: Viktor is concerned with presenting you with a tragic fable because he has an ideology to sell. The revisions and concessions he makes along the way are for the ultimate purpose of crafting a legend. And sometimes that requires humility. He needs the rationalization to make sense of every single bad thing that has ever happened in his life; and in his way there he also tends to mix up one sore spot with the other, like they're all this elaborate multi-step prank destiny sprung on him, like every single other person in his life has been Lowkey Conspiring Against Him, so you can eventually agree to this:

Humans suck, right? We agree humans suck, right, guys? I mean wouldn't we love it if humans didn't suck? Thats Why I Came Up With A Solution!! THE NEURALINK. - Viktor. (note: whenever there's a mention of the student body, swap it with 'Jayce' to see how the motivation builds up. Viktor makes an effort to omit him whenever possible anyway)

He's kind of at the end of his rope. This is his last ditch effort to build himself back up.

Generally speaking, the opposite goes for Jayce. He frontloads his statement with mentions of how he is a huge dipshit, unabashedly so, to get really at the meat of things: He thinks Viktor's preaching is fucking bogus, but the point is that guy used to be his friend. That guy used to be someone he knew! That guy was brilliant at what he did, even, but something went really terribly wrong down the line and it's frankly fucked up that it happened. But nobody really cares nor can they fully understand, because as Jayce previously stated, maybe everyone else is kind of fucking stupid, so he has to fix things on his own. (Jayce doesn't have any 'I stand for justice and righteousness and the american way,' comeback prepared to rebuke Viktor's speeches. That sentence could make him barf. He just has very strong feelings about where the line is drawn, and he’s not going to wait for the worst case scenario before doing something.)

I do think that more than anything else, It’s important (and telling) that both of their bios admit to them being deeply hurt by their falling-out. Jayce calls it ‘growing more insular’, Viktor calls it ‘traumatic’, there are attempts to patch things back up on either side (even if a bit tilted, even if the propositions don’t work) Viktor regrets trusting anyone at all, so he covers it up with detachment. Jayce regrets not having enough faith to communicate anything, when he could have, so he tries his best to own up to every present or imagined failure in his way towards improvement.

Of course Viktor would describe Jayce as inconvenient. Viktor is one of the many perceived past failures Jayce is desperately trying to do damage control for. And if he *can’t* change Viktor’s mind, well. At least Jayce can stand in his way and be really, really annoying.

there was a thought process involved here

I may love viktor in all his shapes and forms, but i gotta be honest: he's charactarisation is all over the place. With these new Convergence comics i think this guy now has like 4 different personalities and tbh all i want is for creators to find him a direction that they could stick with.

Funniest thing about Viktor by the way is that 2 out of 4 of his "Associates" in the card game are Canonically Trans.

Like, Fun Fact: Viktor will give out free Transitions to his followers when he's augmenting them into Androids.

(In case anyone is wondering, the canon trans ones are the Cat (FtM) and the Long Haired Mimic (Non-Binary))

(tho who knows about the other two. Pretty sure Ballistic Bot at least doesn't really have a gender anymore, if you were to ask him what their gender was he'd probably yell "GENDER IS OBSOLETE" or "WHO NEEDS A GENDER WHEN YOU HAVE A CANNON!" And then he'd start blasting)

(before anyone asks Ballistic Bot isn't a Robot he is a dude that used to work customer service and got so fed up with it he joined Viktor's gang so he could put his brain in this new metal body with a in built cannon and start blasting while being fueled by spite and rage).

(The guy with the metal hand is just some dude that wanted to have a metal hand and be shirtless).

So there this artist on twitter that edits and draws fem vik (olapilipovic) and I get inspired because I also read something cool on a03 so I try to edit. I'm not an artist though so this is wonky edit :p

I just really like viktor no matter what form , man woman or robot 😂

ugh yeah the update that changed legends of runeterra path of champions really ruined it, i really like playing jayce and viktor in that game and they just? removed them. and also removed all the charm of it. huge bummer. apparently they'll be adding more champions over time so hopefully the boys get added back in eventually at least :/

Ugh I really hope so. I was reading the update so I have SOME hope, and honestly there are some aspects of the path of champions 2.0 that I really like. I enjoy the kind of umbrella quests alongside the personal ones (tbh I’m not incredible at card games so I enjoy that I can pick WHO I beat ezreal and gangplank with, etc), and the graphics are really pretty. The champion shards are really unbalanced right now though I think, and I just miss my boys T.T

Even without the comics, just hearing Jayce and Viktor’s little voice lines made me almost unreasonably happy lmfao. They said they can be summoned as support champions but I’ve been playing quite a bit and I haven’t gotten them yet?

But yeah I just really wanted to get Viktor without spending money 😅😭 I’ve heard a lot of people jokingly hate on Ezreal— I don’t know enough about him tbh but now I kinda hate him too after that drop LMFAO

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Viktor's POV of Vi's story in Legends of Runeterra

it was Aphelios and zoe!!!

Viktor and Zoe have always been one of my favorite decks to play in LOR and lately Aphelios joined the party.

Ok, i could have cheated a little with Aphelios since the one on the left was originally Ballisticbot (a Viktor follower), but in the end I wanted to put a champion in the table to complete the trio.

Listen

I know that "doomed by the narrative" has been so overused that is now a meme but honestly? How terrifying, how sad, that the moment you see them both together you already know how it's going to end. The final step of their journey is already written, it has been for kver a decade now. When Viktor saves Jayce's life, when he encourages him to pursue his dreams, and Jayce looks back at him with nothing but pure awe, and yet you, the audience know that they will end up hurting each other so badly, that everything will go up in flames, that they are destined to hate

The narrative is already set. We are just here for the journey.

🙃

Ughhhhhhh I guess my only hope is that they can maybe change it a little? Or maybe get through the really contentious divorce era, they go at each other’s throats all season, and come out at the end with… not reconciliation, I think that’s too much to hope for, but… mutual understanding? Like… they can’t be lovers friends again, they’ll never be close like they were, but maybe there’s a respect there? A lot of the League lore suggests that Jayce is very remorseful over what happened, and would leap at the opportunity to make amends. I always go back to the interaction in Jayce’s LoR story. He was just so ready to end the fight between them. And Arcane has certainly softened the image of Jayce (I know that’s so that he can be hardened by his life experiences, but… the writers have a daunting task ahead of turning this sweet, non-confrontational person into a stuck-up asshole), so my hope is that they lean on that softer image and maybe get to a point where he and Viktor can coexist semi-peacefully? And this is totally not at all spurred by my need to have something to work with fanfic-wise 🫣

Really as long as they’re both alive at the end of the season, I’m good. I will smush them together regardless. My one fear is that Viktor falls victim to the old “redemption by death” trope. The Kylo Renification, if you will.

Redemption by death is such a cheap cop-out, and I am so fucking sick of it. If you’re going to redeem a “villain,” don’t be lazy. Leave them alive to make amends, let them face the consequences and work through them. It can be done. Zuko from Avatar. The Digimon Emperor from Digimon. (don’t judge me, I am a Olde™). Loki.

Idk, I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that they tweak the JayVik narrative doom a little.🤞

THIS FIC AND JAYVIK ACADEMIA RIVALRY WITH THICK PLOT OR SMTHN. I love it when they fight im sorry 😭😭😭 still a sad thing that they won't be endgame according to tags but yknw. STILL. SO MUCH JV CONTENT

Question, why do so many people view Jayce (Giopara) as an asshole? 🤔

I've recently only gotten into LoL, but this seems to be a weirdly widespread opinion that I just can't understand?

From what I've seen from reading Jayce's bio, short story, and his LoR interactions, he seems genuinely... nice? His workers in LoR seem especially fond of him.

He sure is sassy and snippy (as we can see in his short story with Amaranthine), but if anything that just makes him extremely charming to me. He (or at least his newer iterations) subverts the super hero trope and I love it; he's a bitter middle-aged man with regrets but nonetheless still charming and caring (at least from what I've seen)

Honestly, the only thing I've really seen that could describe himself as a selfish asshole is, well... Himself (and Viktor, I guess you could argue but they're both extremely unreliable narrators)

Maybe I missed something? Anyways, would love your thoughts on this <:3c

Would love to learn more about Jayce <3

LMAO IM SO SORRY GOD you have the right mindset already. Like to be honest? 99% of the people who hate jayce only do so because they read Viktor's bio in isolation, assumed it was the entire truth, and begin to treat jayce like the defacto villain.

Sometimes they haven't even read the text themselves, they get told on twitter or wherever else that jayce has committed COUNTLESS CRIMES against viktorwubbykins and regardless of how made-up the claims are they accept it as truth and keep it going. I literally have gotten paragraph-long comments on my works complaining about how 'jayce STOLE blitzcrank' and other bullshit before and its like erm.... he had nothing to do with that. The university staff did that. He was just a student. lmfao

and the whole time jayce's bio is just like 'isnt it sad how viktor was awesome once and then he got redpilled. it really sucks. miss you dude :( might beat u up though. sorry'