In The Astral Plane ✨

have Mel in her twenties! very roughly inspired by a rococo painting I saw a while back

i'm losing my mind thinking about how everything from jayce’s visit to the commune in act 2 to the battle of piltover in act 3 was always a rescue mission.

this man said, “send me back. i won’t fail.” jayce returned from the alternate timeline with ONE task. get to viktor. talk to him. TOUCH HIM. try again. and hope that it's different this time.

the expression on his face as he kneels isn’t hopelessness or him gearing up to try some last ditch effort to save tomorrow. jayce was NOT laying down arms in surrender and this is NOT the look of despair or defeat.

its the look of realisation. that THIS is the moment he he’s been waiting for — the moment he has been fighting his way to since he came back from the alternate timeline. it’s him rooting himself with utmost trust in viktor. in the two of them. in his love for viktor. in their love.

jayce didn’t even know much else beyond the fact that viktor has cycled through different timelines and different runestones, hoping to find salvation. and that he needs to reach this exact moment in time — where he kneels in submission before viktor on top of the hexgate. the penultimate point at which he can show viktor he cares; that he’s here and that he wants to see; that he understands — as he always has; that he still loves him and always will.

because at the end of it all, that’s what mattered. their unconditional love for and understanding of one another is what tore the seams of the cosmos and ultimately stitched them back together. it had to be them. it was always them. in every timeline and in every possibility.

it was here that he realised this is it. right here. this is the moment.

Yeah so it’s been a while but I will try posting more on here I swear

can someone please give me the worst arcane takes they’ve seen from tiktok/twitter?

ive been told numerous times that both of those sites have the most diabolical interpretations known to man, and im seriously curious on how bad it actually is

there's other things going on in these snippets but one thing im quickly finding out writing the two mages au from viktor's pov is that he's lowkey falling hard and fast for mel. which i definitely didnt expect but straight up i think her skill and capability with magic + perceived put togetherness is making him kind of idolize her. and she's probably going to have some complicated feelings about that given her perfectionism and difficulty being genuine and vulnerable with people

it's about how jinx was always perfect in silco's eyes. it's about how jayce always loved viktor because he was imperfect. it's about jinx saying, "i thought maybe you could love me like you used to, even though i'm... different." it's about viktor saying, "i am more than i ever was." silco bringing jinx back to life after she tried to kill herself on the bridge; jayce bringing viktor back to life despite his promise to destroy the hexcore. it's about jinx's "looks like you got a couple" cutting to the core of viktor's obsession with curing himself, and viktor instantly parrying with "you have much to offer this commune, powder," a stark reminder of the child she no longer is, the child people won't stop recognizing her as.

vi accusing jinx of murdering powder. jayce snarling that his partner died in this room. vi's lesson being that she has to accept jinx for who she is now, who she has the potential to be in the future, and to stop letting her grief for powder eclipse her love for jinx in the present - jayce's lesson being that he has to experience the world through viktor's eyes to really understand him, and then he has to show viktor how he has always seen him, and everything else only gets in the way. silco telling jinx that she needs to find the strength to walk away, or the cycle will never end. jayce and viktor ending the cycle together.

i'm always with you, sis. even when we're worlds apart. // in all timelines, all possibilities... only you can show me this.

Jayce, Jayce, Viktor

affection that held us together

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