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Heimerdinger had to 'die' in the other dimension because if he came back with Ekko he would've derailed the entire arc with one sentence.
Heimerdinger, to Jayce: My boy...I'm afraid we have to go put my former assistant out of his misery. For the greater good.
Jayce [was about to go kill Viktor]: He's my partner. And I'm afraid I can't let you do that.
Heimerdinger: That's not up to you, my boy, but for what it's worth, I'm sorry it had to come to this.
Jayce: me too.
And then Heimerdinger gets the Salo special.
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Basically, like what happens when parents tell their kids to clean their room RIGHT when they're about to do it themselves, Jayce loses all motivation to kill Viktor when Heimerdinger says it's the only option.
Ekko arrives a bit earlier just as Jayce is shooting Viktor in the chest. Jayce gets sent back in time somehow from the combined power of the Z-Drive and the Commune's collective death.
Jayce's consciousness rockets back in time and splices with his younger self just as he's finished 'negotiating' with Silco. Still reeling from his Arcane induced-trauma and killing his partner as well as who knows how many people by proxy, he arrives half feral and about 99.7% convinced he's either hallucinating or in Runeterra's version of Hell.
Jayce, canonically suicidal, Talis comes to the conclusion that he needs to blow up the Hex Gates and that the resulting explosions will either jar him out of his hallucination or finally put him out his misery and let him join Viktor.
Unfortunately, after months spent in isolation in an apocalyptic future, Jayce has gained an unfortunate habit of talking to himself as he figures out problems.
And Silco has been standing there the whole time.
Silco reiterates that he's not going to give up Jinx and Jayce just goes 'I don't give a fuck about her anymore' and attempts to leave.
Silco is absolutely befuddled by Jayce's complete personality change, but refuses to show it. After raising Jinx, he's learned a few methods for bringing people back from the edge. And considering his investment in getting access to the Hex Gates, he is very unwilling to let Jayce just walk away.
Especially when Jayce mentions he's supposed to be dead.
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Silco convinces Jayce he'll need an explosions expert and that he'd never be able to blow up all the Hex Gates by himself. Jayce holds resentment for Jinx blowing up his partner and pseudo-sister's mom but had calmed down enough to realize that if he was in the past, it would be better to be close to Jinx and prevent history from repeating itself.
Cue Silco and Sevika having to wrangle Arcane-ified Jayce and Shimmered Jinx and prevent them both from causing Hexplosions.
Jayce, dis-illusioned with the Council, decides it would be faster to just pull a Viktor and 'not ask for permission' before destroying Hextech. He tells Silco that if he's willing to help destroy the Hex Gates, he'll give him his nation of Zaun -- and pardon Jinx.
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Elsewhere, in Piltover, Viktor has collapsed in the lab and entered a coma. There's a strange pattern on his chest and back. Almost as if he'd been shot with a very powerful energy blast from a very large hammer. But no injury, it was as if it had already been healed.
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When Jinx kidnaps Cait and Vi, Jayce is the one to ask her to spare Cait and let her leave. But also, the one to stop Cait from shooting Jinx.
"Stand down, Sprout."
"What are you doing! She's killed people Jayce."
"So have I. And I need her." Jayce is still suffering hallucinations and time-travel-induced jetlag, so in the tense moment he forget when he is and admits to killing Salo and blowing a hole through Viktor's chest.
Caitlyn is more shocked by the latter, "You-you killed Viktor?" She liked Viktor as a friend, they got along despite their differences. "Why? Why would you do that!"
Jayce, dissociating and in complete sincerity, "Because I needed to save him."
Following that insane response, Jayce slowly walks toward Cait with a pleading look in his eye, "Jinx is going to help me destroy HexTech and then we can save everyone. And then I can focus on curing Viktor!"
Cait looks into Jayce's -her brother's- eyes and understands Vi a little bit more, her desperation to see the good in Jinx.
Caitlyn can see her brother in this stranger's eyes, but he feels miles away. She has no idea how she's going to reach him.
do i save this to my tarot collection
or my arcane blog.
they didn't kiss but their destinies are intertwined forever. they didn't kiss but in every universe they find each other and only jayce can make viktor understand his faults. they didnt kiss but jayce doomed viktor to his fate as the machine herald and then saved him. they didn't kiss but their love literally saved the world
IM GOING INSANEEE
This is so pretty and cute and omg!!!!
the way Victor's eyes looked worried/thinking before he lept into the kiss, his eyes looking at Jayce's lips, just a slight moment of hesitation and thought before he did it
How Victor looked worried, before both him and jayace smiled at eachother
Jayces eyes crinkling slightly as he smiled, realising that Victor had kissed him, before peppering him with kisses, making vicor laugh with joy and amusement as jayce kissed him
Their expressions are so beautiful đđ
I'm in love with this omggg
i promised you đŠ
(crossposting from x, bsky, & ig)
I love when platonic love and romantic love is so blurred that it doesnât even matter anymore. All that matters is the devotion thatâs there, the unwavering devotion
handcrafted this one myself. riotgames i just want to talk
in another universe, they grow up together
As an ace person myself: ignore it. Please. I promise we wonât get mad.
PSA please stop acting like Viktor is "confirmed" ace when the only person who ever said that was Christian Bigot Linke a couple of days ago on some obscure podcast in a desperate attempt to stop JayVik shipping after the show was finished.
Literally no one else who worked on the show has said that, actually they've stated the opposite...
Please don't give this man more power than he actually has (which really isn't much??)
You know what pisses me the fuck off? All the people saying that jayvik is gayer than caitvi. The lesbian couple were canonized, given a great ending where neither of them died, and somehow you think the two men are more gay? None of you value lesbians the way you do gay men. The entire arcane tag is just jayvik. In season 1, it was all about how cait and vi arenât actually gay! Itâs just subtext! And then when they are confirmed to be raging lesbians, they somehow arenât gay enough, but the gay subtext between two men is gay enough. I hate all of you.
Arcane fandom right now:
WHat dO yOu mEAn SHe is deAD NO SHE ISN't TaKE THAT BACK
"Maybe in another life" "Why not this one"
SESBIAN LEX LETS GOOOOOOOOOO
He got his partner back but at what cost
I WAAAANA FEEL IT... I BET ON LOOSING DOGSSSSSSS
"I finished Arcane or did Arcane finish me" "I don't know about you but Cait did finish and that is all that matters"
A WIN FOR THE LESBIANS. A WIN FOR THE BISEXUALS. A MASSIVE LOSS FOR THE GAYS
Guess what's back
I'm still not okay after reading the Playlist for When Your Boyfriend Stops Breathing by @sunsetplums, still listening to the playlist too Ëâ Ë p.s. Birbâs name is Mango, she used to live with the ficâs author but passed away just a couple days ago so now Jayce is looking after her. Faint music on the bg is My dÄti ze stanice Bullerbyn by KvÄty
JAYVIK NATION, STOP IT.
all that remained were fields of dreamless solitude
only you can show me this
Only you...
In all timelines, in all possibilities
one, tries to fly, away and the other...
two birds on a wire
THE WAY THE BOTTLE FLEW TO MY HAND, I'M SICK.
Hi so what do you mean the innovators competition that au ekko and powder danced and fell in love in is the same one jayce and viktor went to in the canon universe haha what do you mean. haha what do you. what do. you.
tiktok credit to: @naxa._439 (if anyone wants to make a fic based on this PLEASE im begging u)
STOP.
in another universe, they grow up together
EXACTLY!!! Also, why can't they confess normally??? Like "I like you" or smth
AND THEN THEY ROLL UP WITH:
"There is beauty in imperfections, they made you who you are." âOur paths diverged long ago. It was⊠affection, that held us together.â "Love is the most twisted curse of all.â âMy six eyes tell me youâre Suguru Geto. But my heart and my soul knows otherwise!â
Y'ALL DRAMATIC AF!! should be even saying this im gay
why can't gay people flirt normally
like "ur cute," "no ur cute," isn't that hard
it doesn't have to be:
"finally the flesh reflects the madness within,"
"well, you'd know all about the madness within wouldn't you remus?"
We need a word for this genre of relationship where fumbling the baddie leads to a rapidly increasing body count.
ONE of them pulled an all-nighter in the lab. guess who.
bonus smooches:
in all timelines in all possibilities only you can show me this
i bought a property on emberlift alley and what they do for you is they give you the property