They All Got Spat Out By The Anomaly

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Sorry I drew this in a dark car and frozen fingers so it’s kinda janky 😔 but they haven’t left my goddamn head AUGHH Something about their league designs tickles me extra fancy so why not show some of that… infatuation through the man himself

Also an excuse for me to practice drawing them ❤️

Because I’m a sucker for Jayce looking at Viktor with a bit too much love in his eyes, and am fully convinced that they have moments when they almost end up kissing …

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This is a rough comic thing I made for a video. This version of Jayce and Viktor is a mashup of their arcane and league versions

i think a lot about how ultimately, league jayce and viktor’s story was about elitism in academia — more than that, it has a lot to say about restrictions that are created in sponsor-ship based academia, which ultimately creates restrictions based on the “acceptability” or “fundability” of research, which ultimately leads to an academia that only serves the elite.

like, jayce (both in arcane and league) is a member of the middle class. whether or not its blue collar or upper middle class remains to be seen/up to interpretation, but the fact remains that he’s NOT a member of the elite. viktor is also NOT a member of the elite, he’s from the literal lowest echelon of their society. but the difference between them is the veneer of respectability politics. jayce ingratiates himself to piltover’s elite, becomes an apprenta for them, takes on the name of one of the highest houses in piltover’s upper class (giopara) and later moves to work directly under a house even more revered (ferros), thanks to their tireless work in keeping the lower caste (zaun) oppressed.

viktor, on the other hand, is ousted from the academic circle both he and jayce operated within when his work is STOLEN by stanwick, who is a professor with familial ties TO piltover’s elite, and also in a position of much higher authority by virtue of being a professor. viktor represents grassroots, anti-establishment academia, which is both entirely unregulated (an issue in and of itself! by the way!) but also in no way even allowed to sniff at the kinds of legitimacy only conferred to academics in that circle of elites.

both jayce and viktor are brilliant. but it’s also because of that ever present boot on the neck of academic progress (the rich) that neither of their work is actually able to do any of the good both aspire to. league jayce is a glorified weapons maker and superhero. viktor is reduced to a madman with no regard for free will, his actual contributions left in the dirt because they are “unappealing.” meanwhile, the real problem — camille ferros, for one — profits off the both of them.

do NOT get me started on how this manifests in arcane.

The plot is left as an exercise for the reader 😌 (The way I conceive this is as I normally do for Gohan and Cell shit: there is a Big Bad Evil that everyone is struggling with, and for Plot Reasons Cell was either brought back to help or brought back by accident due to Big Bad Evil. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so they're forced to work together to defeat the Big Bad Evil!)

EDIT: A note: when Gohan asks Cell to take him to his dad via instant transmission, I imagined all manner of quips for Cell ("use your brain, if I could do it I would have done it", "I'm not gonna do it for YOU, except I can't do it anyways", etc.) but I think Cell can be cooperative when he's not riled up, so I kept it simple.

Yes, Jayce Talis would practically become Victor Frankenstein or a necromancer to keep Viktor with him, but you know who else would do it? Machine Herald. I just know that mf would turn Giopara half machine just to keep him alive and I honestly think it doesn't matter if is out of love, or bc he wants to prove his work was worth, because both are quite interesting to explore. That's why, for me, vikjayce is a step ahead, bc with Arcane you know is 100% devotion, in og lore?? They have a false screen of a simple dynamic, but they are both trapped in that false dynamic while also beliving thats the only way for them. It could be any reason or no reason at all. Vengeance or love, love and vengeance.

Innovators competition prize winning photo

i missed this on my first read,, look at the little baby ☹️☹️