Ngl Arcane!viktor Has Spread Propaganda That Machine Herald/LoL!viktor Is A Reasonable Person. Like I

Some JayViks and a little but of VikJay

Enemies to lovers, 500k words, slow burn, angst with happy ending

Completely forgot to post this here

viktor got a bit too eager

gay

lmfao jayce giopara would NEVER have used that hex core on viktor, dead body or no. say what you will about that scary white man he would let the dead stay dead. that’s why i think jayce talis is perhaps more unhinged and therefore scarier than his league counterpart. in this essay i will

me drawing league jayvik to escape arcane <33

forgot to share this here

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.

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