Tbh I Feel Like The Reason Why Original Lore Jayvik Is Still So Much Better Than Arcane Jayvik Is That

I’d like to thank Hfil for showing me Cell X Raditz, god I love this rarepair guys, here’s the clip that made me LOVE it.

(Credits to TFS!! Clip duration 37 Secs.)

Love these two so much ugh they want eachother so bad I say (I don’t have a name for them yet )

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.

Uhhhh we don’t have to do that right

Arcane Jayce: You should be up there with me.

Arcane Viktor: No, no, no, not in front of all those people.

Game Viktor: Hold my sweetmilk.

Game Jayce: I got your sweetmilk, honey, slay.

Arcane Viktor: I will end him.

Game Jayce: You will embrace that you are a hottie and bewitch your Jayce like the gods intended.

viktor got a bit too eager

Unpopular Opinion: I hate that they are rewriting League Jayce and League Viktor, and replacing them with the Arcane designs.

I actually hate that.

They could have just added more skins and left the League story as it was. I love League Jayce and Viktor. 😭 Sure, Jayce sucks in that world, but that's great too. 🥹😂 I love that asshole. He even has a different name. Jayce Giopara. Look at that, very arrogant. 😂 And I love League Viktor. I love that he's a selfish hypocrite. 💀💀💀 I love it when Viktor's a villain. 😌✨ I love his cyborg voice and I love Jayce's easy going voice too.

All of us fans love Arcane, but League fans were there first. They fell in love with all the things that make League League (even if a majority of those things involve madness and crying yourself to sleep. 💀). STILL! Don't mess with a good formula. 🥺

I understand changing certain designs (Vi, Jinx, Ekko - especially Ekko, what was that Lord awful hair?! 😭), but leave Jayce and Viktor's old story alone. 😔 Let us use it to write AU fanfic.

Completely forgot to post this here

Dad let his son go. There's no other way to interpret this. His father let child go into adulthood with his beloved. Gaaah. Now it's clearly not just an OTP. I'm Nezhabing believer. Gosh. My heart is pounding so hard. I hadn't felt that from ships in a long time. Wow. It's crazy. A father let his son go so that he could return to his other half. And his half waited for him. I'm speechless.

wait hear me out jayce talis and jayce giopara swapped bodies and while they try to find a way to go back to their own timeline, they also have to learn to deal with the new timeline's viktors as well