One Of My Favorite Universes To Make Up Is A Mild Crossover Between League Canon And Arcane Canon Where

I've been chipping away at this edit for AGES now, and here it is! I believe I've cooked. :3c Featuring art from @randomalistic's video essay! Song used is The Toybox by Stupendium!

Made an arcane fan animation hehe

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

I'm starting to get a little silly w/ them.

Love the idea of everyone assuming Jayce and Viktor are dating when they call the other their partner 😂

Putting Giopara in arcane situations is so funny to me.

Mel: I propose that Jayce Giopara is elected to the council

Giopara: not at all respectfully I would rather kill myself, fuck you.

Viktor: we are NOT creating weapons

Giopara: too fucking late.

Himerdinger: wait a few decades and I’m sure it will be ready

Giopara: I wasn’t asking permission!?

just a doodle seeing that tweet about Machine Herald and Jayce Talis meeting, and this Jayce sympathizing with MH, and might even be intrigued on how he did the cyborg augmentation

Every day is Goku/Piccolo day when you have ✨ Nostalgia ✨

Arcane fans learning about league jayvik dynamic fills me with so much joy bc they'll keep existing alongside arcane jayvik. Machine Herald and Jayce Giopara dynamic means so much to me I was afraid they would disappear

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.