I feel strange and a lil awkward (dejected really) that sometimes it feels like I'm the only one that loves pre-Arcane LoL-canon!Jayce. I feel like I was the only one excited to hear that Jayce would be in Arcane.
He's been one of my critters for a little over 10 years now.
He's actually the only reason I watched Arcane. Because as someone who plays both ADC and Support, I fucking hate Cait and VI.
LoL!Jayce is forgotten, boring, pompous, arrogant, a genius that's a fucking moron, and a giant ass. Seriously, the guy's a dick.
But, because he's a dick but also a hero it actually makes him extremely compelling to me. He's full of contradictions:
He thinks he's better than everyone else yet also wants the world for everyone.
He wants everyone to be safe and happy but also he just really doesn't like people.
He's arrogant and self-centered but also awkward and anti-social.
Self-centered but not selfish.
Full of morals and ethics yet incredibly weak-willed and naive when it comes to the few people he admires.
He's this big, important inventor and defender of Piltover but also he has like 2 friends because no one can stand him.
He learns humility and that he's a giant fuckin' jerk through his own insecurity when he's not smart enough to immediately figure out a scientific problem. It actually causes him to rethink about life, people, and how he interacts with others. He realizes he needs to fix it but doesn't know how and has to fight against his nature to not be a total douche.
Jayce makes no sense in a perfectly human way. It's this garbled mess of a personality that makes him feel truly human to me.
this is my first time drawing raditz..............................
shoutout to earth!raditz aus. im such a sucker for goku getting more family members. unfortunately raditz is an older brother ie. is meanie peepee caca stinkyhead
I could wax poetic about why Viktor's League backstory is inherently more interesting and more thematically resonant than where they went with him in Arcane season 2, but the cold hard truth is
a man covered in grease and probably blood who builds his own body out of scraps with his own two hands, can in fact build any contraption out of dinted metal sheets and a few screws including a deathray, performs deeply inadvisable operations on desperate but consenting people with his own tools, generates a cult following against his wishes because of his ability to inadvisably help people but the power's all his now anyway so he may as well, wants to clean up and save the undercity but is (only sort of) misunderstood as a walking Geneva Convention violation a freak and a supervillain, torments his arch-nemesis on at least a weekly basis and probably homoerotically hunts him for sport, had his life's work misattributed to people in the ruling class and is angry and tragic about it forever, tries to rip out his own emotions and is unsuccessful but pretends like he was not, is actually oddly kind to children, and is at the end of the day still just some guy,
is just hotter okay
poor Dan will never live this down
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.
Thanks to @chickenoptyrx for this great commission ;)
I DARE YOU TO LOOK HER IN THE EYES AND TELL HER THAT SHES NOT CANON
I hate that they're retconnining League Jayce and Vitkor PLEASE JUST LET THEN EXIST SEPERATELY FROM ARCANE I SWEAR BC ARCANE JAYCE AND V LITERALLY GOT PUT TO REST SO LET ARCANE J AND V EXIST IN THE COSMOS AND GIOPARA AND HERALD SUFFER AS DIVORCED HUSBANDS PLEASE WHY CANT THEY JUST COEXIST I SWEAR YOU COULDVE STILL UPDATED LEAGUE VIKTOR'S DESIGN WITHOUT TURNING HIM INTO SOMEONE HE'S NOT
Arcane Jayce would never do half the shit League Jayce does and that's okay let them be separate
THEY GOT JAYCE TOO??!?! NOOOOO
I think Raditz would make an okay parent if he had the chance to have his own child. He would be far from perfect, but he still tries his best.
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Father and son bonding ❤️
The art without the screenshot background ;v;