I Can Personally Do A Whole Analysis Rant About Why Raditz Deserved Better, Based Off This One Manga

do you hear me, achilles? i'm talking to you

song: achilles, come down by gang of youths

exploration of dean, aka my achilles, & violence

Rest in peace League of Legends Machine Herald and Jayce of Clan Giopara, I’ll miss your Megamind and Metroman vibe.

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!

Just silly sketches of

Jayce Talis meeting MH/League! Viktor

And Jayce Giopara meeting Arcane!Viktor (who's off screen)

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

Arcane Viktor: Why do you persist? After everything I've done?

Arcane Jayce: Because I promised you.

Game Jayce:

Game Viktor:

Game Jayce: I hate myself so much right now.

Game Viktor: Finally we agree on something.

So Ximena got mentioned not so long ago and now I’m wondering what you think her relationship with Viktor looked like? Like, she obviously had to know he was important to Jayce which would endear him to her. But do you think they got close at all? Like, I can see her inviting him to dinner or something, but would Viktor feel comfortable accepting that?

Like, they both love Jayce, they both have disabilities, from what little we see of Ximena, I think she cares a lot. Would she try to mother him and would he hate that? Did she ever tease Jayce about making an honest man of Viktor? Did Jayce ever drop the “he saved my life” line and make her realize how close she came to losing her son? Because she would love Viktor for that alone.

Idk, I just had thoughts.

I think ultimately it would come down to what a fic writer is trying to accomplish, because I don't think there's canon for it, it would really come down to the kind of story you want to tell.

For example:

I can see a take where Viktor is quite close with Ximena. Jayce invites him over often, she either sees Viktor as a second son (either as a brother to Jayce or a son-in-law) and is constantly insisting that Jayce bring him by. And like you said, especially if Ximena learned that Viktor is basically single-handedly the reason Jayce is alive (and HER for that matter lol) then I could see her being a huge fan of his.

I can see a take where despite Ximena and Jayce's best efforts, Viktor's self-isolating tendencies prohibit a closer relationship. Jayce invites him over a lot, but Viktor holds himself back. He knows her a bit from certain events, but he's only ever made small talk with her. In such a world too, they could just be tepid because technically, Viktor is Jayce's co-worker and I personally don't really introduce my co-workers to my mom, that feels very weird.

I can even, in THEORY, see a case where Ximena doesn't like Viktor. She was trying to get Jayce to give up on Hextech entirely when Viktor swooped in and encouraged him. Now, I find this one the least realistic. Ximena is proud of Jayce for Hextech by the time we get to Progress Day, and Viktor definitely saved Jayce from jumping. But I just throw it out there cuz a lot of fics I guess had Caitlyn's dad liking Vi a lot only for S2 to show he doesn't like her AT ALL, so y'know, I'd reserve a wild card space for "Ximena is prejudiced against the undercity too, she's wary of Viktor because of how he encouraged Jayce's dangerous obsession with magic, and Viktor is just generally stand-offish and unpleasant with her so they rarely interact." It's as valid a take as the others.

Still on my bullshit and honestly it’s only gotten worse

Behold: My Vikjayce crash out masterpiece.

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