((Piccolo Then Choked On His Drink And Had A Coughing Fit.))

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

viktor got a bit too eager

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 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

I’m totally obsessed with canon that Jayce constantly draws Viktor

Only you

One of my favorite universes to make up is a mild crossover between League canon and Arcane canon where Jayce and Viktor are cousins with their League counterparts, with the League versions being older.

Not only because the Arcane and League versions are very different and it's really fun to make different stories and dynamics with them all, but because of 2 things

1) Making comparisons and contrasts with the Jayces and Viktors, like how they relate with the family dynamics (like how cousins with the same name absolutely need different nicknames to be told apart or how they look somehow completely different but the same man in different fonts)

2) How Vikjayce somehow ends up being less catastrophically messy by comparison to Jayvik, despite the much worse starting point as the only people who can stand the other's ego

I love this quote sm