Every time I think about Fallout abd Arcane within a specific span of time of each other, the goblin in my brain threatens to let those wires cross, but I won't let it happen since I would envision Viktor going through ghoulification and no one would be happy about that (except me).

enamoured by the idea of Jayce and VIktor at a games done quick type event, showcasing whatever game is their specialty with Jayce at the controls and Viktor behind him on the couch as they riff off each other, entertaining the crowd and also so obviously flirting if you think about it for 1 second.

Speedrun AU: They only refer to each other as their online handles. IRL Viktor is well aware of Mr Talis from conferences/interviews Jayce is put at the forefront of that Viktor has had to sit through. IRL Jayce also knows about Viktor from his accomplishments but has never been able to talk to him-

I understand the chorus of Missilia Amori by Ghost is a little cringe but everything else about the song is season 2 Viktor being an obsessive violent ex to Jayce in my opinion and no one can change that.

Speedrunner jayce getting annoyed at pissy comments about how he runs emulator w/ keyboard over og hardware, so he boots up a stream showing 1st pov him turning on a console and a crt TV then using controller to do all the same tricks to beat the 4th place record for the game 1st try, no practice-

gamer jayvik au but they're both speedrunners where they bond over doing TAS shit to break apart games to find new tricks to bring the records down while they both compete in every category and then they go to a charity event, Jayce beats Viktor on stage, and Vik rails him in the hotel room after.

Speedrun establishing how down bad Viktor was for Jayce without outright stating it, any% WR pace

Tiefling Viktor would go so hard. He's got the angular face for it and add in the teeth and the horns and the weird ridges on his body. Make him an artificer/rogue then put him next to a sorcerer half elf Jayce and ooooh that's the dnd au I wanna see.

Me: *puts a towel over one side of my leachie's tank so he doesn't get mad every time I pass it for the bathroom* My leachie: go fuck yourself ill be barking up complaints that I can't see you to get pissed at every hour on the hour

i'm obsessed with Jayce's side of things in this memory loss AU. Here he is, new world, fucked leg, no memory of the last 7-8 years, and this big weird metal horror who can do magic and doesn't eat insists on accompanying him on his journey, working where Jayce can't to pay for his essentials.

Sometimes I see depictions of jayvik and it's like bro vanco is right over there and fits whatever mold you're trying to shove Jayce into plus a super bratty bottom that is Silco like come on. sorry Vander is a bear and you can't deal with a big man but he's doing what you wish jayce did in spades.

Every time I see that scene of herald Viktor walking past jayce in the orb room and Jayce is just letting him. Watching him pass like he isn't supposed to be stopping Viktor right the fuck now... Ough Viktor dominating the scenery over little old Jayce. The insurmountable villain he will submit to.

I still think the most in character fanart I've ever seen of Viktor R Cane was one where he's trying to open a wine bottle with a power drill. Like that's perfect. Thats the guy. No notes.

Okay but imagine play wrestling post canon. Like bugtor is allegedly above the general human rituals until Jayce loops an arm around the back of his neck and drags his herald body down to give him a noogie. All that glorious evolution gone in favor of Go Time. Jayce is getting grappled and pinned.

You telling me these two dipsticks never turned on the anti-grav during a slow period and started doing aerial stunts that ended in a wrestling match where Viktor had Jayce grappled from behind while Jayce tried to throw him off and Heimerdinger walked in and walked right back out? Bffr with me.

You cannot convince me Jayce and Viktor weren't typical dude friends at times. One is touchy and canonically enjoys playfully annoying his friends. The other is a bastard. They were stuck together for multiple hours a day in both high stress and extremely boring situations. These two play wrestled.

*seeing the lady riding the lizard man in the new Larian Studios game trailer for Divinity* Larian you bastards why didn't you give me the option to have Astarion do that with my dragonborn in BG3???

My hammerhound hot take is that I don't think it would be Vander daddy Dom seducing Jayce. It would be Jayce awkwardly trying sooo hard to flirt w/ Vander, and Vander, being a conceptually divorced middle aged dad, would find it flattering and take this enthusiastic college dude brat to pound town.

*sees the term 'tongues battle for dominance' in a fic in the year of our Lord 2025* put that phrase back where you found it or so help me-

Its interesting that commune Viktor is depicted in fanon as often benevolent and caring, almost motherly when in canon, he's very detached, aloof. We never see him interact with his followers outside of healing them or using them as mouthpieces, as he is mostly in his sphere up and away from them.

Forever astounded by Viktor's self control given he had Jayce around him for several years, alone, in the lab, in his tight little outfits, his propensity to not wear a shirt, his grabbable waist, and the fact that he wore how bad he'd jump Viktor's bones if given the chance on his sleeve in neon.

No, we should keep comparing jayce to prey animals. A rabbit, a deer, a lamb... It fits his narrative. His vibe. The way his romantic interests look at him when they watched him get judged by the council and the dynamic of him and his monster in season 2. Keep doing that. Its good. For the soul.

I'm obsessed with the question of how does Viktor experience the world as the arcane Herald. A non-biological entity with the soul of some living. How is touch different to him. How does he experience temperature and texture. How do emotions begin and end in him. It's like crack to my brain.

If I don't include a jerk off scene, can I include a dance scene? Jayce pulling his weird metal insect shaped travel companion who he catches looking at him sadly into a little dance to some music at a festival they stumble into? As a treat? For me?

*building out an ecosystem based on the Lopingian Epoch for a fucking fanfic idea* I'm normal and I have normal hobbies.

A coherent story for this is finally coming together. Actually figured out how I want the beginning, emotional midpoint, and ending to go.

Look Outside is pretty fun so far. Love playing as a lonely gamer man and having a lady who can turn into a massive mouth monster who vagues about doing violence to me on my team as we fight The Horrors™. Peak gameplay experience.

It's funny people always draw/write men flirting with Viktor but never women like a famous skinny academic fucker with a piercing gaze, cutting cheekbones, and a fun accent wouldn't be pulling ladies left and right at the function if he wanted to or not.

Every time I see dnd AU that makes Jayce a fighter or paladin, I lose my mind a little. This man is a wizard. Or a warlock. Artificer. Hell a bard considering how good he is as an orator. Maybe he specs into a martial subclass so he can use the hammer badly, but my god. Give my man the right class.

worldbuilding for that jayvik memory loss au. the world they end up in is a in-between place where a lot of magic touchers get trapped in, either on purpose or accident. So odd landscapes, alien flora/fauna, mismatched and spread out sentient people that make the herald a less than unusual sight.

I wish I could enjoy aus where jayvik has babies but I know in my heart of hearts neither of these men would be good parents to anyone under the age of like... 8, if not Jayce then especially Viktor, my guy who would be a weekend dad at best given his workaholic rating is breaking all charts.

I think I need to put on the silksong ost and winnie the pooh think think think this idea out

hold up it would be interesting if an arcane herald Viktor started using those glowey tendrils of his to interact with the world. Like they have nerve endings and a capacity to understand taste/smell unlike the rest of him, where his ability to feel is muted at best.

Post memory loss, Jayce would fall so goddamn fast for Viktor again. Here's this guy who's is proof of concept of everything Jayce was working towards, who validates his ideas, talks shop with him, who is funny, easy to be around, patient with his physical limitations, shows him amazing things...

I've made a breakthrough on post canon jayvik memory loss idea. Is this anything? Who knows.

I am not kidding when I say I've been mentally holding post canon Jayce and Viktor, one in each hand, asking 'alright which one of you is more narratively emotionally devastating if you forgot the other'.

When the fic got my favorite topic (memory loss/gain) and is nailing it.

Also it's very funny this Stillwater au stuff is happening in tandem with Nice Timeline where Vander and Silco are super married with their three kids. Jayce is rotting in prison, Viktor's on some other bullshit, but over here, in the upper half of Zaun, is a Hallmark film in the waiting lmao

People be making jayce after prison more muscular and broader and I'm over here like 'how can I make Viktor bigger in this au'.

It'd be interesting if it this speculative Stillwater au I keep yapping about, if Viktor had replaced either one or both legs and his spine (and some other bits) with arcane-infused metal, and its slowly been eating at healthy tissue, replacing with the same kind of material as the herald in canon.

No but the thing is a self-isolating Jayce stuck for several years in Stillwater would be a man so starved of affection and emotional connection. The man who communicates through touch and who wears his heart on his sleeve having to swallow it all down to guard him physically and survive mentally...

Okay but listen, I know I'm stuck on this but imagine Jayce in Stillwater, living his life, however bleak and devoid of any real meaning it is, consistently, over time, hearing whispers from new inmates about this fucked up inventor in Zaun working with what seems to be magic-

Man, i wanna dive into some of these prison aus people are probably cooking up but I also know I'm gunna be looking through the seven circles of hell without a Virgil. Cause people could do some Cool Shit, some good character studies, but I know, in my decades of fandom experience, people Will Not.

Anyone want an annoying pukey little doggie

The only reason I want to see Stillwater Jayce looking cool and hard and badass is if a) it's paired with his usual personality or b) if he is immediately getting folded like a cheap towel sexual style by one Viktor R. Cane who is equally hard and cool and hopefully half metal.

Nah, but the image of Jayce kneeling and cleaning Viktors bleeding knuckles and a cut on his face, softly chastising him in a manner that drips in affection for defending Jayces integrity, while Viktor is too proud to admit he couldve been the bigger man and walked away, softening at jayces touch...

Fighter jayce this, Jayce doing brawling and Viktor watching that, Jayce defending poor defenseless Viktor... Give me fighter Viktor. Show me Viktor gettin pissed & beating ass. Do one of Viktor whacking someone with his cane or taking out a knife to save Jayce. I think we should give Viktor a gun-

I think its interesting people talking about Jayce's response re: being indirectly responsible for Vi's death. Listen, idk how much more that would necessarily add to his depressive state vs his dreams being obliterated in general considering he did in fact murder a child with his hammer in canon.

People really will look at a character who's entire arc is maintaining humanity, love, and empathy through the worst trials and tribulations, and think 'he'd become cold, mean, and closed off when experiencing trials and tribulations'.

*goes into the jayvik tag on Tumblr* *receives psychic damage* well that was fun.