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    It's easy enough for Jayce to buy a proper coffee maker for the lab. He and Viktor work a lot of late nights, after all, and sometimes they need a pick me up. It's easy enough for him to rationalize it as a gesture of friendship.

    He can't really explain the blankets, though. Or the chocolate bars. Or the snacks. Or that time he offered a leg massage.

    (Jayce is legendarily down bad for Viktor. This manifests in him making the lab as sort of a second home. Thankfully, Viktor notices.)

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    Viktor turns the uniform over in his hands, smoothing over the wrinkles in the trousers. The buttons are diamond-shaped and hard underneath his fingers.

    Leaning forward, his mother places her arm around his shoulders as she lays a white cravat across Viktor’s hands.

    It’s the brightest piece of fabric Viktor has ever seen.

    “Vitenka,” she whispers. “If you are going to change the world, do not ask for permission. Act like you belong and no one will question you.”

    Piltover Academy of Sciences research masters student Jayce Talis isn't really studying crystallography like he told his professors. Viktor isn't even an academy student, he just has an academy uniform his parents made and very little to lose. They run into each other in a school hallway. Literally.

    Based on this tweet from one of the Arcane writers that there was a backstory where Viktor's parents helped him sneak into the academy.

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    “The usual ?” the bartender asks and Jayce marvels at the idea of being regulars of this place so much that the bartender remembers their order. He marvels at the idea of this life he lived with Viktor.

    The bar is large, spacious, with a glass ceiling letting the sunshine rays fall into the room. He can imagine them, Viktor and him, at a table, talking for hours.

    Actually, he doesn’t have to imagine. He remembers.

    Jayce and Viktor goes to the Last Drop where they meet some old friends. This parallel universe will never stop suprising Jayce.

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    When Viktor makes the reluctant decision to move back to Piltover after six years to be a professor at The Academy, he's forced to share an office with none other than his former lab partner Jayce Talis, the very man who caused him to leave Piltover in the first place.

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