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There’s no problem at all with a fun fling while working the summer Renaissance Faire, so long as the following unspoken rules are followed:
1: Don’t fall too fast
2: Don’t figure out that you are fucking your future research partner“Caitlyn, our new blacksmith needs proper garb before the gates open in the morning. Would you please show him to his site and introduce him to my darling tailor? It would seem he’s set up just across the lane from Jayce’s smithy.”
Mel Medarda smiles.
“Please inform Viktor that he can thank me later.”
Jayce and Viktor have a couple problems.
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the tortured scientists department by zonnie
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
14 Dec 2024
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The ink hadn’t even dried up on Jayce’s PhD diploma when the job offer landed in his inbox. Prestigious, well-funded, and in a country he had never even considered moving to. At the time, it had seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime.
But being there now, staring at a stack of unread emails, most of them marked urgent in varying degrees of exaggeration, Jayce wonders if he’d been a little too eager to say yes.
He came here to innovate, teach, and change the game, but lately, it feels like he spends more time fighting bureaucracy than breaking ground.
And there’s also Viktor.
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Jayce tries to keep his longings locked, but fails miserably
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14 Jan 2026
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put your emptiness to melody by Tyrrible
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
27 Jan 2026
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It is an old saying in Zaun— If they’re mean, they want a fight. If they’re clever about it, they want to fuck. If they do both, you’re in for a good night.
His approach to attraction is a cultural habit, one Viktor has never given much thought to because it has always been true. No one in Zaun flirts openly. They play, they provoke, they get under the skin. And if a partner snaps back just as sharp—well. That’s interest.
Piltovans as a whole don’t seem to understand this. They flirt in ways that are too clean, too direct, too painfully earnest. They go soft first, then ask permission to go softer.
Jayce is a Piltie. He does not have the stomach for the game.
At The Piltover Conservatory, the most prestigious and selective academy in the arts world, talent is everything.
After a disastrous first meeting, Jayce writes Viktor off as caustic, unimpressed, and apparently allergic to basic conversation.
In a twist of academic misfortune, they’re assigned to work together on a project that means months of high-stakes rehearsals and performances. Working together isn’t optional.
But music is built on tension, and dissonance isn’t always meant to be resolved.
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13 Jan 2026
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on exchange (and other transmissions) by alethephobia
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
18 Mar 2025
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“So your hot genius Zaunite roommate has been taking up all of your time and brainspace but it’s not a crush,” Caitlyn finalizes. “Makes sense to me. Super normal way to feel, Jayce.”
Jayce groans miserably.
“I know, I’m working on it,” he says. “I just want him to be comfortable. There’s been a lot of bad shit in our past. If I can show him that things can change here, I will.”Cait looks at him fondly. “That’s a very noble goal, Jayce.”
Jayce really, really wishes he could agree that any of his Viktor-related goals are noble. From where he sits, they’re all varying degrees of selfish, licentious, unrealistic, and horny.
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Or: Viktor’s on exchange to Piltover from Zaun. Jayce is his assigned roommate. Everything else — well, that remains to be seen.
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13 Jan 2026
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It is January 15th 1992, the forecast calls for heavy rain this evening, and Viktor does not know the man who stands in the doorway.
Chronic closet case Jayce meets prolific sexual deviant Viktor. A double dose of self-discovery ensues.
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