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the art of picking up the pieces by obscurelittlebird
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
30 Aug 2025
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Before he can stop himself, he picks up the phone. Every ring seems to last for eternity. Please, he thinks, be there, pick up, don’t be dead, don’t be gone…
“Viktor?”
His heart jumps. Silco’s voice is muffled, sleep-thick, but oh so achingly familiar. He had not realised until now just how much he missed it.
“You do realise it is 2 o’clock in the morning?”
He tries to speak but no words come out. The guilt, perhaps, has stolen them.
“Has something happened?”
“Papa,” he finally whispers. “Papa. Papa.” And then all of a sudden he is bawling his eyes out, horrible, heaving gasps and sobs torn from his throat, wracking his thin frame, and distantly he is embarrassed, but he cannot seem to make himself stop.
Worn down by the crushing weight of (not actually) unrequited love, workplace disputes, past trauma, and the existential dread that comes with being an overachiever in your twenties, Viktor finally breaks. Papa Silco comes to pick up the pieces.
Returning to his childhood home in Zaun for a long-overdue rest, Viktor must reckon with his past, his future, and the terrifying prospect of allowing himself to be loved and cared for.
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29 Jan 2026
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After Jinx leaves the undercity with her sister, Silco is left to mourn yet another abandonment. He moves to Entresol to live out the rest of his life alone, allowing his shimmer supply to dwindle. The river's infection begins to take hold of him again.
There, he finds a scientist conducting experiments out in the steppe. In their mutual loneliness, they strike up an unlikely friendship.
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04 Jan 2026
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When the Black Water Ate You Up by dinosaurstars
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
27 Jul 2025
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“I’m not going to hurt you.” Corin puts his hands up to indicate his surrender to the half-dead boy who can’t hold his knife right because he is shaking so hard. Corin idly wonders how much of the tremor is from fear and how much is from the cold; the boy is rather waifish and, more than that, soaking wet. He isn’t sure if the boy can even see him clearly–the left half of his face is covered in a thick coat of his own half-dried blood, and the eyelid on that side is swollen shut. The other eye, blue with an irritated red sclera, is darting around like the boy can’t quite locate him. His body, however, remains frozen–a fear response, or does he not have the strength to move any more? Corin reminds himself not to create false dichotomies—it’s probable that the boy is both exhausted and terrified.
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After Vander’s betrayal, Singed finds Silco washed up on the riverbank, clinging to life. He nurses him back to health.
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04 Jan 2026
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Blizzard of love (A Modern AU Zaundads fic) by RiverWraith
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
21 Dec 2025
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Silco and Vander have been divorced for 8 years and their daughters won't be home for Christmas for the first time. Violet spends Christmas at her new girlfriend's place and Powder is trapped at college because a blizzard is about to hit.
Naturally Vander takes to checking in on his lonely ex-husband.(This has no relation to "Sugar is not a condiment" - my main modern Arcane AU :) It's been just a fun little side project!)
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25 Dec 2025
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The average life expectancy in the area of the sump where he grew up is forty-five years. It’s hard to know if that number comes from the high crime rate, the commonality of high-risk jobs, or the harshness of the environment. In all likelihood, it’s a combination of all three.
Silco turns fifty next year. He’s trying not to think about it.
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04 Aug 2025