19 Works in Jayce Character Study (League of Legends)
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A Study In Contradictions by Jaynovz (Christel_Jenkins) for battle_cat
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
17 Sep 2025
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"When Viktor has sought out bed partners previously to work off steam, he's chosen men more… similar to himself: in looks, in stature, in disposition. To put a finer point on it, none of those men have been Jayce fucking Talis, the only person who has ever matched Viktor in ambition and intellectual pursuit, his equal, most definitely the first actual friend he has ever made, and oh yes coincidentally also, tall, dark, broad, unfairly handsome, with gargantuan, capable blacksmith’s hands."
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Aka five times Viktor noticed his new partner has huge wandering fuckoff paws, plus the one time he did something about it.
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dead ringer by straddling_the_atmosphere
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
05 Aug 2025
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dead ringer [idiom] - a person who looks exactly like another. one theory is that it originates from people's fear of being buried alive. in the 18th century particularly, a dying person would ask, upon their death, to be buried with a rope that attached to a bell on the surface. if it transpired that the deceased was not in fact dead, then they could use the rope to ring the bell. once rescued, the saved person would be an exact copy of the "deceased" person.
Jayce peeks at himself from under the fringe of his lanky, unruly hair, and sees the way he looks at his own hammer, then Jayce’s corrupted one, the way it pulses in time to what’s holding Viktor’s body together. It’s almost fascinating, watching the way his own face looks when he’s piecing something together, eyebrows furrowing in a way he didn’t know they did, nose scrunching briefly before he finally looks over at him. Jayce flinches at his gaze and glances away, listening to his own ragged breath as he tries to calm his racing heart.
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The Mage sends Jayce too far back.
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Sorrowing body, haven in palm by Jaynovz (Christel_Jenkins)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
25 Jul 2025
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"Viktor knows with a sudden thumping certainty, as meaty as a heartbeat, that Jayce has come here to exact either creation or destruction. Viktor would tremble, his blood aquiver, if he still possessed blood, if he were still ruled by emotion.
Split wide like a rotting fruit, the hammer is a magnificent and terrible thing to behold, brandished at full charge and dripping with violent potential.
It is pointed directly at Viktor’s heart.
From on high, all Viktor can do is stare back, frozen in shock, the responses he’d thought he’d excised from himself—the affection, the desperation, the fear—bursting through the door right alongside Jayce Talis."
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aka I Send Viktor Arcane through A Really Rollicking Arc and You Won't Believe What Happens Next! This was nicknamed "The Waspnest AU" for cuz they get down and dirty in the Weird Golden Nest Orb.
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Destruction is Not Imminent by AngelBonez
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
05 Jun 2025
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Viktor could have destroyed the world.
Viktor could have destroyed the world, and yet, for a man as oblivious as Jayce, Viktor didn't. -
seeking life, only to meet death and kiss his bloodied hand by brainlair
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
03 Jun 2025
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Sometimes growing up doesnt only come with growing pains, sometimes it comes with gnashing teeth and the taste of iron in your mouth. Sometimes growing up feels like the death of what used to be a bright eyed, bushy tailed boy. Sometimes life only starts when you're already dead. And Sometimes love feels like loving a dead man.
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- Part 1 of arcane chronicles
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Jayce is doing better.
Things have finally started falling into place. He's got Viktor, brilliant beautiful Viktor who finishes his thoughts and completes his equations to make the dream that he thought was out of reach a reality. Hextech is starting to take form, in the lab that they share. It's going to be something great, something revolutionary. He's made up with his mother, even if he still has to swallow around the lump in his throat that appears every time she clicks her tongue at the progress they've made.
He's got the approval of the council, for better or worse. Heimerdinger sort of believes in them, and Councilor Medarda gives him long looks that makes heat prickle in his stomach.
So, yes. Things are better. Jayce is better.
And yet, sometimes, he remembers.
Or, where sometimes Jayce can't forget the feeling of the ledge, but Viktor keeps his feet on the ground.
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i do not have wings, love, i never will by insidethevoid
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
06 Apr 2025
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“What brought you back here, Jayce?”
“You really believe it’s me?” He couldn’t keep the hope out of his voice, like this arrangement was now permanent.
“We study the intersection of science and magic together for a living, why shouldn’t you be Jayce Talis?”
Jayce gets sent back and promises not to fail, but he arrives at the wrong moment in time. He ends up in the academy and runs into Viktor, who is just three years into their tenure working together. Who could blame him for breaking down? Or, s2 Jayce meets s1 Viktor and they both do some soul-baring.
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The modern Pandora by A_Bard_Named_Fox
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
31 Mar 2025
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Jayce perfectly understood how much he cared for Viktor. Or so he thought.
During the bombing of the council room, Mel Medarda created a golden shield of light around herself and Jayce, but it had been too late to completely protect Jayce. He stayed unconscious in a hospital for days while Viktor died and was buried.
But Jayce never learned how to let go.
After all, the last thing in the box was hope. -
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‘I won’t fail.’
The mage looked sad, at that. I wanted to rush to him and grip him by the shoulders and say it over and over and over again until he understood.
I didn’t. I turned away from the queer look in his eye and tried to believe my own words.
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quod erat demonstrandum by avemstella
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
06 Feb 2025
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One day, Jayce would go to Piltover. One day he would take his rightful place as the son of House Talis. One day he would make all his ambitions a reality. But for the moment he was a child trapped in the isolated mountain town he was born in. But Mama promised him a future in Piltover, and he would take it. He just had to wait a little longer.
At the edge of town sat a manor that Jayce was never allowed to go to. He really wished he never found out why.
A canon complement look at a what if backstory (and beyond) for Jayce Talis.
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"I’m a doctor.” Viktor says, frowning as one of the latches on Jayce's brace doesn’t close. “I help people with their backs.”
“Doctor…?”
“Dr. Talis.” Viktor says softly. The answer is like a punch to the gut. Jayce has forgotten who he’s talking to. A spouse, in a different life. The notion alone is enough to almost bring those pesky tears back. That insane vulnerability in his brain, the tender and abused place of him that doesn’t know how to quantify such an idea.
Jayce would give anything to Viktor, be anything for Viktor. And in this universe, he’d been his husband. Had given him his name. A gift that has lasted beyond even death.
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Give. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .Give . . . . . ..... . . .. by platonicallyplayful
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Jan 2025
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He looks around once more, but sighs as he stares himself in the eyes. Knowing there is nothing else he can even do, if he even wanted to, because of his leg. But truthfully he didn’t want to do much else. He is exhausted. He is tired. He is in pain.
He is cold.
He wonders if this was how Vik always felt.
Is it cruel to think that now?
------Jayce falls into a fissure. He loses his mind a little bit.
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Друзья постоянно мастерят друг другу всякие мелочи, и Джейс ведь сломал Виктору трость. Ему будет приятно. Трость, плюс парочка классных инструментов и Джейс будет знать, что он хороший друг. Ему нравится его план.
(Или же, Джейс делает Виктору новую трость. Потом он начинает делать больше вещей. Это выходит из-под контроля очень, очень быстро.) -
Behind Jayce’s Eyelids by claRaa_Oswald
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
08 Jan 2025
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A workaholic as Jayce might have realized that behind his non stop researching might be hiding something. Something that, perhaps, after his expulsion from the Academy was impossible to hide anymore.
Or a study of Jayce dealing with his depressive thoughts based on “migraine” by Twenty One Pilots.
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the moment i knew i’d no choice (but to love you) by orestesdreamspyladesloves
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
28 Dec 2024
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Jayce, it seems, is always standing on a precipice. On a ledge. On the potentiality of something else besides what currently is.
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a character study of jayce talis and his inability to envision a world where viktor is not alive, post-council room explosion
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He remembers looking back at his partner after their victory, grins plastered on their faces. Viktor’s smile reached his eyes, making them appear a brighter amber than usual, and a light flush dusted his cheeks. He looked more alive than he had in months. In years.
Was this minutes before the explosion? Seconds? A chill crept up his spine as he was brought back to his body. Bile threatened to rise in his throat as he scanned the fractured ruins frantically.
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The Hexcore is heaved from his grasp, colliding with Viktor’s chest with a violent force. Jayce is sent flying back, head hitting the desk with a dull thud. The air is forced out of his lungs and he doubles over gasping for air. The last thing his senses register is a voice echoing in the distance, calling to him in the darkness.
“Jayce?”
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TLDR: While the Hexcore repairs Viktor's body, his consciousness ends up in Jayce's body. Follows the events of Act I/II/III with changes to fit the story.
Updates at least once a week
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Instead of the fail-safe room at the base of the Hexgates, Jayce is sent back to the moment right before Jinx's rocket hits the council room.
This changes nothing.
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Friends make friends stuff all the time, and Jayce did break Viktor's cane. It'd be a nice thing to do. A cane, plus some cool tools, and Jayce will be able to know he's a good friend. He likes this plan.
(Or, Jayce makes a new cane for Viktor. He then makes some more stuff. It spirals from there very, very quickly.)
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You looked at me (did you still see me?) by skish254
Fandoms: League of Legends, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
25 Jan 2022
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"True Power," Mel tells him – whispers as though she is telling a secret. "True power is pure. It is creation. To hold the ability to envision, the desire to create. I can see your heart in the edges of your eyes and you…you were made for this."
And Jayce, blinded by his naivety, believes her. He knows to exist, only when he is wanted.
Or where, Jayce, in the pursuit for power, finds himself rejecting it and Viktor...Viktor craves it.