Yāknow, maybe it should never have been shocking that as the son of an amputee, Jayce has no trouble seeing the beauty in imperfections and how they make us who we are.
Jayce didnāt encounter his first disability with Viktor, or in his own household when his leg was broken, but with his mother when she lost her fingers to the cold on the day the mage (Viktor) saved them both. Her disability wasnāt a weakness to Jayce, it was a product of profound strength battling the elements to save her and her sonās life.
Every time I think of Jayce's mum, I remember her walking through the snow with her little boy. She was curled forward, trying to shield him from the worst of the elements which was why she took the most heat and got frostbite first. So, she fell first. As soon as she fell, Jayce sort of curled over her like he was trying to warm her the best he could while shouting for help. š He was so small. He can carry her now, but he was so small back then.
Someone said that when Viktor stepped into a different timeline for the first time, he probably saw the infamous snowstorm scene happening, and waited with bated breath for the magician who started it all. He'd have watched Jayce's mum fall and hoped desperately for the man to come. Then Jayce would fall, his tiny body trembling as he shouts for help in a storm where no one could possibly hear his cry and still Viktor is waiting, until Jayce's body curls from the cold, his lips slightly turning blue and Viktor can't take it anymore.
He walks forward, and in the process of walking forward, when he sees Jayce's shocked little face....he realises that it was him all along. That entire time, he was the man from the story. The almighty being that started their entire journey. Thinking of his own Jayce, frozen in glorious evolution, that knowledge probably wounded something in Viktor's heart. š
All this time it was him and Jayce, Jayce and him from the beginning to the end. It would always be them.



















