CaptainHollow

Non-binary nerd. they/them. I write stuff. https://archiveofourown.org/users/CaptainHollow

[captainhollowstories]

This is a complete list of my Jayvik fics (more will be added as I write them). Trying to keep things organized. The titles link to Ao3.

The Coffee Conundrum

4K - standalone - season 1

Viktor invites Jayce to his room one night to have coffee. Jayce misunderstands and thinks it’s an invitation for a romantic evening.

Home is Where You Are

11K - standalone - post canon

Jayce and Viktor survive the ending but have been left changed. The Arcane speaks to Viktor. It has a mission for them. But they need to figure themselves out first.

The Herald and the King

112K - completed - fantasy AU

The Herald lives in an old clocktower on the edge of the Undercity, where he uses his powers to help the sick. Jayce Talis is next in line to be king, but is struggling to hold power. He makes an offer to the Herald.

The Secret Equation of Chocolates

1.6K - standalone - season 1 - V Day fic (sort of)

Someone left a box of chocolates on Viktor’s desk. He attempts to figure out why.

Beyond the Paper Birch Grove

ongoing - gothic horror/romance/regency AU

Jayce Talis is hired to hunt down a monster stalking the woods around the sleepy town of Piltover. The monster has claimed its first human victim, and the locals are terrified it may soon strike again.

Viktor arrived in town not long after the monster appeared, claiming his purpose is to research the creature. He offers a partnership to Jayce, on the condition that they only work during the day, when it’s safe to walk the streets.

[captainhollowstories]

Beyond the Paper Birch Grove

Summary:

Jayce Talis is hired to hunt down a monster stalking the woods around the sleepy town of Piltover. The monster has claimed its first human victim, and the locals are terrified it may soon strike again.

Viktor arrived in town not long after the monster appeared, claiming his purpose is to research the creature. He offers a partnership to Jayce, on the condition that they only work during the day, when it’s safe to walk the streets.

Gothic horror/romance AU

Chapter 2/8

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[mebssann]

guy whose love language is physical touch gets to be on the receiving end for once

[berrycrisps]

💋✨

[veritywordsworth]

Please do not be manipulated by how CL repackaged his take on Jayvik. He’s not any closer to saying they are canon than he was before.

The only step forward he took was to recognise fans can view them differently (which was never a right he could take away from us in the first place). Sure, it’s nice to see he has become less hostile and has somehow softened his views instead of doubling down on his pushback, but let’s not praise the bare minimum.

He’s still using Viktor’s supposed asexuality to try and make Jayvik “less gay”. He’s trying to make it seem that what we got in the show was the result of a genuinely heartfelt and nuanced attempt to write an asexual character but I do not believe him. Not when he still hasn’t understood that ace people who are not also aromantic still experience romantic attraction and many aces end up in committed relationships and some of them EVEN have sex. But he cannot admit that because that would mean opening his mind to the possibility that two men could be having sex in his show, which he has clearly stated he did not want.

Now, I am asexual myself and I think that sexless romance is 100% valid and as strong (and as gay) as sexual relationships, but don’t let this notion distract you from the open attempt to use asexuality to “sanitise” Jayvik’s relationship and make it “less gay”. In a world where m/f sex is viewed as natural and romantic and f/f sex is seen as sexy and enticing, mlm relationships are still seen as inherently dirty. You can see it when anti-Jayvik people say that we are sexualising them even while commenting on fanart of them baking cookies together. Gay relationships are inherently viewed as hypersexual and that makes them dirty in homophobes’ minds. So they write these complex deep bonds within male characters, cover them in subtext, male them go through all the steps of romance except committing to actually making it explicit.

All of the pretty words about them being soulmates and transcending labels are just buzzwords to avoid saying that two men possibly love each other romantically (and maybe even sexually). It’s repackaged homophobia obscured by pretty words to try and fix the backlash he got.

Also, let me add, as asexual and disabled, that if he had actually tried to research on either representation he would have knows that desexualisation is a HUGE problem in disability representation and that choosing the “emotionless machine” archetype for his ace rep was possibly the most tone deaf decision he could have made. It’s not that ace and disabled characters cannot be written, but I do not trust CL to be the one to represent me for sure, thank you very much (and I never even interpreted Viktor as ace personally tbh).

Ultimately I think CL is entitled to give his sincere view on the character he wrote but let’s not celebrate the scraps he’s throwing at the fandom and let’s recognise the latent (most likely unconscious) homophobia and ableism they carry.

We do not need his approval to enjoy Jayvik as a couple anyway, and we never will.

[kohiandie]

everyone keeps saying our stickers at the arcane exhibit at gallery nucleus are official and guys i don’t wanna get in TROUBLE HAHAHA they are not

[everythingisamazing]

What the hell is "intimacy that borders on love" even supposed to mean? Imagine your friend describing their situationship with those exact words to you. I'd be giving them, what you call "bombastic side eye." This is so childish to me, especially as someone who doesn't experience primary sexual attraction. This whole subject of determining wether something is platonic VS romantic VS sexual is something that I have had to examine intensely in my own life, and I feel like I can tell when people have not done so, when they say stuff like this. I think it comes from a place of wanting to draw hard lines, when in reality, there often are none. This is part of why I love jayvik - I like how it makes people (metaphorically) bash their heads against their neat categories of love and come up with bs word salad like this, when the reality is, that humans often don't stay within those categories. Also, when it comes to writing, it's less the sexuality of the character that makes something romantic, but the structure of the narrative that you have built surrounding their relationship. But I digress.

[kattricia]

'it's less the sexuality of the character that makes something romantic, but the structure of the narrative that you have built surrounding their relationship' okay now say it louder for the people in the back!!!

like has he ever seen the show?? or did he just vibe his way through one of the most narratively intimate tragedies of the decade???

'intimacy that borders on love' oh okay so love. just say love. you built a whole narrative scaffold for it, my guy. you cannot throw in shared dreams, emotional exclusivity, mutual sacrifice and then pretend it's ambiguous. be serious.

[explodikid]

Vanish into you

[viklooud]

"With all my knowledge and intrusion... I could never entirely predict you. I can feed the caterpillar and I can whisper through the chrysalis, but... what hatches, follows its own nature and is beyond me."

[captainhollowstories]

Beyond the Paper Birch Grove

Summary:

Jayce Talis is called back to Piltover by Cassandra Kiramman, who has hired him to hunt down the monster stalking the woods around their sleepy town. The monster has claimed its first human victim, and the locals are terrified it may soon strike again.

Viktor is an odd man with odd habits, arriving in town not long after the monster appeared, claiming his purpose is to research the creature. He offers a partnership to Jayce, on the condition that they only work during the day, when it’s safe to walk the streets.

In a town crawling with dark secrets, and not exactly how Jayce remembers it, he has to work against both time and the townsfolk to hunt down the monster before it kills again.

Gothic horror/romance AU

Chapter 1/8

Read Here!

[mergremils]

[captainhollowstories]

Beyond the Paper Birch Grove

Summary:

Jayce Talis is called back to Piltover by Cassandra Kiramman, who has hired him to hunt down the monster stalking the woods around their sleepy town. The monster has claimed its first human victim, and the locals are terrified it may soon strike again.

Viktor is an odd man with odd habits, arriving in town not long after the monster appeared, claiming his purpose is to research the creature. He offers a partnership to Jayce, on the condition that they only work during the day, when it’s safe to walk the streets.

In a town crawling with dark secrets, and not exactly how Jayce remembers it, he has to work against both time and the townsfolk to hunt down the monster before it kills again.

Gothic horror/romance AU

Chapter 1/8

Read Here!

[bluismie]

as the world caves in

[pumpkin-daydreams]

[veritywordsworth]

Arcane fandom, I’m gonna tell you something:

VIKTOR IS A DISABLED MAN

Shocking, right? You know it already, right?

Then do NOT draw/write Viktor unless you actually want to draw/write a disabled man. This is not a negotiable aspect of his character, the same way Jayce being latino or Mel being black are non-negotiable.

If you do not want to write/draw a disabled character with all that it entails, you don’t actually want to draw and write Viktor.

And no, it’s not enough to draw the braces and cane like they are props or decorations, you need to have at least a vague understanding of what they are for and how his body works. If you are not willing to ask questions or do at least some basic research, write about a different character.

I am TIRED of your sports AU where he’s either able-bodied or you pretend he’s disabled but he still performs tasks that would be impossible for his actual canon disability. I am TIRED of your NSFW fanarts where his back is bent in ways that would be hard to achieve even for a very flexible able-bodied person.

I’m not saying your Viktor/Jayvik stories need to be about disability, but they need to be about a disabled man. This means respecting his body and representing it truthfully with its limitations. Which might mean that certain plots/tropes will not work for him.

If Viktor being disabled gets in the way of your story or your fantasy, either change your story or use a different character. And please ask yourself why you wanted to put him in situations incompatible with his disability in the first place.

I’ll never be the one to point fingers and call people ableist if they’ve made a mistake in the past. I just ask you guys to do better in the future and treat Viktor’s identity as a disabled man with the due respect.

[dunwichbore]

Glorious failure

[joyful-soul-collector]

Sometimes I see art of Jayce and Viktor at a gala, and about half the time they're in their normal outfits, which is good, I prefer that.

But the other half of the time, Jayce in his normal suit, and Viktor is some lacy, frilled corset with a train on the back, or a straight up dress, and I'm like. Guys.

Can you at least TRY not to make this shit so heteronormative? And weirdly ableist too, because these depictions NEVER accommodate for his back brace, and most of the time I never see his cane, crutch, or leg brace either. Just because he's leaning on Jayce while dancing doesn't mean he doesn't need his mobility aids anymore

ALSO

Jayce is NEVER the one in a frilly feminine outfit! It's always Viktor! This fandom cannot stop feminizing Viktor because he's smaller, and thinner, and weaker, and disabled and I'm genuinely so tired of it

If you want to make Viktor feminine, at least start tagging it with Feminine Viktor or something so people can block the tag guys. All the pictures of him with an hourglass figure, long eyelashes/eyeliner when Jayce has none, Viktor standing in a feminine way, the constant waist obsession ANYTHING with that or similar we need to start tagging it. I'm tired of seeing it everywhere with no way to avoid it, and I know a lot of other people are tired too

You don't have to stop making it, do what you want. But tag it so people can avoid it.