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@ekko
writing blog for ekko of league of legends. this character has been a labor of love for many years, pre-dating the release of arcane. as such, i implement moderate canon divergency where i see fit. this blog is iconless in order to put an emphasis on actual writing & interactions. please tag my blog url as ekkoblog so as to not clutter the character tag. all are welcome to interact. ♡
ekko's time travel and z-drive is portrayed really inconsistently across league media, which is fine because it's just consequence of different writing teams. and half of the joy of writing league of legends is having the freedom to pick and choose what interpretations you like best! so a brief compilation of my thoughts and all notes of my specific portrayal of ekko.
i don't like that ekko only got his hands on the z-drive in season two. i was originally under the impression that he had it in season one, as the way the fight between him and jinx appeared to be portraying that ekko had gotten shot by her (artistically being censored with them play fighting as children), and then ekko reversing time in order to out maneuver her. ekko has his z-drive far before any event similar to arcane season two.
ekko originally released with a comic called chronobreak, in which ekko discovers the corpse of his friend named ajuna and tries over and over to rewind time to prevent his death. in this comic, we can infer that ekko's z-drive has the capacity to go backwards in time to upwards of five minutes. he tries multiple different routes, but is only ever able to find ajuna a minute before he passes. in one timeline, he murders the piltie who killed ajuna, but ultimately chooses to rewind time and spend ajuna's final moments holding him and saying goodbye. (my mobile banner is ajuna's goggles from the comic! which ekko chose to keep. he has similar keepsakes of jinx and vi as well, i think.)
^ both of these scenarios are really important to my ekko, i think! they're really well done. as such, my interpretation of ekko can go backwards up to seven minutes at a time (it has since improved since the ajuna incident), but the reliability of such is faulty. he can only safely and consistently go back for a minute, and he tries not to go further if he doesn't have to.
ekko cannot healthily cope with grief. he has not properly mourned the loss of powder, or vi, or ajuna, or anyone he's lost. he tirelessly works on the z-drive because he believes that one day he will be able to turn back time far enough to prevent what happened to powder, to save ajuna from death. he refuses to grieve them.
i was waiting for arcane to wrap up because i thought they might reveal ekko's real name, since they stated in ekko's original champion AMA that ekko is not his real name and instead an alias given to him by his friends. they didn't reveal it, obviously, so i'm taking the liberty of doing it myself. i saw one singular person on reddit speculating that the "tuff tuff" jinx writes in the arcane artbook and on ekko's jacket might allude to his real name as a nickname, and i think that's cute! ekko's real name is teffis. the only people who would be aware of this are jinx and vi. his mother also affectionately refers to him as tuff or tuft. ekko is horribly embarrassed.
i don't think i've stated it anywhere, but my ekko is also trans! he's also post-op, thanks to a shady undercity doctor. he has some gnarly scars for it. teffis is not his deadname, but the name he chose for himself as a young boy.
i'm not consistently active here, so you should definitely consider this blog more like a love letter to ekko than anything else. i've been having some thoughts about him, though! i'll be writing those down...
starters / prompts taken from various characters starring in the game fire emblem : three houses . feel free to change pronouns / tenses as necessary .
“ feel free to say hi whenever you like ”
“ don’t hold back for my sake ”
“ you think I’m so clumsy that I need someone to watch over me ? ”
“ you act like you’re full of regret , but I know you don’t really mean it ”
“ you actually look more handsome to me with honesty on your face ”
“ don’t be ashamed of crying ”
“ could you keep quiet for a bit ? ”
“ you’re actually kind of amazing ”
“ do you mean to imply you have no intention of acting a bit more respectably ? ”
“ stop acting so nonchalant about getting hurt or killed ”
“ naive and uptight is no way to live your life ”
“ you’d better watch that temper ”
“ i am absolutely disinterested in spending any time with you ”
“ your lack of self-awareness is deeply troubling ”
“ I’ll just be straightforward about taking advantage of you ”
“ when will you tire of challenging me in pointless competitions ? ”
“ you expect me to believe that ? ”
“ i’ve had enough of your foolish antics ”
“ i wish you would not sneak up on me like that ”
“ before you reprimand me , take a moment to consider your own failings ”
“ it is like hearing a snake sing an aria ”
“ am I hearing a deathbed confession ? ”
“ i never have any idea what you’re talking about ”
“ don’t walk away when i’m talking to you ”
“ you’ll be the death of me for sure ”
“ i do not intend to die ”
“ i can’t believe you put yourself at risk for my benefit ”
“ i don’t think i’ve ever seen you smile ”
“ i do not desire your gratitude ”
“ you’re surprisingly strong for how slender you appear ”
“ perhaps i was flustered needlessly ”
“ i had forgotten how charmingly ethereal you can be ”
“ you’re going a little overboard ”
“ you have shaken me to my very core ”
“ so this is what death is like ”
“ if you get sick of me , i’m sorry ahead of time ”
“ i’m embarrassed just thinking about it ”
“ you’re like a little brother to me ”
“ spending the rest of my life with you doesn’t sound so bad ”
“ if our roles were reversed , I don’t think I’d be able to forgive you ”
“ you actually hate me , right ? ”
“ you haven’t stabbed me yet ”
“ i want to be more like you ”
“ i actually envy the size of your heart ”
“ i don’t think you can solve all your problems by throwing a few punches ”
“ there aren’t a lot of people like you in the world ”
“ sorry I’ve been so oblivious to your needs ”
“ sometimes you just can’t afford to wait around for someone else to notice ”
“ yesterday’s enemy is today’s ally ”
“ you have to abandon old feuds ”
“ learn to protect yourself before trying to protect me ”
“ i always trust that you’ve got my back ”
“ if only people could be more like flowers ”
“ if you promise not to resort to violence , I’ll do whatever you want ”
“ i can’t stand the sight of me either ”
“ i would be even more impressed if you hadn’t been screaming the whole time ”
“ i did what was necessary to get you to comply ”
“ you have so much power in you , just waiting to be unleashed ”
“ i’m hopelessly terrified of you ”
always sketches but I need to get everything out of my head -THE FEELINGS
hey are you a time traveler cuz i see me in... wait i fucked it *rewinds time* i see you in my futu... no fuck i forgot the first part *rewinds time* are you a time traveler cuz i. because. the. wait im gonna get it right for real this time *rewinds time* are you a time traveler because i
aren't you the time traveler? aren't you the time traveler? aren't you the time traveler? aren't you the time traveler? aren't y-
jinx .
❝ just a widdle baby , ❞ came her echo , genuine against his frustrated taunt . what follows is a giggle , light & chipper as she draws a finger along the ridge trailing up the creature’s nose . there was no fear in her movements , caution be damned as she leaned forward to pepper a series of kisses to his exoskeleton . left in her wake , faint marks of purple lipstick . ❝ kog’maw wouldn’t hurt me , ❞ jinx declares , sits fully beside him now , willfully avoids ekko’s gaze , ❝ i’m his mama . & you could stand to be a little nicer . ❞
in a lapse of judgement , or perhaps genuinely forgetting the goop on the ground was , in fact , acid , she wipes a bit of dripping green from kog’maw’s chin . the burn comes fast , instant karma . jinx sucks in a breath , wiping her hand on her pants & ( suddenly aware of the damage ekko’s work faced , ) she leans forward to swipe the blueprints from the ground , ❝ i can’t just abandon him , he found me . isn’t that right , baby ? ❞
‘ you’re his what now ? ’ ekko’s eyes flutter in a bitter concoction of bewilderment & sheer disbelief , gaze flickering from the creature making a mess of his lab , & then back to the girl that had dragged it here in the first place . he shakes his head & dismissively waves a hand in the air , crouches down to prop his elbows up on either knee . ‘ whatever , nevermind . are you okay ? i told you that thing spit acid . ’ he extends an open palm to jinx , gesturing for her to show him the wound with a repeated curl of his fingertips .
‘ where’d you even find him , anyway ? ’ ekko asks , sparing kog’maw an uneasy glance from the corner of his eye . the creature makes some disjointed sound between a snarl & a purr in response . ekko finds it less than comforting .
my favorite canon fact abt ekko is that he uses his z-drive to flirt w girls bc he’ll get embarrassed & stumble over his lines so he just goes back in time & it’s like it never happened.
meta : z - drive .
ekko has never stopped experimenting : he’s “ been constructing simple machines since before he could crawl , ” disassembling complex machinery for fun , creating things made from loose bits of tech & cogs that his parents would leave scattered about their home . his first inventions are simple , but it’s enough that ekko’s innate genius & natural curiosity leaves his parents baffled . they quickly realize their son is a child prodigy & decide to support him as much as they can , with the hope they can one day send him for a better education in piltover . with his parents having backgrounds in being tinkerers / inventors before becoming factory workers , the foundation & basics of what ekko knows is taught to him by his mother & father as a child , who are always eager to answer his questions , helping him where they can by supplying new parts or scrap metal from work . he surpasses both of them relatively quickly . they’re too busy to inquire about his latest projects nowadays .
his most treasured & accomplished invention is the zero drive ( z - drive for short . ) it’s a fully functioning , portable time machine . ekko has worked on perfecting the z - drive for years since he first discovered the shattered crystal that powers it . the z - drive has gone through countless of iterations , some less functional than others , & has crafted dozens of prototypes before arriving to his current one . the device , in its current state , allows the user to travel to upwards of four hours back in time before timelines start becoming too dangerous & unstable to traverse , where initial versions of the device only permitted time travel a couple seconds back . ekko continues to push the barrier , wanting to discover just how far back he can really go .
things to note about the z - drive :
▸ he uses it more recklessly than he should . ( “ won this fight already ; doing it again for fun ” ) or for mundane things like flirting & winning arguments .
▸ his time travel does not “ heal ” him , cure him of his fatigue ( if he fights you a hundred times, he feels each attempt ) , or return him to his original state of being . ekko’s physical body continues to age , in or out of time travel . this was best described in ekko’s q&a : “ you might see him beat the tar out of someone and make it look like he saw everything coming . however, in that 30 seconds , ekko actually experienced that same span of linear reality over 200 times until he got it right . in other words , in that 30 seconds , ekko aged 1 hour and 40 minutes . ”
▸ ekko typically operates the z - drive by twisting a gear on his glove that resets time back to whatever amount he set . in the emergency case that ekko does not have control of his hands , he has several switches and “ safety nets ” that trigger the z - drive scattered on his person that don’t require use of his hands . he has accidentally triggered the z - drive before because of it .
▸ arcane specific things to note : the z - drive was initially theorized & prototyped in a continued effort for ekko to save his childhood friends from the events in episode three . ekko is actively trying to revert the events that changed the course of his & his friend’s lives forever . the z - drive showcased in arcane can still only go back a few seconds to a couple minutes at maximum because it is still a prototype compared to league’s “ canon ” iteration .
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EKKO REVEALING HE IS THE FIRELIGHTS LEADER ARCANE S01E07
jinx .
𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 , eyes alight as ekko struggles with the creature before her . a moments hesitation , then she’s abandoned the blueprints on the ground ( the corner of one sits in the hissing substance on the ground , dissolving the paper ever so slowly ) . instead , arms wrap around cog’maw , and jinx stares upwards , an instant shift to something reminiscent to a kicked puppy . lashes flutter , lower lip protruding childishly .
❝ but ekko , he’s just a baby ! & then i have to leave . . . you don’t want me here ? ❞
‘ yeah , i heard you the first dozen times he’s “ just a widdle baby . ” are you sure you should be holding him like that ? it spits acid . ’ exasperation laces itself in ekko’s tone , gesturing with exaggerated air quotes as he mimics jinx’s pitiful tone . a huff of air escapes ekko & he tosses the chewed notes back onto his table , deciding they were too far gone to salvage anyways , then presses thumb & index fingers to his forehead in an effort to nurse the oncoming headache . the puppy dog eyes . why does it have to be the puppy dog eyes ?
‘ i didn’t mean it like that , i just ’ ekko’s hand drops back down to his side , folding his arms across his chest & staring at kog’maw as it snarls & drools a hissing acid onto the floor . ‘ you’re not REALLY just going let him follow you around forever , are you ? we don’t even know where he came from ! ’
‘ 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 ? hey ! no , no , no , he can’t eat anything in here ! ’ ekko scrambles towards the void creature , gloved hands attempting to pry the remaining scraps of paper from rows upon rows of sharpened teeth . the papers come back half - chewed & fringed at the edges , acid dripping onto the floor of ekko’s lab . ekko visibly flinches at the sight ; great , how’s he supposed to clean this up ?
‘ jinx ? can’t you , like , i don’t know , go babysit this thing literally anywhere else ? ’
@dynablow / continued from here i guess LOL
