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Hello, all! I’m going to use this as a platform for informal commissions. I don’t feel comfortable monetizing my work at my current skill level, but I’m happy to work for game currency, art trades, and whatever else you want to offer me!
Here are a few examples of my art, in Jayce form :) I’m willing to do SFW or NSFW, so long as any harder kinks are cleared with me first. Feel free to DM or reply!
“I don’t want what you have, I wanna be you”
In all timelines, in all possibilities... Only you ⚙️💫
a gift for my friend <3 (I waited four years for us to get hyperfixated together and DAMN IT WAS WORTH IT)
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Underrated JayVik moments/lines (2/∞)
"For what?"
(Previous line by Jayce: "I need to get ready.")
Ugh, if only the gays could communicate.
In this scene, Heimerdinger has threatened - sworn - to have the HexCore destroyed "one way or another". Since they are running out of time to find ways to save Viktor at this point and the HexCore appears to be the only viable option, Jayce immediately resolves - however conflicted about it he feels - to go up against his revered mentor by having him voted off the council. For Viktor.
However: from Jayce's quieting footsteps as Viktor asks "For what?", we can tell that Jayce didn't stick around to tell Viktor of his intentions.
If ever there was a moment that perfectly encapsulates how Viktor never gets to see the full picture of Jayce, the full scope of his decisionmaking... it would be this one.
For all the times Viktor feels betrayed and abandoned by Jayce (and rightfully so), he equally often doesn't get to witness all the other actions/decisions that show how ultimately, Jayce will always put him first.
He sees Jayce looking starstruck by Mel, but didn't see him looking at Viktor the exact same way only hours prior.
He is aware of Jayce leaving him to his own devices at the lab, but not of how Jayce fled Mel's bed to come see him before he could have even known Viktor was sick.
He hears Jayce speak disparagingly about the Undercity only after worrying about Viktor and where he had disappeared to for days.
He knows that Jayce broke his promise to destroy the HexCore, but not of the wide-eyed desparation with which he scrambled for any way at all to save Viktor.
He notices the blueprints for HexTech weapons, but wasn't there for the attack on the memorial service.
And of course, he has Jayce attacking him multiple times, but can't see how much Jayce is fighting himself tooth and nail every step of the way to do it.
In the end, it literally takes Jayce forfeiting his entire existence for the chance to stay by Viktor's side for Viktor to finally realise all the things he never saw.
(Disclaimer: none of this is to say that Jayce's decisions were all good or justified - gods no - only that it's more complicated than that. Nuance, my beloved.)
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I'm back in the fucking building again
he's my mona lisa (wip)
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Lazy post-canon mornings.
a sketch i will never finish,,, just imagine warm lighting and a cozy cabin
You guys ever think about how Jayce's home got robbed, blown up, and raided by enforcers all in the same day? How there was probably a time where he was frantic about keeping all his doors and windows locked, and keeping his important possessions somewhere hidden, or locked away?
Maybe he stopped trying to be attached to things too, fearing they'd just get destroyed or taken anyways too. If you include the headcanon that he moved to Piltover during the snowstorm too, instead of being born there, then he may have already lost all his possessions once before. In that storm, in the move.
It makes me wonder what his place looks like after he moves out of his mom's house again. Would he bother to try buying anything for a while? It's interesting to think that for a long time, maybe even a few years, there's a chance he might not have bought anything other than the bare essentials. Very few dishes, maybe just two of each. No decorations. He has a couch, maybe a coffee table he eats at instead of a proper table and chairs. Nothing much more than a desk and a bed in his room. Any research he does at home gets locked in a safe in his closet, and everything else he keeps in the lab.
Maybe after a while, and some encouraging from Viktor (who's a hypocrite, and also has minimal things in his house because he has Grew Up Poor As Fuck Syndrome), he buys some things. He has more money than before, he CAN do it now, he's just afraid to. He gets more comfortable. Buys an actual table and chairs. More dishes. A comfier couch. Decorations for his room. Comfier bed too.
And then, years later, Jinx robs his lab. His safe space with Viktor. And honestly, I'm not sure he would really ever have had time to recover from that one. He's paranoid about locking everything down in the lab, along with dealing with being a councilor. He wants to give Zaun sovereignty despite how violating it felt to have his safe areas stolen from and destroyed again. He tries to.
And then Jinx blows up the council chambers. Kills Viktor. Jayce revives him in their lab, watches over him. Brings his blanket there with him, an object to feel safe with again, even in this room that had been tainted with a feeling of just. General unsafety. From Jinx robbing him, killing his partner. From learning that Sky died in this room too, and Viktor almost did as well.
He gives Viktor that safe object when he wakes up. And then, Viktor leaves. Further just destroying the safety this lab room brings him. He still sleeps there, still clings to that feeling it brought him, but its not the same. He doesn't have anything that makes him feel safe anymore.
Then he's thrown in a ravine. That's his home for months. It's the opposite of safe. Not only does he not have a safe shelter, but he's in his own city that's been twisted beyond what he can recognize. There is NOWHERE that is safe here
He doesn't have time to recover at all when he gets back. It's genuinely been likely over a year since he really called any place a truly safe home since Jinx robbed the lab.
So. Maybe post-canon he finds somwhere safe. He and Viktor make one together. Maybe its far away from people, he doesn't have to worry about anyone finding them. They slowly make a good home again there, and maybe one day he'll finally feel safe there
Jayvik Intentionally Pompeii-Coded!! 🏳️🌈
Storyboard artist Zhihuang Dong answered my comment about Jayvik mirroring the gay couple in Pompeii. AND IT WAS ALL INTENTIONAL. IM CRAWLING UP A WALL.
So if you consider that it took Wizard Viktor interceding with Jayce to get him to kill Cult Leader Viktor to successfully save the world, then I think that makes it obvious that in most other universes, Jayce joins Viktor.
Which means that in most other universes, it is astral plane Viktor and Jayce who explore the mental cosmos together trying to heal Vander.
It usually is Jayce working side by side with Viktor in the commune, with Jayce being the one working in the blacksmith forge there.
It usually is them working together as partners towards the Glorious Evolution, he doesn’t need to be convinced in the Council Chamber.
Which on the one hand, is possibly why Viktor is so confused over and over at Jayce turning him down, shooting him in the commune despite Viktor peacefully leading him to the heart of it by the hand, or in the Council Chamber when Jayce says no to him, possibly for the first time in Viktor’s life, and it shocks Viktor so badly he goes full villain arc.
But part of me also wonders if, on a psychic level, Viktor sensed that in every other universe, Jayce joined him. If he sensed that something was missing and wrong when he imagined Sky to be his companion instead as the next logical best thing, when he had a blacksmith forge in his commune that was staffed by cultists instead, when he went to the Council Chamber for one last plea and didn’t forcibly assimilate Jayce, never imagining it wouldn’t work, sensing that it should work.
In every other universe it does work. You can tell because Jayce has to fight himself with every fiber of his being, he has to deny his most basic instincts and truest self to say no, even with everything he knows!
It’s what made the Hexcore trap so effective I think. In every other universe, it gets Jayce and Viktor, working together as partners the way they always wanted towards its goals. It’s everything they both wanted. It is the most effective trap for them. It works so well that only someone with full knowledge of what to do and what went wrong in every other universe, every other trap that was laid for them with perfect knowledge of who they are and what they want, could possibly thread the needle of getting them both to the other side and sparing the world in the process.
Jayvik parallels that make me feral ~ 1x02 edition
● The parallel between Baby Jayce's flashback & the scene in 2X07, where Jayce sees the mage upon landing in the other timeline and calls out to him:
● Mage Viktor teleporting Baby Jayce to safety/creating a new timeline & Mage Viktor teleporting Jayce to meet him in his original timeline:
● Jayce telling Viktor how beautiful the magic he saw as a child was (without either of them knowing he’s actually talking about Viktor) & Jayce telling Viktor he’s beautiful in the finale:
● The parallel between Viktor saving Jayce/giving him the rune back & Mage Viktor saving Baby Jayce/giving Jayce the runes + Viktor introducing himself & Mage Viktor revealing his identity in the finale:
● Not exactly a parallel, but the moment where Mage Viktor creates a new timeline for Baby Jayce, the world he holds in his hand becomes Jayce's eye... we know now Jayce is Viktor's entire world, so 😭
Underrated JayVik moments/lines (18/∞)
"I was supposed to die."
(I can NOT get over how absolutely livid he looks.)
I always did wonder what precisely Viktor meant by that.
Because although we are led to believe that the main reason for his ire is that Jayce broke his promise to destroy the HexCore, not only would this line be entirely unnecessary for that, but this is the line that sees the focus fully on Viktor's delivery and expression (whereas his comment on Jayce's broken promise is instead "shot" from behind, with the focus falling squarely on Jayce's reaction).
All this - and adding to it how inherently striking a statement it is to tell someone you were supposed to die in the first place - goes to put a much heavier emphasis on this line over the other one, really. But why?
I believe it is because (though their parting was likely already inevitable at this point due to additional factors such as the HexTech weapons) it is in fact a crucial part of what informs Viktor and Jayce's disconnect in this scene. As I see it, one of the various ways Jayce goes wrong here is in dwelling on the HexCore and interpreting Viktor's disapproval as solely targeting Jayce's failure to "cling to principle", when the scene direction already told us he was supposed to have paid closer attention to the line above instead.
So, since the show insists - let's unpack this, I guess.
To me, the key to understanding is the question I posed in the very beginning; the question of which of Viktor's two possible deaths this line is actually referring to - his prognosed death by disease or his de facto death in the explosion (neither of which Jayce was "supposed to" avert by using the HexCore). And after some consideration, I think the answer is this:
It makes precious little difference to Viktor - and a world of difference to Jayce.
Let's take a look at the situation from their respective points of view:
"Promise. Me."
When Viktor made Jayce promise to destroy the HexCore, it's not like he wanted to die (even his suicide attempt was more of a bid to escape his guilt and despair than a death wish), but he was coming to terms with the inevitability of it. He may not know that he has only hours left to live here, but at this point, what's the difference really?
And then, something extraordinary happens:
While we don't get to see it, it is heavily implied - both by the way Viktor saying "We have to make it right" is played over the image of Silco reading Jayce's request for parley, and of course, by how he and Jayce end up presenting it to the council together - that this negotiation for peace with Zaun is a joint endeavour.
After all of the lonely struggles Viktor fought over the course of acts 2 and 3, he spends his final day working united with Jayce the way they used to be, and his final moments seeing his people be granted independence through his and Jayce's own efforts.
With him dying - or at least being knocked unconscious - instantly in the explosion, this was the "roll credits" moment of Viktor's life, and he would never have to learn how everything went to shit.
If your death was inescapable anyway - what moment could have been more beautiful to leave the stage?
...Only to wake up in a body horror nightmare, standing less than human before the person you needed to trust more than anything having broken his promise to let you die on your own terms.
"I was supposed to die." - Why did you put me back here just because you could?
"Okay... Okay. I promise."
When Jayce promises to destroy the HexCore, he doesn't want to, but he would hate to deny Viktor's plea even more. And I do genuinely believe he would have gone through with it, too.
However, imagine how exactly Jayce is interpreting what is being asked of him in this moment. To a staunch optimist like Jayce, while a devastating blow, this is not the end of all hope. This is not a DNR.
In a way, it is merely a "back to square one" - the prospect of spending however many months remain working urgently to find a different solution, perhaps. But more importantly:
It is the solace of still having those months.
(If nothing else, then just to prepare emotionally. As someone who lost her father to illness young, believe you me when I say that having the time to prepare for what's coming is invaluable.)
Jayce is not imagining the death he is unwittingly promising Viktor here to be a sudden, frantic thing. Bloodied and dirt-streaked amidst rubble and smoke, his body cast aside and broken against stone like another piece of furniture that happened to stand in the way of the blast.
Jayce is not imagining ever looking at Viktor's corpse in a state that suggests he never mattered at all.
And Jayce - no matter what Viktor thinks his promise should entail - did most definitely not promise to be able to keep his head cool and his heart detached in a situation so far removed from anything he was ever expecting to handle when he gave it.
"I never asked for this!" - It was never fair of you to ask me for this!
Speaking of fair: that's another thing I want to touch on real quick.
Because even though Viktor acts like it should have been a matter of course for Jayce to accept Viktor's death, I have often wondered what Viktor wouldn't have been willing to do if their roles were reversed; if it was Jayce caught in the blast instead. (After all, Viktor knows he is a doomed man, but not Jayce. That's not how it's supposed to go.)
Now, I don't know that he would have gone full Singed, but luckily, we don't have to know. The show tells us exactly what Viktor would do to save Jayce's life, over and over again if need be.
Forget breaking a promise - how about breaking the very fabric of time and space itself? I know we often talk about Viktor as being the one "doomed by the narrative", and while that is true, make no mistake:
For whatever it's worth, Jayce was "supposed to die" too.
If not in the snow storm, then perhaps by his own hand, or through the Glorious Evolution. All of which Viktor simply... refuses to let happen, cosmic integrity be damned.
Long story short: In Jayce's defence, your Honour - Viktor is equally unwell about him.
Additional thoughts I didn't know how to include:
The idea for this entry is very closely tied to this video edit I made (although in a classic "chicken or egg" situation, I wouldn't be able to say which inspired which first), so if for some reason you'd like to see these themes put in a music video format - there you go.
For more on "Jayce is the one doomed by the narrative", please do read this meta by @zecroswe. While I don't agree on every detail, I absolutely see the vision and highly recommend giving it a read.
I've been wanting to expand on Jayce's POV on the necromancy thing ever since part 2 (where I said Viktor "knows that Jayce broke his promise to destroy the HexCore, but not of the wide-eyed desparation with which he scrambled for any way at all to save Viktor"). On that post, @luciansuir made a comment that I really want to include here because they kinda nailed some of my thoughts all the way back then:
Jayce fumbled so bad that he pulled excuses like “maybe the HexCore wasn’t so bad, maybe Heimer was wrong” Man how was that ever about the features of HexCore? Of course Viktor was convinced that you experimented with his death and treated him as a sample. Just tell the truth that you were so desperate and couldn’t bear the thought of losing him
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thinking about how viktor's crutch design is actually pretty unergonomic (no cushioning on the shoulder/handhold? also why does the handhold have that decorative pointy bit, that's just prime hand stabbing position), but it's in house talis colors. so do you think. that jayce made it. and put so much effort and love into it, and it's incredibly elegant, but ultimately he doesn't have firsthand experience with the fine particulars of being disabled (until his trip straight down to the bottom of a canyon where wizard viktor tossed him pity lizards occasionally), so the result is more form over function.
and yet viktor used it for years, unchanged, red/gold unobscured, even though it prob caused long term damage and pain that could've been avoided with minor alterations. out of affection.
I don't know that much about crutches so anyone's free to correct me, but I do have nerve sensitivity in my arms that's easily triggered with incorrect posture/muscle tenseness/hard pressure, and every time I see that crutch, I'm like boi. that's absolutely fucking up your arm. my fingers are going numb just looking at it. that kind of long-term acute pressure easily causes chronic nerve compression but viktor canonically is sentimental about holding onto important objects that remind him of jayce, like the cog and blanket...
