gongaga

this is my torture prison of my own making because im neutoric and hypomanic and not only a homosexual but also a pervert so i love viktor and his boyfriend is cute too ig but id hold down viktor and lick his face and and sniff his armpits so i madeethis blog cuz hes imprinted on my brain and it makes me wanna pull out my own teeth and i need to be put down like a rabid dog but thats life okay thank you i love you bye

[toastyglow]

(SPOILERS FOR ARCANE)

Wanted to make a video for Viktor, and this beautiful song with its inscrutable lyrics seemed weirdly perfect.  Thanks for watching!

Series: Arcane Song: 715 - CR∑∑KS  -  cover by the Nor’ Easters, original by Bon Iver Edited in iMovie

[toastyglow]

the reviews are in

[fivendandelions]

VIKTOR in season 1 of Arcane

[qiqilasblog]

I forgot to post the finished version yall here It is

[sadbugbois]

Used the holidays to finally finish color vomiting all over this page, hopefully the brainworms will cease now

[yaelartworks]

practicing drawing viktorr

[khickuwa]

It keeps the cold at bay.

[rivertheartist]

Of course I gotta share this Viktor I made in Krita a while back. My beloved.

[rivertheartist]

I promise I make drawings that don't have Viktor in them sometimes. I'm just posting all these first.

Kinda jealous of Jayce but whatever

[zakosuheb]

#Arcane season 2 I was lucky enough to work as a concept artist on Arcane season 2, and I can finally share some images I created at Fortiche. And what better way to start than with the main antagonist: Viktor. I spent so many hours trying to redraw and comprehend the original character design done by Victor Maury (@moulinbleu ). The idea here was to find an interesting way to show that, at some point, Viktor finally reached his inner peace. Huge thanks to @riotgames and @fortiche_prod for the opportunity to work on such an amazing project with such a talented team. Lots of gratitude to directors Arnaud Delord, Pascal Charrue, Bart Maunoury, and art director Julien Georgel, with whom I’ve learned a lot. Congratulations to everyone involved!

[mud-muffin]

My/Jayces Meljayvik dream 😴

[healand]

[fl3a-bag]

It’s their greatest invention as of yet

[disaer]

HI JAYVIK NATION PLEASE TAKE THIS HALF WAY DONE SKETCH AS AN OFFER I LOVE YOU

[disaer]

Nothing to see here. Just 2 bros getting ready to be together forever in the embrace of the Arcane. help I'm very very very brainroted with these two. Another sketch, promise I'll make a proper illustration... Someday

[disaer]

JAYVIK SAVE MEEEEE

[queenwitchsam-deactivated202502]

Viktor and Jayce Art

[seraphsfire]

///ARCANE s2 finale SPOILERS ///

LONG POST

SO. THAT VIKTOR ARCANE LEAGUEOFLEGENDS GUY HUH.

some observations that are my personal opinion and/or interpretation of viktor's transformation and physical state. (my screenshots, idc if u repost them or whatever just don't say they're yours, etc)

minor edit: added a sentence i could've sworn i'd written that i hadn't and so my paragraph made no sense lol

love love love the aspects of body horror and character design going on with viktor's post-sourdough-starter cyborg body here, so i was trying to get a better look at it to maybe sort of figure out how his body was transformed, and what it's made of now (metal, magic, a third secret thing, idk)

so it looks like, in general, his skeletal structure and the metal parts in his back brace and his leg brace were fused together and then fused *into* his musculoskeletal structure, not just sort of copied by the hexcore. You can see here he has actual bolts in his spine before he got robot-ified, and to me it seems like this could have been a way for his brace to hook or snap onto his spine more securely to give him extra support.

I think the circles in the middle of the brace over his sternum might have also snapped into bolts in his chest, and you can see them better here

the cloth and leather parts of the brace have either dissolved or been turned into metal.

--I just want to take a side note here to note what im sure other ppl have mentioned but I haven't seen talked much about at least recently, is that viktor's disability wasn't just his mobility issues and bad respiratory health, that he must have been in terrible pain to have a procedure as extreme as bolts being put into his spine and/or chest deemed necessary / beneficial to his quality of life.

In the scene where he tries to destroy the hexcore, he can barely push himself up, and it takes all of his strength to lift a stool over his head that's only a few pounds :(

He later asks jayce to destroy the hexcore because he can't, and ive seen most people interpret that as him not wanting to destroy his life's work, but i always viewed it as him not physically being able to--the hexcore was too strong, and it snapped out at him and knocked him over just at the threat of him destroying it.

That circles over to another thing i thought was interesting, is that when he comes out of the goop he still seems very weak and unstable, even though he now has his back brace and leg brace fused to his skeleton. He still has to use his crutch to walk toward jayce and make effort to straighten his legs, because they're still twisted. It makes me wonder if the hexcore didn't so much heal him as dull his sense of pain so he couldn't feel it, and its energy forced him to move.

That's something i thought was interesting, and it made me think of his line about not feeling cold--he then says he feels something that is exactly how I'd describe coldness to somebody who's never felt it before, it just seems like now, his nervous system doesn't process it in the same way as he used to recognize the sensation of coldness. Interestingly, he still describes it as "unpleasant"

back to the design of viktor's body: what exactly is it made of? Here's where the body horror aspect of it comes in, because i think there's a possibility that's still mostly his body and what we're seeing here is exposed, preserved muscle fiber, because the hexcore either burned or melted off his skin or it literally rotted away while he was in the goop. There's a few artsy little flourishes from the hexcore magic peeking through, but except for the slightly darker color, it looks eerily like how muscle fiber on preserved cadavers looks, down to the way the little filamenty veins are. Granted it could just be a metallic structure the hexcore created, visually mimicking human muscle structure. Or the sourdough starter could have been something super gross like magic sentient cosmic energy formaldehyde--that also makes sense to me because of how when his hair grew out some of the tips had lost color, like they'd been bleached.

anyway the visual aspect of his resurrected hexcore appearance that makes me think of a reanimated cadaver most was how strange and unsettling i found it that he's completely gray and glowing with purple sparks, is that for some reason he's still got a bellybutton and almost a normal skin-like surace to that part of his stomach.

On the other hand, his hip socket and the rest of his pelvis is bony and skeletal. You can kind of see his pelvis not being attached with muscle fiber to his hip socket in that lower corner, it looks the same atp as when he's in his cosmic form.

the jokes about "jayce hugged him with his whole ______ out!!!!" just make me sad bc obviously any extraneous soft tissue was completely obliterated, (I say obviously but idk how many ppl literally believe they were censoring human body parts here.)

Like, he doesn't even have fingernails anymore. The only reason he has a stomach still is because abdominal muscles are a skeletal support structure.

That gives the he heebie jeebies so good, honestly, and what an fascinating choice by the design team instead of giving him idk, age of ultron steel robot shaped abs, which i've seen a lot in like human--robot transformations, he's this horrifying mix of petrified/preserved cadaver tissue, magic metal, and sentient cosmic energy. (Even more tragic and sad if you think about it that way and that jayce might have been hugging his dead friend's preserved, skinned corpse)

the "reanimated corpse" idea fits into the interpretation that viktor's emotions and thoughts are still his, but they've been very dulled by the power of the hexcore, because a reanimated cadaver body isn't going to be able to work as effeciently that way anymore.

or idk maybe the idea that he was still sort-of there, faintly is one i like because it makes me feel better, i can at least pretend some part of him felt comforted being held in such a horrific situation. had to post this screenshot bc that sad little face when hes getting hugged is destroying me

Anyway. many thoughts, many feelings, many possibilities and interpretations. Do with this what you will. I, for instance, will be walking into the sea and never returning probably

[seraphsfire]

@waytray @artionn yes you're welcome!!! this is exactly the sort of thing I hoped ppl would get out of my post

Pls also @ artists and @ writers link me if you do a painting or fic referencing something u got out of this i would love to see it !!!