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[29-12-2011]

[29-12-2011]

Hope this is okay to bring up but all th points u made in that post abt ppl white woman-Ifying viktor Yeah. It’s impossible 2 scroll through certain tags on this site (or any tbh) without seeing some bad jayce take because people don’t understand they’re completely separate characters. Or refuse to read viktor as he actually acts in arcane OR league just because he’s their scrungly sad little meow meow who can do no wrong and everyone and everything is out to get him. It’s incredibly annoying too because people are Making content based on league lore, but are basing it off other people’s fics instead of reading the lore, so it’s like a self repeating cycle, not sure how else to explain it but it just sucks ass and it makes it hard to interact with th majority of ppl making art for the two of them

that is true! sorry, didn't mean to localise it as an issue particular to just arcane because yeah, it's been happening since the arrival of 2016 viktor's lore (and maybe even before). i can't count the number of times jayce has been accused of genocide(?) or stealing blitzcrank by hiding him in his trenchcoat and running away or purposely trying to get viktor expelled (in the order of significance ascribed by most fans), or any other weird crimes people can dream up because the fact is that if you look at his biography instead of basing your entire knowledge off of drabbles and AUs and author's notes and inside jokes and references he did... none of these things?

like there's nothing gloating about how he describes viktor getting expelled -- i'd argue he didn't intend for it to happen at all. but somehow in fandom discussions or reddit posts people stretch it to jayce stealing viktor's wife and kids or whatever i really don't get it! and if you argue from the lens of interpretation i'm not sure what textual basis you'd have for that at all given that jayce is notably distraught after losing viktor.

of course jayce doesn't do himself any favours by not mentioning blitzcrank, or trying to defend himself, but you only really fall victim to thinking viktor was in the right by doing an entirely surface level reading without realising, hey, maybe trying to strip people of free will is bad?

i understand being more emotionally engaged with viktor's side of the story, and if you read jayce's biography after reading viktor's your viewpoint is already shaped by the uncharitable way viktor depicts him, but honestly if you're going to try to engage with these characters in a serious level i'd at least ask for you to try and figure out what is going on (or don't, if it's more fun i guess i can't really police how you consume fictional men).

the "genocide" that they believe is happening (please google what genocide is) is so... GUYS HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY VIKTOR WAS ABLE TO CONTROL AND ORDER AROUND THE AUTOMATONS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE ZAUNITES' NEW BODIES? like there is room for nuance here obviously if you can be bothered to think it through but at a surface level glance viktor is not in the right here. i'll defend viktor and write him and love him until the day i die but that's not because i agree with what he is doing, it'd be because i enjoy him as a character and find him interesting to explore.

maybe people conflate this emotional attachment with the belief that since so much wrong has been done to him (which i won't deny, just that a lot of it wasn't jayce's fault) viktor must be in the right, and jayce becomes the target of this righteous anger because how dare you not defend this poor little meow meow victim of all of society's faults!

and all of these things are multiplied tenfold by looking at it through the lens of arcane and refusing to even consider how the two SEPARATE iterations would fuse together. now white woman A!viktor is dying, and isn't that just so pitiful? why WOULDN'T you let him commit all those atrocities, and if you REALLY LOVED HIM you wouldn't BETRAY HIM AND SELL HIM OUT! WHICH TALIS DOES NOT DO BECAUSE THOSE EVENTS ARE NOT PART OF ARCANE THEY ARE PART OF LEAGUE! or something or the other. and frankly this is just disrespectful to all four characters.

the image most arcane-only fans have of giopara would be "asshole", which is true, but he's also a complex layered character that loses a lot if you choose to reduce him to one archetype, and if you choose to misinterpret a character and then blame him for your misinterpretation it's like... well i really don't get it but it's whatever because it's for real just a video game biography/TV show.

[29-12-2011]

high noon viktor

high noon viktor

[29-12-2011]

Hi my name is Viktor Dark’ness Techmaturgy League Of Legends and I have long dark black hair with a white streak that reaches my neck and glowing yellow eyes like headlights and a lot of people tell me I look like Victor Frankenstein (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Nikola Tesla but I wish I was because he’s a crazy good scientist. I’m a Zaunite but I don’t have that much radiation poisoning. I have human skin (for now). I’m also an engineer, and I go to an elite school called the University of Piltover where I’m in the second year (I’m nineteen). I’m a cyborg (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black (#000000). Today I was wearing a red vest with matching cape around it and black leather pants, black fishnets and black combat boots. I was also wearing a black mask and protective goggles. I was walking outside the university. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of Pilties stared at me. My third arm put up the middle finger at them.

“Hey Viktor!” shouted a voice. I looked up. It was…. Jayce Giopara!

“What’s up Giopara?” I asked.

“Nothing.” he said stupidly.

I was going to laser him, but then I heard my professor call me and I had to go away.

[29-12-2011]

being a jayce-liker is genuinely so depressing in this economy... i suppose, even without including arcane and what they did with the characters, it’s just easier to find viktor more compelling because of the way his biography is written in contrast to jayce’s more honest explanation of his flaws, and there’s also the relative ease in forming emotional attachments to viktor because despite all of his “rawr no emotions!!” stuff he is very much an emotionally-motivated character, and it is easy to read him as a victim of [dramatic voice] society. in contrast, jayce asshole giopara is a seemingly simple character who follows the arrogant stand-offish genius hero archetype.

so while before arcane both of them were less popular characters, there did seem to be a lot more viktor-likers, with a lot of jayce content including him as well for shipping purposes (and this is still how it is with arcane), probably for reasons mentioned above among other things, as well as the fact that jayce’s biography was 70% viktor which means you have to do additional hallucinating for solo jayce interpretation, adding onto the already considerable effort put into elevating league lore.

people have mentioned how arcane kind of wipes most of viktor’s flaws and keeps jayce’s in the first season, as well as cuts out jayce’s more likeable aspects while retaining more of viktor’s, so this really didn’t do a lot for the jayce economy :/ also a lot of the fics being written treat jayce as viktor’s weighted blanket who’s only there to take care of the poor little meowmeow (which i feel is a great disservice to both their characters-- but i don’t really want to talk about how dissatisfied i am with arcane jayvik in comparison to 2016 because that’s aaaaaa whatever). and i know people can write whatever they want, but i’d really like to see more jayce-centric things! he’s an interesting character, guys! there’s so much wrong with him! he has so many problems!

plus, jayce and viktor are supposed to bounce off each other, and if you want to do anything interesting with viktor in a jayce/viktor fic then jayce has to be an equally strong character. if you hyperfocus on one of them then you’re doing a general character study, and not maximising on what you can glean from their dynamic, which is fine and all but that’s not a jayvik fic, just a viktor fic with jayvik... it also makes me really sad to see fics that are supposed to be vikjayce but the author just flat out admits to not liking jayce, or people who draw for vikjayce and admit they don’t like jayce, etc. etc. he’s more than an accessory :/ you get better jayce content from jayce/m*l (NOT CENSORED BECAUSE I HATE WOMEN CENSORED BECAUSE I DON’T WANT THIS TO APPEAR IN SEARCHES)

in conclusion please treat jayce as a character and not a coat stand :( or don’t i’m not your boss

[29-12-2011]

Viktor lobotomy tweet?????

[text: viktor has a feeling and then goes "man" and lobotomises himself just like that it is that easy it's like (one of) the reason(s) he's so invested in the glorious evolution is that he literally cannot be wrong like if he's wrong he'll just die like if you've cut off several limbs and thrown out your organs in pursuit of this grief and rage-induced dream then doesn't this work become you don't you become your work and if your work has been wrong and aimless the whole time what does that make you]

viktor lobotomy tweet

[29-12-2011]

jayce finds viktor's terrible 1TB collection of mobile games and is like "THIS IS WHAT YOU BUILT A PHONE WITH A MEMORY OF 2TB FOR" and viktor is like How did you crack my password because viktor randomly generated one and it's literally something like AK2cuhdhHsHAJ32bAKshdZZxJHL1 and then as like "revenge" viktor tries to get into jayce's phone and the only hint jayce gave him was "it has sentimental value instead of being an A+ in cybersecurity you insane fuck" so he tries jayce's postal code then jayce's ID no. and then jayce's mom's ID no. then jayce's gpa then [etc.]

he sits there for an hour and then finally throws it back to jayce going "Whatever i have no idea what you have going on in your stupid human mind if it's the hexcode of the colour of your favourite edition of the bell jar's cover then Whatever it's not like i Care." 

the password is viktor's birthday.

[29-12-2011]

an important thing to understand is that viktor will never be able to save zaun