hi mr talis i found this real image of you and viktor do you mind explaining yourself
It may appear to be a real image, but if you look closer, it’s actually a convincing forgery. You can tell because my pecs are much larger than this in person.
Hi. I'm a person who didn't get through Arcane and certainly not through JayVik. I still see JayVik on tik tok, instagram, I'm trying to write a book and make a comic out of it. But I guess it's still not enough for me. 😭
I would like to play JayVik RPG. I don't care if it's a modern JayVik or an Arcane JayVik (In this case, I like the idea of Jayce S2 and Viktor S1. But that also depends on you. 👀). If anyone is interested, I can play in English or Czech. I don't care if I will be Jayce or Viktor, I don't care who's top or bottom (I prefer switching). 🌶️🔥 If anyone wants to play with me or anything, let me know. Worst case scenario, we'll find out it won't work for us and at least we'll talk about JayVik. 💜
Jayce Talis and Viktor Arcane are professors at the same prestigious university, both brilliant in their fields — but long-time academic rivals. They’ve known each other since grad school, where their friendship-turned-competition defined their early careers. Over the years, they’ve published opposing theories, stolen each other’s assistants (sometimes), and turned faculty meetings into blood sport with passive-aggressive PowerPoints.Then the university announces a massive research grant — but only if their departments collaborate. To their mutual horror, Jayce and Viktor are chosen to co-lead the project.When they’re forced to collaborate on the grant, Viktor begrudgingly reviews Jayce’s recent research — and realizes something staggering:Jayce’s latest developments in cellular energy regeneration or arcane-enhanced prosthetics could potentially halt or reverse the progression of his illness.But Viktor can’t just ask.Not from Jayce — not after years of rivalry, pride, and resentment.
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[9:23 PM]**Viktor Arcane**: It seems the Dean is cruel enough to think pairing us together will produce ^^results.^^
💬 1 🔁 14 ❤️ 10 · Viktor’s visible surprise at Jayce’s words is disconcerting. He didn’t know?
“Of course you do, Viktor. You’re my partne
Jayce says of course like it's something Viktor should have always known, and yet…in his mind, he replaces himself with HexTech. There'd be no point if it weren't for HexTech - that made sense to him. Because even drunk, it was…easier to create some imaginary distance between them, even as his legs rested against his partner's.
Still, it made him smile at first. There is the vaguest of chuckles that escapes between his lips…
But then Jayce says without you, and the sentiment is suddenly so sobering that he feels like he's been splashed with cold water. The relaxed happiness gives way to the usual pit of dread. His smile drops to a familiar soft frown and he finds that he looks away from Jayce without even thinking about it- because he has to. Because suddenly he is struck with guilt.
Heimerdinger's conversation with him at the party earlier certainly didn't help, the way it rang in his mind. What are you going to leave behind, and for whom? It is up to you, he'd said.
He knew one of these days it was going to catch up to him. He knew one of these days Jayce was going to find out. His chest hurt, thinking about it.
"You are the good half, Jayce."
His voice is heavier. Swallows as he stares at his cup of tea on the coffee table. Absent-mindedly plays with a button on his sleeve as he tries to find his voice again.
"Even without me you are…you are an incredible person, Jayce."
What is he supposed to say without saying you will find out, and I want you to be fine? That he has to be fine because if Viktor considers that he might not be it's enough to make him cry?
"You care about people that even the best of Piltover ignore, and you treat people as if they are always putting their best foot forward even when they are not. You…you are the good half of us. I am…far too bitter in comparison. You do good things no matter what it is for- the Council, HexTech…it does not matter what it is- you always seem to have the best intentions in your heart. I look up to that, you know."
Finally, he can look back at Jayce again but…his smile is shaky, at best.
"I have days, you know, when I feel so angry about the state of Zaun that I grow resentful of Piltover. And it makes it hard to focus or work because I just think of the waste and the entitlement and how I have been treated here and I get so hateful…and I do not like feeling that way. But when I do I am able to look towards you- and I see that there is good here and I can put my trust in the fact that we are going to change things. That you are going to change things."
It's more heartfelt than he'd normally be, and he would perhaps thank the alcohol for giving him the chance to at least express that, but…
It's the other part he expresses that he's sure will have him cursing it in the morning.
"You have no idea how much you mean to me, Jayce. How much you make me feel. It scares me."
@jayceofprogress
