❝Vagary❞ ━━━
(noun) ━━ an unpredictable instance, a wandering journey; a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action
The end of your story in Zaun and Piltover together, bittersweet but never forgotten
Ft: 𝕵𝐢𝐧𝖝 𝕷𝐚𝐧𝖊 ━━
━━━In all honesty, it felt like you blinked and suddenly, Isha and Warwick were gone as quickly as you had adjusted to having them around. Jinx was put in a cell in piltover, Jinx had then escaped from her cell in piltover, Jinx had then shown up on a blimp with ekko, neon paint and a buzzcut. The blue haired ‘cupcake’ (that Jinx had often ranted about)‘s ex was apparently a noxian, ‘cupcake’ lost an eye. Warwick was alive, Warwick was apparently feral now, the sisters fought without fighting each other (somehow) and then jinx and Warwick died.
Apparently, anyway.
Turns out jinx hadn’t died, which, looking back now, you shouldn’t have been surprised but hey, it had only been like three hours in her words (twelve) and you had barely started grieving when she suddenly showed up, blood and neon paint from the fight still on her and her signature, slightly manic grin and a statement that turned your world upside down.
“Let’s fuckin’ leave this burning pile of shit!”
And suddenly you found yourself on an airship leaving Piltover and Zaun behind with nothing but the ragged clothes on your back and your slightly insane, now presumed dead girlfriend that you had both snuck into. Sitting side by side among the crates below deck, trying to stay hidden from any of the other passengers.
Average Tuesday, right?
“…Jinx I swear to Janna this is the last time I leave you alone for a piss break,”
And she laughed, your wild, reckless, morally grey and genius blue haired inventor laughed. Loud and boisterous, like herself, tears pooling in the corner of her eyes, though as much as you hate to admit it, you weren’t that funny.
You blinked and realised this was the first time she had laughed or even smiled since Isha died.
You blinked again, and now she was crying, completely hysterical, as if this was the first time she was properly letting herself grieve. Grieve for her parents. Grieve for Mylo, Claggor and Vander. Grieve for the loss of her sister for seven years. Grieve for Silco, Grieve for Isha and Warwick.
Grieve for the weight of what it meant to leave the only place she’d ever known and where her loved ones were. Those alive and dead.
You didn’t offer words, at least, not yet. You knew that she needed this, needed to feel the punishing despair of the tragedy that had happened in her life. As much as it hurt you, you knew she needed it to be able to move on.
To forgive herself and find some form of peace, whatever that meant for her. Whether it was continuing to build her explosives and cause chaos, or to build forts and have beetle battles.
So you let her cry, you held her and kissed her tears, let her wind her lean arms around you and cling to you like you were all she had left.
Then, when she exhausted herself out, you brushed her bangs, which she had apparently refused to cut when shaving all her hair off, and traced the pale smatter of freckles over the bridge of her nose, rubbing your thumb down her brow to ease the frown from her face.
You didn’t mind too much for the uncomfortable position you were in, sitting shoved between wooden crates, jinx draped over your lap in a strange position which was the most comfortable she would get, for now.
This wasn’t the worst you’d ever faced, considering how you’d grown up in Zaun, sleeping wherever the least people were, even if there was no room or shimmer stains.
And you just thought.
Thought about your life in Zaun, your life before jinx had painted it all blue and pink. Thought about how Isha had then added warmer shades to the bright colours of your new life.
How your brief meeting with Vi had added darker, more saturated tones that smudged and evolved into something softer.
How quickly the painting had been torn from the canvas of your life, leaving messy stains on everything and gashes filled with hysteria and heartbreak.
How unexpectedly that within just a day of your old painting being destroyed and then shredded, a new one started to form on the remains of the canvas.
The starting colours are still pink and blue, though not as bright or blinding, with mixes of all the other shades and tones incorporated into them.
It wouldn’t be the same painting, no, nothing would ever be able to be the exact same, no matter how hard you tried to imitate it. But that was okay.
Because art would not be art if it was all the same idea repeated until the end of time. If everyone in every form of art tried to replicate their predecessors stroke for stroke, word for word.
Art was vague, raw, whimsical and wild, sharp edges and blurred lines all at the same time.
And as you came to that conclusion, you figured that no matter what the new painting became, it wouldn’t be so bad if you had the ever growing style of life that was Jinx and everything she represented, as long as she’d be the one to paint your canvas, mold your clay.
As long as she would be your guide, your home. The beginning of your story and the river that led you to the ocean.
As long as you could remain by her side, in the vagary that is life.
To my darling moot ━━ @grotesquevi My graduation present to you my dear <33 have so much fun !!











