#seviktor

[spectraling]

Robot arm havers and enthusiasts unite

[coldcoleslaw]

notice how every ship in arcane is bangers, even the crackships, like frfr

[melmedarda]

A Guide to Recreational Shimmer Use for Physical Enhancement: a book by Singed.

⸻ VIKTOR & SEVIKA, Arcane

[itsme-tori]

@eddawrites Seviktor agenda.

[melmedarda]

The Magician and the Hanged Man.

⸻ VIKTOR & SEVIKA, Arcane

[melmedarda]

okay this is very out of the blue but i stumbled across your ao3 the other day (good shit btw 10/10) and i really wanna hear more about seviktor if you have any spare thoughts? bc they make for a very interesting and unexpected pairing and i'm totally here for it

Hello darling! I'm very glad you've enjoyed my little collection of works! I'm working on so more seviktor peices, as they've taken turns with meljay and are now giving me brainrot.

The amazing @eddawrites was the one who introduced me to this ship and converted me into seviktorism. I'll share the post again after I post this.

My thoughts on Seviktor are this: they seem like opposites, but they are not. At first glance, Sevika is everything Viktor is not. Calculating, street smart, ruthless, outspoken. Viktor is oblivious for the most part, too focused on his research to live in the real world, and he shies away from the spotlight.

Now let's look at the ways they are alike. Both from Zaun, they share the mark of the city on their bodies. Their disabilities exist, and they have modded their bodies to meet the challenges. They both use shimmer (i have a hippie Seviktor au that i am messing around with), and they are both very loyal to those who they choose to follow. They have strong love for their city and long to see it improved.

There is so much potential in the ways they can empower one another. Sevika is a follower, seems unable to act on her own without a leader, and when, inevitably, Viktor descends into Zaun for good, she could operate as his right hand in an effort to better their city. Viktor as the leadership (revolutionary), Sevika as the enforcement of his vision. They have the potential to be the best team, binary stars, tunnel-visioned in their purpose. I want them to meet and immediately be fixated on each other.

In a time of loss and what seems to be betrayal, Viktor uses Sevika to replace Jayce, and Sevika uses Viktor to replace Silco. Why? It's easy to fall back into familiar patterns, even with different people. The connection that they had with people from their past will not be perfectly replicated, but that's not what important, it's about filling a void.

I can see them having such an effect on each other that they change the way the other sees the world and see themselves. I want them to appreciate each other in a way others have failed to, I want them to survive together. I want some codependency between them, where they aren't able to function properly without each other.

And if Arcane s2 doesn't give it to me? I'll have to give it to myself :)

[eddawrites]

Because plantlife is rare in the undercity, vegetables and fruit are highly valued goods there; fruit, especially, is probably seen as sweet-flavored luxury. Basically, I think that Viktor should either artificially cultivate or personally purchase fruit for Sevika. I think acts of service like that are a go to method for showing affection in the undercity.

That's such a cute idea, anon!

I could certainly see him doing that, having a little private cultivair where he grows various plants, perhaps even breeding new ones, creating blossoms and fruits of new exotic smells and flavours. Sevika would outwardly act like the whole thing was too frivolous for her taste, of course, but she would be flattered by his gifts.

Especially when he names one of his new plants after her - a carnivorous one, naturally.

[eddawrites]

Hey op, just want to tell you that you're very big brain for seviktor. I like to think maybe they "met" each other in passing when they were both younger in the under-city, like in very close proximity to each other, but they never talked (it sounds dumb, but Arcane has so many what-if, alternative paths with the course of fate that I can't help but speculate).

Anon, believe it or not, but a similar thing happens in the fic I have in the works (though who knows when it'll finally see the light of day). Sevika reflects on seeing Viktor in The Last Drop once, a long, long time ago and recalls how much healthier - and happier - he had looked then. They never exchanged so much as a hello yet she remembers him. It was the day Heimerdinger offered him a place at the Academy.