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[melmedarda]

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

⸻ 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 :)