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Herald - New beginnings

Once back in his own timeline, Viktor, now called Herald, with the help of Sky begins the process of figuring out how to help the people he “healed”. They start with the least affected member and successfully remove them from the hive mind, but there are side effects. For one, with the connection gone, the parts of that person's body that were recreated by the Hexcore begin to decay. Sky suggests drawing out the magic slowly to give the body time to fill the gaps naturally.

This also helps with the patients’ mental states, because their minds need time to get used to the full bandwidth of emotions again.

Some members are hesitant to leave the hive mind. Most prominent among them is Huck, who has grown into his role as Herald's gatekeeper and does not want to return to his previous insecurities. Herald manages to convince him only by promising that he will keep his role, minus the telepathic bond. Huck tries to argue for keeping even that on the grounds of time saved running back and forth, but Herald is adamant about wanting back the privacy of his own head.

In the beginning, Herald has a hard time reconciling with his Jayce because of what he did. Until Pookie voices appreciation of H!Jayce's "rugged good look" and Herald immediately steps in front of his Jayce, going, "Hands off, he's mine.”

Jayce has his own issues, mostly with trusting Herald to be the Viktor he knew (“Stupid question, of course I am not,” Herald replies) and grappling with the revelation that what the Old Mage!Viktor told him was not as accurate as he believed.

Even so, with everything that's still going on, they are glad to have each other, but while Jayce vows to henceforth have faith in Viktor (he never calls him Herald), Herald remains nebulous on how far his trust in Jayce extends.

Jayce: I want to earn your forgiveness or at least a second chance, but I can only do so much if you're not willing.

Herald: I am willing.

Jayce: Then why the constant jabs, the reminders?

Herald: Why? To remind you to never again take someone else's word on what is best for me. Not even if they are a Viktor from a different timeline.

Jayce: Not even Pookie?

Herald: Especially not Pookie.

Jayce: (surprised) Did you not want him to -

Herald: Oh, no, I appreciate his past actions, only I am worried what he might rope you into in the future.

Jayce: I'm not sure I understand. What do you need me to do?

Herald: (clears throat) You are my partner. That means you are not to speak with any other Viktor unless I am present and allow it. Are we of one mind?

Jayce: (rough) Single.

Herald: Then you have your second chance.

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Herald - Visitation

Part of my Viktor-focused multiverse AU. Pookie is a different Viktor. If this post is confusing, go here to start from the beginning =)

Because Viktor is so depressed, Pookie takes him back to visit his own timeline. They encounter only one small problem: next to the anomaly, Viktor's Hexcore goes absolutely insane with thirst for power. They barely make it through without starting the apocalypse thanks to Sky.

(The main reason for this excursion is to determine with the help of Pookie's Sky whether the Sky in Viktor's head is the real Sky or a bad copy. Their results are inconclusive but point towards ‘yes’, but more based on the increasing realisation that this Hexcore could never copy a person this well.)

Pookie: Here we are!

Viktor: How do you know? It looks exactly like the hexgates on my end.

Pookie: Yes, but it feels like home. Let's go! (stops mid-step) Actually, no, I'll port us into the lab. People, uh, would notice you in the streets.

Viktor: 🙄

They arrive at the lab.

Pookie: Damn.

Viktor: Don't know how long you've been gone?

Pookie: Uhm. I may have promised to be back in time for breakfast.

(they look out of the window at the sun setting in the west)

Pookie: (checks his calendar) Oh no. All the days I spent in your world have passed here as well?! That is bad. Please wait here, I need to get my crutch. (leaves)

A minute after Pookie has left, Powder shuffles into the lab and sees Viktor.

Powder: Viktor! (pokes head out of the door) He's back! He's in the lab! (turns around and pounces on Viktor)

Multiple footsteps approach and more and more people spill into the lab, all gathering around Viktor, talking over each other and hugging him from all sides. They immediately notice that something is off. Vi pulls off his hood and everyone gasps.

Jayce: Viktor, what happened to you?! 😱 Was that the anomaly? How are you?

Viktor: (overwhelmed) I-I-I'm fine, really, what happened, is just, uhm, how do I ... (glimpses at the door to see if Pookie is returning already)

Once the first shock has passed, they start prodding his metal body, asking him how this and that feels, if anything is uncomfortable or hurts.

Viktor: No, no, I'm fine, really, it's just -

(sound of someone walking with a crutch comes from the hallway)

Caitlyn: Hold on. Who are you?

Pookie: (enters the room) He's not me! I am here, I'm still me, he's from another timeline, that's why he looks different.

The group repeats the gather-worry-hug ritual with Pookie.

Mel: Please explain why there's two of you.

Pookie: I'd found an anomaly in the anomaly and wanted to check it out. It led me to an ancient timeline where I found an old Viktor talking to the Jayce from this Viktor's timeline, then followed Jayce back to where he came from and met him. Unfortunately, I got held up in his timeline, hence my delay.

Viktor: Hm. Your diction is amateurish, but I suppose it's not wrong.

Pookie: That's because I'm talking to laymen. You will learn it too.

Viktor: Hm.

Mel: You didn't answer my question. Why is he here?

Pookie: For a visit. He can't stay too long or the Hexcore might start messing around, but I wanted to show him a more hopeful world.

Jayce: (alarmed) What Hexcore?

Viktor: (dramatically pulls down his robe to unveil his chest) The one Jayce fused me with to "save my life". 😠

Pookie: Ah, no need to get angry, save that for your Jayce, alright?

Viktor: I'm doing you a favour. (to Jayce) If he ever makes you promise something, do it.

Jayce: Okay!

Viktor: That's what he said, and now look at me.

Jayce: (shocked)

Pookie: You've made your point. So, allow me to make mine.

Viktor: Please enlighten me to my future, pretty boy.

Pookie: Surprised you need that, fortune cookie.

Viktor: (saunters over without his staff touching the ground to stand in front of Pookie)

Pookie: 🙄 you know what, I think we're done here. You've met everyone, seen the city, can't think of anything else that might be important.

Viktor: Hm, alright. I'd prefer getting back to my Jayce.

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Herald - House rules

Part of my Viktor-focused multiverse AU. Pookie is a different Viktor. If this post is confusing, go here to start from the beginning =)

Pookie: We've made it a rule that Jayce always needs to get a second opinion for his decisions.

Viktor: Isn't that exactly his problem? He gets someone else's opinion and then does his interpretation of what they want him to do.

Pookie: Oh, no, his own opinion doesn't count. We've devised a system of who he has to ask depending on whose first opinion he gets. If it's Vi's idea, he has to ask Mel, if it's Mel's idea, he has to ask Powder, if it's Powder's, then Sevika, for Sevika, Cait, for Cait, Ekko, for Ekko, Vander, for Vander, Silco. And if it's Silco's idea, well, we've had to accept that it's impossible to try and go against Silco's ideas. He gets what he wants, one way or another. Jayce still has to ask Vi though.

Viktor: What about your ideas?

Pookie: My ideas don't need correcting, they are flawless.

Viktor: One might even say glorious.

Pookie: Oh, shut up. I think he goes to Sky.

Viktor: Hm.

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Herald - Meeting the Herald

Part of my Viktor-focused multiverse AU. Pookie is a different Viktor. If this post is confusing, go here to start from the beginning =)

The game continues until it's time for dinner. Afterwards, Pookie leaves for the hexgates and enters the anomaly, ends up in the apocalypse timeline. Terrified by his surroundings, he makes himself invisible with magic before making his way to the top of the Hexgates. He eavesdrops on the conversation between Arcane!Jayce and OldMage!Viktor, then sneaks in as Arcane!Jayce is sent back to his timeline and gets carried along. OldMage!Viktor doesn't notice because he doesn't expect something like this to happen.

Pookie hides and watches Jayce kill Salo, then follows him to Arcane!Viktor's commune. Jayce doesn't notice because he's too out of his mind and busy with trying to focus on his “mission”.

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Herald - The Speech

Part of my Viktor-focused multiverse AU. Pookie is a different Viktor. If this post is confusing, go here to start from the beginning =)

Days later, Jayce comes back with Caitlyn - and Mel. Together they try to get through to Viktor.

V Jayce, I can heal them. They were Shimmer addicts, cripples, amputees, now look at them! They're thriving. They have food, homes, a community, a purpose.

M They chose this?

V Of course.

M Councillor Salo chose this?

V Over being stigmatised and outcast in Piltover? Yes.

J Viktor, you were possessing him. You spoke through him!

V He agreed to it. He told you himself, he was still in there. You only feared what you couldn't understand. (reaches out) Let me show you.

J (sighs, catches Viktor's hand with his gloved one) No, I'll show you. You're doing to these people what you've been doing to yourself. You've always wanted to cure what you thought were weaknesses.

P (frowning)

V (listening)

J (cont) Your leg. Your disease.

P (uhm. what.)

V (slight brow crease)

J (cont) But you were never broken, Viktor. There's beauty in imperfections. They made you who you are.

P (open mouthed staring)

M (dying of second hand embarrassment)

V (inexplicably smiling)

J (finishing) An inseparable piece of everything I admired about you.

M+P (getting ready to prevent Js violent demise)

V Jayce, you misunderstand. (draws back his hand to gesture at his leg) It wasn't me who saw a problem in my crippled leg, it was Piltover. More than my accent, more than my poverty, it marked me as being from the wrong place, a place so rotten it did not provide adequate treatment for its children. But how could it have?

V (pauses to take some steps away) My parents had no choice. There were no real doctors in the undercity and those in Piltover cost a fortune. (puts hand on his chest) And my disease? Piltover didn't care that its mining operations in my neighbourhood filled our streets with toxic gases.

V (returns to J) These afflictions were a part of me, yes, but they did not define me, not in my own eyes. However, they made me someone worth less in the eyes of the very people responsible for afflicting me with them.

J I never saw you as worthless.

V You are but one person, Jayce Talis. Why, do you think, was I working for Heimerdinger? No one else would hire me.

V (stretches out his arm to encompass the commune, his tone getting more mechanical) They are perfect. No one will look down on them for being deformed or sick.

M (sad/guilty, exchanges a glance with Pookie, steps forward) This cannot be the solution.

V (mechanical) It is the best solution for them. The Glorious Evolution.

P (oh shit, follows Mel) Alright. Show me.

Mel shields Pookie from Viktor's Hexcore while he takes a closer look into his mind. Together they manage to separate the three minds in Viktor.

Now that he's able to tell his own thoughts apart from the Hexcore's output, Viktor becomes very distraught over what he's done to his commune - until Jayce's presence reminds him of the dumb speech he just gave. Which helps insofar as it makes Viktor mad.

Jayce and Mel take their leave but are replaced by Vi and Jinx, who've overheard some things and want to know what the hell Viktor has done to their father. Viktor promises to do his best to fix his mistakes and that he can still help. The girls are not convinced and leave with Vander. Mel and Caitlyn ask some more questions before leaving as well.

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2. Herald

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Meeting the Herald

The Speech

House rules

Visitation

New beginnings

Basic Herald info:

he's basically Viktor from season 2

snark permanently activated

to solve the issue of his power running out they stuck a Hextech Gemstone in him

he can do magic but the results are more unpredictive the more vague the command is because his Hexcore interprets everything in its own way

he can still heal people and even learns to do so without altering their minds, but to be successful he needs to learn a lot about medicine so he can give very detailed orders to his Hexcore

he is close to his Jayce however, due to a mixture of guilt and being permanently stuck with her (and she moreso with him), eventually enters a romantic relationship with Sky

#arcane #arcane timelines au #v herald

"I apologize for my absence Ser Edmund. Did you miss me?"

“Did I? I must’ve flooded your home with the influx of letters I’ve written. If you haven’t even noticed them, I suggest you toss them into the flames the moment you find them. They’re excruciatingly embarrassing!”

#rogueblooded #darp #v herald

"What the Grand Tourney like? I've never been..."

“Isabella? What is this madness you speak of? Have you really never been to the Grand Tourney??”

#unbreakingblossom #darp #v herald