i’ve mentioned it very briefly before, but i have such specific headcanons on caitvi and parenthood
first of all, i think they’d wait multiple years post canon, at least five, possibly more. both would (initially) not want kids. then, vi would want them, and caitlyn would be against it. then, caitlyn would come around.
vi needs to heal from her lifelong role as a protector before any kids gets involved—she needs to learn how to be herself again. plus, i think she’d have a HUGE fear of leaving her child orphaned (which, valid, somehow this girl ended up triple orphaned) (orphan cubed), so she would want to wait to have children until the piltover was more stable. (i think eventually that’d lead to a bit of frustration within herself, bc she’d keep delaying having children until she finally admitted to herself that there is no objectively “right” time. she cannot guarantee her child’s safety, and while that’s deeply upsetting, it’s a reality she will have to accept before having children.)
caitlyn would not want children at first. she’s not against it, its just never been something that interested her. it was sort of expected her entire life, but she’s never put thought into parenthood on an emotional level, just the general understanding that she needs an heir to continue the family name. right now, though, she has a country to run, she has wrongs to right, she was so many amends she needs to make. a child simply doesn’t fit. and, i think she would have a really bad paranoia that if they were to have a daughter, their relationship would be similar to her relationship with her own mother. i think she also would be worried about putting the pressure of the kiramman name on a child, knowing how much she herself struggled. in general, i think the thing she’d be against isn’t children, its motherhood. she’s scared of being a bad mom.
To the person that wanted Vanco with Viktor as his kid as well as the others, my brain figured it out – here’s 1500 words.
Also every name everyone calls each other has like… 100 words worth of stuff it’s supposed to clue you in on world building wise that I am very aware it doesn’t actually. There is justifications for it all though I promise.
Pairings: Vander/Silco, pre-Jayce/Viktor
Tags: omegaverse, Viktor is Vanco’s eldest kid, canon divergence generally (no Vanco Divorce, Act 1 goes slightly differently)
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“Wait I know you!”
When Viktor said he might have a solution to their funding issue Jayce hadn’t known what to expect. But it wasn’t the back entrance to a bar in the Undercity and a blue-haired girl he had been told he must have hallucinated.
The girl staring up at him is definitively the one he saw in his old lab at the Kiramman’s right before the explosion that changed the trajectory of his life though.
Which means that Cait had been lying about being the one to accidently cause it. And Jayce had been right that there were others there.
“Powder who are you talking to?” another voice says from inside the bar and a pink-haired girl appears behind the other. A girl around the same age as Cait is.
Alpha Jayce picks up off her scent but she’s young enough that it’s not the full alpha scent. She definitively has the protective edge of it though, unlike Cait’s whose omega scent has gotten any of the real trademarks of the designation other than just a nebulous knowing she is one. People grow up faster in the Undercity Jayce supposes, especially when they have younger siblings to look after.
Although now that he thinks about it more there is something about both girls’ scents that reminds him of Viktor.
“Viktor! Why are you here?” the pink-haired alpha says, suddenly breaking into a grin before peering at Jayce with suspicion. “With a Piltie alpha?”
“I need to talk to Silco,” Viktor says, going to walk in only to be stopped by the blue-hair girl. Powder the older one had called her.
“You have to pay the toll first,” she says, her arms crossed.
Jayce almost goes to dig through his pockets for some money but Viktor’s sigh stops him.
“I was in a bit of a hurry, I, ah, forgot your present this time sorry,” Viktor says, “next time, I promise.”
The little one pouts and the young alpha rests her hands on her shoulders and seems to try and lead her away.
“You can’t expect a present every time Viktor visits,” she says and the little one seems to contemplate it for a moment.
“Fine,” she declares. “I’ll tell Dam you brought home a Piltie boyfriend then.”
“Wait- Powder- Don’t!” Viktor takes a step as if to chase after her but he doesn’t stand a chance, the girl off like a shot. Jayce reaching forward to grab Viktor’s arm that doesn’t have his cane to help him steady himself again.
Jayce doesn’t need to understand the language to know what comes out of Viktor’s mouth next is a curse.
“Well you’re screwed,” the pink-haired alpha says, watching them with sharp eyes. “Why did you bring him anyway?”
“He is my partner, ah, work partner,” Viktor corrects because the young alpha’s face clearly thinks he means the other kind. And while Jayce wouldn’t be against being the other kind of partner they hadn’t had that conversation yet.
“Right,” the pink-haired alpha says, scanning Jayce up and down. He has no idea how someone so young can still actually seem to be sizing him up and be actually intimidating with it. “Does this ‘partner’ have a name?”
“Jayce Talis,” Jayce says, holding out his hand.
It earns him a snort but the young alpha takes it.
“Vi,” she says, her handshake firm. “I’m the one that’ll beat you up if you screw over my brother after Silco leaves you in a gutter somewhere.”
“Silco,” Jayce says after Vi steps aside to let them in. Jayce following Viktor through the corridors he assumes towards the bar. “I know that name.”
“You should,” Viktor says, but doesn’t offer anything else to help jog Jayce’s memory as they walk into the main part of the bar.
The man waiting for them quickly does the job of reminding Jayce who exactly Silco was. His face a lot harder to forget than this name. He had been there at the hearing as well – the Zaun representative – not that he had been allowed to vote because of the investigation that was still determining if there was any Undercity involvement in the explosion.
He somehow looks even more pissed off now than then he did then.
The blue-haired girl is sitting on the bar with a smug expression, making Jayce fairly certain he knows what is making Silco look so pissed. And if Vi is Viktor’s sister he feels fairly safe in guessing that it means Silco is Viktor’s Dam.
Which would have been nice to know earlier but Jayce supposes he hadn’t asked.
“Let the boy have a chance to explain himself Sil,” the alpha next to Silco says, running a knuckle up and down the omega’s side as if to try and calm him. And it is a testament to just how pissed off Silco looked that Jayce had somehow failed to notice the alpha at first despite the fact he was at least twice Jayce’s size. He clearly Silco’s mate and that means he’s probably Viktor’s sire.
Jayce can see it, he supposes. Although he doesn’t know where the two girls got their hair from.
“Fine,” Silco says with a glance behind him to the alpha, “Vitya, explain.”
“Jayce is my work partner,” Viktor says to thankfully get that misunderstanding cleared up. “And I brought him here because we wanted to discuss a business opportunity with you.”
Silco eyes Jayce up and down and Jayce tries to present himself as the kind of person one should invest in. Not that he knows if that’s the same in the Undercity as it is in Piltover.
“We can discuss this in my office,” Silco says, his anger deflating slightly. But there still a clear defensive edge in the omega’s scent.
“That’s great!” Jayce is already starting to move when Silco holds a finger up at him.
“Not you, I will discuss this with my son first.”
“Right, sure.” Viktor was more than able to sell Hextech by himself even if Jayce wanted to be there as emotional support.
Not that Viktor would need emotional support for a conversation with his parent right?
Viktor doesn’t seem concerned at least. So Jayce flashes him a supportive smile as his partner follows his Dam into the back of the bar.
A second later Jayce realizes it leave him alone with the rest of Viktor’s family.
“They’ll probably be a while,” Viktor’s Sire says, heading back behind the bar. “Want a drink while you wait?”
“Sure,” Jayce says, because it would be rude to turn the offer down. Plus it gives him something to do, sitting at the bar and holding out his hand to the older alpha. “I’m Jayce Talis by the way.”
“Vander,” the alpha says, putting a drink in front of Jayce before taking the offered hand.
It’s said you can learn a lot about someone from their handshake. All Jayce is getting is that Vander’s grip is strong and Jayce is fairly sure he feels his knuckles almost give before the alpha releases him.
He wonders what Vander thinks of his own handshake then. Probably that it’s weak in comparison.
Not that he needs to impress him more than any other possible business partner.
“Vi and Powder are Viktor’s sisters right?” Jayce asks, taking a sip of the drink and almost spitting it out from how strong it is. He forces himself to swallow to not seem rude.
“Yeah,” Vander says, starting to clean the bar. Which doesn’t offend Jayce – they did interrupt by arriving unexpectedly. “Plus Claggor and Mylo, the other two boys, they’re downstairs doing stock take but’ll come up soon enough.”
“Doesn’t Viktor talk about us?” Powder asks, making Jayce jump from how she seems to suddenly appear at his side.
“We mostly talk about work.” Jayce had tried to start talking to Viktor about his family but the omega had seemed reluctant and Jayce had dropped the topic.
He doesn’t really understand the reluctance now. They seemed like a good family if a bit abnormal.
“What does he normally bring you when he visits?” Jayce asks to chance the topic, remembering the conversation about the ‘toll’.
“Something for my inventions.”
“You make things too?” Viktor wasn’t the only member of his family that had the need to create?
“Yeah!” the girl says, suddenly beaming and leaning over the bar to grab something out. Proudly slamming something on the table in front of Jayce.
“It’s a bomb?” Jayce realizes after examining the additions to the clapping monkey toy. He glances at Vander but the alpha doesn’t seem all that bothered by his still unpresented daughter building bombs.
“It’s a flash bomb,” Powder corrects like Jayce is an idiot. “Just to scare away mean people. At least it should if it goes off when it’s meant to.”
“Can I take a look?” Jayce asks, because he understands an inventors want to keep how their creations work to themselves.
“Sure,” Powder says pushing it over to him.
It’d weird working on a bomb with the intent to make it work. Doubly so one made by a child he is fairly certain broke into his lab less than a year ago.
Powder’s Viktor’s sister though and that has to grant her a level of trust right?
“It’s the connection between your timing mechanism and the flash, the wire itself is shit,” Jayce says, already digging into his coat pocket because he thinks he has some spare wire in there. “Here, try this.”
Powder looks at the offered wire.
“And this will make it work?” she asks.
“Should, unless there’s something else as well.”
A second passes and then suddenly the girl snatches the wire from his hand, grabbing her bomb and running off.
“Powder!” Vander calls after her and she stops dead in her tracks.
“Oh, right – thank you Jayce!” she says and then bolts off again.
“That was the right thing to do right?” Jayce asks Vander because, again, he just helped a girl build a bomb.
Vander shrugs.
“Should make her hate you a little less,” he says.
