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Jayce is a bit of a mad scientist, in that he is mentally ill and struggles to deal with it. Viktor becomes aware of this fact, and the two go on a journey to help each other survive in a world that was never made for them.
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I decided to give jayce my depression after a day where i forgot to take my meds and had a bad spiral.
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Around the Ocean by imostlyhavenoideas
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
22 Sep 2025
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Nailed to one of the walls is a painting of a mermaid.
Jayce has a complicated relationship with the painting. As a small child, he found it hypnotisingly beautiful. The ocean in the background seemed to move, the mermaid’s hair seemed to flow in the breeze, and she seemed to be smiling at him. It’s what kickstarted his interest in mermaids, he thinks.
Ever since his mother purchased the painting from one of the artists in their town fourteen years ago, Jayce became determined to expose mermaids. Specifically, his goal became to find any evidence they exist.
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On a trip into Zaun for some... perfectly legal trinkets for his Hextech research, Jayce runs into some trouble with a mysterious, eerily quiet stranger with amber eyes.
Jayce does not plan on losing his life's work that day to this wiry, golden-eyed thief but to his dismay, Zaun works in unfair ways.
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Viktor is the owner of a tailoring shop in London and a weekend broadcaster for a local radio station. During an unusual November snowfall, he meets an equally unusual man outside of his store and offers him new clothes.
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Jayce destroyed the hexcore like Viktor asked. How could he not respect his partners wishes? But then the explosion happens. Viktor is dead and he has no way of bringing him back.
Jayce is grieving. He's doing really, really bad. In his mourning he obtains an obsession of building dolls. He sculpts Viktor over and over and over... Then one day he finds an old spell book on how to raise the dead.
Or, manic Jayce builds a life sized Viktor doll after the accident. He resurrects his soul into the doll and Viktor is PISSED.
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All Things Go (I Made a lot of Mistakes) by dont_get_too_attached
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
29 Jul 2025
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What if Jayce left Viktor instead of the other way round?
Riddled with guilt for the way the Council took advantage of Hextech, Jayce leaves his lifelong project to his lifelong partner. Viktor doesn't take it well. Neither does Jayce, to be fair.
A The Bear/SydCarmy-inspired exploration of JayvikTitle from "Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens because The Bear, clearly
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Fucking Me Harshly (Please, Hold Me Gently Again) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
25 Jul 2025
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Viktor is determined to have Jayce, even if it takes him a lifetime.
Jayce just hates himself.
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- Part 2 of We'll be together forever... Right?
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What We Try To Forget by I_d_k_sorryyy
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Jul 2025
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After the divorce, Jayce tries to keep it all together. For Mel, for their daughter, for himself. Putting their daughter in therapy was supposed to help. To make things Easier. Simpler. But when her therapist turns out to be the one man he hadn’t been able to forget since he met him - the one man who had brought him back to life for just one night neither of them were supposed to remember - everything becomes a lot more complicated.
And maybe - just maybe - two broken people can put each other back together again.
***IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER***
Mel is cherished in this story. She is an extremely important person to Jayce and their daughter, they both love her beyond words. She will not be treated as disposable or painted as a bad/manipulative person just because their marriage didn’t work, she grows along with Jayce throughout because I refuse to turn her into a one-dimensional ex-wife.
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“Happy (belated) birthday, Jayce.
You thought you lost something important but you never lost us.
We see you. We love you. We wanted to give something back.
The watch ticks again. And so do you.Here’s to tomorrow.
—Mel, Mama, Viktor, Sky, Caitlyn, Vi, and Ekko”
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- Part 7 of Jayce Week 2025
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Jayce didn't know exactly what he expected to see in the sketchbook. Mel’s medium of choice is typically paint, and her works are usually sweeping landscapes.
What Jayce wasn't expecting to see was pages full of drawings of him.Written for Jayce Week 2025 off of the prompts "note" and "sketch"
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- Part 2 of Meljay Modern AU Fics
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Jayce Talis es un alfa brillante... solo en el trabajo. Concejal joven, ingeniero prodigio, la joya de Piltover... y, al mismo tiempo, un completo desastre emocional desde la muerte de sus padres. Vive sumergido en el alcohol, el sexo casual y una montaña de asistentes renunciando tan rápido que Recursos Humanos ya tiene impresa una carta de renuncia estándar con espacio para nombre, fecha y lágrimas.
Cuando Caitlyn Kiramman ve que su mejor amigo está más cerca de irse con Dios que de festejar otro aniversario como el "Hombre de Progreso", toma cartas en el asunto y, con ayuda de Mel, contrata a Viktor Herald, un omega universitario de Zaun con más paciencia que años de vida con la responsabilidad de mantener a sus hermanas pequeñas. ¿Su nuevo empleo? Impedir que Jayce se destruya antes de que logre inventar la próxima revolución tecnológica o besar a otra omega con nombre olvidable.
Jayce no sabe si quiere despedirlo... o pedirle que se quede para siempre.
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I have hard days too... by moonliquor182
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
02 Jul 2025
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“You would throw a fit if I proclaimed myself to have been born damaged...” Viktor muttered, rubbing his thumb across Jayce's cheek, whose eyes were cloudy and lashes soaked. “You don’t let me be mean to myself, I won’t let you bully yourself either, Jayce.”
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Jayce has always kept the dark clouds in his head hidden, but one day Viktor sees them, sees him.
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Viktor leaves the Progress Day festivities early, stewing over Jayce's sudden change of heart when he realizes he's not alone in his apartment like he thought he was.
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Season 2 Jayce gets some well-deserved TCL from Season 1 Viktor and maybe helps change the course of that particular timeline while he's at it.
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Sunny gray in a pale blue (is still a pretty sky) by JackB9
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
21 Jun 2025
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Jayce is living perfectly fine after leaving HextechCo, after suffering an accident that required the amputation of his leg. He's been to therapy, moved, and is living with the fortune he amassed over a decade and a half with his beloved creation.
And maybe, just maybe, after an unexpected visit, he'll realize he's not as well off as he thought.
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OrGrief and mourning is not only caused by the loss of a loved one.
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After graduating from the Academy, Viktor is forced to return to Zaun. Without a patron to finance his projects, he lives off his scams for seven years, forging documents to swindle wealthy Piltovian families so he can focus on his research. But one day, Cassandra Kiramman gives him a mission : to travel to Ionia to convince Jayce Talis to return to Piltover. However, here's the catch : contrary to what Cassandra believes, Viktor and Jayce never as much as interacted when they were students. But for the right amount of money and to protect his own secrets, Viktor is willing to take any risk and to play the part... So well that he might even deceive himself in the process.
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Après ses études à l'Académie, Viktor est contraint de rentrer à Zaun. Sans mécène pour financer ses projets, il vit de ses arnaques pendant sept ans, escroquant des familles aisées de Piltover pour pouvoir se concentrer sur ses recherches. Mais un jour, Cassandra Kiramman lui confie une mission: se rendre à Ionia pour convaincre Jayce Talis de rentrer à Piltover. Seul problème: contrairement à ce que la Conseillère pense, Viktor et Jayce ne se sont jamais adressé la parole quand ils étaient étudiants. Mais pour la bonne somme d'argent et pour protéger ses propres secrets, le faussaire est prêt à prendre tous les risques et à sortir le grand jeu... Quitte à se tromper lui-même.
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when the time is right by eggsalad_doodles
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
19 Jun 2025
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Viktor never thought he'd get the chance to get his masters, let alone in his subject of study. Now that he was here, he could taste the end, the pay off, to finally show all those who bullied him and told him he wouldn't make it what he could accomplish. HE never had time for love, not that he ever stopped thinking about Jayce from high school. The time wasn't right, they were on very different paths. But what happens when they meet again? What if they try again? What if, this time, it all works out in the end?
there will be POV switches, but assume its Viktors POV unless stated otherwise
shout-out to @eren.ash on TikTok for this fun idea, I hope I do it justice :)
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Months after the Council attack that took Jayce's life, he is successfully revived by a grief-stricken Viktor. Jayce's revival, however, entails his soul's binding to a Hextech-powered automata. Jayce struggles to come to terms with his new body as his mind unspools around him, and he grapples with the guilt of believing he's come back as something less than he was before.
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- Part 2 of You Will Come no More to my Side
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Stones of blood and dreams of steel by Ponyonewt
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
31 May 2025
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After several months of wandering the long corridors of Piltover's largest building, blindly navigating between the council chamber and his old laboratory, he had finally resigned himself to several things: Viktor was dead because of him and wasn't coming back, he no longer had a place in the future of this town to which he had wanted to bring magic, and finally, most pathetically of all, he wasn't sure he had anything left to live for.
After killing Viktor in the heart of the commune, Jayce realises that the Machine Herald will never appear in his reality. Desperate and lost, he decides to create an android resembling Viktor using the stone that the mage entrusted to him so long ago. In his quest to find his partner, is it possible that he has managed to find a part of Viktor through this piece of the arcane?
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BEFORE YOU READ!!! Idk how to change it but it is NOT COMPLETED YET but there is one smut scene if that's what you're here for :)
Jayce returns to his old Catholic roots, searching for a final hope after almost hitting rock bottom due to his research. In this reach for hope, he finds something better than faith in his old beliefs. He finds Viktor. Whether that'll be a miracle or a curse is beyond Jayce's knowledge despite his genius, and Father Viktor has no idea what is in store for him.