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  1. Rec 97

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    Five years ago, Jayce made an impulsive offer to build Hextech weapons to combat the rising tide of Undercity airship piracy. In response, Viktor torched their research and disappeared from Piltover for good.

    Five years ago, a new airship took to the skies, with a young captain and a misfit crew and a massive, impossible tree growing straight through the hull.

    These two events are completely unrelated - unless, of course, they're not.

    Jayce steps into Viktor's space. His fist closes in the lapel of Viktor's overcoat. It's a little foolish, but he half-expects this whole thing to be some kind of hallucination. Something at the back of his brain imagines his hand will pass through Viktor like mist. It doesn't, and that, more than anything, makes this feel like more than a hypervivid variation on the same dream Jayce has been having for years now.
    In his dreams, Viktor always has the clammy chill of a cadaver. This Viktor feels so warm under Jayce's hand, he thinks his skin might come away scalded.

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    05 Jan 2025

  2. Rec *

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    Viktor never escapes the Undercity. He never finds his way to Piltover's Academy. He never takes a job with Heimerdinger and dreams of bigger things. Instead, after ten years as Singed's apprentice, he finds two lost children on the worst night of their lives and gives them a home. In many ways, this changes everything. In others, it changes nothing at all.

    “No. You’re going to do something much worse than killing Silco,” Viktor tells Benzo’s ward. “He wants you dead. Out of his path, as he continues to forge forward. Instead, you’re going to survive.”
    Viktor offers the boy his hand. “We are obstacles. All three of us. We’ll take care of each other."

    I’ll keep him alive. I’ll keep them both alive, he offers Benzo’s ghost. Vander’s, too. A meager attempt at atonement, perhaps, but it's the last thing he has left to give.

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    05 Jan 2025

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    When Viktor makes the reluctant decision to move back to Piltover after six years to be a professor at The Academy, he's forced to share an office with none other than his former lab partner Jayce Talis, the very man who caused him to leave Piltover in the first place.

    (modern professors AU)

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    03 Jan 2025

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    Jayce pulls him close again. “What about you, hm? Are you happy?”

    Viktor does stop dancing, reaching up to touch Jayce’s jaw, thumb grazing his cheek.

    “I think, given the circumstances, I am quite content.”

    or: a year after getting back together, jayce and viktor contend with fear, winter, and impending heart surgery. a sequel to "wound care"

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    20 Dec 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    another banger from one of my fav authors

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    Viktor. A cold, calculating industrialist, leader of the Chem Baron's board, and heir to the Eye of Zaun.

    Jayce. A disgraced scientist, ruthless and brutal, and Viktor's partner and bodyguard.

    Who could have guessed the two would ever fall in love?

    (Everyone. Absolutely everyone could have guessed)

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    13 Dec 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    perfect