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Even if their partnership survives Viktor confessing a feeling Jayce doesn’t have, things would change. Better they stay like this — enough affection to keep Viktor from going elsewhere, never nearly as much as he wants, all taken in a way Jayce doesn’t intend.
Guilt. Desire. Et cetera.
Left alone on New Year’s Eve, Viktor takes a trip back to the undercity. But going home again is much harder than leaving — and it hurts so much worse. At least he might finally admit some feelings to his partner at the end of it.
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30 May 2025
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“Professor?” A voice calls, and Jayce has about two seconds to feel the hot little sting of hurt that he’s not the only one working with Heimerdinger after all, when Viktor steps fully into view, and Jayce catches sight of him.
Or—it. It’s an android.
It takes him a moment and another careful look to be certain, but—yes, it’s got a more subtle variation on the Academy staff bot uniform, white and muted browns, and the College of Sciences insignia pinned to the breast of its waistcoat, and where its shirtsleeves are rolled up to its elbows, Jayce can see the fine, thin lines running up its forearms, the divots in the synthskin showing where the metal plating must connect below.
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24 May 2025
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Every so often Viktor finds himself wanting. He wants so much that it feels like a monster inside of him.
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or: they're roommates. they're bestfriends. they adopt two cats together. they take naps together. it's definitely not complicated (it gets very complicated).
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21 May 2025
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stay your pretty eyes on course by Archadian_Skies
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
01 Dec 2024
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The anomaly writhes and the Arcane seizes, breathing, breaking; Viktor and Jayce are scattered across all of time and space, fated to chase each other, find each other, love each other.
It is more than what Viktor thinks he deserves, and it is everything Jayce promised.
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- Part 1 of the threshold in store
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27 Apr 2025
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this devotion may contain side-effects by owepossum
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
14 Nov 2025
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After the doctor hurts Rio, a freshly-orphaned Viktor is taken in at The Last Drop. Years later, there's a riot on the bridge.
In which child-Viktor refuses to abandon Silco; an act of devotion that changes the trajectory of Zaun's uprising. While Vander negotiates with Enforcers, Silco single-parents a revolution in the dark. Someone has to fund his son's endless charity work and vaccinate zaunish kids.
There's siblings-of-divorce, waverider eggs, volatile crystals...and a Piltie wandering around the Lanes looking for blue gems and a ghost.
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- Part 1 of devoted sciences
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25 Apr 2025
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Trapped in the undercity by the storm of the century, Jayce and Viktor retreat to drink the night away in Viktor's secret hideaway. Unfortunately for them getting back to Piltover the next day proves to be doomed from the start, unless of course someone can help them find a way back home, and back to each other.
Or, Viktor and Jayce are trapped in a time loop, but luckily someone out there is rooting for them to break free of both their fate, and their tragic and largely unsuccessful attempts to romance one another.
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Jayce wakes with a splitting headache and stares up at an unfamiliar ceiling. Patterned fabric in reds and faded golds is affixed to the roof, and it takes him a second to make sense of its presence. Why would you pin fabric to the ceiling? It looks like an old bit of carpet maybe, or a fuzzy blanket, and if that's the case why is it not down here with him, because it is freezing in this bed.
Wait, whose bed?!
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09 Mar 2025
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Coming Home (But Not to You) by queercatfan
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Dec 2024
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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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- Part 1 of Coming Home (But Not to You)
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09 Feb 2025
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Mutually Assured Destruction by spvoronova
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
12 Jan 2025
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What if Viktor and Jayce were working together on Nuclear power in the Cold War time? But more importantly, what if they played some chess together?
Jayce loves Viktor, and Viktor is his usual cautious, calculating self, until he isn't.
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14 Jan 2025
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to swim through the fires – to stay in this world by theroyalsavage
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
21 Dec 2024
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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.- Language:
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23 Dec 2024
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Half a decade after Viktor leaves Piltover for good, a fragment of Hexcore permanently adhered to his soul, an old friend comes to him for help. This wouldn't be an issue, if the same old friend hadn't spent the last five years trying to hit him, very hard, with a really big hammer.
“You’re not real,” Viktor repeated, closing his eyes. Even with the knowledge that this was a dream, the gentle touch unraveled him. There was an impact crater where his heart should be.
The calloused pad of Jayce's thumb found the corner of Viktor’s mouth. “All right. I’ll bite – what’s your evidence for this hypothesis?”
Viktor smiled into the touch, felt it tug against Jayce's thumbprint. “Isn’t it obvious? You haven’t tried to kill me yet.”- Language:
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23 Dec 2024
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Ever so carefully- as if his hair were made of glass instead of silk and daydreams- Viktor reaches his hand out, his fingers stretching toward Jayce’s hair. He wavers for a moment, hesitating only a second- what if Jayce pulls away? What if he is misreading this whole scenario? What if he crosses a line that cannot be uncrossed-
He is laying with his head in your lap, Viktor chides himself. If anyone crossed a line, it was him. This is merely retaliation- the consequences of his actions. Something Jayce needs exposure to anyway.
And with that, Viktor slips his fingers into Jayce’s hair.
or: jayce has a thing for laying his head in peoples laps. and having his hair pet
set during the season 1 time skip
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19 Dec 2024
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A week passes between the devastating attack on the Tower and the memorial massacre. Viktor recovers from his surprisingly minor injuries, and he and Jayce determine what comes next.
OR, how to mend a broken relationship.
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14 Dec 2024
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For He is the Sun and I am His Shadow by AGlassRoseNeverFades
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Jul 2022
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“What you have done to young Harry,” Dumbledore’s shade intones gravely, “is deplorable even compared to the worst of your past crimes.”
Lord Voldemort raises his cup to his old nemesis in a mocking toast and winks at him before taking a sip.
The date is September 1st, 1996. Lord Voldemort is about to get everything he's ever wanted.
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23 Nov 2023
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The most haunting part is how Harry is directly asked if he feels like his mind has been altered and he (basically) says no.
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Tom Riddle didn't pay attention to Harry Evans — that is, of course, until Evans tried to kill him.
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30 Sep 2023
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This is hilarious given how many time travel fics explain at length why Harry doesn't immediately try to kill Tom so that romance can happen.
I love that the glimpse of what their relationship will be like going forward comes in the form of a conversation about jelly beans. -
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He lets himself think about it—what a life without magic, without Voldemort, without this constant looming expectation to perform at the whims of the wizarding world might be like—and he feels little more than relief and an itch to get going already.
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Overcome by grief and guilt after Sirius’s death, Harry leaves the wizarding world behind for a new life across the pond. As an unassuming Muggle, his life is ordinary and unglamorous, but fate eventually has its way of drawing him back to where he’s meant to be.
AU after Order of the Phoenix
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26 Jun 2023
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I love Harry so much in thissss
Also...Voldemort did 9/11. -
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The first time Harry walks into a room to discover Riddle and Voldemort mid-duel, he walks right back out the door.
In which a young Tom Riddle travels through time and discovers a future where Voldemort has won.- Language:
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24 Apr 2023
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It had taken Tom quite a bit of trial and error to figure out how, but he had finally worked out how to exploit their shared horcrux connection and send Harry false visions and dreams.
For a few weeks now, Harry had been waking up every morning to a rush of pleasure, soaked pajama bottoms, and Tom’s name a broken moan on his lips.
Tom would give Harry a knowing look in the morning as he drew open the bedcurtains. Harry would be blushing furiously and unable to meet Tom’s eyes, with the evidence of his wet dreams from the night before still smeared across his stomach. Dreams that Tom had been both the subject and the source of.
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19 Apr 2023
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Your boyfriend is crying. What do you do?
Common solution: hug him and ask him what's wrong.
Tom's version: fuck him and say “what the fuck is wrong with you?” -
In Which Tom Riddle Can't Stop Underestimating House-Elves by asterismal (asterisms) for trashgoblinwizardparty
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Aug 2019
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“I do find it strange, however,” Riddle says, “that you’re so offended on Hepzibah’s behalf. It’s not every day that you come across a common thief with such lofty morals.”
“I- What?” Harry widens his eyes, making himself look appropriately appalled at the suggestion. “A thief? What do you mean?”
“Do cut the pretense, Harry,” Riddle says, and Harry hates the way he shivers when the other man says his name as his hand curls just a bit lower on his back, just shy of inappropriate. “We both know what you are.”
Or: Harry is a thief with morals and Tom is a terrible person
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27 Mar 2023
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Tom: "You're opinionated. I like that in a man. Even though I think your opinions are fucking stupid."
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There lies a boy at the heart of the chamber. He's not a day over sixteen, limbs still draped in Hogwarts black and Slytherin green. There is no wound marring his corpse, no sign of struggle, no blood but for the colour that hasn’t left his cheeks in fifty years.
As Harry falls to his knees beside him, the ghost of Tom Riddle watches from a distance, spinning plans.
(Or: there is a monster in the Chamber of Secrets.)
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08 Mar 2023
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Be on guard, my Lord, writes Abraxas Malfoy, the new transfer student intends to kill you.
Except Abraxas has terrible penmanship, and kill and kiss look awfully similar in shoddy cursive.
Naturally, things escalate. A lot.
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21 Feb 2023