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He moves through the bowels of the fissure with easy confidence, his arms swinging slightly at his sides, his steps at home in the labyrinth.
The man gestures to his own leg, saying, “No one’s ever believed in me.”
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25 Mar 2026
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Jayce Talis made his fortune with the Hexgates, but is now an indolent playboy, as corrupt and scheming as the rest of Piltover's elite; at least by day. By night he is the Defender of Tomorrow, using secret Hextech weaponry to strike back against the city's oppressors.
The Herald fights for the people of the Undercity every night, using strange rune magic to overwhelm the rampant crime. By day he is just Viktor, a wearied scientist running a medical clinic for those who cannot afford care.
The Defender and Herald are bitter enemies, only restrained by the thin truce between their cities. But when a class war begins to loom once again, the two are forced to work together to save both their respective homes.
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26 Feb 2026
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All things considered; the pitfall had technically served its intended purpose. That came as no surprise to Viktor. Rarely did he ever construct a trap that didn’t do exactly what he’d built it to do.
It was what he found at the bottom of it that left him rattled.
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A Jayvik "The Last Of Us" AU based on Frank and Bill's episode "LONG, LONG TIME"
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- 2/2
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16 Dec 2025
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In the aftermath of a traumatic incident that led him to drop out of university, Jayce Talis packs up everything he knows and moves to a small mountain town in the middle of nowhere to open a flower shop, eager for a fresh start on life.
What he doesn't expect, however, is for fate to send him careening back into the orbit of a familiar face from childhood: Viktor, a remarkable up-and-coming artist who not only works at the adjacent tattoo parlor, but lives directly next door.
But Viktor has ghosts of his own. Walls he'd rather remain hidden behind for the sake of those around him. Neither of them intended for the other to get close.
But love is funny like that.
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A Jayvik Tattoo Artist / Florist AU
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16 Dec 2025
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Cree Deeproots will do absolutely anything to get her friend back, even if it means traveling with a bunch of fools.
Mollymauk Tealeaf has gotten a second chance at life he didn’t expect and all the hassles that come with it.
And the Mighty Nein are determined to protect their friend and maybe change the heart and mind of a certain fickle tabaxi.
(AKA The "Creedemption" Fic.)
[not canon compliant with the The Nine Eyes of Lucien]
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- Part 1 of life in the margins of redemption
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- 47/47
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08 Oct 2025
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Before Your Sun Sets by WhiteButterfly
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
03 Aug 2025
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Viktor is sick with Hanahaki. Jayce would do anything to save him—whether it be by developing an impossible cure or trying to find out who Viktor is in love with to smack some sense into them.
Little does he know, he’s chasing his own shadow.
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- Part 1 of Before Your Sun Sets Series
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10 Aug 2025
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honey, honey by notquitegucci (notquiteguchi)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Jun 2025
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“So, run it by me one more time.”
Vi paced the length of the room with her chin pinched firmly between her fingers. She had been tracing a wide oval on the floor, her boots clanking heavily with every step. They had been over the plan several times already, Viktor lamented soundlessly, but he understood her nerves. Ekko, who was busy spinning himself in one of Viktor’s office chairs, slowed to a stop with an exaggerated groan, dragging the toe of his shoes along Viktor’s floor. “Vi, how many more times are you gonna make us—”
“Until it’s perfect, Ekko.” Vi interrupted brusquely. “Everyone needs to be on the same page about what they’re doing, where they’re supposed to be, and what we’re after. We’re not gonna get another shot at this for months if we fail.”
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OR: The kids from Zaun have a plan—find whatever Jayce Talis has been working on and steal it. The Progress Day Gala is the perfect opportunity to do so. The only issue? Viktor has to attend to "present" his research to Heimerdinger. He should be in and out quickly—just long enough to get Vi into place and dip. If all goes smoothly, he'll never have to interact with Jayce Talis at all. Simple, right?
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- Part 1 of lay all your love on me (verse)
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17 Jul 2025
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Balance (this world is a wasteland but we can still grow) by zillac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
19 Feb 2025
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Viktor stays in the Hexcore chrysalis a few more hours. Jayce stays busy falling into the ravine of an alternate dimension and fighting his way back to his partner so that they can invent something new together: a future.
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“What am I?” Viktor asked.
“What do you want to be?” Jayce was bearded and haggard and hopeful.
“Yours,” Viktor said, a memory and a realization both, like it was a truth that was woven into each of his metal and organic molecules.
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19 Jun 2025
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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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22 May 2025
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Equivalent Exchange by notsolstice for straddling_the_atmosphere, circulation
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Mar 2025
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No one paid much attention when a young man from the Undercity was expelled from Piltover Academy after having been found to have forged his enrollment.
Significantly more notice is paid five years later, however, when one Jayce Talis is expelled after his trial by the Piltover Council. In this world, there is no keen-eyed assistant to the Dean to read through his notebook and to talk him off the ledge—but something draws him towards Zaun, where he gets his ass kicked and is rescued by an unusual man. Against all odds, Jayce manages to find Viktor anyways.
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AKA Viktor and Jayce in Zaun, and how that changes the fates of everyone in the two cities.
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- Part 1 of The First Law of Alchemy
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05 Apr 2025
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Talis, V. Talis, J. "Social Behaviors of Lokfar Peninsula’s Wild Mammals (Specifically Those of my Co-Author)" by zillac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
28 Feb 2025
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Nobody rescues Jayce Talis. He’s left for dead in a blizzard. A young boy claws his survival from the forests of Freljord to become a man who barely remembers that name.
And, eventually, a yordle professor drags his assistant along to study murk wolves in the field.
Pinned lightly against a pine by his throat, the scientist studies the face of a wild man. Long hair, scraggly beard, a small gap in bared teeth, eyes deep and searching. Severe.
“I’m Viktor,” he says, once the strong, callused fingers permit him the room to breathe properly. “Who are you?”
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03 Apr 2025
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There’s no problem at all with a fun fling while working the summer Renaissance Faire, so long as the following unspoken rules are followed:
1: Don’t fall too fast
2: Don’t figure out that you are fucking your future research partner“Caitlyn, our new blacksmith needs proper garb before the gates open in the morning. Would you please show him to his site and introduce him to my darling tailor? It would seem he’s set up just across the lane from Jayce’s smithy.”
Mel Medarda smiles.
“Please inform Viktor that he can thank me later.”
Jayce and Viktor have a couple problems.
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01 Apr 2025
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After a gruesome war finally comes to treaty, it is decided that the King of Piltover will take a bride from Zaun.
Viktor isn't expecting to be a candidate.
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18 Feb 2025
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The hotel is thriving with the hustle and bustle of wayward souls. As co-
conspiratorowner, Alastor is inordinately pleased.The only issue that he has with the sudden surge in popularity stems from the source of it, or the conundrum known as Angel Dust. Unable or unwilling to wrap his mind around the porn star’s apparent magnetism, he decides to take matters into his own hands.
For research purposes.
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29 Jun 2024
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“You’re really suggesting this,” Martin says, voice pulled thin.
“Yes.” No hesitation.
“You would- actually do it?”
“I would.”
“With me.”
“Yes, Martin.”
“Why?” Because love is blind, says something cliché and cruel in the pit of his gut. Christ, he never was much of a poet, was he?Or,
When Jon asks Martin to Quit the Archives with him, Martin says yes. Things don't go as planned. In the Scottish Highlands, they hurt, and they heal.
(Re-written as of 22-12-27; see chapter 9 for more info.)
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11 Jan 2023
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ten thousand flowers in spring by bluejayblueskies for Prim_the_Amazing
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
30 Dec 2022
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Jon hadn’t anticipated just how quiet it would be at Daisy’s cottage. He definitely hadn’t anticipated how that quiet settles something inside of him, like balm on an injury he didn’t know he had. He’d thought the lack of human presence would make him more aware of the loss still sitting in the pit of his stomach, heavy and solid, but it’s … it’s nice to have the space to process things. To know that he’s currently alone by choice, not by happenstance, and that he has the freedom to just be. Jon lets the solitude envelop him like a weighted blanket, warm and comfortable and safe.
It’s a few days later when he first meets the man who pets the cows.
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Following the loss of his grandmother, Jon takes a sabbatical and moves up to northern Scotland to stay in Daisy's cabin and study the religious culture of the village near it. There, he meets Martin, his apparent and unwanted neighbor who makes odd jokes and seems to exist solely to ruin Jon's attempts at finally getting some peace and quiet. But as Jon spends more time with Martin, he begins to warm up to him and, as time goes on, to fall in love with him.
It just takes him a bit to realize that the man he's fallen in love with is a god.
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- 11/11
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01 Jan 2023
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(Blow All My Friendships) To Sit In Hell With You by Captain_Kieren
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
18 Aug 2021
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The best day of Martin's life starts when Jon tackles him to the floor of the archives.
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27 Dec 2022
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It feels nice, to type ‘Martin K. Blackwood’ and see it there in what he hopes is a professional-looking serif font. (He doesn’t even know what the K stands for, yet. It just feels more grown up to have a middle initial; like if he puts it there, they might not question when he walks in looking like a teenage boy at best.)
He sort of likes it, to have this one thing just for him. He’s hiding almost everything else about his life going into this job hunt, but he doesn’t have to hide this.
So he sends off his CV and doesn’t expect much to come of it. But then… But then three days later he gets a call. It’s the receptionist at the Magnus Institute, asking for ‘Mr. Blackwood,’ telling him the head of the whole bloody place would like him to see him for an interview, and does he have time to come in tomorrow afternoon?
He says yes before he can even think about it.
Or: Martin Blackwood, on transition and personhood.
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25 Dec 2022
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fearful daemons by Prim_the_Amazing for wesninskis
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
25 Nov 2019
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A snapshot of the Archival staff and co's lives with their daemons.
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25 Dec 2022
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"Who the hell are you?" Jon could feel his hands shaking.
The man laughed, taking a step forward and raising a hand to point at him.
"I'm you, from the future!" he said, then swayed, eyes going unfocused, and collapsed to the floor in a dead faint.
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Post-season-four Jon and Martin time travel back to the season one Archives.- Language:
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06 Dec 2022