coming out of my slumber to tell everyone today i got my first pair of cowboy boots
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what do you mean my mutuals don’t look like their icons?!?!!?
This is what I assume everyone looks like irl
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i don't need therapy i need my head crushed by a large rock
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yes yes we all see how jayce has to follow the steps of viktor's journey, to climb all the way up from the lowest bottom (zaun) to the highest top (piiltover) with a damaged leg...
but why is his leg damaged? it is not the fall down that leads to the fracture. no. it's his hammer.
jayce's leg is crushed by his own hammer. the same hammer he used as a weapon, betraying his and viktor's original hextech dream of progress, hope and prosperity, for zaun and piltover both. the same hammer he used to kill a zaunite child. the same hammer, the symbol of jayce's choice: confrontation over progress, council chamber over a science lab, everyone else's expectations over viktor, golden boy over partner. the same hammer, a promise broken.
it's the consequence of his own actions that damages jayce's leg.
his hammer - with everything it symbolizes - crushes him. so later we see jayce dismantle it to brace his leg.
jayce lets the past go with all it's mistakes, leaves it behind and climbs up, and then, and there, he gets a new hammer. a new promise. a new oath.
i understand now. my place was always here in the lab with you
ALSO!!! the hammer is the symbol of his family's house (toolmakers) which symbolizes his status as a product of piltover and someone who benefits from the privileges it allows him. it's what he felt he was destined to resort to when his dreams of science seemingly fell through (aka before viktor intervened)
so his hammer breaking his leg literally makes him become more like the person who saved him from being tied to tools all those years ago! while the hammer literally destroys his ability to walk, he is able to dismantle it to make it into something that gives him mobility. he used his hammer (the privilege he was afforded by the family he was born into) to get to the top of piltover, but struggled to do so because that very hammer (a symbol of the violence piltover perpetuates in zaun) harmed him. he is both viktor and himself at the same time.
the dreadful irony of the hammer is that he wouldn't be who he is without it, but the only way for him to escape it's extremely damaging effect on his life is to break it down and use what he can to his advantage. the hammer is the "inevitable choice" that he realizes doesn't have to be. he doesn't have to drag it around with him, he doesn't have to accept that hammer at the top of the fucked up hexgates, he doesn't HAVE to accept the circumstances he was born into. he can change them, and he'll do it because he understands what it's like to be on the other end of them.
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Hello fellow Jayce defender.
First off, virtual kisses on both your cheeks for your Arcane analysis. They're refreshing to read, and insightful as well.
Something that's always bothered me about the way fans interact with Jayce is assuming that he's always the one making the mistakes in any of his relationships. It's almost funny in a way how they strip other characters of their autonomy and arcs just so they can point out how Jayce is failing his partners.
With Mel and Viktor especially, there's this narrative that Jayce simultaneously ignores both of their needs while also prioritising one over the other. Either he neglects Viktor to go and swoon over Mel, or he abandons his relationship with Mel to go play science with Viktor, or he neglects both to go do his own things while they suffer through their own plots.
And it's fascinating how incredibly mistaken these people are, and also how they reduce his character to only being important when he's in a relationship.
I'm here like, "hey, do you wanna discuss the reason for how Jayce seemingly knows how to navigate the ways of high class society very easily is probably because he's had to rely on sponsorships and donations for most of his youth to find his research because his house is too poor to be able afford it?"
Or "It's canonical that Jayce only ever had one friend in his youth before Viktor, and that was the daughter of his main sponsor, do you think it's interesting that this indicates he probably had difficulty making or maintaining friendships and that this is possibly a symptom of the Academy mainly housing elite and rich students so they couldn't relate to his struggles and he couldn't relate to theirs?"
But no, people just want to hate on him for not being the picture perfect boytoy in a relationship.
And I mean, it's not like it's just reduced to Jayce either. So many other characters have had similar treatments where they're reduced to either their most basic qualities or mischaracterised entirely. And I'm really not trying to be the fandom police or whatever - everyone interprets differently - I just find it frustrating is all.
Anyways, you're cool.
YES I never have time to talk about this bc people don't give a fuck but in Jayce's journals we even see him stewing with envy and petty rage at this star-rising student on the academy that he sees as the example of a perfect prodigy (in opposition to how much Jayce fucks things up...)
It also strongly suggests he's on a scholarship, which ties into his suicide attempt.
Jayce is keeping his experiments a secret from everyone to avoid the blowback and isolating himself further and further when they don't work. Jayce is flawed! He's proud of his dream pitch to the point of hilarity. Jayce doesn't like socializing, he does it out of obligation! Even when he's being raised to a councilor position in s1 he's PANICKING. He doesn't want the fucking job, he doesn't like the parties nor the people, his truest honest self is that moment in season 2 where he declares the lab was always his home, and so was Viktor.
But even then he subsumes his own wants spends most of s1 trying to attend to the needs of other people. He routinely asks Viktor if he's alright, if he wants to come up to do the presentation, if he's sure those experiments are safe, etc. He tries to make Heimerdinger proud despite his constant rejections of their projects, and only turns on him when he threatens viktor's wellbeing. The reason why he doesn't announce anything on progress day is that he Was listening to Heimers so-called wisdom and it only bit him in the ass. Jayce gets himself in trouble with the council by being too naive and assuming his new post will allow him to crackdown on Piltovan corruption aided by the Hexgates. Majority of the complaints wrt relationships I see people making of him are just wildly exaggerated. "He was neglecting viktor" bro he talks about viktor in nearly every scene he has with mel 😭 viktor is the one who isolates himself and randomly disappears at times bc he's a grown man with his own boundaries.
Jayce's entire life is defined by the transactional nature of his existence, his work, the patronage receives - all depending on how much he can play the showpony role without fucking it up. It's not a comfortable position. Jayce is stressing out the whole damn show because if one person isn't pissed at him, someone else will be, and it always comes down to revokable money, investments, social standing. if he really was as uncaring and well-off as some claim he wouldn't give a shit. He could just coast along life, but that's not what he's doing ever. He only 'frees' himself in season 2 by abandoning his life's dream and the rotten reality that existed around it. Which is kind of bleak, but at least its over.
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Anonymous asked:
isnt it wild how jayce is the most heavily misunderstood arcane character..everytime i see takes about him being upper-class and rich or mean and condescending or not caring about viktor in s1 or whatever other garbage ppl say about him i lose a year of my life
It's crazy to me that I've been saying jayce is working class for years and this got confirmed in the draft 1 board for arcane christian linke posted on twitter sometime ago lol
house Talis is a MINOR HOUSE of toolmakers whose most prominent contribution is the 'collapsible pocket wrench'. They're literally blacksmiths. This is a service and labor position. Jayce can't even afford to use gold in his inventions in act1 because he relies on the Kiramman money for everything. This is not the life of a rich guy in Piltover this is middle class at best lol his drive to finish up hextech and succeed academically is him trying to build a better life for himself!
Blacksmithing is historically a very intensive work position. The work wears you down & eventually disables you very early in life (jayce's injury in act3 seems to be a metaphorical speedrun of that, in some ways) we're never told how jayce's dad died but it is very fair to imagine it was a work related. he's fucking aware of this, its true In Real Life and it brings such an interesting context to his interactions with Viktor and how they want to create things that help common laborers and make the work better if it wasn't for the council. (in s1 act2 their progress day showcase to heimerdinger BEGINS with jayce complaining that they've been stuck fulfilling the council's demands these past 10 years and now, finally, *finally* it's their time to decide what to do with hextech. and they're not even allowed that.)
Also, the perfected hexgems in s1 are kept in Kiramman-crest boxes. I noticed this just the other day. JAYCE AND VIKTOR DON'T OWN SHITTTTTTTTTTT they're getting exploited big time while all that 'investor' money is charged back with deep dividends
just like real life academics they probably spent most of their life writing up grant proposals like dogs and begging for funding that will wring them dry later on. Where the hell is all my jayce and viktor class solidarity 'getting drunk off their mugs and complaining about their dipshit bosses' content?
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EXPLAINING VIKTOR'S "only you can show me this" DIALOGUE, and WHY VIKTOR ISNT THE MAGE
(In a way that tries to get rid of the inconsistenties that come with what canon showed us)
First of all: Viktor isnt the mage, Jayce just thinks Viktor is the mage due to him wearing the cape and standing with a staff. The mage clearly has different hands and markings on the outside of them - something Viktor doesn't have, and which is too prominent of a design to forget or ignore. I truly believe that, it Viktor were the mage and they knew this beforehand, they would a) make the mage in s1 look more androgynous and vague, or b) make the Mage Viktor we see in s2e7 look more like the mage from s1 - tattoos included!
I also would hope that they would show at least one scene of Mage Viktor using the arcane like he supposedly did in season 1.
I believe the mage, whoever he is, saves Jayce in every universe, but the only thing that differs is which stone he grants him. This is I guess the "node" from which different timelines diverge.
In one timeline, the one Ekko goes to, Jayce gets stone "x", which is different than the ruin he got in our universe. Hextech isn't invented due to the job gone wrong (perhaps the stone was too volatile and killed Vi) > Jayce and Viktor don't meet > Viktor isn't consumed by the Hexcore > Viktor doesn't turn Arcane Evil (so there is no need to show Viktor "this", aka what hextech/the arcane does to the world, as nothing happened in this world).
The one Jayce goes to, the there-Jayce clearly failed to stop Viktor on top of the building. As we don't see any mannequins there, I think this must also mean other things went differently: here Jayce received ruin "y", again not the acceleration ruin. Without this, Ekko cannot create the Z-drive > Ekko didnt come up there > didn't jumpscare Viktor > Jayce couldn't change Viktors mind > everything went arcane > Arcane Viktor is the only one that survives, leaving the world full of empty shells (the ones he tries to convert in our universe) and the mannequins he made for the attack.
This is also why our Jayce, when at the top and sitting with his hammer in front of him, gets "Scared". He recognizes the position he is in, and that this is where it went wrong in the other dimension. This neatly ties in with both the apparent different universes AND timelines. Both the ruined Piltover Jayce sees and our Piltover are the same universe - but one shows a timeline where Viktor wins, and ours becomes one where Viktor is saved.
When Viktor says "only you can show me this", he doesnt mean "only Jayce can show me this", because we have seen that Jayce, in other universes, did not manage to do so. Instead, he means "only you - as in - only THIS Jayce in particular can show me this". Only OUR Jayce. We do not know what went different in all universes, but ours is, despite all its tragedies and horrors, still the only one wherein our Viktor can be saved after he gets corrupted, and can be saved by our Jayce alone.
And I think this moment is not only the moment Viktor sees what the hexcore/arcane can do to the world, but this is also the moment that he realises that the "affection" between him and Jayce is special. He is suddenly and harshly confronted by what he had, and by what he is about to give up were he to continue.
And, dare i be a bit bold: it is because this Jayce and this Viktor fell in love. I think it is a very deliberate choice to have the shot where Viktor looks up at Jayce after meeting, with an inquisitive, curious (and flirty) look. It is this moment, this meeting, that changed their lives. That made this universe and this timeline different than all the others.
Only you can show me this. Only you, because you love me, and the me that you know, loves you in return