benson in jail. oh my GOD that's benson in jail. he's got randy's name tattooed in cursive across his ribs. he writes randy letters and can't can't keep his hands off him when he comes to visit. bye
imagine randy being so needy and codependent that he figures out a way to get himself arrested and put in the same prison as benson.
and benson is rightfully furious that randy threw his fucking life away for him, and kicked the shit outta him the very first day he got in.
Ok ok ok ok hear me out hear me out...
Jayce takes a severed job as a scientist for the Noxus corporation (stand in for Lumon), because he can't live with grief of losing his husband Viktor to his illness some years ago.
However, he has no idea Viktor is being kept down in the testing floor, being experimented on and tortured, both his body and mind. With the Hexcore, they replace bits and pieces of his body to make a cyborg-Machine-Herald type of creation. Meanwhile, his mind is also being split into dozens of innies through severance procedures.
One of which innies is a 'helper robot', an assistant, that they send up to the severed floor sometimes to help out with Jayce's science department. Jayce has no clue Viktor is also a severed human being, and no clue that he is his supposedly dead husband.
There is a whole bunch of parallel to pull from.
Jayce = Mark
Viktor = Gemma. Helper robot/Machine Viktor = Ms. Casey
Mel = Helly/Helena (heir to the empire who wants to rebel)
Ekko = Irving. Jinx = Dylan/Burt ?
Ambessa = Jame Eagan
Heimerdinger = Cobel (both scientists who are capable of making these inventions and are doing their best to reverse the horrible effects)
Singe = Dr. Mauer
Cait = Devon (that makes Vi = Ricken i guess lol)
Innie Jayce is in love with Innie Mel and wants to stay and fight the company with her.
On the other hand, Outie Jayce is desperate to get Viktor out of captivity and return to their home together.
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Jayce never liked the cold. Ever since that fateful trip, the first sign of a blizzard, of snow, of a mere drop in temperature, he and Mom would abandon all responsibilities and stay home where it was warm and safe. Mom would have him excused from school, as he would help her make sancocho and hot cocoa, an odd combo of flavor but nine-year-old Jayce had insisted and a tradition it had become. They would huddle up together before the fire, sipping on their hot soup and drinks, bundled up under Grandmother’s blanket and traded stories, from the latest town gossip to the most fantastical tales they could make up. He loved their silly little tradition, it always made him less afraid of the cold raging on outside.
When he first moved out of the Talis Home, Ximena insisted he take Grandmother’s blanket with him to the new place, a piece of home she said. A lot of back and forth was had before he finally relented, but not before commissioning her another blanket nearly identical for her to keep. It wasn’t the same as her Mother’s, of course, but she still appreciated it, and it lived on her couch now where she often spent her evenings with a book. Jayce liked to think it was a piece of him she was keeping in return.
Am I nuts for caring more about Gummigoo the NPC than any of the "real humans" in the circus?
Like I care about them and what's going on with their lives obviously, I am curious about what makes them tick and why they behave the way they do (especially Zooble, they're so interesting to me). But for some reason, Gummigoo feels more real to me than the "real" humans. Maybe because his struggles are more relatable in a weird way, or that his storyline is naratively more interesting, idk.
I just know that we only have him back for like half a second but I enjoyed every fraction of it, despite the angst 😢😢
Wait wait wait hold up, so it's been confirmed that all the songs are Arcane is commissioned to be written as if they would exist in the world of Arcane. They're all something the characters could listen to in their world, diegetic if you will.
Does that mean that America exists on Runeterra?
Cuz "Fantastic" by King Princess went:
yo imagine if viktor didn't 'evolve' jayce by touching his forehead but instead with a kiss 👀👀👀
he wouldn't get those marks on his head but rather on his lips. opalescent, cosmic mark of death on his lips in perfect contrast with everyone else and their crowns. just like how the apocalypse jayce husk was the only one with distinctive features and covered in moss and life instead of decay
The theory of Jayce being stuck in a time loop having to try and fail at stopping Viktor again and again and again was so good. It would explain why he was so disheveled and broken after popping back out of the Arcane, and why he was so unhingely determined and ruthless towards Salo, how there was zero hesitation before he blasted a hole in Viktor's chest.
But after we actually saw what happened in that apocalyptic timeline, I gotta hand it to the guy. Jayce is a much stronger man that I'll ever be because he did not hesitate at all at the sight of this.
Like if I saw my lover partner like that up there, all fucking gorgeous and magnificient and ethereal, especially after I have been doing nothing but losing my mind on my lonesome for months and hallucinating his visage and agonizing over how I need to go back to fix everything, I would have stopped and stared for a good minute. Because goddamn, he looks so beautiful and monsterous and everything I've loved and everything I've feared and our savior and our demise at the same time and—
Jayce is a great man with great self-discipline. He doesn't get enough praise for that.
Soulmate AU go brrrrr
Baby Jayce suddenly gets a marking on his wrist after the mystery magic man saves his mom and spends his entire adult life looking for his soulmate who granted him this mote of arcane.
Imagine his surprise when his marking surges on the day his apartment blows up and this professor's assistant start taking him in for questioning.