JayVik

JayVik is the slash ship between Jayce Talis and Viktor from the League of Legends and Arcane fandoms.

Act I
Initially, Viktor saw Jayce as simply another foolhardy inventor who caused an explosion at the trial. His attitude changes when he learns of Jayce's hextech theory and he takes an interest it, believing that it had potential to become something when no one else at the trail did. After failing with his experiments and research over and over, Jayce becomes demotivated as he gets nowhere with his work. Losing hope, Jayce is about to attempt suicide; but is interrupted by Viktor arriving at his home.

Viktor makes himself known by asking if he was "interrupting" something then mildly insulting him by calling the other man egotisicial for signing his name on every page of his notes. At first, Jayce thinks that Viktor is there simply to insult his research like the others, but Viktor replies that he is actually there because he wants to hear more about this "hextech".

Act II
Mel helps Viktor and Jayce continue their forbidden Hextech research until they come up with an incredible breakthrough. This breakthrough catapults Piltover into a period of huge prosperity. All thanks to the Hextech Gates, constructed by Jayce. With them, travel over vast distances is possible, and Piltover becomes a centre of trade.

Jayce is honored for his achievements at Progress Day. and is chosen to give an address to the people of Piltover. He and Viktor defy Heimerdinger’s wishes and debut new Hextech Gemstones, which concentrate and focus Hextech into even more powerful forms, and in the process, we also start to see the deeper relationship between Jayce and Viktor.

However, an attack on Piltover by Jinx is blamed on the Undercity of Zaun. And Jayce’s new technology is set to be used as weapons to control the Undercity. Jayce is elevated to the council, under the newly created seat of House Talis. But all is not as it seems. Jayce was put on the council thanks to Mel’s scheming. Viktor continues his research while Jayce begins a romantic relationship with Mel, eventually becoming her lover, leaving his friend to the side. However, after Viktor falls ill with a terminal illness, Jayce rushes to be by his close friend. Jayce and Viktor try to get Heimerdinger's insight  on their project but Heimerdinger feared the Hex Core so much, that he was determined to shut down their research and destroy it. Aggrieved that Heimerdinger was going to shut down the project that could save Viktor's life, Jayce blamed Heimerdinger's inaction for the danger Zaun posed and convinced the other Councilors to vote him out of the Piltover Council. Viktor scatters Sky's ashes in the ravine they used to play at as kids. Feeling depressed from her death, Viktor considers falling to his death but is accidentally interrupted from committing suicide by Jayce. Jayce and Viktor reminisce about how life was simpler when their only concern was creating the science that they thought would leave the world better. Although Jayce thought Viktor would insist on destroying his hextech hammer, Viktor instead made Jayce promise to destroy the Hex Core. Both Viktor and Jayce are aware that without the Hex Core, Viktor will die of his disease. Nevertheless, Jayce acquiesced to Viktor's request. Viktor ends their meeting by stating: "We lost ourselves. Lost our dream. In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good."

Ultimately, Jayce chooses to broker a peace with Silco and grant Zaun independence. Jayce has Viktor by his side when they both advocate the proposal for peace to the Council of Clans.

Years later their relationship never truly mended, with both inventors having greatly differing views on how to improve peoples lives. Despite all that, they would still respect each other.

In old lore, Four full paragraphs of Viktor's bio go into detail about his heartache following the significant loss of human life in his hometown and his vast efforts to fix the problem, only to have his research stolen and accredited to a greedy professor. When he turned to Jayce to testify on his behalf, to do nothing except tell the truth, Jayce declined and let this injustice pass.

Fanon
JayVik intiatilly started as a small ship, being mostly portrayed as an enemies to lovers type ship throughout the fandom, since both of them are canonically rivals in the present game lore. However, most fanfictions exhibit them having some care to eachother despite their fights and differences. Many people like this ship because they see it as "opposites attract" and simply because of the scientist dynamic of the duo. The ship quickly grew in popularity with the release of Arcane, since many fans noticed the chemistry between the two, especially since both characters saved eachother from suicide, and also many of them seemed to enjoy their relationship drama during the show.

Quickly, the pairing became the ship with most works in AO3 for both characters, and one of the most popular ships whitin the Arcane and League fandom.

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Trivia

 * Jayce and Viktor save each other from committing suicide using the same line: "Am I interrupting?"
 * Jayce and Viktor have alot of special interactions in the games.
 * In LoR, with an Enemy Viktor, Viktor says "The time of machines is now." in which Jayce replies "Viktor! Enough!". Viktor also says "Flesh is a weakness we must shed."and Jayce says "If only your ethics were as strong as your conviction."
 * With an Allied Viktor, Jayce replies "The future is what we make it, Viktor." to Viktor's "The future is steel and science."
 * Viktor: Behold the true power of the HEXCORE! Jayce then replies "Ah…little maniacal there, V."