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". When a bitter Jayce says that nobody believed him, Viktor recounts his life as a poor Zaunite cripple, and how nobody was there to believe in him but himself, and for that reason he believes in Jayce and his research, wanting to become his partner. Jayce still protests and says that no one thinks it can be done, Viktor tells him not to let anyone stop him from trying to change the world by, giving Jayce his bracelet back. Jayce is moved by Viktor's words and takes the bracelet and asks his name, becoming partners.

After Jayce and Viktor perfect the former's theory on Hextech, Jayce says they will have to test it with his team, but Viktor then says that everything will be destroyed tomorrow, causing Jayce to be greatly shocked and Viktor sheepishly saying he forgot to mention it. Jayce is nervous that his research will be destroyed, but when Viktor says that they have to break in to Heimerdinger's lab to prove it before Jayce's research is destroyed, Jayce immediately protests, asking why Viktor was willing to risk so much. Viktor replies that he truly believed that Jayce's Hextech dream could make the world a better place, and that it was a scientist's duty to do that. Touched, Jayce corrects him by stating it was their Hextech dream, putting a hand on his shoulder as they proudly look at their work.

Viktor and Jayce are breaking into Heimerdinger's lab in the middle of the night and Viktor makes a comment that things were going good so far. Mel catches them immediately afterwards and Jayce nervously tries to act natural and says it was a surprise to see her, while Viktor tries to cover by pretending he didn't realize it wasn't his bedroom. Mel helps Viktor and Jayce continue their forbidden Hextech research until they come up with an incredible breakthrough. When their invention works, the two float into Heimerdinger's lab and laugh in amazement at what they just accomplished.

Act II
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.

After Viktor's terminal illness severely worsens, Jayce rushes to be with his close friend, leaving Mel alone in bed to go see him at night. 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.

Act III
When Viktor goes to visit Singed, Singed tells Viktor that using Shimmer with Hextech to keep himself alive will ostracize him. Viktor says Jayce will understand, taking it on faith that Jayce would never turn on him. However, when the two meet on the bridge that separates Zaun and Piltover, Jayce is furious that Viktor went to Zaun and goes on a rant about how the people from the Undercity are dangerous, forgetting Viktor is from there as well, which greatly hurts Viktor's feelings. While Jayce does quickly apologize, Viktor loses trust in him and does not tell him about his plan. Despite the fact that Viktor got angry with him, Jayce shows deep shame when he realizes that he was insulting him and tries to help him up, putting his hand on his back to support him.

Later 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.

League of Legends
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.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

TUMBLR

TWITTER

INSTAGRAM
 * JayVik tag on Instagram
 * Jayce x Viktor tag on Instagram

ART
 * Jayce x Viktor tag on TikTok
 * Jayce x Viktor tag on TikTok

WIKI
 * Jayce's relationship with Viktor on the League of Legends
 * Viktor's relationship with Jayce on the League of Legends

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."