"For what?"
(Previous line by Jayce: "I need to get ready.")
Ugh, if only the gays could communicate.
In this scene, Heimerdinger has threatened - sworn - to have the HexCore destroyed "one way or another". Since they are running out of time to find ways to save Viktor at this point and the HexCore appears to be the only viable option, Jayce immediately resolves - however conflicted about it he feels - to go up against his revered mentor by having him voted off the council. For Viktor.
However: from Jayce's quieting footsteps as Viktor asks "For what?", we can tell that Jayce didn't stick around to tell Viktor of his intentions.
If ever there was a moment that perfectly encapsulates how Viktor never gets to see the full picture of Jayce, the full scope of his decisionmaking... it would be this one.
For all the times Viktor feels betrayed and abandoned by Jayce (and rightfully so), he equally often doesn't get to witness all the other actions/decisions that show how ultimately, Jayce will always put him first.
He sees Jayce looking starstruck by Mel, but didn't see him looking at Viktor the exact same way only hours prior.
He is aware of Jayce leaving him to his own devices at the lab, but not of how Jayce fled Mel's bed to come see him before he could have even known Viktor was sick.
He hears Jayce speak disparagingly about the Undercity only after worrying about Viktor and where he had disappeared to for days.
He knows that Jayce broke his promise to destroy the HexCore, but not of the wide-eyed desparation with which he scrambled for any way at all to save Viktor.
He notices the blueprints for HexTech weapons, but wasn't there for the attack on the memorial service.
And of course, he has Jayce attacking him multiple times, but can't see how much Jayce is fighting himself tooth and nail every step of the way to do it.
In the end, it literally takes Jayce forfeiting his entire existence for the chance to stay by Viktor's side for Viktor to finally realise all the things he never saw.
(Disclaimer: none of this is to say that Jayce's decisions were all good or justified - gods no - only that it's more complicated than that. Nuance, my beloved.)
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Lexi crushing on this guy since he first approached her
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That's what being an Aoipei shipper felt like when the game was first released, yo
(Part of my Zaunite Viktor AU)
You know that feeling when you accidentally call your teacher or boss mom/dad? Yeah that shit's embarrassing lmao.
Also, what do you think of Powder's fanart? ;)
ACE ATTORNEY IS IN THE NEWSPAPER AS QUEER (wrightworth)
ACE ATTORNEY IN THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE!! (Wednesday June 2nd 2021)
(Article below- left>right plz read before commenting)
The rumor come out- Does Phoenix Wright is gay?!?!
Yes, according to this article, in the SF chronicle newspaper, Phoenix Wright (bisexual) and Miles Edgeworth (gay?) shipname: Wrightworth is essentially ‘canon in all sense aside from legal’ this article makes me so happy to see!
this has empire siblings energy
8 and 13 with Brynjolf for your elder scrolls questions
What do they act like when they are sick?
Grumpy. As in “don’t touch me and leave me to die” sorta grumpy. He feels vulnerable when he’s sick and hates not being able to properly do his job. He especially hates getting ataxia. He almost blew his cover once trying to pickpocket someone in Whiterun. Sneezed on ‘em instead. He’ll never forgive himself for that, nor will he get that disgusted look they gave him out of his mind. Brynjolf will outright refuse to be babied by anyone while he’s sick, however he does fancy a nice bowl of hot horker stew when he’s feeling under the weather and would never reject it.
How would they react to being a Dark Brotherhood target?
Annoyed, frankly. Though not too surprised. He was a thief after all. Not the most popular guy out there. Assassins were not so different from thieves, though. And he’d no doubt try to sway the assassin’s attempt to murder him by trying to recruit him into a different sort of shady business that was much less messy. If worse came to worse, he was sure he could outrun them and good luck to them if they tried to enter the Ratway.
Hallo! Regarding your latest arcane scene analysis: did you see the post (i think it was on x originally) where someone theorised that the split images you can see of jayce in that scene are actually the jayces from alternate timelines? It just makes so much sense and goes with my personal headcanon that we only get to see a fraction of his conversation with the mage (for the purpose of heightened tension) because in their full convo he tells Jayce about what the other versions of him did/didn't do and how it led to the same bad ending. So mage viktor, by observing countless timelines has figured out that it is necessary for jayce to kill viktor then, because he needs to reach the point where his mind gets absorbed and try to break through to him in that moment.
Anyway, sorry for ranting & i love your scene analyses 🙌
(This ask came in response to part 17 of the "Underrated JayVik moments" series.)
I did see that! (...If this is what you're referring to, that is 😅)
I thought it was an interesting catch, definitely - but I gotta be honest, your additions here are far more compelling to me.
I agree that it makes the most sense that what we see is not the full conversation (after all, that would mean their dialogue went straight from "Only you can show me this." to "Send me back!" which would be... very weird). However, somehow I never considered that the omitted parts may have included a line to the effect of "You will want to explain things to him. Don't."
Is it a fully satisfactory explanation, given that we don't get to see or hear any of this? No, not really. But yours is still a better working theory than anything the show gives us, so... what the hell, sure. 😂
(Hm, now that I think about it, while I don't know that I am fully on board with the idea that Jayce's "splitting" is simply him being haunted by literal tethers to alternate timelines, I could definitely see it as symbolic: Haunted, instead, by everything he would rather do than what he knows he is about to do.)
I'm also intrigued by the implication that the timeline mage!Viktor shows Jayce is the one that, in fact, almost succeeded (since everything, down to the position of Jayce's corpse, is more or less the same as it would have been) - with the difference being only that without also sending Ekko to the other timeline, the time rewinder wouldn't be invented and used to buy Jayce another chance to break through to Viktor.
It makes me think that perhaps, the timeline mage!Viktor shows Jayce is not actually his own, original one (which would also explain his vastly different appearance to the Arcane Herald), but instead the latest one. Again - the one that almost succeeded.
Amy Pond looking gorgeous with her glasses in The Angels Take Manhattan
she/her, 28, ENTP, 7w8, nerdy bisexual mess. I open Tumblr twice a year to repost my current brainrot related things only to disappear again
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