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the art of picking up the pieces by obscurelittlebird
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
30 Aug 2025
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Before he can stop himself, he picks up the phone. Every ring seems to last for eternity. Please, he thinks, be there, pick up, don’t be dead, don’t be gone…
“Viktor?”
His heart jumps. Silco’s voice is muffled, sleep-thick, but oh so achingly familiar. He had not realised until now just how much he missed it.
“You do realise it is 2 o’clock in the morning?”
He tries to speak but no words come out. The guilt, perhaps, has stolen them.
“Has something happened?”
“Papa,” he finally whispers. “Papa. Papa.” And then all of a sudden he is bawling his eyes out, horrible, heaving gasps and sobs torn from his throat, wracking his thin frame, and distantly he is embarrassed, but he cannot seem to make himself stop.
Worn down by the crushing weight of (not actually) unrequited love, workplace disputes, past trauma, and the existential dread that comes with being an overachiever in your twenties, Viktor finally breaks. Papa Silco comes to pick up the pieces.
Returning to his childhood home in Zaun for a long-overdue rest, Viktor must reckon with his past, his future, and the terrifying prospect of allowing himself to be loved and cared for.
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22 Sep 2025
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Arcane AU where Viktor was taken-in by Silco and Vander, years before the bridge riot. Not entirely compliant with LoL game lore. Magic system is more author's original insert. Realism-take on Arcane politics.
➸ Almost all chapters are illustrated by the author, with guest illustrations too! hi-res art + bonus art / fic etc posted on tumblr and bsky, twitter, + insta.
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01 Sep 2025
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the line is covered in jellyfish by staroverlord
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
28 Dec 2025
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When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question— as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”
Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?
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Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together— piece by stubborn piece.
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- Part 1 of the thin semantic line
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01 Sep 2025
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this devotion may contain side-effects by owepossum
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
12 Feb 2026
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After the doctor hurts Rio, a freshly-orphaned Viktor is taken in at The Last Drop. Years later, there's a riot on the bridge.
In which child-Viktor refuses to abandon Silco; an act of devotion that changes the trajectory of Zaun's uprising. While Vander negotiates with Enforcers, Silco single-parents a revolution in the dark. Someone has to fund his son's endless charity work and vaccinate zaunish kids.
There's siblings-of-divorce, waverider eggs, volatile crystals...and a Piltie wandering around the Lanes looking for blue gems and a ghost.
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- Part 1 of devoted sciences
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- English
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- 212,327
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- 18/?
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14 Aug 2025
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Pretend Like It's the First Time by lady_of_worlds_112
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
19 Jun 2025
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It has been two days since the incident in Piltover. As Vander struggles to navigate life without his eldest daughter in it, a ghost of his past comes knocking at the door.
He looks older, new scars and wrinkles marrying his face, but the Hound recognizes him instantly.
"You wrote?"
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- Part 1 of What Could Have Been
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29 Jun 2025