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    Viktor doesn’t want to be here. It had taken a lot of pleading, losing a bet, and even more pleading before Jayce had managed to drag him to the party, so, yes, of course he’s miserable.

    Not that Jayce expected him not to be, though, to be fair to his partner. In all his begging he had verbally batted away Viktor’s attempts to put the words you’ll enjoy it when you get there into his mouth with an insistence that he doesn’t even enjoy these evenings much. And that Viktor owes him at least one, please, Vik, even if you hate it.

    So, Viktor caved. And now he’s here. Hating every boring second.

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    or: this has turned into a bit of a series of jayce struggling with his poor mental health, but through viktor's eyes (now with a post-canon chapter!)

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    16 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 93

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    "When Viktor has sought out bed partners previously to work off steam, he's chosen men more… similar to himself: in looks, in stature, in disposition. To put a finer point on it, none of those men have been Jayce fucking Talis, the only person who has ever matched Viktor in ambition and intellectual pursuit, his equal, most definitely the first actual friend he has ever made, and oh yes coincidentally also, tall, dark, broad, unfairly handsome, with gargantuan, capable blacksmith’s hands."

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    Aka five times Viktor noticed his new partner has huge wandering fuckoff paws, plus the one time he did something about it.

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    06 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 87

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    Set one week after Jayce and Viktor meet on that fateful night at Jayce's apartment.

    Jayce crouches down to his level, reaching instinctively toward the jagged skin before stopping short.

    “You—” he can barely process the idea of it, let alone the reality. “You punched him.”

    “Yes.” Viktor flexes his hand. “He deserved it.”

    Jayce snorts, helpless. “You’ve got a mean right hook. Since when?”

    "Since Zaun."

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    Or: Jayce is fragile, and Viktor is astute; he is also alarmingly good at breaking noses in defense of his new academic associate.

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    22 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 72

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    Jayce and Viktor accidentally build a habit of sleeping in each others beds. Together. While pretending it's platonic and they're definitely not falling in love with each other at all.

    (or, as per the original title that was too long: friends let friends sleep in each others beds)

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    22 Jan 2026

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    Viktor doesn’t smile. “I just—these Pilties. They have every option, every resource. They live in high rises and pay for water births with coaches who call themselves moon-witches. Meanwhile, patients in Zaun are lucky if they know someone with an intact midwifery license, and even that doesn’t matter when their placental abruption happens at two in the morning and they can’t afford the ambulance.”

    Jayce rubs a hand over his face. “Yeah. I mean, I’ve never been to a gynecologist either, but that’s more of a gender crisis thing than a crunchy trad-Pilt thing. You get it.”

    He says it lightly, a snort or a roll of Viktor’s eyes expected.

    But Viktor just goes very, very still.

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    28 Dec 2025