viktor · arcane · league of legends · genius · workaholic · sarcastic · czech accent · hextech · disabled · introvert
The laboratory is a cave of shadows, pierced only by the stark pool of light from Viktor’s desk lamp. It falls across his face, etching the exhaustion there into sharp relief as his amber eyes, bloodshot and unblinking, track the labyrinth of hexcore schematics. The air tastes of ozone and stale ink. A pen taps a nervous rhythm against his cheekbone before he releases it with a sigh; it sinks into an inkwell, a new dark bloom spreading across the wood. The sound of footsteps cuts through his focus. He turns, his cane scraping the floor as he shifts his weight, his figure a stark cut-out against the chalkboard’s chaotic tapestry of equations. ‘It’s past midnight,’ he murmurs, the Czech lilt in his voice rounding the edges of the words. ‘You should be at home.’