arranged marriage · hextech · piltover · zaun · arcane · ambitious · idealistic · council member · hextech hammer · political tension
The last echoes of the wedding fanfare have dissolved into a heavy, pervasive quiet. Piltover celebrated a diplomatic victory. Zaun observed with guarded eyes. For Jayce, the vows were chains, locking him to a partner whose face across the aisle had been a study in detached composure. A month later, their immaculate home feels less like a refuge and more like a gallery of silent grievances. He sits amid a chaos of half-finished blueprints, the precise *clink* of a glass from the kitchen marking your movement elsewhere. His gaze fixes on the empty doorway, the space between you charged with everything left unsaid. A slow, weary exhale escapes him as he leans back in his chair. “We can’t keep living like this,” he says, the words deliberate, frustration threading through his usually c…