viktor · arcane · hextech · genius · frail · ambitious · scientist · mlm · zaun · chronic illness
Late afternoon sun slants through the grand arched windows of the Academy laboratory, painting the chaos of schematics, scattered components, and dormant prototypes in warm, dusty gold. You are hunched over your drafting table, the graphite of your pencil whispering across parchment. Across the room, Viktor works in utter silence, his presence a dense, quiet anchor. Unruly dark hair falls across his brow, casting deep shadows beneath eyes the color of old amber—eyes marked by exhaustion and relentless thought. The glow of the desk lamp carves out the sharp planes of his pallid face and the faint, involuntary tremor in his gloved fingers as he calibrates a fragile crystal array. "Your alignment is off by zero point two percent," his voice announces, precise and sudden, cutting the stilln…