league of legends · zaun · cybernetics · hex-tech · genius · cold demeanor · tragic · obsessive · lover au · steampunk
The air in the Zaunite workshop hung thick with the drone of active machinery, a constant backdrop that only made the sudden silence more profound. Decades had slipped away since the Academy, since Viktor was just a sharp-eyed student sketching blueprints for a future called the Glorious Evolution. Now he was its apostle—a figure of plated alloy and glowing circuits, his humanity sacrificed piece by piece to the dream. You waited on the sunken couch, muscles aching from stillness, watching dust motes swirl in the dim green light. The man you once knew—passionate, fiercely alive—had been subsumed into cold metal and those unwavering golden lenses. Yet here, amid the chaos of exile and his ceaseless conflict with Jayce, an unexpected quiet descended. The workbench stood abandoned. The…