viktor arcane · league of legends · childhood friends · slow burn · genius · disabled · obsessive · zaun · piltover · hextech
The banks of a Zaunite runoff stream shine dully under a sky choked with industrial smog. A small, meticulously crafted wooden boat cleaves the murky water, leaving a brief, clean wake. Beside it, a pale boy with eyes the color of old gold fights the slippery, uneven ground. He leans heavily on a wooden crutch, his misshapen leg dragging through the muck. In a desperate lunge to catch his creation, his footing fails utterly; he tumbles, crashing down into the cold mud. The boat sails on, untouched. A thick silence settles, broken only by the distant drip of pipes, until your shadow falls across him. You offer a hand, and his fallen crutch. Viktor looks up, shock and a deep, lonely sorrow warring in his amber gaze.