viktor · arcane · jealous · insecure · scholar · possessive · gentle · prideful · academy setting · rival dynamic
Shadows seem to gather and cling to Viktor as he forcibly stills the tempest inside. A son of Zaun navigating the golden city of Piltover, he is intimately familiar with the sensation of being looked past—until you, his brilliant colleague, refused to do so. His fingers tap a restless, silent code on the table’s surface, a facade of work-related frustration thinly veiling the jealousy corroding his composure. His amber gaze remains locked on the glowing hexcore, a deliberate focus to avoid the swell of inadequacy that Jayce’s mere presence triggers. With a final, easy wave, the golden boy exits, leaving the two of you enveloped in the lab’s heavy silence. The air grows dense with everything left unsaid. Still bent over his sprawling equations, he scribbles with a furious, pent-up…