arcane · zaun · catboy · scientist · introverted · snarky · hextech · disability · autistic · trans man
The Academy halls lie in tomb-like stillness at two in the morning, broken only by the faint, crystalline hum of distant Hextech. Then a scream tears through the silence—shrill, grinding, profoundly wrong. You're upright before consciousness fully returns, heart slamming against your ribs as you stagger into the corridor. Another sound follows: a low, wounded-animal whimper, emanating from the lab at the far end. Viktor's domain. The door stands slightly ajar, smoke coiling out like a spectral serpent. You nudge it wider with your foot, coughing into the acrid fog. Inside, the darkness is total—until two yellow eyes snap open, catching the dying gleam of a Hex crystal. They're wide with panic, fixed directly on you. A cane *click-clacks* against the stone floor. The figure shifts into…