i'd like it if you stayed (and i like you)
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the beloved man—unmoored again by meisosoup
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
11 Jan 2022
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Wading into the deepening waters of this newfound partnership with Jayce doesn't feel like fighting a current he cannot control. Viktor will never admit this, but their late-night debates about crystallography feel like a dangerous kind of weightlessness. The kind of intimacy and synergy that's easy, too easy. The kind of half-muffled electricity that Viktor becomes addicted to before he even realizes he likes it in the first place.
No, he'll never admit this—he'll lie about it until the end of time with no remorse—but Viktor isn't completely averse to the idea of falling for Jayce after all.
or: Viktor tells two lies, and one truth.
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a million little reasons by meisosoup
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
31 Jan 2022
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Normally, Jayce's handwriting is heavy. But these sketches are feather-light, careful, tentative, as if Jayce is afraid of scaring the image of Viktor off, or making him less real by committing him to the page.
If Viktor didn't know better, he'd almost call Jayce's secret drawings...loving. If he dared to let himself hope for something more, he might even say that Jayce has feelings for him.
or: Viktor finds sketches of himself in Jayce's notebook.
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full of myself but still hungry by meisosoup
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
04 Sep 2022
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Without Viktor, he still has everything. Everything and more. And even then, it’s not enough.
"Piltie greed," Viktor might have sneered. "You have to have the world in the palm of your hand."
Jayce doesn’t care much for the world anymore. He thinks Viktor’s hand in his would do.
(or, Jayce reflects on his life without Viktor. it's infinitely, exponentially worse, so he does something about it.)
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can we pretend that airplanes by meisosoup
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
17 Mar 2022
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As Viktor rolls his suitcase up the aisle of the plane, he’s almost afraid to see whether the window seat is empty. In an ideal universe, Viktor would have the whole row to himself, but he’ll settle for one empty seat. Just one.
Alas, reality often disappoints. As he glances into his row, a burly man huddles in the window seat. The man sniffles wetly. Viktor realizes with a start that he’s crying.
His own seat—next to the crying man—gapes up at him.
or: Viktor finds his window seat taken by a crying Jayce. He helps him work through it, and maybe falls in love in the process.
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- Part 4 of i'd like it if you stayed (and i like you)
- Part 5 of i've got to tell you how i love you always
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thank my lucky stars for that night by meisosoup
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
17 Jan 2022
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Jayce has spent the last few hours ignoring the small sniffles from Viktor’s side of the room, but as the hours wear on and Viktor’s coughs and curses in his native language grow more frequent, he’s starting to worry.
Viktor isn’t exactly the healthiest person to begin with, but with the steadily increasing mound of tissues piled on Viktor’s desk, Jayce can tell that there’s definitely something wrong.
or: Viktor is sick. Jayce takes care of him.
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in your eyes you're holding mine by meisosoup
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
06 Mar 2022
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Having a lab partner might be the worst idea in human history, and Jayce is no stranger to shitty ideas to begin with.
But right before the class starts, a slight man with disheveled auburn hair rushes in. He sweeps his gaze across the room—Jayce's now backpack-free seat is the only one available—and there is a horrifying moment where Jayce locks eyes with the newcomer and thinks, "his eyes are pretty" and "fuck he's going to sit here" and "that's okay because his eyes are pretty" all at once.
or: Jayce and Viktor become lab partners, and Jayce doesn't realize he wants to take the "lab" out of lab partners until he does.
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- Part 6 of i'd like it if you stayed (and i like you)
- Part 4 of i've got to tell you how i love you always
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Jayce is softer in sleep, the hard edges built from a mix of stress and passion for their research smoothing into something more vulnerable, something Viktor wants to keep safe. Viktor doesn't really have a preference for either version of Jayce, but it's a different kind of ease when he is free to look at Jayce like this: to behold him tenderly, without fear, without the electric sorrow of distance and the knowledge of the chasm of space between them.
Jayce falls asleep at the lab. Viktor has a realization about it.
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fervid as a flame by meisosoup
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
25 Dec 2024
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At his first party since freshman year, Viktor logs a glittering new hypothesis in his mind palace, somewhere between a smile sweet like chestnuts in a cold December and warm skin that swims with capricious blue light: "Jayce Talis and I will hate each other for the rest of our lives."
or, Jayce and Viktor meet at a party for the first time. Viktor loathes every second of it.
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- Part 8 of i'd like it if you stayed (and i like you)
- Part 2 of i've got to tell you how i love you always
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more than a sunshine in my eyes by meisosoup
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
06 Jan 2024
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It's shocking, that in the face of a day so beautiful and bright, he would rather watch the slow spread of Jayce's smile as he examines the peaches a couple trees down.
"You okay?" Jayce's voice startles him.
Not okay, Viktor thinks, but doesn't say. What can he say, really, other than "when you hold that basket of summer peaches and the light becomes ensnared in your eyes I understand why Degas did his pastels. The Impressionists painted light because they were helpless to do anything else in its wake, and every second of every day you make me wish I were an artist so I could sketch the shape of you, if only to feel like I could do something other than just behold the magic of your hands, the smell of summer in your hair, the softness of your eyes. If only to have evidence that I was worthy of its witness, if only as a testimony that I could keep it safe."
or: Viktor’s car breaks down in small-town summer purgatory. Jayce is the only thing close to a mechanic in a 50 mile radius. Viktor learns to love more than just the local produce.
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- Part 1 of i've got to tell you how i love you always
- Part 1 of small town summers
- Part 9 of i'd like it if you stayed (and i like you)