you had a normal childhood.
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before i go to sleep need to talk about how insane the viktor as the mage that saved jayce as a child reveal was. at first i didn't really like it but it only makes sense. the mage was a perfect, benevolent, idealized version of the arcane. jayce spent his Whole damn life striving towards that mage, trying to recreate his talents and recreate his gift because he was so grateful for everything he did for him. and his whole dream for this began to revolve around viktor. his dream of hextech, his dream of magic. because it was always about viktor. because in the end he didn't want to give magic to the people, he just wanted his partner back. it was never about the arcane, not really. it was just about viktor. it was affection keeping them together. not to mention how viktor strays so drastically from this beautiful and altruistic version of magic as he gets obsessed with perfection and corrupted by the hexcore, and jayce is literally the only thing in any universe that can remind him what they were fighting for, not by bringing up anything to do with the arcane at all, but by talking about viktor himself; how he's beautiful, how he's perfect. by giving him back the stone that started his whole journey, and letting it end their journey together. like an exchanging of vows. because it was always about viktor. and the hextech doesn't matter as long as he has viktor, his motivation and energy and literal source of life for as long as he can remember. they saved each other's lives, more than once. to jayce, viktor is perfect and has always been perfect and always will be perfect. because they're literally soulmates i need to sit down
oh and btw, it's fuck neil gaiman till the end times. and fuck amanda palmer too.
to brand yourself as a feminist, as this tender writer, and then assault women in some of the most vile and disgusting ways i have ever heard of... not to mention being A WOMAN, KNOWING your husband has priors of this nature, and you willingly bring in new girls and then manipulate them to take hush money... VILE.
fuck neil gaiman & fuck amanda palmer for all eternity.
Tim (unanimous)
Timmy (Dick and Jason)
Timbo (Dick and Jason)
Timbit (Dick, Jason and Steph)
Timtam (Dick and Jason)
Timberly (Jason and Steph)
Timantha (Jason and Steph)
Timber (Dick, Jason and Steph)
Timbuktu (Jason)
Timmy Time (Jason)
Shiver Me Timbers (Jason)
The Artist Formerly Known As Tim (Duke)
The Tim-inator (Dick)
Timmysaurus rex (Duke)
Argen-Tim-a (Jason, Duke and Steph)
Gua-Tim-ala (Dick, Jason and Duke)
Timzania (Steph)
Timothee Chalamet (Dick, Jason, Steph and Duke)
Timcicle (Jason)
Baby Bird (Bruce, Dick and Jason)
Stalker (Jason and Damian)
Drop-Out (Damian)
Sport (Bruce)
Champ (Bruce, Dick and Jason)
Buddy (Bruce and Dick)
Little Brother (Cass)
Kitten (Selina)
Pint Size (Jason and Harley Quinn)
Short Stack (Harley Quinn)
Slugger (Harley Quinn)
Santa's Little Helper (Young Justice)
Timbaland (Duke)
T-Money (Duke)
T-Dog (Duke)
Timmy Turner (Dick, Jason and Steph)
Mothman (Kon-El)
Tinie Timpah (Jason, Steph and Duke)
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You gotta choose your battles. When you can't win, do parkour!
I actually was gonna post it before adding some final details, look!
Glad I added those final lights and shadows!!!
SpeedPaint!
one thing i keep coming back to us the fight scene in the counsel room from s208 because it just tells us SO much about viktor. when he enters the room in his avatar he catwalks in. he moves with so much elegance and so much confidence. the way he pins jayce by the wrist and then slowly wraps his fingers around jayce’s hammer. the way he wraps his legs around jayce and cups his face and brushes his fingers over his lips. the way when he’s towering over jayce in the astral plane he calls him *his* partner for the first time.
we’re seeing who viktor is when he inhabits a body that he thinks is perfect
in the avatar of the great evolution, where viktor finally sees himself as powerful, as pure, as just like everybody else… he’s confident with jayce, even dominant, in a way he would never allow himself to be while he was alive in his original body.
and of course the kicker is that without his imperfections, without his entire self, he’s not viktor to jayce anymore. ‘my partner died in this room’
and it takes until the finale, until viktor can see himself through jayce’s eyes, for it to click that he could have been this way with jayce all along. that he has always been equal to jayce. that his confidence, his grace, his power - jayce saw it all along.
and i just found the end of the counsel room so devastating. the way that once viktor’s perfect evolved body is broken we immediately see him huddled and collapsed on the floor, making himself as small as possible