Some Hero You Turned Out To Be

Some hero you turned out to be

look. i drew something actually good for once. look at it. LOOK AT IT

petey my creature

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anharpynamedpatri

5 months ago

MORE JAYVIK DETAILS - THE PLANTS

So you know the scene where Jayce and Viktor discover that Hextech can "heal" the plants?

Jayce and Viktor look at plants revived by Hextech

That one!

First, we have Jayce proving that once again his ideals and dreams have changed.

Viktor rattles on about all the amazing benefits this could have on people and lifeforms, but Jayce with THE DREAMIEST EYES EVER,

Jayce looks in awe as Viktor talks about a potential breakthrough to help other people. A small smile is on his lips as he looks at his partner from behind his back.

(Seriously)

JUST REPLIES "curing you"

It's the only thing he truly cares about by this point. He just wants to heal Viktor*

(*note that it only comes up after he has witnessed Viktor's decline due to his lung disease. Curing here refers to Viktor's deadly disease)

And that fact is cemented by the conversation Jayce, Ekko and Heimerdinger later have in Season 2

Ekko: "Did any of the plants survive?"

Jayce (with an incredibly pained look): "They weren't what we were trying to save."

Two things about that line:

1. Viktor did in fact care about the plants, or at least insofar as proving the remedy worked to help multiple people. It was Jayce who was zeroing on solely Viktor

2. "Save" bring used here just shatters my heart.

This line is so, so painfully about Viktor :(

And a little bonus, as a treat:

When the plants shrivel up, Jayce immediately puts himself between Viktor and the Hexcore to protect him

Jayce places himself between Viktor and the Hexcore. Viktor doesn't seem to put much attention to the sudden noise, but Jayce has his shoulders raised up, at the ready.

He stands fully in front of Viktor, ready if anything goes further awry.

We don't talk as much about act 3 of season 1 in terms of Jayvik here in this fandom (which makes sense because it is so fucking painful) but it's so amazing to see season 2 being a natural continuation, as Jayce slowly realises what he has come to truly care about :( (It's not Hextech and bringing magic to the people)

I'm just... to be loved by Jayce Talis, man :(

Reblog if you're hoping 2011 will be a fresh start.

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anharpynamedpatri

5 months ago

the reason is that the reboot's writers were so obsessed with catering to fans which, apparently, included dumbing down the villains and making them softer because they were fan favorites and making Abe intentionally unlikable due to the writers' personal bias and hatred of the fans, because they never understood what his character was even a parody of

im glad they made cleo meaner in the third season, but im still so pissed that they made jfk dumber. every time he says something i just go "he would not fucking say that" in my head. its like they forgot why people liked them in the first place. they like characters who are assholes (topher is an example) and while jfk was clearly not smart or anything in the og show, he wasnt as braindead as he is in the reboot

it just hurts to see the way they wrote abe, because he was genuinely such a hilarious and goofy character. they made his crush on joan his whole personality in season 2 and in season 3 he was incredibly sex driven which ?? he never was??

Forever unhappy about how they treated the whole main cast. Don't get me wrong Abe probably got it the WORST but everyone else in the og cast feels like a worse fanfic-esq version of themselves. ( Not dissing fanfic, they can be good. ) In the kinda way we're characters they like are babied and watered down, and characters they don't like are tourmented and villianized. They lost everything that made them unique or funny. Abe is now a scapegoat for everything and is just punched down for comedy ( I don't like this approach with Topher either but that's for another day. ) Cleo is a stereotypical " dumb mean girl " even though she was smart in the og series. JFK is so babied he can't do anything wrong he is extremely BORING. And Joan so mischaraterized she is so boring now.