Serin, my half-Vulcan engineer who spends most of his life roleplaying as a wizard
Rain world iterators but they're weird skrunkly bird things
My other arcane hot take is that if anyone in the jayvik pair is asexual, it's jayce. Have you ever actually seen that man initiate a sexual encounter in the show? No. He just rolls with it when it happens. Mel kissed him first. He never takes the lead. He's either a sub, asexual, or possibly both. Also? His name rhymes with ace. I rest my case.
My hot take is that Viktor is not ace, or more specifically, that he was never written to be. You can't write a character as asexual if you don't even know what the word means. That would be like serving me a latte with oat milk instead of soy and saying it IS soy because all of them are just Alternative Milks to you. You got the thing confused with another thing because you don't actually know anything about either of them and as such, no, I do not believe either of them informed your writing process at all.
Viktor has some kind of mind-reading power, right? That's how he knows random stuff, like that Jinx's old name was Powder.
And Jayce was sent back to our main dimension BY Viktor to persuade Viktor not to do any glorious evolution shit because it doesn't work (because it starts an apocalypse for some reason).
So instead of immediately blasting Viktor, why didn't he just... Let Viktor read his mind so he could understand the consequences of his actions? If I'm not mistaken, didn't he end up doing that in the end anyway?
It's not like he doesn't know it's an ability Viktor has. The other Viktor would have told him. So...???
its my birthday i get to pick the mindless fluff
Can't stop thinking about iterators as horrible little baby birds
Oh, by the way: Vander is swayed by Jinx and Vi first, but then he attacks Viktor (because Viktor was bleeding or going to attack Jinx/Vi or both), who instinctively defends himself and ends up killing him. Jinx tries to blows Viktor up (again lol) but Jayce whacks the missile with his hammer before it can reach Viktor, and Viktor, seeing Jayce hurt, breaks out of the mind control.
Horrible AU where the transformation after Viktor's death in the commune was forced on him by Singed, and he is now both Rio and the weapon he hoped Hextech would never become. Ambessa uses him to invade Piltover, and he has to fight Jayce, who even as he's defending himself keeps trying to reach him, break him out of the mind control - and meanwhile, Jinx and Vi are doing the same with Vander.
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I think the problem I have with the dragon prince (beyond a surprising lack of dragons), while finding most of it decently entertaining, is that by far the most interesting aspect of their magic system is dark magic and the other magic doesn't even remotely compare to the point where it feel unintentionally imbalanced. Not to sound like Viren but it IS clever and practical and until any of the other kinds of magic can prove that they're able to cure full body paralysis for the price of a single deer (who get hunted for their meat daily anyway) they don't hold a candle to it.
Yes, other dark magic spells bad, don't trap people in coins forever, but like, for a series that likes to dip its toe into grey morality sometimes, it's weird how 'we should evaluate spells on a case by case basis instead of painting all of a certain kind with the same brush because some of them are incredibly helpful' doesn't seem to be the final conclusion the series is/was headed towards. Am I supposed to give up all helpful drugs because some of them are poisonous or addictive? No, it's about which ones are used in which context and in what amount. Maybe 'regulations good' is just too boring a conclusion or something.