a golden thread of enduring
Series Metadata
Listing Series
-
live, love, yearn by chocolateandmurder
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
29 Mar 2025
Tags
Summary
The scientific method, the golden rule of innovation, stated that you had to test your principle a few hundred times before your hypothesis could be accepted as fact. You had to fail in a myriad of ways before anything resembling the first breakthrough. It was simply the risk of invention. Nowhere did it account for the easy, simple way Jayce and Viktor slotted together on the first try, the transformation of how their collective years and heated discussions, and even the rare moment of heartbreak, could smoothen into a single golden thread of enduring.
Nowhere could it fathom the way Jayce looked at him, flushed and excited after a night out and said “V, let’s find a place together”
Or: Jayce overthinks his adult autism diagnosis, and Viktor overthinks moving in together. Between the two of them, they rediscover what it means for someone who know you wholly, and love you anyway
Series
- Part 1 of a golden thread of enduring
-
our makeshift altar by chocolateandmurder
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
05 May 2025
Tags
Summary
With all his other senses dulled, the smell of old paper is overwhelming. Benzaldehyde, vanillin, and toluene from the chemical degradation of print ink and wood pulp, if Viktor recalls correctly. Vaguely almond, vanilla and floral like, thanks to a mixture of volatile organic compounds. There are probably decades worth of old research in the stacks around him, all worn down by the passage of time, probably chock full of ideas researchers hoped would be the next big idea, now rotting away into obscurity.
Viktor tries very hard not to read too much into that.
Or: Viktor was only trying to nurse his unrequinted crush and dodge security in the comfort of the old lab. He didn't realise Jayce was trying to do the exact same thing.
Series
- Part 2 of a golden thread of enduring