NAME: Viktor AGE: 33 CANON: Arcane CANON POINT: Post Season 2 CRAU: N/A OTHER: N/A
SUITABILITY:
Viktor meets the age requirements for the game being older than 15. But I also believe he’s a good fit for the game as a whole because much of his character arc in season 1 and in season 2 is him battling with his own vices and virtues. Viktor is a character that is heavily driven by his own desires to be more than just himself and to cure himself of his perceived failings. Within the game setting it would be interesting for him to have to acknowledge his own wants and desires while also navigating through his self-deprecating nature towards his own body and how he feels towards people seeing and also perceiving him. Viktor is also contending with the fact that he has just been freed from the all encompassing mind control of the hexcore which weighs heavily on his consciousness since he was responsible for brainwashing and drawing people into a hivemind collective as The Herald. All of this compounds on itself making Viktor wary that it might happen again and under the influence of something just as insidious as the resort it may just.
HISTORY:
Viktor is first introduced as the assistant to Heimerdinger, the chair of the academy in Piltover and also the head of its Council. He comes to find Jayce, whom he has arrested and is put on trial for illegal and deadly experimentations, and his work intriguing and almost a springboard towards something that will help benefit people. The night after Jayce’s trial and banishment from the academy Viktor revisits his destroyed apartment and saves Jayce from taking his own life. This is the first of many significant character developing moments Viktor will have. He states that if you want to change the world you shouldn’t ask for permission and that same night they both break into Heimerdinger’s office, successfully initiate magic through one of the many gemstones Jayce had in his apartment and the two essentially begin their partnership together.
7 years later Hextech and the Hexgates are fully functional and during progress day a gemstone is stolen by Jinx from Zaun. In that same moment a significant story arc for Viktor unfolds which is his diagnosis of his terminal illness that sets course a series of desperate attempts to cure himself of his disease while also drawing him into the clutches of his creation (the hexcore) that he is slowly losing control over. One such incident is when Sky Young, his assistant, is killed by the hexcore. This event shakes Viktor’s resolve and dedication to his own cause, seeing his selfish will to live as the reason for Sky’s death. In this moment he attempts to take his life but in a similar vein to his stopping Jayce, Jayce stops him, and Viktor asks Jayce to destroy the hexcore as he is incapable due to its power over him.
Another significant moment for Viktor is in Season 2 Episode 2 when he is revived via Jayce using the hexcore on his in a stunning betrayal and Viktor learns of the weaponry Jayce is building using their dream, hextech, against Viktor’s people in Zaun to hunt down Jinx. These betrayals between the two of them continue throughout season 2 with Jayce hunting down Viktor in his commune and shooting him in the chest, effectively killing his physical body. Viktor tries to reconcile with Jayce using one of his followers but is once again denied by Jayce, setting off Viktor’s final attempt at peace where he gives away his emotions to become the Machine Herald in order to bring about peace by stripping people of their humanity which he deems is the true issue of humankind. The final and most pivotal moment for Viktor’s character is Jayce’s confession to him and their presumed death afterwards.
ABILITIES:
Healing: Viktor has the ability to heal others with his power from the hexcore. This healing works on physical aliments – where the person’s wounds are melded together with metal to form an almost synthetic metal like skin over the wound.
It also works on a fundamentally different level as well with Viktor being able to go into a person’s mind via a sort of astral form of himself and help cleanse the person’s mind while also being able to see their memories – this is most easily seen with him going into Vander’s mindscape and trying to separate him from the beast form that he’s been melded together with no thanks to Singed and his experiments.
Mind control/manipulation: As stated previously all the people that Viktor heals or has touched are susceptible to him having access to their minds. He’s even able to draw them into a large astral plane (shown in the final episode with everyone he’s connected to being illustrated by golden threads). On top of that he is able to hijack a person’s body and control while the person’s whose body he is in exists separately from when he takes it over (seen in the episode where he takes over Salo’s body to communicate with Jayce) is also appears that the person whose body he takes over can actually hear his conversations as well.
Shapeshifting: His alternate form the Machine Herald is his final and active form before he’s essentially obliterated. While Viktor doesn’t exactly shift between his forms I’d like to keep this in play as an ability since it might yield interesting threads in the future.
Note: All of his mind control/mind manipulating powers will come with permissions and will only be threaded out with express permission from the other party!
VICES:
Self-deprecating. One of the most prominent and core personality traits of Viktor is his ability to hate himself and his failings, most notably his health and his leg/back. We first come to see this in the episode Progress Day when Jayce asks Viktor to come up with him while Jayce delivers his speech, Jayce calling Viktor his partner to which Viktor quickly says ‘no not in front of all of them’ insinuating that he doesn’t want to tarnish Jayce’s reputation by being linked to someone like Viktor, someone who is by Piltover standards an eyesore and broken. His hatred towards his own body is also seen through his use of the hexcore and it becomes a means to an end for him to try and cure him of his self perceived faults.
Reckless. This ties directly into Viktor’s nature of being all for progress, helping people, and his own ticking time bomb that is his health. Viktor’s recklessness is introduced early on in the show by the way of the very first meeting between himself and Jayce. Breaking into Heimerdinger’s office because he believed in Jayce’s work to a fault and recklessly driving them both forward to achieve their dream together. Viktor’s recklessness doesn’t stop there but is also seen with his tampering and usage of shimmer and the hexcore. Both of which are highly dangerous and volatile in their own right. Viktor’s recklessness can be tied to his self-deprecation and ultimately his ambition and need for legacy and leaving his mark upon the world.
Ambitious. Viktor’s ambition has always been noticeable from the very beginning of the series. His ‘do you think it was my life’s ambition to be an assistant’ statement is testimony to that fact. Viktor’s drive and need for advancement and progress cannot be said enough to the driving force of his character and the way in which it thrusts him towards making the mistakes that he does further into the series. Throughout the show we see Viktor put himself on the line to further his life’s work, hextech, and even go so far as to augment himself with it to continue his work for as long as possible. His ambition coupled with his desire to help and his caring nature show us that Viktor is willing to go to extremes to do what he can for himself and for his people.
VIRTUES:
Altruistic. Another notably characteristic of Viktor and one of his fundamental characteristics is his altruism. We see throughout the show that this character trait is one of major significance as Viktor further moves along in the plot. Everything that Viktor does as a character is, for the most part, built on his need to help those in Zaun who are also suffering. It is safe to assume that he has such a profound need to help people because of his own self-deprecation and internalize ableism towards his own disability and illnesses. Even as The Herald the hexcore fed off Viktor’s own hatred of his disability and was thus used as a reason to cure and heal the people of Zaun thus turning them into vessel to which Viktor could mind control them. Viktor’s altruism was there from the very beginning where he saw Jayce’s experiments as a means to help others and provide progress to Zaun and its people. It’s a core facet to Viktor’s personality and one that we see him clinging to repeatedly throughout the show. Another reason for him to have such a need to help people might be due to his childhood and the scenes we see with him, Singed, and Rio (a type of axolotl creature). Viktor’s attachment to Rio is instantaneous and we go on to see how close and caring he is towards her. Until the day where he sees her turned into a mutation and a being that is drained of its freedom with Viktor having no way of helping her. It’s perhaps for that reason that Rio is the first being that Viktor wanted to save but couldn’t and thus created his steadfast desire to help.
Forgiving. We come to also see Viktor as a highly forgiving individual where the slights are always directed towards his person either due to his upbringing or his outward appearance usually. The biggest offender of these is none other than Jayce who on at least 3 occasions has done Viktor harm but Viktor winds up forgiving him for his transgressions. The first instance would be on the bridge connecting Piltover to Zaun where Jayce essentially calls those from Zaun dangerous knowing full well Viktor is from there. This not only sows the seed of doubt in Viktor, but also brings to light Jayce’s true feelings towards Viktor’s people. Despite all that Viktor remains by Jayce’s side and even goes so far as to attend the council meeting meant to broker peace with Zaun and Silco. Viktor’s forgiving nature is also readily shown in season two when he is killed twice by Jayce, revived without his consent using the hexcore, and all the while Viktor learns to forgive the other man despite his transgressions towards him.
Intelligent. Most notably what Viktor is seen as throughout the show. He is one of the brightest minds in Piltover next to Jayce. His contributions to Hextech and its creation stemmed from their first meeting when Viktor suggests increasing the oscillations of the crystal instead of dampening them, which results in the two of them unlock the key that opens the door to hextech. Viktor’s brilliant mind is seen throughout the series with his creation of the hexcore being his magnum opus but he was also the creator of the Hexclaw, an arm that had a laser attachment for artificers to use. The hexcore is essentially like a supercomputer that converts magically runes into actions. It has an unlimited potential in what it would be capable of doing and is one of the many profound pieces of hextech created. It’s also suggested that Viktor was deeply involved in learning about runes and in season 2 Jayce makes inference to this fact but stating Viktor’s Wild Rune versus regular runes theory to Ekko and Heimerdinger. Viktor’s talk with Singed in the commune is also a peer into his brilliant mind as their conversation is about evolution and how the glorious evolution is meant to supersede humanity.
SUIT REQUESTS:
Hearts: I would choose hearts as my first choice for Viktor because it contains some of his biggest and most prominent failures. Viktor is a man that is often depicted as having a shadow casted over him by none other than himself as his self-doubts and self-hatred. He is emotional but barely opts to show it. His yearning for Jayce and obsessive nature over the other in the second season is easy enough to see and we come to also see the result of Jayce declining his advances, Viktor removing all emotions from himself in a rather dramatic display depicting the agony of rejection. Playing on his insecurities and anxieties over his own body especially post-canon would be something that could eventually lead to his growth of accepting himself as who he is and allowing himself to want and to yearn for the people he desires. But also playing on the canon fact that he was without emotions for months and now must navigate through feeling them again is something that would interesting to pursue.
Clubs: The suit would also be a rather good fit for Viktor considering his post-canon transgressions dealing with altering the minds of thousands of people and taking away their agency to an extent. This suit also plays upon Viktor’s vice of being reckless and opting into situations that would otherwise be dangerous. It would play well into his guilty conscious post-canon too, allowing for him to act impulsively which goes against his otherwise restrained nature. Viktor is a deep thinker more or less and keeps his thoughts firmly locked away from prying eyes. Having him tap more into his impulsiveness and fixations might lead him down a darker path, something akin to his time as The Herald or while in his Astral form. Having to contend with these thoughts and desires would be interesting to play around with. But also having Viktor be plagued by nightmares of the herald and the internal struggle that he’s so guilt ridden over would be an interesting development.
RANK REQUESTS: I’m open towards something at the top since it really conflicts with Viktor’s own history of being seen as nothing but another bottom dwelling Zaunite from the slums. But it would also make him uncomfortable given his time as the Herald and holding a position of power.
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NAME: Viktor
AGE: 33
CANON: Arcane
CANON POINT: Post Season 2
CRAU: N/A
OTHER: N/A
SUITABILITY:
Viktor meets the age requirements for the game being older than 15. But I also believe he’s a good fit for the game as a whole because much of his character arc in season 1 and in season 2 is him battling with his own vices and virtues. Viktor is a character that is heavily driven by his own desires to be more than just himself and to cure himself of his perceived failings. Within the game setting it would be interesting for him to have to acknowledge his own wants and desires while also navigating through his self-deprecating nature towards his own body and how he feels towards people seeing and also perceiving him. Viktor is also contending with the fact that he has just been freed from the all encompassing mind control of the hexcore which weighs heavily on his consciousness since he was responsible for brainwashing and drawing people into a hivemind collective as The Herald. All of this compounds on itself making Viktor wary that it might happen again and under the influence of something just as insidious as the resort it may just.
HISTORY:
Viktor is first introduced as the assistant to Heimerdinger, the chair of the academy in Piltover and also the head of its Council. He comes to find Jayce, whom he has arrested and is put on trial for illegal and deadly experimentations, and his work intriguing and almost a springboard towards something that will help benefit people. The night after Jayce’s trial and banishment from the academy Viktor revisits his destroyed apartment and saves Jayce from taking his own life. This is the first of many significant character developing moments Viktor will have. He states that if you want to change the world you shouldn’t ask for permission and that same night they both break into Heimerdinger’s office, successfully initiate magic through one of the many gemstones Jayce had in his apartment and the two essentially begin their partnership together.
7 years later Hextech and the Hexgates are fully functional and during progress day a gemstone is stolen by Jinx from Zaun. In that same moment a significant story arc for Viktor unfolds which is his diagnosis of his terminal illness that sets course a series of desperate attempts to cure himself of his disease while also drawing him into the clutches of his creation (the hexcore) that he is slowly losing control over. One such incident is when Sky Young, his assistant, is killed by the hexcore. This event shakes Viktor’s resolve and dedication to his own cause, seeing his selfish will to live as the reason for Sky’s death. In this moment he attempts to take his life but in a similar vein to his stopping Jayce, Jayce stops him, and Viktor asks Jayce to destroy the hexcore as he is incapable due to its power over him.
Another significant moment for Viktor is in Season 2 Episode 2 when he is revived via Jayce using the hexcore on his in a stunning betrayal and Viktor learns of the weaponry Jayce is building using their dream, hextech, against Viktor’s people in Zaun to hunt down Jinx. These betrayals between the two of them continue throughout season 2 with Jayce hunting down Viktor in his commune and shooting him in the chest, effectively killing his physical body. Viktor tries to reconcile with Jayce using one of his followers but is once again denied by Jayce, setting off Viktor’s final attempt at peace where he gives away his emotions to become the Machine Herald in order to bring about peace by stripping people of their humanity which he deems is the true issue of humankind. The final and most pivotal moment for Viktor’s character is Jayce’s confession to him and their presumed death afterwards.
ABILITIES:
Healing: Viktor has the ability to heal others with his power from the hexcore. This healing works on physical aliments – where the person’s wounds are melded together with metal to form an almost synthetic metal like skin over the wound.
It also works on a fundamentally different level as well with Viktor being able to go into a person’s mind via a sort of astral form of himself and help cleanse the person’s mind while also being able to see their memories – this is most easily seen with him going into Vander’s mindscape and trying to separate him from the beast form that he’s been melded together with no thanks to Singed and his experiments.
Mind control/manipulation: As stated previously all the people that Viktor heals or has touched are susceptible to him having access to their minds. He’s even able to draw them into a large astral plane (shown in the final episode with everyone he’s connected to being illustrated by golden threads). On top of that he is able to hijack a person’s body and control while the person’s whose body he is in exists separately from when he takes it over (seen in the episode where he takes over Salo’s body to communicate with Jayce) is also appears that the person whose body he takes over can actually hear his conversations as well.
Shapeshifting: His alternate form the Machine Herald is his final and active form before he’s essentially obliterated. While Viktor doesn’t exactly shift between his forms I’d like to keep this in play as an ability since it might yield interesting threads in the future.
Note: All of his mind control/mind manipulating powers will come with permissions and will only be threaded out with express permission from the other party!
VICES:
Self-deprecating. One of the most prominent and core personality traits of Viktor is his ability to hate himself and his failings, most notably his health and his leg/back. We first come to see this in the episode Progress Day when Jayce asks Viktor to come up with him while Jayce delivers his speech, Jayce calling Viktor his partner to which Viktor quickly says ‘no not in front of all of them’ insinuating that he doesn’t want to tarnish Jayce’s reputation by being linked to someone like Viktor, someone who is by Piltover standards an eyesore and broken. His hatred towards his own body is also seen through his use of the hexcore and it becomes a means to an end for him to try and cure him of his self perceived faults.
Reckless. This ties directly into Viktor’s nature of being all for progress, helping people, and his own ticking time bomb that is his health. Viktor’s recklessness is introduced early on in the show by the way of the very first meeting between himself and Jayce. Breaking into Heimerdinger’s office because he believed in Jayce’s work to a fault and recklessly driving them both forward to achieve their dream together. Viktor’s recklessness doesn’t stop there but is also seen with his tampering and usage of shimmer and the hexcore. Both of which are highly dangerous and volatile in their own right. Viktor’s recklessness can be tied to his self-deprecation and ultimately his ambition and need for legacy and leaving his mark upon the world.
Ambitious. Viktor’s ambition has always been noticeable from the very beginning of the series. His ‘do you think it was my life’s ambition to be an assistant’ statement is testimony to that fact. Viktor’s drive and need for advancement and progress cannot be said enough to the driving force of his character and the way in which it thrusts him towards making the mistakes that he does further into the series. Throughout the show we see Viktor put himself on the line to further his life’s work, hextech, and even go so far as to augment himself with it to continue his work for as long as possible. His ambition coupled with his desire to help and his caring nature show us that Viktor is willing to go to extremes to do what he can for himself and for his people.
VIRTUES:
Altruistic. Another notably characteristic of Viktor and one of his fundamental characteristics is his altruism. We see throughout the show that this character trait is one of major significance as Viktor further moves along in the plot. Everything that Viktor does as a character is, for the most part, built on his need to help those in Zaun who are also suffering. It is safe to assume that he has such a profound need to help people because of his own self-deprecation and internalize ableism towards his own disability and illnesses. Even as The Herald the hexcore fed off Viktor’s own hatred of his disability and was thus used as a reason to cure and heal the people of Zaun thus turning them into vessel to which Viktor could mind control them. Viktor’s altruism was there from the very beginning where he saw Jayce’s experiments as a means to help others and provide progress to Zaun and its people. It’s a core facet to Viktor’s personality and one that we see him clinging to repeatedly throughout the show. Another reason for him to have such a need to help people might be due to his childhood and the scenes we see with him, Singed, and Rio (a type of axolotl creature). Viktor’s attachment to Rio is instantaneous and we go on to see how close and caring he is towards her. Until the day where he sees her turned into a mutation and a being that is drained of its freedom with Viktor having no way of helping her. It’s perhaps for that reason that Rio is the first being that Viktor wanted to save but couldn’t and thus created his steadfast desire to help.
Forgiving. We come to also see Viktor as a highly forgiving individual where the slights are always directed towards his person either due to his upbringing or his outward appearance usually. The biggest offender of these is none other than Jayce who on at least 3 occasions has done Viktor harm but Viktor winds up forgiving him for his transgressions. The first instance would be on the bridge connecting Piltover to Zaun where Jayce essentially calls those from Zaun dangerous knowing full well Viktor is from there. This not only sows the seed of doubt in Viktor, but also brings to light Jayce’s true feelings towards Viktor’s people. Despite all that Viktor remains by Jayce’s side and even goes so far as to attend the council meeting meant to broker peace with Zaun and Silco. Viktor’s forgiving nature is also readily shown in season two when he is killed twice by Jayce, revived without his consent using the hexcore, and all the while Viktor learns to forgive the other man despite his transgressions towards him.
Intelligent. Most notably what Viktor is seen as throughout the show. He is one of the brightest minds in Piltover next to Jayce. His contributions to Hextech and its creation stemmed from their first meeting when Viktor suggests increasing the oscillations of the crystal instead of dampening them, which results in the two of them unlock the key that opens the door to hextech. Viktor’s brilliant mind is seen throughout the series with his creation of the hexcore being his magnum opus but he was also the creator of the Hexclaw, an arm that had a laser attachment for artificers to use. The hexcore is essentially like a supercomputer that converts magically runes into actions. It has an unlimited potential in what it would be capable of doing and is one of the many profound pieces of hextech created. It’s also suggested that Viktor was deeply involved in learning about runes and in season 2 Jayce makes inference to this fact but stating Viktor’s Wild Rune versus regular runes theory to Ekko and Heimerdinger. Viktor’s talk with Singed in the commune is also a peer into his brilliant mind as their conversation is about evolution and how the glorious evolution is meant to supersede humanity.
SUIT REQUESTS:
Hearts: I would choose hearts as my first choice for Viktor because it contains some of his biggest and most prominent failures. Viktor is a man that is often depicted as having a shadow casted over him by none other than himself as his self-doubts and self-hatred. He is emotional but barely opts to show it. His yearning for Jayce and obsessive nature over the other in the second season is easy enough to see and we come to also see the result of Jayce declining his advances, Viktor removing all emotions from himself in a rather dramatic display depicting the agony of rejection. Playing on his insecurities and anxieties over his own body especially post-canon would be something that could eventually lead to his growth of accepting himself as who he is and allowing himself to want and to yearn for the people he desires. But also playing on the canon fact that he was without emotions for months and now must navigate through feeling them again is something that would interesting to pursue.
Clubs: The suit would also be a rather good fit for Viktor considering his post-canon transgressions dealing with altering the minds of thousands of people and taking away their agency to an extent. This suit also plays upon Viktor’s vice of being reckless and opting into situations that would otherwise be dangerous. It would play well into his guilty conscious post-canon too, allowing for him to act impulsively which goes against his otherwise restrained nature. Viktor is a deep thinker more or less and keeps his thoughts firmly locked away from prying eyes. Having him tap more into his impulsiveness and fixations might lead him down a darker path, something akin to his time as The Herald or while in his Astral form. Having to contend with these thoughts and desires would be interesting to play around with. But also having Viktor be plagued by nightmares of the herald and the internal struggle that he’s so guilt ridden over would be an interesting development.
RANK REQUESTS: I’m open towards something at the top since it really conflicts with Viktor’s own history of being seen as nothing but another bottom dwelling Zaunite from the slums. But it would also make him uncomfortable given his time as the Herald and holding a position of power.