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Viktor

Arcane
Male
32
Human

Abilities

⯌ Power n/a

Out-of-Character

⯌ Backtag Always down for that since I'm slow!

⯌ Fourthwall Not a fan usually!

⯌ Off-Limits If there's anything PM to discuss but for now n/a

⯌ Contact pathogenic | discord @ levantholos

In-Character

⯌ Physical Contact He's no stranger to it, thanks Jayce, but he might be a bit stiff upon first-time touches.

⯌ Mental Contact I'm down for it with plotting!

⯌ Flirt Please do but also please don't?! He has so many issues with regard to his appearance and he's really not even looking for that sort of thing but it would make for some great threads hehe.

⯌ Fight I mean he'll probably never start it. Please don't fight him, he will die???

⯌ Injury Sure! But plotting it first is obviously a thing.

⯌ Death Rather leave this up to plotting and stuff. My guy has died 3 times in canon please give him a break??

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OOC INFORMATION
Player Name: Levy
Pronoun Preferences: She/Her
Contact: pathogenic
Are you over the age of 18?: Yes!
Invitation Link: Here!
Current Characters: n/a
Link to Permissions: Permissions.

IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Viktor
Species: Human
Canon: Arcane
Canon Point: After collapsing at the end of S1 EP 5
Character Age: 32
CRAU: Nope!
Character Appearance: Here.
Powers and Abilities: n/a he’s just a normal guy
What Did Your Character Wish For? To achieve his and Jayce’s dream of bringing hextech to the common people.
What Potion Did They Receive? Scarlet Potion
Did They Drink It? Absolutely not
If Yes, What Element/Animal? Electric

Character Questions:
1. Who is the person your character is most bonded with from their canon, or who is someone they miss the most and why?
The person that Viktor is most bonded to would be Jayce. Reason being is because in canon they’ve both actually saved each other multiple times in the past. Working together as partners to bring hextech to the world in order to make it a better place for those in need requires some degree of trust and companionship. Jayce is also one of the only people shown to at least acknowledge Viktor as equals instead of how most people look down upon him due to his disability and being from Zaun. Viktor’s own situation vaguely resonates with Jayce as being an outsider that no one believed in, much in the same way that Jayce was when his research was confiscated, and he was removed from the academy. In that singular moment Viktor saw himself in Jayce so much so that he stepped in to help Jayce not take his own life but to prove to people that he was, in fact, right and his research had merit. Viktor fully believed in it and put even his own life/future on the line to help Jayce prove it, if that’s not a bond I don’t know what is. But, also, on a deeper not Viktor and Jayce affect one another is all timelines and parallel universes, so intertwined are their destinies that should one fail it results in the destruction of the entire world.
2. What are they most afraid of and why?
Viktor’s fears stem from his illness and being unable to complete his dream. As an altruistic person and someone who only wants to help others dying from his illness before he can even have a legacy or be known as someone who has helped the less fortunate is a fear that he’s often seen dealing with. It’s one of the main reasons why he goes to such drastic measures with the hexcore so that he might have more time to create and help people. His desire to do good impacts his willingness to survive and do whatever is needed to survive even if that means messing with the natural order of the world around him.

3. What are their emotional, mental, and physical weaknesses and why?
Emotionally Viktor’s weakness comes from his unending and abundant altruism and the want and need to help others. It fuels his passion and love for science and eventually hextech which he hopes in the future will be used for good and to make the world a better place. Unfortunately, this leads him down a path that winds up being the complete opposite and his need to do good is twisted into something sinister and dark. Another emotional weakness is that, well, Viktor isn’t very prone to expressing his emotions at all. Due to his place in the world Viktor hardly shows his true inner emotions and is often more than not stoic and reserved. However, when he does express himself he’s often seen as being rather direct, and sarcastic at times. But the reason for his repressed emotions stems from the fact that he’s been nothing but an outcast his entire life whether it was in his youth with his leg in the Undercity or currently in Piltover being from Zaun and considered lesser by the vast majority of people there. He’s often overlooked and disregarded in general. It’s easily seen as he’s only an assistant to Heimerdinger because the other took notice of his talents, without that he’d probably not have even gotten that far.

Mentally his weakness are due to his ambition and the need for him to not only do more but to be more in the sense that he crafts and has a legacy for himself when all is said and done. His ambition leads to a recklessness that causes him to go to drastic lengths sometimes to achieve his goals such as overworking himself until he collapses and continuing to work on projects for the sake of his own health ie: the hexcore incident. But ambition is not his only weakness, resentfulness over how he’s treated in Piltover and never taken seriously or has his input measured in anyway, even if he was the cofounder and creator of Hextech. But he resents the fact that The Council refuses to help his people in Zaun, and he resents Heimerdinger for trying to stop Jayce and him from giving their inventions to the world as a means of helping. His other weakness mentally ties into the fact that he’s been different his entire life and has always been at odds with how people perceive him, especially in Piltover. We see subtle instances of him having some self-deprecation and hatred even towards himself due to his own disability. Such as when Jayce asks him to come up with him to give the Progress Day speech and Viktor declines mostly because he knows how the higher class would see a man from the lower class of the Undercity and one with a visible disability at that.
Physically his weakness stems from his obvious poor health with his leg and his disease that is terminal and with a poor prognosis.
4. What discrepancies are there between their inner self (who they feel they are) and their outer self (how they present themselves to others)?
Outwardly Viktor presents himself as a stoic and rather aloof individual. His sarcastic remarks and biting truthfulness all paint the picture of a man who isn’t exactly unapproachable but someone who takes time to understand and get to know. Seemingly uncaring about anything other than his work, as his devotion and time spent in the lab paints this picture for us, couldn’t be further from the truth. He seems at odds with most people outside of Jayce and few others making him appear as a loner of sorts.

However, internally Viktor is just a man who wants to help others and achieve his dreams of bringing his people in Zaun a future they can look forward to. While he seems uncaring and unaware of other people’s problems, he does notice them and tries to help in any way he can. One of the best examples is in his preventing Jayce from leaping to his death after Jayce was banished and his research was to be destroyed. Viktor didn’t have to but he talks Jayce down which proves that he does care and does believe in the other and his dreams for hextech. But his commitment to others, like risking his own future to break into Heimerdinger’s lab, is further proof that he is and always was someone who wanted to do good and help others. The flashbacks we see of him as a young boy getting visibly upset at Rio’s suffering is just another instance of showing just how heartfelt and caring a person he is.

5. What would make them happiest and why?
Seeing his dream fulfilled and the union of Piltover as whole. But also seeing a world where the Undercity and people less fortunate get the help they need. Hextech being used to further his own understanding of the arcane and use it to give people hope would make him happy. Being able to continue his research into the arcane and hextech to improve lives is one of the biggest factors to his happiness but also being able to see his work through and live long enough to see the efforts of his work.
6. What characteristics does someone need to have to be your character's ideal significant other?
While Viktor doesn’t find himself appealing to anyone for this to be a consideration someone who can keep up with his intellect, wit, and ideologies would be best. Seeing his imperfections as something other than that and never judging him for them is something that would be ideal as well. Someone who can see him for who he is and appreciate all the flaws underneath that make him who he is. An ideal partner would be someone who is scientifically inclined and easy to throw ideas, concepts, and thoughts at. But he would also find himself drawn to someone who doesn’t pity or focus on his health and disability since Viktor is a very firm believer in doing things himself and that he doesn’t need people’s help when it comes to things like that.
7. Would your character make a sacrifice to save someone else and why or why not?
Viktor would absolutely sacrifice to save someone else given his nature of wanting to help others and to do good being a part of that but there’s also his recklessness that would undoubtedly fuel his choice to sacrifice something in order to save someone. Biggest indicator and show of this would of course be when he breaks Jayce and himself into Heimerdinger’s office to perform an illegal experiment on the crystals that Jayce has. Not only would this result in both their being kicked out but it would also probably have changed Viktor’s life for the worst having come from a place such as the Undercity. So he basically risked his entire future on the belief of Jayce and his work actually being something worthwhile to pursue.
8. What is one thing they would tell their younger self if they had the chance, or if your character is young, what is one thing they would want their older self to remember?
Viktor would probably tell his younger self that what he’s doing and struggling through is only a temporary test in the grand scheme of things. He would tell his younger self to believe in himself, not worry about how he’s perceived as an outcast, and that his mind brilliant as it is should always question the truth and the unknown. Fueling his desire to learn and become more shouldn’t be something to feel bad about and wanting to help others isn’t wrong if it’s done the right way. He should strive to do good in the world and create/invent things that bring himself and others happiness.
9. When in dire circumstances does your character fight, flee, freeze or fawn and how does that look?
In dire circumstances Viktor would absolutely fawn as is his nature to understand and study things even if a threat. He does put himself in precarious situations time and again as shown with the hexcore and even going to the Undercity alone further into the series. He would at least attempt to appease or comply with whatever it is that’s causing the threat. His ‘we’re scientists not soldiers / there’s always a choice’ talk with Jayce later into the season really imparts a sense that he wouldn’t undermine the threat and would absolutely flee if needed but he would also try to understand what the cause is and what the best course of action would be before ever suggesting to fight.

10. Why did your character make the wish they did?
He made his wish because that’s his and Jayce’s dream and it’s what he most desperately wants and clings to throughout the show. His poor prognosis only exacerbates these feelings of wanting nothing but to help people and give magic to the world. But there’s also that lingering selfishness of wanting to create a legacy for himself so that his contributions might be remembered in some way. Ultimately he’s a dying man that wants to have accomplished some good in his life before he inevitably succumbs to his sickness. But in the grand scheme of things Viktor wants to achieve his dream and his wish is directly linked to said dream.