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Untitled Restaurant Fic
It's a good day for Vi, tiring but good. A new office opened up a few weeks ago and ever since, Vi's been on fire. She's always been proud of her parking spot, the best one in the lot, (yeah she fist-fought three different people for it, so what?) Her open window facing the front so they could see her getting busy. Lunch rush is amazing, it's chaos but it's amazing, the only thing that gets her blood pumping more is MMA. Vi loves it, the oil popping in her ears, the steam and the smell. And it's hers, no dashing across the kitchen because the Head Chef keeps the fucking sauce on the other side of the kitchen, no getting on her tip toes to reach the pans because everyone she works with is a giant apparently. It's her space and everything is arranged in a way that makes sense and she doesn't need to edge around Rhonda and risk getting into an argument, it's all hers.
WIP Wednesday - Pressure Cooker
Caitlyn and Vi are having a very important discussion about where the money will go when an ear-splitting rendition of Mask Off on a plastic recorder comes blaring from Vi's pocket. Both women flinch but Vi makes no move to answer her phone, just waits a second and the call disconnects. "Sorry, I broke Sugar's favorite lipstick." She says like it's an explanation. "Pardon?" Caitlyn asks, thinking she misheard as she was just deafened by the sonar attack. "Coral blue #5," Both women wince as Vi's phone rings again. "Apparently it was very expensive." Vi snatches her phone out of her pocket and answers. "Look I'm sorry, okay? I'll buy you a new one." Jinx's voice blares out of the speaker. "You're broke ass couldn't afford it!" Then she hangs up. And then calls again.
The Wolf of the Council AU
Plot Summary:
Vander after seeing the carnage of the failed revolution decides to cut out the middle man, and takes his demands directly to the Council. By some miracle the Council allows their audience to his demands. At first most of council member are ready to dismiss the ruffian before Vander can make his full demands, that is until Heimerdinger shows interest in hearing Vander out. Why, who could say, maybe he sees potential in what Vander proposes, maybe its just his nature to aid the desperate, maybe he sees the spark of leader who wants to better his people, a spark he can sympathize with. Either way this allows Vander to list his full demands. Still most of the members disliked the terms, but they were much more willing to debate them. After much discussion a compromise was found. The district, now called Zaun, will still be under rule of Piltover, however it will be an autonomous state, with the ability to determine its own governance. With that only Enforcers approved by the governing body of Zaun may enter. Zaun will also have a representative that will be made a member of the council. And that responsibility falls to Vander.
Now, even after Vander has hung up the gloves, he fights a new challenger, politics. Is the Wolf’s bark as bad as his bite, can he be the voice of Zaun, can he maintain the loyalty and support of the people of Zaun, will he find himself as nothing more than a mouthless figure head, or worse, the council’s tame little lap dog. And as if that wasn’t the worst of it, he is now an adoptive father of four, all he can wish for is that with this position he can give them a better future. All he needs now is that no ghosts come back to haunt him.
Feel free to steal idea
ft. that Scholarship AU that I made a long while ago...
She's uncomfy because people in the academy still treat her with prejudice for being a Zaunite. Ekko's with her, so she mostly hangs with him and Viktor, her fav professor.
Someone suggested that Powder's single braid splitting into two as Jinx represents her adopting her "jinx" persona after enduring trauma. I wanted to depict this in her design, showing her as less violent than canon Jinx but still struggling to suppress that side of her.
Family day at Disney
Arcane fan art by @oolonglatte_ on Twitter
when you go under you will never go back up
Vi doesn’t walk away from Powder. A canon divergent AU.
for my lovely @el-gilliath 🖤🖤
[Read on AO3]
Excerpt:
“Please, Violet! I need you! Please!” Powder cries out, and Vi stops moving.
She clenches her fists and closes her eyes, letting her head hang down.
She’s tired and hurt and terrified and devastated and infuriated and just so many things at the same time, that she can barely stay on her feet to stagger away with Vander’s last words echoing in her head, and she knows that Powder still needs her, that she needs to be strong, that she can’t leave her.
Powder is sobbing and yelling, terrified out of her mind that Vi is going to leave her as well, and Vi tries to find the will to walk a few steps away to just lean her back against a wall and just breathe for a second before she has to deal with Powder, but Powder yells and yells and yells, and every single sound tears at Vi’s determination until she can’t.
She turns around and drops to her knees beside Powder’s shaking form, sitting back on her heels as she places her hand on top of Powder’s head.
Powder stops yelling and flinches, quickly sitting back on her heels as she looks to see who touched her.
The tears are still running down her cheeks, snot running down her chin, mixing with the rain that started pouring down sometime while Vi was just standing there.
There is a red mark on her cheek, the imprint of Vi’s own hand, and when Vi reaches out, Powder flinches back momentarily and Vi feels her heart shatter inside of her chest.
She moves her hand back and curls her fingers together into a fist, dropping her hand to her lap.
She feels more tears falling from her eyes as Powder just watches her, chest moving too fast with how hard she’s breathing.
“Powder, I’m so sorry, so so sorry,” she says, looking down at her hands and trying very hard not to lose it. “I didn’t mean it. You’re not a jinx! I don’t know why I even-”
Before she can finish, Powder is crashing into her, wrapping her arms tightly around her shoulders and pushing the side of her head hard against Vi’s.
She’s crying again, but these sobs are less desperate and more relieved.
Vi puts her arms around her automatically, holding her close and rocking them both from side to side, repeating that she’s sorry over and over again.
She pushes back the utter despair she feels at the fact that most of her family is dead, and concentrates all of her attention on the girl still in her arms, on the fact that they’re both still alive, on how that matters much more than anything else. She holds on to Powder tighter, and Powder tightens her grip around her neck.
She doesn’t realize that they’re not alone until Powder gasps.
Vi pushes her backwards a little as Powder gets up to her feet and she spins around on her knees before getting up to her feet.
She staggers backwards a little, and feels Powder’s hands against her back.
She recognizes the guy as one of the Enforcers that had come with Grayson, the one whose name was in the tube that Vi had stolen from Vander, the one that Silco had given a bag of gold to.
He’s carrying a rag in one hand and a determined expression.
“You called us down here to turn yourself in, and I’m not leaving without you,” he says. “There’s too much at stake.”
Vi shakes her head and steps back. Powder moves with her, fingers tightening in the back of her shirt.
“I can’t-” she starts, trying to think fast. She’d been so sure turning herself in had been the right decision earlier, but that was when she knew that Powder was going to be okay, that Vander was going to be there, and he would protect her no matter what. But she didn’t want to think what would happen to Powder now if she let the Enforcer take her.
He doesn’t give her much time to speak, darting forward, one hand outstretched. Vi tries to punch him in the face, but she’s tired, and her arms ache and the punch is sloppy.
He blocks it, and grabs on to her arm pulling her away from Powder in one sharp tug.
Powder screams and Vi can feel her against her side as she tries to pull Vi away from the Enforcer.
The man pushes Powder back, hard enough that she lands a couple of feet away, and Vi pulls out of his grip and punches him on the jaw with the heel of her hand, making his head snap to the side and the rest of him follows as he stumbles and almost falls to the floor.
Vi goes to make her way towards Powder, and then she feels hands wrapping around her biceps, tugging her backwards. Vi kicks out with her feet, trying to pitch her weight forward as the Enforcer tugs back harshly.
Powder gets up and is about to run at them when a cold and calm voice sounds out, stilling the three of them.
“I think that’s enough.”
[Continue Reading on AO3]
sneak peek #3, for @el-gilliath 🥰🥰🖤🖤
“My dear, you sure do love to keep an old man waiting,” he says, looking at her seriously, like he’s expecting her to tell him exactly what she’s been doing.
But Vi doesn’t believe in responding to pointless statements, and she has questions that she needs answered before she punches the placid expression off his face.
“What do you want with my sister?” she demands, angry and loud.
Silco smiles, and pushes away from the railing, folding his arms and pining Powder’s journal to his chest.
“I want to free her from your shadow,” he says as though Vi is the problem here.
“Candidly, I’ve always thought you were the prize of your secondhand family,” he continues, not waiting for Vi to say anything. “But your sister, she has the potential to be more than I’ve ever imagined. More than she can be with you smothering her.”
Vi shakes her head, swallowing hard against the bile she can feel rising up her throat.
“I’m never going to give you the chance to fill her head up with your fucked up delusions,” she grits out, moving to place one foot slightly in front of the other and rolling her shoulders. “She’s already more than you can imagine. And the fact that you don’t see that is the reason why you’re never going to succeed.”
Silco doesn’t laugh, but his lips twitch like he wants to, “You really think you’re going to get out of this one alive?”
Vi twitches, hearing an echo of the same question back before he’d trapped her into this life.
She swallows hard and clenches her jaw, shaking her hands a little.
“I don’t know, but if I do go down, I’m sure as hell going to take you and your entire bullshit empire down with me.”
“You’ve never known your limits, dear,” he says, scoffing a little and turns to the side as he pulls vials of shimmer out of his pocket and tosses them to the people on the walkway who had gotten closer while they’d been talking.
“It’s what keeps getting you in trouble,” he continues, still not looking at her. “It’s what got Vander killed. What’s going to drive your sister away. And it’s the reason why I’m here right now.”
He turns his face towards her then, and Vi just reacts. She punches him hard in the face, catching him right on the jaw, her body already braced for the impact.
Silco’s entire body twists with the force of the punch as it sends his head snapping to the side, blood spurts out of his mouth and Vi can hear the clatter of a tooth landing on the metal walkway.
“Yeah, well, you’ve always talked too much,” she tells him, and takes a step closer when he backs up, hand held up to his face. “And now that I’m sure you’re not going to kill Powder if I step out of line, I’m going to make your life a living hell.”
“You won’t survive long enough to be a nuisance,” Silco hisses at her, his eyes flashing dimly in anger.
She sees the trail of blood running down his chin and smirks, but before she can move to hit him again, someone tackles her to the ground, big and snarling right in her face as they go.
Vi braces her forearm underneath their chin pushing their face away from her, and trying to buck them off her.
Vi struggles for a moment, before there is a cold metal bar sliding beneath her forearm and then she’s free. Vi leans up on her elbows, looking at the scene in front of her momentarily in shock.
Caitlyn is holding back the poor bastard hopped up on shimmer with a thick metal rod pressed to their neck as she moves backwards. There is an angry snarl on her face, and Vi feels oddly as though someone struck her in the back of the head.
@cirilee posted an AU where shimmer and the last drop are competing fast food joints and I’ve had it on my mind since I saw it. I imagine the Academy would be a prestigious culinary school that sees fast food restaurants as falling short of culinary excellence. Caitlyn drops by when she needs a break from classes to eat good food and definitely not just to see the hot waitress. Also head chef Jayce and his kitchen partner Viktor 🥂
ft. that Scholarship AU that I made a long while ago...
She's uncomfy because people in the academy still treat her with prejudice for being a Zaunite. Ekko's with her, so she mostly hangs with him and Viktor, her fav professor.
Someone suggested that Powder's single braid splitting into two as Jinx represents her adopting her "jinx" persona after enduring trauma. I wanted to depict this in her design, showing her as less violent than canon Jinx but still struggling to suppress that side of her.
Scholarship AU Ekko
Don’t let the preppy uniform and good grades fool you- Ekko loves to skip class and sneak out the academy to hang with his friends in Zaun.
He's torn between his desire to remain in Zaun and his reluctance to leave Jinx all by herself.
I mimicked Ekko’s harem pants silhouette by wrapping his jacket around his waist. He doesn't really use it in Piltover but could wear it when he goes into the colder and deeper parts of Zaun.
I mostly just combined elements from his original design cuz I think his character wouldn't change much from attending the academy.
also, his bracelet on his right hand, which matches Jinx’s and his firelight glove on the other symbolizes his conflicting emotions 👀
Arcane x Fallout 😈
Arcane prompt
When Powder throws the hex crystals in ep 3 where she's having her breakdown, instead of the crystals just go rolling, they hit at the right angle and create a rift inbetween universes and drags her in.
Basically Powder gets yeeted into a different world of your choice
Minecraft? Minecraft hardcore? Go for it!
Dark souls? You bet!
One piece? Pirate Powder!
Scooby-Doo? Rotroe, zoynks!
Be as creative as you want!
It can be crack and/ or crack taken seriously
Have fun
Tag me if you make a fic/ one shot/ artwork
Since Arcane Season 2 is coming out on November, I just had a random thought. We know that Ella Pernell voices Jinx right?
I was thinking…what would Cooper Howard do, that instead of running into Lucy…he ran into Jinx? Like how would he handle her? Like there are so many differences between her and Lucy MacLean. I feel like Jinx would enjoy running wild in the wasteland.
Average Super Duper Mart experience.
I already loved Ella Purnell since watching #arcane , so it made the #fallout show all the more enjoyable 💙 Here's a little fun crossover!
This.
Arcane AU I won't write but patiently wait for
Regency Era AU.
Silco in a dapper regency suit. Need I say more?
Jinx shooting better than any of the men and having a fearsome rep for it.
Ekko and his gang riding around on horseback like highwaymen.
The sass around pump rooms.
(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Balls!
Class struggle! Anti monarchy Silco, my beloved...
Seriously, need I say more?
But yeah, can't write it. For all that I'm very well read in the genre and seen about every last BBC mini series set in the era, I'd need way too much research for it so.
I will patiently wait for the good soul who does the lord's work though