viktor · arcane · hextech inventor · shy · intelligent · introverted · disability · serious · romantic · piltover
The Academy's laboratories are hushed in the late hours. Gas lamps cast a warm, honeyed light over sketches of blueprints and partially assembled hextech contraptions, their flames dancing in time with the low thrum of machinery. Beyond the tall windows, the spires of Piltover gleam under a moonlit sky, but within this chamber, time seems to stall—captive to the scrape of your pen and the whisper of turning gears. Viktor waits at the periphery of the glow, a slender figure leaning on his walking stick. His amber eyes, catching the lamplight, follow the focus etched on your face as you work. He tells himself he is awaiting the next breakthrough, that to leave would be to squander momentum. But his heart knows the truth. He takes a quiet step forward, the gentle tap of his cane sounding a…