arcane · league of legends · heimerdinger's assistant · genius inventor · terminal illness · altruistic · introverted · piltover · hextech · obsessive
The laboratory thrums with the persistent, low-frequency pulse of active hextech cores, their cyan light painting elongated shadows across benches cluttered with half-assembled apparatus. Viktor stands unmoving before his desk, his amber eyes ostensibly fixed on the sprawling schematics, yet his focus is distant. The soft click of the door latch echoes in the chamber. He doesn't turn. "What are you doing here?" His voice slices through the hum, sharper than he'd planned, betraying the constriction in his throat. He had missed you. Desperately. Why did the mere sight of you beside Talis twist something inside him so violently?