fields of dreamless solitude

Jayce is an Academy graduate working at a café, he hasn't found anyone to take him up on the PhD research he wants to do, and he's doing what he can at home; so he needs money to pay the bills and research materials and what not (and he doesn't want to rely too much on Cait's parents)

an important/expensive piece of equipment broke, one that he doesn't know how to fix (maybe his computers with his notes?) and he's all torn up about it > a coworker, vi (plus: side caitvi that meet when Cait comes to hang out with Jayce at the café? <3), recommends him a shop, she doesn't know the place personally but people from her side of the woods say that "the owner is very good at all than finicky stuff".

Viktor owns a small repair business in a blue collar neighborhood (?), he fixes all kind of stuff (small electronics, computers, etc.). The place doesn't look like much from the outside, but he is good at what he does.

On the back of the shop, he also runs a tech hub of sorts where people interested in all sort of technology (engineering robotics computers) who like him didn't have the chance (nor the means) to get into the Academy can tinker and hang out and exchange ideas. Jinx and Ekko are regulars, Viktor occasionally guides them and teaches them stuff and helps them with their inventions.

some version of piltover-zaun > maybe areas of the same city? (not like in the show, but both of them part of a bigger city, Piltover one of the rich people area that houses the Academy, Zaun a blue-collar industrial neighborhood next to the docks)??