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Four Million Miles from Here | LiteralWho | E, complete

Viktor asks: “What is it, Jayce?” Briefly, Viktor expects he will receive an answer. Jayce looks at his wrist, then at him; but he smiles, weakly, and shakes his head. “It’s nothing.” He now knows it is safe to say so. He pushes to his feet and touches Viktor’s shoulder. “Let’s go inside.” In these moments, Viktor cannot refuse him. He follows Jayce, watches him retreat into the bedroom. Jayce wished for his partner back, but something else came with him. It cannot be seen, but it can be felt: the round, repellant force between two magnets. Too much has been revealed. Too little is known. This imbalance has manifested itself into a barrier, into a tangle, yet it is too tightly wound to be safely unraveled. It sits between them like a ghost; this entity, this unspoken thing. . The rune swallows them up, and abandons them in an unfamiliar land. Is this not what they wanted? With naught but the clothes on their backs, they are left to wander. To wonder.

one of my favorite post-canon fics! it's got a really excellent ambiguous quality to it, and the prose is gorgeous

Capgras | wifidelis (@wi-fidelis) | M, in progress

Jayce and Viktor are hurled out of the anomaly and dropped into the field where it all began. While it seems like the opportunity for a fresh start, Jayce's health rapidly begins to decline. In a desperate bid to save his partner, Viktor makes a series of shocking discoveries about Jayce's body and mental state... leading Viktor to believe that *his* Jayce is not what emerged from the Arcane with him. Jayce, struggling with the effects of the Arcane on his mental state, also begins to wonder if he is himself anymore.

another favorite post-canon fic! so few post-canon fics have a focus on jayce whump, and this fic is a tasty and excellent example of it

it’s hard being (at) the bottom. | lambchopsandmashedpotatoes | E, complete

Down in the chasm, an iridescent creature disassembles Jayce so that he can put himself back together in the morning. It keeps them both sane, in a way. Or; Jayce is losing his mind. Viktor is happy to hold it for him.

this is a porn-with-some-plot missing-scene from jayce's time in the fissure. fics from this time period never fail to make me chomp, as they're always a good source of whump and angst, and i like the combination in this one of "slow descent to madness" and eroticism

I've Been Thinking of All the Little Things That You've Been Missing | FourOddApples | E, complete

“Just a note. If someone is in love with you and you don’t want them, the kind fucking thing to do is to let them go.” -- Or: Viktor takes a chance that Jayce doesn’t know what to do with. Things are different after that, and slowly but surely Jayce begins to second-guess his response.

i love a good "character A thinks character B doesn't reciprocate and withdraws accordingly," and this has a splash of that, a splash of bi-awakening jayce, and a splash of excellent smut

healing and treating | weatheredlaw (@weatheredlaw) | E, complete

Jayce and Viktor are some of Piltover’s most brilliant physicians. They’re also divorced and it’s everyone’s problem.

this is a series of two fics in an AU where jayce and viktor are, as it says above, physicians who work in the same hospital who are divorced. it's got some nice disabled jayce in addition to, of course, disabled viktor, and the exes-to-lovers arc is satisfying

Monuments | begaydocrimes10001 (@canyounotexistelias) | T, complete

Friends make friends stuff all the time, and Jayce did break Viktor's cane. It'd be a nice thing to do. A cane, plus some cool tools, and Jayce will be able to know he's a good friend. He likes this plan. (Or, Jayce makes a new cane for Viktor. He then makes some more stuff. It spirals from there very, very quickly.)

this is one of the more lighthearted fics on this list, and i like it because i'm a big fan of wife guy jayce talis showering his beloved with gifts and accidentally saving the world at the same time

advanced practical physics (the laws of attraction apply) | Sinister_Queer | E, complete

Jayce has five months left until he finishes his undergraduate degree. Five months until he could start his real life, until he could start doing what he wanted. The only thing standing in his way is one group project and the partner he'd slept with two nights ago. (Jayce and Viktor have a one night stand, then end up as group project buddies.)

there's a lot of university AUs out there, and this is my favorite one. i'm always a bit shaky about misunderstandings in fics, but i enjoyed this one--poor jayce is trying his best with the information he has on hand 😂

disjunction | Nanashi07 | M, complete

Six years after he and Viktor part ways on antagonistic terms, Jayce wakes up in the Machine Herald’s medical clinic. . Jayce desperately wants to rub at his forehead, but the binding at his wrist stops him. He settles for squeezing his eyes shut. “Why?” he asks. Viktor is silent for barely a moment. He says, tonelessly, “I assumed this was preferable to dying.”

i've read a few of this genre of post-s1 fic that diverge from s2, and i'm a big fan of this one. i really like how our perspective of what's happening changes as jayce finds out more information, and i am forever besotted with viktor's little robot helpers

High Hawk Season | JeanLuciferGohard | T, complete

Three weeks, and the south-facing side of his apartment is still missing, and they won’t even let him sleep there with a tarp tacked over it, because the ‘structure of the building was compromised’ and it’s ‘not fit for habitation’, as if student housing, even student housing on the Kiramann’s dime, ever had any claim on habitability in the fucking first place. “I've been sleeping at the lab, Viktor.” (which he probably would’ve done anyway, but it’s matter of principle–it’s–okay, it’s fundamental question of free will and fair housing practices and not having to live with his mother, who publicly called him a lunatic) Sometimes, you are a genius, and a sizable explosion knocks out most of your living space, and you end up living with your research partner, and it's only weird if you make it weird.

this fic is recced by everyone and god, but for good reason. i adore the characterization of viktor in here, and if you're looking for something that doesn't go super hard on the jayvik romance, this will scratch that itch

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i have a few more recs, separate from the others as they contain topics that are more likely to squick people. feel free to take or leave these as you desire!

a new promise | disembarks (@dis-embarks) | T, complete

CW: Major Character Death

“Did you do it?” he asks it like he doesn’t truly want to know. Jayce cannot lie to him. “Yes,” he murmurs. “It’s gone.” I killed it. And you. . Jayce destroys the Hexcore.

this fic made me cry, and thus i am recommending it to you and everyone i know 😂 i'm obsessed especially with the themes of regret and impermanence in this

The Glorious Epilogue | saltslimes (@saltslimes) | E, complete

CW: Mpreg, body horror (these two tags are related)

The rune spits Jayce out on hard rock. It’s dry and dusty under his hands and when he blinks awake, face-down, clothing soaked, alive against all odds, he actually can’t draw a breath. A drop of water hits his face. And then another. It’s raining, and he doesn’t know where he is, but he’s back in the fissure, he’s certain of it. A cruel ending for a wasted life. Jayce Talis, the Man of Progress, who thought at every turn he had the right idea, and failed in every way that ever mattered. - Thrown across the continent, but painfully alive, Jayce struggles to keep Viktor from falling into mental ruin, and himself from keeling over. He can still hold a hammer, so he does what he's always done: cling to hope, however foolish it may be.

this is another favorite post-canon fic. i love the little town jayce and viktor end up in, and i love how both of them struggle to adapt in their own ways. the pregnancy aspect is related to the effects of the very end of s2, where jayce and viktor are together in the arcane, and i think it's fun and also a little bit horrifying (positive)

a bird flies into a mirror | zbz | M, complete

CW: Rape/Non-Con

Viktor struggles to recover from a violent sexual assault. Jayce refuses to let him fight alone.