#arcane plotbunnies

And/or an apic art of Silco holding a doubled up, sobbing Vander "my brother is hurting".

I also would like to point out that "filling your own cup" is code for getting laid. And Vander knows how that is necessary for a balanced life ;)

I also noticed that Benzo has a tattoo too, a small one, on his finger. But I'm too lazy right now to check season 1 whether he had the same one there.

Warwick hating himself because he's the only thing Viktor can't heal. Thinking that confirms his evil nature. Thinks of himself as disfigured and scary. So much rage inside, but he's not like Vi, he isn't turning it on himself, but who is really there to kill and punish. Yeah there is Singed, but beyond that.

Vi distraught over the situation, because of course she is. A battle between her struggling with change and her urge to save everyone.

She'd try to tell Vander it's okay, he's still the same, but that just makes things worse for him.

Jinx watching them and having the realization that actually really she is the one who understands him better. She creeps in and tells Vanderwick that for the longest time she thought she was the monster. (which of course triggers Vanderwicks "must make her feel better" instincts) Maybe contemplates telling (lying?) Vander that Silco did alright for himself.

Vander asking why there are not statues of Silco. (Vander feeling really uncomfortable with having a statue. Feels like they have a false image, they didn't know the real him. Maybe Jinx explaining that the statue isn't really about him, it's about the way he made people feel)

Jinx having the realization, she thought of herself as a monster, she loved Silco because she thought he was her one kindred spirit. Now she has the maturity to see Vander and Vi are broken in their own way as well.

(maybe that realization hitting that if all those people who seem put together on the outside are actually messed up inside too ... that means... Leading to Jinx creeping in on Ekko and sharing this thought with him [plus the news about Vander and Vi being back in town])

Warwick/Viktor, Viktor/Silco: So my first plot bunny just Vander's point of view on the whole Viktor mindprobing him, being charmed by Viktor's goodness and wrestling with his own shame over his past or his urges.

Viktor/Silco, Vander/Silco: Second was Viktor digging deeper into Vander's mind and finding the darker more uncensored parts. Viktor "meeting" Silco in Vander's mind. Maybe Viktor flirting with young!Silco in the last Drop within Vander's mind palace. (maybe with a dash of Viktor wondering what Vander wants to tell him about Silco, if mind!Silco is so flirty).

Viktor/Silco, Viktor/Jinx: Spinning off from that: okay what other ways could Viktor have to encounter Silco? Maybe after seeing Silco in Vander's mind he wants another view and sees a different view on Silco in Jinx's mind?

Viktor/Jinx, Sisters: But then I decided Viktor wouldn't heal Jinx against her will. So next idea: Viktor offers to heal Jinx because he senses much pain but also much power in her. Jinx imo would say no. But still, lots of interesting ideas about it. Like would Vi get tempted to try and convince Jinx? Maybe the sisters debating whether they should let Viktor try to cure Isha's muteness?

Viktor/Jinx: Spinning off from that, story about Viktor wondering why The Arcane keeps urging him to try and heal Jinx. (imo Jinx has a special relationship with Hextech AND she's all shimmered up, so an "I want to suck everything in" Hexcore entity thingie would have double the reason to consume her.

Viktor/Silco + Singed: Another interesting "Viktor sees many different perpectives on Silco" point of view (on top of Vander and Jinx) would be Singed. But again, this would fall into Viktor wouldn't heal people against their will and Singed wouldn't say yes. But still, might be another interesting "temptation" type scene if Viktor would offer Singed to heal him over the pain of losing his daughter and the scars on his face. (I think Singed wouldn't say yes because I think in a weird way Singed is actually somewhat happy with his life and maybe like Silco about the The Betrayal thinks his daughter being his driving force is actually a good thing. That said, he might ask Viktor to heal Orianna instead and watch closely what that does).

Viktor/Silco + Singed. Wait, maybe Singed wants Viktor to heal Orianna, but he wants Viktor to guinea pig try it out on Silco instead?

spooky!Viktor + pairing of your choice: a more fucked up, unfeeling machine herald Viktor doesn't have this rule about not healing people against their wll anymore. So he just heals and mind invades people left and right, whether as part of a battle to take them over or almost accidentally by brushing against them. In that process he then sees the people and memories these people love the most (in my head this comes up mostly for the people who are resisting but I could do with Viktor just knowing all the loves and wants of everyone he has healed), but because he's unfeeling now, they don't mean anything to him, he's just neutrally cataloguing them. This could be done for any pairing of your choice, CaitVi (ie Viktor being at the most surprised about how much pain Cait is in about Vi), MelJay, JayVik (ie Viktor seeing how Jayce saw him and the moment Jayce fell in love with him), etc etc.

Porny VanderxSilcoxViktor (throw in Felicia if you feel like it): Viktor wandering through Vander's mind runs into a memory of Vander and Silco having sex (if you don't like, do Vander and Felicia or Vander/Silco/Felicia threesome) and because he's in Vander's mind he expreriences it from Vander's point of view and you can bring in that whole bit about how it is unfamiliar, that Viktor has never been in a certain position because of his leg. [the explanation here would be that with his normal healings, Viktor doesn't typically have to probe that deep, so he doesn't usually run into this problem]

Me: What if the other universe Ekko is still there and he decides to help Ekko by letting them switch (ie letting Ekko sneak into the lab at alt!universe!Ekko).

Timebomb!Me: what if Ekko and alt!universe!Ekko double date Powder? What if alt!universe!Powder is turn between her best childhood bud Ekko and this tragic driven new Ekko?

Also!Me: okay, but with alt!universe!Ekko decides to come along to help out and there's an Ekko x Jinx x Ekko threesome?

(seriously, I think double Ekko showing up would totally increase his chances with Jinx, that she would go "Okay that's just so fucking freaky, let's do this, fellas", but would Ekko and Jinx then have jealous squabbles once alt!universe!Ekko goes back?)

And I was thinking, okay but what if Ekko actually stayed in the AU like a few days longer.

Long enough to have a hesitant conversation with AU!Silco. And though talking to Silco he gains an insight to how the reunion happened and just how much Silco contributed to the AU turning out well.

So when he comes home and is like one if the few survivors left he actually sits down and adds Silco to the mural.

And then Vi comes to the Firelight hideout and has a freaking heart attack when she sees Silco on it 😂

Okay, realistically speaking probably the Firelights might object to Silco being on the mural. Maybe they don't recognize him if Ekko paints either AU Silco or young Silco (Young Silco would be way more impactful if Ekko actually traveled to a time or universe where he encountered young Zaundads). Or maybe he makes a dedicated Jinx and Silco mural somewhere in a secret location.

Basically, I just wanna see/think about Ekko painting Silco, mural style.

I’ve been thinking about the Jinx x Ekko scenes (and yeah I will forever be pissed that Riot left the majority of their characterization in supplementary material, so most people likely aren’t even aware of it: Enemy Music Video, Ekko Cinematic, True Genius short, original Get Jinxed music video) . It hurt my shipper heart how down on Jinx he was and how little faith he had in her, and how his words were so gruff and had comparatively little melancholy (and how later after the fight he becomes pretty focused on other stuff and doesn’t really mention her anymore). Yes even though I guess he was just frontin and we see in the fight that she does get to him. And again his point of view makes sense considering Jinx shot one of his people, somebody who was basically a child right in front of him, so he probably had to steel himself against her to keep going. 

In my mind, Jinx and Ekko were kind of set up as opposites. Ekko is more like the gentle revolutionary hope for the Undercity. Like a lot of people were worried about how the show would handle the whole revolution aspect and how many media pieces say “yes but the people arguing for violent revolution like Sylas or Silco are all assholes, so let’s keep the status quo”. Ekko’s community gives me strong vibes of modern leftist anarchist community projects that try to figure out new ways of living together. 

And on the other side you have Jinx who likely blew their peace deal to bits and might be the reason why the war with the topside will go on violently. 

This could set up a really interesting dynamic between the two of them, very two sides of the same coin, very across the trench/romeo and juliet but violent. And though I don’t like Ekko being so hard on Jinx, I guess that offers the potential for a character journey as he softens to her or as she goes against his perception of her, which I guess if written write could be healthier than just he pines and she doesn’t care. If there is something on his side that she could conceivably work for or that he could work on. 

Basically, plz Riot, just give me some quality Timebomb, I want to ship them so bad, but you gotta give me stuff. 

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Anyway, here are some Jinx x Ekko plotbunnies. 

As mentioned, I’m not much of a fanfiction writer (English is not my first language and I’m flat out not very good), but if I could write, these are the plotbunnies on my mind after that season 1 ending. (in the unlikely case that anybody wants them they are all up for adoption, do with them what you will)

Things that arguably should have happened

Okay, so a lot of people have commented that rather than leaving with Cait, Vi should have stayed with Jinx and Ekko should have taken Cait to safety. So that, Ekko basically does Vi’s storyline. Ekko reacts to the Kirammann mansion and how Caitlyn’s lives, maybe Ekko has some thoughts on the end of Marcus and how naive Cait was about the corruption, Ekko gets to face the council and rant at them, maybe Ekko and Mel share a look, Ekko grumpily goes to Jayce and tells him where the Shimmer plant is. 

Ekko vs Silco

Ekko hated Silco. Silco had a reason to hate Ekko since the Ekko fight caused Jinx’s injuries on the bridge. They really would have deserved a confrontation. Maybe after the bridge an angry and desperrate Ekko decides to attack Silco after Singed’s lab? 

Or after Silco wakes up at Singed’s lab and Jinx is gone he is angey and decides to go after Ekko? Maybe he gives a villain speech that he always knew where their hideout was but before he let them live because it was useful to him to have them as a scapegoat? 

Maybe Ekko is all “you poisoned her!” and Silco is all “this is the real her! I set her free! that was always her” and Ekko is all “No, I knew her!”. 

Jinx at the topside but she hates it

So in my Silco post I came up with an AU where Silco lives, the deal with the topside goes through (maybe in this version they actually manage to talk Jinx down instead of just Mel’s power saving the council), but anyway the point is that the cities are at relative peace and Cait makes her parents take in both Vi and Jinx. 

Vi and Cait of course are schmooching it up, but Jinx feels like an outsider, doesn’t feel accepted, feels homesick and sneaks back to the undercity and meets up with Ekko

Expanded version: Jinx on medication

A more complex version would be maybe if there actually was some traces of psychiatry in this world and maybe there is medication or the magic equivalent to maybe bind the voices in Jinx’s head? But it’s all still very new and unsure how it works and Jinx isn’t sure she likes it. 

And she sneaks back to the undercity to talk to Ekko (I do want to see he rreaction to Ekko’s mural). 

Maybe Ekko is all gruff like “well that can’t undo the things you did” or grumpily asking her whether she likes her nice life in the big mansion now. 

Ekko musings

Would love to get an Ekko point of view of Jinx shooting the Firelight. 

Would love to see an Ekko point of view on him having captured Vi and her being back and being unsure what her loyalties are. 

Would love an introspective piece on Ekko gazing at the mural of Powder before going to face Jinx in battle. 

Would love an Ekko point of view on the Vi and Cait hug (in my head it would be something like “good for them”). 

Also wouldn’t mind an Ekko perspective on Sllco. Maybe he tracks them. 

Also, mabye at some time Ekko thought about giving jinx a birthday present. Either he leaves it somewhere for her to find, or he decides against it and places it in front of the mural instead. Maybe he’s always been giving the mural Powder birthday presents and one day Jinx finds them. 

Mob queen Jinx versus Ekko (with smut)

So after Silco is dead Jinx takes over (maybe somebody else is running operations in the background, but she is the big scary figurehead) and her and Ekko are in a battle within the city. 

Like I can picture this really tense scene where Jinx attacks the sancuary and is shocked to see the mural there and just then Ekko and the firelights ambush her and Ekko is like seething with rage like “You attacked my home, I will never forgive you”. And then Jinx uncharacteristically calls a retreat. And then in her office she has an extended conversation with her voices and then decides to to sneak to wherever Ekko is and try to seduce him. 

I could picture either her trying to be seductive or just straight up tying him and trying to torture him a bit. Ekko would of course gruffly resist with like “I hate you” and “you are not of sound mind” and “I love Powder, not you” (up to anybody how successful he would be). 

[I sure hope Ekko likes cb torture if he ever brings up Powder in a situation like this]

Speaking of dark smut, Ekko thinks of Jinx while (non-lovingly) being with somebody else

In my head canon Ekko is basically a sweet guy, so if he was dating somebody he would do it because he cared for them and he wouldn’t think of Jinx while with them. But somehow my head goes, what if it was a sexual situation that wasn’t very loving. 

Like either he is at a brothel or maybe a topsider invited him to a sexy bath house to negotiate (yes this is inspired by Mel’s mom, but doesn’t have to be her) and while it happens Ekko keeps seeing Jinx and he doesn’t want to and he tries to think of something else. 

(bonus angst points if Jinx is there spying on the situation and overhears him say Powder’s name, being torn between being angry that he said Powder’s name and being intrigued because that’s how she finds out that he’s into her)

Speaking of which...

Jinx versus Powder

I think a really interesting shippy fic between the two of them would be that Ekko taunts Jinx that he doesn’t like her, he liked Powder. And at first Jinx is hurt by that, but then she begins to realize that he’s lying and so she taunts him back and tells him that he is into her after all. 

And he like denies it and she is like “Powder was never this free and you love it, Powder would never have ridden the skies with you” and he insists like “I knew Powder” and tells all this stories about how Powder was fun loving and creative too (like in the enemy music video or in Vi’s flashbacks of the really young powder) and Jinx is like “I’m still all that (but with a darker twist)”. 

And Jinx is like all “Powder was weak, you would never have been happy with her, you would always have tried to protect her” or like “Powder was a dream, we both know the world isn’t sweet like that”. 

And it effectively comes to a stalemate or Ekko going pensive “Hmmmm” as Jinx walks off. 

Going to school AU: both Jinx and Ekko go to topside university

Basically happy AU where the relationships between undercity and topside are a bit better and both Jinx and Ekko get a scholarship upside and it’s basically their freshman year experience with them having trouble fitting in and liking each other and they begin dating and they help each other study. 

Maybe Jace and Viktor show up as their professors. 

Going to school AU: only Ekko goes to school

Okay, also going to school AU, but here only Ekko goes because he has nice/acceptable parents, as per Ekko’s universe story. So they managed to get one of the rare scholarships topside and Ekko and Powder have this really tragic and touching goodybe as he leaves for school. Maybe Viktor is there  to greet him since he was a previous scholarship kid and he explain to Ekko what it is like as a Zaunite in a Piltover school. 

Lot’s of introspective stuff about Ekko being torn between two worlds, missing his home. 

Maybe Powder comes to visit him and he shows her some of his inventions and it hurts because Ekko can tell she is so talented, but she flunks the entry tests because she gets nervous. Maybe he keeps sneaking her in when it’s forbidden, maybe he tries to teach her in secret what he learned but it’s hard to juggle that and his school work. Maybe he begins arguing with the university that the system is unfair and VIktor warns him that he might get kicked out. 

Everybody goes to a Seraphine concert

Okay, so one of the more contentious lore bits of League of Legends is that canonically there is a happy pretty Zaunite pop superstar named Seraphine. 

Cait is canonically a huge fangirl of her. 

Caityln:Seraphine! Would it be inappropriate to ask you for an autograph?"

Caityln: "I was so looking forwards to your next concert, Seraphine."

So, Seraphine is giving a concert to bring people together. Cait and Vi of course are there too, Cait is fangirlling out and Cait and Vi are smooching it up in the audience. Some of Ekko’s friends want to go and he decides to come along though maybe he is a bit snobby about not liking the music or thinking Seraphine is too idealistic. Ekko is there bobbing along, when he sees that Jinx has snuck into the concert, too.